Roe believed Jahangir's religion to be of his own making, " for he envies ProphetMahomett, and wisely sees no reason why he should not bee as great a prophet as he, and therefore professed himself so ... he hath found many disciples that flatter or follow him.

” You professed to have felt delighted when you heard of my arrival, thinking that it would have been of great advantage for the emperor and the people ; you added that you would have obeyed my summons had not a previous intimation of the emperor prevented you.

But Dauntsey's financial operations proved unsuccessful and Gresham was soon re-instated ; and as he professed his zealous desire to serve the Queen, and manifested great adroitness both in negotiating loans and in smuggling money, arms and foreign goods, not only were his services retained throughout her reign ( 1553 – 1558 ), but besides his salary of twenty shillings per diem he received grants of church lands to the yearly value of 200 pounds.

However, the great respect he professed for Maimonides ( though he did not share the latter's views ), reinforced by innate gentleness of character, kept him from allying himself with the anti-Maimonist party and led him to assume the role of a conciliator.

Ona, as she preferred to call herself, wanted to live where she pleased, do what work she pleased, and learn to read and write [...] Ona Judge professed a great regard for Martha and the way she had been treated, but she couldn't face a future as a slave for herself and her children.

It also kept him out of military service during World War II and, while being kept out of the major French universities meant that he had to travel a great deal for teaching positions, Barthes later professed an intentional avoidance of major degree-awarding universities, and did so throughout his career.

In his historical works, Pufendorf wrote in a very dry style, but he professed a great respect for truth and generally drew from archival sources.

His letters being violently attacked by Desmaretz de Saint-Sorlin, an erratic minor poet who professed great devotion to the Jesuits, Nicole replied to him in another series of letters, Les Visionnaires ( 1666 ).

There is some question as to whether Coates believed he was a great actor as he professed to, or if his performances weren't brilliant parody.

He was a great collector of art and in later life he openly professed materialistic opinions.

In spite of these disavowals, the Declaration of 1682 remained thenceforward the living symbol of Gallicanism, professed by the great majority of the French clergy, obligatorily defended in the faculties of theology, schools, and seminaries, guarded from the lukewarmness of French theologians and the attacks of foreigners by the inquisitorial vigilance of the French parliaments, which never failed to condemn to suppression every work that seemed hostile to the principles of the Declaration.

After the French Revolution he professed great remorse for the production of a play inculcating revolutionary principles, and there is no doubt that the horror of the excesses he witnessed hastened his death.

While initially meeting with a lukewarm reception due to his replacement of the popular Campbell, Kalas soon won the hearts of Phillies fans with his easy-going style, his mellow, baritone, leathery voice ( which rose to great excitement upon great plays on the field or Phillies ' home runs, especially in key situations ), his love of the game and also his accessibility to Phillies fans, for whom he professed a strong love.

For instance in some Byzantine monastic practices two levels of fully professed monk or nun exist: those of the " little habit " and those other of the " great habit ", these being more senior and not having to do manual labor.

: The State recognises the special position of the Holy Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church as the guardian of the Faith professed by the great majority of the citizens.

Lincoln tried to force Douglas to choose between the principle of popular sovereignty proposed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the majority decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, which stated that slavery could not legally be excluded from U. S. territories ( since Douglas professed great respect for Supreme Court decisions, and accused the Republicans of disrespecting the court, yet this aspect of the Dred Scott decision was contrary to Douglas ' views and politically unpopular in Illinois ).

On going over the matter it became evident that the great obstacle would arise from Fox's being too much entangled with Grey, Lambton, and that set of men who had lately separated themselves from the party, in order to form a party of their own, and who publicly professed doctrines and opinions in direct opposition to what he and I considered to be for the good and welfare of the public.

When Willson asked Price to explain the increased use of corporal punishment, the commandant " defended his use of flogging, to which he professed great aversion, as necessary to enforce obedience to regulations, especially those controlling the use of tobacco ".

He became professed as an Augustinian in 1778, but owing to his turbulent character he spent a great part of his time in prison, and was constantly being transferred from one convent to another, finally giving up the monastic habit to live licentiously in the capital.

