Instead, the phrase appears to have originated in the early 19th century United States ( particularly in the sense " pull oneself over a fence by one's bootstraps "), to mean an absurdly impossible action, an adynaton.

Instead it's an intelligent, beautifully read ..." Stacy Keach played the role with an all-star cast at Joseph Papp's Delacorte Theatre in the early 70's, with Colleen Dewhurst's Gertrude, James Earl Jones's King, Barnard Hughes's Polonius, Sam Waterston's Laertes and Raul Julia's Osric.

Instead, both Akbar and Jahangir studied this artwork very closely and replicated and adapted it, adopting much of the early iconographic features and later the pictorial realism for which Renaissance art was known.

Instead of pursuing a mathematics degree, Trotsky helped organize the South Russian Workers ' Union in Nikolayev in early 1897.

Instead he retired early, after hearing news that his 80-year-old uncle, Thomas Garfield, had been killed in a locomotive accident in Cleveland, Ohio.

Instead, small independent monarchies began to develop by the early ninth century.

Instead, Vulgar Latin is a blanket term covering the popular dialects and sociolects of the Latin language throughout its range from the hypothetical prisca latinitas of unknown or poorly remembered times in early Latium to the death of Latin after the fall of the empire.

: Instead of England's early Sunday dinner, a postchurch ordeal of heavy meats and savory pies, why not a new meal, served around noon, that starts with tea or coffee, marmalade and other breakfast fixtures before moving along to the heavier fare?

Instead, the early removal of a chancellor is only possible when it simultaneously agrees on a successor.

Instead, cassette, reel-to-reel, and 8-track versions ( issued on two cassettes / cartridges / reels in early 1969 ) contained cover artwork that featured high contrast black and white ( with no grey ) versions of the four Kelly photographs.

Instead there was a wave of building or adapting Calvinist " temples ", though in the end none of these were to remain in use by the following year, and their layouts, which seem to have echoed early Swiss and Scottish Calvinist designs, are now largely unknown.

Instead, the Roman Grid was spread around the Mediterranean and into northern Europe later on during " the late Republic and the early Empire " period that saw dissemination of the grid plan throughout this area.

Instead they regarded Opabinia ′ s lobe + gill arrangement as an early form of the biramous limbs which are seen in trilobites and crustaceans and which may be the original form in all arthropods.

Instead, early in 1643, Rupert began to clear the South-West, taking Cirencester in February before moving further against Bristol, a key port.

Instead, DRAM memories came onto the market in the early 1970s that rapidly replaced all previous random access memory systems.

Instead of just constructing “ an enlarged easel painting ,” he realized that the mural “ must conform to the normal transit of a spectator .” Eventually, Siqueiros would develop a mural technique that involved tracing figures onto a wall with an electric projector, photographing early wall sketches to improve perspective, and new paints, spray guns, and other tools to accommodate the surface of modern buildings and the outdoor conditions.

Instead, the IMAX system specifies a separate six-channel 35mm ( 1. 377 inch ) magnetic film, recorded and played back on a film follower locked to picture, just as Vitaphone had been ( utilizing 16-inch 33 1 / 3 RPM electrical transcription discs ) in the early 20th century, and was the same technology used to provide the 7-channel soundtrack accompanying films photographed and exhibited in the Cinerama process in the mid-1950s.

Instead of subducting beneath the Pacific Northwest, the Kula Plate began subducting underneath southwestern Yukon and Alaska and during the early Eocene period.

Instead, using concepts drawn from physiognomy, early eugenics, psychiatry and Social Darwinism, Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was inherited, and that someone " born criminal " could be identified by physical defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage, or atavistic.

Instead TWW quit its franchise early, selling the last five months to Harlech for £ 500, 000 even though the new company was not yet ready to start broadcasting at the time.

Instead, the producers used Cassie, a character who dies early in the seventh season and speaks for Tara, telling Willow to kill herself.

The early 1930s saw a shift in ideological focus away from collectivist propaganda and towards “ positive heroism .” Instead of glorifying socialist collectivism as a means of societal advancement, the Soviet Communist Party began uplifting individuals who committed heroic actions that advanced the cause of socialism.

Instead, he resigned in early 1912 and that same year married Adeline Virginia Stephen ( Virginia Woolf ).

Instead, the generals of the Grand Alliance became heroes of a Europe " civilized even when at war "-an ideal which would last, with some exceptions, to the early days of the First World War.

Instead, from the second half of the 19th century, France concentrated on the establishment of French Indochina and the conflicts with China leading to the Sino-French War.

Instead it has some small streets in the town centre that may be dated from the late Middle Ages, and several spacious streets boasting large and luxurious 18th century residences built for diplomats and affluent Dutch families.

Instead, the Varangian ruling classes of the two powerful city-states of Novgorod and Kiev were thoroughly Slavicised by the end of the 10th century.

Instead he devoted more than a month to the preparation of a complete history of the electoral counts over the previous century to show it was the unbroken usage of Congress, not of the President of the Senate, to count the electoral votes.

Instead, he saw the later period of the 19th century imperialism as a degenerative process in European civilization.

Instead, many of the names seem to be derived from German names that were common in the village of Hamelin in the thirteenth century.

Instead of indulging in the " ridiculous, idiotic and tragic fallacy of ' race ,' which a minority of the earth's population has deluded itself during the past century ", it was time for all Americans ( black and white ) to " renounce their race ".

History painting, which the Paris Salon esteemed as a painter's highest calling, did not interest Courbet, who stated that " the artists of one century basically incapable of reproducing the aspect of a past or future century ..." Instead, he believed that the only possible source for a living art is the artist's own experience.

Instead, Watts ' conception of logic is much more akin to that of the later, nineteenth century logician, C. S.

Instead of calling it a " parody mass ", the term " Imitation mass " has been suggested as being both more precise and closer to the original usage, since the term " parody " is based on a misreading of a late 16th century text.

Instead of the use of metal chains and restraints, their institutions utilized rigorous work and leisure activities in the late 18th century.

Instead, they had strongholds which were changed in the 13th century.

Instead, they demonstrate that the city of Vologda was founded in the 13th century.

Instead, it allowed his upgraded future self, Brainiac 13 ( or " B-13 "), to travel from the 64th century to the present day and take control of Brainiac 2. 5's body.

Instead of broadening its rail network, the Reading invested its vast wealth in anthracite and its transport in the mid-19th century.

Instead, he says his ancestors lived in Little Egg Harbor in the early 17th century and transported their grain to Burlington, New Jersey, for grinding.

Instead, he had the 22nd through 25th dynasties follow upon the earlier part of the 18th, leading down to the Assyrian invasions of the early 7th century BCE.

Instead Decadentism was based mainly on the Decadent style of some artists and authors of France and England about the end of the 19th century.

Instead of capitulating, Albie's took the case to federal court, noting in their filings a pocket sandwich with crimped edges and no crust was called a " pasty " and had been a popular dish in northern Michigan since the nineteenth century.

Instead of leading British leaders to conclude that they could never risk a war with Germany, and therefore must ally themselves with the Reich, the build-up in German naval power led to the Anglo-German naval race of the early 20th century, and Britain aligning herself against Germany.