Aytoun's parodic Firmilian: A Spasmodic Tragedy ( 1854 ) is credited with getting the verse of the Spasmodic school laughed down as bombast.

He had appealed to tradition from St. Peter and St. Paul: this is an insult to the Apostles, cries Firmilian, for they execrated heretics.

In the controversies over rebaptism of lapsed Christians, Firmilian was an opponent of the stringent policy of antipope Novatian ( see Novatianism ), for Dionysius in 252 – 53 writes that the bishops of Cilicia, Cappadocia, and Palestine had invited him to a synod at Antioch to repudiate Novatianism ( Eusebius, VI, xlvi, 3 ).

This explains how Firmilian could invite Origen to Cappadocia, " for the benefit of the Churches ".

Firmilian reassures Cyprian's church at Carthage that with them the custom of rebaptizing may be new, but in Cappadocia it has been the custom from the very beginning ( c. xix ), and he can answer Stephen by opposing tradition to tradition, and that some time since, he had joined in a council at Iconium with the bishops of Galatia and Cilicia and other provinces, and had decided to rebaptize the Montanists ( c. vii and xix ); for these acts Stephen excommunicated the Eastern churches.

In a letter to Pope Sixtus II ( 257 – 58 ), Dionysius mentions that in the controversy over rebaptism of the lapsed Pope Stephen had refused communication with Helenus of Tarsus, Firmilian, and all Cilicia and Cappadocia, and the neighbouring lands ( Eusebius, VII, v, 3-4 ), a subject touched on in the sole surviving letter of Firmilian, a response to Cyprian.

Dionysius counts Firmilian as one of " the more eminent bishops " in a letter to Pope Stephen I ( Eusebius, VII, v, 1 ), where his expression " Firmilian and all Cappadocia " implies that Caesarea was already a metropolitan see.

At the end of the summer of 256, he sent the deacon Rogatian to Firmilian with a letter, together with the documents on the subject — letters of the pope, of his own, and of his council at Carthage in the spring, and the treatise De Ecclesia Catholica Unitate.

As a poet Dobell belongs to the Spasmodic school of poetry, as it was named by Professor Aytoun, who parodied its style in Firmilian: A Spasmodic Tragedy.

Smith, P. J. Bailey and Sydney Dobell were satirized by W. E. Aytoun in 1854 in Firmilian: a Spasmodic Tragedy.

Saint Firmilian ( died c. 269 ), Bishop of Caesarea Mazaca from ca.

A single letter of Firmilian to Cyprian survives among Cyprian's correspondence.

Jerome omits Firmilian from De viris illustribus.

Gregory of Nyssa tells that Gregory Thaumaturgus, when still a pagan, having completed his secular studies, " fell in with Firmilian, a Cappadocian of noble family, similar to himself in character and talent, as he showed in his subsequent life when he adorned the Church of Caesarea.

Firmilian says: " We have received your writings as our own, and have committed them to memory by repeated reading " ( c. iv ).

Firmilian enables us to gather much of the drift of Stephen's letter to Cyprian.

No one should wish to deny these purists the obvious pleasure they derive from all this, and to give fair warning where warning is due, no one who becomes fond of wines ever avoids acquiring some degree of purism!!

Characterized as a sociopath and a hardened juvenile delinquent, Alex is also intelligent and quick-witted, with sophisticated taste in music, being particularly fond of Beethoven, or " Lovely Ludwig Van.

Poirot, as mentioned in Curtain and The Clocks, is extremely fond of classical music, particularly Mozart and Bach.

Like Agatha Christie, she isn't overly fond of the detective she is most famous for creating – in Ariadne's case the Finnish sleuth Sven Hjerson.

A person who participates in archery is typically known as an " archer " or " bowman ", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a " toxophilite ".< ref > The noun " toxophilite ", meaning " a lover or devotee of archery, an archer ", is derived from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —" imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence title of his book ( 1545 ), intended to mean ' lover of the bow '.

He is also fond of horses and is angered when he sees them used in combat.

La Solitude du chanteur de fond is a one-hour documentary about Marker's friend Yves Montand's benefit concert for Chilean refugees.

The film's original French title is Le fond de l ' air est rouge, which means " the air is essentially red ", or " revolution is in the air ", implying that the socialist movement existed only in the air.

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

Though he will eat nearly anything ( with the exception of raisins and spinach ), Garfield is particularly fond of lasagna ; he also enjoys eating Jon's houseplants and other pets ( mainly birds and fish ).

