John Hampden was an English politician and Parliamentarian. He was born in 1594 at London and died in 1643 at the Battle of Thame during the Civil War. In 1609 he was entered a gentlemancommoner at Magdalen College, Oxford. He began the study of law in the Inner Temple, but having inherited an ample fortune on his father's death he lived the usual life of a country gentleman. He became a member of parliament in 1621 and in 1626 helped to prepare the charges against the Duke of Buckingham. In 1627 he was imprisoned for refusing a loan to the King, Charles I and again in 1634 when he refused to pay the Ship-Money tax, supposedly for outfitting the King's navy. He was one of the five members of parliament whose attempted seizure by Charles I precipitated the Civil War. When war broke out, he raised a regiment of infantry for the Parliamentarians, and subsequently demonstrated great leadership and grasp of tactics at the Battle of Edgehill and the Battle Of Reading before being killed at the Battle of Thame. Research John Hampden
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet and philosopher. He was born in 1772 at Ottery St Mary in Devon and died in 1834. Sent to school at Christ's Church Hospital, to which he had obtained a representation, the young Samuel Coleridge took little interest in the ordinary sports of childhood, and was noted for a dreamy abstracted manner, though he made considerable progress in classical studies, and was known even at that early age as a devourer of metaphysical and theological works.
From Christ's Church he went with a scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he remained for two years, but without achieving much distinction. At this time, too, his ultra-radical and rationalistic opinions made the idea of academic preferment hopeless, and perhaps it was partly to escape the difficulties and perplexities gathering about his future that Samuel Coleridge suddenly quit Cambridge and enlisted in the 15th Dragoons. Rescued by his friends from this position, he took up his residence at Bristol with two congenial spirits, Robert Southey, who had just been obliged to quit Oxford for his Unitarian opinions, and Lovell, a young Quaker. The three conceived the project of emigrating to America, and establishing a pantisocracy as they termed it, or community in which all should be equal, on the banks of the Susquehanna. This scheme, however, never became anything more than a theory, and was finally disposed of when, in 1795, the three friends married three sisters, the Misses Pricket of Bristol.
Samuel Coleridge about this time started a periodical, the Watchman, which did not survived beyond the ninth number. In 1796 he took a cottage at Nether Stowey, in Somersetshire, where, soothed and supported by the companionship of Wordsworth, who came to reside at Allfoxden, he wrote much of his best poetry, in particular the Ancient Mariner and the first part of Christabel. While residing at Nether Stowey he used to officiate in a Unitarian chapel at Taunton, and in 1798 received an invitation to take the charge of a congregation of this denomination at Shrewsbury, where, however, he did nothing further than preach the probation sermon.
An annuity bestowed on him by some friends (the Wedgewoods) furnished him with the means of making a tour to Germany, where he studied at the University of Gottingen. In 1800 he returned to England and took up his residence beside Southey at Keswick, while Wordsworth lived at Grasmere in the same neighbourhood. From this fact, and a certain common vein in their poetry, arose the epithet of 'Lake School' applied to their works. About 1804 Coleridge went to Malta to re-establish his health, seriously impaired by opium-eating. In 1806 he returned to England, and after ten years of somewhat desultory literary work as lecturer, contributor to periodicals, etc, Samuel Coleridge in a sort took refuge from the world in the house of his friend Mr. Gillman at Highgate, London. Here he passed the rest of his days, holding weekly conversaziones in which he poured himself forth in eloquent monologues, being by general consent one of the most wonderful talkers of the time.
His views on religious and political subjects had now become mainly orthodox and conservative, and a great work on the Logos, which should reconcile reason and faith, was one of the dreams of his later years. But Samuel Coleridge had long been incapable of concentrating his energies on anything, and of the many years he spent in the leisure and quietness of Highgate nothing remains but the Table Talk and the fragmentary notes and criticism gathered together, and edited by his nephew, valuable enough of their kind, but less than might have been expected of Samuel Coleridge.
The dreamy and transcendental character of Samuel Coleridge's poetry eminently exhibits the man. In his best moments he has a fine sublimity of thought and expression not surpassed by Milton; but he is often turgid and verbose. As a critic, especially of William Shakespeare, Samuel Coleridge's work is of the highest rank, combining a comprehensive grasp of large critical principles and a singularly subtle insight into details.
Samuel Coleridge's poetical works include The Ancient Mariner, Christabel (incomplete), Remorse, a tragedy, Kubia Khan, a translation of Schiller's Wallenstein, etc; his prose works, Biographia Literaria, The Friend, The Statesman's Manual, Aids to Reflection, On the Constitution of Church and State, etc. Posthumously were published specimens of his Table Talk, Literary Remains, etc. Research Samuel Coleridge
The adductor transversus pollicis (adductor pollicis) is a deep muscle that is flat and triangular in form. It passes from the middle of the palm to the thumb. It originates by two heads. One head (caput transversum) originates from the palmar side of the third metacarpal bone and the other head (caput obliquum) originates from the base of the second metacarpal, the trapezium, and the capitate bones. The two heads join and insert in the base of the thumb on the ulnar side. The muscle is innervated by the ulnar nerve and supplied by branches of the ulnar artery. This muscle works with the first dorsal interosseus to grasp objects between the thumb and index finger. Research Adductor Transversus Pollicis
The opponens digiti minimi (opponens digiti quinti) lies immediately beneath the flexor digiti minimi brevis. It is triangular in shape and originates from the hamulus of the hamate bone and the flexor retinaculum of the wrist. It inserts in the fifth metacarpal bone. The opponens digiti minimi is innervated by the ulnar nerve and supplied by the ulnar artery. This muscle is a part of the hypothenar eminence, the muscle mass of the little finger, located on the outside of the palm of the hand. The hypothenar eminence consists of the abductor digiti minimi, the flexor digiti minimi brevis, the opponens digiti minimi, and the palmaris brevis. These muscles work together to perform the grasp functions of the hand. With the help of the opponens digiti minimi, the little finger can be brought across to touch the thumb. Research Opponens Digiti Minimi
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