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His chief works, of which the best are his accounts of French philosophers, are the following: An edition of the Nouveaux mélanges philosophiques de Jouffroy ( 1842 ), with a notice of the author, in which Damiron softened and omitted several expressions used by Jouffroy, which were opposed to the system of education adopted by the Sorbonne, an article which gave rise to a bitter controversy, and to a book by Pierre Leroux, De la mutilation des manuscrits de M. Jouffroy ( 1843 ); Essai sur l ' histoire de la philosophie en France au XIX ' siècle ( I828, 3rd ed.
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Perhaps the chief value of Aelian's work lies in his critical account of preceding works on the art of war, and in the fullness of his technical details in matters of drill.
This atmosphere contrasts with the later Ottoman mosques ( see for example the works of Suleiman the Magnificent's chief architect Mimar Sinan.
His two chief works are valuable for the numerous quotations from the works of earlier authors, which are otherwise lost, and for the surprising lore, which offers unexpected glimpses into the Greco-Roman world-view.
The president acts as the chief executive officer of the university responsible to the Board of Governors and to the Senate for the supervision of Dalhousie's administrative and academic works.
Speaking of the 3rd edition ( 1788 – 1797 ), Britannica's chief editor George Gleig wrote that " perfection seems to be incompatible with the nature of works constructed on such a plan, and embracing such a variety of subjects.
So far as can be seen, the chief interest in Homer's works is that of human feeling and emotion, and of drama ; indeed, his works are often referred to as " dramas ".
The chief surviving sources are his works To King Helios and To the Mother of the Gods, which were written as panegyrics, not theological treatises.
The chief inspiration for Scandinavian legal realism many consider to be the works of Axel Hägerström.
In 1212 the council of Paris condemned those monasteries that still forbade loaning books, reminding them that lending is " one of the chief works of mercy.
His works provided the chief inspiration for French and English comedies of the 1600s, and even for modern American comedy.
In 1882, one of Steiner's teachers, Karl Julius Schröer, suggested Steiner's name to Joseph Kürschner, chief editor of an important new edition of Goethe's works, who asked Steiner to become the edition's natural science editor, a truly astonishing opportunity for a young student without any form of academic credentials or previous publications.
The chief editions of the complete works of Severus are those by De Prato ( Verona, 1741 ) and by Halm ( forming vol.
Thus, by the doctrinal works he published, Tertullian became the teacher of Cyprian and the predecessor of Augustine, who, in turn, became the chief founder of Latin theology.
However, when his title was changed to Minster of Works in 8 BCE, his chief duty became oversight of public works projects.
" This explanation was widely accepted when it was championed by Bruckner scholar Robert Haas, who was the chief editor of the first critical editions of Bruckner's works published by the International Bruckner Society ; it continues to be found in the majority of program notes and biographical sketches concerning Bruckner.
The perfection of execution and the beauty of feature which were attained in his works, and in those of his great contemporaries, rendered finish of execution and beauty of form the chief objects of all artists ; and thenceforward execution was looked for rather than thought, and beauty rather than veracity.
Galveston's city council serves as the city's legislative branch, while the city manager works as the chief executive officer and the municipal court system serves as the city's judicial branch.
He was the original author of Turbo Pascal, the chief architect of Delphi, and currently works for Microsoft as the lead architect of C #.< ref name =" MTF ">
The cautious and penurious Ickes won out over the more imaginative Hugh S. Johnson as chief of public works administration.
In 1905 Oskar von Miller ( 1855 – 1934 ) of the Deutsches Museum in Munich commissioned updated versions of a geared orrery and planetarium from M Sendtner, and later worked with Franz Meyer, chief engineer at the Carl Zeiss optical works in Jena, on the largest mechanical planetarium ever constructed, capable of displaying both heliocentric and geocentric motion.
Additionally, key personnel for the new business were recruited from the employees of the Tramway Company, including George Challenger as chief engineer and works manager.
His tomb and his recumbent effigy are one of the chief works of Burgundian sculpture.
As a painter she became famous primarily for two chief works: Ploughing in the Nivernais ( in French: Le labourage nivernais, le sombrage ), which was first exhibited at the Salon of 1848, and is now in the Musée d ’ Orsay in Paris depicts a team of oxen ploughing a field while attended by peasants set against a vast pastoral landscape ; and, The Horse Fair ( in French: Le marché aux chevaux ) ( which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 ( finished in 1855 ) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.
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The chief literary antecedents of the Snopes clan appeared in the realistic, humorous writing which originated in the South and the Southwest in the three decades before the Civil War.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
She soared over the new pastor like an avenging angel lest he stray from the path and not know all the truth and gossip of which she was chief repository.
On these excursions, Papa instructed him on man's chief end, which was his duty to God and his own salvation.
`` We have over 20 divisions -- each of which has an engineering department headed by a chief engineer.
Aristotle named chief executor his student Antipater and left a will in which he asked to be buried next to his wife.
However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.
Light chose, not without opposition, a site on rising ground close to the River Torrens, which was the chief early water supply for the fledgling colony.
Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.
They took their chief meal in a common refectory or dining hall at 3 P. M., up to which hour they usually fasted.
His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century.
Della Valle described Anah as the chief Arab town on the Euphrates, an importance which it owes to its position on one of the routes from the west to Baghdad ; Texeira said that the power of its amir extended to Palmyra ( early 17th century ); but Olivier found the ruling prince with only twenty-five men in his service, the town becoming more depopulated every day from lack of protection from the Arabs of the desert.
Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum was not finished until after the death of Absalon, but Absalon was one of the chief heroic figures of the chronicle, which was to be the main source of knowledge about early Danish history.
Although Cambria Iron and Steel's facilities were heavily damaged by the flood, they returned to full production within a year .. After the flood, Carnegie built Johnstown a new library to replace the one built by Cambria's chief legal counsel Cyrus Elder, which was destroyed in the flood.
# A descendant of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, a chief of one of the twenty-four orders into which the priesthood was divided by David ( 1 Chr.
In particular, the chief Hebrew name for God in scholastic tradition, El, must be derived of a different Adamic name for God, which Dante gives as I.
In this capacity he negotiated several treaties, one of the most important being with Cherokee chief John Ross, which was concluded in 1861.
Usually an arrondissement includes cantons and a canton includes one to several communes including the chef-lieu, " chief place ", from which the canton takes its name.
The chief resided at the town of Nowgong, at the foot of the hill-fortress of Ajaigarh, from which the state took its name.
Unlike these states, which were ruled by local nobles who acknowledged British suzerainty, Ajmer-Merwara was administered directly by the British, until 1858 by the East India Company and after 1858 by a chief commissioner who was subordinate to the Governor-General of India's agent for the Rajputana Agency.
He offered to exchange his horse for the mule, a deal to which the surprised chief readily agreed.
Between 1861 and 1871, the Tanzimat reforms which began during the reign of his brother Abdülmecid I were continued under the leadership of his chief ministers, Keçecizade Mehmet Fuat Pasha and Mehmed Emin Aali Pasha.
Coal mined in Aberdare parish rose from in 1844 to in 1850, and the coal trade, which after 1875 was the chief support of the town, soon reached huge dimensions.
The army reforms were not yet completed by the war of 1809, in which Charles acted as commander in chief, yet even so it proved a far more formidable opponent than the old and was only defeated after a desperate struggle involving Austrian victories and large loss of life on both sides.
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