Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.

These features may place Smith's works within the Dying Earth subgenre of science fiction.

Deciding to undertake his studies independently, he spent much time in the newly opened public library at Changsha, reading the core works of classical liberalism such as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws, as well as the works of western scientists and philosophers like Charles Darwin, J. S.

Scholars of the 19th century tended to interpret these titles as the names of distinct works covering separate voyages ; for example, Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology hypothesizes a voyage to Britain and Thule written about in " Ocean " and another from Cadiz to the Don river, written about in " Sail Around.

Similar arguments appear later in the works of Auguste Comte, especially when it comes to Adam Smith's belief in the separation of powers or what Comte called the " separation of the spiritual and the temporal " during the Middle Ages and the end of slavery, and Smith's criticism of masters, past and present.

In the same year, King George III acquired twenty-five of his works through the purchase of much of Consul Smith's extensive art collection and library in Venice.

" In response, she points to Mary Collier's works such as The Woman's Labour ( 1739 ) to help understand Smith's contemporaneous experiences of women and fill in such gaps.

Charlotte is also an illustrator ; as is Hannah, known for her book jacket illustrations for Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies ' Detective Agency series ; Josie, who runs hand-painted china shops in London and Canterbury ; Katy, who works for a farmers ' cooperative in Faversham, Lucy, a pattern-cutter for fashion houses in Italy and Emily, the youngest, who appeared in the opening sequence of Bagpuss, and is a papier mache artist and printmaker living in Whitstable.

Various works of fantasy fiction, such as Clark Ashton Smith's " Empire of the Necromancers ", had used lich as a general term for any corpse, animated or inanimate, before the term's specific use in fantasy role-playing games.

Jannice Thaddeus suggests that the speaker of the poem, like other figures in Smith's works, changes from male to female as part of a theme of androgyny that exists in many of the poems found in Selected Poems.

" The drawing was used as the accompanying image for the poem " The Frozen Lake " in Selected Poems, a self-edited compilation of Smith's works published in 1962.

He also illustrated Evans's Coins of the Ancient Britons, Frederic William Madden's Jewish Coinage, Halliwell's folio Shakespeare and his Sir John Maundeville, Charles Roach Smith's Richborough, the Miscellanea Graphica of Lord Londesborough, and many other works.

It provided the ethical, philosophical, psychological, and methodological underpinnings to Smith's later works, including The Wealth of Nations ( 1776 ), Essays on Philosophical Subjects ( 1795 ), and Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms ( 1763 ) ( first published in 1896 ).

Ideas about competitive law were published during the 18th century with such works as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.

The company has also released several of Smith's non-fiction works, such as his four question and answer DVDs, An Evening With Kevin Smith in 2002, An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder in 2006, Sold Out: A Threevening with Kevin Smith in 2008 and Kevin Smith: Too Fat for 40 in 2011.

His sources on European editions are François Lesure's Bibliographie des éditions musicales publiées par Estienne Roger ..., Paris, 1969, and William C. Smith's A bibliography of the musical works published by John Walsh ..., London, 1968.

Smith's manuscripts are housed in the Royal Academy of Music Library and some of her instrumental works have recently been published by A-R Editions.

The design of many of Scieszka and Smith's collaborative works is attributed to Molly Leach, Smith's wife, including The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales.

By 1838, Cowdery and Smith had engaged in a number of disagreements that included doctrinal differences about the role of faith and works, the Kirtland Safety Society, and what Cowdery called Smith's " dirty, nasty, filthy affair " with Fanny Alger.

There is photographic evidence of Smith's large paintings created in the 1940s, however the works themselves were destroyed by Smith himself.

Smith's cycle takes cues from his friends, Lovecraft and Robert E Howard and their works.

In 1882, the North Riding of Leeds and Grenville was defined to consist of the townships of South Elmsley, Wolford, Oxford and South Gower, and the villages of Smith's Falls, Kemptville and Merrickville.

