Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

All seven recognized that independence was but the first step toward building a nation.

In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.

In about seven years Griffith either invented or first realized the possibilities of virtually every resource at the disposal of the film maker.

Until late last Saturday afternoon Palmer had played seven consecutive rounds of golf at the Masters -- four last year and three this -- without ever being out of first place.

A paper published at the same time as the 2009 classification proposed seven subfamilies for the families recognized in the very first APG classification of 1998.

* 1959 – Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States ' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the " Mercury Seven ".

This was the first time since that the home team won all seven games of a World Series and the first time that a National League team won a World Series in which the home team won all seven games of a World Series.

He made the first seven scenes of the Great Passion in the same year, and a little later, a series of eleven on the Holy Family and saints.

Road construction first became a priority after 1750, when Zurich and Bern began appointing a governor for seven years.

With the exception of the first term, it has been held by the Labour Party, and for seven years was held by Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister in 1924 and from 1929 to 1935.

* In Nizhny Novgorod, there is a Sakharov Museum in the apartment on the first floor of the 12-storeyed house where the Sakharov family lived for seven years.

In its first seven years, the Werkbund came to be regarded as the authoritative body on questions of design in Germany, and was copied in other countries.

In its 12-year history as an amateur league, the Brooklyn Atlantics won seven championships, establishing themselves as the first true dynasty in the sport, although, the New York Mutuals were widely considered to be one of the best teams of the era as well.

Federko scored at least 90 points in seven of the eight seasons between 1978 and 1986, and became the first player in NHL history to record at least 50 assists in 10 consecutive seasons.

Some competitions use a " set " scoring system, with the first to seven points awarded a set in a best-or-three or best-of-five set match.

The fragments describe a Babylonian king ( spelled N-b-n-y ) who is afflicted by God with an " evil disease " for a period of seven years ; he is cured and his sins forgiven after the intervention of a Jewish exile who is described as a " diviner "; he issues a written proclamation in praise of the Most High God, and speaks in the first person.

* He became the first man to score seven centuries in eight first-class innings, the first being the record 375 against England and the last being the record 501 not out against Durham.

His first draft, produced during Henry's reign, retained the traditional seven distinct Canonical hours of Office prayer ; but in his second draft, while he retained the Latin, he consolidated these into two.

It is common to display the Gregorian calendar in separate monthly grids of seven columns ( from Monday to Sunday, or Sunday to Saturday depending on which day is considered to start the week-this varies according to country ) and five to six rows ( or rarely, four rows when the month of February contains 28 days beginning on the first day of the week ), with the day of the month numbered in each cell, beginning with 1.

The first equipment supplied included three Douglas C-47's and seven MH. 1521 Broussard STOL utility aircraft in 1961.

The first nine probably date from the 3rd century BC, they are usually included among the Cynic epistles, and reflect how the Cynic philosophers viewed him as prefiguring many of their ideas ; the tenth letter is quoted by Diogenes Laertius, it is addressed to Croesus, the proverbially rich king of Lydia, it too is fictitious:

During the first generation after Jesus, Paul's epistles to various churches helped establish early Christian theology.

The following arguments have been based on the content: ( 1 ) It is perceived to be theologically incompatible with Paul's other epistles: elsewhere Paul attributed Jesus's death to the " rulers of this age " ( 1 Cor 2: 8 ) rather than to the Jews, and elsewhere Paul writes that the Jews have not been abandoned by God for " all Israel will be saved " ( Rom 11: 26 ); According to 1 Thes 1: 10, the wrath of God is still to come, it is not something that has already shown itself ( 2 ) There were no extensive historical persecutions of Christians by Jews in Palestine prior to the first Jewish war ( 3 ) The use of the concept of imitation in 1 Thes.

However, John A. T. Robinson and other scholars argued for a much earlier dating, based on the fact that the New Testament writings make no mention of ( 1 ) the Great Fire of Rome ( A. D. 64 ), one of the most destructive fires in Roman history, which Emperor Nero blamed on the Christians, and led to the first major persecution of believers ; ( 2 ) the final years and deaths of Paul, who wrote most of the epistles, Peter, whom Catholics recognize as the first pope, and the other apostles ; ( 3 ) Nero's suicide ( A. D. 68 ); or ( 4 ) the total destruction of the temple in Jerusalem ( A. D. 70 ), which Robinson thought should certainly have appeared, considering the importance of that event for Jews and Christians of that time.

