God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

According to the bland description of a southern chronicler, he " succeeded to the kingdom of the Northumbrians ".

This portion of the text of Sirach is a list and brief description of the famous rulers, prophets, and ancestors of the kingdom of Judah ( beginning in chapter 44 ).

Its " Records of Wei " ( Wei Zhi 魏志 ), which covers the Cao Wei kingdom ( 220-265 ) history, has a Worenchuan ( 倭人傳 " Account of the Wa People ", Japanese Wajinden 倭人伝 ) section with the oldest description of Himiko ( or Pimiko 卑彌呼 ) and Yamatai.

A description of the Siamese method for creating magic square s, in Simon de la Loubère's 1693 A new historical relation of the kingdom of Siam.

Much more completely organised is the kingdom of light, according to the description of the first three books.

It is commonly identified with Nahrima mentioned in three tablets of the Amarna correspondence as a geographical description of the kingdom of Mitanni.

A description of the kingdom written in 1699 shows that it was discontinuously spread out along the coast and probably did not include a number of settlements of English traders.

The history of Japan: giving an account of the ancient and present state and government of that empire ... of the chronology and succession of the emperors ... together with a description of the kingdom of Siam ( translated by John Gaspar Scheuchzer

Jesus himself, as the Son of God, a description also used by himself and others for him, was to rule this kingdom as lord of the Twelve Apostles, the judges of the twelve tribes.

He wrote a comprehensive description of the plant kingdom according to a natural system, at the time its most comprehensive description.

In the later part of the 13th century Venetian traveler Marco Polo visited the Pandyan kingdom and left a vivid description of the land and its people.

The Arab diplomat, traveller and author Leo Africanus who visited the region in 1509-1510 gives a description in his book Descrittione dell ’ Africa: " Walata Kingdom: This is a small kingdom, and of mediocre condition compared to the other kingdoms of the blacks.

* A new history of Ethiopia being a full and accurate description of the kingdom of Abessinia, vulgarly, though erroneously, called the Empire of Prester John by the learned Job Ludolphus, translated out of his learned manuscript commentary on this history ( 1684 ) available on Early English Books Online

The medieval Georgian account of his reign is brief and focuses on the devastation of his kingdom at the hands of Iranians while the Classical sources much closer to the period in question contain a detailed description of Artoces ’ s war with Rome on the side of Mithridates VI of Pontus and Tigranes of Armenia.

Schopenhauer's influence on the novel's philosophy is without doubt when one compares Cubas ' description of insects and his attitude towards animals, which is a feature of Schopenhauer's philosophical outlook ; and in Schopenhauer's writing he similarly uses examples from the animal kingdom to illustrate a philosophical truth ( most famously that of the Australian Bull-ant ).

If a description of s, d ( s ), is of minimal length ( i. e. it uses the fewest number of characters ), it is called a minimal description of s. Thus, the length of d ( s ) ( i. e. the number of characters in the description ) is the Kolmogorov complexity of s, written K ( s ).

In 1515, he created his woodcut of a Rhinoceros which had arrived in Lisbon from a written description and sketch by another artist, without ever seeing the animal himself.

It was in Bologna that Dürer was taught ( possibly by Luca Pacioli or Bramante ) the principles of linear perspective, and evidently became familiar with the ' costruzione legittima ' in a written description of these principles found only, at this time, in the unpublished treatise of Piero della Francesca.

Some of Bede's material came from oral traditions, including a description of the physical appearance of Paulinus of York, who had died nearly 90 years before Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica was written.

* A computer program written in a page description language, such as PostScript

The earliest text which is believed to include a description of the Faroe Islands, was written by an Irish monk in the Frankish Kingdom named Dicuil, who wrote about the countries in the north.

The first description of civil, criminal and procedural law for a city in Germany in the German language, the Ordeelbook ( Ordeel: sentence ) was written by the solicitor of the senate of Hamburg, Jordan von Boitzenburg, in 1270.

The following description of a game was written by Henry Chadwick and appeared in his Base Ball Memoranda.

A description of Swiss contributions to LCD developments, written by Peter J.

In the codex's description of the first meeting between Moctezuma and Cortés, the Aztec ruler is described as giving a prepared speech in classical oratorial Nahuatl, a speech which as described verbatim in the codex ( written by Sahagún's Tlatelolcan informants who were probably not eyewitnesses of the meeting ) included such prostrate declarations of divine or near-divine admiration as, " You have graciously come on earth, you have graciously approached your water, your high place of Mexico, you have come down to your mat, your throne, which I have briefly kept for you, I who used to keep it for you ," and, " You have graciously arrived, you have known pain, you have known weariness, now come on earth, take your rest, enter into your palace, rest your limbs ; may our lords come on earth.

A description using the approach of underspecification would not attempt to assign to a specific phoneme in some or all of these cases, although it might be assigned to an archiphoneme, written something like | A |, which reflects the two neutralized phonemes in this position.

The syntax and semantics of the language have to be inferred from this description, which may be written in natural or a formal language.

He includes a detailed description of the apse mosaic over the main altar and gives the text for a long inscription he has written to be put on the wall under the image.

Any 3-tuple is called an instantaneous description ( ID ) of, which includes the current state, the part of the input tape that has not been read, and the contents of the stack ( topmost symbol written first ).

While the term refactoring originally referred exclusively to refactoring of software code, in recent years code written in hardware description languages ( HDLs ) has also been refactored.

1 Corinthians does not match that description ; so this " letter of tears " may have been written between 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians.

The fantasy novel The Folk of the Air by Peter S. Beagle was written after the author attended a few early SCA events circa 1968 ; but he has repeatedly stated that he then studiously avoided any contact with the actual SCA itself for almost two decades, so that his description of a fictitious " League for Archaic Pleasures " would not be " contaminated " by contact with the actual real-life organization.

Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians ( 11: 23-26 ), which was likely written before the Gospels, includes a reference to the Last Supper but emphasizes the theological basis rather than giving a detailed description of the event or its background.

Drawing of Vanilla from the Florentine Codex ( circa 1580 ) and description of its use and properties written in the Nahuatl language

* 1267 – Roger Bacon completes his work Opus Majus and sends it to Pope Clement IV, who had requested it be written ; the work contains wide-ranging discussion of mathematics, optics, alchemy, astronomy, astrology, and other topics, and includes what some believe to be the first description of a magnifying glass.

Although the description is not entirely without ambiguity, the constrictor knot is thought to have appeared under the name " gunner's knot " in the 1866 work The Book of Knots, written under the pseudonym Tom Bowling.

The most extensive account of the Isis-Osiris story known today is Plutarch's Greek description written in the 1st century CE, usually known under its Latin title De Iside et Osiride.

Most Roman accounts of triumphs were written to provide their readers with a moral lesson, rather than to provide an accurate description of the triumphal process, procession, rites and their meaning.

In A letter giving a description of the Isthmus of Darian, Edinburgh: 1699.

The 1699 description noted that people holding titles such as " king " and " governor " were only empowered as war leaders, and did not have the last word in judicial disputes either.

The 1699 description noted that the kings and governors had no power except in war time, even in matters of justice, and otherwise the people were all equal.

C. J. Poncet, who passed through Sennar in 1699, left this description of his interview with King Badi:

In: " Voyages de F. Bernier ( angevin ) contenant la description des Etats du Grand Mogol, de l ' Indoustan, du royaume de Kachemire " ( David-Paul Maret ed., Amsterdam, 1699 ).