His acquaintance with Rousseau, through a mutual sympathy in regard to musical matters, soon ripened into intimate friendship, and led to a close association with the encyclopaedists.

She met Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1836, and their acquaintance ripened into a warm friendship.

While in London he formed an acquaintance with Charles Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington and Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, which quickly ripened into intimacy.

The acquaintance with Goethe ripened into friendship ; and it was by his influence that Jung's first work Heinrich Stillings Jugend was written.

Their acquaintance ripened into a deep friendship.

He later included Locke in the encyclopedias he edited ; and the acquaintance with Limborch soon ripened into a close friendship, which strengthened his preference for the Remonstrant theology, already favorably known to him by the writings of his grand-uncle, Stephan Curcellaeus ( d. 1645 ) and by those of Simon Episcopius.

Ruth Pitter, a family acquaintance, helped him find lodgings, and by the end of 1927 he had moved into rooms in Portobello Road ;( a blue plaque commemorates his residence there.

Calvin and Servetus were first brought into contact in 1546 through a common acquaintance, Jean Frellon of Lyon.

He also gained an acquaintance with a country that would feature prominently in his writing, which he resumed upon his return to London, at the same time entering into a partnership in the Thomas Nelson & Son publishing company and becoming editor of The Spectator.

While cooling their heels in France, Redmond comes into the acquaintance of the Countess of Lyndon, an extraordinarily wealthy noblewoman married to a much older man ( who is in poor health ).

Liberto was taken into custody shortly after an acquaintance drove him to a farmhouse on Long Island.

The painting that first brought him into public notice, and gained him the acquaintance and patronage of Edmund Burke, was founded on an old tradition of the landing of St Patrick on the sea-coast of Cashel, ( this is a mistake reproduced from another source, Cashel is an inland town far from the sea ) and of the conversion and Baptism of the King of Cashel It was exhibited in London in 1762 or 1763 and rediscovered in the 1980s, in unexhibitable condition.

A classic textbook example for this, in German law, is the so-called Sirius case on which the Federal Court of Justice ruled in 1983: The accused had convinced an acquaintance that she would be re-incarnated into a better life if she killed herself.

The sentimental key in which the book is written shows the author's acquaintance with Sterne and Richardson, but he had neither the humour of Sterne nor the subtle insight into character of Richardson.

An investigation into Dickinson's background indicated her involvement with Japanese organizations while living in San Francisco, as well as that after moving to New York, she had visited the Nippon Club and the Japanese Institute in New York, become a friend of the Japanese Consul General and was an acquaintance of Ichiro Yokoyama, the Japanese Naval Attaché in Washington, D. C. Further investigation of the Dickinsons ' activities from January to June 1942 ( the time frame in which the letters were sent ) revealed that the couple had visited those areas, staying in hotels near the cities in question.

When not being woven into the Pattern, or fighting in spectral form, she and all the other heroes of the Wheel reside in Tel ' aran ' rhiod, and it was there that she first made her acquaintance with Elayne Trakand and Nynaeve al ' Meara.

Happening into the offices of the Maine Farmer in 1842, Ezra saw an acquaintance of his, one F. O. J.

He is hired by an acquaintance to look after the comatose " Count " ( Bobby Newmark from the second novel, Count Zero, who has hooked himself into a super-capacity cyber-harddrive called an Aleph ).

He was sent to Moscow to study under Swiss-German teacher Johann Matthias Schaden ; he later moved to St Petersburg, where he made the acquaintance of Ivan Dmitriev, a Russian poet of some merit, and occupied himself with translating essays by foreign writers into his native language.

Wood explains that " his geny being well known to be poetical, ( he ) fell into acquaintance with " a literary circle which included Ben Jonson, Michael Drayton, John Donne, George Wither, John Owen and others.

Enormously rich, he became a friend of Frederick, Prince of Wales, who took advantage of their acquaintance to obtain loans that helped clear his debts, and, on being thrown out of St James's Palace by his father, King George II, moved into a London house belonging to Dodington.

Hannah obsesses over their relationship and Bright runs into an old acquaintance, Ada ( Kelly Carlson ), an attractive blonde who once sold Bright and Ephram fake IDs.

Thanks to his acquaintance with Florentine fascist leader Luigi Ridolfi, he broke into active politics, becoming Ridolfi's deputy in 1927.

As war approached he was recruited into Section D of M. I. 6 as a propaganda specialist, then returned to the BBC, eventually becoming the producer of The Week in Westminster, the flagship programme covering Parliamentary activity-wherein he was able to further his acquaintance with important politicians, In London Burgess resided at Chester Square and later 5, Bentinck Street, for sometime with Anthony Blunt and Teresa Mayor, later Lady Rothschild.

Later into the series run, a fictional celebrity and acquaintance of the Warners had revealed that the Warners were actually quite popular in the thirties, until, as he had said: "... they ( the Warners ) pantsed Jimmy Cagney ," at which point, " something had to be done ," so the Warners, who made even less sense than their cartoons, were locked away, also never to be released.

