In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.

Bede was moreover a skilled linguist and translator, and his work with the Latin and Greek writings of the early Church Fathers contributed significantly to English Christianity, making the writings much more accessible to his fellow Anglo-Saxons.

He is especially interesting in relation to English Reformation literature for his residence in England, and the probable influence of more than one of his writings upon Milton.

Harvey's dedication to Oxford is a double-edged criticism, praising his English and Latin verse and prose, yet advising him to ' put away your feeble pen, your bloodless books, your impractical writings '.

His more serious writings begin early with the Enchiridion militis Christiani, the " Handbook of the Christian Soldier " ( 1503 ) ( translated into English a few years later by the young William Tyndale ).

) has been widely known in English by his Latinized name Gustavus Adolphus Magnus and variously in historical writings also as Gustavus, or Gustavus the Great, or Gustav Adolph the Great (, a formal distinction passed by the Swedish Parliament in 1634 ).

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His opponents acknowledged the keenness of his dialectic, and his writings prove he was well grounded in Roman and English law, as well as in native history.

The " Constitutions of Oxford " of 1408 aimed to reclaim authority in all ecclesiastical matters, specifically naming John Wycliffe in a ban on certain writings, and noting that translation of Scripture into English by unlicensed laity is a crime punishable by charges of heresy.

It should be understood that Musashi's writings were very ambiguous, and translating them into English makes them even more so ; that is why so many different translations of the Go Rin No Sho can be found.

Amongst those who followed these ideas were the English poets and painters that constituted the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who, from about 1850, opposed the dominant trend of industrial Victorian England, because of their " opposition to technical skill without inspiration " They were influenced by the writings of the art critic John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ), who had strong feelings about the role of art in helping to improve the lives of the urban working classes, in the rapidly expanding industrial cities of Britain.

In the seventeenth century it was in England that Machiavelli's ideas were most substantially developed and adapted, and that republicanism came once more to life ; and out of seventeenth-century English republicanism there were to emerge in the next century not only a theme of English political and historical reflection-of the writings of the Bolingbroke circle and of Gibbon and of early parliamentary radicals-but a stimulus to the Enlightenment in Scotland, on the Continent, and in America.

The etymology of the word into English is from Old French Philistin, from Classical Latin Philistinus found in the writings of Josephus, from Late Greek Philistinoi ( Phylistiim in the Septuagint ) found in the writings by Philo, from Hebrew Plištim, ( e. g. 1 Samuel 17: 36 ; 2 Samuel 1: 20 ; Judges 14: 3 ; Amos 1: 8 ), " people of Plešt " (" Philistia "); cf.

In his lifetime, Shoghi Effendi translated into English many of the writings of the Báb, Bahá ' u ' lláh and ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, including the Hidden Words in 1929, the Kitáb-i-Íqán in 1931, Gleanings in 1935 and Epistle to the Son of the Wolf in 1941.

But it was part of the method of both alike to eliminate conventional sentiment and morality. In the seventeenth century, the English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes, whose Leviathan advocated absolute monarchy, admired Thucydides and in 1628 was the first to translate his writings into English directly from Greek.

It is no accident that even today Thucydides turns up as a guiding spirit in military academies, neocon think tanks and the writings of men like Henry Kissinger ; whereas Herodotus has been the choice of imaginative novelists ( Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient and the film based on it boosted the sale of the Histories to a wholly unforeseen degree ) and — as food for a starved soul — of an equally imaginative foreign correspondent from Iron Curtain Poland, Ryszard Kapuscinski.

The conservative English philosopher Roger Scruton is a representative of the intellectual wing of the Cornerstone group: his writings rarely touch on economics and instead focus on conservative perspectives concerning political, social, cultural and moral issues.

The Ante-Nicene Fathers, subtitled " The Writings of the Fathers Down to A. D. 325 ", is a collection of books in 10 volumes ( one volume is indexes ) containing English translations of the majority of Early Christian writings.

A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, usually known as the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers ( NPNF ), is a set of books containing translations of early Christian writings into English.

* Gregory of Nyssa Home Page, including many English translations of his writings.

She translated and published the first English volume of his collected writings.

