PAINSTAKER
\pˈe͡ɪnste͡ɪkə], \pˈeɪnsteɪkə], \p_ˈeɪ_n_s_t_eɪ_k_ə]\
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By Daniel Lyons
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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One who takes pains; bill of pains and penalties, in Eng. hist., a species of process, by bringing a bill into Parliament, employed to inflict punishment on State offenders out of the ordinary course of justice, the latest example of which was the bill of pains and penalties against Queen Caroline, 1820.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Henry James
- writer who was born in the United States but lived England (1843-1916) An American scholar; born at Albany, N. Y., June 3, 1811; died Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 18, 1882. He resided Cambridge. Among the most noted of his works on morals and religion are: "What Is State?\" (1845); "Moralism Christianity"(1852); "Lectures Miscellanies"("The Nature Evil"(1855); "Christianity Logic Creation"(1857); "Substance Shadow"(1863); Secret Swedenborg"(1869). An American novelist and miscellaneous prose-writer, son of Henry(1st); born in New York, April 15, 1843. His works include: "Transatlantic Sketches"(1875); "A Passionate Pilgrim Other Tales"("Roderick Hudson"(1876); "The American"(1877); "Watch Ward"(1878); "French Poets Novelists"("Daisy Miller: a Study"(Europeans: Sketch"("An International Episode"(1879); Madonna the Future "Hawthorne"(Bundle Letters"(1880); "Confidence"(Diary Man Fifty"("Washington Square"(Portrait Lady"(1882); Comedy"(1883); Siege London; Pension Beaurepas; Point View"("Portraits Places"("Tales Three Cities"(1884); Little Tour France"(1885); Art Fiction"(1885), with Walter Besant; "Stories Revived"(2 vols., Author Beltraffio"(Bostonians"(1886); Princess Casamassima"("Partial Portraits"(1888); Aspern Papers Stories"(Reverberator"(London Life"(1889); Tragic Muse"(1890); "Port Tarascon"(1891), translation; Lesson Master"(1892), volume stories; Real Thing 1893); "Picture Text"(Private 1893), "Essays Elsewhere"(Wheel Time"(1894); "Theatricals