His contemporaries in Massachusetts called him an arch-heretic, a beast, a miscreant, a proud and pestilent seducer, a prodigious minter of exorbitant novelties.

Couperin also turns up along with some lesser-known contemporaries on a disk called Musique Francaise Du 18e Siecle ( BAM LD 060 ).

His contemporaries called it Aldine Type ; today we call it italics.

The Shaw Festival, an annual theater festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada began as an eight week run of Don Juan in Hell ( as the long third act dream sequence of Man And Superman is called when staged alone ) and Candida in 1962, and has grown into an annual festival with over 800 performances a year, dedicated to producing the works of Shaw and his contemporaries.

By the 1730s, in most colonies religious minorities had obtained what contemporaries called religious toleration: " The policy of toleration relieved religious minorities of some physical punishments and some financial burdens, but it did not make them free from the indignities of prejudice and exclusion.

He spoke three languages and was so learned that contemporaries called him " the wonder of the world.

Many Williamite troops at the Boyne, including their very effective irregular cavalry, were Protestants from Ulster, who called themselves " Inniskillingers " and were referred to by contemporaries as " Scots-Irish ".

Because to the public he kept aloof and left specific policies, especially unpopular ones, to his ministers, he was called a " useless owl " by his contemporaries, among them Bishop Bernard Saisset.

His talents as an orator and rhetorician were greatly admired by his contemporaries, a number of whom were later regarded as forming a school called after him Frontoniani ; his object in his teaching was to inculcate the exact use of the Latin language in place of the artificialities of such first-century authors as Seneca, and encourage the use of " unlooked-for and unexpected words ", to be found by diligent reading of pre-Ciceronian authors.

The most remarkable church in the city is called Svirskaya ( 1197, still standing ); it was admired by contemporaries as the most beautiful structure to the east of Kiev.

Two later pitchers, Jesse Haines and Freddie Fitzsimmons, were sometimes characterized as knuckleball pitchers even by their contemporaries, but in their cases this again refers to a harder-thrown, curving pitch that would probably not be called a knuckleball today.

Another genre, called faḍāʾil wa mathālib, is concerned with tales that show the merits and faults of individual companions, enemies, and other notable contemporaries of Muhammad.

Historically, they were seen as one group by contemporaries, mainly those who were descendants of the natives ( the Jōmon ) called Emishi and Ebisu who also had in their population those of mixed ethnicity, most likely descendants of early Japanese colonists.

Antoine Arnauld ( February 6, 1612 – August 8, 1694 ) — le Grand as contemporaries called him, to distinguish him from his father — was a French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician.

Initially the project will focus on two collections called " The Foundations of Faith " and " The Foundations of Science ", which will include writings by Isaac Newton and his contemporaries, as well as documents from the Library's archives of Christian, Islamic and Jewish texts.

His poor health prevented him from being called to the Front in World War I, arguably preserving him from the worse fate awaiting Gurney and others of his friends and contemporaries.

He supported his identification with computer analysis based on a database he called SHAXICON, used to compare the poem's word choice with that of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

* 1898 Completion of the Castel Béranger which is called " deranged " by contemporaries.

They called themselves True Levellers, whereas the Digger name was coined by their contemporaries.

When he failed to find suitable reference works, he undertook the task of writing one from scratch while designing what he called the ' Eixample ', borrowing a few technological ideas from his contemporaries to create a unique, thoroughly modern integrated concept that was carefully considered rather than whimsically designed.

His biting wit involved him in many controversies with well-known contemporaries, such as the Swiss physiognomist Johann Kaspar Lavater whose science of physiognomy he ridiculed, and Johann Heinrich Voss, whose views on Greek pronunciation called forth a powerful satire, Über die Pronunciation der Schöpse des alten Griechenlandes.

Pietro da Cortona, also called Pietro Berrettini, born Pietro Berrettini da Cortona, ( 1 November 1596 / 716 May 1669 ) was the leading Italian Baroque painter of his time and, along with his contemporaries and rivals Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.

He was sometimes called, and his name rendered, " Sir Roger Dowler " or " Sir Roger Dowlah " by some of his British contemporaries, and " Sau Raja Dowla " by John Holwell.

