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The last sentence of the interesting epitaph from which this phrase is taken may be quoted as a specimen of the dialect ; the stone was found in Corfinio, the ancient Corfinium, and the very perfect style of the Latin alphabet in which it is written shows that it cannot well be earlier than the last century BC: " Eite uus pritrome pacris, puus ecic lexe lifar ," " ite vos porro pacati ( cum bona pace ), qui hoc scriptum ( hbar, 3rd decl.
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In analyzing this regulation, let us take the last sentence first.
With this seven-word sentence -- though the speaker undoubtedly thought he was dealing only with the subject of food -- he was telling things about himself and, in the last two examples, revealing that he had departed from the customs of his culture.
: And he used to repeat that sentence from St. Paul “ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ,” and many other verses of Scripture, urging us thereby to awake from the slumber of the soul by thinking in good time of our last hour.
Cardozo continues to adhere to the original principle of Winterbottom, that " absurd and outrageous consequences " must be avoided, and he does so by drawing a new line in the last sentence quoted above: " There must be knowledge of a danger, not merely possible, but probable.
The last sentence refers to prostitution and syphilis, the former a frequent cause of the latter, and the latter a leading cause of blindness.
The historical definition differs from the length-based standard in that a minute of arc, and hence a nautical mile, is not a constant length at the surface of the Earth but gradually lengthens in the north-south direction with increasing distance from the equator, as a corollary of the Earth's oblateness, hence the need for " mean " in the last sentence of the previous paragraph.
He added the final sentence of the novel, " He never saw Molly again ", at the last minute in a deliberate attempt to prevent himself from ever writing a sequel, but ended up doing precisely that with Count Zero ( 1986 ), a character-focused work set in the Sprawl alluded to in its predecessor.
No language corresponding to the last sentence about " two stout monks " appears in the Rule, though it is a popular myth that it does, with several reputable publications ( and more than one church, and at least one Benedictine organization ) repeating and propagating the error.
Usually the last word in a sentence is emphasized.
The book ends with the narrator awakening from his dream of heaven into the unpleasant reality of wartime Britain, in conscious imitation of The Pilgrim's Progress, the last sentence of the " First Part " of which is: " So I awoke, and behold, it was a Dream.
In the last sentence, the officer, embarrassed by the distress of the children, turns to look at the cruiser from which his party has landed — a symbol of his own adult war.
Subjects read a number of sentences ( usually between 2 and 6 ) and try to remember the last word of each sentence.
* June 18 – In Switzerland, Anna Göldi is sentenced to death for witchcraft ( the last legal witchcraft sentence ).
Every sentence typically ends in the trademark elongated tail-off on the last word.
Richard Adams quotes a portion of the novel's last sentence for the epigraph to Chapter 50 in his Watership Down ; the reference to the General is felicitous, as the villain in Watership Down is also a General.
" The phrase is used again in the novel's last sentence: " How green was my Valley then, and the Valley of them that have gone.
Richard FitzNigel, writing around the year 1179, stated that the book was known by the English as " Domesday ", that is the Day of Judgment " for as the sentence of that strict and terrible last account cannot be evaded by any skilful subterfuge, so when this book is appealed to ... its sentence cannot be put quashed or set aside with impunity.
Because of other troubles translators might have retaining the meaning of the book, Hofstadter " painstakingly went through every last sentence of GEB, annotating a copy for translators into any language that might be targeted ".
Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single!
Rozhestvensky claimed full responsibility for the fiasco ; as he had been wounded and unconscious during the last part of the battle, the Tsar commuted his death sentence.
In the opening sentence of his 1880 article Venn declared: " Schemes of diagrammatic representation have been so familiarly introduced into logical treatises during the last century or so, that many readers, even those who have made no professional study of logic, may be supposed to be acquainted with the general nation and object of such devices.
When the poem is completed, the echo of the last phrase, line, or sentence, generally serves as the title.
For example, the last sentence of the lyrics read " raise high Chairman Mao's banner ".
