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John and Lemprière
* Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, Cyril John Gadd, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond ( 1970 ) The Cambridge Ancient History, Cambridge University Press, 780 pages ISBN 0-521-07051-1
" John Lemprière in his Classical Dictionary ( 1827 ) wrote, " Some suppose that the Sirens were a number of lascivious women in Sicily, who prostituted themselves to strangers, and made them forget their pursuits while drowned in unlawful pleasures.
* Lemprière, John ( 1827 ) ( 6th ed .).
Though Jerome and Eusebius ( both citing Castor of Rhodes ), and as even late as 1812 John Lemprière euhemeristically asserted that he was the first king of Argos, and Robert Graves that he was a descendant of Iapetus, most modern mythologists understand Inachus as one of the river gods, all sons of Oceanus and Tethys and thus to the Greeks part of the pre-Olympian or " Pelasgian " mythic landscape ; in Greek iconography, Walter Burkert notes, the rivers are represented in the form of a bull with a human head or face.
* John Lemprière, 1850.
* Portions of this material originated as excerpts from the public-domain 1848 edition of the Classical Dictionary by John Lemprière.
* Lemprière, John, A Classical Dictionary ( 1820 ), p. 683.
Bavius and Maevius were two critics in the age of Augustus Caesar who belittled and attacked the talents of superior writers, according to John Lemprière.
Elinor Glyn and John Lemprière were Jersey-born writers.
John Lemprière ( c. 1765, Jersey, – February 1, 1824, London ), English classical scholar, lexicographer, theologian, teacher and headmaster.
The main character is John Lemprière, author of the Classical Dictionary, and also his father, Charles Lemprière.
It is possible that the poet Tony Harrison makes reference to Lemprière in his poem " A Kumquat for John Keats " in the line " Flora asphyxiated by foul air / unknown to Keats or Lemprière "-as he would have been a contemporary of John Keats.
* A painting of John Lemprière: Dr Lempriere Head master of Abingdon School, ca.
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* Lemprière, John and Wright, Frederick Adam.

John and Bibliotheca
* Arrian, Events after Alexander ( from Photius ' Bibliotheca ) translated by John Rooke, edited by Tim Spalding
During the 17th century in France the idea of Bibliotheca Universalis came about from well established academics and librarians-Conrad Gessner, Gabriel Naudé, John Dury, and Gottfried Leibniz.
In 1992 he won the Somerset Maugham Award for his first novel, Lemprière's Dictionary, about events surrounding the publication, in 1788, of John Lemprière's Bibliotheca Classica on classical mythology and history.
" Bowen ’ s map was re-published in John Campbell ’ s editions of John Harris's Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, or Voyages and Travels ( 1744-1748, and 1764 ).

