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from: 1939 till: 1941 color: UAP $ left text :" Alexander Mair_1939-1941 "
A classic reference which has generally entered modern language is the concept that " Hope springs eternal " taken from Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, the phrase reading " Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest :" Another popular reference, " Hope is the thing with feathers ," is from a poem by Emily Dickinson.
:" And even this conquest Buddhism has been won by the Beloved of the Gods here and in all the borderlands, as far as six hundred yojanas ( 5, 400-9, 600 km ) away, where Antiochos, king of the Yavanas rules, and beyond this Antiochus four kings named Ptolemy, Antigonos, Magas and Alexander rule ,".
:" The Greeks who caused Bactria to revolt grew so powerful on account of the fertility of the country that they became masters, not only of Ariana, but also of India, as Apollodorus of Artemita says: and more tribes were subdued by them than by Alexander ... Their cities were Bactra ( also called Zariaspa, through which flows a river bearing the same name and emptying into the Oxus ), and Darapsa, and several others.
:" Those who came after Alexander went to the Ganges and Pataliputra " ( Strabo, XV. 698 )
:" The Greeks who caused Bactria to revolt grew so powerful on account of the fertility of the country that they became masters, not only of Ariana, but also of India, as Apollodorus of Artemita says: and more tribes were subdued by them than by Alexander — by Menander in particular ( at least if he actually crossed the Hypanis towards the east and advanced as far as the Imaüs ), for some were subdued by him personally and others by Demetrius, the son of Euthydemus the king of the Bactrians.
:" The Greeks who caused Bactria to revolt grew so powerful on account of the fertility of the country that they became masters, not only of Ariana, but also of India, as Apollodorus of Artemita says: and more tribes were subdued by them than by Alexander -- by Menander in particular ( at least if he actually crossed the Hypanis towards the east and advanced as far as the Imaüs ), for some were subdued by him personally and others by Demetrius, the son of Euthydemus the king of the Bactrians ; and they took possession, not only of Patalena, but also, on the rest of the coast, of what is called the kingdom of Saraostus and Sigerdis.
:" Genghis is, without doubt, the greatest military genius and leader in history .... Alexander and Caesar seem petty before him.
:" The conquest by Dharma has been won here, on the borders, and even six hundred yojanas ( 4, 000 miles ) away, where the Greek king Antiochos ( Antiyoga ) rules, and beyond there where the four kings named Ptolemy ( Turamaya ), Antigonos ( Antikini ), Magas ( Maka ) and Alexander ( Alikasudara ) rule, likewise in the south among the Cholas, the Pandyas, and as far as Tamraparni.
:" Sandrocottus, when he was a stripling, saw Alexander himself, and we are told that he often said in later times that Alexander narrowly missed making himself master of the country, since its king was hated and despised on account of his baseness and low birth ".
:" India, after the death of Alexander, had assassinated his prefects, as if shaking the burden of servitude.
:" Later, as he was preparing war against the prefects of Alexander, a huge wild elephant went to him and took him on his back as if tame, and he became a remarkable fighter and war leader.
:" Always lying in wait for the neighboring nations, strong in arms and persuasive in council, he acquired Mesopotamia, Armenia, ' Seleucid ' Cappadocia, Persis, Parthia, Bactria, Arabia, Tapouria, Sogdia, Arachosia, Hyrcania, and other adjacent peoples that had been subdued by Alexander, as far as the river Indus, so that the boundaries of his empire were the most extensive in Asia after that of Alexander.
:" The conquest by Dharma has been won here, on the borders, and even six hundred yojanas ( 5, 400 – 9, 600 km ) away, where the Greek king Antiochos rules, beyond there where the four kings named Ptolemy, Antigonos, Magas and Alexander rule, likewise in the south among the Cholas, the Pandyas, and as far as Tamraparni ( Sri Lanka ).
:" No other troops in the world but German paratroops could have stood up to such an ordeal and then gone on fighting with such ferocity " — Field Marshal Alexander.
:" The Greeks who caused Bactria to revolt grew so powerful on account of the fertility of the country that they became masters, not only of Ariana, but also of India, as Apollodorus of Artemita says: and more tribes were subdued by them than by Alexander ... Their cities were Bactra ( also called Zariaspa, through which flows a river bearing the same name and emptying into the Oxus ), and Darapsa, and several others.
:" The conquest by Dharma has been won here, on the borders, and even six hundred yojanas ( 4, 000 miles ) away, where the Greek king Antiochos rules, beyond there where the four kings named Ptolemy, Antigonos, Magas and Alexander rule, likewise in the south among the Cholas, the Pandyas, and as far as Tamraparni.
:" The conquest by Dharma has been won here, on the borders, and even six hundred yojanas ( 5, 400 – 9, 600 km ) away, where the Greek king Antiochos rules, beyond there where the four kings named Ptolemy, Antigonos, Magas and Alexander rule, likewise in the south among the Cholas, the Pandyas, and as far as Tamraparni ( Sri Lanka ).
:" Transbus " is also the former name of UK bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis.
:" Jews who spent years in Soviet prisons were far less enthusiastic than most Israelis about Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh's historic visit here Friday ...' It's nothing but a bad dream ,' said Yosef Mendelevitch, another former Soviet prisoner, commenting on Bessmertnykh's visit, the first by a Soviet foreign minister to Israel.
:" We are more familiar with the history of England, Rome or Greece ' and with the career of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon than with the events that have occurred in our own vicinity.
:" The Greeks who caused Bactria to revolt grew so powerful on account of the fertility of the country that they became masters, not only of Ariana, but also of India, as Apollodorus of Artemita says: and more tribes were subdued by them than by Alexander -- by Menander in particular ( at least if he actually crossed the Hypanis towards the east and advanced as far as the Imaus ), for some were subdued by him personally and others by Demetrius, the son of Euthydemus the king of the Bactrians ; and they took possession, not only of Patalena, but also, on the rest of the coast, of what is called the kingdom of Saraostus and Sigerdis.

