The Stoic Seneca states in his Apocolocyntosis that Claudius ' voice belonged to no land animal, and that his hands were weak as well ; however, he showed no physical deformity, as Suetonius notes that when calm and seated he was a tall, well-built figure of dignitas.

The Encyclopædia Britannica notes “ his tall dignified person, unfailing courtesy, and polished, if somewhat deliberate, eloquence made him a man of mark in all the best circles.

It could be tempting to think of O and E as a Beckettian Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – indeed in notes for the first draft Beckett did toy “ with the idea of making ‘ E tall ’ and ‘ O short ( and ) fat ’ which corresponds with the dual physique of Jekyll and Hyde ” – but Film is not concerned with representations of good and evil, only with the concept of the second self, of pursuer and pursued .”

She notes that they " were opposites in appearance and temperament ... hereas Paul appeared fragile, Burns was tall and curvaceous, the picture of vigorous health ... unlike Paul, who was uncompromising and hard to get along with, Burns was pliable and willing to negotiate.

* Fortna also notes that the verse could be implying a Flat Earth, which would allow for all countries to be seen at once from a tall enough mountain.

One description of the house he wrote notes: " Between two tall gateposts of roughhewn stone ... we behold the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black ash trees.

Second, he notes that human beings delight in a sense of wonder, and this provides a villain with an opportunity to manipulate others.

In a recent article about the debate in the San Francisco Chronicle, Robbins notes that under the new guidelines, certain responses to grief could be labeled as pathological disorders, instead of being recognized as being normal human experiences.

The account notes, uncomfortably, the proximity of recent human sacrifice.

Another reason for the efforts ' failures was the Gracchi's idealism ; they were deaf to the baser notes of human nature and failed to recognize how corrupt and selfish all sections of Roman society had become.

:" Since you desire to know everything, I have written this ' book of notes ,' that you may learn of what the universe and its elements consist, what the world contains, and what the human race has done.

He notes the common belief that any person entering the temenos would die within a year, along with the legend that all creatures, human and animal alike, cast no shadow while inside the sacred area.

As the National Science Foundation notes, " The patent included the idea of using NMR to ' scan ' the human body to locate cancerous tissue.

Carlyle notes: " There is no change in political theory so startling in its completeness as the change from the theory of Aristotle to the later philosophical view represented by Cicero and Seneca .... We think that this cannot be better exemplified than with regard to the theory of the equality of human nature.

" David Gordon notes, " When most people speak of natural law, what they have in mind is the contention that morality can be derived from human nature.

In his notes Louis recorded a first name, Titanohomo mirabilis, reflecting an initial impression of close human affinity.

" It notes that, " when the first direct evidence of infant Baptism appears in the second century, it is never presented as an innovation ," that 2nd-century Irenaeus treated baptism of infants as a matter of course, and that, " at a Synod of African Bishops, St. Cyprian stated that ' God's mercy and grace should not be refused to anyone born ', and the Synod, recalling that'all human beings ' are ' equal ', whatever be ' their size or age ', declared it lawful to baptize children ' by the second or third day after their birth '.

He did so in a way that made full use of all of the piano's eighty-eight notes, without regard for human fingers or hands.

Author Oliver Grau in his book Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion notes that the creation of artificial immersive virtual reality, arising as a result of technical exploitation of new inventions, is a long-standing human practice throughout the ages.

The untrained human ear typically does not perceive harmonics as separate notes.

However, the policy was not implemented immediately, and did not exist on pre-Federation Earth: in the Enterprise episode " Civilization ," Charles " Trip " Tucker III notes that the prohibition is a Vulcan policy, not human.

The February 2, 2000 European Commission Communication on the Precautionary Principle notes: " The precautionary principle applies where scientific evidence is insufficient, inconclusive or uncertain and preliminary scientific evaluation indicates that there are reasonable grounds for concern that the potentially dangerous effects on the environment, human, animal or plant health may be inconsistent with the high level of protection chosen by the EU ".

Nyrop notes the poetical stories of the " redeeming power of the kiss are to be found in the literature of many countries, especially, for example, in the Old French Arthurian romances ( Lancelot, Guiglain, Tirant le blanc ) in which the princess is changed by evil arts into a dreadful dragon, and can only resume her human shape in the case of a knight being brave enough to kiss her.

