Andrew Neil, the editor of the Sunday Times, called Irving " reprehensible ", but defended hiring Irving because he was only a " transcribing technician ", which others criticised as a poor description of translation work.

In 1832, author, storyteller, and traveler Washington Irving provided the first recorded description of the area around Stillwater in his book A Tour on the Prairies.

The 1819 publication by Washington Irving of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow contains the following description: ’’ a little wooden warrior who, armed with a sword in each hand, was most valiantly fighting the wind on the pinnacle of the barn ’’’’.

* Edward Gibbon ( 18th century historian ) dismissed his testimony on the number of martyrs and impugned his honesty by referring to a passage in the abbreviated version of the Martyrs of Palestine attached to the Ecclesiastical History, book 8, chapter 2, in which Eusebius introduces his description of the martyrs of the Great Persecution under Diocletian with: " Wherefore we have decided to relate nothing concerning them except the things in which we can vindicate the Divine judgment.

Pliny's description of the exposed portion of the tomb is intractable ; Pliny, it seems clear, had not observed this structure himself, but is quoting the historian and Roman antiquarian Varro.

Based on his accurate description of towns, cities and islands, as well as correctly naming various official titles, archaeologist Sir William Ramsay wrote that " Luke is a historian of the first rank ; not merely are his statements of fact trustworthy ... should be placed along with the very greatest of historians.

All that remains of his description of Moses are two references made by Diodorus Siculus, wherein, writes historian Arthur Droge, " he describes Moses as a wise and courageous leader who left Egypt and colonized Judaea.

The Roman historian Jordanes refers to an Evagreotingi ( Greuthung island ) in Scandza, as part of his description of Gothiscandza.

In historian Tim Gosling's description, they saw " safety pins and Mohicans as little more than ineffectual fashion posturing stimulated by the mainstream media and industry ....

His beliefs as to the character of a good statesman led Polybius to reject historian Theopompus ' description of Philip's private, drunken debauchery.

Frank Stenton, the eminent Anglo-Saxon historian of his day, accepted Fox's description, and wrote the introduction to Fox's account of the Dyke.

" Campaign historian Edwin Coddington presents a lengthy description of the approach march, which he described as " a comedy of errors such as one might expect of inexperienced commanders and raw militia, but not of Lee's " War Horse " and his veteran troops.

The first surviving historical mention of the Pharisees is from the Jewish-Roman historian Josephus ( 37 – 100 CE ), in a description of the " four schools of thought ," or " four sects ," into which the Jews were divided in the 1st century CE ; the other schools were the Essenes, who were generally apolitical and who may have emerged as a sect of dissident priests who rejected either the Seleucid-appointed or the Hasmonean high priests as illegitimate ; the Sadducees, who were the main antagonists of the Pharisees ; and the " fourth philosophy " possibly associated with the anti-Roman revolutionary groups such as the Sicarii and the Zealots.

The finds confirms the description by historian Josephus Flavius, which state that constructions were finished only during the reign of King Agrippa II, Herod ’ s great-grandson.

It described the shooting and other lesser incidents that took place in the days before as unprovoked attacks on peaceful, law-abiding inhabitants, and was, according to historian Neal Langley York, probably the most influential description of the event.

The ancient historian Pausanias gave a description of the statue:

Each database entry includes a representative photograph and a description of the building written by an expert architectural historian.

One narrow description of ' cryptohistory ' can be found in The Occult Roots of Nazism ( 1985 ) by the historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke.

The Icelandic historian and poet Snorri Sturluson ( 1179 – 1241 ) wrote the following description of berserkers in his Ynglinga saga:

Colonel Thomazi, the historian of French Indochina, gave the following detailed description of Garnier's last moments:

Richard Knolles ( c. 1545 – July 1610 ) was an English historian, famous for his account of the Ottoman Empire, the first major description in the English language.

For the military historian, Nithard's description of the complex exercises of cavalry in Gaul is particularly valuable as a supplement to the account in the Tactical Handbook of Arrian as well as for its insight into Carolingian techniques.

The Spanish historian Hosta gives the most accepted description of the limits of the geographical La Mancha plain:

Writing of the " unusual excitement on the subject of religion " described in the First Vision story canonized by the LDS Church, Milton V. Backman, associate professor of history and religion at Brigham Young University, said that although " the tools of the historian " could neither verify nor challenge the First Vision, " records of the past can be examined to determine the reliability of Joseph's description regarding the historical setting.

While Ignatius of Antioch offers the earliest clear description of monarchial bishops ( a single bishop over all house churches in a city ) he is an advocate of monepiscopal structure rather than describing an accepted reality.

