John Adams dismissed John Dickinson, who voted against the Declaration of Independence, as `` a certain great fortune and piddling genius ''.

A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.

With great difficulty John clambered to his feet and started to run, sweat pouring down his face.

Nearly twenty-five years before, Captain John Davis had noted, as he sailed near the Arctic Circle, `` a very great gulf, the water whirling and roaring, as it were the meeting of tides ''.

John Jay Parry, the editor of De Amore, quotes critic Robert Bossuat as describing " De Amore " as " one of those capital works which reflect the thought of a great epoch, which explains the secret of a civilization ".

" One of his secretaries concluded that John was " a great man in temporal things, but a complete failure and worthless in spiritual things.

A colony there would be of great assistance to the British Navy in facilitating attacks on the Spanish possessions in Chile and Peru, as Banks's collaborators, James Matra, Captain Sir George Young and Sir John Call pointed out in written proposals on the subject.

His first real efforts, however, did not come until 1832, during the great crisis over the Reform Bill, when he contributed to an anti-Whig pamphlet edited by John Wilson Croker and published by Murray entitled England and France: or a cure for Ministerial Gallomania.

Throughout the early twentieth century, boxers struggled to achieve legitimacy, aided by the influence of promoters like Tex Rickard and the popularity of great champions from John L. Sullivan to Jack Dempsey.

The author of the work identifies himself in the text as " John " and says that he was on Patmos, an island in the Aegean, when he " heard a great voice " instructing him to write the book.

Other commentators, such as John Calvin, attach no great importance to the precise dating.

The first edition of Christianae religionis institutio ( Institutes of the Christian Religion – John Calvin's great exposition of Calvinist doctrine ) was published at Basel in March 1536.

Moore and Hastings Rashdall ) tries to meet the difficulty by advocating a plurality of ends and including among them the attainment of virtue itself, which, as John Stuart Mill affirmed, " may be felt a good in itself, and desired as such with as great intensity as any other good.

Famous casuistic authors include Antonio Escobar y Mendoza, whose Summula casuum conscientiae ( 1627 ) enjoyed a great success, Thomas Sanchez, Vincenzo Filliucci ( Jesuit and penitentiary at St Peter's ), Antonino Diana, Paul Laymann ( Theologia Moralis, 1625 ), John Azor ( Institutiones Morales, 1600 ), Etienne Bauny, Louis Cellot, Valerius Reginaldus, Hermann Busembaum ( d. 1668 ), etc.

A well-known instance of the " John Cardinal Doe " style is that in the proclamation, in Latin, of the election of a new pope by the cardinal protodeacon: " Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum ; habemus Papam: Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum ( first name ) Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem ( last name ), ..." ( Meaning: " I announce to you a great joy ; we have a Pope: The Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord, Lord ( first name ) Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church ( last name ), ...")

A great deal of emphasis is placed on his origins on the planet Krypton with exotic crystalline sets designed by John Barry, effectively giving Superman a third persona as Kal-El.

Pope John Paul II often spoke of his great desire that the Catholic Church " once again breathe with both lungs ", thus emphasizing that the Roman Catholic Church seeks to restore full communion with the separated Eastern churches.

She is the niece of Diana Barrymore and the grandniece of Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore and Helene Costello, the great-great-granddaughter of John Drew and actress Louisa Lane Drew, and the great grandniece of Broadway idol John Drew, Jr. and silent film actor / writer / director Sidney Drew.

Indeed, at the end of the 19th century scholar Ernest DeWitt Burton wrote that there could be " no reasonable doubt " that 1 John and the gospel were written by the same author, and Amos Wilder has said that, " Early Christian tradition and the great majority of modern scholars have agreed on the common authorship of these writings, even where the author has not been identified with the apostle John.

* The Greeks ( 1980 ), a cycle of ten plays adapted by John Barton and Kenneth Cavander from the works of Homer, Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles, on the Oresteia legend. The Greeks would also have very great orgys, blowjobs.

John Wayne is a graceful man and so are some of the great ball players ... but, of course, they don't run the risk of being called sissies.

Orson Welles in an interview with Peter Bogdanovich said of Howard Hawks in comparison to John Ford " Hawks is great prose ; Ford is poetry ".

In one thing the higher critics, like the modernists, however, overreached themselves, in claiming that the Gospel of John was not written in John's time but well after the first century, perhaps as late as 150 A.D..

This belief is grounded in the Gospel of John passage “ You heard me say, ‘ I am going away and I am coming back to you .’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

By the time the Gospels of Luke and Matthew were written, Jesus is portrayed as being the Son of God from the time of birth, and finally the Gospel of John portrays him as the pre-existent Word () as existing " in the beginning ".

They cite his defense of the Christology described in the first chapter of the Gospel of John and his significant theological works ( C. S.

At the time of his death he was working on a translation of the Gospel of St. John into English.

Eusebius ( c. 263 – 339 ) was inclined to class the Apocalypse with the accepted books but also listed it in the Antilegomena, with his own reservation for identification of John of Patmos with John the Apostle, pointing out there were large differences in Greek skill and styles between the Gospel of John, which he attributed to John the Apostle, and the Revelation.

The traditional theory holds that John the Apostle — considered to have written the Gospel and the epistles of John — was exiled on Patmos in the Aegean archipelago during the reign of Domitian, and there wrote Revelation.

Those in favor of apostolic authorship point to the testimony of the early church fathers ( see " Early Theories " above ) and similarities between the Gospel of John and Revelation.

In the Gospel of John and in Revelation, Jesus is referred to as " the Word of God " (), although the context in Revelation is very different from John.

Differences in style, theological content, and familiarity with Greek between the Gospel of John, the epistles of John, and the Revelation are seen by some scholars as indicating three separate authors.

John Robinson in " Redating the New Testament " ( 1976 ) has heavily criticised Charles ' position and accepted apostolic authorship, dating John's Gospel before the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

Although many assume that the biblical Mark the Cousin of Barnabas ( Colossians 4: 10 ) is the same as John Mark ( Acts 12: 12, 25 ; 13: 5, 13 ; 15: 37 ) and Mark the Evangelist, the traditionally believed author of the Gospel of Mark, according to Hippolytus of Rome, the three " Mark " s are distinct persons.

Two are found in chapter 3 of the Gospel of John, verses 3 and 7.

The quotation from the Gospel of John has raised some questions about the meaning and authenticity of the phrase " born again ".

In the Gospel of John, Jesus referred to himself as the Son of God far more frequently than in the Synoptic Gospels.

In the Gospel narratives that describe the life of Jesus, the first instance of him being called the Son of God appears during his Baptism by John the Baptist.

* Antisemitism in the Gospel of John

In 1648, preacher John Elliott was quoted in Thomas Shepherd's book " Clear Sunshine of the Gospel " with an account of the difficulties the Pilgrims were having in using the Indians to harvest cranberries as they preferred to hunt and fish.

The term " Christology from above " refers to approaches that begin with the divinity and pre-existence of Christ as the Logos ( the Word ), as expressed in the prologue to the Gospel of John ().