There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

The authors insist, however, that these abnormalities in the sense of touch were due absolutely to no organic disorders in that sense faculty but rather to the injuries which the patient had sustained to the sense of sight.

Lincoln denounced the decision, alleging it was the product of a conspiracy of Democrats to support the Slave Power Lincoln argued, " The authors of the Declaration of Independence never intended ' to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity ', but they ' did consider all men created equal — equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness '.

Influenced by psychoanalytic psychologists including Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, these authors sought to understand the way that individual personalities were shaped by the wider cultural and social forces in which they grew up.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

But authors were free to suggest different motives for his death.

These authors, the former a medieval historian and the latter an early modernist, quickly became associated with the distinctive Annales approach, which combined geography, history, and the sociological approaches of the Année Sociologique ( many members of which were their colleagues at Strasbourg ) to produce an approach which rejected the predominant emphasis on politics, diplomacy and war of many 19th and early 20th-century historians as spearheaded by historians whom Febvre called Les Sorbonnistes.

In another study of ancient DNA published by the same authors in 2011, both the control and coding regions of mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) recovered from Jomon skeletons excavated from the northernmost island of Japan, Hokkaido, were analyzed in detail, and 54 mtDNAs were confidently assigned to relevant haplogroups.

Ancient authors were almost invariably from an elite background for whom giving poor and uneducated people power over their betters seemed a reversal of the proper, rational order of society.

An example of ancient aesthetics in Greece through poetry is Plato's quote: " For the authors of those great poems which we admire, do not attain to excellence through the rules of any art ; but they utter their beautiful melodies of verse in a state of inspiration, and, as it were, possessed by a spirit not their own.

The libretto was mainly written in early 1927 and the music was finished in the spring of 1929, although both text and music were partly revised by the authors later.

Other authors who used the name were Major John Bernard Arbuthnot MVO, the column's founder, and William Hartston, the current author of its revived form.

According to the authors, " Our analysis clearly reveals for the 3 GMOs new side effects linked with GM maize consumption, which were sex-and often dose-dependent.

The authors of the meta-analysis and a later reviewer noted that the applicability of this meta-analysis is limited because the subjects were taken mostly from withdrawal clinics ; the coexisting drug, alcohol use, and psychiatric disorders were not defined ; and several of the included studies conducted the cognitive measurements during the withdrawal period.

Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported or embellished by later authors.

The authors of the U. S. Army's Area Handbook series said at the time that '.. the Army and Gendarmery ( sic ) were effective forces in being, but the Navy and Air Force were token forces primarily for prestige and with little actual defense value.

It was especially important for preserving in its libraries manuscripts of Greek and Latin authors throughout a period when instability and disorder caused their mass-destruction in western Europe and north Africa: On the city's fall, thousands of these were brought by refugees to Italy, and played a key part in stimulating the Renaissance, and the transition to the modern world.

The popularity and accessibility of strips meant they were often clipped and saved ; authors including John Updike and Ray Bradbury have written about their childhood collections of clipped strips.

The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 was defended on " scientific or economic principals " while the authors of the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 were seen as not having had the benefit of reading Malthus.

Many of the views which directed Leadbeater's understanding of the chakras were influenced by previous theosophist authors, in particular Johann Georg Gichtel, a disciple of Jakob Böhme, and his book Theosophia Practica ( 1696 ), in which Gitchtel directly refers to inner force centers, a concept reminiscent of the chakras.

") Many of Poole's arguments were easily attended to, but both authors emphasize the importance of Cotton Mather's difficult and contradictory view on spectral evidence, as copied in the final pages of Increase Mather's " Cases of Conscience " called " The Return of Several Ministers.

The authors said that this occurs because they were built to local regulations that required specific features, but freed the architect to adapt them to particular situations.

A group of seventeen authors headed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology reported the discovery of at least one Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a male, in the Big Woods area of Arkansas in 2004 and 2005, publishing the report in the journal Science on 28 April 2005 ( Fitzpatrick et al., 2005 ).

One of the authors, who was kayaking in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, Monroe County, Arkansas, on 11 February 2004, reported on a website the sighting of an unusually large red-crested woodpecker.

" Although the authors of Islamic Homosexualities argued this did not mean women could not engage in lesbian relationships, a lesbian anthropologist in 1991 visited Yemen and reported that women in the town she visited were unable to comprehend her romantic relationship to another woman.

Some authors reported that the plant may induce hepatic diseases ( liver disease ), while others found that it protects against liver damage that is caused by heavy metals.

It analyzed the results of 380 studies ; the authors reported an overall positive effect size that was statistically significant but very small relative to the sample size and could be explained by publication bias.

The authors reported that surveys have found about one fifth to one quarter of Europeans have some level of belief in reincarnation, with similar results found in the USA.

In Haldeman's view, those participants in the study who reported change were bisexual at the outset, and its authors wrongly interpreted capacity for heterosexual sex as change of sexual orientation.

Some 10 % of those reported such experiences, and a small number of ' veridical hallucinations ' were reported-that is, hallucinations which appeared to convey information not known to the person hallucinating at the time, which was believed by the authors to be suggestive of telepathy.

Only after Sigismund von Herberstein in his Notes on Muscovite Affairs ( 1549 ) had reported, following Russian sources, that there are mountains behind the Pechora and identified them with the Ripheans and Hyperboreans of ancient authors, did the existence of the Urals, or at least of its northern part, become firmly established in the Western geography.

Finally, using a chronic and oral L-Dopa treatment on Mecp2-deficient mice authors reported an amelioration of some of the motor deficits previously identified.

As reported by the authors of Matthau: A Life by Rob Edelman and Audrey Kupferberg ( along with Charlie Matthau ), Walter Matthau often told tall tales.

The authors allegedly purchased over 10, 000 copies of their own book in small and strategically placed orders at bookstores whose sales are reported to Bookscan.

What is said about it is reported by different authors and all accounts differ.

One death has been reported in the medical literature which the authors felt was due to silver toxicity.

One death has been reported in the medical literature which the authors felt was due to silver toxicity resulting from repeated oral ingestion of colloidal silver.

Some authors have dismissed the rumors about Hoover's sexual orientation and a possible intimate relationship with Tolson, while others have described them as probable or even " confirmed ", and still others have reported the rumors without stating an opinion.

132 of the 509 RCTs reported author conflict of interest disclosures, with 91 studies ( 69 %) disclosing industry financial ties with one or more authors.

Subsequently, it was reported in books by authors Stephen O ' Byrnes and Raymond Smith, and by many political journalists in newspaper articles ( some of whom had Lenihan as their source ) that Lenihan had been one of the people who had made phone calls to Áras an Uachtaráin, the President's official residence, on the night in question, in order to persuade or pressurise Hillery to refuse a dissolution.

The authors reported that 89 % of their medication patients discontinued or reduced medication by one-half while significantly lowering blood pressure.

She was an important patron of authors and literature ; her letters, and the diary she kept from 1603 through 1616, have made her a secondary literary figure in her own right. John Donne is reported to have said that she could ' discourse of all things from Predestination to Slea-silk '.

Also reported by these authors, ratite remains have been found in W-SW Madagascar, at Belo-sur-Mer ( A. medius, Mullerornis rudis ), Bemafandry ( M. agilis ) and Lamboharana ( Mullerornis sp.

The authors, however, reported that all these instances were " readily managed with reassurance.

More than three dozen species of amphibians have been studied, with severe effects reported in more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals representing authors from North America, Europe and Australia.