He admitted that he was directly influenced by Purchas's Pilgrimage, but there are additional strong literary connections to other works, including John Milton's Paradise Lost, Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, Chatterton's African Eclogues, William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Short Residence in Sweden, Plato's Phaedrus and Ion, Maurice's The History of Hindostan, and Heliodorus's Aethiopian History.

One of Burnet's first acts as president was to transfer the capital of the new state from Washington-on-the-Brazos to Harrisburg, which was located nearer the small Texas Navy at Galveston Island.

One of Burnet's first acts as president was to transfer the capital of the new state from Washington-on-the-Brazos to Harrisburg, which was located nearer the small Texas Navy at Galveston Island.

A small amount of relief did come on April 9, however, with the arrival of the " Twin Sisters ," two six – pound cannons that had been sent as a gift from the people of Cincinnati to show their respect for the Burnet family ( at that time Burnet's brother Isaac was mayor of Cincinnati ).

The majority of Burnet's time was spent writing proclamations, orders, and letters appealing for funds and volunteers.

Burnet's primary competition was Houston, and the campaign was dominated by insults and name – calling.

Burnet's last public service came in 1868, when he was appointed as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention which nominated Horatio Seymour for president.

The heterodox views of Isaac La Peyrère included the idea that the Flood was not universal ; Burnet's theory was at least in part intended to answer him on that point.

Burnet's system had its novel features, as well as those such as the four classical elements that were very traditional: an initially ovoid Earth, a Paradise before the Flood that was always in the spring season, and rivers flowing from the poles to the Equator.

Isaac Newton was an admirer of Burnet's theological approach to geological processes.

Burnet's treatise De Statu Mortuorum et Resurgentium was published posthumously in 1720.

David G. Burnet's empresarial contract was cancelled when he could not bring enough settlers.

Also gone is J. J. Burnet's episcopal Inverclyde Church, which stood on the shore road of Undercliff Road and was demolished in 1970.

In 1689 he took the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, but he wrote a severe criticism of bishop Burnet's History of the Reformation, and it was partly owing to the bishop's hostility that he did not obtain further preferment in the English church.

A devout Episcopalian, Edwin Hodder wrote a hagiography of Burns, and J. J. Burnet's Inverclyde Church was instituted in the memory of Burns and his wife.

He was the author of editions of the Euthydemus and Gorgias of Plato ( 1784 ), to which Karl Wilhelm Dindorf declared himself indebted for his first ideas of Greek criticism, and of Gilbert Burnet's History of his Own Time ( 2nd ed., 1833 ) and History of the Reign of King James the Second ( 1852 ).

The editor of the 1850 edition of Bishop Burnet's history of his own time adds a footnote to Burnet's comment:

Redgrave's Century of Painters of the English School and John Burnet's Practical Essays on the Fine Arts may also be referred to for a critical estimate of his works.

Burnet established his saw mill on of land along the San Jacinto River, in an area that came to be known as Burnet's Bay.

* Translation and Commentary from John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy.

To President David G. Burnet, no admirer of Houston's, Houston appeared unwilling to fight his pursuer, despite Burnet's frequent orders for Houston to do so.

), Burnet's History of My Own Time.

Burnet's major achievements in microbiology included discovering the causative agents of Q-fever and psittacosis ; developing assays for the isolation, culture and detection of influenza virus ; describing the recombination of influenza strains ; demonstrating that the myxomatosis virus does not cause disease in humans.

Governor until his death in 1730, again governing between Burnet's death in 1729 and the arrival of Jonathan Belcher in 1730.

Many Texians were infuriated that the treaty allowed Santa Anna to escape execution, and some people called for Burnet's arrest for treason.

Lamar called a vote of the men in the army, who overwhelmingly voted for Huston, essentially a vote of no confidence in Burnet's decisions.

During the transition of power, Burnet's son Jacob died at Velasco.

Houston questioned Burnet's honesty, accusing him of taking a $ 250, 000 bribe from Santa Anna and calling him a ' political brawler ' and a ' canting hypocrite.

Houston won the election, with 7, 915 votes to Burnet's 3, 619.

Burnet's health deteriorated so that he needed help with his farm work.

More specific citations often add line numbers, e. g. Symposium 209a5-9, but these generally refer to John Burnet's Oxford Classical Text, not to Estienne's line divisions.

He became a citizen of Mexico in 1835, applied for a headright in David G. Burnet's colony, and sent for his family.

Challenging Farage's viewpoint, Neil said UKIP aspired to come top of the European elections but whilst UKIP wanted to join the big time, they were still seen as " unprofessional, amateur and even unacceptable " after their press officer called Baroness Warsi " a bitch ".

Edwards ( 2000 ) contradicts the conventional view that in the wake of the Scopes trial a humiliated fundamentalism retreated into the political and cultural background, a viewpoint evidenced in the movie Inherit the Wind and the majority of contemporary historical accounts.

However Edwards ( 2000 ) challenges the consensus view among scholars that in the wake of the Scopes trial a humiliated fundamentalism retreated into the political and cultural background, a viewpoint evidenced in the movie " Inherit the Wind " and the majority of contemporary historical accounts.

There is need for Jews to surrender the stereotype of Christianity as being monolithic and unchanging and to recognize the ramifications of viewpoint and emphasis that constitute the multicolored spectrum of contemporary Christianity.

is the magazine of the Anarchist Federation. It is published in order to develop anarchist communist ideas and aims to provide a clear anarchist viewpoint on contemporary issues and to initiate debate on ideas not normally covered in agitational papers.

While Fétis's critical opinions of contemporary music may seem reactionary, his musicological work was ground-breaking, and unusual for the 19th century in attempting to avoid an ethnocentric and present-centered viewpoint.

From a morphological viewpoint, and probably also from the view of the contemporary person, there is little to distinguish a ringfort from a small earthwork castle or motte.

It followed " themes of personal history and memory ( which ) through the lens of a more antagonistic and critical form of interpretation, aims to point towards an overtly positive viewpoint on contemporary art practice over any traditional melancholy fixation.

Few contemporary theologians ( especially thinkers in Augustinian traditions ) and no orthodox theologians, however, continue to hold this hamartiological viewpoint.

Another 18th century writer, Richard Gough, concentrated on a contemporary viewpoint, noting that " Cornwall seems to be another Kingdom ", in his " Camden's Britannia ", 2nd ed.

" Curran also makes the point that such talks have " little or no importance from the viewpoint of authoritative teaching ," and that the pope appears to be unaware of contemporary biblical scholarship and makes no mention of any contemporary scholars of any type.

* Anthropology and tradition: A contemporary Aboriginal viewpoint, with Mervyn Gibson.

The Filth and the Fury tells the story from the viewpoint of the band members themselves ( albeit in silhouette during their contemporary interviews ).