The 1947 Constitution states, " The State recognizes the special position of Buddhism as the faith professed by the great majority of the citizens of the Union.

" The next three years ( 50-52 ROJ, 42-40 BC ) also passed in " continual peace and great joy ", but the pride of the " hearts of the people who professed to belong to the church of God " began to grow due to their prosperity.

The professed mission of this disaffiliated generation is to find a new way of life which they can express in poetry and fiction, but what they produce is unfortunately disordered, nourished solely on the hysteria of negation.

television special, both Banderas and Zeta-Jones professed experiencing arousal during its filming ; he by her beauty, and her by his character's innovative way of stripping her character.

Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.

A complete picture is impossible -- partly because of the limitations of space, partly because for millions of individuals who professed allegiance to the Christian faith data are unobtainable.

This solemn commitment tends to be referred to as the " Benedictine vow " and is the Benedictine antecedent and equivalent of the evangelical counsels professed by candidates for reception into a religious order.

" He felt that capitalism and machinery in the workplace would lead to more unemployment, and professed support for Roosevelt's New Deal.

Economist Paul Krugman commented that the incident showed that " the imperatives of crony capitalism trump professed faith in free markets ," at least for the Department of Agriculture at the time.

Mather's most fatal influence over the trials was in composing the answer to the question of whether or not to allow Spectral evidence, that is, allowing the afflicted girls to claim that some invisible ghost of the defendant was tormenting them, and for this to be considered evidence of witchcraft by the defendant, even if the defendant denied it and professed their own strongly held Christian beliefs.

Art historian and the artist's great-grandson Joachim Pissarro notes that they “ professed a passionate disdain for the Salons and refused to exhibit at them .” Together they shared an “ almost militant resolution ” against the Salon, and through their later correspondences it is clear that their mutual admiration “ was based on a kinship of ethical as well as aesthetic concerns ”.

That oneness is symbolized in the open invitation to communion for all who have professed faith in Christ without regard to church affiliation.

Benton had professed beliefs in theistic satanism during Deicide's early years, claimed to slaughter rodents for fun, and that he held beliefs in demonic possession and that he was possessed.

For instance, they interpret the exhortation to defend one ’ s faith “ with gentleness and reverence ” in 3: 15-16 as a response to Pliny executing Christians for the obstinate manner in which they professed to be Christians.

Yet for Seneca, and for Marcus Aurelius – both professed Stoics – the degradation of gladiators in the munus highlighted their Stoic virtues: their unconditional obedience to their master and to fate, and equanimity in the face of death.

In Pourtrait he went beyond them ; for he communicated to that description of the art, in which English artists are the most engaged a variety, a Fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher Branches, which even those who professed them a superior manner, did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature.

Ellis believed that many women who professed love for other women changed their feelings about such relationships after they had experienced marriage and a " practical life ".

The professed purpose of banishing rituals is to eliminate forces that might interfere with a magical operation, and they are often performed at the beginning of an important event or ceremony ( although they can be performed for their own sake as well ).

Classical Anglicanism, therefore, like Orthodoxy, holds that Holy Tradition is the only safe guardian against perversion and innovation in the interpretation of Scripture ; in the famous words of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells: " As for my religion, I dye in the holy catholic and apostolic faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West, more particularly in the communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from all Papal and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrine of the Cross.

" The Scottish moral philosopher Francis Hutcheson, as a student at Glasgow, " was attracted most by Cicero, for whom he always professed the greatest admiration.

Despite their professed admiration for Francia, the Colorados dismantled Francia's unique system of state socialism.

Despite his pragmatic acceptance of the new power balance in the Pacific after World War II and his strong support for the American alliance, he publicly professed continued admiration for links with Britain, exemplified by his admiration for Queen Elizabeth II, and famously described himself as " British to the bootstraps ".

* Investigative Judgment ( fundamental belief 24 )— A judgment of professed Christians began in 1844, in which the books of record are examined for all the universe to see.

When this scheme was revealed, Reagan admitted that he knew about Iranian " arms for hostages " dealings but professed ignorance about the proceeds funding the Contras ; for this, National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Oliver North took much of the blame.