'" Even his friend, the novelist Charles Kingsley, wrote that he had read " no other book which so staggered and puzzled " him, that he could not believe that God had " written on the rocks one enormous and superfluous lie for all mankind.

Rashīd al-Dīn Fadhl-allāh Hamadānī ( 1247 – 1318 ), was a Persian physician of Jewish origin, polymathic writer and historian, who wrote an enormous Islamic history, the Jami al-Tawarikh, in the Persian language, often considered a landmark in intercultural historiography and a key document on the Ilkhanids ( 13th and 14th century ).

A constituent, James Stewart, once commented to a friend who wrote this letter, "... he ( Stewart ) had come mainly to see one Jardine, an enormous Laird from Applegarth Parish and China, and a very good man ; who is understood to be dangerously ill at present.

He remained at her court for four years and wrote an enormous number of compositions, mostly of the nature of pièces d ' occasion ; of most of these, not even the names are on record.

From this correspondence Sinnett wrote The Occult World ( 1881 ) and Esoteric Buddhism ( 1883 ), both of which had an enormous influence in generating public interest in theosophy.

Herodotus wrote about an enormous city, Gelonus, in the northern part of Scythia

At this crucial juncture, Murat's chief of staff, General Augustin Daniel Belliard rode straight to the Emperor's Headquarters and, according to General Ségur who wrote an account of the campaign, told him that the Russian line had been breached, that the road to Mozhaysk, behind the Russian line, was visible through the gaping hole the French attack had pierced, that an enormous crowd of runaways and vehicles were hastily retreating, and that a final push would be enough to decide the fate of the Russian army and of the war.

In a letter to a Latin-American Catholic writer, Ernesto Cardenal, Merton wrote: " The world is full of great criminals with enormous power, and they are in a death struggle with each other.

Bagnold wrote, " Never in our peacetime travels had we imagined that war could ever reach the enormous empty solitudes of the inner desert, walled off by sheer distance, lack of water, and impassable seas of sand dunes.

Harold Bloom, a mentor to Paglia during her graduate studies at Yale University, wrote, " Sexual Personae an enormous sensation of a book, in all the better senses of ' sensation.

Lowell wrote that it would " furnish the intelligent and reflecting portion of the Reading Public with a rational substitute for the enormous quantity of thrice-diluted trash, in the shape of namby-pamby love tales and sketches, which is monthly poured out to them by many of our popular Magazines.

At the peaceful height of Middle Byzantium, court life " passed in a sort of ballet ", with precise ceremonies prescribed for every occasion, to show that " Imperial power could be exercised in harmony and order ", and " the Empire could thus reflect the motion of the Universe as it was made by the Creator ", according to the Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus, who wrote a Book of Ceremonies describing in enormous detail the annual round of the Court.

Bernstein wrote in the 1996 book that the Pope ’ s role in supporting the Solidarity in his native Poland, and his geopolitical dexterity combined with enormous spiritual influence, was a principal factor in the downfall of communism in Europe.

He drew on this enormous literary culture as wrote his first collection of poems, Des coups d ’ épée dans l ’ eau, whose conclusion foreshadowed the anarchism of his future songs:

In the 20th century, Salvador Dalí wrote imaginatively that the giant anteater " reaches sizes bigger than the horse, possesses enormous ferocity, has exceptional muscle power, is a terrifying animal.

Von Kármán wrote of Qian, “ At the age of 36, he was an undisputed genius whose work was providing an enormous impetus to advances in high-speed aerodynamics and jet propulsion .” The American journal Aviation Week & Space Technology would name Qian its Person of the Year in 2007, and comment on his interrogation of von Braun, " No one then knew that the father of the future U. S. space program was being quizzed by the father of the future Chinese space program.

The Yugoslav scholar Mihajlo Mihajlov visited Shklovsky in 1963 and wrote: " I was much impressed by Shklovsky's liveliness of spirit, his varied interests and his enormous culture.

Historian Howard Zinn wrote: " At the great Washington March of 1963, the chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ), John Lewis, speaking to the same enormous crowd that heard Martin Luther King ’ s I Have a Dream speech, was prepared to ask the right question: ' Which side is the federal government on ?’ That sentence was eliminated from his speech by organizers of the March to avoid offending the Kennedy Administration.

In it, he wrote: " It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life.

" With the finale, Tolstoy wrote, came victory, " an enormous optimistic lift.