He led an army in fierce battles against the Habsburgs, most of them waged on Slovak territory, for which reason he was called the " Slovak King " by his contemporaries.

Hohenfriedberg was a great victory for Frederick, and soon he was being called " Frederick the Great " by his contemporaries.

Though he quickly dropped " Octavianus " from his name and his contemporaries referred to him as " Caesar " during this period, historians refer to him as Octavian between 44 BC and 27 BC.

Those such as James A. Weisheipl and Joachim R. Söder have referred to him as the greatest German philosopher and theologian of the Middle Ages, an opinion supported by contemporaries such as Roger Bacon.

His scholarly legacy justifies his contemporaries ' bestowing upon him the honourable surname Doctor Universalis.

A sebaceous cyst on the left side of his nose caused him to be mocked by some of his contemporaries, and he sat for photographs and portraits with the right side of his face most prominent.

In the traditional literature he is referred to almost exclusively as Rav, " the Master ", ( both his contemporaries and posterity recognizing in him a master ), just as his teacher, Judah I, was known simply as Rabbi.

Modern historians sometimes call him " Robert the Consul ", for that reason, though he himself and his contemporaries did not use that name.

His imposing contemporaries William James and Josiah Royce admired him, and Cassius Jackson Keyser at Columbia and C. K. Ogden wrote about Peirce with respect, but to no immediate effect.

They go on to add, " Most contemporaries seem in fact to have held him in high esteem, and he certainly inspired loyalty in a way his brother could not ".

Two contemporaries -- Thomas Brattle and Robert Calef — place him at executions ( see below ).

His Impressionist contemporaries, however, continued to view his independence as a “ mark of integrity ”, and they turned to him for advice, referring to him as “ Père Pissarro ” ( father Pissarro ).

Giovanni was assassinated in 1497 in mysterious circumstances: with several contemporaries suggesting that Cesare might have been his killer, as Giovanni's disappearance could finally open him a long-awaited military career ; as well as jealousy over Sancha of Aragon, wife of Cesare's younger brother Gioffre, and mistress of both Cesare and Giovanni.

His contemporaries associated him with Socrates as a leader of a decadent intellectualism, both of them being frequently lampooned by comic poets such as Aristophanes.

Fiesole is sometimes misinterpreted as being part of his formal name, but it was merely the name of the town where he took his vows as a Dominican friar, and was used by contemporaries to separate him from other Fra Giovannis.

Scholars of Augustine's work have traditionally understood him to have shared the common view of his educated contemporaries that the Earth is spherical, in line with the quotation above, and with Augustine's famous endorsement of science in De Genesi ad litteram.

Working as an imperial policeman gave him considerable responsibility while most of his contemporaries were still at university in England.

His contemporaries referred to him as iuris canonici fons et tuba (" the fount and trumpet of canon law ").

" Gerrit Rietveld: A Centenary Exhibition " at the Barry Friedman Gallery, New York, in 1988 was the first comprehensive presentation of the Dutch architect's original works ever held in the U. S. The highlight of a celebratory “ Rietveld Year ” in Utrecht, the exhibition “ Rietveld ’ s Universe ” opened at the Centraal Museum and compared him and his work with famous contemporaries like Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.

Baldwin brought with him an Armenian wife, traditionally named Arda ( although never named such by contemporaries ), whom he had married to gain political support from the Armenian population in Edessa, and whom he quickly set aside when he no longer needed Armenian support in Jerusalem.

* Socrates: Widely considered the founder of Western political philosophy, via his spoken influence on Athenian contemporaries ; since Socrates never wrote anything, much of what we know about him and his teachings comes through his most famous student, Plato.

Urban VI did himself no favors ; whereas the cardinals had expected him pliant, he was considered arrogant and angry by many of his contemporaries.

He practiced nepotism on a grand scale ; various members of his family were enormously enriched by him, so that it seemed to contemporaries as if were establishing a Barberini dynasty.

These assertions are only made by bitter or ill-informed adversaries, and are inconsistent with what is said of him by respectable contemporaries.