Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.

The inspiration oracular-cult was probably introduced from Anatolia.

The inspiration oracular cult was probably introduced into Greece from Anatolia, which is the origin of Sibyl, and where existed some of the oldest oracular shrines.

The pediment shows the story of Herakles stealing Apollo's tripod that was strongly associated with his oracular inspiration.

But once Milne had, in his own words, " said goodbye to all that in 70, 000 words " ( the approximate length of his four principal children's books ), he had no intention of producing any reworkings lacking in originality, given that one of the sources of inspiration, his son, was growing older.

Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources: Miss Marple was " the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl ".

Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann that the inspiration for the dramatic entry of the horn in the introduction to the last movement of his First Symphony was an alphorn melody he heard while vacationing in the Rigi area of Switzerland.

The track " Baby Baby " ( written for Grant's newborn daughter, Millie, whose " six-week-old face was my inspiration ,") became a pop hit ( hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 ), and Grant was established as a name in the mainstream music world.

In them he concentrated on the idea that prophetic inspiration was possible even in post-Talmudic times, and, indeed, had taken place at various times and in various schools, from the Geonim to Maimonides and beyond.

" The article recounted Capp's days working for an unnamed " benefactor " with a miserly, swinish personality, who Capp claimed was a never-ending source of inspiration when it came time to create a new unregenerate villain for his comic strip.

He published them as Last Poems ( 1922 ) because he felt his inspiration was exhausted and that he should not publish more in his lifetime.

Yet the title of Father of monasticism is merited as he was the inspiration for the coming of hundreds of men and women into the depths of the desert, who were then loosely organized into small communities, especially by his disciple, Macarius.

This was hip-hop pioneer KRS-One's inspiration for his thought provoking group BDP, or Boogie Down Productions, which included DJ Scott La Rock.

The opening theme, played pianissimo over string tremolos, so much resembles the sound of an orchestra tuning, many commentators have suggested that was Beethoven's inspiration.

The French and Bavarians, however, were almost as disordered as their opponents, and they too were in need of inspiration from their commander, the Elector, who was seen – " ... riding up and down, and inspiring his men with fresh courage.

The ship on which Charles Darwin made the voyage which provided much of the inspiration for On the Origin of Species was named HMS Beagle after the breed, and, in turn, lent its name to the ill-fated British Martian lander Beagle 2.

He was romanticised after his death and became the inspiration for a number of pirate-themed works of fiction across a range of genres.

It is variously argued that Fuller's wartime plans and post-war writings were an inspiration, or that his readership was low and German experiences during the war received more attention.

Historians including Donald Grinde, Bruce Johansen and others believe that the Iroquois constitution provided inspiration for the United States Constitution and in 1988 was recognised by a resolution in Congress.

: " From the tenth to the twelfth century Byzantium was the main source of inspiration for the West.

Scheme introduced the sole use of lexically scoped variables to Lisp ; an inspiration from ALGOL 68 which was widely recognized as a good idea.

Another similarity to Jane Eyre was the use of aspects from her own life as inspiration for fictional events, in particular reworking the time she spent at the pensionnat in Brussels into Lucy teaching at the boarding school, and falling in love with Constantin Heger into Lucy falling in love with ' Paul Emanuel '.

La Jetée was the inspiration for Mamoru Oshii's 1987 debut live action feature The Red Spectacles ( and, later for, parts of Oshii's 2001 film Avalon as well ) and also inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ).

He is considered Japan's earliest cyborg superhero, before even Kamen Rider ( the same year, Shotaro Ishinomori created Cyborg 009 ), and was the inspiration for RoboCop.

* Margaret Willes, The Making of the English Gardener: Plants, books and inspiration 1560-1660 ( New Haven ( CT ), Yale UP, 2011 ).

The Autonomist Marxist and Autonomen movements provided inspiration to some on the revolutionary left in English speaking countries, particularly among anarchists, many of whom have adopted autonomist tactics.

