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The great event of his intellectual life was the coming of the Reformation ; he became an ardent adherent of Luther, and in 1523 wrote in Luther's honour the poem beginning “ The nightingale of Wittenberg, which is heard everywhere ” (), and four remarkable dialogues in prose, in which his warm sympathy with the reformer were tempered by counsels of moderation.
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The ordinary man and woman, however, saw little of the great professional games of those Golden Days, or of any other sporting event for that matter.
We live in the bright daylight of that great event ; ;
Of another colleague, George Santayana, he could write: `` The great event in my life recently has been the reading of Santayana's book.
In the event of heavy precipitation, the load on the sewage treatment plant at the end of the pipe becomes too great to handle and raw sewage is dumped into holding tanks, and sometimes into surface water.
When the idea of a modern Olympics became a reality at the end of the 19th century, the initiators and organizers were looking for a great popularizing event, recalling the ancient glory of Greece.
He concluded they had been created by some great explosive event, but believed that this force was probably volcanic in origin.
Although he spoke with apprehension at his award speech about the danger which the authority of the prize would lend to an economist, the prize brought much greater public awareness of Hayek and has been described by his biographer as " the great rejuvenating event in his life ".
Whilst this was primarily an English event, the so-called " Glorious Revolution " had a great impact on Scottish history.
Some believers claim that Jonah did die in the belly of the great fish, and was then resurrected by God since Jesus himself associated this event in Jonah's life with his own death and resurrection.
In any event, it was re-released to great acclaim in 1988.
In 1991 Palin worked as producer and actor in the film American Friends based upon a real event in the life of his great grandfather, a fellow at St John's College, Oxford.
The most remarkable event of Clement VIII's reign was the reconciliation to the Church of Henry IV of France ( 1589 – 1610 ), after long negotiations, carried on with great dexterity through Cardinal Arnaud d ' Ossat, that resolved the complicated situation in France.
An important event that coincided with Innocent's pontificate was the fall of Granada in January 1492, which was celebrated in the Vatican with great rejoicings.
The marriage was celebrated with great pomp and splendour and many feasts and entertainments, and public parades, and celebrations followed, to commemorate the event.
With more than 30 wineries currently located on the shores of Seneca Lake, the winter ' Deck the Halls ' event is a great time at the lake with participating wineries showcasing their vintages and pairing these wines with distinctive, tasty treats.
His death was the epoch event beginning the troubled Crisis of the Third Century where a succession of short-reigning military emperors, revolting generals, and counter claimants presided over governmental chaos, civil war, general instability and great economic disruption.
The event created great excitement and led many to believe that not just the local lodge but all Freemasonry was in conflict with good citizenship.
Today, this version of the novel is considered to be a significant literary event in the history of Argentine literature ; however, when published it did not bring any great renown to the author, nor did the publication of Gombrowicz's drama Ślub in Spanish ( The Marriage, El Casamiento ) in 1948.
: The Games of 1944 had been allocated to London and so it was that in October, 1945, the chairman of the British Olympic Council, Lord Burghley, went to Stockholm and saw the president of the International Olympic Committee to discuss the question of London being chosen for this great event.
The great event of Elizabeth's later years was the Seven Years ' War.
I have received the news of a great event.
" The great event which snatched him from destruction was the death of the Russian empress ( 5 January 1762 ( N. S.
News of this event was received in Paris with a great show of rejoicing and the Pope's effigy was publicly burned in the gardens of the Palais Royal to the accompaniment of ribald jokes and songs.
In 1716 Antonio Vivaldi, on commission by the republic of Venice, composed the oratorio Juditha triumphans to commemorate this great event.
The first event in the history of Ionia for which there is a trustworthy account is the inroad of the Cimmerii, who ravaged a great part of Asia Minor, including Lydia, and sacked Magnesia on the Maeander, but were foiled in their attack upon Ephesus.
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Exhibited in shows in London in 1935, and in New York the following year, the new, more elaborated abstracts were much favored in the circles of the modernists as three-dimentional dramas of great intellectual coherence.
