One might, indeed, argue that the history of ideas, in so far as it includes the literatures, must center on characterizations of human nature and that the great periods of literary achievement may be distinguished from one another by reference to the images of human nature that they succeed in fashioning.

No one will deny that such broad developments and transitions are of great intrinsic interest and the study of ideas in literature would be woefully incomplete without frequent reference to them.

Indefinite reference also carries double-meaning where an allusion to one person or thing seems to refer to another.

An alphabetical list of chemical and mineralogical names with reference numbers enables one to find a particular crystal description.

The name " argon " is derived from the Greek word αργον meaning " lazy " or " the inactive one ", a reference to the fact that the element undergoes almost no chemical reactions.

As for the term " Compositae ", more ancient but still valid, it obviously makes reference to the fact that the family is one of the few angiosperms that have composite flowers.

In Spanish, at least one reference reports estadounidense, estado-unidense or estadunidense are preferred to americano for U. S. nationals ; the latter tends to refer to any resident of the Americas and not necessarily from the United States.

He was mentioned in the Quran as the " second of the two who lay in the cave " in reference to the event of hijra, with Muhammad where they hid in the cave in Jabal Thawr from the Meccan search party that was sent after them, thus being one of few who were given direct reference to in the Quran.

This alphabet has influenced development of orthographies of many African languages ( serving " as the basis for the transcription " of about 60, by one count ), but not all, and discussions of harmonization of systems of transcription that led to, among other things, adoption of the African reference alphabet.

Abu Salih the Armenian, writing in the last quarter of the twelfth century, makes one early reference to this belief that they possessed the Ark.

According to the special theory of relativity, the aberration looks as a transform of the celestial sphere due to different frames of reference and is virtually a special case of velocity addition, namely one of the light beam and frames ' relative velocity v. The formula from relativistic aberration can be simplified to

where θ is the true angle SEE ′, is the apparent angle S ′ EE ′, and is the relative speed between the presumed fixed frame of reference ( such as heliocentric ) and the observer's one.

The one New Testament reference to the city of Armageddon found in Revelation 16: 16 in fact also makes no specific mention of any armies being predicted to one day gather in this city, but instead seems to predict only that " they ( will gather ) the kings together to .... Armageddon.

For purposes of scoring and reference, each player is identified by one of the points of the compass and thus North and South play against East and West.

He makes no reference to individual members of the harem except for a domineering Queen consort named Amestris, whose father, Otanes, was one of Xerxes's generals.

It is one of five arguments from the " properties, causes, and effects " of true motion and rest that support his contention that, in general, true motion and rest cannot be defined as special instances of motion or rest relative to other bodies, but instead can be defined only by reference to absolute space.

It held that empty space is a metaphysical impossibility because space is nothing other than the extension of matter, or, in other words, that when one speaks of the space between things one is actually making reference to the relationship that exists between those things and not to some entity that stands between them.

Virtually the only possible variation is using a different reference date, in particular one less distant in the past to make the numbers smaller.

This is perhaps one of the most practical ways to collect a national currency since probably the majority of coin reference books and coin albums catalogue in the same manner.

The reference configuration need not be one that the body will ever occupy.

There is also a reference to Claudius ' suppression of one of the coups against him in the movie Gladiator, though the incident is entirely fictional.

Although the CD claims to have 22 tracks, the last one, " www. bishopslips. com ," is a reference to the " Bishopslips " sketch.

While " animation " designates any style of illustrated images seen in rapid succession to give the impression of movement, the word " cartoon " is most often used in reference to TV programs and short films for children featuring anthropomorphized animals, superheroes, the adventures of child protagonists and related genres.

The nickname was a reference to an X-Files episode ( Ghost in the Machine ) in which a computer called COS was trying to terminate the series ' protagonists, Mulder and Scully.

This song is influenced by Irish folk music, and makes reference to the blind minstrel Ayreon, one of the protagonists from The Final Experiment.

On the first day the protagonists, screenwriters Lars ( Lars Von Trier ) and Niels ( Niels Vørsel ) lose the only copy of a movie ’ s script ( Kommisæren Og Luderen, " The Policeman and the Whore ," a reference to The Element of Crime ).

