Euler had limited training in rhetoric, and tended to debate matters that he knew little about, making him a frequent target of Voltaire's wit.

Though agents in the GID knew there was a gap between what the radicals promised in their rhetoric and what they were capable of accomplishing, they nevertheless told Palmer they had evidence of plans for an attempted overthrow of the U. S. government on May Day 1920.

The songs Sandburg sang often reminded listeners of songs of a kindred character they knew entirely or in fragments.

I saw Sedgwick often before his death at ninety-five, -- he had remarried at the age of ninety, -- and he asked me, when once I returned from Rome, if I knew the Cavallinis in the church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere.

They knew what they could do and it was often a little more than I thought they could do.

His thinking is often described as Hegelian because of his references to dialectical thinking but, although he probably knew Hegel, Clausewitz's dialectic is quite different and there is little reason to consider him a disciple.

While his stories appeared in the pages of prominent pulp magazines such as Weird Tales ( eliciting letters of outrage as often as letters of praise from regular readers of the magazines ), not many people knew his name.

This closeness between the two men is often cited as evidence that they were lovers, though some FBI employees who knew them, such as W. Mark Felt, say that the relationship was “ brotherly ”.

Saints are usually recognized by a local community, often by people who directly knew them.

Individuals were often organized in small, independent groups ; this helped to maintain secrecy because individuals knew some connecting " stations " along the route but knew few details of their immediate area.

Although Anning knew more about fossils and geology than many of the wealthy fossilists to whom she sold, it was always the gentlemen geologists who published the scientific descriptions of the specimens she found, often neglecting to mention her name.

As an adult Sharon Tate commented that people often misinterpreted her shyness for aloofness until they knew her better.

Members of Tudor House would then continue to sing the correct second and third verse of the Floreat which Older boys ensured that younger boys knew by heart, often staging impromptu tests at all hours of the day or night, with language students occasionally being required to translate from the Latin to their specialist language.

Raeder often impressed people who knew him as " aloof, uncomfortable in professional relationships, religious, authoritarian, puritanical, intolerant of individual initiative ... and extremely sensitive to criticism ".

By the end of the decade, he had moved to the United States, but his choice of roles was often criticisedhe admitted to and has since made many self-deprecating comments about taking parts, strictly for the money, in numerous films he knew to be bad, despite working with Hollywood's highly regarded directors such as Irwin Allen, Richard Fleischer, Michael Ritchie and Oliver Stone.

With a correct idea of their importance, Simplicius made the most diligent use of the commentaries of Alexander of Aphrodisias and Porphyry ; and although he often enough combats the views of the former, he knew how to value, as it deserved, his ( in the main ) sound critical sense.

Although he was able to participate in activities like parasailing during the group ’ s trip to Hawaii, the cast grew more worried about him nonetheless, often covering up for him during their weekly " confessional " interviews with the producers by telling them that Zamora was doing fine when they knew otherwise.

Earlier recipes often included much less information, serving more as a reminder of ingredients and proportions for someone who already knew how to prepare the dish.

Individuals were often organized in small, independent groups ; this helped to maintain secrecy because individuals knew some connecting " stations " along the route but knew few details of their immediate area.

" He concluded that the film " is often a delight " and " is about transformation: About two men who learn how to value something more important than money, and about two women who always knew.

The Romans knew of both and often referred to either as just " piper ".

In this section ( often quoted by other sources ), he confirms that, with Tommy Butler, he questioned the man they knew to be the assailant but that they had no evidence to convict him.

He knew the works of the Islamic philosophers better than any Jewish scholar of his time, and made many of them available to other jewish scholars – often without attribution ( Reshit Hokhmah ).

Anaxarchus is said to have studied under Diogenes of Smyrna, who in turn studied under Metrodorus of Chios, who used to declare that he knew nothing, not even the fact that he knew nothing.

" Lerner said he knew the lyric used incorrect grammar for the sake of a rhyme.

Fuller earned a machinist's certification, and knew how to use the press brake, stretch press, and other tools and equipment used in the sheet metal trade.

this quote from the translated reference of Sakakibara Kozan's 1800 book, The Manufacture of Armour and Helmets in Sixteenth Century Japan, shows that the Japanese not only knew of and used riveted kusari but that they manufactured it as well.

