Being less encumbered by material embodiments they partake more of what is divine.

Being convinced that salvation is alone by accepting Christ as Saviour, and being convicted by the Holy Spirit of my lost condition, I do repent of all effort to be saved by any form of good works, and just now receive Jesus as my personal Saviour and salvation as a free gift from Him.

Being a dimensionless fraction, it may also be expressed as a percentage, and is measured on a scale from zero for no reflecting power of a perfectly black surface, to 1 for perfect reflection of a white surface.

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.

Being now master of the empire, he is said to have abandoned himself to a life of debauchery.

Being a protective encasement with at least one gun position, it is essentially a pillbox or small fortress ( though these are static fortifications of a purely defensive nature ) that can move toward the enemy-hence its offensive utility.

Being a monarchical state, with its roots invested in Colonial England, black letter law is that which is a term used to describe basic principles of law that are accepted by the majority of judges in most provinces and territories.

Being is an extremely broad concept encompassing subjective and objective features of reality and existence.

In a single sentence, parallel to Aristotle's statement asserting that being is substance, St. Thomas pushes away from the Aristotelian doctrine: " Being is not a genus, since it is not predicated univocally but only analogically.

This comparison is the basis of his Analogy of Being.

" The words " Is, or Bee, or Are, and the like " add no meaning to an argument nor do derived words such as " Entity, Essence, Essentially, Essentiality ", which " are the names of nothing " but are mere " Signes " connecting " one name or attribute to another: as when we say, A man, is, a living body, wee mean not that the Man is one thing, the Living Body another, and the Is, or Being another: but that the Man, and the Living Body, is the same thing ;...." " Metaphysiques ," Hobbes says, is " far from the possibility of being understood " and is " repugnant to naturall Reason.

Being to Hobbes ( and the other empiricists ) is the physical universe: The world, ( I mean ... the Universe, that is, the whole masse of all things that are ) is corporeall, that is to say, Body ; and hath the dimension of magnitude, namely, Length, Bredth and Depth: also every part of Body, is likewise Body ... and consequently every part of the Universe is Body, and that which is not Body, is no part of the Universe: and because the Universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing ; and consequently no where.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

Being is quite conceivable apart from actual existence ; so much so that the very first and the most universal of all the distinctions in the realm of being is that which divides it into two classes, that of the real and that of the possible.

In the war-time 1941 edition of Heidegger's primary work, Being and Time ( first published in 1927 ), the original dedication to Husserl was removed.

Being one of the first film hyphenates ( film director, editor and engineer ) Porter also invented and utilized some of the very first ( albeit primitive ) special effects such as double exposures, miniatures and split-screens.

Being the idol of the " bobby soxers ", he released his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra in 1946.

Being within an hours ' drive of Silicon Valley, Kildall heard about the first commercially available microprocessor, the Intel 4004.

Shortly following their first performance together, the band entered the studio to record the Brown-Byrd composition, " Get Up ( I Feel Like Being a ) Sex Machine ", the song further enhanced Brown's influence in funk music, moving further away from his late 1960s funk origins.

: Being exceedingly alarmed at the misery into which I had fallen, and much more at that which threatened me in view of eternal death, I, duty bound, made it my first business to betake myself to your way, condemning my past life, not without groans and tears.

The first period of Sartre's career, defined in large part by Being and Nothingness ( 1943 ), gave way to a second period -- when the world was perceived as split into communist and capitalist blocs -- of highly publicized political involvement.

It was after Ichikawa's marriage to Wada that the two began collaborating, first on Design of a Human Being ( Ningen moyo ) and Endless Passion ( Hateshinaki jonetsu ) in 1949.

Being the first publications to question the official Macedonian position of the existence of a distinct Macedonian identity going back to the time of Alexander the Great ( Macedonism ), the books triggered a reaction of shock and disbelief in Macedonian public opinion.

Being in the Fourth generation of Gaming, it was the first system in the former Neo Geo family, which only lived through the 1990s.

Augustine wrote: That the good purpose of marriage, however, is better promoted by one husband with one wife, than by a husband with several wives, is shown plainly enough by the very first union of a married pair, which was made by the Divine Being Himself.

Aside from multiple " made-for-television " versions, The Importance of Being Earnest has been adapted for the English-language cinema at least three times, first in 1952 by Anthony Asquith who adapted the screenplay and directed it.

