The chancellor of the Exchequer wrote on the petition: `` in myn opinion it is very resonable and conscionable for hir maiestie to graunt in relief of this towne twise afflicted and almost wasted by fire ''.

" Karpov acknowledged that his understanding of chess theory was very confused at that time, and wrote later that the homework which Botvinnik assigned greatly helped him, since it required that he consult chess books and work diligently.

Alan wrote three very large theological textbooks, one being his first work, Summa Quoniam Homines.

Mozart wrote to his father in May 1783 about Salieri and Lorenzo Da Ponte, the court poet: " You know those Italian gentlemen ; they are very nice to your face!

" One of the few strips ever taken seriously by students of American culture ," wrote Professor Berger, " Li ' l Abner is worth studying ... because of Capp's imagination and artistry, and because of the strip's very obvious social relevance.

" Nixon was worried about the allegations, fearing that Capp's very close links to the White House would become embarrassingly public ," Hersh wrote.

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

Citing research by John Green, who found that several contemporary British Columbia newspapers regarded the alleged capture as very dubious, Clark notes that the Mainland Guardian of New Westminster, British Columbia, wrote, " Absurdity is written on the face of it.

" 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.

Between 1922 and 1928 Guderian wrote very few articles of barely more than a page or two concerning military movement.

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.

But the very certainty that she wrote these things compels in us a doubt that she wrote Science and Health.

* H. G. Wells wrote The Croquet Player, which uses croquet as a metaphor for the way in which man confronts the very problem of his own existence.

They wrote that at the very least, the virgin woman could expect release from the " governance of a husband and the chains of children.

He wrote several hundred articles, some very slight, but many of them laborious, comprehensive, and long.

Diophantus wrote several other books besides Arithmetica, but very few of them have survived.

General Schuyler, upon learning of Allen's capture, wrote, " I am very apprehensive of disagreeable consequences arising from Mr. Allen's imprudence.

Leszek Kołakowski wrote a very harsh criticism of Thompson in his 1974 essay " My Correct Views on Everything ," picking apart Thompson's left-wing views.

Starting in 1912, Satie's new humorous miniatures for piano became very successful, and he wrote and published many of these over the next few years ( most of them premiered by the pianist Ricardo Viñes ).

For Golb, the amount of documents is too extensive and includes many different writing styles and calligraphies ; the ruins seem to have been a fortress, used as a military base for a very long period of timeincluding the 1st centuryso they could not have been inhabited by the Essenes ; and the large graveyard excavated in 1870, just 50 metres east of the Qumran ruins was made of over 1200 tombs that included many women and childrenPliny clearly wrote that the Essenes that lived near the Dead Sea " had not one woman, had renounced all pleasure ... and no one was born in their race ".

His mother, the Duchess of Suffolk wrote to Lord Burghley that ' my wise son has gone very far with my Lady Mary Vere, I fear too far to turn '.

As for neuro-linguistic effects on the brain, nothing was known when he wrote and very little of that is relevant now.

For Silius Italicus, who wrote as the games approached their peak, the degenerate Campanians had devised the very worst of precedents, which now threatened the moral fabric of Rome: " It was their custom to enliven their banquets with bloodshed and to combine with their feasting the horrid sight of armed men fighting ; often the combatants fell dead above the very cups of the revelers, and the tables were stained with streams of blood.

Another writer influenced by the plot was John Milton, who in 1626 wrote what one commentator has called a " critically vexing poem ", In Quintum Novembris.

Sex, Lies, and Videotape was followed by a series of low-budget box-office disappointments: Kafka, a biopic mixing fact and Kafka's own fiction ( notably The Castle and The Trial ), written by Lem Dobbs and starring Jeremy Irons as Franz Kafka ; King of the Hill ( 1993 ), a critically acclaimed Depression-era drama ; The Underneath ( 1995 ), a remake of Robert Siodmak's 1949 film noir Criss Cross ; and Schizopolis ( 1996 ), a comedy which he starred in, wrote, composed, and shot as well as directed.

Aristotle wrote critically of terror employed by tyrants against their subjects.

Frederick Douglass, writer, statesman, and himself an escaped slave, wrote critically of the Underground Railroad in his seminal autobiography:

Space Cowboys was critically well received and holds a 79 percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes, although Roger Ebert wrote that the film was, " too secure within its traditional story structure to make much seem at risk.

Some commentators disagree, including American GM Reuben Fine, who wrote that " if we examine Morphy's record and games critically, we cannot justify such extravaganza ", and British GM Raymond Keene.

In 1903 she wrote one of her most critically acclaimed books, The Home: Its Work and Influence, which expanded upon Women and Economics, proposing that women are oppressed in their home and that the environment in which they live needs to be modified in order to be healthy for their mental states.

Tomobe Masato, inspired by Bob Dylan, wrote critically acclaimed lyrics.

The film was critically well-received ; the Variety reviewer wrote " Hawke ... gives a haunting performance.

Witi Ihimaera wrote the novel that became the critically acclaimed movie Whale Rider, directed by Nikki Caro.

" Victor Davis Hanson also recently wrote in National Review very critically of yuppies.

Worsley wrote about predatory masters at the school in his critically acclaimed autobiography Flannelled Fool: A Slice of a Life in the Thirties.

Idries Shah ( 16 June 1924 – 23 November 1996 ) (, ), also known as Idris Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi ( Arabic: سيد إدريس هاشمي ), was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen critically acclaimed books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies.

He wrote a number of critically applauded novels, memoirs, books of poetry, and plays.

" Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that " Although it retains many of the same qualities of their critically acclaimed debut [...] there's nothing that has the same sense of discovery that made Play with Toys an interesting record.

He wrote three books, including the critically acclaimed 1988 bestseller Washington Goes to War, about how World War II transformed the nation's capital.

In Malet's case, Tardi adapted his detective hero Nestor Burma into a series of critically acclaimed graphic novels, though he also wrote and drew original stories of his own.

English film composer Michael Nyman wrote the critically acclaimed score for The Piano ( 1993 ).

Black looks favorably, if critically, on a text such as " The Right to Be Greedy ," by the Situationist-influenced collective For Ourselves ( he wrote a Preface for the Loompanics Unlimited reprint edition ), which attempts to synthesize the post-moral individualism of Max Stirner (" The Ego and Its Own ") with what appears to be an egalitarian anarcho-communism.

He wrote and directed the critically acclaimed 2002 film One Hour Photo starring Robin Williams, and the acclaimed Never Let Me Go.

He wrote and spoke critically against U. S. immigration policies particularly relating to the issue of the fate of Jews in Europe.

His next project was the critically acclaimed film Terms of Endearment, which he produced, directed and wrote, winning an Academy Award for all three positions.

He also wrote what are perhaps his best-known works of non-fiction: World Revolution ( 1937 ), a history of the rise and fall of the Communist International, which was critically praised by Leon Trotsky ; and The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L ' Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution ( 1938 ), a widely acclaimed history of the Haitian Revolution, which would later be seen as a seminal text in the study of the African diaspora.

He also wrote critically acclaimed music for the ballet Napoleon Bonaparte ().