I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality, as Francis Pendleton Gaines showed forty years ago, and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed.

The historian Charles Francis Adams called him `` a crude and half-crazy thinker ''.

If, the editors sometimes, dozed and printed pretentious, New, York-mind, dross, they, also printed, Malraux,, Silone,, Chiaromonte,, Gide, Bellow,, Robert Lowell, Francis Fergusson, Mary McCarthy, Delmore Schwartz, Mailer, Elizabeth Hardwick, Eleanor Clark,, and a host of, other good writers.

Mynheer, Sir Francis, the valley society, the very smell of the river on his right purling along to the bay past fish weirs and rocks, and ahead the sleepy ribbon of moon-drenched road.

`` Joseph Maria Ballestre meet Francis Xavier Bowman.

`` But brother I can't take a job right now '', she said with her eyes on her ice cream, `` I'm going to have a baby, Francis Xavier's baby, my own husband's baby ''.

Proceeding from Parry's conclusions and adopting one of his schemata, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., argues that Beowulf likewise was created from a legacy of oral formulas inherited and extended by bards of successive generations, and the thesis is striking and compelling.

Instead of quelling the dissension, as many captains of the era would have done ( Sir Francis Drake lopped a man's head off under similar circumstances ), Hudson decided to be reasonable.

The important result, however, was that Juet and Francis Clemens, the deposed boatswain, became Hudson's sworn enemies.

Among the observers of the 1946 tsunami at Hilo was Francis P. Shepard of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the world's foremost marine geologists.

By rough estimate her Committee, headed by Henry Francis Du Pont, contains three times as many Republicans as Democrats.

A cheer here for Francis Lorenz, state treasurer, who will meet with the probate advisory board of the Chicago Bar association, for suggestions on how to handle the opening of safety deposit boxes after somebody dies.

Mrs. John Charles Cotty is chairman of publicity for the country fair and Mrs. Francis G. Felske and Mrs. Francis Smythe, of posters.

Two members of the Democratic-endorsed majority on the school board said they probably would vote to appeal a ruling by the state Board of Education, which said yesterday that the school committee acted improperly in its appointment of the coordinator, Francis P. Nolan 3rd, the Democratic-endorsed committee chairman, could not be reached for comment.

The AID committee's chairman in charge of the redecoration, Mrs. Henry Francis Lenygon, was in town yesterday to consult with White House staff members on the project.

Meanwhile, after 24 years in the Senate, Rhode Island's durable Democrat Theodore Francis Greene -- having walked, swum and cerebrated himself to the hearty age of 93 -- left that august body ( voluntarily, because he could surely have been re-elected had he chosen to run again last November ), as the oldest man ever to serve in the Senate.

A few minutes later, FBI agent Francis Crosby, talking fast, eased up the ramp to the plane, unarmed.

Thus `` America '', the most widely sung of the patriotic songs, was written by a New England Baptist clergyman, Samuel Francis Smith ( 1808-1895 ), while a student in Andover Theological Seminary.

And for his playmate, Francis Coletta of West Warwick, who has a bit part, Billy.

* Graf, Fritz, Apollo, Taylor & Francis, 2009, ISBN 978-0-415-31711-5.

This design-based analysis was discussed and developed by Francis J. Anscombe at Rothamsted Experimental Station and by Oscar Kempthorne at Iowa State University.

He uses methods of argument throughout his essay which lampoon then-influential William Petty and the social engineering popular among followers of Francis Bacon.

* 1912 – Francis Schaeffer, American theologian and pastor ( d. 1984 )

* Baptism by Francis Schaeffer ( Evangelical Presbyterian perspective )

** Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor ( d. 1984 )

After graduating from the University of Georgia in 1974 with an ABJ ( bachelor of arts in journalism ) degree in television, Heard travelled to Switzerland to study at L ' Abri under the influential evangelical Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer.

Other stops on their honeymoon included L ' Abri, a Christian community started by Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer, who had a profound influence on Norman.

Francis August Schaeffer ( 30 January 1912 – 15 May 1984 ) was an American Evangelical Christian theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor.

In 1971, Schaeffer received the honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts .< ref > Douglas, J. D. Douglas & Philip Wesley Comfort, Editors, Who's Who in Christian History ( Tyndale House Publishers, 1992 ), p. 609 ; Francis August Schaeffer Papers Ministry Manuscript Collection # 29, Box 134, PCA Historical Center < http :// www. pcahistory. org / findingaids / schaeffer / index. html >.</ ref >

Today, roughly twenty-five years after his death ( from lymphoma ), his teachings continue in the same informal setting at The Francis A. Schaeffer Foundation in Gryon, Switzerland.

Covenant Theological Seminary has established the Francis A. Schaeffer Institute directed by a former English L ' Abri member, Jerram Barrs.

Francis Schaeffer ’ s work and legacy continues today.

In 1978, Schaeffer asked a group of Reformed Episcopal Clergy to research his thoughts and current trends, forming a church guild called “ The Society of Reformed Philosophical Thinkers ” that later in 1988 merged with “ Into Thy Word Ministries ,” also envisioned by Schaeffer, and then the remnants of the “ Charles E. Fuller Institute ” in 1998 were merged forming, “ The Francis A. Schaeffer Institute of Church Leadership Development .” Its purpose is continuing the work which started in Carmel California as a think-tank and Bible literacy project, currently in Pasadena, Ca.

Francis Schaeffer is credited with helping spark a return to political activism among Protestant evangelicals and fundamentalists in the late 1970s and early 1980s, especially in relation to the issue of abortion.

Sara Diamond and Frederick Clarkson have written articles tracing the activism of numerous key figures in the Christian Right to the influence of Francis Schaeffer.

:" Francis Schaeffer is widely credited with providing the impetus for Protestant evangelical political action against abortion.

Francis A. Schaeffer wrote twenty-two books, which cover a range of spiritual issues.

* Dennis, Lane T. ( ed ) Letters of Francis A. Schaeffer, Crossway Books, Westchester, 1985.

* Schaeffer, Francis A.

Harris studied under Dr. Francis Schaeffer at a L ’ Abris Fellowship International center.

Harris received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, in 1979, and then studied under Christian theologian Francis Schaeffer at the L ' Abri community in Huemoz, Switzerland, not far from Lausanne.

Koop also took some time off from his surgical practice to make a series of films with Christian apologist Francis Schaeffer titled " Whatever Happened to the Human Race ".

and Francis A. Schaeffer.