These " conversations " as he called them, were more or less informal talks on a great range of topics, spiritual, aesthetic and practical, in which he emphasized the ideas of the school of American Transcendentalists led by Emerson, who was always his supporter and discreet admirer.

Kmoch was in fact a great admirer of Nimzowitsch, and the subject of the parody himself was amused at the effort.

* Hermann Fegelein SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler's Adjutant and Adolf Hitler's brother in law was a great admirer of his birthplace, Ansbach.

At the Salon of 1759 he exhibited nine paintings ; it was the first Salon to be commented upon by Denis Diderot, who would prove to be a great admirer and public champion of Chardin's work.

Alessandro Manzoni's novel I Promessi Sposi portrays a pedantic scholar of the obsolete, Don Ferrante, as a great admirer of Cardano.

Also all Roman Emperors before Hadrian, except for Nero ( also a great admirer of Greek culture ), were clean shaven.

According to his biographer, the Chevalier became a great admirer of Lucrezia's, considering her a " pearl among women ".

She is a trained Kathak dancer and a great admirer of it.

The Iroquois philosophy in particular gave much to Christian thought of the time and in many cases actually inspired some of the institutions adopted in the United States: for example, Benjamin Franklin was a great admirer of some of the methods of the Iroquois Confederacy, and much of early American literature emphasized the political philosophy of the natives.

Sfondrati was an intimate friend and a great admirer of Philip Neri, an Italian priest who died in 1595 and was canonised in 1622.

* He is a great admirer of the philosopher Karl Popper, and contributed a foreword to the 1982 Festschrift in Popper's honor.

Abraham Lincoln, the Whig leader in Illinois, was a great admirer of Clay, saying he was " my ideal of a great man.

Havel was a great admirer of both Baez and her work.

Louis Sullivan was highly influential amongst Prairie School architects and Griffin was a great admirer of his work, and also of his philosophy of architecture which stressed that design should be free of historical precedent.

E. Krishna Iyer said about Rukmini Devi, “ There is no need to say that before she entered the field, the art was dead and gone or that it saw a renaissance only when she started to dance or that she created anything new that was not there before ” Rukmani Devi was a dear friend and great admirer of another young prodigy Tara Chaudhri.

He is content to enjoy his wealth and high social standing, and lacks the ambition she wants in a husband ; further, she is a great admirer of the Prime Minister and Charles has no strong opinion about him.

The Immortal Story, in which an elderly man tries to buy youth, was adapted to the screen in 1968 by Orson Welles, a great admirer of Blixen's work and life.

Bizet was a great admirer of Rossini's music, and wrote not long after their first meeting that " Rossini is the greatest of them all, because like Mozart, he has all the virtues ".

In 1913 Sir Walter Armstrong, who was not a great admirer of Lawrence, published a monograph.

Theophilos, who had received an excellent education from John Hylilas, the grammarian, was a great admirer of music and a lover of art, although his taste was not of the highest.

It is possible that Velázquez stopped in Toledo on his way from Seville, on the advice of Pacheco, or back from Madrid on that of Góngora, a great admirer of El Greco, having composed a poem on the occasion of his death.

Hilaire Belloc was a great admirer of Rabelais.

Hudson was a great admirer of Lutyens ' style and commissioned Lutyens for a number of projects, including Lindisfarne Castle and the Country Life headquarters building in London, at 8 Tavistock Street.

Burns was a great admirer of the egalitarian ethos behind the French Revolution.

" Tsem Tulku praised Geshe Kelsang and his publications: " The great master, the Kadampa Geshe, Kelsang Gyatso, you can see very clearly his works, his centers, his books, his pure vows, and how many thousands of people he affects.

Although this was a historic meeting of two great Buddhist bodhisattvas emanating on Earth with a profound purpose, Gampopa nevertheless first made Dusum Khyenpa train formally in the foundation practices of the Kadampa tradition and, following that, in the general philosophy of the sutras.

Being a great admirer of the Kadampa teachings, Tsongkhapa was an enthusiastic promoter of the 11th century Kadampa school's emphasis on the graded path to enlightenment and Mahayana principles of universal compassion as its fundamental spiritual orientation.

I prefer to smoke Chesterfields, and get the rich taste of ' 21 great tobaccos '- blended mild, not filtered mild.

He has had great commercial success in memorable roles such as the executive Bobby Trippe in Deliverance ( 1972 ), Tennessee lawyer Delbert Reese in Nashville ( 1975 ), general attorney Dardis in All the President's Men ( 1976 ), Bob Sweet in Silver Streak ( 1976 ), the priest Edwards in Exorcist II: The Heretic ( 1977 ), Lex Luthor's henchman Otis in Superman ( 1978 ) and Superman II ( 1980 ), Bates ' right hand man Sydney Morehouse in The Toy ( 1982 ), Borisov and Pavel Petrovic in The Fourth Protocol ( 1987 ), TV presenter Ernest Weller in Repossessed ( 1990 ), Rudy Ruettiger's father in Rudy ( 1993 ), detective McNair in Just Cause ( 1995 ), Dexter Wilkins in Life ( 1999 ), the simple sheriff in Where the Red Fern Grows ( 2003 ), the corrupt Senator Charles F. Meachum in Shooter ( 2007 ), United States Congressman Doc Long in Charlie Wilson's War ( 2007 ) and the voice of antagonist Lots-O '- Huggin ' Bear in Toy Story 3 ( 2010 ).

