Before 1830, writing ( except in higher education ) equated to rote drills in the rules of grammar, spelling, vocabulary, penmanship and transcription of adult texts.

Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.

Before The Sorcerer, Gilbert had constructed his plays around the established stars of whatever theatre he happened to be writing for, as had been the case with Thespis and Trial by Jury.

Before going into film-making, Anderson was a prominent film critic writing for the influential Sequence magazine ( 1947 – 52 ), which he co-founded with Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz ; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Sight and Sound and the left-wing political weekly the New Statesman.

Before Sima, histories were written as certain events or certain periods of history of states ; his idea of a general history affected later historiographers like Zheng Qiao ( 鄭樵 ) in writing Tongshi ( 通史 ) and Sima Guang ( 司馬光 ) in writing Zizhi Tongjian ( 資治通鑑 ).

Before he began his writing career he worked as an illustrator in New York and, in 1960, as an art director in a London advertising agency.

Before writing A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Henry Fowler and his younger brother, Francis George Fowler ( 1871 – 1918 ), wrote and revised The King's English ( 1906 ), a grammar and usage guide later superseded by this book in the 1930s.

Before writing Carmina Burana, Orff also edited 17th-century operas.

Before this, Huang ( 皇 ) and Di ( 帝 ) were given as titles of a number of rulers from the era known as the " sage kings " period, supposedly predating written history, but probably coinciding with or following the invention and early stages of evolution for the Chinese writing system.

Before Asimov began writing, the majority of artificial intelligence in fiction followed the Frankenstein pattern.

Before the end of World War II, he returned to Paris where he resumed abstract painting and writing poetry.

Before and during his time as archbishop, he wrote a number of works on optics, philosophy, and theology, as well as writing hymns.

Before the introduction of kanji from China, Japanese had no writing system.

Black started writing his autobiography with the tentative title " Before the ferry docked ".

Before writing, they took the form of instruction in oral tradition.

The criticism relates to Friedman's substantive views as well as his writing style " Driving Drunk in Jerusalem " ( March 2010 ), " B. E., Before Egypt.

Before them, Mikhail Glinka and Alexander Dargomyzhsky had gone some way towards producing a distinctly Russian kind of music, writing operas on Russian subjects, but The Mighty Handful represented the first concentrated attempt to develop such a music, with Stasov as their artistic adviser and Dargomyzhsky as an elder statesman to the group, so to speak.

Before this, McCoy had written most of the song's by himself, but for this album Bob Ezrin helped McCoy with the writing, along with Monroe.

Before entering on his duties, College President Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce pointed Mahan in the direction of writing his future studies on the influence of sea power.

Before a vote is taken at a Council meeting, though, all proposals are circulated in writing to the heads of departments, who commission the senior career officials of their department – the heads of the Federal Offices – to prepare a written response to offer criticism and suggestions.

Pure Mania, Home's first novel from 1989, took the recipe of the Richard Allen parodies from SMILE and turned them into a recipe for much of his subsequent novel writing of the 1990s ( there are exceptions such as the non-linear " Come Before Christ & Murder Love ").

Before the 1986 Masters Tournament, Tom McCollister, writing in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, said that Nicklaus was " done, washed up, through ," and this spurred him on.

Before presenting his argument, Milton defends the very idea of writing a treatise such as Areopagitica.

Before he went into battle Andrei had told Alex, `` I only want to be a Pole.

Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.

Before turning to my views as to the problems and issues before us at this Regional Conference, I wish to note a small item in the Summary Report as it refers to the District of Columbia.

Before God I swear I am innocent.

`` Before God, Captain, I am innocent ''.

As his ship was readied for battle, Nelson held a final dinner with Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s officers, announcing as he rose: " Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey ," in reference to the rewards of victory or the traditional burial place of British military heroes.

:: The Christ was Jesus ' spiritual selfhood ; therefore Christ existed prior to Jesus, who said, " Before Abraham was, I am.

Before World War I there were more than 3, 500 cheese producers in Britain, while fewer than 100 remained after the Second World War.

Before the Service Number was introduced in the 1990s, military personnel were identified on the I discs ( as well as other documents ) by their Social Insurance Number.

" Before Diderot ," Anne Louise Germaine de Staël wrote, " I had never seen anything in pictures except dull and lifeless colours ; it was his imagination that gave them relief and life, and it is almost a new sense for which I am indebted to his genius.

First, that the " sword shall never depart from your house " ( 2 Samuel 12: 10 ) second, that " Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.

Thomas was a teenager when many of the poems for which he became famous were published: " And death shall have no dominion ", " Before I Knocked " and " The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower ".

Before a new Grand Alliance could be concluded Leopold I prepared to send an expedition to seize the Spanish lands in Italy.

Before the 1980s Soviet war, Afghanistan pursued a policy of neutrality and nonalignment in its foreign relations, being one of a few independent nations to stay neutral in both World War I and World War II.

Before World War I, Portuguese forces, with some assistance from the Muslim population, subdued animist tribes and eventually established the territory's borders.

Before the apparition of the first gospel, the gospel of Mark which was probably written around the years 65 – 70, Paul the Apostle used the term gospel when he reminded the people of the church at Corinth " of the gospel I preached to you " ( 1 Corinthians 15. 1 ).

" Before she can cry any further, Rhett asks Scarlett to marry him saying, " I always intended having you, one way or another.

Before World War I Italy and Austria-Hungary had been instrumental in the creation of an independent Albanian state.

Before you get there, I am going to find your mother and fuck her ".

Before he died, Rabbeinu HaKadosh said: ‘ I need my sons !… Let the lamp continue to burn in its usual place ; let the table be set in its usual place ; let the bed be made in its usual place .” ( Kesubbos / Ketubot 103a )

Before Jack and I moved to Montreal, we had just been through some very rough treatment in the racially biased South during spring training in Florida.

Before I had been vaguely conscious of something rotten somewhere, prison crystallised this.

Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar, many written with Cahn, including " I've Heard That Song Before " (# 1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943 ), " I'll Walk Alone ", " It's Magic " ( a # 2 hit for Doris Day in 1948 ) and " I Fall in Love Too Easily ".