However, since both the computer and the drive could easily be reprogrammed, third parties quickly wrote more efficient firmware that would speed up drive operations drastically.

This allowed a new device to be added easily, generally only requiring plugging a hardware interface board into the backplane, and then installing software that read and wrote to the mapped memory to control it.

The clothing of the sitters in Reynolds ' portraits was usually painted either by one his pupils, his studio assistant Giuseppe Marchi, or the specialist drapery painter Peter Toms James Northcote, his pupil, wrote of this arrangement that " the imitation of particular stuffs is not the work of genius, but is to be acquired easily by practice, and this was what his pupils could do by care and time more than he himself chose to bestow ; but his own slight and masterly work was still the best.

" Lester del Rey wrote, " Even the devoted aficionado — or fan — has a hard time trying to explain what science fiction is ", and that the reason for there not being a " full satisfactory definition " is that " there are no easily delineated limits to science fiction.

Gladstone wrote to Herbert Spencer, who contributed the introduction to a collection of anti-socialist essays ( A Plea for Liberty, 1891 ), that " I ask to make reserves, and of one passage, which will be easily guessed, I am unable even to perceive the relevancy.

" For decades ", wrote Frith, " Grace had been arguably the most famous man in England ", easily recognisable because of " his beard and his bulk ", and revered because of " his batsmanship ".

Humphry Davy, an English chemist was among the first to expound on the chemical basis of soil fertility and wrote in 1813: “ If land be unproductive, and a system of ameliorating it is to be attempted, the sure method of obtaining the object is to determine the cause of the sterility, which must necessarily depend upon some defect in the constitution of the soil, which may be easily discovered by chemical analysis .” His ideas were not immediately accepted.

The reform had by then received some modifications in points of detail by the reform commission, in which one of the leading members was Clavius, who afterwards wrote defences and an explanation of the reformed calendar, including an emphatic acknowledgement of Lilio's work, especially for his provision of a useful reform for the lunar cycle: " We owe much gratitude and praise to Luigi Giglio who contrived such an ingenious Cycle of Epacts which, inserted in the calendar, always shows the new moon and so can be easily adapted to any length of the year, if only at the right moments the due adjustment is applied.

Foucault described it as " by far the book I wrote most easily, with the greatest pleasure, and most rapidly.

The most accurate description of Beethoven's regard for Clementi's music can be found in the testimony of his assistant, Anton Schindler, who wrote " He ( Beethoven ) had the greatest admiration for these sonatas, considering them the most beautiful, the most pianistic of works, both for their lovely, pleasing, original melodies and for the consistent, easily followed form of each movement.

Thomas Jefferson wrote " I would more easily believe that ( a ) Yankee professor would lie than that stones would fall from heaven.

As Tony Sloman wrote in 1999, " As the varied likes of David Lean, Robert Wise, Terence Fisher and Dorothy Arzner have proved, the cutting rooms are easily the finest grounding for film direction.

" Paul Mandell, of American Cinematographer magazine, wrote: " Distance was the most personal story Serling ever wrote, and easily the most sensitive dramatic fantasy in the history of television.

It was, he wrote, " The only crossing of railroads likely to be made within McLean County within four or five years, and persons can easily ascertain that the connection of the two roads will be effected by the first of November or December.

One left-wing critic is Professor Michael Mandel, who wrote that in comparison to politicians, judges do not have to be as sensitive to the will of the electorate, nor do they have to make sure their decisions are easily understandable to the average Canadian citizen.

" When the electorate allows key offices to go vacant for unreasonable amounts of time and allows other conditions ... to cause ruin and decay ," Cain wrote, " it can easily be inferred that this small group of local citizens has abandoned any right it had to operate a local government unit.

Music writer Michael Azerrad wrote, " Ginn took his label from a cash-strapped, cop-hassled store-front operation to easily the most influential and popular underground indie of the Eighties ".

West made his London stage debut in February 1989 at the Orange Tree Theatre, playing Michael in Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles, of which critic John Thaxter wrote: " He invests the role with a warmth and validity that silences sniggers that could so easily greet a lesser performance of this difficult role, and he lets us share the tumbling emotions of a juvenile torn between romantic first love and filial duty.

Conradi, Kjerulf and Reissiger wrote choral music with texts by Norwegian writers like Ibsen or Bjørnson, who in turn wrote with the intension that their texts could be easily added music.

In his madrigals, many of which he wrote during his stay in Rome, his style is clear and concise, and he wrote tunes which were easily memorable ; he also " signed " his work by frequently using the word ' lasso ' ( and often setting with the sol-fege syllables la-sol, i. e. A-G in the key of C ).

Taylor wrote, " If the means to which the government of the union may resort for executing the power confided to it, are unlimited, it may easily select such as will impair or destroy the powers confided to the state governments.

Richard Quiney the younger, a schoolboy of eleven, wrote a letter in Latin asking his father to buy copybooks ( `` chartaceos libellos ) '' ) for him and his brother.

The historic roots of Algerian literature goes back to the Numidian era, when Apuleius wrote The Golden Ass, the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety.

Aventinus, whose name was real name is Johann or Johannes Turmair ( Aventinus being the Latin name of his birthplace ) wrote the Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany and the first major written work on the subject.

He wrote the grammatical rules for the Vulgate Latin spoken by some illiterates in Europe at his time.

And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.

At Rome, he wrote in Latin a history of the Roman empire from the accession of Nerva ( 96 ) to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople ( 378 ), in effect writing a continuation of the history of Tacitus.

In 825 Al-Khwārizmī wrote a treatise in Arabic, On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals, which was translated into Latin from Arabic in the 12th century as Algoritmi de numero Indorum.

Classics Professor G. P. Goold at University College, wrote of Housman's scholarly accomplishments: " The legacy of Housman's scholarship is a thing of permanent value ; and that value consists less in obvious results, the establishment of general propositions about Latin and the removal of scribal mistakes, than in the shining example he provides of a wonderful mind at work ....

Bede wrote in Latin and never used the term and his list of kings holding imperium should be treated with caution, not least in that he overlooks kings such as Penda of Mercia, who clearly held some kind of dominance during his reign.

Matteo Ricci was among the very earliest to report on the thoughts of Confucius, and father Prospero Intorcetta wrote about the life and works of Confucius in Latin in 1687.

He wrote it in French, not in Latin and thereby reached a wider audience in his country than that of scholars.

Later Republican writers, such as Lucretius, Catullus and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and it was at this time that many of the principles of Latin hexameter were firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal.

Abbott also wrote educational text books, one being " Via Latina: First Latin Book " which was published in 1898 and distributed around the world within the education system.

Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a pure Latin style.

Jerome, who wrote the Latin Vulgate translation, wrote in the 4th century, " it is rejected by everyone " and included it in the Vulgate, which is the reason for translating the letter into Latin.

Aleandro compiled a Lexicon Graeco-Latinum ( 1512 ), and wrote Latin verse of considerable merit inserted in the Carmina Illustrium Poetarum Italiorum of Joannes Matthaeus Toscanus.

Hadrian wrote poetry in both Latin and Greek ; one of the few surviving examples is a Latin poem he reportedly composed on his deathbed ( see below ).

Irenaeus wrote a number of books, but the most important that survives is the " Against Heresies ", normally referred to by its Latin title Adversus Haereses which is an important source regarding the Gospel according to the Hebrews.

Jordanes wrote in Late Latin rather than the classical Ciceronian Latin.

Stuart humorously wrote of his rapid courtship in Latin, " Veni, Vidi, Victus sum " ( I came, I saw, I was conquered ).