Yankee coach and Hall of Fame catching great, Bill Dickey, advised the Yankees that Berra's left-hand bat was more suited to the dimensions of Yankee Stadium ( 301 '- 457 '- 461 '- 407 '- 296 ' LF-LCF-CF-RCF-RF ) than Lollar's right-hand bat.

A visionary, his term is credited for ' Ceboom '- a time of great economic growth for the city and province of Cebu.

Bahá ' í teachings state that God is too great for humans to fully comprehend, or to create a complete and accurate image of, by themselves.

Judaism has a great many teachings about peace and compromise, and its teachings make physical violence the last possible option.

* In Roman Catholicism and several other Christian denominations, a Doctor of the Church is an eminent theologian ( for example, Thomas Aquinas, also known as the Angelic Doctor ) from whose teachings the whole Church is held to have derived great advantage.

Some followers of the Golden Dawn tradition believe that the Secret Chiefs are not necessarily living humans or supernatural beings, but are rather symbolic of actual and legendary sources of spiritual esotericism, a great leader, or teacher of a spiritual path or practice that found its way into the teachings of the Order.

He gathered about him numerous disciples and followers whom he initiated into the secrets of his teachings not by systematic exposition, but by means of sayings and parables that contained both easily graspable insights, for the laymen, and profound Kabbalistic depth, for the great scholars.

It circulated stories expounding the virtues of liberty, independence, and the teachings of the French Revolution, as well as stories of the great battles of Bolívar, the emancipation of the United States from their British masters, and the greatness of men such as Santander, Jose Martí, and other such messengers of freedom.

This awakening to moral and spiritual realities thus precedes a transformation of lifestyle and thought patterns often taking place over a long period of time and requiring a significant level of effort and commitment as described in the spiritual teachings of the world's great religions.

The Sikh religion also teaches that human life is very precious, described as more precious than a diamond, which comes after great spiritual deeds and merits are done, and Sikh teachings are filled with guidance on how one should conduct one's self in order to find peace in this life and unite with God.

The majority of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe that this great and abominable church includes any organized group of people who fight against God and His divine purposes by means of persecution, false teachings and belief systems, and oppression.

" Luther also did justice to Melanchthon's teachings, praising one year before his death in the preface to his own writings Melanchthon's revised Loci above them and calling Melanchthon " a divine instrument which has achieved the very best in the department of theology to the great rage of the devil and his scabby tribe.

Both Henry and Frederick were viewed to be sufficiently and formally devout to the teachings of the Church, without being moved to the extremes of spirituality seen in the great saints of the twelfth century.

By the time that he graduated from Nankai, Zhang Boling's teachings of gong ( public spirit ) and neng ( ability ) had made a great impression on him.

Bahá ' í teachings state that God is too great for humans to fully comprehend, or to create a complete and accurate image of, by themselves.

One of the core Bábí teachings is the great Promised One, whom the Báb termed He whom God shall make manifest, promised in the sacred writings of previous religions would soon establish the Kingdom of God on the Earth.

A talented child who studied dharma ( Buddhist teachings ) with his father from an early age and who sought out great teachers in his twenties and thirties, he is said to have attained enlightenment at the age of fifty while practicing dream yoga.

These fragments disappointed Romantic scholars as not matching the writer's great reputation, partly because Fronto's teachings, with their emphasis on studying ancient writers in search of striking words, were not in accordance with current fashion ( Italy, where not only Mai but Leopardi enthused over them, was an exception ), partly because they gave no support to the assumption that Fronto had been a wise counsellor to Marcus Aurelius ( indeed, they contain no trace of political advice ), partly because his frequent complaints about ill-health, especially those collected in book 5 of Ad M. Caesarem, aroused more annoyance than compassion ; these adverse judgements were reversed once Fronto was read for what he was rather than what he was not, as already in the sympathetic treatment by Dorothy Brock, Studies in Fronto and his Age ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911 ).

Altan Khan first invited the 3rd Dalai Lama to Mongolia in 1569, but apparently the Dalai Lama refused to go and sent a disciple again, who reported back to the Dalai Lama about the great opportunity to spread Buddhist teachings throughout Mongolia.

But Arminians who promote Arminius's actual teachings and those of the great Arminian John Wesley, whose view and movement have sometimes been called " Arminianism of fire ," have disclaimed all those theologically left associations.

Over a span of roughly twenty years, Joshua learns a great deal about human nature, world religions, and how he is able to translate those into his teachings.

This was the first time that the Jewish mystical dimensions could be articulated to the whole Jewish community, and its soulful teachings invigorated the masses, as well as involved the great scholars.

Bahya says in the introduction to Duties of the Heart that he wished to fill a great need in Jewish literature ; he felt that neither the rabbis of the Talmud nor subsequent rabbis adequately brought all the ethical teachings of Judaism into a coherent system.

Hinduism rests on the spiritual bedrock of the Vedas, hence Veda Dharma, and their mystic issue, the Upanishads, as well as the teachings of many great Hindu gurus through the ages.

These Pauline doctrines have survived in the great Russian sects, and can be traced back to the teachings and practice of the Bogomils.

At the same time, he would also seek out the great scholars of Talmud and Kabbalah, to win them over to Hasidism, to whom he taught the inner meaning of his teachings.