He referred to Sir William Jones's writings in a few other places in his works, but this was the most extensive citation.

The early modern English prose writings of Sir Thomas Browne are the source of many neologisms as recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary.

" Few people love the writings of Sir Thomas Browne, but those that do are the salt of the earth.

In 1868 he brought out a bibliography of the writings of Richard Baxter, and from that year until 1876 he was occupied in reproducing for private subscribers the “ Fuller Worthies Library ,” a series of thirty-nine volumes which included the works of Thomas Fuller, Sir John Davies, Fulke Greville, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, John Donne and Sir Philip Sidney.

All of Fortescue's minor writings appear in The Works of Sir John Fortescue, now first Collected and Arranged, published in 1869 for private circulation, by his descendant, Lord Clermont. There is an unpublished Ph. D. dissertation on Fortescue's life and career: Paul E. Gill, Sir John Fortescue: Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Polemicist of the Succession Problem, Governmental Reformer, and Political Theorist, The Pennsylvania State University, 1968.

Wieland's tastes had changed ; the writings of his early Swiss years — Der geprüfte Abraham ( The Trial of Abraham's Faith, 1753 ), Sympathien ( 1756 ), Empfindungen eines Christen ( 1757 ) — were still in the manner of his earlier writings, but with the tragedies, Lady Johanna Gray ( 1758 ), and Clementina von Porretta ( 1760 ) — the latter based on Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison — the epic fragment Cyrus ( 1759 ), and the " moral story in dialogues ," Araspes und Panthea ( 1760 ), Wieland, as Gotthold Lessing said, " forsook the ethereal spheres to wander again among the sons of men.

The two principal sources from which Lavater developed his physiognomical studies were the writings of the Italian polymath Giambattista della Porta, and the observations made by Sir Thomas Browne in his Religio Medici ( translated into German in 1748 and praised by Lavater ).

Sir Benjamin Lockspeiser, the first president of CERN was also an undergraduate at the college and psychiatrist W. Ross Ashby gained a substantial amount of material for his landmark writings Design For A Brain and An Introduction To Cybernetics whilst in residence.

Leslie's reputation, guile and discretion were frequently noted by contemporary observers including the English officer John Aston and intellectual, Sir Cheney Culpeper who both commented on his qualities in their writings.

The two principal sources from which Lavater found ' confirmation ' of his ideas were the writings of the Italian Giambattista Della Porta ( 1535 – 1615 ) and the English physician-philosopher Sir Thomas Browne ( 1605 – 1682 ), whose Religio Medici discusses the possibility of the discernment of inner qualities from the outer appearance of the face, thus:

Sir Walter Raleigh had little impact on the course of Irish literature, but the time spent in Munster by Edmund Spenser was to have serious consequences both for his own writings and for the future course of cultural development in Ireland.

Luther had a very high opinion of Valla and of his writings, and Cardinal Bellarmine calls him praecursor Lutheri, while Sir Richard Jebb says that his De Elegantiis " marked the highest level that had yet been reached in the critical study of Latin.

Sir Sydney Cockerell, who was serving as director of the museum at the time, went on to acquire a further 8 Turner watercolours and some of his writings.

Kenneth was very interested in the works of the French ceremonial magician Eliphas Levi, as well as Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough, although his favorite was the writings of the English occultist Aleister Crowley.

The General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress from 1925 to 1946, Sir Walter Citrine, was influenced by Blatchford's writings.

Other writings are also ascribed to him, including the authorship with Sir Samuel Tuke of The Adventures of Five Hours ( 1663 ).

He held political office under Sir Robert Peel in the 1830s and 1840s but is best remembered for his contributions to cultural causes and for his historical writings.

It was based on a drafted code called " the Stephen Code ", written by Sir James Fitzjames Stephen as part of a Royal Commission in England in 1879, and influenced by the writings of Canadian Jurist George Burbidge.

He published many writings promoting liberal, rational interpretations of In face of pressure from religious Muslims, Sir Syed avoided discussing religious subjects in his writings, focusing instead on promoting education.

Since the decline of the Mughal dynasty, Sir Syed promoted the use of Urdu through his own writings.

Instead, he developed a new strategy to attack the Viceroyalty of Perú through the Captaincy of Chile, inspired on the writings of Sir Thomas Maitland, who was quoted as saying that the only way to defeat the Spanish at Quito and Lima was attacking Chile first.