The Principles was followed in 1790 by his first essay in the field of Christian apologetics, Horae Paulinae, or the Truth of the Scripture History of St Paul which compared the Paul's epistles with the Acts of the Apostles, making use of " undesigned coincidences " to argue that these documents mutually supported each other's authenticity.

Wells suggested that the earliest extant Christian documents from the first century, most notably the New Testament epistles by Paul and some other writers, show no familiarity with the Gospel tradition of Jesus as a preacher and miracle-worker who lived and died in the recent decades.

" The first spurious set of Ignatian epistles enumerates " the heavenly beings and the glory of the angels and the archons visible and invisible " ( Ad Smyrn.

Gortyn was the site of the largest Christian basilica on Crete, the Basilica of Saint Titus, dedicated to the first Christian bishop in Crete, to whom Paul addressed one of his epistles.

Ovid produced three collections of verse epistles, composed in elegiac couplets: the Heroides, letters written in the person of legendary women to their absent lovers ; and the Tristia and Ex Ponto, written in first person during the poet's exile.

Here he wrote his Geschichte des Volkes Israel ( 1869 – 1870 ), in two parts, extending respectively to the end of the Persian domination and to the fall of Masada, 72 AD, as well as a work on the Pauline epistles, Zur Kritik Paulinischer Briefe ( 1870 ), on the Moabite Stone, Die Inschrift des Mescha ( 1870 ), and on Assyrian, Sprache und Sprachen Assyriens ( 1871 ), besides revising the commentary on Job by Ludwig Hirzel, first published in 1839.

Frank inspired his followers through mystical speeches and epistles, in which he stated that salvation could be gained only by first adopting the " religion of Edom " ( Christianity ) and later adopting a future religion which Frank called das (" knowledge ").

The first result of his studies was an edition from a Bodleian Library manuscript of the four New Testament epistles ( 2 Peter, 2 and 3 John, Jude ) which were not in the old Syriac canon, and were not contained in European editions of the Peshito.

Popular reception for his Scots work, as evidenced in a number of verse epistles in its praise, helped persuade Ruddiman to publish a first general edition of his poems which appeared in early 1773 and sold around 500 copies, allowing Fergusson to clear a profit.

**" Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to " ( 3 ) " Society " ( continuation of Essay on Man ; the first two " epistles " were published in 1732 & the fourth in 1744 )

* Alexander Pope-Essay on Man, volume 4: " Epistle: Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to " ( 4 ) " Happiness " ( the first 2 epistles were written in 1732 and the third in 1733 ).

Price investigates several historical scenarios and comes to the conclusion and identifies Marcion as the first person known in recorded history to collect Paul's writings to various churches together as a canon, the Pauline epistles.

He became fashionable for his work, Réponse d ' Abélard à Héloise (" Abelard's Answer to Heloise "), and followed up this first success with a number of heroic epistles, Les Victimes de l ' amour, ou lettres de quelques amants célébres ( 1776 ) (" Victims of Love, or Letters from some famous lovers ").

One tradition maintains that John wrote his first two epistles to counter Cerinthus ' heresy.

In the convocation of 1542, when the bishops undertook the work of a revised translation of the New Testament, the first and second epistles to the Thessalonians were assigned to Bell.

The Pauline epistles, Epistles of Paul, or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen New Testament books which have the name Paul ( Παῦλος ) as the first word, hence claiming authorship by Paul the Apostle.

In 1962 Billy Graham received a copy of Living Letters – a paraphrase of the New Testament epistles and the first portion of what later became The Living Bible – while recuperating in a hospital in Hawaii.

The authorship of the Johannine works ( the Gospel of John, the first, second, and third epistles of John, and the Book of Revelation ) has been debated by scholars since at least the 2nd century AD.

The pastoral epistles ( those to Timothy and Titus ), are generally acknowledged as being clearly anti-gnostic, and the second Epistle to the Thessalonians clearly refutes certain gnostic interpretations of the first Epistle to the Thessalonians.