As with Patti Smith's debut, the band self-financed, packaged, and distributed the single .< ref > "( I'm ) Stranded " had limited impact at home, but the British music press recognized it as a groundbreaking record.

" The Melody Makers Ian Birch recognised the Banshees ' influence on Smith's band early on, comparing The Cure ’ s 1978 debut single Killing An Arab favourably to Siouxsie's Hong Kong Garden ( released a few short months earlier ).

In interviews, while the band was first getting recognition for their material, they frequently told interviewers that the name of the band was a reference to a Smith's single that was a b-side to " How Soon is Now?

Thus, Cowdery's account, containing a single vision, differs from Smith's 1832 account, which contains two separate visions, one in 1821 prompted by religious confusion ( the First Vision ) and a separate one regarding the plates on September 22, 1822.

This is probably still a part of a single radiation which brought about all the aridland taxa, and eventually Smith's Dwarf Chameleon.

It just is ") many of the situations on the show were inexplicable or highly unlikely ; for example, even in Smith's obese state, it was very unlikely that she could not find a single man willing to have sex with her, as she repeatedly claimed.

Smith's style on fast tempo pieces combined bluesy " licks " with bebop-based single note runs.

Thus, Adam Smith's single axiom, broadly interpreted ... is sufficient to characterize a major portion of the human social and cultural enterprise.

Kool Moe Dee appeared on Will Smith's # 1 pop hit " Wild Wild West " from Smith's 1999 motion picture, Wild Wild West, on which he re-performs the chorus to his 1988 single also named " Wild Wild West ".

Riley responded in kind with his 1984 single " Jumper Clown " – a reference to Smith's then affection for bad 1970s jumpers, as well as " Snipe " on the 1985 Shadow Figure EP and his own live only co-opting of Bo Diddley, " Marc Riley is a Gunslinger ".

The collection includes a large number of outstanding single items, such as the 14th century Chertsey Cartulary, the journal of James Cook on the HM Bark Endeavour, inscribed on the Memory of the World Register in 2001, the diaries of Robert O ' Hara Burke and William John Wills from the Burke and Wills expedition, and Charles Kingsford Smith's and Charles Ulm's log of the Southern Cross.

In 2006, a William Eggleston image was coincidentally used as both the cover to Primal Scream's single " Country Girl " and the paperback edition of Ali Smith's novel The Accidental.

One of the four songs recorded during the session entitled " Once a Day " ( written by Anderson especially for Smith ) was chosen to be Smith's debut single.

The song was rush-released as a single on August 1, 1964 and became Smith's breakout single, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Singles chart on November 28 and remained at the number one position for eight weeks.

Among these songs was Smith's follow-up single to " Once a Day " released in early 1965 titled " Then and Only Then ".

In 1971 Smith's cover of Don Gibson's 1960 single " Just One Time " reached No. 2 on the Hot Country Singles chart.

When Dru Hill made a high-profile guest appearance on Will Smith's # 1 pop hit " Wild Wild West ", the lead single from the soundtrack to Smith's 1999 film of the same name, it made a star out of Sisqó alone.

Wood introduced the term in an essay on Zadie Smith's White Teeth, which appeared in the July 24, 2000 issue of The New Republic Wood uses the term to denote the contemporary conception of the " big, ambitious novel " that pursues " vitality at all costs " and consequently " knows a thousand things but does not know a single human being.

Will Smith's " Wild Wild West " single samples Stevie Wonder's song " I Wish ", with parts of the chorus from Kool Moe Dee's song of the same name as well.

The record was reviewed by Rolling Stone Magazine, October 19, 2006, by Senior Editor David Fricke, as one of " Fricke's Picks ," saying of the band's 1978 single ( included in the set ), " City Slang " " 5: 15 of assault guitars, railroad drumming and Smith's determined-rebel call -- has all you need to know why SRB were masters of their domain.

He later went on to form Sonic's Rendezvous Band, which released one single, " City Slang ", during Smith's lifetime.