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He had an excellent command of Greek and his literary achievements surpass those of any other Russian man of letters of that era ... Of all his works, Cyril ’ s sermon with the triumphant description of spring as the symbol of the Resurrection was the most popular .” Indeed, this sermon is one of his best known works in which he creates some of his more compelling images like a simile comparing the melting of ice in the spring and Thomas ’ s dissolving doubts about Christ ’ s resurrection: “ Ныне зима греховнаа покаянием престала есть и лед невериа богоразумием растаяся ... лед же Фомина невериа показанием Христов ребр растаяся .” the winter of sin has stopped in repentance, and the ice of unbelief is melted by wisdom spring appears ...
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In the issue of March 5, 1960 you had an excellent editorial which said:
and the sad part of it is that we had one, which was rounding into excellent shape, and we let it disintegrate and die.
they had chosen Catatonia because of its reputation for excellent schools, beaches, and abundance of names.
Evegeni Dubovskoi conducted an exceptionally large orchestra, one containing excellent soloists -- the violin solos by the concertmaster, Guy Lumia, were especially fine -- but one in which the core of traveling players and the body of men added locally had not had time to achieve much unity.
or even old Byron Nelson, whose excellent 71 made one wonder if he had solved the geriatric aspects of golf.
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Agrippina is regarded in ancient and modern historical sources as a Roman Matron with a reputation as a great woman, who had an excellent character and had outstanding Roman morals.
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The series enjoyed excellent ratings throughout its run, although it had fallen out of the top 20 most watched shows during its final season.
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Adam Smith illustrates this view, saying that a smuggler would be an excellent citizen, "... had not the laws of his country made that a crime which nature never meant to be so.
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A proper cavalry command in his front would have developed the fact that he had run into one division of Polk's Army of the Mississippi moving up from the direction of Mobile to join Johnston at Dalton.
In any event, the critical productivity of that time is abundant proof that if he was taking laudanum, it was never in command of him to the extent that it had been during his vagrant years.
To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.
As his second in command The Prince had Marshal Repnin, one-time Ambassador to Poland.
Lewis had expected to report at once to Jones's and Nassau's naval command post.
It had been whispered privately that she had smiled in the congregation, and the Governor Prence sent to knoe her business, and command, after punishment as the bench see fit, her departure and also anyone who brought her to the place from which she came ' ''.
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Gen. Gideon J. Pillow, who had been initially in command in Tennessee as that State's top general.
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It was necessary that an abbot should be at least 25 years of age, of legitimate birth, a monk of the house, unless it furnished no suitable candidate, when a liberty was allowed of electing from another convent, well instructed himself, and able to instruct others, one also who had learned how to command by having practised obedience.
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Here his rampage continued until the eastern government appointed him magister militum per Illyricum, giving him the Roman command he had desired, as well as the authority to resupply his men from the imperial arsenals.
At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.
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Saxon raids on the southern and eastern shores of England had been sufficiently alarming by the late 3rd century for the Romans to build the Saxon Shore forts, and subsequently to establish the role of the Count of the Saxon Shore to command the defence against these incursions.
In 1693 Morosini resumed command, but his only acts were to refortify the castle of Aegina, which he had demolished during the Cretan war in 1655, the cost of upkeep being paid as long as the war lasted, by the Athenians, and to place it and Salamis under Malipiero as Governor.
By 1760, the Maratha groups had coalesced into a big enough army under the command of Sadashivrao Bhau.
Both Brooke and Alexander were astonished by the transformation in atmosphere when they visited on 19 August, less than a week after Montgomery had taken command.
A hasty counter-attack risked ruining his strategy for an offensive on his own terms in late October, planning for which had begun soon after he took command.
Bibulus, whom Pompey had appointed to command his 600-ship fleet, set up a massive blockade to prevent Caesar from crossing to Greece and to prevent any aid to Italy.
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