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Professor Colls, whose book on the Identity of England OUP 2002 took the long view of ideas about England and Englishness, has contributed to the book with an account of the rise of a Victorian regional intelligentsia - the 'New Northumbrians' as he calls them.
Northumbria: History and Identity 547-2000, edited by Robert Colls 2008
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Professor Colls said: There is probably not a region of England that can lay claim to a work of such historical range - ranging for instance from the Hymn of Caedmon the cowherd in 647, to the songs of Lindisfarne, Sting and others in the late 20th century.
Northumbria: History and Identity 547-2000, edited by Robert Colls 2008
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The Happiness of the Family where I dined, upon account of the Colls. justly applauded Oration, was complete.
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These were the Value of a sum of money of the Colls the Coll's.
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Colls. of La. new series, pp. 289-292; New York, 1875.
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Colls, who took orders, disliked Bentham's religious levity, and denounces his vanity, but admits his early kindness.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868
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A little book called _Utilitarianism Unmasked_, by the Rev.J. F. Colls, D.D. (1844), gives some reminiscences by Colls, who had been Bentham's amanuensis for fourteen years.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868
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(Colls) so much, that Jack threw him out of the window.
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Sepr 23 from Capt Eskridgs went to Captn McCarty from thence to Colls Point E [skridge] & M [cCarty] in Compa [ny] met Collo Lee he went wth us we dind at his house I went home in the Night
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"Happets" has been made from conception in S3D using computer stop motion, which reduces single frame rendering to just five minutes, and minimizes costs, Colls said.
Variety.com 2010
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