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There is a brief reference to his love poetry in a passage by Cicero.
If the sick person wishes to receive the sacrament of penance, it is preferable that the priest make himself available for this during a previous visit ; but if the sick person must confess during the celebration of the sacrament of anointing, this confession replaces the penitential rite A passage of Scripture is read, and the priest may give a brief explanation of the reading, a short litany is said, and the priest lays his hands on the head of the sick person and then says a prayer of thanksgiving over the already blessed oil or, if necessary, blesses the oil himself.
Chilton and Evans state that the general acceptance of the authenticity of the James passage lends support to the partial authenticity of the Testimonium in that the brief reference to " Jesus, who was called Christ " in Antiquities XX, 9, 1 " clearly implies a prior reference " and that " in all probability the Testimonium is that prior reference ".
In a brief passage written from Bunter's point of view in " Busman's Honeymoon " Bunter is seen, even in the privacy of his own mind, to be thinking of his employer as " His Lordship ".
In a brief, unelaborated, and enigmatic passage, the Hebrew Bible describes how the fame of Solomon's wisdom and wealth spread far and wide, so much so that the queen of Sheba decided that she should meet him.
Whether the passage is simply to provide a brief token, foreign witness of Solomon's wealth and wisdom, or whether there is meant to be something more significant to the queen's visit is unknown ; nevertheless the visit of the Queen of Sheba has become the subject of numerous stories.
A brief lull in exploration occurred while the mess of guidelines laid from Chamber 9 was sorted out until John Parker progressed first to the large, dry, inlet passage of Chamber 20 and thence followed the River Axe upstream to Chamber 22 where the way on appeared to be lost.
The passageway for each is vaulted, and has two aisles ( in the case of the triple gate, a third aisle exists for a brief distance beyond the gate ); the eastern aisle of the double gates and western of the triple gates reach the surface, the other aisles terminating some way before the steps – Warren believed that one aisle of each original passage was extended when the al-Aqsa Mosque blocked the original surface exits.
The major features of the Ionic order are the volutes of its capital, which have been the subject of much theoretical and practical discourse, based on a brief and obscure passage in Vitruvius.
Possibly the best source, however brief, on Standish's origins and early life is a short passage recorded by Nathaniel Morton, secretary of Plymouth Colony, who wrote in his New England's Memorial, published in 1669, that Standish:
She returned at the program's conclusion to offer a brief passage from the Bible or a famous quote that reflected upon the evening's story.
The message was clear and it was from God ; in a passage of Kitab al-Mubashshirāt Ibn ‘ Arabī admits that one evening in Mecca he experienced a brief spell of despondency on the face of his disciples, he thought of leaving all counselling, abandon men to their fate and to devote his future efforts to himself alone as those who truly enter the Path are rare.
His career included a brief stint in the Office of House-Elf Relocation, a transfer to the Beast Division, the creation of the Werewolf Register in 1947, the 1965 passage of the Ban on Experimental Breeding, and many research trips for the Dragon Research and Restraint Bureau.
Together with the brief preceding narrative of the birth of Er, Onan, and Shelah, and the subsequent narrative of the birth of Perez's children, the passage is often regarded as presenting a significant chronological issue, since it is surrounded by a narrative concerning Joseph ; before the passage occurs, Joseph is described as being 17 years old, and after the passage, Joseph is described as meeting up with Judah some 9 years after Joseph had reached 30 years in age.
M. H. Abrams defined allusion as " a brief reference, explicit or indirect, to a person, place or event, or to another literary work or passage ".
Other stars possess multiple points, such as Sparta, the Imperial capital, suggested ( in a brief passage of the sequel ) to have over a dozen jump points to various systems.
Close reading describes, in literary criticism, the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text.
She chose a brief passage from the final chapter of Population Bomb to show that Ehrlich had discussed an extreme solution to extreme cases of overpopulation: " compulsory birth regulation ... ( through ) the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food.
Besides the Exegesis, Dick described his visions and faith in numerous other works, including VALIS, Radio Free Albemuth, The Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, one brief passage in A Scanner Darkly, and the uncompleted The Owl in Daylight, as well as many essays and personal letters.
What causes the passage to be so shocking, indeed, is the power of sustaining over such a long phrase what we expect as a brief explosion.
Donald Hill has identified a possible reference to a water-powered paper mill in Samarkand, in the 11th-century work of the Persian scholar Abu Rayhan Biruni, but concludes that the passage is " too brief to enable us to say with certainty " that it refers to a water-powered paper mill.
A brief break comes in the form of a transition passage with repetitive triplets played by high strings, accented by slap pizzicati in the cellos and bass.

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Big Bang nucleosynthesis had a brief period during which it could operate, so only the very lightest elements were produced.
Inspired by a visit to Japan, Black & More ( Coldcut ) primarily created Ninja Tune in 1990 to act as a vehicle by which they could release music of a more underground nature, free from the restraints placed on artists by major labels ( the same restraints that were put on them via their brief stints with Arista and Big Life ).
The statue has had brief appearances in two episodes of The Sopranos: " Big Girls Don't Cry " and " Cold Stones ".