Meanwhile, just as Quark is about to conclude a very lucrative deal over some historical relics with a man named Ashrock, an old acquaintance of his named, Fallit Kot walks into his bar.

In the same parcel you will receive 40 more, which having no acquaintance in Cambridge, I must entreat you to put into the hands of one or more of your ablest booksellers to dispose of them.

With such a short time frame he drew heavily on his own acquaintance in academia ; of the fifteen original professors, most came either from Indiana University or his alma mater Cornell.

: It is their duty to have an eye of inspection and care over all the members of the congregation ; and, for this purpose, to cultivate a universal and intimate acquaintance, as far as may be, with every family in the flock of which they are made " overseers ".

Their tent mate is Cadet White, but their acquaintance is all too brief ; White is killed in an air crash the same day.

Richard Baxter, on the other hand, described Anne as " one of own judgment and temper, prudent and loving, and fit to please him ; and that would not draw on him the trouble of much acquaintance and relations ".

* The Life and Death of Pomponius Atticus written by his contemporary and acquaintance Cornelius Nepos ; Translated out of his fragments, together with observations political and moral thereon ( 1677 );

He had proposed after an almost momentary acquaintance, allegedly in very abrupt and peculiar terms ; it seems to have been a successful marriage.

At what period he came to Italy is not certain ; according to some accounts he was summoned to Venice about 1430 to act as amanuensis to Francesco Barbaro, who appears to have already made his acquaintance ; according to others he did not visit Italy till the time of the Council of Florence ( 1438 – 1439 ).

; 1945: Vannevar Bush — head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, intimately connected with the Manhattan Project, and personal acquaintance of the President — was asked by President Roosevelt in 1944 to write a report on what should be done in the postwar to further foster government commitment to science and technology.

During this period, he made the acquaintance of Napoleon Bonaparte at the siege of Toulon ( his later clash with Napoleon made him downplay the latter's abilities as a soldier: he noted in his Memoirs that the siege had been carried out by 30, 000 men against a minor royalist defending force, whereas the real number was 12, 000 ; he also sought to minimize the share taken by Bonaparte in the capture of the city ).

In 1807 he was appointed to the professorship of Greek literature at the Weimar gymnasium by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose acquaintance he had made during a holiday tour ; his lessons were attended by the young Arthur Schopenhauer.

Craig had made his career in British as well as Northern Irish politics ; but his premiership showed little sign of his earlier close acquaintance with the British political world.

It was in Antioch that the Jews first made the acquaintance of Hellenism and of the more corrupt sides of Greek culture ; and it was from Antioch that Palestine henceforth was ruled.

These conclusions, published anonymously in his book Arcanum punctuationis revelatum ( Leiden, 1624 ), were hotly contested by Johannes Buxtorf, since they conflicted with those of his father, Johannes Buxtorf senior ; Elias Levita had already disputed the antiquity of the vowel points, with which neither Jerome nor the Talmud showed any acquaintance.

# It is intelligible to other Low German speakers after some acquaintance ;

I-II ; 1853 – 62 ) reveal his wide acquaintance with Greek grammar.

At Halle he made the acquaintance of Johann Ernst Fabri, professor of geography ; and when Fabri was made professor of history and statistics at the University of Jena, Ersch accompanied him there, and helped him in the preparation of several works.

In 1744 Price published a volume of sermons, which gained him the acquaintance of Lord Shelburne ; this raised his reputation and helped determine the direction of his career.

It is an absolute reproduction of a real man '; and a contemporary critic commented, ' I recognized Skimpole instantaneously ; ... and so did every person whom I talked with about it who had ever had Leigh Hunt's acquaintance.

Bentham asserted that in the King's Bench, Blackstone was " always in hot water ", and that there was " heartburning " between the two ; Bentham's account is considered dubious because historically, Mansfield and Blackstone had an excellent relationship, with the third volume of the Commentaries describing Mansfield as " a judge, whose masterly acquaintance with the law of nations was known and revered by every state in Europe ".

He was destitute of everything except fine apparel, and he had actually taken the extreme step of offering himself as a cadet in the service of the East India Company ; but, being dissuaded by the enrolling officer, who lent him a guinea and advised him to seek for other employment, and happening to meet with a festive acquaintance, he sought recreation at the Tottenham Theatre ( afterward the Prince of Wales's ) where Madame Vestris was acting.

Diogenes having nothing to do – of course no one thought of giving him a job – was moved by the sight to gather up his philosopher's cloak and begin rolling his tub energetically up and down the Craneum ; an acquaintance asked for, and got, the explanation: " I do not want to be thought the only idler in such a busy multitude ; I am rolling my tub to be like the rest.

Carleton was steeped in folklore from an early age, his father had an extraordinary memory ( he knew the bible by heart ) and as a native Irish speaker, a thorough acquaintance with Irish folklore ; his mother was a noted singer.

A dedication to his patron's widow in 1604 suggests some personal acquaintance with the Brydges family ; on the other hand, a reference in another work suggests he may have spent some time, like Kempe, as a solo performer.