Concerning the sentence, Foss wrote, `` If it be possible that mercy shall override vengeance and that John Brown's sentence shall be commuted to imprisonment, it would be well -- well for the country and for Virginia ''.

From 1746, Hume served for three years as secretary to Lieutenant-General St Clair, and wrote Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, later published as An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.

In his 1528 Confession Concerning Christ's Supper he wrote:

In the late 1790s, Paine fled from France to the United States, where he wrote Part III of The Age of Reason: An Examination of the Passages in the New Testament, Quoted from the Old and Called Prophecies Concerning Jesus Christ.

Concerning Gauguin's impact on Picasso John Richardson wrote, The 1906 exhibition of Gauguin's work left Picasso more than ever in this artist's thrall.

Concerning the Beethoven 7th symphony, Schonberg wrote, " There is almost never a ritard or a change in expression or nuance.

Lucian of Samosata in Syria ( 2nd century AD ) in De Dea Syria ( Concerning the Syrian Goddess ) wrote of the Syrian temples he had visited:

Concerning these results, Hyman wrote that the final verdict of whether psi can be demonstrated in the ganzfeld awaited the results of future experiments conducted by other independent investigators.

Concerning a public health and racial policy in general, Huxley wrote that "... unless societies invent and enforce adequate measures for regulating human reproduction, for controlling the quantity of population, and at least preventing the deterioration of quality of racial stock, they are doomed to decay ..." and remarked how biology should be the chief tool for rendering social politics scientific.

In the 17th, century the Dutch anatomist Regnier de Graaf wrote an influential treatise on the reproductive organs Concerning the Generative Organs of Women which is much cited in the literature on this topic.

Concerning volume one of the book, The Sunday Times reviewer Oscar Turnill wrote that " Fleming was right in judging the children's market ripe for the ... cliff hanger " and praised his " avuncular and knowledgeable storytelling ", which was matched by Burningham's illustrations.

In 1733 he wrote another very popular work of medicine called An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies.

In his book Tanbih al-ikhwan ’ ala ahwal al-Sudan (“ Concerning the Government of Our Country and Neighboring Countries in the Sudan ”) Usman wrote: “ The government of a country is the government of its king without question.

Thus, early knowledge of lenses and the availability of lenses for spectacles from the 13th century onwards through the 16th century means that it was possible for many individuals to discover the principles of a telescope using a combination of concave or concave and convex lenses ; in the 13th century, Robert Grosseteste wrote several scientific treatises between 1230 and 1235, including De Iride ( Concerning the Rainbow ), in which he said:

Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali was a firm advocate for music, and believed that wajd aroused passionate love for God Al-Ghazzali wrote a chapter entitled " Concerning Music and Dancing as Aids to the Religious Life ", where he emphasized how the practices of music and dance are beneficial to Muslims, as long as their hearts are pure before engaging in these practices.

" In A Letter Concerning Toleration, he wrote that the magistrate's power was limited to preserving a person's " civil interest ," which he described as " life, liberty, health, and indolency of body ; and the possession of outward things.

Concerning the song, Yorn has said " I wrote American Blues Vol.

Around the late first century BC, Arius Didymus wrote in Concerning the Opinions of Plato:

Concerning the life of Persian Jews in the middle of the 19th century, a contemporary author wrote: ... they are obliged to live in a separate part of town ... for they are considered as unclean creatures ...

In Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems ( 1632 ), he wrote:

Concerning the question of the ethnic affinity of the population of Tubal, Josephus wrote: " Tobal gave rise to the Thobeles, who are now called Iberes "-Caucasian Iberia.

Concerning atrocities in Nanking, Matsui wrote in his war journal about rapes ( 20 December ) and looting ( 29 December ) and wrote it was very much regrettable that these behaviours destroyed the reputation of the Imperial Japanese Army.

Athanasius ' letters include one " Letter Concerning the Decrees of the Council of Nicaea " ( De Decretis ), which is an account of the proceedings of that council, and another letter in the year 367 which was the first known listing of the New Testament including all those books now accepted everywhere as the New Testament.

Though Hutton circulated privately a printed version of the abstract of his Theory ( Concerning the System of the Earth, its Duration, and Stability ) which he read at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 4 July 1785 ; the full account of his theory as read at the 7 March 1785 and 4 April 1785 meetings did not appear in print until 1788.

Among Camden's other works are a Greek grammar, which remained a standard school textbook for many years ; Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine ( 1605 ), a more popular English-language companion to Britannia, comprising a collection of themed historical essays ; the official account of the trial of the Gunpowder Plotters ; and a catalogue of the epitaphs at Westminster Abbey.

Strabo ultimately concludes, in Book IV, Chapter 5, " Concerning Thule, our historical information is still more uncertain, on account of its outside position ; for Thule, of all the countries that are named, is set farthest north.

