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"A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray" is an essay by the English author George Orwell. In it Orwell encourages the public-spirited action of planting trees, which may well make up for the harm people do in their lives. The essay was first published in Tribune on 26 April 1946.

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A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray

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"A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray" is an essay by the English author George Orwell. In it Orwell encourages the public-spirited action of planting trees...

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The Vicar of Bray

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The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external requirements...

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Vicar of Bray

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hypothesis The Church of England vicar of St Michael's Church, Bray in Berkshire, England George Orwell's essay A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray This disambiguation...

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George Orwell bibliography

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Young Men of England" (1914) "Ballade" (1929) "A Dressed Man and a Naked Man" (1933) "A Happy Vicar I Might Have Been" (1935) "Ironic Poem About Prostitution"...

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List of parishes in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin

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of Dublin and the civil county of Fingal. The vicar forane is Fr. Martin Noone. The Bray deanery is located within the civil county of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown...

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Tom Hollander

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the "brilliantly foul-mouthed" Leon in BBC Two's Freezing, described in The Times as a "braying swirl of ego and mania". Hollander has undertaken a number...

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Pixie

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concentrated in the high moorland areas around Devon and Cornwall, suggesting some Celtic origin for the belief and name. However, the word 'pixie' (under...

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List of Bones characters

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one of their old associates from the gang (Vince McVicar), left for the safety of their children by leading McVicar away, and never returned to the home...

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the word "oriole" to describe a type of bird (most likely the golden oriole). The Rialto Bridge in Venice (in modern-day Italy) is converted from a pontoon...

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Our Lady of La Salette

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become a Marist, wanted to consult the Curé of Ars about his vocation. Brayer, benefactor of the two seers, and Verrier, one of the partisans of the "Baron...

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Toyah Willcox

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Steve Bray on drums, Peter Bush on keyboards, and herself on vocals. Having never considered herself a musician, she found herself fronting a successful...

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Western Roman Empire

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The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume XII: The Crisis of Empire, A.D. 193-337. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-5213-0199-2. Bray, John...

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John Henry Newman

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Newman, when speaking of St John, echoes the language of John's gospel. Shortly after St John's death, Bray adds, Newman recorded "a conversation between...

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List of Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes

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The following is a list of episodes from the 1955–1962 television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the 1962–1965 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. The 39th...

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List of films set in Ireland

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(1996) Veronica Guerin (2003) A Very Unlucky Leprechaun (1998) The Vicar of Bray (1937) The Violent Enemy (1968) Waiting for Dublin (2007) Wake Wood (2011)...

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Deaths in August 2023

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Belisario Velasco, 87, Chilean politician, minister of the interior (2006–2008), cancer. Bray Wyatt, 36, American professional wrestler (WWE), heart...

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English Reformation

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King's vicar general, Cromwell's authority was greater than that of bishops, even the Archbishop of Canterbury. Largely due to Anne Boleyn's influence, a number...

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Dublin

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Bray and Greystones in County Wicklow. Commuter rail operates on the other four lines using Irish Rail diesel multiple units. In 2013, passengers for...

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Jones Hewson

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larger roles of Mr. Goldbury in Utopia, Gerard de Montigny in Mirette, Tommy Merton in The Vicar of Bray, and Ferdinand de Roxas in The Chieftain. He...

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William Oughtred

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(Book of Amos, Chapter IV, v. 12): "Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel". 'Entry for 28 August 1655', in W. Bray (ed.), The Diary of John Evelyn, with a Biographical...

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Traction engine

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developed for road haulage by Bray. The first half of the 1860s was a period of great experimentation, but by the end of the decade the standard form of the traction...

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List of folk songs by Roud number

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This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some...

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2020 in British television

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2020. "I'm A Celebrity: Ant and Dec launch new series from Welsh castle". BBC. 15 November 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2020. "The Vicar of Dibley to return...

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Latino Malabranca Orsini

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Orsini—all cardinal-deacons; the other of Ancher Pantaleoni, Goffredo d'Alatri, and Guillaume de Bray—all cardinal-priests. The sole cardinal-bishop, Bertrand...

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Timeline of the Irish War of Independence

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station in Bray. Shooting lasted for 2 hours. Several B&T's and civilians wounded. Attack on mixed patrol of Auxiliaries and B&T near Bray RIC barracks...

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State religion

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or good customs."  Holy See: It is an elective, theocratic (or sacerdotal), absolute monarchy ruled by the Pope, who is also the Vicar of Christ. The highest...

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Art Spiegelman

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explicit comic strips, and The Viper Vicar of Vice, Villainy and Vickedness (1972), a transgressive work in the vein of fellow underground cartoonist S. Clay...

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