Although the protagonists are clearly Middle Eastern, for the sake of neutrality there is no direct reference to the religion or ethnicity of the characters.

" Pitchfork Ben " Tillman lived up to his nickname with an incendiary address which began with a reference to his home state's role in beginning the Civil War.

" Shakespeare may have had direct involvement in the publication of the two poems, as Ben Jonson exercised in reference to the publication of his works, but as Shakespeare clearly did not do in connection with his plays.

The scene where Chon Wang and Roy fall off of the minute hand on Big Ben is a reference to Jackie Chan's earlier film Project A where Jackie Falls off the minute hand of a smaller clock tower, itself a reference to Harold Lloyd's famous clock-tower stunt from the 1923 film Safety Last!

The most famous literary reference to marooning probably occurs in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island in which Ben Gunn is left marooned on the island for three years.

xix. 18 ) to be the greatest fundamental commandment of the Jewish doctrine ( compare to Great Commandment ); Ben Azzai, in reference to this, said that a still greater principle was found in the Scriptural verse, " This is the book of the generations of Adam of man.

In September 2008, in the depths of the financial crisis of 2007 – 2010, both Ben Bernanke and Paul Krugman popularized a version of the quote in reference to financial crises.

Cook owns her own production company, Ben's Sister Productions ( in reference to her younger brother Ben Cook, an aspiring filmmaker ).

The reference is to Ben Savage's character from Boy Meets World, but there were no on-screen crossovers.

For example, the grid reference of the 100 m square containing the summit of Ben Nevis is.

Another, distinct, form of all-numeric grid reference is an abbreviated alphanumeric reference where the letters are simply omitted, e. g. 166712 for the summit of Ben Nevis.

The name is a reference to the six-day age difference between its married co-founders, Ben and Mena Trott.

With the start of the rule of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali on November 7, 1987, the official reference to the figure 7 and the theme of " Change " contributes to the perpetuation of that tradition.

Malone argued that the reference to the newness of the play in 1613 derived from the fact that it had been expanded with a new prologue and epilogue, perhaps written by Ben Jonson.

The pilot turned the airplane around approximately 40 minutes into the flight after a flight attendant found a crumpled napkin that read " Bomb, bomb, bomb ... meet the parents ," a clear reference to the scene in which Ben Stiller's character repeatedly shouts the word " bomb " while being detained by airport security.

Ben Folds made reference to Sledge in the lyrics of his song " Not the Same " on his 2001 solo album Rockin ' the Suburbs: " You took a trip and climbed a tree / At Robert Sledge's party ".

Another literary reference is Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, in which Justice Adam Overdo patrols the fair in disguise, saying ( Act 2, Scene 1 ):

The text is best known because of its reference to Lilith, and it is the fifth of Ben Sira's responses to King Nebuchadnezzar.

* Conservative columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin was quoted in March 2006 by Howard Kurtz as writing, " But now the determined moonbat hordes have exposed multiple instances of what clearly appear to me to be blatant lifting of entire, unique passages by blogger Ben Domenech from other writers ," in reference to Domenech's resignation from the Washington Post after evidence of his plagiarism came to light.

The Ben Ish Chai ( בן איש חי ) is a standard reference in Sephardi homes ( functioning as " a Sephardi Kitzur Shulchan Arukh ") and is widely studied in Sephardi yeshivot.

After more memories of America and Venice, the canto ends in a passage that brings together Dante's celestial rose, the rose formed by the effect of a magnet on iron filings, an image from Paul Verlaine of a fountain playing in the moonlight, and a reference to a poem by Ben Jonson in a composite image of hope for " those who have passed over Lethe ".

In 2006, in advance of the arrival of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, five MuggleNet staff members ( Ben Schoen, Emerson Spartz, Andy Gordon, Gretchen Stull, and Jamie Lawrence ) co-authored the reference book MuggleNet. com's What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love and How Will the Adventure Finally End, which was a published collection of unofficial fan predictions.

" A similar reference is made in Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back when Ben Affleck's character, Holden McNeil, asks why anyone would pay to see a movie about Jay and Silent Bob and subsequently stares directly at the camera.