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Isaac and Pitt
Cousin Joshua Dover decided to remain with the Reverend and poor Isaac Pitt until life passed away -- and he was hurt so badly he did not seem for long in this world.
He reviewed Curran's Speeches, Carlyle's Life of Cromwell, a pamphlet by Isaac Butt on The Protection of Home Industry, The Age of Pitt and Fox, and later on The Poets and Dramatists of Ireland, edited by Denis Florence MacCarthy ( 4 April 1846 ); The Industrial History of Free Nations, by Torrens McCullagh, and Father Meehan's The Confederation of Kilkenny ( 8 August 1846 ).
Shelburne introduced Baring to Isaac Barré, his paymaster-general, and to such leading luminaries as William Pitt the Younger, Henry Dundas, Jeremy Bentham, Edmund Burke, Sir Samuel Romilly, and Lords Erskine, Camden and Sydney.

Isaac and one
It may appear that we were cruel and callous, but no one had time to spend sympathizing with poor Isaac -- except the Reverend.
* Isaac Asimov, Science and Science Fiction author, professor of biochemistry, one of the most prolific writers of all time
Sir Isaac Newton was the first person to develop a theory of air resistance, making him one of the first aerodynamicists.
At one time or another, the membership included Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Cyril Kornbluth, James Blish, John Michel, Judith Merril, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Richard Wilson, Damon Knight, Virginia Kidd, and Larry T. Shaw.
Proceeding to England, he was introduced to Sir Isaac Newton, who found in him one of the earliest defenders of his discoveries.
Isaac Singer, who made improvements to an existing model of a sewing machine in the 1850s, began one of the first franchising efforts in the United States, followed later by Coca-Cola, Western Union, etc.
Archimedes ( 287-212 BC ), of Syracuse, Sicily, when it was a Greek city-state, is often considered to be the greatest of the Greek mathematicians, and occasionally even named as one of the three greatest of all time ( along with Isaac Newton and Carl Friedrich Gauss ).
Here, one version of the Gospel of Barnabas also quotes Jesus as saying that the sacrificed son of Abraham was Ishmael not Isaac, conforming to Islamic belief but disagreeing with Jewish and Christian belief.
The narrative is punctuated by a series of covenants with God, successively narrowing in scope from all mankind ( the covenant with Noah ) to a special relationship with one people alone ( Abraham and his descendants through Isaac and Jacob ).
These works also influenced contemporary Italian scientist Galileo Galilei and provided one of the foundations for Englishman Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation.
Other major characters include Ivanhoe's intractable father, Cedric, one of the few remaining Saxon lords ; various Knights Templar and churchmen ; the loyal serfs Gurth the swineherd and the jester Wamba, whose observations punctuate much of the action ; and the Jewish moneylender, Isaac of York, who is equally passionate about money and his daughter, Rebecca.
Following the night's meal, the palmer observes one of the Normans, the Templar Brian de Bois-Guilbert, issue orders to his Saracen soldiers to follow Isaac of York after he leaves Rotherwood in the morning and relieve him of his possessions.
Isaac was one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites.
Isaac was the only biblical patriarch whose name was not changed, and the only one who did not leave Canaan.
" According to Martin Noth, at the Southern Palestinian stage of the growth of the Pentateuch tradition, Isaac became established as one of the biblical patriarchs, but his traditions were receded in the favor of Abraham.
As a reward for his act of faith in one God, he was promised that Isaac, his second son, would inherit the Land of Israel ( then called Canaan ).
These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation.
In contrast to the Judeo-Christian view of Jacob, one main difference is that the story of Jacob's blessing, in which he deceives Isaac, is not accepted in Islam.
According to the Talmud, prayer is a Biblical commandment and the Talmud gives two reasons why there are three basic prayers: to recall the daily sacrifices at the Temple in Jerusalem, and / or because each of the Patriarchs instituted one prayer: Abraham the morning, Isaac the afternoon and Jacob the evening.
# According to Rabbi Jose b. Hanina, each of the Patriarchs instituted one prayer: Abraham the morning, Isaac the afternoon and Jacob the evening prayers.
To Robert Boyle in the 17th century, a little before Isaac Newton, the aether was a probable hypothesis and consisted of subtle particles, one sort of which explained the absence of vacuum and the mechanical interactions between bodies, and the other sort of which explained phenomenon such as magnetism ( and possibly gravity ) that were inexplicable on the basis of the purely mechanical interactions of macroscopic bodies:
Isaac Asimov described Minsky as one of only two people he would admit were more intelligent than he was, the other being Carl Sagan.
Heinlein is usually identified, along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, as one of the three masters of science fiction to arise in the so-called Golden Age of science fiction, associated with John W. Campbell and his magazine Astounding .< ref >
Then he moved to Mainz, where he studied under another of his relatives, Rabbi Isaac ben Judah, the rabbinic head of Mainz and one of the leading sages of the Lorraine region straddling France and Germany.

