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epigraph and was
The Arician wood sanctuary near the lake of Nemi was Latin confederal as testified by the dedicatory epigraph quoted by Cato.
The second edition of 3, 000 copies was quickly brought out on 7 January 1860, and incorporated numerous corrections as well as a response to religious objections by the addition of a new epigraph on page ii, a quotation from Charles Kingsley, and the phrase " by the Creator " amended to the closing sentence.
This was made clear in the way the iconography of the 1795 revolution was done away with: the epigraph Vrijheid, Gelijkheid, Broederschap ( Liberty, Equality, Fraternity ) which had adorned all official publications, was henceforth removed, and the last Liberty Trees were removed from the town squares.
" It was equated with the ‘ Contemporary Style ’, and an editorial on New Brutalism in Architectural Design in 1955 carried the epigraph, ‘ When I hear the word “ Contemporary ” I reach for my revolver .’"
The epigraph "" ( Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness ) attributed by Poe to Seneca was not found in Seneca's known work.
Desmoulins ' renown as a radical pamphleteer was furthered by the publication, in September 1789, of his Discours de la lanterne aux Parisiens, which featured as its epigraph a quotation from the Gospel of John: Qui male agit odit lucem (" He who does evil hates the light " ).
A monument to this can now be found in the center of the square, consisting of a glass panel opening onto an underground white room with empty shelf space for 20, 000 volumes and a plaque, bearing an epigraph from an 1820 work by Heinrich Heine: " Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen " (" That was only a prelude ; where they burn books, they ultimately burn people ").
* Jama Masjid: It is a Jami Mosque meaning the Friday Mosque congregational mosque, and was perhaps one of the first buildings to come up in the complex, as its epigraph gives AH 979 ( A. D. 1571-72 ) as the date of its completion, with a massive entrance to the courtyard, the Buland-Darwaza added some five years later.
The epigraph was written by Pietro Bembo.
In context, the epigraph refers to a meeting between Dante and Guido da Montefeltro, who was condemned to the eighth circle of Hell for providing counsel to Pope Boniface VIII, who wished to use Guido's advice for a nefarious undertaking.
Its epigraph was a quote from Adolf Hitler: " The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human ".
" (), an excerpt of which provides an epigraph, was completed in 1911 and dedicated to Sergei Rachmaninoff, who immediately recognised its greatness.
Others feel that he was satirizing theologians of his time, who attempted to understand God as a reflection of themselves ; this theory is supported by the epigraph, Psalm 50: 21, " Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself.
It was published anonymously in 1813 by White, Cochrane, and Co., replacing the original epigraph " Falsis terroribus implet.
The epigraph to Auden's posthumously-published play The Chase ( written in 1935 ) was a poem by a Downs pupil, John Bowes, that had been mocked by the other pupils in one of Auden's classes ; Auden rebuked them by saying that the poem was not only satisfactory but that he would use it in his next book.
The temple had been reconstructed, without damaging the remaining original structures by one Kandan Keralan of Muttchai in Kurukkenikollam ( Quilon ) of Malaimandalam ( Kerala ) under the orders and patronage of Kothai Aditya Varma, who however died before the construction was completed, as shown by the epigraph in that temple dated 662 M. E.
In Richard Adams ' book Watership Down, the 25th chapter ( entitled " The Raid ") begins with this epigraph quoted from Renault's book: " He went consenting, or else he was no king ...
Niffenegger said that its source was an epigraph to J.
His epigraph at Canterbury stated that when he died he was in old age, so perhaps he was born around 670.

epigraph and Poe's
* The epigraph of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " ( 1841 ) is from Browne's Hydriotaphia ,( Chap. 5 ): " What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture ".

epigraph and ;
The poems are, the epigraph tells us, the `` traces of an ancient flame '' ; ;
Richard Adams quotes a portion of the novel's last sentence for the epigraph to Chapter 50 in his Watership Down ; the reference to the General is felicitous, as the villain in Watership Down is also a General.
Its epigraph reads, " The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over ; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard ," taken from a verse in the Katha-Upanishad.
The epigraph to " Unknown Citizen " is a parody of the symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier commemorating unidentified soldiers ; tombs of unknown soldiers were first created following the first World War.
" The epigraph on the cover of the first edition is from The Revolt of Islam ( 1818 ): " Hope is strong ; Justice and Truth their winged child have found.
In Melnik, Alexius Slav had a royal court of his own ; the court consisted of Bulgarians as well as Franks ( a sebastos of the Franks was mentioned in one contemporary epigraph ).
In fact, the Buddha said no such thing ; Melville made it up just as he did with the epigraph in Le Samouraï.
According to many sources, the original manuscript, now lost, carried a dedication to " A. L ." plus the epigraph to Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina, " Vengeance is mine ; I will repay.

epigraph and such
An epigraph is any sort of text, from a single grapheme ( such as marks on a pot that abbreviate the name of the merchant who shipped commodities in the pot ) to a lengthy document ( such as a treatise, a work of literature, or a hagiographic prescription ).
In modern film, intertitles are used to supply an epigraph, such as a poem, or to distinguish various " acts " of a film or multimedia production by use as a title card.

epigraph and inscription
It is evident from the bilingual Marathi-Sanskrit inscription, which is inscribed just under the Persian epigraph in the Karimuddin mosque 16 that the city of Bijapur is given the title of ‘’" Banaras of the South "’’.
* Ballshi inscription, a 9th-century epigraph testifying to the christianization of Bulgaria

epigraph and had
He chose to set Helen Waddell's translation of Prudentius ' Hymnus circa Exsequias Defuncti, the first two lines of which had served as epigraph to Hymnus Paradisi.
" In her work In My Father's House ( referenced via an epigraph in Dune ), Shaddam's daughter Princess Irulan later writes of Fenring: " My father had only one real friend, I think.
In some editions, the novel is headed by an epigraph from Macbeth that appears repeatedly in the novel itself: " Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

epigraph and been
In the epigraph which reward lapicides who contributed to construction of statue of Emperor Kameyama in Azuma park ( 東公園 ) in Fukuoka city, Tokubei's name has been engraved.
( This phrase has been used as an epigraph to numerous works, most notably Watchmen and the Tower Commission Report.
An epigraph of Mohammad Ali Mirza in Taq-e-Bostan has been remained as a relic.

epigraph and no
Shaddam is described as " red-haired " by his daughter Irulan via epigraph in Dune, and noted to be 72 years old yet looking no older than 35.

epigraph and later
An adult Bronso is later quoted via epigraph, commenting on Leto's influence on his son Paul Atreides.

epigraph and composed
Poe places a Latin epigraph before the story, describing it as " a quatrain composed for the gates of a market to be erected upon the site of the Jacobin Club House at Paris ".

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