Examples of continuous numbering include counting by regnal year, principally found in the writings of German authors, for example Mommsen's History of Rome, and ( most ubiquitously ) in the Anno Domini year-numbering system.

These can include shi ( 史, historical works ), zi ( 子, philosophical works belonging to schools of thought other than the Confucian, but also works of agriculture, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, divination, art criticism, and all sorts of miscellaneous writings ) and ji ( 集, literary works ) as well as jing.

His writings include the homily given in Ephesus and several other sermons.

His diverse Esperanto writings include instructional books, books for beginners, novels, short stories, poems, articles and non-fiction books.

Early in 1951, he expanded his writings to include teachings related to the soul, or " thetan ".

Anthologies of deist writings include:

His theological writings include three anonymously published religious romances-Philochristus ( 1891 ), where he tried to raise interest in Gospels reading, Onesimus ( 1882 ), and Silanus the Christian ( 1908 ).

To all this activity must be added numerous writings of a miscellaneous nature, addresses, letters, and the like, and exegetical works that extended over the whole of his life and that include both commentaries and treatises on Biblical archaeology.

When the police use search warrants in connection with a vandalism investigation they are often seeking judicial approval to look for items such as cans of spray paint and nozzles from other kinds of aerosol sprays, etching tools or other sharp or pointed objects used to etch or scratch glass and other hard surfaces, and permanent marking pens, such as markers or paint sticks ; evidence of membership or affiliation with any gang or tagging crew, paraphernalia to include any reference to “( tagger ’ s name ),” and any drawings, writings, objects or graffiti depicting taggers ’ names, initials, logos, monikers, slogans, or mention of tagging crew membership ; any newspaper clippings relating details of or referring to any graffiti crime.

The extant manuscripts of the writings of the 1st century Romano-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus include references to Jesus and the origins of Christianity.

Relevant New Age works include the writings of James Redfield, Eckhart Tolle, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Christopher Hills, Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, John Holland, Gary Zukav, Wayne Dyer, and Rhonda Byrne.

Thinkers most typically linked with Structuralism include anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, the early writings of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the early writings of literary theorist Roland Barthes, and the semiotician Algirdas Greimas.

His Latin writings include scholarly works, introspective essays, letters, and more poetry.

These generally include items such as furniture, clothing, jewellery, art, writings, or household goods.

Late medieval rhetorical writings include those of St. Thomas Aquinas ( 1225 ?- 1274 ), Matthew of Vendome ( Ars Versificatoria, 1175?

Steiner's writings, published in about forty volumes, include books, essays, four plays (' mystery dramas '), mantric verse, and an autobiography.

In his writings and preachings he expanded the Shi ' a Usuli theory of velayat-e faqih, the " guardianship of the jurisconsult ( clerical authority )" to include theocratic political rule by the Islamic jurists.

The canonicity of the larger group of " writings " ( the Jewish ketuvim ) had not yet been established, although some sort of selective process must have been employed because the Septuagint did not include other well-known Jewish documents such as Enoch or Jubilees or other writings that are not part of the Jewish canon.

Picard's popular writings include biographies of many leading French mathematicians, including his father in law, Charles Hermite.

Cultural achievements of the Polatsk period include the work of the nun Euphrosyne of Polatsk ( 1120 – 73 ), who built monasteries, transcribed books, promoted literacy and sponsored art ( including local artisan Lazarus Bohsha's famous " Cross of Euphrosyne ", a national symbol and treasure stolen during World War II ), and the prolific, original Church Slavonic sermons and writings of Bishop Cyril of Turau ( 1130 – 82 ).

Williams ' writings include mention of some of the poets and writers he most admired in his early years: Hart Crane, Anton Chekhov ( from the age of ten ), William Shakespeare, D. H. Lawrence, August Strindberg, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Emily Dickinson.

The term " Babylonia ", especially in writings from around AD 1900, was formerly used to include Southern Mesopotamia's earliest history, and not only in reference to the later city-state of Babylon proper.

Instances where rabbinic writings say that God made miracles a part of creation include Midrash Genesis Rabbah 5: 45 ; Midrash Exodus Rabbah 21: 6 ; and Ethics of the Fathers / Pirkei Avot 5: 6.