This so-called " register name " ( 譜名 ) is the one under which his extended relatives knew him, and the one he used in formal occasions, such as when he got married.

Her silence, however, strengthened her own political security: she knew that if she named an heir, her throne would be vulnerable to a coup ; she remembered that the way " a second person, as I have been " had been used as the focus of plots against her sister, Queen Mary.

Interestingly, Ahmes knew of the modern 22 / 7 as an approximation for pi, and used it to split a hekat, hekat x 22 / x x 7 / 22 =

A Justice Department spokeswoman said that Ashcroft knew nothing of the decision to spend $ 8, 000 for the curtains ; a spokesman said the decision for permanent curtains was intended to save on the $ 2, 000 per use rental costs of temporary curtains used for formal events.

rather than set up small engines of motivic materials and let them run free in a kind of random play of counterpoint, I used the fabric of continually repeating cells to forge large architectonic shapes, creating a web of activity that, even within the course of a single movement, was more detailed, more varied, and knew both light and dark, serenity and turbulence.

In books 2 through 7, he used degrees and put the meridian of 0 longitude at the most western land he knew, the " Blessed Islands ", probably the Cape Verde islands

It transpires that David used the excuse of the accident to quit football, because Audrey had a hatred of the sport and David knew that the only way their relationship could ever flourish would be to get football out of the picture.

It is not clear whether the author used the Yalkut Shimoni, or whether he knew the sources of its aggadah separately.

The law may also have been used to prosecute adult male citizens who willingly took a pathic role in same-sex acts, but prosecutions are rarely recorded and the provisions of the law are vague ; as John Boswell has noted, " if there was a law against homosexual relations, no one in Cicero's day knew anything about it.

Babylonian astronomers before Kidinnu's time apparently already knew the Saros cycle ( old eclipse observations were collected in tables organised according to the Saros cycle since the late 5th century BC ) and the Metonic cycle ( the dates of the lunar calendar in the Saros tables follow a regular 19-year pattern of embolismic months at least since 498 BC ); both cycles are also used in System B. Schnabel computed specific years ( first 314 BC and later 379 BC ) for the origin of the System B lunar theory, but Franz Xaver Kugler and Otto E. Neugebauer later disproved Schnabel's calculations.

Burgess knew that if he used modes of speech that were contemporarily in use, the novel would very quickly become dated.

He used a galvanometer to measure current, and knew that the voltage between the thermocouple terminals was proportional to the junction temperature.

Horner used evolutionary developmental biology on a chick embryo because he knew he couldn't make an exact replica of a dinosaur since there is no more DNA so instead he just took the framework still in the chick's DNA that allowed it to evolve from a dinosaur.

Unfortunately, the Major apparently knew all along that Stebbins was his bastard son, and does not care, except as a means to manipulate Stebbins into making the race better by making him into a " rabbit "— referencing the mechanical lure used in a greyhound race to keep the dogs running — so that he will provoke the other Walkers into pushing longer and harder trying to " catch " him.

As Helen herself has based a character in her novel The Eye of the Storm on Martin, she is about to accuse Sandra Pickering of plagiarism when, to her dismay, she finds out that the girl used to work for the BBC some years ago, that she knew Martin, and that she actually had an affair with him.

Other elements of the novel came from people Fleming knew or had heard of: Red Grant, the name of a Jamaican river guide described as " a cheerful, voluble giant of villainous aspect ", was used for the half-German, half-Irish assassin, while Rosa Klebb was partly based on Colonel Rybkin of Soviet Intelligence.

Thơ knew that the generals wanted to have him head a new government to provide continuity, and he used this as leverage in bargaining with them about the makeup of the cabinet.

He describes different marbles ; mentions coal, which he says is used for heating by metal-workers ; describes the various metal ores ; and knew that pumice-stones had a volcanic origin.

In the text ( or a manuscript, the syntax of this article was not clear ) of De indagatione cordis there are many names of scientists and scholars whose work Herman knew and used: Abu Mas ' har ( 787 – 886 ), Sahl ibn Bishr, Aomar Tiberia, Abu al-Kindi ( 801 – 873 ), the eighth-century Jewish astrologer Al Batrig Mashallah ( Messahalla ), Hermes, and Dorotheos of Sidon.