Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.

The arrangement with Argiento was working well, except that sometimes Michelangelo could not figure who was master and who apprentice.

He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.

Yet no detail was too small to receive attention from this master, and as a result the playing here has humor, delicacy, and radiant humanity.

The Philippi bridge, however, was the Chenoweth master piece, with its 139-foot, dual lane, span -- and it stands today as a monument to its builders.

Man, through democratic institutions of government and economic freedom, was master of his destiny.

When we examine what each master says was his first collage we see that much the same thing happens in each.

If the master of scops who was most responsible for the poem ever used kennings that were traditional, he was at least partly deprived of free will and not inclined towards shrewd and sophisticated misuse of speech elements.

it was partly his master.

As the Zen literature reveals, as soon as an early Zen master attained fame in seclusion, he was called out into the world to exercise his powers.

Lincoln was a master politician, bringing together — and holding together — all the main factions of the Republican Party, and bringing in War Democrats such as Edwin M. Stanton and Andrew Johnson as well.

According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.

One important piece of advice Yamamoto gave Kurosawa was that a good director needed to master screenwriting.

Henry Ford was the first to master the moving assembly line and was able to improve other aspects of industry by doing so ( such as reducing labor hours required to produce a single vehicle, and increased production numbers and parts ).

Throughout ancient and medieval history, most architectural design and construction was carried out by artisans, such as stone masons and carpenters, rising to the role of master builder.

In his study of Greek literature his master was Emmanuel Chrysoloras.

Two of Ammonius's students-Origen the Pagan, and Longinus-seem to have held philosophical positions which were closer to Middle Platonism than Neoplatonism, which perhaps suggests that Ammonius's doctrines were also closer to those of Middle Platonism than the Neoplatonism developed by Plotinus ( see the Enneads ), but Plotinus does not seem to have thought that he was departing in any significant way from that of his master.

While Dampier was captain of the St. George, Selkirk served on the galley Cinque Ports, the St. Georges companion, as a sailing master serving under Thomas Stradling.

This master returned to Venice, where he soon afterwards died ; but by the high terms in which he spoke of his pupil to Falier, the latter was induced to bring the young artist to Venice, whither he accordingly went, and was placed under a nephew of Torretto.

Stormalong was said to be a sailor and a giant, some 30 feet tall ; he was the master of a huge clipper ship known in various sources as either the Courser or the Tuscarora, a ship so tall that it had hinged masts to avoid catching on the moon.

In some of the numbers the instrumental parts have even been recorded at different times and then later combined on the master tape to produce special effects.

As he later said, he wanted to create his own facial expressions, figures and comical situations in his drawings but wanted to study the master comic artists ' use of the pen and their use of color and shading.

In the later Middle Ages, destructive Mongol invasions from the East, and the loss of population in the Black Death, greatly weakened the traditional centre of the Islamic world, stretching from Persia to Egypt, and the Ottoman Empire was able to conquer most Arabic-speaking areas, creating an Islamic world power again, although one that was unable to master the challenges of the Early Modern period.

These sayings spread by oral transmission ; later the founder's disciples set them in writing, developing the thoughts of their master into a system.

They were born in Takamagahara, the world of Heaven at the time of the creation, as Amenominakanushi 天御中主 ( Central master ), Takamimusubi ( High creation ), Kamimusubi ( Divine creation ), and a bit later Umashiashikabihikoji ( Energy ) and Amenotokotachi ( Heaven ).

Andrewes was born in 1555 near All Hallows, Barking, by the Tower of London-originally a dependency of Barking Abbey in Barking, Essex, of an ancient Suffolk family later domiciled at Chichester Hall, Rawreth ; his father, Thomas, was master of Trinity House.

In the same year, the participating countries ( Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, West Germany, the United Kingdom, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States ) signed an accord establishing a master financial-aid-coordinating agency, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation ( later called the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD ), which was headed by Frenchman Robert Marjolin.

A year later, in 1868, Alboni would take part in the funeral of her beloved master and friend, Rossini, in the Église de la Sainte-Trinité.

While previous critics such as A. W. Gomme believed that the slave was “ truly comic character, the devisor of ingenious schemes, the controller of events, the commanding officer of his young master and friends, is a creation of Latin comedy ,” and that Greek dramatists such as Menander did not use slaves in such a way that Plautus later did, Harsh refutes these beliefs by giving concrete examples of instances where a clever slave appeared in Greek comedy.

When others of Odo's species ( the Founders ) are later introduced, they share a similar " unfinished " look, which they adopt to make Odo feel at ease around them as they are able to replicate humanoids exactly, whereas Odo, having grown up without others of his kind, never learned to master it.

" After students completed their post-graduate education, they were awarded doctorates giving them the status of faqih ( meaning " master of law "), mufti ( meaning " professor of legal opinions ") and mudarris ( meaning " teacher "), which were later translated into Latin as magister, professor and doctor respectively.

* Canon 18 required every cathedral church to appoint a master to teach the clerics and the poor scholars of the church ; this action helped launch the cathedral schools that later became universities.

A few days later, he was appointed to serve on HMS Belle Poule as its master.

" I prayed all night long for my master ," she said later, " till the first of March ; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me.

Entering the University of Prague, Matthew graduated bachelor of arts in 1355 and master in 1357, and later filled for several terms the office of dean in the same faculty.

Gérôme was the precursor, and often the master, of a number of French painters in the later part of the century whose works were often frankly salacious, frequently featuring scenes in harems, public baths and slave auctions ( the last two also available with classical decor ), and responsible, with others, for " the equation of Orientalism with the nude in pornographic mode ".

This absolute faith in himself as a strategist and master of daring infected his entire army, until the men of the second American corps in Africa, and later the third army in France, believed they could not be defeated under his leadership.

During his 5 years of study with Ginastera he would master orchestration which he later considered to be one of his strong points.

At Hathras, he met Sharat Chandra Gupta, a railway station master who later became one of his earliest disciples as Sadananda.

Cromwell had made enemies for aiding Wolsey to suppress the monasteries, but was determined not to fall with his master, as he told George Cavendish, then a Gentleman Usher and later Wolsey's biographer:

" In turn, from this verb is derived the noun σοφιστής ( sophistes ), which originally meant " a master of one's craft " but later came to mean " a prudent man " or " wise man.

After becoming a teacher at a comprehensive school for two years, Giles later returned to teaching, becoming a Maths master at Salisbury Cathedral School, and later, Northcliffe Preparatory School, Nursling, Southampton.

Ammann's designs for the George Washington Bridge, and, later, the Bayonne Bridge, caught the attention of master builder Robert Moses, who drafted Ammann into his service.

He later attended the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island, and upon graduating with a master of arts degree in 1957, was assigned to the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet, as aircraft readiness officer.