Book first, together with some account of the life and acts of the Author, of his ancestors, and of his descendants, illustrated by a selection of characteristic anecdotes, as collected by their historian, Mevlānā Shemsu'd-dīn Ahmed el-Eflākī el -' Arifī, translated and the poetry versified by James W. Redhouse, London: 1881.

We are told by the biographers of Aratus that it was the desire of Antigonus to have them turned into verse, which gave rise to the Phaenomena of Aratus ; and it appears from the fragments of them preserved by Hipparchus, that Aratus has in fact versified, or closely imitated parts of them both, but especially of the first.

Book first, together with some account of the life and acts of the Author, of his ancestors, and of his descendants, illustrated by a selection of characteristic anedocts, as collected by their historian, Mevlānā Shemsu'd-dīn Ahmed el-Eflākī el -' Arifī, translated and the poetry versified by James W. Redhouse, London: 1881.

The English text was first versified by Eleanor Hull, in 1912, and is now the most common text used.

The poem was published in three parts, of which the first, composed in Chile and first appearing in 1569, is a versified narrative adhering strictly to historic fact ; the second, published in 1578, is encumbered with visions and other romantic machinery ; and the third, which appeared in 1589-1590, contains, in addition to the subject proper, a variety of episodes mostly irrelevant.

For a first century versified lampoon, see Domus Aurea.

Avalokitesvara himself is linked in the versified version of the sutra to the first Buddha, the Adi Buddha, who is ' svayambhu ' ( self-existent, not born from anything or anyone ).

In disposition Alexander bore little resemblance to his soft-hearted, liberal father, and still less to his refined, philosophic, sentimental, chivalrous, yet cunning granduncle, emperor Alexander I of Russia, who could have been given the title of " the first gentleman of Europe ".

The earliest Greek thinker with whom metempsychosis is connected is Pherecydes of Syros ; but Pythagoras, who is said to have been his pupil, is its first famous philosophic exponent.

Bossuet, accordingly, made a heroic attempt to grapple with origins and causes, and in this way, his book deserves its place as one of the very first of philosophic histories.

In 1946, at Steinway Hall in New York City, Siegel began giving weekly lectures in which he presented the philosophy he first called Aesthetic Analysis ( later, Aesthetic Realism ) " a philosophic way of seeing conflict in self and making this conflict clear to a person so that a person becomes more integrated and happier.

Sa ' adya's Emunoth ve-Deoth (" Beliefs and opinions ") was originally called Kitab al-Amanat wal-l ' tikadat (" Book of the Articles of Faith and Doctrines of Dogma "); it was the first systematic presentation and philosophic foundation of the dogmas of Judaism, completed at Sura Academy in 933 CE.

He sat at first on the Extreme Left ; but his philosophic and critical temperament was not in harmony with the recklessness of French radicalism, and his attitude towards political questions underwent a steady modification, till the close of his life saw him the foremost representative of moderate republicanism.

The Book of Beliefs and Opinions ( completed 933 CE ) is a text written by Saadia Gaon which is the first systematic presentation and philosophic foundation of the dogmas of Judaism.

Crescas, admitting that the existence of a first cause is susceptible of philosophic proof, but only by contingence ( he rejects the Aristotelian assumption that an endless chain of causes is unthinkable ; i. e., the first cause of all that is must be regarded as existent ), holds philosophy to be incompetent to prove God's absolute unity, as does Ghazzali.

The first was the philosophic doctor.

In 1946, Siegel began giving weekly lectures at Steinway Hall in New York City, in which he presented what he first called Aesthetic Analysis ( later, Aesthetic Realism ), “ a philosophic way of seeing conflict in self and making this conflict clear to a person so that a person becomes more integrated and happier .”

According to historian Peter Gay, the eighteenth-century French philosophes of the Enlightenment found Cicero's eclectic, Stoic-tinged paganism congenial: The ideal of humanitas was first brought to Rome by the philosophic circle around Scipio and further developed by Cicero.

Annet stands between the earlier philosophic deists and the later propagandists of Thomas Paine's school, and seems to have been the first freethought lecturer ( J. M. Robertson ); his essays, A Collection of the Tracts of a certain Free Enquirer, are forcible but lack refinement.

