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His best book is a Life of Cardinal Wolsey ( London, 1724 ), containing documents which are still valuable for reference ; of his other writings the Prefatory Epistle containing some remarks to be published on Homer's Iliad ( London, 1714 ), was occasioned by Alexander Pope's proposed translation of the Iliad, and his Theologia speculativa ( London, 1718 ), earned him the degree of D. D.
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Berto's The Sky Is Red had been a small masterpiece and in its special way the best book to come out of the war.
Investors breathed more freely when it was learned that this acrobatic dancer had turned magician and was only doing a best seller book to make some dough.
`` Although it is not the best of which he is capable '', said Shelley as he closed the book, `` it is still poetry of a high order ''.
He never succeeded in devising such a method, but his best attempt was published in his book Sophist, where he introduced his division method.
Leopold is the author of several essays and is perhaps best known for his book A Sand County Almanac ( 1953 ).
The show won several Tony Awards: best musical, best actor, best supporting actor ( Burns ), best book, and best director.
Different bookmakers may offer different odds on the same outcome of a given event ; by taking the best odds offered by each bookmaker, a customer can under some circumstances cover all possible outcomes of the event and lock a small risk-free profit, known as a Dutch book.
Moreover, early Christian Church Fathers used canon to rank the authoritative texts of the New Testament, preserving them, given the expense of vellum and papyrus and mechanical book reproduction, thus, being comprehended in a canon ensured a book ’ s preservation as the best way to retain information about a civilization.
The 120-page book, first published in the United States and then in Britain, was illustrated by Osbert Lancaster and became an instant best seller.
Derek Parfit described Brad Hooker's book on rule-consequentialism Ideal Code, Real World as the " best statement and defence, so far, of one of the most important moral theories.
Guitarist Christopher Parkening is quoted in the book Classical Gas: The Music of Mason Williams as saying that it is the most requested guitar piece besides Malagueña and perhaps the best known instrumental guitar piece today.
However, the details of the story are at best uncertain ( see for discussion of the original Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen source and the changes in other versions ); some authors, such as Joseph Rotman in his book A first course in Abstract Algebra, question whether it ever happened.
Perhaps the best example of a film that straddles the line between his works of personal chaos and psychological confusion is Cronenberg's " adaptation " of his literary hero William S. Burroughs ' most controversial book, Naked Lunch.
Another prominent source, which Cervantes evidently admires more, is Tirant lo Blanch which the priest describes in Chapter VI of Quixote as " the best book in the world.
He is best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979.
His later author discoveries included Tanith Lee, Jennifer Roberson, Michael Shea, Ian Wallace, Tad Williams, Celia S. Friedman, and C. J. Cherryh, whose Downbelow Station ( 1982 ) was the first DAW book to win the Hugo Award for best novel.
According to Robert W. Peterson in his book Pigskin The Early Years of Pro Football, the " passer was George W. ( Peggy ) Parratt, probably the best quarterback of the era ", who played for the Massillon, Ohio Tigers, one of pro football's first franchises.
The book was on the United States best sellers list for 5 weeks.
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. ( born April 19, 1931 ) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System / 360 family of computers and the OS / 360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.
He is best known for his book De Re Metallica.
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( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.
This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.
Most of them sincerely believe that the Anglo-Saxon is the best race in the world and that it should remain pure.
The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.
And the best way to conceal and disguise the elements of an incest story is not to set out to write an incest story.
There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.
Here, on a desk, is a stack of pamphlets representing the efforts of some of the best men of the day to penetrate these questions.
She was exposing herself to temptation which it is best to avoid where it can consistently be done.
Hammarskjold's supposed desire to seek outside legal advice in the guise of Ernest Gross is illusion, at best.
Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.
A truism is that the time to prepare for the worst is when times are best.
If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.
Of the three volumes, Blenheim is easily the best.
Next best to destroying an army is to deprive it of its freedom of action.
His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.
Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.
If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.
We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.
Considering what is being done compared to what needs to be done, it behooves the hospital management to do some mighty careful planning toward making the best possible use of the increase granted.
Probably the best answer to this kind of entering wedge is congressional action requiring the Federal Communications Commission to ban such advertising through its licensing power.
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