Chapter 17 of William Bates ' 1920 book Perfect Sight Without Glasses, in which the author argues that observation of the sun is beneficial to those with poor vision, includes a figure of somebody " Focussing the Rays of the Sun Upon the Eye of a Patient by Means of a Burning Glass.

These groups, along with other Christians opposed to capital punishment, have cited Christ's Sermon on the Mount ( transcribed in Matthew Chapter 5 – 7 ) and Sermon on the Plain ( transcribed in Luke 6: 17 – 49 ).

And again in his Commentary on Matthew ( Book X, Chapter 17 ) Origen refers to Josephus ' Antiquities of the Jews by name and that Josephus had stated that the death of James had brought a wrath upon those who had killed him.

John Painter states that Origen expresses surprise that given that a Josephus who disbelieves in Jesus as Christ ( Commentary on Matthew Book X, Chapter 17 ) should write respectfully of James, his brother.

An issue that is subject to more debate is that in Commentary on Matthew ( Book X, Chapter 17 ), Origen cites Josephus as stating the death of James had brought a wrath upon those who had killed him, and that his death was the cause of the destruction of Jerusalem.

Origen's statement in his Commentary on Matthew ( Book X, Chapter 17 ) that Josephus " did not accept Jesus as Christ ", is usually seen as a confirmation of the generally accepted fact that Josephus did not believe Jesus to be the Messiah.

Feldman states that it would make no sense for Origen to show amazement that Josephus did not acknowledge Jesus as Christ ( Book X, Chapter 17 ), if Josephus had not referred to Jesus at all.

( The Reluctant Jester, Chapter 17.

* http :// www. draftlight. net / lifeonaline / download / download. php? section = 1 See Chapter 4: 17 essential rescue knots, Page 38

* John Angelo Jackson, Adventure Travels in the Himalaya Chapter 17, Everest and the Elusive Snowman, 1954 updated material, Indus Publishing Company, 2005, ISBN 81-7387-175-2.

Chapter 17, " Varieties of Liberals and Conservatives ", is entirely devoted to showing a number of dimensions along which one can slide and still be a member of either camp.

The Westminster Confession of Faith teaches on Perseverance of the Saints in its Chapter 17 and on Assurance of Grace and Salvation in its Chapter 18.

* Chapter 17 deals with the fallacy of many questions ( plures interrogationes ut unam facere )>

Chapter 27 was enacted April 19, 2005 and was certified by the Secretary of State as adopted by the Fentress County Board of Commissioners on May 17, 2005.

The Vermont Statutes mention the grant in at least three places, each time using the term Warner's Grant ( Title 17, Chapter 34, Section 1893 ; T. 24, Ch.

The Vermont Statutes use Warren's Gore in at least two places ( Title 17, Chapter 34, Section 1893 and T. 24, Ch.

Crowley, David and Heyer, Paul ( ed ) ( 2003 ) ' Chapter 17: The optical telegraph ' Communication in History: Technology, Culture and Society ( Fourth Edition ) Allyn and Bacon, Boston pp. 123 – 125

The Hollow Man gives an explicatory recipe for crime writers: Chapter 17 of the book consists of a theoretical digression entitled " The Locked-Room Lecture ".

Germany's First Bid For Colonies, 1884 – 1885: A Move in Bismarck's European Policy ( New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. – the Norton Library, 1970 ), p. 17 – 31: Chapter 1.

* Falk, Geoffrey D. ( 2007 ) Stripping the Gurus: Sex Violence, Abuse and Enlightenment Chapter 17, A Wild and Crazy Wisdom Guy ( no ISBN )

According to the Shoku Nihongi, Emperor Kammu's mother, Takano no Niigasa is a descendant of Prince Junda, son of Muryeong, who died in Japan in 513 ( Nihon Shoki Chapter 17 ).

The Bhagavad Gita prescribes certain dietary practices ( Chapter 17, Verses 8 – 10 ).

* Jean Vermeil, Chapter 17 of L ` Autre Histoire de France, Editions due Félin, Paris: 1993 ( ISBN 2-86645-139-2 ).

But there are smaller snippets of tradition preserved in the Historia Brittonum: in Chapter 31, we are told that Vortigern ruled in fear of Ambrosius ; later, in Chapter 66, various events are dated from a Battle of Guoloph ( often identified with Wallop, ESE of Amesbury near Salisbury ), which is said to have been between Ambrosius and Vitolinus ; lastly, in Chapter 48, it is said that Pascent, the son of Vortigern, was granted rule over the regions of Buellt and Gwrtheyrnion by Ambrosius.

Agathocles was cited as from the lowest, most abject condition of life and as an example of “ those who by their crimes come to be princes ” in Chapter VIII of Niccolò Machiavelli ’ s treatise on politics, The Prince ( 1513 ).

Chapter 11: 16-23 summarises the campaign: Joshua has taken the entire land, and the land " had rest from war.

Chapter and cathedral, surrounded by further ecclesiastical institutions, were located on Dominsel ( cathedral island ), which formed a prince-episcopal immunity district, distinct from the city of Brandenburg.

Chapter X regulates penances ( often corporal ) for offences, and it is here that the Rule of St. Columbanus differs so widely from that of St. Benedict.

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

If the company's stock is publicly traded, a Chapter 11 filing generally causes it to be delisted from its primary stock exchange if listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, or the NASDAQ.

Chapter 11 cases dropped by 60 % from 1991 to 2003.

His comparative approach is obvious in the following excerpt from Chapter III of Book I of what many consider to be his masterpiece, De l ' esprit des lois:

" Yet another excerpt where Montesqieu's comparative approach is evident is the following one from Chapter XIII of Book XXIX:

Against this approach, he developed his own approach to generalization and objectivity, drawing on ideas from Kurt Lewin in Chapter 9 of Grundlegung der Psychologie.

In 2009, the company emerged from a government backed Chapter 11 reorganization.

* Chapter 3: The Double Shakedown-in this chapter, Finkelstein claims that the number of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust recognized by relief groups increased from c. 100, 000 in 1945 to nearly 1 million owing to definitional changes in who was considered to be a survivor.

Edward Gibbon, in his classic The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, discusses the topic in considerable detail in his famous Chapter Fifteen, summarizing the historical causes of the early success of Christianity as follows: "( 1 ) The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal of the Christians, derived, it is true, from the Jewish religion, but purified from the narrow and unsocial spirit which, instead of inviting, had deterred the Gentiles from embracing the law of Moses.

As Levy described in Chapter 2, " Hackers believe that essential lessons can be learned about the systems — about the world — from taking things apart, seeing how they work, and using this knowledge to create new and more interesting things.

With specific reference to Avalokitesvara, he is stated both in the Lotus Sutra ( Chapter 25 " Perceiver of the World's Sounds " or " Universal Gateway "), and the Surangama Sutra to have appeared before as a woman or a goddess to save beings from suffering and ignorance.

First appearing in Chapter XIII, she saves the protagonist from torture and sacrifice.

Extract from Chapter XVI, Witchcraft and Spells: Transcendental Magic its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Levi.

The organization receives its authority from Chapter 11, Title 49 of the United States Code.

* Chapter 1 defines four kinds of monks: ( 1 ) Cenobites, those " in a monastery, where they serve under a rule and an abbot "; ( 2 ) Anchorites, or hermits, who, after long successful training in a monastery, are now coping single-handedly, with only God for their help ; ( 3 ) Sarabaites, living by twos and threes together or even alone, with no experience, rule and superior, and thus a law unto themselves ; and ( 4 ) Gyrovagues, wandering from one monastery to another, slaves to their own wills and appetites.