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Instead, he devoted himself to art ; as early as the age of eight he was composing poetry on lotus blossoms.
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Instead he resigned his right of primogeniture and from Pope Innocent XI ( 1676 – 89 ) he purchased, according to the custom of the time, for 30, 000 scudi, a position of prelatial rank and devoted his wealth and leisure to the enlargement of the library bequeathed to him by his uncle.
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 proposed regular, " anticipatory-type " sessions devoted, as Johnson explained at the first of the new series, to " discussion of complex problems requiring careful exploration before they were to come to him for decision.
Instead, she devoted herself to her children.
Instead of finally reaching a happy environment and living situation in the end of the novel, this marriage still portrays anti-feminist qualities by leaving Agnes as completely devoted to her husband, without having a life of her own.
Instead, she devoted her time to two projects: preserving Tanguy ’ s reputation through retrospective shows and a complete catalogue of his work, and writing poetry, mostly in the slangy French she had learned in her youth and spoken with Tanguy.
Instead, she devoted her time to fitness issues and set up a small chain of fitness centers.
Instead fellow Big Brother contestant Jade Goody became the channel's newest public face, with three different shows devoted to her life, Jade's Salon, Just Jade and Jade's PA, but in January 2007, she was dropped due to the racist row on Celebrity Big Brother.
Instead of using the spoof as only a part of the episode, which could have contained a B-story, the entire episode was devoted to this parody.
Instead she devoted herself to raising a family and organizing housewives.
Instead, he devoted hmself to poetry, editing radical journals, and protesting World War I, which claimed two of his brothers.
Instead of following his parents wishes and looking for a job, it is said that Ramprasad devoted most of his time to sadhana.
Instead and himself
Instead, Augustus claimed the title for himself ( for the 7th time ).
Instead, Popova told him that he must do it himself.
Instead of producing the film himself, Chaplin signed a deal with Universal Pictures and appointed his assistant, Jerome Epstein, as the producer.
Instead, Minos kept it for himself ; and in revenge, Poseidon made his wife Pasiphaë lust for the bull with the help of Aphrodite.
Instead of finding himself in serious trouble for acting as though he were joining forces with the Catholics, Elizabeth sent two Gentlemen Pensioners to summon him back within the month.
Instead, he acted as Postumus deputy until the very last days of his revolt, when he seems to have assumed the purple for himself.
Instead he proclaimed himself President for Life following a coup in December that was confirmed and accepted in a dubious referendum.
Instead, he had to content himself with subduing the fortresses that still held out against him, and the only other notable event of 216 BC was the defection of certain Italian territories, including Capua, the second largest city of Italy, which Hannibal made his new base.
Instead of introducing himself by saying, " Madame, I am Petruchio Pandolfo ", he stammered, " Madame, I am Pondolfio Pet — Pedolfio Pat — Pantuchio Ped — dammit!
Instead, he surrounded himself with men and women of extraordinary talent, whom he selected not on the basis of aristocratic origin, but on the basis of merit.
Instead, Godfrey himself seems to have used the more ambiguous term princeps, or simply retained his title of dux from Lower Lorraine.
Instead, they see this teaching as the same teaching in the Bible's reports of what Christ himself and Paul the Apostle taught.
Instead, he arranged to have himself adopted into the Fujiwara Regents House, and secured a succession of high imperial court titles including, in 1585 the prestigious position of regent ( kampaku ).
Instead, the ruler needs only to make himself respectful, and the people will be induced and enlightened by his superior virtues to follow his example – an ideal known as wuwei.
The German princes refused to give the crown to his nephew, the duke of Swabia, for fear he would try to regain the imperial power held by Henry V. Instead, they chose Lothair III ( 1125 – 1137 ), who found himself embroiled in a long-running dispute with the Hohenstaufens, and who married into the Welfs.
Instead he styled himself as ' Prince of Wales ' around 1244, the first Welsh prince to do so.
Instead, he behaved impetuously and followed expedients rather than policies that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, including himself.
Instead the farmer would have to offer himself and his family as security, providing some form of slave labour in lieu of repayment.
Instead she visits her brother in prison and counsels him to prepare himself for death.
Instead, Umney finds himself in the year 1994, occupying the vacated body of his creator.
Instead, he puts himself at the head of the mutineers.
Instead he sent off his eldest son to Normandy, with a number of officials, including his chamberlain Jacques de Rue, who were to prepare his castles to receive the English, as well as a servant whose mission was to insinuate himself into the royal kitchens in Paris and poison the King of France.
Instead, Epaminondas occupied himself with consolidating the Boeotian confederacy, compelling the previously Spartan-aligned polis of Orchomenus to join the league.
Instead of an arbitrary selection by an editor, each poet has been permitted to represent himself by the work he considers his best, the only stipulation being that it should not yet have appeared in book form.
Instead, the narcissist emphasizes his virtues in the presence of others, just to try to convince himself that he is a valuable person and to try to stop feeling ashamed for his faults ; unfortunately such ' people with unrealistically inflated self-views, which may be especially unstable and highly vulnerable to negative information ... tend to have poor social skills '.
Instead and art
Instead of nature as their teacher, Mannerist artists took art.
Instead, she came to prefer the company of " the gentle Camille Pissarro ", with whom she could speak frankly about the changing attitudes toward art.
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 " lesbian ", terms such as " strange ", " twilight ", " queer ", and " third sex ", were used in the titles, and cover art was invariably salacious.
Instead of recalling something related to the ' True Reality ' ( the reality of the spiritual world ), for the Muslim calligraphy is a visible expression of the highest art of all ; the art of the spoken word ( the transmittal of thoughts and of history ).
Instead, extensive experimentation with the tablebases – combined with an intensive study of tablebase-answers to well designed problems, and with knowledge of prior art ( i. e. pre-tablebase knowledge ) – is used to yield insightful patterns.
Instead, fractal art is expressive, creative, and requires input, effort, and intelligence.
Instead of taking on the classical criticism of art that involved knowledge of color, composition and line, Gautier was strongly influenced by Denis Diderot's idea that the critic should have the ability to describe the art so as the reader can " see " the art through his description.
Instead, Demeter chose to teach Triptolemus, the other son of Celeus ( though he was ascribed different parentages as well ), the art of agriculture and, from him, the rest of Greece learned to plant and reap crops.
Instead, the videos were linked by then state of the art computer graphics.
Instead the City put together a multi-year plan to convert the old school house to the Riverton Community Center, and some of the land was sold to the County Library System for a new, state of the art library.
Instead, he moved on the production of another art journal, The Golden Hind, co-edited with Clifford Bax and published by Chapman and Hall.
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 they were valued as finished works of art.
Instead of just presenting songs, we wanted to combine fashion, Broadway, and performance art.
Instead of viewing Systema as a martial art, they say that Systema as a lifestyle, or a " system " which extends beyond hand-to-hand combat and covers all aspects of life.
Instead of wall-paintings, Islamic art used painted tiles, from as early as 862-3 ( at the Great Mosque of Kairouan in modern Tunisia ), which also spread to Europe.
Instead, the vast majority of Canadian films are character-driven dramas or quirky comedies of the type that often appeal to critics and art house film audiences more than to mass audiences.
Instead, both are replaced with a philosophical tone that dominates the meditation on art.
Instead, the issue cover art closely, but not exactly, resembled the corresponding mainstream story.
Instead of using the old code page 437 extended ASCII characters, modern ASCII art uses the current de facto web standard ISO-8859-1 / ISO-8859-15 or Unicode UTF-8 characters.
Instead of using a single narrator like Fantasia did, people from different areas of the art world introduce each segment in Fantasia 2000.
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