He is born in secrecy after the death of his father and cast adrift soon after birth.

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

So far as I am concerned, the child is unmistakably father to the man, despite the obvious fact that child and father differ greatly -- sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.

and the narrator recalls the words of his father, Vincent Berger: `` It is not by any amount of scratching at the individual that one finally comes down to mankind ''.

He is throttling the liberty my father gave his life to win ''!!

He is the recognized `` father '' of the Rural Electrification Administration and the Security and Exchange Commission.

it is only after he has involved her emotions in his scheme that he uses her given name, placing himself by implication in the position of a solicitous father.

Naturally, the patient does not say, `` I hate my father '', or `` Sibling rivalry is what bugs me ''.

It is evident that Lizzie did not tell everything she overheard between her father and her Uncle Morse.

`` My father is a sergeant of detectives and has been attached to Homicide for five years.

He is married and the father of three children.

Their father is Charles B. Armour.

Stickney is a salesman for Plee-Zing, Inc., 2544 Green Bay Rd., Evanston, a food brokerage and grocery chain firm, of which his father, William L. Jr., is president.

One definition of paternalism is `` The principle or practice, on the part of a government, of managing the affairs of a country in the manner of a father dealing with his children ''.

The alchemist Robert Boyle is credited as being the father of chemistry.

Apollo and the Furies argue about whether the matricide was justified ; Apollo holds that the bond of marriage is sacred and Orestes was avenging his father, whereas the Erinyes say that the bond of blood between mother and son is more meaningful than the bond of marriage.

It is named after André-Marie Ampère ( 1775 – 1836 ), French mathematician and physicist, considered the father of electrodynamics.

* In PS 238, Atlas is a famous superhero and the father of one of the main characters

The word abbot, meaning father, is a title given to the head of a monastery in various traditions, including Christianity.

Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave follows Geoffrey of Monmouth in calling him Aurelius Ambrosius and portrays him as the father of Merlin, the elder brother of Uther ( hence uncle of Arthur ), an initiate of Mithras, and generally admired by everyone except the Saxons.

Lord Herbert of Cherbury ( 1583 – 1648 ) is generally considered the " father of English Deism ," and his book De Veritate ( 1624 ) the first major statement of deism.

Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury ( d. 1648 ) is generally considered the " father of English deism ", and his book De Veritate ( On Truth, as It Is Distinguished from Revelation, the Probable, the Possible, and the False ) ( 1624 ) the first major statement of deism.

The correlation between the two rises from two other important connections: ( 1 ) that the name of Marduk's sanctuary at Babylon bears the same name, Esaggila, as that of a temple in Eridu, and ( 2 ) that Marduk is generally termed the son of Ea, who derives his powers from the voluntary abdication of the father in favour of his son.

Louis is generally compared unfavourably to his father, though the problems he faced were of a distinctly different sort.

As this funerary monument was erected before the traditional date given for the death of King Midas in the early 7th century BC, it is now generally thought to have covered the burial of his father.

Although Hammerstein's father managed the Victoria Theatre for his father and was a producer of vaudeville shows ( he is generally credited with inventing the " pie-in-the-face " routine ), he was opposed to his son's desire to participate in the arts.

Women generally did not own property except in the rare case of inheriting land from a father who didn't bear sons.

Macrobius says that Virgil's father was of a humble background ; however, scholars generally believe that Virgil was from an equestrian landowning family which could afford to give him an education.

The first known classical logician who didn't fully accept the law of excluded middle was Aristotle ( who, ironically, is also generally considered to be the first classical logician and the " father of logic ").

It is generally assumed that either Bosch ’ s father or one of his uncles taught the artist to paint, but none of their works survive.

The tone of the song is dark and angry, in marked contrast with the generally genial tone of Iolanthe, and the lyrics make the case that bad behavior by the underclasses is caused by their unfortunate circumstances: " I might be as bad – as unlucky, rather – if I only had Fagin for a father.

Io's father is generally given as Inachus, a river god credited with inaugurating the worship of Hera in the countryside around Argos, thus establishing her as an autochthonous spirit of the Argolid and thus by her nature the nymph of a spring, a Naiad.

He is generally considered to be the father of analytic philosophy, for his writings on the philosophy of language and mathematics.

Zhou Enlai later remembered his father as being always away from home and generally unable to support his family.

Martin Klein is generally considered to be the " father " of commercial side-scan sonar.

Art Ingels is generally accepted to be the father of karting.

Henrik Wergeland is generally recognized as the father of a new Norwegian literature.

The memoir underlines the fact that while King Baudouin of Belgium generally did not like the people who were opposed to his father at the time of the Royal question, de Staercke had become a friend of his.

Unlike his father Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo built himself a folk reputation that remains generally known even among local Taiwanese electorate.

The term father for presbyters is generally restricted to Catholic and Orthodox usage, though many Anglicans and even some Lutherans will use the term, as well.

There are also many German speaking Swiss, generally assumed as Germans, of whom some notable descendants are: Presidents Eduardo Frei ( father and son ) and Economist Hernán Büchi.

Pausanias, who is generally skeptical about stories of humans descending from gods, makes Oenomaus son of a mortal father, Alxion.