In Britain, anthropology had a great intellectual impact, it " contributed to the erosion of Christianity, the growth of cultural relativism, an awareness of the survival of the primitive in modern life, and the replacement of diachronic modes of analysis with synchronic, all of which are central to modern culture.
A great diversity of diagnoses, including cerebral palsy, intellectual impairment, autism, and many others, cover varying degrees of communication impairment.
The Hundred Schools of Thought were philosophers and schools that flourished from 770 to 221 BC, an era of great cultural and intellectual expansion in China.
This suggestion has been recently repeated by Jerome Murphy-O ' Connor: " It is difficult to imagine that an Alexandrian Jew ... could have escaped the influence of Philo, the great intellectual leader ... particularly since the latter seems to have been especially concerned with education and preaching.
Cryptanalysts were selected for various intellectual achievements, whether they were linguists, chess champions, crossword experts, polyglots or great mathematicians.
Like so many others, Étienne was eventually forced to flee Paris because of his opposition to the fiscal policies of Cardinal Richelieu, leaving his three children in the care of his neighbor Madame Sainctot, a great beauty with an infamous past who kept one of the most glittering and intellectual salons in all France.
Simultaneously, businesses with great economic dependence upon copyright have advocated the extension and expansion of their intellectual property rights, and sought additional legal and technological enforcement.
The dandy cultivated skeptical reserve, yet to such extremes that the novelist George Meredith, himself no dandy, once defined " cynicism " as " intellectual dandyism "; nevertheless, the Scarlet Pimpernel is one of the great dandies of literature.
" In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.
With the end of Roman civilization, Western Europe entered the Middle Ages with great difficulties that affected the continent's intellectual production.
Schools taught children to respond intellectually to poetry ( for example ) and not emotionally, we are taught to believe that great ideas come from those who are intelligent, and we forget that inspiration is not intellectual.
He was both gregarious and keenly intellectual, with a great number of friends from London's intelligentsia, numbered amongst whom were Dr Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Giuseppe Baretti, Henry Thrale, David Garrick and fellow artist Angelica Kauffmann.
Crawfurd, who opposed Darwinian evolution, " denied any unity to mankind, insisting on immutable, hereditary, and timeless differences in racial character, principal amongst which was the ' very great ' difference in ' intellectual capacity.
Shakespeare may have intended a reference to the great chain of being, although the play's images of disorder are mostly not specific enough to support detailed intellectual readings.
Different forms of " property " require different amounts of enforcement: intellectual property requires a great deal of state intervention to enforce, ownership of distant physical property requires quite a lot, ownership of carried objects requires very little, while ownership of one's own body requires absolutely no state intervention.
" Thanks to the great intellectual migration away from Europe's fascism, Harvard had become a major intellectual centre in which Trudeau profoundly changed.
A motive for seeking a ToE, apart from the pure intellectual satisfaction of completing a centuries-long quest, is that all prior examples of unification have predicted new phenomena, some of which ( e. g., electrical generators ) have proved of great practical importance.
Hare was said to have been ' conspicuous for great industry – to have wide interests in life and clearness of intellectual vision '.
Yale was swept up by the great intellectual movements of the period — the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment — thanks to the religious and scientific interests of presidents Thomas Clap and Ezra Stiles.
Among the great states of the time, only Babylon refrained from taking part in battles, mainly due to its new position as the world's religious and intellectual capital.
Crawfurd, who opposed Darwinian evolution, " denied any unity to mankind, insisting on immutable, hereditary, and timeless differences in racial character, principal amongst which was the ' very great ' difference in ' intellectual capacity.
Additionally, Murray Rothbard, the founder of anarcho-capitalism, has opined that Thoreau was one of the " great intellectual heroes " of his movement.
However, a great many celebrities are clearly not " intellectual " achievers nor notable for any cognitive or analytic powers, e. g. Kim Kardashian, professional sports figures or other athletes.
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