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John Donne, aged about 42. Donne was born in 1572 to a wealthy ironmonger and a warden of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, and his wife Elizabeth. [2] After his father's death when he was four, Donne was trained as a gentleman scholar; his family used the money his father had made to hire tutors who taught him grammar, rhetoric, mathematics, history and foreign languages.
No man is an island, entire of itself; no man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were. Morieris. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am ...
No Man Is an Island may refer to: "No man is an island", originally "No man is an Iland", a famous line from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, a 1624 prose work by English poet John Donne; No Man Is an Island 1962 war film; No Man Is an Island the 1972 debut album from reggae singer Dennis Brown; No Man Is an Island, a 1955 book by the ...
No Man Is an Island is a 1962 war film about the exploits of George Ray Tweed, a United States Navy radioman who avoided capture and execution by the Japanese during their years-long World War II occupation of Guam. It stars Jeffrey Hunter as Tweed.
A portrait of Donne as a young man, c. 1595, in the National Portrait Gallery, London [5] Donne was born in London in 1571 or 1572, [a] into a recusant Roman Catholic family when practice of that religion was illegal in England. [6] Donne was the third of six children. His father, also named John Donne, was married to Elizabeth Heywood.
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In 1966 Turpin was using words of the 17th century poet John Donne in publicity of Project Concern such as "No man is an island entire of itself… any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never seem to know for who the bell tolls - it tolls for thee."
PROVIDENCE - The Independent Man statue, which for more than a century has symbolized Rhode Island political values, is set to come down from its lofty — but now unstable — perch atop the ...