Among the most frequently quoted Biblical sentences are the Beatitudes and yet so few persons, other than scholars, really understand the true meaning of these eight blessings uttered by Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount.

Among us, we three handled quite a few small commissions, from spot drawings for advertising agencies uptown to magazine work and quick lettering jobs.

Among a few kabbalists, it was posited that some human souls could end up being reincarnated into non-human bodies.

Among the few popular new stars during this period were Judy Holliday and the comedy team phenom of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

The idea of non-biological self-replicating systems was introduced in Samuel Butler's article " Darwin Among the Machines " published only a few years after The Origin of Species.

James Hadley Chase wrote a few novels with private eyes as the main hero, including Blonde's Requiem ( 1945 ), Lay Her Among the Lilies ( 1950 ), and Figure It Out for Yourself ( 1950 ).

Among the few large rivers flowing into the Indian Ocean are the Zambezi, Shatt al-Arab, Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Jubba and Irrawaddy River.

Among the almost infinite varieties of microorganisms, relatively few cause disease in otherwise healthy individuals.

Among other fauna, the lake supports relatively few invertebrates: There are fifteen species of molluscs, including one endemic, and also an endemic freshwater sponge.

Among the few outside Mad items available in its first 40 years were cufflinks, a T-shirt designed like a straitjacket ( complete with lock ), and a small ceramic Alfred E. Neuman bust.

Among the leading acts were the Real Kids, founded by former Modern Lover John Felice ; Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band, whose frontman had been a member of the Velvet Underground for a few months in 1971 ; and Mickey Clean and the Mezz.

Among the few exceptions is the relational view, which outlines a theory for considering dyads and networks of firms as a key unit of analysis for explaining superior individual firm performance ( Dyer and Singh, 1998 ).

Among the lesser Achaeans very few reached their homes.

Among its other sources of consumption it is sufficient to mention pin and hairpin making, the needle and fish-hook industries, nail, peg and rivet making, and carding machinery ; indeed there are few industries into which it does not enter.

Among the films the studio made during the war were Casablanca, Now, Voyager, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( all 1942 ), This Is the Army, and Mission to Moscow ( both 1943 ), the latter became controversial a few years afterwards.

Among those few who did suffer legal damnatio memoriae were Sejanus, who had conspired against emperor Tiberius in 31, and later Livilla, who was revealed to be his accomplice.

The album " Love Among the Ruined " added a few more experimental touches to the pop side of Psyche's style, and solidified their following with the hits " Murder in Your Love ", " Land of Broken Promises ", and other new soon to be classics.

Among those fishes that remain in the Characidae for the time being are the tetras, comprising the very similar genera Hemigrammus and Hyphessobrycon, as well as a few related forms such as the cave and neon tetras.

Among other things, the podcast featured the band's thoughts about their 2005 South American tour, some information on their new album, a mash-up of " Drive " and Tupac Shakur's " Better Dayz ", a cover of Soundgarden's " Black Hole Sun ", and a few live interludes.

Among her few close friends she counted Patricia Tobin, whose family founded the Hibernia Bank, a branch of which Hearst would later aid in robbing.

Among these Titans of primordial myth, few were venerated at specific sanctuaries in classical times.

Among the few survivors of the Great Flood, Utnapishtim and his wife are the only humans to have been granted immortality by the gods.

Among very few representations of Protesilaus, a sculpture by Deinomenes is just a passing mention in Pliny's Natural History ; the outstanding surviving examples are two Roman copies of a lost mid-fifth century Greek bronze original represent Protesilaus at his defining moment, one of them in a torso the British Museum, the other at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Among his earliest memories was watching the smoke from the ensuing fire that destroyed much of the city a few miles to the east.

Among the few statuettes left as votive offerings left at the sanctuary of Mars Smertulitanus and Ancamna at Möhn is one of a genius cucullatus like those offered to the Xulsigiae at the Lenus Mars temple complex in Trier.

Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev ( first published in 1866 ), the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe ( first published in 1845 ), the Romanian Petre Ispirescu ( first published in 1874 ), the English Joseph Jacobs ( first published in 1890 ), and Jeremiah Curtin, an American who collected Irish tales ( first published in 1890 ).

Among other tales, he was said to have carried a bull on his shoulders and to have burst a band about his brow by simply inflating the veins of his temples.

Among his later tales are the Leiden und Freuden eines Schulmeisters ( 1838 – 1839 ), Uli der Knecht ( 1841 ), with its continuation, Uli der Pächter ( 1849 ), Anne-Bäbi Jowäger ( 1843 – 1844 ), Käthi, die Großmutter ( 1846 ), Die Käserei in der Vehfreude ( 1850 ), and the Erlebnisse eines Schuldenbauers ( 1853 ).

