In fact, he writes in the prelude that he first created a prose work and then used it as the basis for his poem Metres of Boethius, his crowning literary achievement.

At the last moment, when his immense work was drawing to an end, he encountered a crowning mortification: he discovered that the bookseller, fearing the government's displeasure, had struck out from the proof sheets, after they had left Diderot's hands, all passages that he considered too dangerous.

Through his affairs in Eastern Europe in 1000, Otto III was able to extend the influence of Christianity by supporting mission work in Poland and through the crowning of Stephen I as the first Christian king of Hungary.

What has been called his " crowning work ", Universa Medicina, comprising three parts, the Physiologia ( developed from the De naturali parte ), the Pathologia, and the Therapeutice.

Lù Yǔ ( 陸羽 / 陆羽, 733-804 ) of the Tang Dynasty, wrote in his crowning work, The Tea Classic or Chájīng ( 茶經 / 茶经 ), on the origins of the character for tea as well as the numerous words used to denote tea.

The working people's and the crowning achievement for today's fight should be and shall be a new Greece based on work, freedom, and liberated from any foreign imperialist dependence, with a truly pan-popular culture.

This work was inaugurated with great pomp in May 1851, and is regarded as one of the masterpieces of modern sculpture, the crowning achievement of Rauch's work as a portrait and historic sculptor.

" Elvis Mitchell also praised the acting and called the film " an extraordinarily satisfying vision " that " may well be the crowning work of this year.

When crowning the end of a large-scale work the apotheosis functions as a peroration, following an analogy with the art of rhetoric.

There he won his last victories, crowning his work triumphantly in the battles of Brihuega and Villaviciosa.

* Overthrow ( structure ), the crowning section of ornamental wrought iron work which forms a decorative crest above a wrought iron gate.

Her crowning achievement is considered to be her translation and commentary on Isaac Newton's work Principia Mathematica.

Her work to secure the Sipsey Wilderness in the Bankhead National Forest was her crowning achievement.

The Guardian commented, " It was an inflation beater, but totally in keeping with the spirit of the earlier work, and its crowning glory is the Benedicite Window designed by Carl Edwards and covering 1, 600 sq.

Perhaps the crowning work of Carey and his two associates was the establishment of the Serampore College in 1818 which acts both as a university through the Senate of Serampore College ( University ) and as an individual college, Serampore College.

Andral's crowning written achievement was Clinique médicale, a five-volume work that discussed almost every facet of medicine known at the time.

The 20th century saw the rise and crowning of the Child King which became apparent through various protection measures such as the abolition of child work, the creation of various child care and protection associations, and even the international Convention on the Rights of the Child created in 1989 and applied the following year.

His first work at the Royal Academy ( 1769 ) was A small portrait in oil ,' and the last ( 1819 ), A late Princess personifying Peace crowning the glory of England reflected on Europe, 1815.

The signing of the Non-Aggression Pact in Moscow on 23 August 1939 was the crowning achievement of Ribbentrop's career.

They came at the end of Henry Wilson's life and are the crowning glory of his career.

East Germany's successes, presented as a personal triumph for Honecker, marked a crowning point in his political career.

The engagement, known as the Battle of the Wabash or as St. Clair's Defeat, was the crowning achievement of Blue Jacket's military career, and the most severe defeat ever inflicted upon the United States by Native Americans.

The 1985 European Cup final against Liverpool at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels should have been the crowning moment of Platini's Juventus career, but was instead overshadowed by the Heysel Stadium disaster in which 39 people died, and 600 more were injured.

It is interesting to note that “ Roosevelt saw the United Nations as the crowning achievement of his political career .”

Contained within the Lower Church are seventeen very well preserved frescoes which represent one of the crowning achievements of Pietro Lorenzetti's early career.

Moriarty is the criminal genius behind a highly organized and extremely secret criminal force and Holmes will consider it the crowning achievement of his career if only he can defeat Moriarty.

The crowning moment of Cash's career came at Wimbledon in 1987.