His works provided the chief inspiration for French and English comedies of the 1600s, and even for modern American comedy.

Amongst those who followed these ideas were the English poets and painters that constituted the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who, from about 1850, opposed the dominant trend of industrial Victorian England, because of their " opposition to technical skill without inspiration " They were influenced by the writings of the art critic John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ), who had strong feelings about the role of art in helping to improve the lives of the urban working classes, in the rapidly expanding industrial cities of Britain.

The Post-Vulgate Suite was the inspiration for the early parts of Sir Thomas Malory's English language Le Morte d ' Arthur.

The first recorded English use was in 1622, with the meaning " sacerdotal government under divine inspiration " ( as in Biblical Israel before the rise of kings ); the meaning " priestly or religious body wielding political and civil power " is recorded from 1825.

* March 15 – George Llewelyn Davies, English soldier, inspiration for the " Lost Boys " of Peter Pan ( b. 1893 ) ( killed in action )

* November 16 – Alice Liddell, English schoolgirl, inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ( b. 1852 )

Although his inspiration came from Germany, he is not much like a German poet, except when he is consciously following Goethe ; his analogy is rather to be found among English poets than his contemporaries.

He found inspiration in the works of Raphael, in Etruscan vase paintings, and in the outline engravings of the English artist John Flaxman.

It appears that Shelley found inspiration for the title of her novel in Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville's Le Dernier Homme ( 1805 ), translated into English in 1806 as Omegarus and Syderia.

In France, the system of pairies ( peerage ) existed in two different versions: the exclusive ' old ' in the French kingdom, in many respects an inspiration for the English / British practice, and the very prolific chambre des pairs of the Bourbon Restoration ( 1814 – 1848 ).

In real-world terms, Tolkien's inspiration for the word Arda may be certain cognates of the English word " Earth " in the other Germanic languages, specifically the Afrikaans " Aarde " which has equivalent pronunciation and meaning, and unsurprising in use given Tolkien's South African origins.

Joseph Smith claimed to have translated this manuscript into modern English under divine inspiration by the gift and power of God, and the publication of this translation are known as the Book of Mormon.

Emerson, who greatly admired Bacon, and who was sceptical of her claim originally, wrote that she would need ' enchanted instruments, nay alchemy itself, to melt into one identity these two reputations ', and retrospectively remarked that America had only two " producers " during the 1850s, " Our wild Whitman, with real inspiration but checked by titanic abdomen ; and Delia Bacon, with genius, but mad and clinging like a tortoise to English soil.

The park, with artificial lakes, was originally part of the estate of a large stately home Wanstead House, one of the finest Palladian mansions in Britain, from its size and splendour nicknamed the English Versailles, and the architectural inspiration for Mansion House, London.

* James Burge ( 1925 – 2010 ) — English criminal law barrister, original inspiration for the fictional barrister Rumpole of the Bailey

The constitutions, which were originally in Latin, were the basis and inspiration for pastoral and devotional works throughout the remainder of the Middle Ages, and were eventually translated into English in the 15th century.

Jacobethan is the style designation coined in 1933 by John Betjeman to describe the mixed national Renaissance revival style that was made popular in England from the late 1820s, which derived most of its inspiration and its repertory from the English Renaissance ( 1550 – 1625 ), with elements of Elizabethan and Jacobean.

These schools took their inspiration from English public schools, and often called themselves " grammar schools ".

Lanier's poem " The Marshes of Glynn " is the inspiration for a cantata by the same name that was created by the modern English composer Andrew Downes to celebrate the Royal Opening of the Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham, England, in 1986.

Soon the new style of music reached out and touched Europe, which led many famous English rock n ' roll bands to get their inspiration from the Chicago blues.

With inspiration from English and Swedish architecture, it is today an excellent example of the architectural freedom that characterizes the years around 1900.

The English version of the name served as an inspiration for one of Argentina's most important football clubs, Club Atlético River Plate.