In all traditions most ballads are narrative in nature, with a self-contained story, often concise and relying on imagery, rather than description, which can be tragic, historical, romantic or comic.

Although counting the number of elements in a set is a rather broad mathematical problem, many of the problems that arise in applications have a relatively simple combinatorial description.

The Cahn – Ingold – Prelog rules are distinctly different from those of other naming conventions, such as general IUPAC nomenclature, since they are designed for the specific task of naming stereoisomers rather than the general classification and description of compounds.

According to Barks ' description of his childhood, he was a rather lonely child.

Remaining cacti fall into only two genera, Pereskia and Maihuenia, and are rather different, which means that any description of cacti as a whole must frequently make exceptions for them.

In reality, each cycle at a given temperature does not occur at exactly the same position in the fractionating column ; theoretical plate is thus a concept rather than an accurate description.

Otherwise, the description of the boundaries would be rather more logical, if schenisghe meant the city of Szczecin.

It may be that this is a papal compliment, rather than a description of the relationship between the kingdoms.

In this approach the physical vacuum is viewed as the quantum superfluid which is essentially non-relativistic whereas the Lorentz symmetry is not an exact symmetry of nature but rather the approximate description valid only for the small fluctuations of the superfluid background.

It generally resonates better with existing Muslim views than with Christianity: it foretells the coming of Muhammad by name ; rather than describing the crucifixion of Jesus, it describes him being raised up into heaven, similar to the description of Elijah in 2 Kings, Chapter 2 ; and it calls Jesus a " prophet " whose mission was restricted to the " house of Israel ".

However, according to Nelson, the concept of transclusion had already formed part of his 1965 description of hypertext ; he also interprets the notion of " trails " in Vannevar Bush's 1945 essay As We May Think as describing transclusion rather than hyperlinks.

In the description of protein structure, in particular in the Protein Data Bank file format, a heteroatom record ( HETATM ) describes an atom as belonging to a small molecule cofactor rather than to be part of a biopolymer chain.

The principles of imperialism are often deeply connected to the policies and practices of British Imperialism " during the last generation, and proceeds rather by diagnosis than by historical description.

Another description said that " her mouth is rather large, the teeth brilliantly white, her neck is slender and fair, and the bust is admirably proportioned ".

One was an extremely free translation ( or rather a paraphrase ) of The Protreptic of Galen ( Paraphrase de C. GALIEN, sus l ' Exhortation de Menodote aux estudes des bonnes Artz, mesmement Medicine ), and in his so-called Traité des fardemens ( basically a medical cookbook containing, once again, materials borrowed mainly from others ) he included a description of the methods he used to treat the plague – none of which, not even the bloodletting, apparently worked.

Another description of supervenience does away with levels altogether and rather pictures reality as a matrix or mosaic, upon which we imply different patterns ( the old levels ) but emphasising that all patterns are variations of the same implicit reality.

Similarly the question of whether a Turing machine T terminates on an initially empty tape ( rather than with an initial word w given as second argument in addition to a description of T, as in the full halting problem ) is still undecidable.

If a new media stream is added to a presentation ( e. g., during a live presentation ), the whole presentation description should be sent again, rather than just the additional components, so that components can be deleted.

For a given physical process, the selection of suitable independent local non-equilibrium macroscopic state variables for the construction of a thermodynamic description calls for qualitative physical understanding, rather than being a simply mathematical problem concerned with a uniquely determined thermodynamic description.

Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians ( 11: 23-26 ), which was likely written before the Gospels, includes a reference to the Last Supper but emphasizes the theological basis rather than giving a detailed description of the event or its background.

It involves a great departure from the methods of political action established in this country, where reforms, and especially financial reforms, have always been considerate and even tender ... I do not yet see the ground on which it can be justly held that any one description of property should be more heavily burdened than others, unless moral and social grounds can be shown first: but in this case the reasons drawn from those sources seem rather to verge in the opposite direction, for real property has more of presumptive connection with the discharge of duty that that which is ranked as personal ... the aspect of the measure is not satisfactory to a man of my traditions ( and these traditions lie near the roots of my being )... For the sudden introduction of such change there is I think no precedent in the history of this country.

Most Roman accounts of triumphs were written to provide their readers with a moral lesson, rather than to provide an accurate description of the triumphal process, procession, rites and their meaning.

The most influential description of Anne, but also the least reliable, was written by the Catholic propagandist and polemicist Nicholas Sanders in 1586, half a century after Anne's death: " Anne Boleyn was rather tall of stature, with black hair, and an oval face of a sallow complexion, as if troubled with jaundice.