The crowning moment of Šuker's career was the 1998 World Cup in France, where he became the top goal scorer and won the Golden Boot by scoring 6 goals in 7 matches and also won Silver Ball 1998 at France as second best player of tournament ( behind Ronaldo ).

The Buffalo writer John Northern Hilliard wrote that the levitation was a marvel of the twentieth century and " the crowning achievement of Mr. Kellar's long and brilliant career.

It was the crowning moment of a great playing career.

In the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, he first placed ninth in the 10, 000-metre final before crowning his athletics career with the silver medal won in the men's marathon.

The crowning moment of Korda's career came in 1998, when he faced Marcelo Ríos in the men's singles final at the Australian Open.

Studd won the 1989 Royal Rumble, which many consider to be the crowning achievement in his WWF career.

The Economist magazine, commenting that most Secretaries-General are " usually a senior regional official rewarded with the post as the crowning boondoggle in a career of not rocking the boat ", states that Surin is different in that he seeks an activist role in member states.

Unfortunately, he was given little time to enjoy the crowning glory of his political career, as he died on 8 August of the same year at the first Commonwealth Parliament meeting in Melbourne.

Dean Thaddeus Seymour, wearing ski clothes, was crowning a beauteous damsel queen of the Carnival.

Of course, the crowning event that has dramatically upset the traditional pattern of English religious history was the friendly visit paid by Dr. Fisher, then Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Vatican last December.

An innovation in William's coronation ceremony was that before the actual crowning, Ealdred asked the assembled crowd, in English, if it was their wish that William be crowned king.

The crowning achievement of naval artillery was the battleship, but the advent of airpower and missiles have rendered this type of artillery largely obsolete.

The Ban Si was also known to wail at the crowning of the true king.

Such a cry was reported to be heard at the crowning of Brian Boru.

Much more than a renovation project however, Domitian's building program was intended to be the crowning achievement of an Empire-wide cultural renaissance.

One of the most famous Imperial coronation ceremonies was that of Napoleon, crowning himself Emperor in the presence of Pope Pius VII ( who had blessed the regalia ), at the Notre Dame de Paris | Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The painting by Jacques-Louis David | David commemorating the event is equally famous: the gothic cathedral restyled Empire ( style ) | style Empire, supervised by the Letizia Ramolino | mother of the Emperor on the balcony ( a fictional addition, while she had not been present at the ceremony ), the pope positioned near the altar, Napoleon proceeds to crown his then wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais as Empress.

He was an early proponent of religious toleration, and enjoyed the sobriquet " Prince of the Humanists "; he has been called " the crowning glory of the Christian humanists ".

Schmidt's crowning achievement was the oratorio Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln ( 1935 – 37 ), a setting of passages from the Book of Revelation.

While Albéniz's crowning achievement, Iberia, was written in the last years of his life in France, many of its preceding works are well-known and of great interest.

Monks were taken to Male and beheaded, The Satihirutalu ( the chattravali or chattrayashti crowning a stupa ) were broken to disfigure the numerous stupasm and the statues of Vairocana, the transcendent Buddha of the middle world region, were destroyed ; and the destruction was not limited to sculptures.

Pope Pius VII was present at the coronation of Napoleon I in 1804, but did not actually perform the crowning.

Lothair was unable to visit Rome immediately as Germany was rocked by the rebellion of the Hohenstaufen brothers, with Conrad Hohenstaufen elected anti-king in December 1127, followed by his descent into Italy and his crowning as King of Italy at Monza on 29 July 1128.

The possible reason was that they didn't want their crowning car to be powered by a variant of the lowly VW Golf engine.

His crowning achievement was the victory at Kulm ( August 30, 1813 ), which cost him amputation of the left arm.

It was one of the crowning achievements in the crossing of plains and high mountains westward by the Union Pacific and eastward by the Central Pacific.

Szczerbiec () is the coronation sword that was used in crowning ceremonies of most kings of Poland from 1320 to 1764.

This joint crowning was similar to Melisende's own crowning with her father in 1128, and may have reflected a growing trend to crown one's heir in the present monarch's lifetime, as demonstrated in other realms of this period.