The first nine probably date from the 3rd century BC, they are usually included among the Cynic epistles, and reflect how the Cynic philosophers viewed him as prefiguring many of their ideas ; the tenth letter is quoted by Diogenes Laertius, it is addressed to Croesus, the proverbially rich king of Lydia, it too is fictitious:

The beginning of his episcopacy was remarkable for a prodigy by which is related by Socrates, Philostorgius, the chronicle of Alexandria, & c. St. Cyril, an eye-witness wrote immediately to the emperor Constantius, an exact account of this miraculous phenomenon: and his letter is quoted as a voucher for it by Sozomen, Theophanes, Eutychius, John of Nice, Glycas, and others.

A letter Eusebius is supposed to have written to Constantine's daughter Constanza, refusing to fulfill her request for images of Christ, was quoted in the decrees ( now lost ) of the Iconoclast Council of Hieria in 754, and later quoted in part in the rebuttal of the Hieria decrees in the Second Council of Nicaea of 787, now the only source from which some of the text is known.

The letter is quoted or mentioned by the earliest of sources, and is included in every ancient canon, including that of Marcion.

Although the letter has not survived, Bede quoted from parts of it.

Jefferson ’ s letter went on with the same heat to a much quoted passage about “ the day that France takes possession of New Orleans .” Not only did he say that day would be a low point in France ’ s history, for it would seal America ’ s marriage with the British fleet and nation, but he added, astonishingly, that it would start a massive shipbuilding program.

* In a section on frequently misused words in his book The Writer's Art, James J. Kilpatrick quoted a letter from a correspondent, giving examples to illustrate the correct use of the word parameter:

However, Sayers ' first reference to Le Fanu appears in an earlier Lord Peter Wimsey novel, The Nine Tailors ( 1934 ), where he is quoted directly ( from Wylder's Hand, in the opening to the seventh " part " of Chapter II and again in the opening to the second " part " of Chapter III ) and a mysterious letter is referred to ( first by Wimsey's valet, Mervyn Bunter ) as " written by a person of no inconsiderable literary ability, who had studied the works of Sheridan Lefanu and was, if I may be permitted the expression, bats in the belfry, my lord.

However, the tendentious letter is not found quoted in early extant Carmelite texts, raising the question whether it was ever issued.

He married Cleopatra according to the Egyptian rite ( a letter quoted in Suetonius suggests this ), although he was at the time married to Octavia Minor, sister of his fellow triumvir Octavian.

He lived with perfectly together-pinched lips, internally and outwardly, and the bad conditions of the system " gave me the latter punch ", as he quoted in a letter — a " dreadful tragedy!

Then, in 1959, Patchen notes in the letter quoted above, that another surgery at the Presbyterian Medical Center of San Francisco ended in disaster.

In 1966, UK newspaper the Daily Mail quoted a disconnection letter from Scientologist Karen Henslow to her mother:

Lord Jeffrey Amherst is also infamous for initiating the practice of giving smallpox blankets to Native Americans in a genocidal effort " to Extirpate this Execrable Race " ( as quoted from his letter to Colonel Henry Bouquet on July 16, 1763 ).

She commented in a letter: " The polyclads of Bermuda were so pretty that I could not resist collecting them and figuring out Verrill's mistakes " ( quoted in Schram, p. 126 ).

In a letter to the editor of Inside the Pentagon, former Commandant of the Marine Corps General Charles C. Krulak is quoted as saying " The Iraqi army collapsed morally and intellectually under the onslaught of American and Coalition forces.

Byron has quoted this letter in his Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

It has also been suggested that the pallium did not indicate Justus was archbishop, since Justus is told the limited circumstances in which he may wear it ; however, the same phrasing occurs in the letter conveying the pallium to Archbishop Augustine, also quoted in Bede.

In response, a Japanese website posted guidelines on how to write an English-language letter of protest to Google, and how to attack VANK's website ; they were quoted as stating, " We must fight against VANK ... We lost our sea, but this does not mean a defeat.

In the letter, LCDR Jackson quoted RADM Arthur W. Radford saying of Butch O ' Hare that he " never saw one individual so universally liked.

Following the battle of Marston Moor, Oliver Cromwell quoted his nephew's dying words in a letter to the boy's father Valentine Walton: " A little after, he said one thing lay upon his spirit.

Turnbull's confidential letter ( which Short showed to Dimbleby, and which was quoted on the programme ) formally admonished her for discussing intelligence matters in the media, and threatened " further action " if she did not desist from giving interviews on the issue.

Powell quoted a letter he received from a woman in Northumberland, about an elderly woman living in a Wolverhampton street where she was the only white resident.

Johns Hopkins ' views on his bequests, and on the duties and responsibilities of the two board of trustees, especially the hospital board of trustees led by his friend and fellow Quaker Francis King, were formally stated primarily in four documents, the incorporation papers filed in 1867, his instruction letter to the hospital trustees dated March 12, 1873, his will, which was quoted from extensively in his Baltimore Sun obituary, and in his will's two codicils, one dated 1870 and the other dated 1873.

In Figure 2, the points in the network are designated by a letter accompanied by a number.

nor was she moved by a letter from Wright pointing out that if he was not `` compelled to spend money on useless lawyer's bills, useless hotel bills, and useless doctor's bills '', he could more quickly provide Miriam with a suitable home either in Los Angeles or Paris, as she preferred.

He closes his `` letter '' by demanding that Dunkirk be demolished, that the Pretender be forced to move farther away from the coast of England, and that the Queen and the House of Hanover come to a better understanding.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

On April 11th he wrote an open letter in The Advocate, making it known `` to the world that Jas. W. Robinson is by his own admission a base liar and a slanderer ''.

But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

In Europe, Premier Clemenceau, showing his animal proclivities as the `` Tiger of France '', asked Pershing by letter for the creation of special houses where the sexual desires of American men could be satisfied.

But I was deeply moved by his letter of resignation as rector of St. Luke's Church in Atlanta.

The Attorney General responded by letter dated July 19.

The letter writer who suggested saving money by taking kids out of school at 14 should have signed his letter `` simpleton '' instead of `` simplicitude ''.

You may apply for such an extension by filing Form 2688, Application For Extension Of Time To File, with the District Director of Internal Revenue for your district, or you may make your application in a letter.

Still another approach to the changeable letter type of sign is a modular unit introduced by Merritt Products, Azusa, Calif..

Finished signs are produced by sliding the separate letter panels into channels of 0.025-in. aluminum, which may be mounted to various surfaces.

Each letter contained a postage-prepaid return envelope by regular mail for addresses in the Pacific Northwest, and by airmail for those outside the Pacific Northwest.

Still another, annoyed by the brevity of a recently received missive, wrote: `` yore letter was short and sweet, jist like a roasted maget ''.

A Reb stationed near Petersburg informed his mother: `` I need not tell you that I dodge pretty often for you can see that very plainly by the blots in this letter.

In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

Some pastors write a letter the same night the decision is reported by the visitors.

The earliest certain ancestor of " A " is aleph ( also called ' aleph ), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet ( which, by consisting entirely of consonants, is an abjad rather than a true alphabet ).

The @ symbol was not used in continental Europe and the committee expected it would be replaced by an accented À in the French variation, so the @ was placed in position 40 < sub > hex </ sub > next to the letter A.