Isaac and men
Other characters in attendance are Cedric, Aethelstane, Lady Rowena, Isaac of York, his daughter Rebecca, Robin of Locksley and his men, Prince John's advisor Waldemar Fitzurse, and numerous Norman knights.
The ten-in-one might be partly a freak show exhibiting " human oddities " ( including " born freaks " such as midgets, giants or persons with other deformities, or " made freaks " like tattooed people, fat people or " human skeletons "- extremely thin men often " married " to the fat lady, like Isaac W. Sprague ).
That day, Glidden was accompanied by two other men, Isaac L. Ellwood, a hardware dealer and Jacob Haish, a lumber merchant.
Together with other young men, among them the poet Heinrich Heine, Zunz founded the Verein fur Kultur und Wissenschaft der Juden The Society for the Culture and Science of the Jews alongside Joel Abraham List, Isaac Marcus Jost, and Eduard Gans in Berlin in 1819.
It is important to note that Rebekah did not veil herself when traveling with her lady attendants and Abraham's servant and his men to meet Isaac, but she only did so when Isaac was approaching.
They numbered 224 men, women, and children and were led by Isaac Morley, Charles Shumway, and Seth Taft and George Washington Bradley.
Isaac inaugurated his reign with a decisive victory over the Norman King of Sicily William II ( the Battle of Demetritzes, 7 November 1185 ), who had invaded the Balkans with 80, 000 men and 200 ships towards the end of Andronicus I's reign.
After the loss in Charleston, the defeats of General Isaac Huger at Moncks Corner and Lieutenant Colonel Abraham Buford at the Waxhaw massacre ( near the North Carolina border, in what is now Lancaster County ), Marion organized a small unit, which at first consisted of between 20 and 70 men and was the only force then opposing the British Army in the state.
He raised one thousand men, nominally part of the militia brigade under Kentucky Governor Isaac Shelby, but largely operating independently.
Another effort later in 1626, this time negotiated by Isaac Allerton, was successful, and several leading men of Plymouth, including Standish, paid off the colony's debt to the Adventurers.
Ten men, led by newspaperman Isaac Newton Gresham, met in Point on August 28, 1902 and signed a charter to established the Farmers ' Educational and Cooperative Union of America.
He married, first, Isaac Saba's daughter, and, after her death, the daughter of Hayyim Albalag, both of these men being well-known Talmudists.
* The Parable of the Old Men and the Young: World War I poem by Wilfred Owen in which the sacrifice of the young men killed in the war is compared to the binding of Isaac, with the difference that in the poem, Abraham refuses to substitute the ram and proceeds to kill Isaac.
Likewise, the Qur ' an says of Isaac that he was " among the best of chosen men " ( XXXVIII: 47 ) and was a " prophet, one of the righteous " ( XXXVII: 112 ) and further describes him as of " true strength and inner sight " ( XXXVIII: 45 ).
At the head of these were Thomas Corneille, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle and Isaac de Benserade, who were clearly aimed at in the book, as well as innumerable other persons, men and women of letters as well as of society, identifiable by manuscript " keys " compiled by the scribblers of the day.
Blinded and nearly powerless, Isaac II resented having to share the throne with his son ; he spread rumors of Alexios ' supposed sexual perversity, alleging he kept company with " depraved men ".
In a scene that appeared in Le Soir on 11 November 1941, two evil-looking Jewish men, Isaac and Salomon, watch Philippulus the Prophet inform Tintin that the end of the world is nigh.
First come the biographies of the men who antedated the several written laws of the Torah, as Enos, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
In 1870 Sir Isaac Pitman founded a school where students could qualify as shorthand writers to " professional and commercial men.
In the face of an infantry charge led by famed British general Isaac Brock, he rallied his men and they held their ground.
Judah must have possessed an attractive personality ; for there gathered about him as friends, even in his earliest youth, a large number of illustrious men, like Levi al-Tabban of Zaragoza, the aged poet Judah ben Abun, Judah ibn Ghayyat of Granada, Moses ibn Ezra and his brothers Judah, Joseph, and Isaac, the vizier Abu al-Hasan, Meïr ibn Kamnial, the physician and poet Solomon ben Mu ' allam of Seville, besides his schoolmates Joseph ibn Migas and Baruch Albalia.
( For example, frontier Latter-day Saints Isaac C. Haight and William H. Dame were never Danites ; however, Young's records indicate that in 1857 he authorized these two men to secretly execute two ex-convicts traveling through southern Utah along the California trail if they were caught stealing cattle.

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