Rashīd al-Dīn Tabīb () also Rashīd al-Dīn Fadhl-allāh Hamadānī ( 1247 – 1318 ) (), was a Persian physician of Jewish origin, polymathic writer and historian, who wrote an enormous Islamic history, the Jami al-Tawarikh, in the Persian language, often considered a landmark in intercultural historiography and a key document on the Ilkhanids ( 13th and 14th century ).

Ahmed was a poet who wrote a number of political and lyrical works under the name Bahti.

In 1983 political satirist / novelist Richard Condon (" The Manchurian Candidate ") wrote " A Trembling Upon Rome ," a novel of historical fiction about the life of Baldassare Cossa.

Chanakya ( c. 350 – 283 BC ) wrote about assassinations in detail in his political treatise Arthashastra.

In Ansbach Maximilian von Montgelas wrote an elaborate concept for the future political organisation of Bavaria, which is known as the " Ansbacher Mémoire ".

During the 1840s Disraeli wrote three political novels collectively known as " the Trilogy "– Sybil, Coningsby, and Tancred.

" God knows I go with a heavy heart ," he wrote six days later to his friend and political ally in England, Lord Godolphin, " for I have no hope of doing anything considerable, unless the French do what I am very confident they will not … " – in other words, court battle.

" However, his looks proved to be an asset in his personal and political relationships, as his law partner William Herndon wrote, " He was not a pretty man by any means, nor was he an ugly one ; he was a homely man, careless of his looks, plain-looking and plain-acting.

Adams wrote, " There are laws of political as well as physical gravitation ; and if an apple severed by its native tree cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate only towards the North American Union which by the same law of nature, cannot cast her off its bosom.

In 1920, while mayor, he wrote his first book, The Social Worker, which set out many of the principles that informed his political philosophy and that were to underpin the actions of his government in later years.

Sunday Times journalist James Margach, wrote of the Attlee years: " I have never known the Press so consistently and irresponsibly political, slanted and prejudiced ".

They were refuted in this claim by David J. Schneider, who wrote that " correlations between prejudice and political conservative are reduced virtually to zero when controls for SDO are instituted ".

Thomas Malthus wrote two books, An essay on the principle of population, published in 1798, and Principles of political economy, published in 1820.

At Esprit, Marker wrote political commentaries, poems, short stories and ( with Bazin ) film reviews.

Eastman has been called one of the United States ' most neglected leaders, because, although she wrote pioneering legislation and created long-lasting political organizations, she disappeared from history for fifty years.

Joe Martin, the Republican Speaker from 1947 – 1949 and again from 1953 – 1955, wrote that Eisenhower " never surrounded himself with assistants who could solve political problems with professional skill.

He wrote " Dialectical thinking should be taken more seriously by Western scholars, not discarded because some nations of the second world have constructed a cardboard version as an official political doctrine.

Dublin businessman and Quaker, James G. Douglas, for example, hitherto a Home Ruler, wrote that his political outlook changed radically during the course of the Rising due to the British military occupation of the city and that he became convinced that parliamentary methods would not be sufficient to remove the British presence.

He wrote popular airs and political satires ( jeux d ' esprit ) in the form of poems and pamphlets.

Hayek wrote an essay, " Why I Am Not a Conservative " ( included as an appendix to The Constitution of Liberty ), in which he disparaged conservatism for its inability to adapt to changing human realities or to offer a positive political program, remarking, " Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves ".

In his essay Politics and the English Language ( 1946 ), Orwell wrote about the importance of precise and clear language, arguing that vague writing can be used as a powerful tool of political manipulation because it shapes the way we think.

Fichte also wrote works of political philosophy and is considered one of the fathers of German nationalism.

Stirred by the events and principles of the French Revolution, he wrote and published anonymously two pamphlets which led to him being seen as a devoted defender of liberty of thought and action and an advocate of political changes.

Touré had heralded this policy in 1967 when he wrote: ‘ thanks to their special political, physical, and social training, the people's militia will become the indisputable mainspring of our security system, of which the conventional armed forces constitute a fundamental section .’

The Happy Land ( Court Theatre, 1873 ), a daring political satire and burlesque of W. S. Gilbert's The Wicked World, was written in collaboration with Gilbert, who wrote under the pseudonym F. L. Tomline.

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso wrote to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stating that new central bank regulations, allowing political intervention, " seriously harm " Hungary's interests, postponing talks on a financial aid package.