Whistler's mother noted in her diary, " the great artist remarked to me ‘ Your little boy has uncommon genius, but do not urge him beyond his inclination .’"

They also close formal letters with ‘ Your good brother / sister ’ for sovereigns, but with ‘ Your good friend ’ for other leaders.

In his book Energy Flash, Simon Reynolds quotes Adam Lee Miller of Adult: ‘ I always get a kick when people say the first “ techno ” record was Cybotron ’ s “ Alleys Of Your Mind ”... To me, it was just a New Wave record.

The terms ‘ You ’ and ‘ I ’ are used rather than ‘ God ’ and ‘ we ’, and lyrics such as, ‘ I, I ’ m desperate for You ’, and ‘ Hungry I come to You for I know You satisfy, I am empty but I know Your love does not run dry ’ both exemplify the similarity of the lyrics of some CWM to popular love songs.

Whilst I was standing, I was called for, so I proceeded until I stood in front of Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic, and He said to me, ‘ 0 Ahmad, for what were you beaten ?’ I said, “ On account of the Qur ’ aan .” He said, “ And what is the Qur ’ aan ?” I said, “ Your words, 0 Allaah, belonging to You .” He said, ‘ From where do you ( derive and ) say this ?’ I said, “ 0 Lord, ‘ Abdur-Razzaaq narrated to me .” So ‘ AbdurRazzaaq was called for and he was brought, until he was made to stand in front of Allaah, the Mighty and Magnificent, and He said to him, ‘ What do you say about the Qur ’ aan, 0 ‘ Abdur-Razzaaq ?’ He said, ‘ Your words, 0 Allaah, belonging to You ,’ so Allaah said, ‘ From where do you ( derive and ) say this ?’ He said, ‘ Ma ’ mar narrated to me .’ So Ma ’ mar was called for and he was brought, until he was made to stand in front of Allaah, the Mighty and Magnificent, and He said to him, ‘ What do you say about the Qur ’ aan, 0 Ma ’ mar ?’ He said, ‘ Your words, 0 Allaah, belonging to You ,’ so Allaah said, ‘ From where do you ( derive and ) say this ?’ He said, ‘ Az -- Zuhree narrated to me .’ So az-Zuhree was called for and he was Brought, until he was made to stand in front of Allaah, the Mighty and Magnificent, and He said to him, ‘ What do you say

In this inscription the gods Eshmun and Ba ‘ al Sidon ' Lord of Sidon ' ( who may or may not be the same ) are mentioned as chief gods of the Sidonians.

It is difficult to determine to what extent the ' false worship ' which the prophets stigmatize is the worship of Yahweh under a conception and with rites, which treated him as a local nature god, or whether particular features of gods more often given the title Ba ‘ al were consciously recognized to be distinct from Yahwism from the first.

For according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah ; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to the abominination, altars to burn incense to the Ba ‘ al.

Esus is accompanied, on different panels of the Pillar of the Boatmen, by Tarvos Trigaranus ( the ‘ bull with three cranes ’), Jupiter, Vulcan, and other gods.

They are the parents of the gods ‘ of the fish class ’, including Te Whata-uira-a-Tangawa, Te Whatukura, Poutini, and Te Pounamu ( Shortland 1882: 17 ).

Asura: Like many other gods, Savitr is mentioned as ‘ asura ’ in many hymns of the Rig veda.

In his new palace Ba ‘ al hosts a great feast for the other gods.

It has also been suggested that the Ba ‘ al of Tyre, Melqart " king of the city " ( who was probably the Ba ‘ al whose worship was furthered by Ahab and his house ) was this supposed god Moloch and that Melqart / Moloch was also Milcom the god of the Ammonites and identical to other gods whose names contain mlk.

Some identified Moloch with Milcom, with the Tyrian god Melqart, with Ba ‘ al Hammon to whom children were purportedly sacrificed, and with other gods called " Lord " ( Baʿal ) or ( Bel ).

Consequently, under the influence of Moabite culture, the Israelites begin whoring after the Moabite gods, and join themselves to Baal Peor ( Hebrew בעל פעור Ba ‘ al P < sup > ə </ sup >‘ ôr ), in the Septuagint Beelphegôr, a baal associated with Mount Pe ‘ or.

But in verse 6 of the Psalm, God says to the other members of the council, ‘ You are elohim .’ Here elohim has to mean gods .”

Roman Emperor Octavian received the title of “ Augustus ” it carried religious overtones, suggesting a special relationship with the world of the gods, symbolised by the cult of the Emperor ’ s ‘ genius ’, a veiled form of emperor-worship.

It is believed to root in the religious notion that athletic excellence was an ‘ aesthetical ’ offering to the gods ( nearly all games fitted in religious festivals ), and indeed at many games it was the privilege of the winner to be represented naked as a votive statue offered in a temple, or even to be immortalized as a model for a god's statue.

Then the illustrious Indra, the chief of the gods, spoke to him, ‘ This one is Sree herself.