Wah-wah is an imitative word ( or onomatopoeia ) for the sound of altering the resonance of musical notes to extend expressiveness, sounding much like a human voice saying the syllable wah.

Scholar John Geck notes that Alger relied on " formulas for experience rather than shrewd analysis of human behavior ", and that these formulas were " culturally centered " and " strongly didactic ".

Though Jerome and Eusebius ( both citing Castor of Rhodes ), and as even late as 1812 John Lemprière euhemeristically asserted that he was the first king of Argos, and Robert Graves that he was a descendant of Iapetus, most modern mythologists understand Inachus as one of the river gods, all sons of Oceanus and Tethys and thus to the Greeks part of the pre-Olympian or " Pelasgian " mythic landscape ; in Greek iconography, Walter Burkert notes, the rivers are represented in the form of a bull with a human head or face.

Commenting on a Freudian analysis of the myth stating that Ovid " disconcertingly suggests that might be an unspoken universal of human experience " Doll notes that Ovid's stories work like metaphors: they are meant to give insight into the human psyche.

Even when he is called upon for impromptu remarks, he has notes written on the back of handy envelopes.

That he read some of the books assigned to him with a studied carefulness is evident from his notes, which are often so full that they provide an unquestionable basis for the identification of reviews that were printed without his signature.

The entire middle section of The Walnut Trees is taken up with the life of Vincent Berger himself, whose fragmentary notes on his `` encounters with mankind '' are now conveyed by his son.

Of all advantages, probably none is more important than the elimination of tax anticipation notes.

Sacrifice will have to be made in some cases, but it is to the municipality's advantage to finance the change-over for a short period of time rather than pay interest on tax anticipation notes indefinitely.

It is also significant that neither this report nor the hearing officer's notes were furnished to the appeal board.

As always, a tape recording or detailed notes are made, and a typescript of this is sent to the absent sitter.

The congressman who, in Paris, may have stuffed his wallet with enough franc notes to paper the roof of Notre-Dame will systematically scream that a $200 increase in entertainment allowance for a second secretary is tantamount to debauchery of the Treasury.

Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.

In his commentary on Chapter 3 of the Brahma Sutras, Sivananda notes that karma is insentient and short-lived, and ceases to exist as soon as a deed is executed.

The satirical element of the pamphlet is often only understood after the reader notes the allusions made by Swift to the attitudes of landlords, such as the following: " I grant this food may be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for Landlords, who as they have already devoured most of the Parents, seem to have the best Title to the Children.

A less confrontational vision of scientific discovery is proposed by Adloff He suggests that hindsight criticism of the early publications should be mitigated by the nascent state of radiochemistry, highlights the prudence of Debierne's claims in the original papers, and notes that nobody can contend that Debierne's substance did not contain actinium.

" Hofstadter notes that to call this a " myth " is not to imply that the idea is simply false.

As Jacques Revel notes, the success of the Annales School, especially its use of social structures as explanatory forces contained the seeds of its own downfall, for there is " no longer any implicit consensus on which to base the unity of the social, identified with the real.

Similar to the view of Leopold Kronecker that " God made the integers ; all else is the work of man ," musicians drawn to the alphorn and other instruments that sound the natural harmonics, such as the natural horn, consider the notes of the natural harmonic series — particularly the 7th and 11th harmonics — to be God's Notes, the remainder of the chromatic scale enabled by keys, valves, slides and other methods of changing the qualities of the simple open pipe being an artifact of mere mortals.

( Hume 1974: 384 ) He also notes that this " inferential " ability that animals have is not through reason, but custom alone.

Ambroise is surprisingly accurate in his chronology ; though he did not complete his work before 1195, it is evidently founded upon notes which he had taken in the course of his pilgrimage.

Earlier, the classical geographer, Ptolemy notes " Apphana " as an island off the mouth of the Tigris ( which is, where the modern Island of Abadan is located ).

Philosopher G. H. R. Parkinson notes a common objection to Kant's argument: that what ought to be done does not necessarily entail that it is possible.

Walter Burkert notes that " Ares is apparently an ancient abstract noun meaning throng of battle, war.

Eco ( 1993 ) notes that Genesis is ambiguous on whether the language of Adam was preserved by Adam's descendants until the confusion of tongues ( Genesis 11: 1-9 ), or if it began to evolve naturally even before Babel ( Genesis 10: 5 ).