The personality behind the poems is unsuited to the kind of " aristocratic withdrawal " typical of a rhapsode but is instead " argumentative, suspicious, ironically humorous, frugal, fond of proverbs, wary of women.

He is also not fond of reading and is a bit lazy as he was napping on a pile of books instead of giving them to Kitty to put away.

A modern English example is " painted Jezebel " as a disapproving expression for a woman too fond of using cosmetics.

Yet, if the purpose of Polo's tales was to impress others with tales of his high esteem and fond regard in an advanced civilization, then it is possible that Polo shrewdly would omit those details that would cause his listeners to scoff at the Chinese with a sense of European superiority.

Like Shakespeare, Plautus is especially fond of making up and changing the meaning of words.

He is said to be a wise Lord, fond of study, and all men hope for good from his rule.

Watson writes in " The Adventure of the Dying Detective " that Mrs. Hudson is fond of Holmes in her own way, despite his bothersome eccentricities as a lodger, owing to his " remarkable gentleness and courtesy in his dealings with women ".

I would, however, like to suggest that, wrong though I may be, the tendency to see dilemmas rather than solutions is one of which I have been a victim ever since I can remember, and therefore not merely a senile phenomenon.

One of the inescapable realities of the Cold War is that it has thrust upon the West a wholly new and historically unique set of moral dilemmas.

Casuistry is a method of case reasoning especially useful in treating cases that involve moral dilemmas.

Its line " Keep pure your highest ideal, strive ever towards it ; let naught stop you or turn you aside, for mine is the secret door which opens upon the door of youth " is used as a maxim for ethical dilemmas.

The film was later described by Bosley Crowther as " interminable "; and he noted that " of all the miserable dilemmas in which Miss Davis has been involved ... this one is probably the worst ".

As in Banks ' other Culture novels the main themes are the moral dilemmas which confront a hyperpower and how biological characters find ways to give their lives meaning in a post-scarcity society which is presided over by benign super-intelligent machines.

According to Bosley Crowther, " the essential purpose of this tale is to amuse with some devious dilemmas, and that it does right well "; he called the script " smart and lively.

One of the moral dilemmas of the series, however, is that the Lizards are consistently portrayed as morally superior to Nazi Germany of the 1940s, which they are trying to invade along with the other Axis and Allied powers.

While Rosenzweig accepts that almost every film involves such moral dilemmas to some extent, it is Curtiz's directorial decisions which place the element center stage in his films, albeit at an emotional rather than an intellectual level.

His theory holds that moral reasoning, which is the basis for ethical behavior, has six identifiable developmental constructive stages-each more adequate at responding to moral dilemmas than the last.

Post-colonialism theories in philosophy, film, political science, and post-colonial literature deal with the cultural legacy of colonial rule ; that is, the cultural identity of the colonised peoples, in which neo-colonialism is the background for the contemporary dilemmas of developing a national identity after colonial rule.

Molly shows viewers the strong matriarch that she is by constantly helping others with their dilemmas and proving to be the hero time and time again.

Often in a thriller the protagonist is faced with what seem to be insurmountable problems in his mission, carried out against a ticking clock, the stakes are high and although resourceful they face personal dilemmas along the way forcing them to make sacrifices for others.

The initial trolley problem becomes more interesting when it is compared to other moral dilemmas.

The underlying allegory is parallel to the dilemmas often faced by participants in problems predicted by game theory.

The show also dealt with sometimes controversial topics-for example, in one, an old man is unmasked as a Nazi war criminal, and his age raises various moral dilemmas.

In philosophy, Hume's fork may be used to refer to one of several distinctions and dilemmas drawn by David Hume ( though which distinction is a matter of some disagreement ).

The research showed that women and men use the same form of moral reasoning as one another and the only difference is the moral dilemmas they find themselves in on a day-to-day basis.

This more dynamic method of selecting dilemmas is dependent on a player's ability to remember which personnel his / her opponent has played and their ability to satisfy a dilemma's requirements.

This is represented by a number of abilities that manipulate decks and ignore or otherwise force through dilemmas.

Featuring new dilemmas, new events and a cycle of personnel new to Second Edition, Infinite Diversity is designed to enhance the game in multiple different dimensions.

The Satanic Verses is a reflection of the author ’ s dilemmas.

This means of expression is also present in his two other novels, in which Holmes uses medical or psychological dilemmas to further the story's dramatic plot.