John and notes
A year ago today, when the Democrats were fretting and frolicking in Los Angeles and John F. Kennedy was still only an able and ambitious Senator who yearned for the power and responsibility of the Presidency, Theodore H. White had already compiled masses of notes about the Presidential campaign of 1960.
John V. Luce notes that when he writes about the genealogy of Atlantis's kings, Plato writes in the same style as Hellanicus and suggests a similarity between a fragment of Hellanicus's work and an account in the Critias.
Citing research by John Green, who found that several contemporary British Columbia newspapers regarded the alleged capture as very dubious, Clark notes that the Mainland Guardian of New Westminster, British Columbia, wrote, " Absurdity is written on the face of it.
St John Damascene, writing in the 8th century AD, also notes of an earlier sect called the " Cathari ", in his book On Heresies, taken from the epitome provided by Epiphanius of Salamis in his Panarion.
Fermat was not the first mathematician so moved to write in his own marginal notes to Diophantus ; the Byzantine scholar John Chortasmenos ( 14th / 15th C .) had written " Thy soul, Diophantus, be with Satan because of the difficulty of your theorems " next to the same problem.
French film historian John Raeburn, editor of Cahiers du cinéma, notes that that Capra's films were unknown in France, but there too his films underwent a fresh discovery by the public.
Biblical scholar John Elliott notes that the author explicitly urges the addressees to respect authority ( 2: 13 ) and even honor the emperor ( 2: 17 ), strongly suggesting that they were unlikely to be suffering from official Roman persecution.
Against this John Robinson notes the numerous instances in the Synoptic account of Jesus ' final days in Jerusalem, when it is implied that he has been there before.
Katherine Duncan-Jones accepts a 1600 – 1 attribution for the date Hamlet was written, but notes that the Lord Chamberlain's Men, playing Hamlet in the 3000-capacity Globe, were unlikely to be put to any disadvantage by an audience of " barely one hundred " for the Children of the Chapel's equivalent play, Antonio's Revenge ; she believes that Shakespeare, confident in the superiority of his own work, was making a playful and charitable allusion to his friend John Marston's very similar piece.
John Esposito notes that " Modern Western scholarship has seriously questioned the historicity and authenticity of the hadith ", maintaining that " the bulk of traditions attributed to the Prophet Muhammad were actually written much later.
I John Audubon, having this day mutual consent with Ferdinand Rozier, dissolved and forever closed the partnership and firm of Audubon and Rozier, and having Received from said Ferdinand Rozier payment and notes to the full amount of my part of the goods and debts of the late firm of Audubon and Rozier, I the said John Audubon one of the firm aforesaid do hereby release and forever quit claim to all and any interest which I have or may have in the stock on hand and debts due to the late firm of Audubon and Rozier assign, transfer and set over to said Ferdinand Rozier, all my rights, titles, claims and interest in the goods, merchandise and debts due to the late firm of Audubon and Rozier, and do hereby authorize and empower him for my part, to collect the same in any manner what ever either privately or by suit or suits in law or equity hereby declaring him sole and absolute proprietor and rightful owner of all goods, merchandise and debts of this firm aforesaid, as completely as they were the goods and property of the late firm Audubon and Rozier.
In the posthumously published book, The life of John James Audubon, derived primarily from his notes, Audubon relates that he visited the northeastern Florida coastal sugar plantation of John Bulow in early January, 1832.
Jim Bradbury notes the consensus of contemporary historians that John was a " hard-working administrator, an able man, an able general ", albeit, as Turner suggests, with " distasteful, even dangerous personality traits ", including pettiness, spitefulness and cruelty.
" That was three different songs ... yet they were brought together to sound like one, which was fantastic ," lead guitarist John Echols said of " You Set The Scene " in the liner notes by Andrew Sandoval for the " Collector's Edition " of " Forever Changes " that was released by Rhino Records in 2008.
George Washington first claimed privilege when Congress requested to see Chief Justice John Jay's notes from an unpopular treaty negotiation with Great Britain.
The Intellectual System was translated into Latin by Johann Lorenz von Mosheim and furnished with notes and dissertations which were translated into English in John J. Harrison's edition ( 1845 ).
Another tradition of interpretation exemplified in the work of John A. Lucy, Michael Silverstein and Stephen C. Levinson points to the many places in Whorf's writings in which he explicitly rejects determinism, and in which he clearly notes that translation and commensuration between linguistic conceptual schemes is possible.
From a military standpoint, historian John Keegan notes exaggerations and myths that surround Shaka, but nevertheless maintains:
John Davies notes that one can scarcely " conceive of any miracle more superfluous " in that part of Wales than the creation of a new hill.
As John O ' Neill notes:
Ackroyd notes that More explicitly " approved of Burning " After the case of John Tewkesbury, a London leather-seller found guilty by More of harbouring banned books and sentenced to burning for refusing to recant, More declared: he " burned as there was neuer wretche I wene better worthy.
" Yale historian Gaddis Smith notes " an ethos of organized activity " at Yale during the 20th century that led John Kerry to lead the Yale Political Union's Liberal Party, George Pataki the Conservative Party, and Joseph Lieberman to manage the Yale Daily News .< ref >
Evidence for this etymology comes from the OED, which notes the name " shark " first came into use after Sir John Hawkins ' sailors exhibited one in London in 1569 and used the word " sharke " to refer to the large sharks of the Caribbean Sea.

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