J. M. Roberts
The facts available for John Morris Roberts are sparse enough that the structural recipe cannot be followed in its standard form — no single cited work appears in the record. What the facts do establish is this: Roberts was a historian and university teacher who wrote in English, and those roles defined his working life.
He was born on 14 April 1928 in Bath and received his education at Keble College. A citizen of the United Kingdom, he worked as a historian and as a university teacher, and he used the English language in that work. He died on 30 May 2003 in Roadwater.
The authorized form of his name in the Library of Congress Name Authority File is recorded as "Roberts, J. M. (John Morris), 1928–2003." That designation fixes his identity in the bibliographic record, ensuring that his works remain traceable across library catalogues. His death in Roadwater in 2003 marks the close of a life that began in Bath seventy-five years earlier.
Quotes by J. M. Roberts
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.
Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
It's rewarding being with these people, making a connection with them, and being able to take them out to the cemetery. It's just a real special time.
This is a combination that we believe would restore the Disney brand, ... There is no doubt that these two companies can achieve things together that they would not be able to do alone.
Roberts pulled out of the 1998 Masters after breaking two ribs while sneezing. The sneeze 'sent me to my knees and I kind of felt something pop,' he reported. Wrote Golf Magazine columnist David Feherty: 'He was lucky. If it had been a (lower intestinal emission), he might have shattered his pelvis.'