Concerning the Babylonian Talmud account in Avoda Zarah, Dr. Boyarin views Jacob of Sechania as a Christian preacher and understands Rabbi Eliezer's arrest for minuth as an arrest by the Romans for practising Christianity ( the text uses the word for heretic ).

Concerning the Babylonian Talmud account in Avoda Zarah, Dr. Boyarin views Jacob of Sechania as a Christian preacher and understands Rabbi Eliezer's arrest for minuth as an arrest by the Romans for practising Christianity ( the text uses the word for heretic ).

Concerning the Babylonian Talmud account in Avoda Zarah, Dr. Boyarin views Jacob of Sechania as a Christian preacher and understands Rabbi Eliezer's arrest for minuth as an arrest by the Romans for practising Christianity ( the text uses the word for heretic ).

According to the Risāle-yi Tatar-i Leh ( trans: Message Concerning the Tatars of Poland, an account of the Lipka Tatars written for Süleyman the Magnificent by an anonymous Polish Muslim during a stay in Constantinople in 1557-8 on his way to Mecca ) there were 100 Lipka Tatar settlements with mosques in Poland.

Hume is one of the few early philosophers to offer anything like a sustained account of testimony, this can be found in his ‘ An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ’ in the section on miracles.

Concerning Goldman's account of Lennon's consumption of LSD, Luc Sante, in the New York Review of Books, said: " Goldman's background research was either slovenly or nonexistent.

Concerning Antianeira and Andromache, see below ; for almost all the other names on the list, this is a unique attestation.

Concerning information processing, DARPA made great progress, initially through its support of the development of time-sharing ( all modern operating systems rely on concepts invented for the Multics system, developed by a cooperation among Bell Labs, General Electric and MIT, which DARPA supported by funding Project MAC at MIT with an initial two-million-dollar grant ).

Concerning the " principle of purity of arms ", he stressed that: " The end does not justify all means.

The bulk of Locke's publishing took place upon his return from exilehis aforementioned Essay Concerning Human Understanding, the Two Treatises of Civil Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration all appearing in quick succession.

Concerning " free will ", most early modern philosophers, including Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke and Hume believed that the term was frequently used in a wrong or illogical sense, and that the philosophical problems concerning any difference between " will " and " free will " are due to verbal confusion ( because all will is free ):

The captain and the master too, Do's give us this relation, And so do's all the whole ship's crew, Concerning this strange nation :" The streets are pav'd with pudding-pies, nay, powder'd-beef and bacon, They say they scorn to tell you lies :' Who thinks it is mistaken.

His brief Inquiry Concerning Human Liberty ( 1715 ) has not been excelled, at all events in its main outlines, as a statement of the determinist standpoint.

Galileo's 1632 book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems considered ( the Second Day ) all the common arguments then current against the idea that the Earth moves.

Concerning the " principle of purity of arms ", he stressed that: " The end does not justify all means.

Concerning Italy, doubtless there were divers before the Latin did spread all over that Country ; the Calabrian, and Apulian spoke Greek, whereof some Relicks are to be found to this day ; but it was an adventitious, no Mother-Language to them: ' tis confess'd that Latium it self, and all the Territories about Rome, had the Latin for its maternal and common first vernacular Tongue ; but Tuscany and Liguria had others quite discrepant, viz.

*‘‘ Concerning all day conversations .’’ Pedagogical Seminary 27 ( 1920 ): 166 – 177.

" Concerning baptism we confess that all penitent believers, who, through faith, regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Ghost, are made one with God, and are written in heaven, must, upon such Scriptural confession of faith, and renewing of life, be baptized with water, in the most worthy name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, according to the command of Christ, and the teaching, example, and practice of the apostles, to the burying of their sins, and thus be incorporated into the communion of the saints ; henceforth to learn to observe all things which the Son of God has taught, left, and commanded His disciples.

) Concerning the relative strength of Maróczy and the best young masters of today, my opinion is that, with the exception of Botvinnik and Keres, Maróczy in his time was superior to all the other players of today.

Concerning a single measurable characteristic affecting all mental ability, analysis of any group of intelligence test scores will nearly always show them to be highly correlated.

** Title II: Concerning the Eradication of the Errors of all Heretics and Jews

In George Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge of 1710, he argued that a " naked thought " cannot exist, and that a perception was a thought ; therefore only minds could be proven to exist, since all else was merely an idea conveyed by a perception.

Concerning scenes in which a frog is skinned alive and fish are mutilated, the director stated, " We cooked all the fish we used in the film and ate them, expressing our appreciation.

In his dissertation " Concerning the End for which God Created the World ", Jonathan Edwards concludes, " t appears that all that is ever spoken of in the Scripture as an ultimate end of God's works is included in that one phrase, ` the glory of God '.

Concerning education, 84 % of all eligible children are enrolled in primary school, and 22 % in secondary schools.