* homeoptoton: in a flexive language the use the first and last words of a sentence in the same forms
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After mentioning that this fish was sacred to Hecate, Alan Davidson writes, " Cicero, Horace, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny, Seneca and Suetonius have left abundant and interesting testimony to the red mullet fever which began to affect wealthy Romans during the last years of the Republic and really gripped them in the early Empire.
* The Folk Art Museum is beautifully preserved old house which provides a very interesting collection of Cypriot Folk Art of the last two centuries.
" Allmovie reviewer Keith Phipps stated that: " The last, to date at least, of George Romero's living dead films is in many respects the least interesting, although it's not for a lack of ambition.
Tynset has many wildlife areas, which are regarded as national treasures ; the geological formation at Ripan and Gammeldalen are extremely interesting: at Ripan is a lake formed by glaciation during the last Ice Age and at Gammeldalen are found some beautifully formed corries from the same period.
One of the most interesting from a historical point of view is the Hurt of Sedition how greneous it is to a Communeweith ( 1549 ), written on the occasion of Ket's rebellion, republished in 1569, 1576 and 1641, on the last occasion with a life of the author by Gerard Langbaine.
The last two are particularly interesting ( according to Kac ) because they have the standard model gauge group SU ( 3 ) xSU ( 2 ) xU ( 1 ) as their zero level algebra.
His last words were " Well, this should be interesting.
The unconventionality of this last performance, during a run of 200 nights, aroused keen discussion and singled him out as the most interesting English actor of his day.
The last part, though, with no pictures, looks interesting to read.
On July 6, 2008, the Amtrak Classic added an interesting chapter as the Rampage, losers of their last six meetings with Chicago, defeated their heavily favored opponents on the road.
Learning of Bruce Wayne's resurrection, Ra's muses that his next confrontation with the Detective will be particularly interesting as he believes that Batman has at last had a taste of the immortality that Ra's himself enjoys.
During these meetings, Alwin Arundel Lowdham discusses his lucid dreams about Númenor ; through these dreams, he " discovers " much about the Númenor story and the languages of Middle-earth ( notably Quenya, Sindarin, and Adûnaic — the last very interesting since it is the sole source of most of the material on Adûnaic ).
An interesting anecdote to consider was that during this whole period, Puerto Rico had laws like the Regla del Sacar or Gracias al Sacar where a person of black ancestry could be considered legally white so long as they could prove that at least one person per generation in the last four generations had also been legally white.
* This is the last episode in which the interesting looking T ' Loth Narn Cruiser is seen.
Although the last ten years of Goehr's output have not received the generous coverage ( both in terms of academic writing and frequency of performance ) of his previous work, they arguably represent the most interesting of Goehr's compositional phases.
It is interesting to note that the two Greek kings who bore the name of Constantine, a name of great sentimental and symbolic significance, especially in the irredentist context of the Megali Idea, were often, although never officially, numbered in direct succession to the last Byzantine Emperor, Constantine XI, as Constantine XII and Constantine XIII respectively.
It is interesting to note that as a youth he availed himself of the opportunity to pay to avoid conscription, which was last possible in 1872.
They also admit that they were the ones who had given her the idea to write more interesting stories, since they were discontent with the last ones.
The last ghost is the most interesting one.
He faced an interesting challenge from Annamarie Castrilli, another former Liberal leadership challenger who had defected to the governing Progressive Conservatives on the last sitting day of the legislature.
The very low casualty figures make this an interesting battle for proponents of theories about soldiers ' reluctance to shoot to kill, but could also be accounted for by the fact that the Fenians had deployed only their skirmishers in an attempt to lure the Canadians towards their main force which did not advance until the last minutes of the battle when they launched a bayonet attack that broke Canadian lines.
The park is built on a formation of Manhattan schist and contains interesting examples of igneous intrusions and of glacial striations from the last Ice Age.
The town's Historical Museum displays interesting relics of one of the last major battles of the Paulista War, which was fought nearby.
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