Although much like the gods, these figures were not always depicted without considerable moral ambiguity: “ On this account, the other traditional notion of the daemon as related to the souls of the dead is elided in favour of a spatial scenario which evidently also graduated in moral terms ; though says nothing of that here, it is a necessary inference from her account, just as Eros is midway between deficiency and plenitude … Indeed, Xencrates … explicitly understood daemones as ranged along a scale from good to bad … speaks of ‘ great and strong beings in the atmosphere, malevolent and morose, who rejoice in days, religious festivals involving violence against the self, etc., and after gaining them as their lot, they turn to nothing worse .’… The use of such malign daemones by human beings seems not to be even remotely imagined here:

“ And they have said: ‘ You shall not leave your gods, nor shall you leave Wadd, nor Suwâ ’, nor Yaghûth, nor Ya ’ ûq, nor Nasr ( these are the names of their idols ).

It appears from their inscriptions as well as from their names that Arameans worshipped Assyro-Babylonian gods such as Haddad ( Adad ), Sin, Ishtar ( whom they called ‘ Attar ), Shamash and Nergal, and Caananite-Phoenician deities such as the storm-god, El, the supreme deity of Canaan, Anat (‘ Atta ) and others.

essentially be spirit as well and ‘ in God ’ s class ’, and thereby ‘ gods ’.

An abugida ( from Ge ‘ ez አቡጊዳ ’ äbugida ), also called an alphasyllabary, is a segmental writing system in which consonant – vowel sequences are written as a unit: each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary.

Labels such as ‘ semi-Arian ’ or ‘ neo-Arian ’ are misleading, for those labelled so would have disavowed the importance of their relation to Arius.

In a letter to Bishop Maximilian of Syracuse, Gregory states his intention for his Dialogues, saying they are a kind of floretum ( an anthology, literally, ‘ flowers ’) of the most striking miracles of Italian holy men.

The most recent was in May 2012, when Washington Post columnist Mike Wise published a piece entitled " Fans who yell ‘ Oh !’ during national anthem are tainting a moment meant to unite Americans ".

Three general possibilities are that a person, possibly named Zephaniah, prophesied the words of the book of Zephaniah ; the general message of a Josianic prophet is conveyed through the book of Zephaniah ; or the name could have been employed, either during the monarchic or post-monarchic period, as a ‘ speaking voice ’, possibly for rhetorical purposes.

Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

For an atemporal interpretation that “ makes no attempt to give a ‘ local ’ account on the level of determinate particles ”, the conjugate wavefunction, (" advanced " or time-reversed ) of the relativistic version of the wavefunction, and the so-called " retarded " or time-forward version are both regarded as real and the transactional interpretation results.

There are further examples throughout ; a show called ‘ Big Shot ’ informs the characters of the current bounties, the crew continually come across saloons and desert worlds, engage in gunfights and standoffs.

In ‘ Wild Horses ’ characters are named after the Star Trek crew and the influence of Star Wars pervades throughout.

The big city rain slicked settings of film noir are continually explored, especially in the episode ‘ Ganymede Elegy ’.

Other visual and aural cues are also taken from film noir, in ‘ Pierrot Le Fou ’ for instance, Spike battles an enraged homicidal clown across a fairground, accompanied by lighting and camera angles any film noir would be proud of.

Crete senesi are literally ‘ Siennese clays ’, and the distinctive grey colouration of the soil gives the landscape an appearance often described as lunar.

also, ), which are in fact from Proto-Germanic * dwalaz ‘ foolish, stupid ’.

* Axiomatic proof: Proofs are deductive derivations of propositions from primitive premises that are ‘ true ’ in some sense.

You declaim bitterly against the luxury of priests, the ambition of bishops, the tyranny of the Roman Pontiff, and the babbling of the sophists ; against our prayers, fasts, and Masses ; and you are not content to retrench the abuses that may be in these things, but must needs abolish them entirely ... Look around on this ‘ Evangelical ’ generation, and observe whether amongst them less indulgence is given to luxury, lust, or avarice, than amongst those whom you so detest.

Ernst Haeckel, along with Karl von Baer and Wilhelm His, are primarily influential in forming the preliminary foundations of ‘ phylogenetic embryology ’ based on principles of evolution.

The exploitation of prison labor, the system of squeezing ‘ golden sweat ’ from them, the organization of production in places of confinement, which while profitable from a commercial point of view is fundamentally lacking in corrective significance – these are entirely inadmissible in Soviet places of confinement .”

The nonsense syllable PED ( which is the first three letters of the word ‘ pedal ’) turns out to be less nonsensical than a syllable such as KOJ ; the syllables are said to differ in association value.

By the Tudor period, the Irish culture and language had regained most of the territory initially lost to the colonists: even in the Pale, ‘ all the common folk … for the most part are of Irish birth, Irish habit and of Irish language ’.

Leo Damrosch writes, " an eighteenth-century Genevan liturgy still required believers to declare ‘ that we are miserable sinners, born in corruption, inclined to evil, incapable by ourselves of doing good '.

Madison pointed out that a limited government would be created, and that the powers delegated ‘ to the federal government are few and defined .” Madison persuaded prominent figures such as George Mason and Edmund Randolph, who had refused to endorse the constitution at the convention, to change their position and support it at the ratifying convention.

Jewish prayer (, tefilláh ; plural, tefillos or tefillót ; Yiddish ת ּ פ ֿ לה tfíle, plural ת ּ פ ֿ לות tfílles ; Yinglish: davening from Yiddish דא ַ וונען davnen ‘ to pray ’) are the prayer recitations that form part of the observance of Judaism.