Isaac Newton, at the age of twenty-three, industriously calculating logarithms `` to two and fifty places '' during the great plague year in England, 1665 ; ;

The great plague of 1650 – 1654 halved the city's population.

* Lament over a great locust plague and a severe drought ( 1: 1 – 2: 17 )

The 1664 – 1666 epidemic was on a far smaller scale than the earlier " Black Death " pandemic ; it was remembered afterwards as the " great " plague only because it was the last widespread outbreak of bubonic plague in England during the four-hundred-year timespan of the Second Pandemic.

During the autumn of 169 AD when Roman troops were returning to Aquileia, the great plague broke out and the emperor summoned Galen back to Rome.

The great plague of 1596 – 1602 killed 600, 000 to 700, 000 people, or about 10 % of the population.

This injury was to plague him for the rest of his life, causing him great pain.

The jubilee of 1400 drew to Rome great crowds of pilgrims, particularly from France, in spite of a disastrous plague.

His sardonic sense of humour is evident throughout, as when, during his description of the Athenian plague, he remarks that old Athenians seemed to remember a rhyme which said that with the Dorian War would come a " great death ".

Some claimed that the rhyme was actually about a " great dearth " ( limos ), and was only remembered as " death " ( loimos ) due to the current plague.

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He rose still higher in the favor of the people when they witnessed his self-denying devotion during the time of a great plague and famine.

It is believed by the faithful that on its way from the island the plague scratched one of the fortification stones of the old citadel to indicate its fury at being expelled ; St. Spyridon is also attributed the role of saving the island at the second great siege of Corfu of 1716.

In the town of Dundee there exists a strange traditionary story of the plague, connected with the conversion, from dire necessity of the Arionaten, or black slug, to a use similar to that which the luxurious Romans are said to have made of the great apple-snail.

Gondor maintained garrisons in the region to maintain the road and great bridge at Tharbad, but these were withdrawn in the aftermath of the great plague.

Having passed the time during the plague composing prose pamphlets ( including a continuation of Thomas Nashe's Pierce Penniless ), he returned to drama with great energy, producing close to a score of plays for several companies and in several genres, most notably city comedy and revenge tragedy.

The prophet Gad suggested the area to King David as a fitting place for the erection of an altar to YHWH, since it was there a destroying angel was standing when God stopped a great plague in Jerusalem.

This chapter shows a low opinion of flatterers ; Machiavelli notes that “ Men are so happily absorbed in their own affairs and indulge in such self-deception that it is difficult for them not to fall victim to this plague ; and some efforts to protect oneself from flatterers involve the risk of becoming despised .” Flatterers were seen as a great danger to a prince, because their flattery could cause him to avoid wise counsel in favor of rash action, but avoiding all advice, flattery or otherwise, was equally bad ; a middle road had to be taken.

He'd be out there squinting because he could see, at midnight, the moonlight and shadows, and that was his way of not seeing the weeds or imperfections that would plague him during the day ..." Talking of the tranquility he felt at Friar Park, Harrison once said: " Sometimes I feel like I'm actually on the wrong planet, and it's great when I'm in my garden.

During Frederick's rule Copenhagen was struck by two disasters: the plague of 1711, and the great fire of October 1728, which destroyed most of the medieval capital.

That was a period of great devastation, terrible famine and plague for Egypt.

" In the movie, he saves Lukyo, Bizo, and other animals from the dreaded speckled fever ( a. k. a. the great plague ).

The reforms coincided with a great plague in 1654 and Russians were also greatly concerned about the upcoming year 1666 which many considered the year of the apocalypse.

Bede gives a long account of how Egbert fell dangerously ill in Ireland in 664 and vowed to follow a lifelong pattern of great austerity so that he might live to make amends for the follies of his youth.

He was 4th in the steeplechase at the 1960 Olympics, and after a bronze at the 1966 Europeans he turned with great success to longer distances, setting world records at the 20 km distance ( 58 minutes 6. 2 seconds ) and the 1 hour race ( 20, 664 m ) that year and later improving those records to 57 minutes 44. 4 seconds and 20, 878 meters in 1972.

However, Kizimov rode a great test for 664 points, compared to Neckermann's 598, allowing him to pull ahead for the individual gold medal.

In 664, Muawiyah and Ziyad reached an agreement: the Caliph recognised Ziyad as a brother-Ziyad now adopted the name ibn Abi Sufyan-and appointed him governor at Basra, replacing the Umayyad ` Abd Allah, who had proved a great general but a poor administrator.

`` His address '', Walter added, `` is that great foundling home, the American Express.

Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!

It is not good, Mr. Waddell: you will do him great harm ''.

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

Idje, here '', and he nodded at the man, `` is said to have great odor.

It is a great spectacle.

So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.

It is this curious blend of rugged individualism and public service which accounts for the great appeal of the mythological detective.

We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

( B ) A message runs too great a risk of being distorted if it is to be relayed more than about six consecutive times.

Since the difficulty of drawing the net is great, we will merely discuss it.

He terms this early enthusiasm `` Romantic Christianity '' and concludes that its similarity to democratic beliefs of that day is so great that `` the doctrine of liberty seems but a secular version of its counterpart in evangelical Protestantism ''.

This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.

`` My doctors assure me that this increased percentage of risk is not great ''.

The making of distinctions, like the perception of the great distinctions made, is an inordinately difficult business.

Their great error is to mingle the responses typical of each of the three types of change.

Moral dread is seen as the other face of desire, and here psychoanalysis delivers to the writer a magnificent irony and a moral problem of great complexity.

The discrepancy between what we commonly profess and what we practice or tolerate is great, and it does not escape the notice of others.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

Growing out of this concern is the realization that all people of the Free World have a great stake in the progress, in freedom, of the uncommitted and newly emerging nations.

It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.