He also bestowed immortality on the Rbhus, who by the greatness of their deeds went to his house.

It was probably to the importance of its situation in a military point of view that it was mainly indebted for this distinction ; but the allied nations seem to have destined it to be the permanent capital of Italy, and the rival of Rome, as they changed its name to Italica, and adorned it with a new and spacious forum and senate house, and other public buildings of a style corresponding to its intended greatness.

:" From Calheta the captain passed below an area that ended at a point over the sea ... and being here, they collected from the boat of Tristão and the boat of Álvaro Afonso a fish that looked like porgy, of a marvellous greatness and the largest that, until that time, was ever seen ; for this reason, because of the fish, the point was named porgy.

In 1619 she suffered from smallpox " which spoiled that good face of hers, which had brought to other much misery and to herself greatness which ended with much unhappiness.

I have a distinct admiration for this man we honor today because of the humility with which he carries his greatness.

Listening for hours to his laments that the war and `` Mist Fair's '' poverty afterwards had robbed the mare of many a racing triumph, and to his predictions of greatness for the procession of foals to come, Jenny could look forward to years of conflict with an animal who disliked her intensely and showed it.

Andrew's report to his sovereign, whom he rejoined in 1251 at Caesarea in the Palestine, appears to have been a mixture of history and fable ; the latter affects his narrative of the Mongols ' rise to greatness, and the struggles of their leader Genghis Khan with Prester John ; it is still more evident in the position assigned to the Mongols ' homeland, close to the prison of Gog and Magog.

Still, if the courage of Agathocles in entering into and extricating himself from dangers be considered, together with his greatness of mind in enduring overcoming hardships, it cannot be seen why he should be esteemed less than the most notable captain.

Commerce was the source of Aegina's greatness, and her trade, which appears to have been principally with the Levant, must have suffered seriously from the war with Persia.

The gods too gave us the soul and reason, which is not measured by breadth or depth, but by knowledge and sentiments, and by which we attain to greatness, and may equal even with the gods.

Jacob's name is changed to Israel, and through the agency of his son Joseph, the children of Israel descend into Egypt, 70 people in all with their households, and God promises them a future of greatness.

The figure is related to Heliodurus's work, Aethiopian History with its description of " a young Lady, sitting upon a Rock, of so rare and perfect a Beauty, as one would have taken her for a Goddess, and though her present misery opprest her with extreamest grief, yet in the greatness of her afflection, they might easily perceive the greatness of her Courage: A Laurel crown'd her Head, an a Quiver in a Scarf hanged at her back ".

In 1966, Virginia Radley considered Wordsworth and his sister as an important influence to Coleridge writing a great poem: " Almost daily social intercourse with this remarkable brother and sister seemed to provide the catalyst to greatness, for it is during this period that Coleridge conceived his greatest poems, ' Christabel ,' ' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ,' and ' Kubla Khan ,' poems so distinctive and so different from his others that many generations of readers know Coleridge solely through them.

Scholars such as Rosalind Clark hold that the names are unrelated, the Welsh " Morgan " ( Wales being the source of Arthurian legend ) being derived from root words associated with the sea, while the Irish " Morrígan " has its roots either in a word for " terror " or a word for " greatness ".

" ` Abdu ' l-Bahá considered her to be the supreme example of how women are completely equal with men in the sight of God and can at times even exceed men in holiness and greatness.

The Queen gave her name to an era of British greatness, especially in the far-flung British Empire with which she identified.

He was often inconsistent, he was generally intractable and overbearing, and he was always pompous and affected to a degree which, Macaulay has remarked, seems scarcely compatible with true greatness.

Legend says he is not dead, but asleep with his knights in a cave in the Kyffhäuser mountain in Thuringia or Mount Untersberg in Bavaria, Germany, and that when the ravens cease to fly around the mountain he will awake and restore Germany to its ancient greatness.

But the greatness of the American military service, and particularly the greatness of the Navy, is symbolized in this ceremony today, because this man, who is controversial, this man, who comes up with unorthodox ideas, did not become submerged by the bureaucracy, because once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

In June 2007, she appeared in the HBO series John From Cincinnati with a starring role as matriarch of a troubled Imperial Beach, California surfing family and the grandmother / guardian of a teen surfer on the brink of greatness.

We are told that Valerian, in chains, but invested with the Imperial purple, was exposed to the multitude, a constant spectacle of fallen greatness ; and that whenever the Persian monarch mounted on horseback, he placed his foot on the neck of a Roman emperor.

Because of the time travel aspect, many episodes include " brushes with greatness ", alluding to famous people or incidents indirectly, such as suggesting to a 12-year-old Donald Trump that New York real estate would be valuable in the future, or setting in place actions that led to the discovery of the break-in at the Watergate Hotel.

These discoveries would have secured greatness indeed, as together with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron in 1897, they finally replaced John Dalton ’ s theory of atoms being solid spherical particles.

He appealed with all the credit of his name, that of France's national hero: Napoleon I, who in popular memory was credited with raising the nation to its pinnacle of military greatness and establishing social stability after the turmoil of the French Revolution.

Following the Confederation of Canada, Montreal's economy was still spearheaded by the Allan brothers ( Sir Hugh and Andrew ), who the Gazette lauded as the " pioneers of our commercial greatness ".