Among his other works are his edition of Hariri ( 1822 ), with a selected Arabic commentary, and of the Alfiya ( 1833 ), and his Calila et Dimna ( 1816 ), the Arabic version of that famous collection of Buddhist animal tales which has been in various forms one of the most popular books of the world.

Among the prose works of Cinthio is the Hecatommithi or Ecatomiti, a collection of tales told somewhat after the manner of Boccaccio, but still more closely resembling the novels of Cinthio's contemporary, Matteo Bandello.

Among the numerous selections from his tales and witticisms are two edited by his grandson, Walter Jerrold, Bons Mots of Charles Dickens and Douglas Jerrold ( new ed.

Among his later novels may be mentioned two further " tragic " tales: Madcap Violet ( 1876 ) and Macleod of Dare ( 1879 ); Sunrise ( 1881 ) a novel of international political intrigue ; Shandon Bells ( 1883 ) largely set in Ireland ; Yolande ( 1883 ) which in part deals with drug addiction ; Judith Shakespeare ( 1884 ) a historical novel featuring the playwright's daughter ; and The New Prince Fortunatus ( 1890 ) a novel of London theatrical life.

Among the tales is the belief that since the town did not have a local meat market people had to travel long distances in order to buy some meat and therefore mostly ate soup.

Among these stories are the tales of an intelligence official working to combat nuclear terrorism, a detainee lawyer fighting for rights at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a young Pakistani man interrogated under the White House, an Afghan teenager who spends a year in American high school, and former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto as she returns to Pakistan to challenge President Pervez Musharraf.

According to Watson: " Among these unfinished tales is that of Mr. James Phillimore, who, stepping back into his own house to get his umbrella, was never more seen in this world ".

Among these tales are the revealed history of how Treecats and humans first bonded, how the Treecats protected and bonded with the Royal family, and other treecat tales of greater or lesser importance, such as how the treecat society decided to migrate to the stars.

Among Gilbert's best-known, and most popular, works were his Innominato tales of the supernatural, published in various magazines, including Argosy, and finally collected in The Wizard of the Mountain ( 1867 ).

Among the tales included were:

Among his more than 80 books are dozens of titles presenting non-moralistic reinterpretations of nearly all biblical texts, including a monumental three-volume scholarly treatise on Genesis 2-11 ( Strukturen des Bösen, 1977-8 ) and a two-volume commentary on the Gospel of Mark ; a number of titles on urgent social issues such as war ( Der Krieg und das Christentum, 1981 ), the environment ( Der tödliche Fortschritt, 1982 ), and burning moral issues such as abortion, living will, suicide ( Psychoanalyse und Moraltheologie ', 1982-4, 3 vols ); and, most recently, half a dozen volumes on the question of God in light of the findings of modern anthropology ( 1998 ), biology ( 1999 ), cosmology ( 2002 ), neurology ( 2006 – 2007 ); a depth psychological analysis of more than twenty of the most well-known fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and one by Hans Christian Andersen.

Among these is the tale of the famed caliph of the Arabian Nights tales, Harun al Rashid, narrated in the 16th c. work Laṭā ’ if al-Tawā ’ if ( The Subtelties of People < i >, in which Harun is described as feeling regret over the denial of Fadak to the Prophet ’ s family.

Among his very many juvenile tales are The Drummer Boy, The Prize Cup, The Lottery Ticket, The Tide-Mill Stories, The Toby Trafford Series, The Little Master, and the Jack Hazard series.

Among the more important are his Paraeneticorum veterum pars i. ( 1604 ), which contained the old German tales of Kunig Tyrol von Schotten, the Winsbeke and the Winsbekin ; Suevicarum rerum scriptores ( Frankfurt, 1605, new edition, 1727 ); Rerum Alamannicarum scriptores ( Frankfurt, 1606, new edition by Senckenburg, 1730 ); Constitutiones imperiales ( Frankfurt, 1607 ‑ 1613, 4 vols.

Among the prose works are Discorsi degli animali, imitations of Oriental and Aesopian fables, of which there are two French translations ; Dialogo delle bellezze delle donne, also translated into French ; Ragionamenti amorosi, a series of short tales in the manner of Boccaccio, rivalling him in elegance and in licentiousness ; Discacciamento delle nuove lettere, a controversial piece against Giangiorgio Trissino's proposal to introduce new letters into the Italian alphabet ; a free version or adaptation of The Golden Ass of Apuleius, which became a favorite book and passed through many editions ; and two comedies, I Lucidi, an imitation of the Menaechmi of Plautus, and La Trinuzia, which in some points resembles the Calandria of Cardinal Bibbiena.