To commemorate the centenary of the first performance of The Importance of Being Earnest, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation on 13 February 1995 ; directed by Glyn Dearman, it featured Judi Dench as " Lady Bracknell ", Sir Michael Hordern as " Lane ", Michael Sheen as " Jack Worthing ", Martin Clunes as " Algernon Moncrieff ", John Moffatt as " Rev.

* February 14 – Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest is first shown at St. James ' Theatre in London.

Being paid by the mile, the railroad built oxbows of extraneous track never venturing further than from Omaha in the railroad's first 2½ years.

The existential analytic of Being and Time was thus always only a first step in Heidegger's philosophy, to be followed by the " dismantling " ( Destruktion ) of the history of philosophy, that is, a transformation of its language and meaning, that would have made of the existential analytic only a kind of " limit case " ( in the sense in which special relativity is a limit case of general relativity ).

Being and Time ( German title: Sein und Zeit ), published in 1927, is Heidegger's first academic book.

The content of Being and Time, according to Husserl, claimed to deal with ontology, but from Husserl's perspective only did so in the first few pages of the book.

Being a rather neutral grape, Australian winemakers first approached Chardonnay in the same manner they were making wine from the similarly neutral Sultana grape.

Beatles producer George Martin recalled, " When we first worked on Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

Being their most popular record and many fans ' first exposure to the group, the album has occasionally been performed in its entirety at live shows.

Being responsible for one's choices is the first cause of those choices, where first cause means that there is no antecedent cause of that cause.

Yet we must not forget that all these analyses implicitly presuppose the reality of the Absolute Being and also the reality of being human, that is, being a creature.

Hence, in The Sophist Plato argues that Being is a Form in which all existent things participate and which they have in common ( though it is unclear whether ' Being ' is intended in the sense of existence, copula, or identity ); and argues, against Parmenides, that Forms must exist not only of Being, but also of Negation and of non-Being ( or Difference ).

Being one with the Tao does not indicate a union with an eternal spirit in, for example, the Hindu sense.

Being the last legitimate heirs of the House of Stuart, his family lived with a sense of pride and staunchly believed in the Divine Right of Kings.

He wrote his dissertation in Tübingen On the manifold sense of Being in Aristotle.

Being so close to the busy town of Camden and City of Columbia, yet still keeping its small town feel and sense of pride makes Lugoff unique.

While this doctrine is at odds with experience, where things do indeed change and move, the Eleatic school followed Parmenides in denying that sense phenomena revealed the world as it actually was ; instead, the only thing with Being was thought, or the question of whether something exists or not is one of whether it can be thought.

The solution proposed by Abu al-Hasan al-Ash ' ari to solve the problems of tashbih and ta ' til concedes that the Divine Being possesses in a real sense the Attributes and Names mentioned in the Qur ' an.

Being in a special sense the representatives of the sovereign, they were entrusted with more extended power than the ordinary counts.

The solution proposed by Abu al-Hasan al-Ash ' ari to solve the problems of tashbih and ta ' til concedes that the divine Being possesses in a real sense the Attributes and Names mentioned in the Qur ' an.

*" Being my ' real self ' could have included having a penis and including more femininity in whatever forms made sense.

" Being optimistic, in the typical sense of the word, ultimately means one expects the best possible outcome from any given situation.

Being primarily responsible for preparing and chairing the meetings of the European Council, the role had no executive powers and was in no sense equivalent to that of a head of state.

Being associated with the sense of smell, it is associated with the nose, and being associated with excretion, it is associated with the anus.

Being connected with the sense of taste, it is associated with the tongue, and being connected with reproduction, it is associated with the genitals.

Being related to the sense of sight, it is associated with the eyes, and being associated with movement, it is associated with the feet.

" Being a culprit I do have a sense of agony with which I must fight ," she said at a press conference in 1990.

Second, in light of attaining being reflexively through apprehension of sense experience one may arrive at what Maritain calls " an Intuition of Being ".

In Being for the Other, he writes that there is no " universal moral law ," only the sense of responsibility ( goodness, mercy, charity ) that the Other, in a state of vulnerability, calls forth.

So, although through their relationship Something and Other mutually determine each other ’ s inner Qualities, they do not have the same effect on the Infinite Being ― be it God, spirit or ego ( in the Fichtean sense )― to which they are now objects.

Being a small community, and one that was recently subjected to a severe natural disaster Innisfail harbours a definite sense of community.

On the first page of Being and Time, Heidegger describes the project in the following way: " our aim in the following treatise is to work out the question of the sense of being and to do so concretely.