His earliest work reflected heavy influences from English and continental writers.

He has shown considerable ingenuity in adapting his earliest symbols and devices to the new work, and the fact that he has kept a body of constant symbols through all of his experiments gives an unexpected continuity to his poetry.

The Bridgewater Foundry, pictured in 1839-one of the earliest factories to use an almost modern layout, work flow and material handling system.

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.

Apart from the lost Handboc or Encheiridion, which seems to have been a commonplace book kept by the king, the earliest work to be translated was the Dialogues of Gregory the Great, a book greatly popular in the Middle Ages.

According to Richard I. Pervo, " Townsend's methodologically adventurous but ultimately cautious essay is another valuable lesson in the danger of establishing the date of Acts – or any work – by arguing for the earliest possible time of origin.

" Paddy on the Railway " is attested as a chanty in the earliest known published work to use the word " chanty ," G. E.

Salieri's earliest surviving work is a Mass in C major.

In the 16th century, Christian missionaries from Spain and Portugal first encountered indigenous peoples using ayahuasca in South America ; their earliest reports described it as the work of the devil.

This work was one of the earliest works on Egyptology.

In his earliest work, Against the Heathen-On the Incarnation, written before 319, he repeatedly quoted Plato and used a definition from the Organon of Aristotle.

Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli.

As a result of this work, many of the questions such as which families represent the earliest branches of angiosperms have now been answered.

This major work was the earliest attempt to systematize the various religious controversies of the time.

The Zuo Zhuan, attributed to Zuo Qiuming in the 5th century BC, is the earliest Chinese work of narrative history and covers the period from 722 BCE to 468 BCE.

As one of the earliest of the Church fathers whose works have survived, he is the subject of a significant amount of recent academic work, mainly focusing on the relationship between his thought and non-Christian philosophy and his influence on Origen.

As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.

The earliest Gnostic sects ascribe the work of creation to angels, some of them using the same passage in Genesis.

A characteristic of embroidery is that the basic techniques or stitches of the earliest work — chain stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, running stitch, satin stitch, cross stitch — remain the fundamental techniques of hand embroidery today.

His work is the earliest Greek prose to have survived intact.

Herodotus ( 5th century BC ), the great Greek historian ; one of the earliest historians whose work survives.

Concerning Herodotus ( 5th century BC ), one of the earliest historians whose work survives, his recount of strange and unusual tales are gripping but not necessarily representative of the historical record.

The Theogony is commonly considered Hesiod's earliest work.

The earlier date, 293, is sometimes assigned and apparently supported by the authority of a " Coptic Fragment " ( published by Dr. O. von Lemm among the Mémoires de l ' académie impériale des sciences de S. Péterbourg, 1888 ) and corroborated by the maturity revealed in his two earliest treatises Contra Gentes ( Against the Heathens ) and De Incarnatione ( On the Incarnation ), which were admittedly written about the year 318 before Arianism had begun to make itself felt, as those writings do not show an awareness of Arianism.

The Interpretations of the Sayings of the Lord ( his word for " sayings " is logia ) in five books, would have been a prime early authority in the exegesis of the sayings of Jesus, some of which are recorded in the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke, however the book has not survived and is known only through fragments quoted in later writers, with approval in Irenaeus's Against Heresies and later by Eusebius in Ecclesiastical History, the earliest surviving history of the early Church.

The earliest and most vivid account of Carpocrates and his followers comes from Irenaeus ( died 202 ) in his Against Heresies including an account of the theology and practice of the sect.

The earliest surviving record of the Sacred Band (, Hieròs Lókhos ) by name was in 324 BC ; in the oration Against Demosthenes by the Athenian logographer Dinarchus.

The earliest and only surviving reference to Manetho's Aegyptiaca is that of the Jewish historian Josephus in his work " Against Apion ".

The earliest surviving attestation to Manetho is that of Josephus ' Contra Apionem, " Against Apion " nearly 4 centuries after Aegyptiaca was written.

The earliest version of the story of Codrus comes from the 4th oration Against Leocrates by Lycurgus.

In the earliest Indian astronomy texts, the year was believed to be 360 days long, similar to that of Babylonian astrology, but the rest of the early astrological system bears little resemblance.

It bears what is generally thought to be the earliest extra-biblical Semitic reference to the name Yahweh ( YHWH ), whose temple goods were plundered by Mesha and brought before his own god Kemosh.

The Thorsberg chape ( a metal piece belonging to a scabbard found in the Thorsberg moor ) bears an Elder Futhark inscription, one of the earliest known altogether, dating to roughly AD 200.

The earliest reference to the keeping of live bears in the Bärengraben dates to the 1440s.

The earliest radio program to have this name bears little resemblance to what is currently heard on Saturday evenings.

Nessel Township was organized in 1870, bears the name of its earliest pioneer farmer, Robert Nessel, who was born in Germany, 1834, came to the United States in 1847 and to Minnesota in 1854, and settled here in 1856.

The earliest of his extant pieces is dated 1605 and bears no sign of immaturity ; in 1624 he had written three hundred plays, and in 1634 he stated that he had composed four hundred within the previous twenty years ; of this immense production not more than eighty plays, are in existence.

It is the most extensive inscription ever recovered that refers to the kingdom of Israel ( the " House of Omri "), it bears the earliest certain extra-biblical reference to the Israelite god Yahweh, and, if French scholar André Lemaire's reconstruction of a portion of line 31 is correct, the earliest mention of the " House of David " ( i. e., the kingdom of Judah ).

Steinway & Sons ' earliest employment of the duplex scale made use of aliquots, individually positionable ( hence tunable ) contact points, where each note of the duplex scale bears a perfect harmonic, intervallic relationship to its speaking length, i. e., an octave or fifth whether doubled or tripled.

The earliest tree was thought to be Archaeopteris, which bears simple, fern-like leaves spirally arranged on branches atop a conifer-like trunk (), though it is now known to be the recently discovered Wattieza.

The book has been through numerous printings in multiple editions ; the current edition bears little resemblance to the earliest printings.

The only tribute the modern game bears to this earliest form of the game are the measurements of a modern canvas ( ie.

The earliest of Everdingen's sea-pieces bears the date of 1640.

The earliest mention of a Jew in Massachusetts bears the date May 3, 1649, and there are references to Jews among the inhabitants of Boston in 1695 and 1702 ; but they can be regarded only as stragglers, as no settlers made their homes in Massachusetts until the Revolutionary War drove the Jews from Newport.

It is not certain when this journal was acquired by Cooke or where, but one fact is quite evident ; The earliest and first dated entry in Cooke's hand found in the journal bears the date of " November 30, 1836.

Her relation to this tetrad bears however no true analogy to the Col-Arba of Marcus ; it forms only the earliest group of her progeny ; and it is mentioned but once.

Also suggestive is the fact that, among his earliest published pseudonymous and anonymous works may have been a series entitled The Arcane Teachings, which bears many superficial similarities to The Kybalion — The Kybalion explores seven " Hermetic Principles " while The Arcane Teachings examines seven " Arcane Laws ", The Kybalion claims to be an elucidation of an ancient, unpublished Hermetic text of the same name, while The Arcane Teachings claims to reveal the wisdom of an ancient, unpublished scroll of occult aphorisms, and both books describe three " Great Planes " of reality which are further subdivided into seven lesser planes.

The earliest written manuscript of the lyrics, titled " Red River Valley ", bears the notations 1879 and 1885 in locations Nemha and Harlan in western Iowa, so it probably dates to at least that era.