the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

Ideas and tenets of Zoroastrian schools of Early Persian philosophy are part of many works written in Middle Persian and of the extant scriptures of the zoroastrian religion in Avestan language.

It is written in English, very similar to the Early Modern English linguistic style of the King James Version of the Bible, and has since been fully or partially translated into 108 languages.

Early fighting had no written rules.

The basis of western astronomy as taught during Late Antiquity and until the Early Modern period is the Almagest by Ptolemy, written in the 2nd century.

* Early Church Fathers Includes text written by Cyril of Alexandria

Indeed, at the end of the 19th century scholar Ernest DeWitt Burton wrote that there could be " no reasonable doubt " that 1 John and the gospel were written by the same author, and Amos Wilder has said that, " Early Christian tradition and the great majority of modern scholars have agreed on the common authorship of these writings, even where the author has not been identified with the apostle John.

Early in 1941 he started writing for the American Partisan Review and contributed to Gollancz ' anthology The Betrayal of the Left, written in the light of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact ( although Orwell referred to it as the Russo-German Pact and the Hitler-Stalin Pact ).

Early that same year, Gygax published Chainmail, a miniatures wargame that simulated medieval-era tactical combat, which he had originally written with hobby-shop owner Jeff Perren.

The analysis of geographical names in written sources shows that in the Early Middle Ages, Slavic inhabitants of the whole of Pomerania used various dialects of one language.

In the opening section of the Passions of the Soul, a treatise on the Early Modern version of what are now commonly called emotions, Descartes goes so far as to assert that he will write on this topic " as if no one had written on these matters before ".

The Germanic phoneme was therefore written as ‹ vv › or ‹ uu › (‹ u › and ‹ v › becoming distinct only by the Early Modern period ) by the 7th or 8th century by the earliest writers of Old English and Old High German.

Early written records provide valuable information on the past distributions of species.

Early in her sickness, she experienced periods of religious ecstasy through the use of the devotional book " Tercer abecedario espiritual ," translated as the Third Spiritual Alphabet ( published in 1527 and written by Francisco de Osuna ).

Early Romantic traits can be found in the violin concertos of Viotti, but it is Spohr ’ s twelve violin concertos, written between 1802 and 1827, that truly embrace the Romantic spirit with their melodic as well as their dramatic qualities.

Early in the film the song " The Darktown Strutters Ball " can be heard ; this is a historically inaccurate inclusion, since the song was written in 1917.

Early modern maps of Africa from the 15th – 19th centuries, drawn by European cartographers from accounts written by explorers and travellers, reveal some interesting information about Biafra:

Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages.

* Keynes, Simon, ' Royal government and the written word in late Anglo-Saxon England ' in The Uses of Literacy in Early Medieval Europe.

Early on during Asimov's original world-building of the Foundation universe, he established within the first published stories a chronology placing the tales approximately 50, 000 years into the future from the time they were written ( c. 1940 ).

Early church writers appear to indicate that Matthew's gospel was written first.

Early versions of dictionaries produced in Burns ' wake in the 19th century had titles such as " A Dictionary of the Scotch Dialect of the Lowlands " and modern place names now written as " Scots " e. g., Scotstarvit and Scotscalder existed in previous incarnations as " Scotch ".

Early ties were already visible in the " Apologie " of William the Silent, condemning the Spanish Inquisition, which was written by his court minister, the Huguenot Pierre L ' Oyseleur, lord of Villiers.

Early software for the Alto was written in the programming language BCPL, and later in Mesa, which was not widely used outside PARC but influenced several later languages, such as Modula.

Early historical records of these laws include the Rhodian law ( Nomos Rhodion Nautikos )( of which no primary written specimen has survived, but which is alluded to in other legal texts: Roman and Byzantine legal codes ) and later the customs of the Hanseatic League.

Early accounts served mainly to assist the memory of the businessperson and the audience for the account was the proprietor or record keeper alone.

Early conceptions of ecology, such as a balance and regulation in nature can be traced to Herodotus ( died c. 425 BC ), who described one of the earliest accounts of mutualism in his observation of " natural dentistry ".

Early Voortrekker accounts describe how the lands surrounding the mountain retreat of the Basotho had been burnt and destroyed, in effect leaving a vacuum that subsequent Voortrekkers began to occupy.

Subsequent historians examining the Early Modern witch trials, particularly Carlo Ginzburg, Eva Pocs and Emma Wilby have also emphasised that the accounts in many of the witch trials represent visionary experiences, containing within them imaginary and surreal elements, which goes against Murray's rationalization of the trial accounts.

* Early accounts of Phrenology practice

Early Sunni scholars often considered sunnah equivalent to the biography of Mohammed ( sira ) as the hadith was then poorly validated while contemporary accounts of Muhammad's life were better known.

Early accounts of martyrs include Christian witnesses making great efforts to obtain the remains of the martyrs and the Romans sometimes trying to prevent this.

Early accounts depict them as rare, secretive, arboreal and nocturnal denizens of dense primary forest.

Early accounts credit Zhou with labor organizing activities in Shanghai after his arrival, or, more credibly, working to " strengthen the indoctrination of political workers in labor unions and smuggle arms for the strikers.

Early European accounts used the word for a different location, describing a medium-sized island ( Isle de Bifeche ) in the delta of the Senegal River in West Africa, some two miles upstream from the island of N ' Dar on which Saint-Louis was founded.

" Early issues of the Knoxville Gazette — the first newspaper published in Tennessee — are filled with accounts of murder, theft, and hostile Cherokee attacks.

Early military scouting reports and pioneer accounts describe the water as cold, clear, and dependable ; the spring pool was approximately deep, with the overflow going only a short distance down the draw before it sank beneath the surface.

Early Christians were hardly monolithic in their preachings, and the Nativity accounts of the gospels may have diverged as a result, but a comparison of the Nativity stories of Luke and Matthew show common elements in terms of the virgin births, the birth at Bethlehem and the upbringing at Nazareth.

Early critics of the marsh gas hypothesis often dismissed it on various grounds including the unlikeliness of spontaneous combustion, the absence of warmth in some observed ignes fatui, the odd behavior of ignes fatui receding upon being approached, as well as the differing accounts of ball lightning ( which was also classified as a kind of ignes fatui ).

Howard Kurtz's WaPo profile of CBS Early Show co-host Maggie Rodriguez says her addition to the program accounts for " an uptick in the ratings, lifting spirits at the broadcast.

Early accounts say that the literate Muslims also wrote down such verses as they heard them.

Early media accounts said that Waleed had earned his pilot's certificate at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 1997.

Early versions of Todesfuge were circulated at this time, a poem that clearly relied on accounts coming from the now-liberated camps in Poland.

Early written accounts of the ordination of deaconesses also reflect this practice.

In the British accounts from the Early Modern period at least, there were three main types of encounter narrative related to how a witch or cunning person first met their familiar.

She noted that in such tales as Rumpelstiltskin, Puss-in-Boots and the Frog Prince, the protagonist is approached by a supernatural being when they are in need of aid, something that she connected to the appearance of familiar spirits in the Early Modern accounts of them.

Early adherents were unaware of the details of the vision until 1840, when the earliest accounts were published in Great Britain.