They praised movies by Jean Renoir and Jean Vigo, and made then-radical cases for the artistic distinction and greatness of Hollywood studio directors such as Orson Welles, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock and Nicholas Ray.

When the Legion of Doom squashed them in 59 seconds at WrestleMania VII, it was evident to fans that the team was not destined for greatness.

While online critics such as Peter Gutmann have dismissed much of what was written about Toscanini during his lifetime as " adoring puffery ", it neverthleless remains a fact that composers and others who worked with the Maestro readily acknowledged what they felt was his greatness, and audio interviews containing the praise of such luminaries as Aaron Copland still exist.

Öz Beg had sent a letter to the Metropolitan Peter which stated: By the will and power, the greatness and most high!

* Comfortably averaging over 50 per innings ( the benchmark for batting greatness in Test cricket ), Lara has been ranked the number one batsman in Test cricket in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Cricket Ratings several times.

During his reign, he also set about creating the Second Mexican Empire ( headed by his choice of Maximilian I of Mexico, a member of the House of Habsburg ), to regain France's hold in the Americas and to achieve greatness for the ' Latin ' race.

( XII: 8, 16-17 ) Jacob's prophetic nature is evident from his foreknowledge of Joseph's future greatness ( XII: 6 ), his foreboding and response to the supposed death of Joseph ( XII: 13, 18 ) and in his response to the sons ' plight in Egypt.

In the published version, Heidegger refers to the " inner truth and greatness " of the National Socialist movement ( die innere Wahrheit und Größe dieser Bewegung ), but he then adds a qualifying statement in parentheses: " namely, the confrontation of planetary technology and modern humanity " ( nämlich die Begegnung der planetarisch bestimmten Technik und des neuzeitlichen Menschen ).

" keeper of greatness ", 22 October 1913 – 30 July 1997 ), born Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy ( 阮福永瑞 ), was the 13th and last emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, which is the last dynasty of Vietnam.

The Duke and Duchess had risen to greatness not least because of their intimacy with Anne, but the Duchess's relentless campaign against the Tories ( Sarah was a firm Whig ), isolated her from the Queen whose natural inclinations lay with the Tories, the staunch supporters of the Church of England.

* Themistocles: The visionary leader of Athens during the Persian wars, he is mentioned as a role-model for suicide ( line 84 ), as a laughable benchmark for Cleon's own greatness ( 812-19 ) and as somebody who never gave Demos a cloak ( 884 ).

In the words of ' Abd al-Jabbar, the doctrine of the intermediate position is ( Martin et al., 1997 ): the knowledge that whoever murders, or fornicates ( zana ), or commits serious sins is a grave sinner ( fasiq ) and not a believer, nor is his case the same that of believers with respect to praise and attributing greatness, since he is to be cursed and disregarded.

The model dandy in British society was George Bryan " Beau " Brummell ( 1778 – 1840 ), an undergraduate student at Oriel College, Oxford, and an associate of the Prince Regent, who was not from an aristocratic background and whose greatness was " based on nothing at all ," as J. A.

Dominique decides that since she cannot have the world she wants ( in which men like Roark are recognized for their greatness ), she will live completely and entirely in the world she has, which shuns Roark and praises Keating.

Great and influential conductors of the middle 20th century like Leopold Stokowski ( 1882 – 1977 ), Otto Klemperer ( 1885 – 1973 ), Herbert von Karajan ( 1908 – 1989 ) and Leonard Bernstein ( 1918 – 1990 ) – incidentally, the first American conductor to attain greatness and international fame – had widely varied techniques.

1876 ); translated with introduction and flutes Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, and wrote a Prometheus Unbound ( 1844 ), in which Prometheus is brought to see the greatness of his offence and is pardoned by Zeus.

His book, Configurations of Cultural Growth ( 1944 ), had a lasting impact on social scientific research on genius and greatness ; Kroeber believed that genius arose out of culture at particular times, rather than holding to " the great man " theory.

In Roger de Piles ' Balance of 1708, an effort to quantify and compare the greatness of painters in four categories ( no artist ever achieved a score above 18 in any category ), the French critic awarded Domenichino 17 points for drawing ( dessein ), 17 for expression, 15 for composition, yet only 9 as a colorist.

The Battle of Rocroi ( 1643 ), the symbolic end of the greatness of Spain.

6 ( A. V. 4 ), prophesied his future greatness.

Lütjens promises the captain of the Bismarck, Ernst Lindemann ( Carl Möhner ), that this time, he and Germany will be remembered in greatness.

A Literary Discourse Analysis of Dag Solstad's Authorship ( University of Oslo, 2009 ), Inger Østenstad argues from different perspectives that Solstad is Norway's greatest contemporary writer, and uses a version of Dominique Maingueneau's discourse theory to analyse the components of oeuvre, reception, para-text and meta-text that in Solstad's case contribute to his established greatness.

The first person he meets is Greg ( Timothy Webber ), a former businessman who tells him of the greatness of the " group ".

Sindbad orders his huge Roc, Rokh, to kidnap Popeye's girlfriend, Olive Oyl, and challenges the one-eyed sailor to a series of obstacles to prove his greatness, including fighting Rokh, a two-headed giant named Boola ( an apparent parody reference to The Three Stooges MGM comic show ), and Sindbad himself.