Concerning the differences and similarities in Machiavelli's advice to ruthless and tyrannical princes in The Prince and his more republican exhortations in Discourses on Livy, many have concluded that The Prince although written in the form of advice for a monarchical prince, contains arguments for the superiority of republican regimes, similar to those found in the Discourses.

His exhortations and other interventions have survived in various writings: De virginibus, De viduis, De virginitate, De institutione virginis, De exhortatione virginitatis, and De lapsu virginis consecratae.

Their major objections ( exceptions ) were: firstly, that it was improper for the lay congregation to take any vocal part in prayer ( as in the Litany or Lord's Prayer ), other than to say " Amen "; secondly, that no set prayer should exclude the option of an extempore alternative from the Minister ; thirdly, that the Minister should have the option to omit part of the set liturgy at his discretion ; fourthly, that short Collects should be replaced by longer prayers and exhortations ; and fifthly, that all surviving " Catholic " ceremonial should be removed.

Finding his people slow to come to church, he is said to have stood at the end of a bridge singing songs in the vernacular, thus collecting a crowd to listen to exhortations on sacred subjects.

The exhortations to live according to Maat are such that these kinds of instructional texts have been described as " Maat Literature ".

Many personal computers have much more elaborate eggs hidden in ROM, including lists of the developers ' names, political exhortations, snatches of music, and ( in one case ) images of the entire development team.

In other words, it is those who have been spiritually quickened to seek a Saviour and not those who are in the death of unbelief and indifference, to whom the exhortations of the Gospel must be addressed.

He believed that recounting the deeds of certain women who may have been wicked would be offset by the exhortations to virtue by the deeds of good women other.

Speeches were made during this meeting to condemn the police and Government for their ineffectiveness with exhortations that Hindus might have to pick up swords to defend themselves if the police failed to protect them.

* 1975: The Culture Watch: Essays on Theatre and Society, 1969-1974 ( Knopf ) – " As far as these bristling exhortations go, well, you have to wish the gadfly well "

We perform elaborate international exhortations and ceremonies with virtually no understanding of social cause and effect.

The group would also employ newer production techniques to achieve a more refined studio sound on the albums Sleepwalker ( 1977 ) and Misfits ( 1978 ), as Davies ' focus shifted to wistful ballads of restless alienation (" Life on the Road ", " Misfits "), meditations on the inner lives of obsessed pop fans (" Juke Box Music ", " A Rock & Roll Fantasy "), and exhortations of carpe diem (" Life Goes On ", " Live Life ", " Get Up ").

He praised the unmarried state as the highest ( De monogamia, xvii ; Ad uxorem, i. 3 ), called upon Christians not to allow themselves to be excelled in the virtue of celibacy by Vestal Virgins and Egyptian priests, and he pronounced second marriage a species of adultery ( De exhortations castitatis, ix ).

Tattenai's letter to Darius: Through the exhortations of the prophets Haggai and Zechariah, Zerubbabel and Joshua recommence the building of the Temple.

By outwardly maintaining familiar forms, Cranmer hoped to establish the practice of weekly congregational Communion, and included exhortations to encourage this ; and instructions that Communion should never be received by the priest alone.

ROC flags were saluted by Muslims in Ningxia during prayer along with exhortations to nationalism during Chiang's rule.

The other Sabine Women join in her exhortations.

The work is considered New Testament wisdom literature because, " like Proverbs and Sirach, it consists largely of moral exhortations and precepts of a traditional and eclectic nature.

Upon Epaphroditus ' return to health, Paul sends word to the Philippians through Epaphroditus of his upcoming sentence in Rome and of his optimism in the face of death ( 1. 18b-26 ), along with exhortations to imitate his capacity to rejoice in the Lord despite one's circumstances ( 2. 14-18 ).

Exhortations to live blameless lives ( 2: 15 ; 3: 9, 13, 16 ) may suggest that the Christian addressees were accused of immoral behavior, and exhortations to civil obedience ( 2: 13-17 ) perhaps imply that they were accused of disloyalty to governing powers.

