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Sterne meaning
Obsolete spelling of stern.
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In 1724, his father took Sterne to Roger's wealthy brother, Richard, so that Sterne could attend Hipperholme Grammar School near Halifax ; Sterne never saw his father again as Roger was ordered to Jamaica where he died of a fever in 1731.
Sterne's life at this time was closely tied with his uncle, Dr Jaques Sterne, the Archdeacon of Cleveland and Precentor of York Minster.
The Florida Edition of Sterne's works is currently the leading scholarly edition – although the final volume (Sterne's letters) has yet to be published.
The Sterne strain, named after the Trieste -born immunologist Max Sterne, is an attenuated strain used as a vaccine, which contains only the anthrax toxin virulence plasmid and not the polyglutamic acid capsule expressing plasmid.
Sterne Properties is behind the scheme which will create four homes, commercial units and office space on the site in Ripon.
Bob Sterne and his wife have been checking their mail box in the southern Interior village of Coalmont, B.C., for more that two weeks anticipating the arrival of legal documents from Ontario, but day after day it remains empty.
Sterne said previously volunteers would put on their gear in the bay, which posed potential hazards with trucks in the vicinity.
Along with nearby skeletal bones, these remains were transferred to Coxwold churchyard in 1969 by the Laurence Sterne Trust.
Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 1989. 49. The first decade of Sterne's life was spent moving from place to place as his father was reassigned throughout Ireland.
An initial, sharply satiric version was rejected by Robert Dodsley, the London printer, just when Sterne's personal life was upset.
As sound scholar Jonathan Sterne notes, "An Australian hacker acquired l3enc using a stolen credit card.
Compared to many eighteenth-century authors, Sterne's body of work is quite small.
Cross (1908), chap. 2 Marriage and Settlement at Sutton-on-the-Forest, p.53 Subsequently Sterne did duty both there and at Sutton.
During this period Sterne never lived in one place for more than a year.
Early career Sterne was ordained as a deacon in March 1737 and as a priest in August 1738.
In 1741–42 Sterne wrote political articles supporting the administration of Sir Robert Walpole for a newspaper founded by his uncle but soon withdrew from politics in disgust.
It was widely rumoured that Sterne's body was stolen shortly after it was interred and sold to anatomists at Cambridge University.
Jaques Sterne was a powerful clergyman but a mean-tempered man and a rabid politician.
Shortly thereafter Sterne was awarded the vicarship living of Sutton-on-the-Forest in Yorkshire.
Sterne's novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman sold widely in England and throughout Europe.