The British government proposed that British Lieutenant General Sir Charles Keightley be given command of a Commonwealth Corps for Operation Coronet but the Australian government had no intention of concurring with the appointment of an officer with no experience fighting the Japanese, and counter-proposed Morshead for the command.

The short concurring opinion by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger emphasized historical negative attitudes toward homosexual sex, quoting Sir William Blackstone's characterization of sodomy as " a crime not fit to be named.

The Court of the King's Bench, led by Lord Mansfield ( with Aston and Willes JJ concurring in judgment, Sir Joseph Yates dissenting ), sided with the publishers, finding that common law rights were not extinguished by the Statute of Anne.

The General Medical Council appealed to the Court of Appeal and in October 2006 by a majority decision, with the Master of the Rolls, Sir Anthony Clarke, dissenting, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the High Court in part, ruling that Meadow's misconduct was not sufficiently serious to merit the punishment which he had received.

The GMC appealed to the Court of Appeal and in October 2006 by a majority decision, with the Master of the Rolls, Sir Anthony Clarke, dissenting, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the High Court in part ruling that Meadow's misconduct was not sufficiently serious to merit the punishment which he had received .< ref >

If you be not too much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will continue the story, with Sir John in it, and make you merry with fair Katharine of France where, for any thing I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already a ' be killed with your hard opinions ; for Oldcastle died a martyr, and this is not the man.

The new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Charles Thomson Ritchie, influenced by economists such as Sir William Ashley, was vigorously opposed to any scheme of Imperial Preference but although he made his opinions known, the Cabinet was generally favourable towards Chamberlain's proposal when it was considered on 21 October.

A satire on the religious opinions of some of the chief popular writers of the day ( including Arnold Bennett and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ).

Richard Scully is investigating Sir Austen ’ s year in Germany and its subsequent effect on his opinions and politics.

Whereas Social Statics had been the work of a radical democrat who believed in votes for women ( and even for children ) and in the nationalization of the land to break the power of the aristocracy, by the 1880s he had become a staunch opponent of female suffrage and made common cause with the landowners of the Liberty and Property Defence League against what they saw as the drift towards ' socialism ' of elements ( such as Sir William Harcourt ) within the administration of William Ewart Gladstone – largely against the opinions of Gladstone himself.

Savile was also the nephew of Sir William Coventry, who is said to have influenced his political opinions, and of Lord Shaftesbury, afterwards his most bitter opponent, and great-nephew of the Earl of Strafford.

Russell was in sympathy with the reformers, whose opinions he shared, and was in communication with Sir Thomas Wyatt ; and in consequence of his religious attitude was imprisoned during the earlier part of Mary's reign.

In late nineteenth century opinions on comparative religion, in a line of thinking that begins with Friedrich Engels and J. J. Bachofen, and which received major literary promotion in The Golden Bough by Sir James G. Frazer, it was believed that worship of a sky father was characteristic of nomadic peoples, and that worship of an earth mother similarly characterised farming peoples.

Sir Brian Robertson, chairman of the British Transport Commission, was less than impressed, believing that the locomotives lacked the power to maintain heavy trains at high speed and were too expensive to run in multiple – opinions that were later proved to be correct.

The anonymous work was universally ascribed to Sir William, and forcefully reflects his opinions on the French entanglement.

In his June 1905 article on The Religious Life of Liverpool, Sir Edward Russell, an opponent of both his religious and political opinions, bore witness to the deep spirituality of his teaching, and describes him as an absolutely unique personality:

Though violent in the expression of his opinions, Sir Wilfrid Lawson remained very popular for his own sake both in and out of the House of Commons ; he became well known for his humorous vein, his faculty for composing topical doggerel being often exercised on questions of the day.

The reasoning behind the outcome of the case, which was decided at a time before courts regularly issued written opinions, was reported by Sir Edward Coke.

A notable person of Irish Catholic background in Great Britain who had unionist political opinions was the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The case was prosecuted by the Lord Advocate, Sir James Stewart ( grandfather of the future Jacobite economist Steuart ) who demanded the death penalty to set an example to others who might otherwise express such opinions in the future.

He held pronounced Radical opinions, and overtaxed his slender physical resources in electioneering work for Sir William Molesworth in the summer of 1837.