dualism. 1  the state of being dual or consisting of two parts; division into two. 2  Philosophy. the view that there are just two mutually irreducible substances. 3  Theology. the doctrine that there are two independent divine beings or eternal principles, one good and the other evil. the belief that a human being embodies two parts, as body and soul.
Thomas Sully was an early American painter, born in Lincolnshire, England. He immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of nine, and as a young man initially worked for an insurance broker in Philadelphia. However, Sully was passionate about art and when he was 16, Sully joined his brother, a miniaturist, in Virginia.
Beauly is the site of the Beauly Priory, or the Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin and John the Baptist, founded in 1230 by John Byset of the Aird, for Valliscaulian monks.Following the Reformation, the buildings (except for the church, which is now a ruin) passed into the possession of Lord Lovat.eauly is also the site of Lovat Castle, which once belonged to the Bissets, but was presented by James VI, to Hugh Fraser, 5th Lord Lovat and later demolished. The population of Beauly was 855 in 1901.