:" and ordered
:" Meanwhile it happened that Swedish ambassadors had come to the Emperor Louis the Pious, and, amongst other matters which they had been ordered to bring to the attention of the emperor, they informed him that there were many belonging to their nation who desired to embrace the Christian religion, and that their king so far favoured this suggestion that lie would permit God's priests to reside there, provided that they might be deemed worthy of such a favour and that the emperor would send them suitable preachers.
On 10 July 1941 Ribbentrop ordered General Eugen Ott, the German Ambassador to Japan to :" Go on with your efforts to bring about the earliest possible participation of Japan in the war against Russia ... The natural goal must be, as before, to bring about the meeting of Germany and Japan on the Trans-Siberian Railroad before winter sets in.
Harris said of him :" At a time when European archaeologists were preoccupied with regional sites and sequences, it was he who had the vision, the knowledge and the skill to construct the first prehistory of the whole continent ( 1925 ) and the first ordered and comprehensive account of the ancient Near East ( 1928 ).
:" I was ordered to go in there and destroy the enemy.
An Order in Council of this type usually has the following form: " Her Majesty, in pursuance of < nowiki > section of primary legislation </ nowiki >, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows :"
:" Saladin ordered that they should be beheaded, choosing to have them dead rather than in prison.
:" In spite of suggestions by radical Air Force officers, no guns were installed in the wings of our planes ; but the Swedes, being practical fellows, had ordered an extra. 50-caliber gun in each wing.
:" As Eucratides returned from India, he was killed on the way back by his son, whom he had associated to his rule, and who, without hiding his patricide, as if he didn't kill a father but an enemy, ran with his chariot over the blood of his father, and ordered the corpse to be left without a sepulture " Justin XLI, 6
:" It's gone almost completely unnoticed, but the two collections are a matched set: There are 14 stories in Lost, ordered from the youngest to the oldest character, and there are 14 stories in Hagar's, also ordered from youngest to oldest character.
:" A proclamation in the name of Jack Straw and Wat Tyler ordered that labour services should not be performed nor distraints made, and called on the people to destroy the Manston house of William de Medmenham ( a local coroner who evidently acted as representative for St Augustine's ), and if possible behead him.
:" As the princess disliked their custom of painting their faces red, Lungstan ( Songtsän Gampo ) ordered his people to put a stop to the practice, and it was no longer done.
Hans Lebrecht described :" at the end of May 1948, I was ordered by the military unit in which I served to build a temporary pump station, and to divert the " deserted " village stream, Ayn Zaytun, to supply water to the battalion.

:" and him
:" To this day Harold is not quite sure what made him suddenly pour out the whole story to a little man to whom he had only spoken a few minutes before.
:" I had called in at my friend Poirot's rooms to find him sadly overworked.
:" The proudest possession of Lord Darnley is an earthenware urn containing the ashes which were presented to him by Melbourne residents when he captained the Englishmen in 1882.
:" Ansgar then undertook the mission committed to him by the emperor, who desired that he should go to the Swedes and discover whether this people was prepared to accept the faith as their messengers had declared.
:" Deprogrammers are people who, at the request of a parent or other close relative, will have a member of a religious sect seized, then hold him against his will and subject him to mental, emotional, and even physical pressures until he renounces his religious beliefs.
Johnny Green, head of music at MGM at the time, described him as follows :" Gene is easygoing as long as you know exactly what you are doing when you're working with him.
:" If all things in the world, alive or dead, weep for him, then he will be allowed to return to the Æsir.
:" In such a mighty contest, sedition and discord, you will see one according law and assertion in all the earth, that there is one god, the king and father of all things, and many gods, sons of god, ruling together with him.
He became known for a couplet attributed to him: :" As soon as a coin in the coffer rings / the soul from purgatory springs
Tony West, his lawyer, explained it as follows :" One of the first things he told Army interrogators when they questioned him on December 3 of last year was that after 9 / 11 happened, he wanted to leave the front lines but couldn't for fear of his life.
:" No ," said his military friend, " my colonel does not live here — but my comrade does, and he's worth two of the colonel, so by God, doctor, if you don't do your best for him, it will be the worst for you!
:" They call him Indra, Mitra, Varuṇa, Agni, and he is heavenly nobly-winged Garuda.
:" My sage cried out to him: " You think,
:" I'm sorry, but I've already lent him to somebody else.
:" In Vanaheim the wise Powers made him
:" denieth, that, in the sacrament of the most holy Eucharist, are contained truly, really, and substantially, the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and consequently the whole Christ ; but saith that He is only therein as in a sign, or in figure, or virtue " and anyone who " saith, that, in the sacred and holy sacrament of the Eucharist, the substance of the bread and wine remains conjointly with the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denieth that wonderful and singular conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the Blood-the species only of the bread and wine remaining-which conversion indeed the Catholic Church most aptly calls Transubstantiation, let him be anathema.
:" Timodemus of Aphidnae, who was one of Themistocles ' enemies but not a man of note, was crazed with envy and spoke bitterly to Themistocles of his visit to Lacedaemon, saying that the honors he had from the Lacedaemonians were paid him for Athens ' sake and not for his own.
:" You alone of all the gods saved Zeus the Darkener of the Skies from an inglorious fate, when some of the other Olympians — Hera, Poseidon, and Pallas Athene — had plotted to throw him into chains ... You, goddess, went and saved him from that indignity.
:" the ships of Dilmun, from the foreign land, brought him wood as a tribute ".
:" I said to him very emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued by him immediately to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting.

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