Big Bird also made brief appearances in The Muppet Movie and The Muppets Take Manhattan.
However, there are moments where Chico's characters appear to be genuinely Italian ; examples include the film The Big Store, in which his character Ravelli runs into an old friend he worked with in Naples ( after a brief misunderstanding due to his accent ), the film Monkey Business, in which Chico claims his grandfather sailed with Christopher Columbus, and their very first outing The Cocoanuts, where Mr. Hammer ( Groucho ) asks him if he knew what an auction was, in which he responds " I come from Italy on the Atlantic Auction!
Big Smith's moll Dixie Cousins ( Kelly Rutherford ) is a saloon singer and con artist who has a brief romantic encounter with Brisco.
In July 1989 Billy Ward replaced Bruce Gary as the band's drummer ( after a brief interim by Pat Torpey of Mr. Big ).
After the brief industrial boom faded, the early decades of the twentieth century passed with few changes, and Big Sur remained a nearly inaccessible wilderness.
For a brief period during the late 1980s, North Stars games were telecast over Saint Cloud-based UHF station KXLI ( with Doug McLeod on play-by-play and former Islander goalie Glenn " Chico " Resch on color ), but given the station's distant transmitter location near Big Lake, Minnesota, reception in the Twin Cities ranged from mediocre to non-existent.
After retirement, Thurmond returned to San Francisco and opened a well-known restaurant, Big Nate's BBQ, after a brief attempt at broadcasting.
Shortly after WrestleMania, he had a brief feud with Big Bossman which dated back to when DiBiase tried to bribe Bossman into retrieving the Million Dollar Belt.
Berry made a brief cameo appearance in Insane Clown Posse's film Big Money Hustlas as Bootleg Greg, a merchandise counterfeiter.
Now named as the superhero Time-Zone, Nina became the third member of the Shock Pack, but her time as a member was brief: Due to an encounter with Ebon, Nina decided that her powers were too dangerous to keep, and went back in time to stop her past self from being present at the night of the Big Bang ( by stealing her own bike, according to Richie.
Some episodes have even featured the crew performing cons that benefit people they have befriended over the course of the episode rather than having them be the sole benefactors of the con ; examples include them faking a jewel theft from the Tower of London and allowed a member of the cleaning staff to discover it after she showed sympathy for team member Ash Morgan while he was working undercover as an immigrant worker ( Eye of the Beholder ), leaving the money stolen from a highly secure slot machine in a casino to a security guard at the casino who had advised Stacie Monroe during her brief employment ( Big Daddy Calling ), stating that they will ' return ' an apparently stolen painting only after the rights to the security system that protected it had been returned to the wife of the original inventor ( The inventor having committed suicide after he was cheated out of the patent ) ( New Recruits ), and arranging for the niece of a friend to get a modelling contract with an agency that has a rivalry with the company that cheated her out of her money in her original application.
The format enjoyed a brief revival in 1982 with Black Orchid, and in novel form with 1995's Sanctuary, and in the Big Finish audio series of Doctor Who, has made a resurgence, with a conscious decision being made to have each Doctor have at least one purely historical episode.
The final sign-off announcement was made by Ian Stirling and Ruth Langsford at 23: 55 GMT-after which, TSW handed over to ITN for news headlines and at 00: 00 GMT chimes of Big Ben in a brief news bulletin entitled Into The New Year.
The highlight of the trip was a brief, but harrowing, encounter with a tribe called the Big Nambas of northern Malekula.
Raymond ’ s attempts to please the Big Man are not successful, instead the President publishes " a very small, brief book of thoughts, Maximes, two or three thoughts to each page, each thought about four or five lines long.
David Bell also reported a brief reunion during the recording of Big Star's second album, Radio City, which led to Bell's collaborating with the group members to write a couple of songs on the album, including " O My Soul " and " Back of a Car.
The most commonly accepted solution among cosmologists is cosmic inflation, the idea that the universe went through a brief period of extremely rapid expansion in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang ; along with the monopole problem and the horizon problem, the flatness problem is one of the three primary motivations for inflationary theory.
The Classic Gold brand continues in West Yorkshire ( apart from a brief period when the station became Big AM ), still using the GCap-owned " Gold " programming ; currently it is branded as Pulse Classic Gold.
Originally, Christian Island was known by the Ojibwa as Gichi Minising ( At the Big Island ), but was also known for a brief period by the Hurons, as Gahoendoe.
Due to the length of sentence-based and some lexical measures, short forms have been developed and validated for use in applied research settings where questionnaire space and respondent time are limited, such as the 40-item balanced International English Big-Five Mini-Markers or a very brief ( 10 item ) measure of the Big Five domains.
Historian David J. Eicher discounts both the Battle of Fairfax Court House and the Battle of Philippi as " mere skirmishes " ( despite his characterization of the former engagement as " ostensibly the first land battle of the war ") and says the first " real land battle of the conflict " was the Battle of Big Bethel, although after a brief summary of the Battle of Big Bethel he characterizes the early Civil War engagements without apparent distinction as " these first minor skirmishes.

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