The earliest mention of Hermaphroditus in Greek literature is by the philosopher Theophrastus ( 3rd century BC ), in his book The Characters, XVI The Superstitious Man, in which he portrays various types of eccentric people.

His book The Characters, if it is indeed his, deserves a separate mention.

The book has been regarded by some as an independent work ; others incline to the view that the sketches were written from time to time by Theophrastus, and collected and edited after his death ; others, again, regard the Characters as part of a larger systematic work, but the style of the book is against this.

George Eliot also took inspiration from Theophrastus ' Characters, most notably in her book of caricatures, Impressions of Theophrastus Such.

Characters like Gladstone were often seen in the early Carl Barks comic book stories.

Most of the available choices reflect the four clans mentioned above, and some of the Special Characters are mentioned at length in the Army book as major powers in the Skaven world.

His most famous book on hangul is the Hunmong Jahoe (; " Collection of Characters for Training the Unenlightened (= Kids )", 1527 ).

Five Red Herrings, a whodunit by Dorothy L. Sayers published in the US as Suspicious Characters, sees Lord Peter Wimsey, on holiday in Kirkcudbright, investigating the death of an artist living in Gatehouse of Fleet ; the book contains some remarkable descriptions of the countryside.

In Jonathan Swift's tract Remarks on the Characters of the Court of Queen Anne, a commentary on the book Memoirs of the Secret Services by John Macky, in response to Macky's statement that the Duke " Does not now make any figure at court ", Swift's dismissive reply is " Nor anywhere else.

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Characters discuss the romance and aspects of that genre in a way that comments directly on the action in the book, and an important ( but physically and intellectually impotent ) literary theorist is named Arthur Kingfisher in direct reference to Arthurian legend and the Fisher King.

Characters in the book include his departmental supervisor, various professors and university staff, his landlord, his ex-wife, and her son.

* An Author in Search of Six Characters – the second volume of Giuseppe Bergman's adventures, by Italian adult meta-comic book creator Milo Manara

Anthony Pugh, in his book Balzac's Recurring Characters, says that the technique is employed " for the most part without that feeling of self-indulgence that mars some of Balzac's later work.

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The back of the book includes a section titled " Cast of Characters ", a Swahili glossary, and the editor's acknowledgments.

In 1881 there appeared in Blackwood's Magazine the first of her Letters on some of Shakespeares Heroines, which were published in book form as On Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters ( 1885 ).

* Historian Francis Russell on ethnic change in Mattapan-from Russell's book " The Knave of Boston & Other Ambiguous Massachusetts Characters "

He co-edited, with Ben Ohmart, a book of Daws Butler scripts entitled Scenes for Actors and Voices in 2003 and in 2004 co-wrote the authorized biography: Daws Butler: Characters Actor.

In 1612, the English language version of the phrase appeared in the book " Essays and Characters of a Prison " by English writer Geffray Mynshul ( Minshull ) originally published in 1618, and probably based on the author's experience while held at Gray's Inn, London, when imprisoned for debt.

The historian Macky, in his book Characters, observed the Duke and said that " he hath a great many links, but they do not make a complete chain ; is certainly a very fine gentleman and understands conversation and the belles lettres ; is well bred.

An Arabic manuscript of Ibn Wahshiyya's book Kitab Shawq al-Mustaham, a work that discusses a number of ancient alphabets, in which he deciphered a number of Egyptian hieroglyphs, was later read by Athanasius Kircher in the 17th century, and then translated and published in English by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall in 1806 as Ancient Alphabets and Hieroglyphic Characters Explained ; with an Account of the Egyptian Priests, their Classes, Initiation, and Sacrifices in the Arabic Language by Ahmad Bin Abubekr Bin Wahishih, 16 years before Jean-François Champollion's complete decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Characters with no particularly defined background at the time ( e. g., Smoke and Jade, who were paired-up in the comics ) were radically different when comparing their comic book appearances to their in-game appearances.

Characters in Amber DRPG are represented by four attributes: Psyche, Strength, Endurance and Warfare.

For years, Fisher would bring the characters back to his strip, billing them as " The ORIGINAL Hillbilly Characters " and advising readers not to be " fooled by imitations.

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Rather than the traditional format established by Dungeons & Dragons, which often involved the characters wandering randomly through caves or tunnels and fighting different types of monsters, Sandy Petersen introduced the concept of the Onion Skin: Interlocking layers of information and nested clues that lead the Player Characters from seemingly minor investigations into a missing person to discovering mind-numbingly awful, global conspiracies to destroy the world.

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Characters are then grouped by their primary radical, then ordered by number of pen strokes within radicals.

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* " Free ", by Stevie Wonder from Characters

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Category: Characters created by Stan Lee

Category: Characters created by Jack Kirby

Category: Characters created by Stan Lee

Characters ( five-bit Baudot characters, of course ) could be stored three to a 15-bit word, but this representation is impossible to handle except by library routines.

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Characters each spoke a different Prakrit based on their role and background ; for example, Dramili was the language of " forest-dwellers ", Sauraseni was spoken by " the heroine and her female friends ", and Avanti was spoken by " cheats and rogues ".

Characters are written by preceding them with a dollar sign:

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