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chief and literary
His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.
The letters of Cassiodorus, chief minister and literary adviser of Amalasuntha, and the histories of Procopius and Jordanes, give us our chief information as to the character of Amalasuntha.
He became part owner, chief editor, and an active contributor to the literary journal Magazin für Literatur, where he hoped to find a readership sympathetic to his philosophy.
Spenser and Hawk live in the same Boston literary universe as Parker's other, newer series characters: private investigator Sunny Randall and small town police chief Jesse Stone, the former of whom was possibly mentioned in passing as a blonde jogging with an English bull terrier ( named Rosie in the Randall novels ) while the latter had a much larger role in Back Story.
Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, writing under the pseudonym " Febronius ", the chief German literary exponent of Gallican ideas of national Catholic Churches, was himself induced ( not without scandal ) publicly to retract his positions ; but they were adopted in Austria nevertheless.
A protagonist ( from the Greek protagonistes, " one who plays the first part, chief actor ") is the main character ( the central or primary personal figure ) of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, which ends up in conflict because of the antagonist and with whom the audience is intended to most identify.
During the whole of the July monarchy he was one of the chief dispensers of literary patronage in France, but in his later years his reputation declined.
Noah Webster's assistant, and later chief competitor, Joseph Emerson Worcester, and Webster's son-in-law Chauncey A. Goodrich, published an abridgment of Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language in 1829, with the same number of words and Webster's full definitions, but without the literary references.
Linacre's intellectual fastidiousness and minute accuracy were, as Erasmus suggests, the chief cause why he left no more permanent literary memorials.
Since he wishes to record his life for posterity, Claudius chooses to write in Greek, since he believes that it will remain " the chief literary language of the world.
Rumours occasionally circulated portraying Frame as a contender for the Nobel Prize in literature, most notably in 1998, after a journalist spotted her name at the top of a list later revealed to have been in alphabetical order, and again five years later, in 2003, when Åsa Beckman, the influential chief literary critic at the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, wrongly predicted that Frame would win the prestigious prize.
The extent of Cockburn's literary ability only became known after he had passed his seventieth year, on the publication of his biography of lifelong friend Lord Jeffrey in 1852, and from his chief literary work, the Memorials of his Time, which appeared posthumously in 1856.
The party was chiefly distinguished by its opposition to an independent scientific study of theology, its principal theological leader being Hengstenberg, and its chief literary organ the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung.
Outstanding literary figures of the Hellenistic period were Menander, the chief representative of a newer type of comedy ; the poets Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius Rhodius, author of the Argonautica ; and Polybius, who wrote a detailed history of the Mediterranean world.
Mephisto or Mephistopheles is one of the chief demons of German literary tradition.
At first he contented himself with enumerating the chief current views in literature and art and indicating very slightly the contents of the principal new books, but gradually his criticisms became more extended and trenchant, and he touched on nearly every subject — political, literary, artistic, social and religious — that interested the Parisian society of the time.
Gotter was the chief representative of French taste in the German literary life of his time.
Howson's chief literary production was The Life and Epistles of St Paul ( 1852 ) in which he collaborated with Conybeare.
His chief literary works are his unfinished History of Rome ( three volumes 1838-42 ), and his Lectures on Modern History.
The chief defect of his work, inevitable at the time it was composed, is that he relies on literary gossip rather than on factual evidence.
In 1953, Plimpton joined the influential literary journal The Paris Review, founded by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas H. Guinzburg, and Harold L. Humes, becoming its first editor in chief.
However, his chief distinctions were his sense of literary merit in others, and the way he fostered it.

chief and clan
He eventually came to be recognized as the chief of his clan.
Painda Khan and the chiefs of the Nurzai and the Alizai Durrani clans were executed, as was the chief of the Qizilbash clan.
The Bantu-speaking society was highly a decentralized feudal society organized on a basis of kraals ( an enlarged clan ), headed by a chief, who owed a very hazy allegiance to the nation's head chief.
His mother was, a daughter of Soga no Iname, who was the chief, or Ō-omi, of the Soga clan.
In traditional Gaelic society every clan and chief of any consequence would have a resident harp player who would compose eulogies and elegies ( later known as " planxties ") in honour of the leader and chief men of the clan.
Above them were the inDunas, and above the inDunas stood the chief of a particular clan lineage or tribe.
Hereditary clan chief positions passed through the mother's line, not the father's.
Clans are led by clan chiefs and constitute 341 tribes, each headed by a tribal chief.
The Yayoi culture was a clan based culture that lived in compounds with a defined leader who was the chief and head priest.
When Dingiswayo was murdered by Zwide, a powerful chief of the Ndwandwe ( Nxumalo ) clan, Shaka sought to avenge his death.
* February – Malcolm Macfie, last chief of the Scottish clan Clan Macfie
* April 9 – Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, Scottish clan chief ( b. c. 1667 )
* December 28 – Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish clan chief ( b. 1671 )
** Ronald Crawford, Scottish clan chief ( b. c. 1240 )
** Lord Rollo, the clan chief
The tribe was governed by a council of sacred clan chiefs, a war chief, the head of families, and the warriors.
One theory is that the people of each territory or in each wandering clan worshipped their own Baʿal, as the chief deity of each, the source of all the gifts of nature, the mysterious god of their fathers.
Native leadership consisted of the Nota, or clan chief, who conducted community rites and regulated ceremonial life in conjunction with the council of elders ( Puuplem ), which was made up of lineage heads and ceremonial specialists in their own right.
At Genesis 36: 16, Amalek is described as the " chief of Amalek ", and thus his name can be construed to refer to a clan or a territory over which he ruled.
After Yoritomo's death, Hōjō Tokimasa, the clan chief of Yoritomo's widow, Hōjō Masako, and former guardian of Yoritomo, claimed the title of regent ( Shikken ) to Yoritomo's son Minamoto no Yoriie, eventually making that claim hereditary to the Hōjō clan.

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