Crispy chicken is prepared by first boiling the chicken until its flesh becomes tender, then roasting it for long periods of time or until the skin goes dry and crispy.

On 16 January 1878, the Turkish steamer Intibah became the first vessel to be sunk by self-propelled torpedoes, launched from torpedo boats operating from the tender Velikiy Knyaz Konstantin under the command of Stepan Osipovich Makarov during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.

The first recorded launch of torpedoes from a torpedo boat ( which itself was launched from a torpedo boat tender ) in an actual battle was by Russian admiral Stepan Makarov on January 16, 1878, who used self-propelled Whitehead's torpedoes against a Turkish armed ship Intibah during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.

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.

* December 31 – Last day on which the farthing, a coin first minted in England in the 13th century, is legal tender in the United Kingdom.

There are two advantages to barbecue-braising: the first is that this method now allows for browning the meat directly on the grill before the braising, and the second is that it also allows for glazing the meat with sauce and finishing it directly over the fire after the braising, effectively cooking the meat three times, which results in a soft-textured product that is very tender.

In the United Kingdom, the first rhubarb of the year is harvested by candlelight in forcing sheds-where all other light is excluded-a practice that produces a sweeter, more tender stalk.

The crucial first point is that the choice is hers, its quirkiness another sign of her much-prized individuality .” “ Bhaer has all the qualities Bronson Alcott lacked: warmth, intimacy, and a tender capacity for expressing his affection — the feminine attributes Alcott admired and hoped men could acquire in a rational, feminist world .”

In March 1934 this type of autogyro became the first rotorcraft to take off and land on the deck of a ship, when a C. 30 performed trials on board the Spanish navy seaplane tender Dédalo off Valencia.

In the " Hippogriff Cookbook " ( 2010 ) reportedly " the first literary work written exclusively for e-reader technology ," British authors Benjamin Leeds Carson and Perre DiCarlo introduce fictional wizards to the culinary value of the animal, which " giveth from its forelegs and wings a tender poultry, from its rear a robust steak, as well as both creamy milke and eggs that seemeth to emerge already soft boiled.

The fat is mixed with the flour first, generally by rubbing with fingers or a pastry blender, which inhibits gluten formation and results in a soft, tender pastry.

The first of the spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Past, takes Scrooge to Christmas scenes of his boyhood and youth, which stir the old miser's gentle and tender side by reminding him of a time when he was more innocent.

Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus credits her as the first person to castrate a male youth into eunuch-hood: " Semiramis, that ancient queen who was the first person to castrate male youths of tender age " ( Lib.

Composer Karl Goldmark wrote of one recital where Rubinstein improvised on a motive from the last movement of Beethoven's Eighth Symphony: He counterpointed it in the bass ; then developed it first as a canon, next as a four-voiced fugue, and again transformed it into a tender song.

At first, Arbus considered these photographs to be " lyric and tender and pretty ," but by June, 1971, she told Lisette Model that she hated them.

Obverse of the first $ 1 bill issued in 1862 as a legal tender note featuring Chase

The meat is cooked first with palm sugar, coriander, cumin, and other seasoning until very tender.

Some vendor choose to even grind the meat first in order to make it really tender.

By 2007 the association had welcomed new participants from Dundee, Perth and Stirling to join existing leagues, held its first formal national championships, trained over 150 referees and won the tender to host the 2011 World Cup in Edinburgh.

The Armenian historian of the region, Movses Kaghankatvatsi, who left the only more or less complete historical account, also explains the name Aghvank as a derivation from the word ału ( Armenian for sweet, soft, tender ), which, he said, was the nickname of Caucasian Albania's first governor Arran and referred to his lenient personality.

The chicken is first marinated in wine, then seared in fat and slowly simmered until tender.

Legal tender was enacted the first time in 1870 for all notes and coins of the Banque de France.

With their tender, HMCS Shearwater, they became the first warships to transit the Panama Canal flying the White Ensign ( the RCN's service flag ).

A. C. Swinburne, for example, wrote " here is the first dawn of that higher and more tender humour that was never given in such perfection to any man as ultimately to Shakespeare.