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Hamilton

noun

Irish mathematician (1806-1865). Synonyms: Sir William Rowan Hamilton, William Rowan Hamilton.

English beauty who was the mistress of Admiral Nelson (1765-1815). Synonyms: Amy Lyon, Lady Emma Hamilton.

United States toxicologist known for her work on industrial poisons (1869-1970). Synonym: Alice Hamilton.

United States statesman and leader of the Federalists; as the first Secretary of the Treasury he establish a federal bank; was mortally wounded in a duel with Aaron Burr (1755-1804). Synonym: Alexander Hamilton.

A port city in southeastern Ontario at the western end of Lake Ontario.

The capital of Bermuda.

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"Hamilton" Quotes from Famous Books

... without anything. At the end of that twelvemonth he paid a second visit to California, having borrowed money from Roger for his journey. He had now again returned, with some little cash in hand, and with the additional security of a deed executed in his favour by one Hamilton K. Fisker, who had gone into partnership with his uncle, and who had added a vast flour-mill to his uncle's concerns. In accordance with this deed he was to get twelve per cent, on his capital, and had enjoyed the gratification of seeing his name ...

— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope

... faculties which is concerned with knowledge, as distinguished from emotion and volition. Understanding is the Saxon word of the same general import, but is chiefly used of the reasoning powers; the understanding, which Sir Wm. Hamilton has called "the faculty of relations and comparisons," is distinguished by many philosophers from reason in that "reason is the faculty of the higher cognitions ...

— English Synonyms and Antonyms - With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions • James Champlin Fernald

... Ontario, at Hamilton, Ottawa, and Essex Centre, are doing good work in this temperance warfare. "Boys' night schools," "girls' sewing schools," and "bands of hope" are successfully carried on under their supervision. There are eleven departments of work in connection with this provincial ...

— Why and how: a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada • Addie Chisholm

... Dapper. "She landed at Harwich, and had an ovation all the way to London. People hurrahed, bells rang, and cannon thundered. The poor girl was terribly frightened. The thought of meeting a husband whom she had never seen unstrung her nerves. The Duchess of Hamilton laughed at her, but it was a hot shot the queen let fly; she said: 'You have been married twice to husbands of your own choosing, but poor me must marry a man whom I never ...

— Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times - 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance • Charles Carleton Coffin

... Hamilton, le Comte Antoine. Memoires du Comte de Grammont. Nouvelle Edition Augmentee de Notes et Eclairissements necessaires par M. Horace Walpole. Imprimee ...

— English Travellers of the Renaissance • Clare Howard

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