According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, " Amazing Grace " is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse.

According to Day's autobiography, as told to A. E. Hotchner, the usually athletic and healthy Martin Melcher had an enlarged heart.

According to Arnaz himself, in his autobiography A Book ( 1976 ), the family owned three ranches, a palatial home, and a vacation mansion on a private island in Santiago Bay, Cuba.

According to his autobiography, Abdur Rahman had three goals: subjugating the tribes, extending government control through a strong, visible army, and reinforcing the power of the ruler and the royal family.

According to Bruce Campbell's autobiography, If Chins Could Kill, Richard acquired his stage name by combining his short name with his roommates ' names, Hal and Del.

According to his autobiography, the incident occurred " some years ago ".

According to castmate Todd Bridges ' autobiography Killing Willis, Coleman was made to work long hours on the set of Diff ' rent Strokes despite his age and health problems, and this contributed to his being unhappy and separating himself from the cast.

According to John Major's autobiography, the first thing Redwood's successor William Hague said, on being appointed, was that he had better find someone to teach him the words.

* According to Alberti himself, in a short autobiography written c. 1438 in Latin and in the third person, ( many but not all scholars consider this work to be an autobiography ) he was capable of " standing with his feet together, and springing over a man's head.

According to Keith Emerson's autobiography, two of Lemmy's Hitlerjugend knives were given to Emerson by Lemmy during his time as a roadie for The Nice.

According to Gandhi's autobiography, the contest winner was Maganlal Gandhi ( presumably no relation ), who submitted the entry ' sadagraha ', which Gandhi then modified to ' satyagraha '.

According to Levon Helm's autobiography, in the later stages of his illness, Manuel was consuming eight bottles of Grand Marnier per day.

According to Tom Watson, Jr., in his autobiography: One day my dad went into a roadside saloon to celebrate a sale and had too much to drink.

According to Willie " The Lion " Smith's autobiography, the term " gutbucket " comes from " Negro families " who all owned their own pail, or bucket, and will get it filled with the makings for chitterlings.

According to Jack Warner in his autobiography, prior to the United States entering World War II, the head of Warner Bros. sales in Germany, Philip Kauffman, was murdered by the Nazis in Berlin in 1936.

According to Gibbons ' autobiography Rock + Roll Gearhead, he settled on " ZZ Top " because B. B.

According to Moe Howard's autobiography, the Stooges split with Ted Healy in 1934 once and for all because of Healy's alcoholism and abrasiveness.

According to his own account, recorded in his autobiography Mein Leben, Wagner conceived Parsifal on Good Friday morning, April 1857, in the Asyl ( German: " Asylum "), the small cottage on Otto Wesendonck's estate in the Zürich suburb of Enge, which Wesendonck-a wealthy silk merchant and generous patron of the arts-had placed at Wagner ’ s disposal, through the good offices of his wife Mathilde Wesendonck.

According to his autobiography, Mein Leben, Wagner decided to dramatise the Tristan legend after his friend, Karl Ritter, attempted to do so, writing that:

According to his autobiography Bessemer was working with an ordinary reverbatory furnace but during a test, some pieces of pig iron were jostled off the side of the ladle, and were left above the ladle in the furnace's heat.

According to Keaton's autobiography, Natalie turned him out of their bedroom and hired detectives to follow him.

According to Shepherd's autobiography, it was a 1970 Glamour magazine cover that caught the eye of film director Peter Bogdanovich.

According to her autobiography, during this time she hid in friends ’ homes and moved from place to place at night.

According to his autobiography, he and Errol Flynn were firm friends and had decided to rent Rosalind Russell's house at 601 North Linden Drive as a bachelor pad.

According to Freud's theory, in the earliest stage of a child's psychosexual development, the oral stage, the mother's breast became the formative source of all later erotic sensation.

According to this source of further information about the Akan, " A man is strongly related to his mother's brother ( wɔfa ) but only weakly related to his father's brother.

According to his mother's wishes, he visited both the wives of Vichitravirya to grant them each a son under the Niyoga system.

According to Ray Robinson Jr., when Sugar Ray's mother died, Sugar Ray could not attend his mother's funeral because Millie was drugging and controlling him.

According to the Bill Sterns Sports Newsreel broadcast on 9 / 12 / 42, on which James appeared, he was saved from being trampled, at the age of 6, by his mother's horse after performing with the horse.

According to a British account, the French played on this sympathy in 1855 by pressuring Prince Rakoto into signing a request for French aid that would have enabled France to establish control over Madagascar had the true nature of the letter and its signing not been uncovered by Rakoto and his British contacts An alternate explanation was offered by Lambert, who maintained that the prince had knowingly supported the attempt to put an end to his mother's harsh policies, and was a willing collaborator in a failed 1857 plot to remove her from the throne.

According to the Kebra Nagast, King Solomon had intended on sending one son of each of his nobles and one son of each temple priest with Menelik upon his return to his mother's kingdom.

According to the script, Mil was an infant who was found clutched in his dead mother's arms in a war-torn area of Europe during World War 2 and was sent to an orphanage.

According to Herodotus ( Histories, Books 7 and 8 ), Artemisia was Halicarnassian on her father Lygdamis ' side and Cretian on her mother's.

According to one tale, as a child, she once gave away her mother's entire store of butter.

According to William she invited sexual intercourse at her mother's home where she was staying, then began demanding money she believed he had.

According to her siblings, Darnell enjoyed the limelight and shared her mother's dream.

According to the information Figaro gives at various points throughout the plays, his life story appears to be thus: he was the illegitimate son of Dr. Bartholo and his maid Marceline, and presumably therefore given his mother's family name, was born Emmanuel de Verte-Allure ( he is referred as " Rafaello " by Lorenzo da Ponte in his libretto for Mozart ´ s Le Nozze di Figaro ).

According to the sociologist James V. Downton, this meant he " had to encroach on his mother's territory and, given the fact that she was accustomed to having control, a fight was inevitable ".

According to her son Göran, his mother's family, going back through generations, were from the Swedish provinces of Dalarna and Värmland.

According to Hartzell, in 1915 he met a couple of con artists who promised to turn his mother's $ 6000 into $ 6 million by giving him a share of the held fortune of Sir Francis Drake.

According to the story, in about 1912, Erwin C. Ruth gave some legal aid to Gonzales, saving him from almost certain imprisonment ; in gratitude, Gonzales told Erwin about the Peralta mine in the Superstition Mountains, even reportedly passing on some antique maps of the site ( Gonzales claimed to be descended from the Peralta family on his mother's side ).

According to some genealogies they had an only son, who inherited his mother's titles and / or representations and solely his father's Italian title, the one which could only be used through male line, named Manuel Luis.

According to Downton, " this meant he had to encroach on his mother's territory and, given the fact that she was accustomed to having control, a fight was inevitable ".

According to his mother's wishes, he visited both the wives of Vichitravirya to grant them a son.

According to his mother's wishes, he visited both the wives of Vichitravirya to grant them a son with his yogic powers.

According to this theory, it is also believed that the low status of his mother's parents had played a factor as well.

According to promotional materials mailed to reviewers, " half of the proceeds made from the CD sales will be going towards medical bills incurred by maintaining the crygenically frozen remains of his mother's cats at the Bisbee Forever Hope life suspension facility in accordance with her wishes.

According to an essay by Doug Cummings in the DVD release of the landmark The Holy Mountain ( 1926 ), Fanck saw his first motion picture in 1913, and after serving in World War I, purchased a rare Ernemann slow-motion camera, taught himself to shoot on location during an expedition to climb the Jungfrau, taught himself to edit on his mother's kitchen table, and distributed the finished product himself.