Echoing from the mountain, however, were the shouted cadences and fiery exhortations of their regimental izinduna, who reminded the warriors that their king did not send them to run away.

It is not, however, only a ' book of laws ': much of the content deals with other matters, notably ethical exhortations and addresses to various individuals, groups, and places.

The Kitáb-i-Aqdas also discusses the establishment of Bahá ' í administrative institutions, Bahá ' í religious practices, laws of personal status, criminal law, ethical exhortations, social principles, miscellaneous laws and abrogations, and prophecies.

: D. Miscellaneous laws, ordinances and exhortations

The rejection of specific exhortations and prohibitions of conduct such as those given in the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments makes the Rede's character somewhat different from major religious texts such as the Bible or the Qur ' an.

Calypso tents, also originating in Trinidad, feature their cadre of calypsonians who perform biting social commentaries on the happenings of the past year, political exposés or rousing exhortations to wuk dah waistline and roll dat bumper.

As Cooke writes, " In spite of continued opposition and criticism, and many well-meaning exhortations to caution from his friends, he looked neither to right nor left, but simply got down to work on the next symphony.

In 1280, he ordered all Jews to attend special sermons, preached by Dominican friars, with the hope of persuading them to convert, but these exhortations were not followed.

The earl preferred to make his peace with Henry III, which he did in 1253, in obedience to the exhortations of the dying Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln.

Thus one finds in the Jain texts, deliberative exhortations on any subject in all its facts, may they be constructive or obstructive, inferential or analytical, enlightening or destructive.

Stein ignored Mabel's exhortations, and eventually Mabel, and published 1, 000 copies of the book, in 1914.

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The saddest experience in his old days was the conversion of King Henry IV to Catholicism, in spite of his most earnest exhortations ( 1593 ).

On the death of the Conqueror in 1087 Lanfranc secured the succession for William Rufus, in spite of the discontent of the Anglo-Norman baronage ; and in 1088 his exhortations induced the English militia to fight on the side of the new sovereign against Odo of Bayeux and the other partisans of Duke Robert.

Many of the sermons are straightforward exhortations to read scripture daily and lead a life of prayer and faith in Jesus Christ ; the other works are lengthy scholarly treatises intended to inform church leaders in theology, church history, the fall of the Byzantine Empire and the alleged heresies of the Roman Catholic Church.

Another of the king's chief men, approving of Coifi's words and exhortations, presently added: " The present life of man, O king, seems to me, in comparison with that time which is unknown to us, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room wherein you sit at supper in winter amid your officers and ministers, with a good fire in the midst, whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad ; the sparrow, I say, flying at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within is safe from the wintry storm ; but after a short space of fair weather he immediately vanishes out of your sight into the dark winter from which he has emerged.

In 1066 Lanfranc became the first abbot of St Stephen's at Caen, a house which the duke had supposedly been enjoined to found as a penance for his disobedience to the Holy See.

But it is evident that meanwhile Jesus has betaken himself with His disciples into the lower world, and there depicts to them the various fates of souls after death, their torments in Orcus, their palingenesiai, and also the conditions under which souls which have found the mysteries and done their penance, will be raised into the thesauros luminis.

The penance of Adam and Eve in the water can be found also in the later Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan.

After his death, his family found writings on his body which told them who he was and how he had lived his life of penance from the day of his wedding, for the love of God.

He also found time to publish his " Propaedeutica ad Sacram Theologiam " and to write an extensive work on the sacraments, of which only the tracts on baptism and penance received final revision before his death.

He finally took to a life of penance and found release.

Buddhist scriptures record that during Prince Siddhartha's ascetic life ( before the great enlightenment ) he undertook many fasts, penances and austerities, the descriptions of which are elsewhere found only in the Jain tradition ( for example, the penance by five fires, plucking of hair, and the consumption of food using only one's cupped hands ).