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He learned theurgy from Maximus of Ephesus, a student of Iamblichus ; his system bears some resemblance to the Neoplatonism of Plotinus ; Polymnia Athanassiadi has brought new attention to his relations with Mithraism, although whether he was initiated into it remains debatable ; and certain aspects of his thought ( such as his reorganization of paganism under High Priests, and his fundamental monotheism ) may show Christian influence.
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The name presumably derives from the French royal house which never learned and never forgot ; ;
Something of this can be learned from `` The Way To The Churchyard '' ( 1901 ), an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure.
in the opening paragraph, too, Steele is accused of extreme egotism, of giving `` himself the preference to all the learned, his contemporaries, from Dr. Swift himself, even down to Poet Cr--spe of the Customhouse ''.
He was a learned and brilliant man, one of the best jurists in Europe and with flashes of penetrating insight, and yet in his dealings with other people, particularly when he tried to be ingratiating, he was capable of an abysmal stupidity that can have come only from a complete incomprehension of human nature and human motives.
So Meltzer learned a new trade from Banks, who supplied the town and the hotels with meat.
He had learned to dispute devastatingly, both formally and informally in Latin, and according to the rules on any topic, pro or con, drawn from almost any subject, more especially from Aristotle's works.
Marlene ( surname: Adamo ), 25, a Brazilian divorcee who learned the dance from Arabic friends in Paris, now lives on Manhattan's West Side, is about the best belly dancer working the Casbah, loves it so much that she dances on her day off.
The eight green columns, I learned, came from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the others, red, from the Temple of the Sun at Heliopolis.
From the town surveyor, Hans learned drawing and mathematics and, from a university student, some academic subjects.
Subsequently, we learned from Douglass that his sample contained a few percent Af impurity.
After his pains got worse, Tom decided to see a real doctor, from whom he learned he was suffering from cancer of the lung.
We have learned from earthquakes much of what we now know about the earth's interior, for they send waves through the earth which emerge with information about the materials through which they have traveled.
A student orator `` produced tears from a great number of the learned '' even before the punch was served.
We had tea at Mr. Washizu's home where I learned that he, too, comes from a very wealthy family.
`` If I thought you were serious about going back to school, that you'd learned something from your experiences here and at Hanover -- well, I might consider such an offer.
During the quarrel I learned what the trouble was, from the accusations each hurled at the other.
There was even a cable in French from a bank in Switzerland that had somehow learned about the Dallas stock offering.
From the luggage, they learned that the two air pirates, far from being Cubans, were native Americans, subsequently identified as Leon Bearden, 50-year-old ex-convict from Coolidge, Ariz., and his son, Cody, 16, a high-school junior.
Lincoln learned from his chief of staff General Henry Halleck, a student of the European strategist Jomini, of the critical need to control strategic points, such as the Mississippi River ; he also knew well the importance of Vicksburg and understood the necessity of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing territory.
He had also learned a great deal about Persian customs and traditions from his teacher.
They learned how to extract metals from ores, and how to compose many types of inorganic acids and bases.
learned and Maximus
Among the learned monks who lived and worked there were Vassian Patrikeyev and Maximus the Greek.
learned and Ephesus
He was as skilful an opponent of Catholic theology as Mark of Ephesus, and a more learned one.
They learned that the four-walled, roofless ruin had been venerated for a long time by the members of a distant mountain village who were descended from the Christians of Ephesus.
learned and student
" Good ", for example, can mean " useful " or " functional " ( That's a good hammer ), " exemplary " ( She's a good student ), " pleasing " ( This is good soup ), " moral ( a good person versus the lesson to be learned from a story ), " righteous ", etc.
In 1877, as a student at the Tokyo-Kaisei school ( soon to become part of the newly-founded Tokyo Imperial University ), Kano learned that many jujutsu teachers had been forced to pursue alternative careers, frequently opening.
It had been during this period that Mao had first learned of the imported western concept of socialism from a newspaper article, and intrigued, he read several pamphlets by Jiang Kanghu ( 1883 – 1954 ), a student who had founded the Chinese Socialist Party in November 1911.
Brando was an avid student and proponent of Stella Adler, from whom he learned the techniques of the Stanislavski System.
For example, when playing the piano, " fingering " — that is, which fingers to put on which keys — is a skill slowly learned as the student advances, and there are many standard techniques which a teacher can pass on.
For example, one agency may use the information to determine how well the overall education system is performing, and another may use its assessments to determine whether an individual student has learned required material.
In the simplest implementation, earning a " level " indicates that the teacher believes that a student has learned enough of the current material to be able to succeed in the next level of work.
Laennec was a gifted student, he learned English and German, and began his medical studies under his uncle's direction.
Nobody would ever say a doctor had learned his profession by instinct ; yet in my own way I ’ ve put in almost as much time studying hockey as a medical student puts in studying medicine.
In his first major speech after he had lost his seat in the 1918 general election, Asquith said: " That is the purpose and the spirit of Liberalism, as I learned it as a student in my young days, as I was taught it both by the precept and the example of the great Liberal statesman Mr Gladstone ... that remains the same today.
It only branches after the death of Yip Man, as student Leung Ting decided to take what he had learned from his master and teach it in a much more direct fashion than was traditionally taught in Wing Chun.
Training is split into various forms, many of which are only learned when a martial artist has passed the student levels of Wing Tsun.
A good exercise is also asking a student to solve Lat Sao problems using newly learned techniques in each program ; even if the things they come up with do not work, the habit of investigating the problem from different angles and not taking Lat Sao as something set in stone will help them avoid the pitfalls.
Bui Tze adds full-torso movements to the arm and leg techniques of the Siu Nim Tao and Chum Kiu forms, though ( as with the other forms ) some Biu Tze movements are learned in the student WT grades – building on its " redundant " teaching system.
Between 5th to 8th Practitioner level, the student learns the final parts of the system, and should have the whole of it, as well as be able to apply everything he's learned fluently and effortlessly.
Simai, Ashi's father, was a rich and learned man, a student of the college of Naresh near Sura, which was directed by Rav Papa, Raba's disciple.
Vajrayana Buddhism is esoteric, in the sense that the transmission of certain teachings only occurs directly from teacher to student during an initiation or empowerment and cannot be simply learned from a book.
With some systems, feedback can be geared towards a student's specific mistakes or the computer can navigate the student through a series of questions adapting to what the student appears to have learned or not learned.
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