James, he remarks in a letter to a friend, `` is attempting the impossible namely, to produce upon the reader, as a painting produces upon the gazer, a number of superimposed, simultaneous impressions.

The Balfour Declaration ( dated 2 November 1917 ) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild ( Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

# the letter was written by James before Paul's letters,

# the letter was written by James after Paul's letters,

# the letter comprises material originally from James but reworked by a later editor.

The writer calls himself simply “ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ .” Jesus had two apostles named James, but it is unlikely that either of these wrote the letter.

The writer of the letter of James identifies himself as “ a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ ,” in much the same way as did Jude, who introduced the letter of Jude by calling himself “ a slave of Jesus Christ, but a brother of James .” ( Jas 1: 1 ; Jude 1 ) Furthermore, the salutation of James ’ letter includes the term “ Greetings !” in the same way as did the letter concerning circumcision that was sent to the congregations.

Authorship has also occasionally been attributed to the apostle James the Great, brother of John the Evangelist and son of Zebedee The letter does mention persecutions in the present tense ( 2: 6 ), and this is consistent with the persecution in Jerusalem during which James the Great was martyred ( Acts 12: 1 ).

Some scholars argue for a primitive version of the letter composed by James and then later polished by another writer.

William had been trying to influence English politics for well over a year, letting Grand Pensionary Gaspar Fagel publish an open letter to the English people in November 1687 deploring the religious policy of James, which action had generally been interpreted as a covert bid for kingship.

On some of the most damaging correspondence, Blaine had written " Burn this letter ," giving Democrats the last line to their rallying cry: " Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, the continental liar from the state of Maine, ' Burn this letter!

Origin of Russell's Theory of Types: In a letter to Gottlob Frege ( 1902 ) Russell announced his discovery of the paradox in Frege's Begriffsschrift.

Frege did not waste time responding to Russell, his letter dated 22 June 1902 appears, with van Heijenoort's commentary in Heijenoort 1967: 126 – 127.

Moore bases his theory on Carl Allen's letter to Jessup, in which Allen refers to a conversation between Einstein and Bertrand Russell acknowledging that the theory had been solved, but that man was not ready for it.

Shortly before graduation, as he considered his future role as minister of a parish, he had received a letter from Robert Russell Wicks, formerly the Dean of the Chapel at Princeton, and now serving as school minister at Phillips Exeter Academy ; Wicks had offered him the job of instituting a new, full-time religion department at Exeter.

Although Loy was never nominated for an Academy Award for any single performance, after an extensive letter writing campaign and years of lobbying by screenwriter and then-Writers Guild of America, west board member Michael Russnow, who enlisted the support of Loy's former screen colleagues and friends such as Roddy McDowall, Sidney Sheldon, Harold Russell and many others, she received a 1991 Academy Honorary Award " for her career achievement ".

In a letter to Russell he warned him that Russia " will in due time become a power almost as great as the old Roman Empire ... Germany ought to be strong in order to resist Russian aggression.

Mitchel said in a published letter to Russell:

Persistent, Clooney sent a humorously self-deprecating letter signed " George Clooney, TV actor " to Russell asking for the part, and showed up at Russell's New York City apartment to plead his case.

After a number of arguments, Clooney wrote Russell a letter that criticized Russell's behavior in a last attempt to make peace between the two, days before another fight would break out during the filming of the movie's finale.

In April 1822 he published in the Morning Chronicle a letter against George Canning's attack on Lord John Russell, and edited, or rather re-wrote, some discursive papers of Bentham, which he published under the title Analysis of the Influence of Natural Religion on the Temporal Happiness of Mankind by Philip Beauchamp ( 1822 ).

Focuses on and gives complete text of letter written in August 1835 by John Russell, resident of Sherburne, to Mr. Thomas Burgess in Burwash, Sussex, England.

At the age of 12 he spent three days in a library reading Principia Mathematica and sent a letter to Bertrand Russell pointing out what he considered serious problems with the first half of the first volume.

Russell was working on the O-H Ranch in the Judith Basin of Central Montana at the time, when the ranch foreman received a letter from the owner, asking how the cattle herd had weathered the winter.

Instead of a letter, the ranch foreman sent a postcard-sized watercolor Russell had painted of gaunt steer being watched by wolves under a gray winter sky.

President Lincoln reviewed the letter, softened the language, and told Adams not to give Russell a copy but to limit himself to quoting only those portions that Adams thought appropriate.

Yancey submitted a long letter on August 14 detailing again the reasons why the Confederacy should receive formal recognition and requesting another meeting with Russell.

Adams was unaware that Seward had already sent him a letter indicating Wilkes had acted without orders and was unable to provide Russell any information that might defuse the situation.

In a further effort to defuse the situation, Russell added his own private note telling Lyons to meet with Seward and advise him of the contents of the official letter before it was actually delivered.

Actress Lillian Russell was a passenger on the line in 1915 and was impressed enough by the food and the service to write a letter to the railroad's president.

In his letter, Russell wrote: " The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority.

On February 20, 1957, Paramount executive Russell Holman wrote Swanson a letter in which he asked her to cease work on the project because " it would be damaging for the property to be offered to the entertainment public in another form as a stage musical.

In the latter capacity, he was the recipient of a 1963 letter by the British philosopher and activist Bertrand Russell, who pleaded with the Romanian authorities to free from jail Belu Zilber ( a victim of the conflict between the Party leadership and Pătrăşcanu, Zilber had been a political prisoner for sixteen years by then ).

The review contrasts this with the NET Bible copyright by quoting a letter by Russell Allen stating " On the ( Free Software-based ) definition above, the NET Bible is not free.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Russell.

* Richard Russell ( Dow Theory ) ( born 1924 ), American stock market letter writer

In a letter to Jarrell from 1957, Lowell wrote, " I suppose we shouldn't swap too many compliments, but I am heavily in your debt.

In March 1987, Senators Frank Lautenberg and Lowell Weicker sent a letter to Lorenzo questioning the decreased level of service, including delays, overbooking, cancellations, and bad communication.

In a letter to Elizabeth Bishop about a week after Jarrell's death, Robert Lowell wrote, " There's a small chance Jarrell's death was an accident.

" Willis is no genius – a graceful trifler – no more ", he wrote in a letter to James Russell Lowell.

Charles Lowell, D. D., wrote in a personal letter eight decades later, “ My father introduced into the Bill of Rights the clause by which Slavery was abolished in Massachusetts ... and when it was adopted, exclaimed: ' Now there is no longer Slavery in Massachusetts, it is abolished and I will render my services as a lawyer gratis to any slave suing for his freedom if it is withheld from him ...' and he did so defend the negro slave against his master under this clause of the constitution which was declared valid by the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1783, and since that time Slavery in Mass.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Lowell.

In a personal letter dated February 2, 1878 he writes back to a childhood friend and art collector, on Middlesex Street in Lowell, Massachusetts, addressed to Mrs. F. Cutting, that describes his hectic work schedule as an artist: