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The present life man, O king, seems to me, in comparison with that time which is unknown to us, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room wherein you sit at supper in winter amid your officers and ministers, with a good fire in the midst whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad ; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door and immediately out another, whilst he is within is safe from the wintry but after a short space of fair weather he immediately vanishes out of your sight into the dark winter from which he has emerged.
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present and life
If life and death did not both present themselves to us, there would be no inscrutability.
Harold Clurman is right to say that `` Waiting For Godot '' is a reflection ( he calls it a distorted reflection ) `` of the impasse and disarray of Europe's present politics, ethic, and common way of life ''.
In the following sketch we shall present a brief outline of his life and let him as much as possible speak for himself.
`` Does any sane Democrat believe that Mr. Hearst, a person unknown even to his constituency and his colleagues, without a word or act in the public life of his country, past or present, that can be shown to be his to commend him, could by any possibility be elected President of the United States??
In one such theory, put forward by Sir E. B. Tylor, early humans initially, through mere observation, recognized what might be called a soul, life-force, spirit, breath or animus within themselves ; that which was present in the body in life and absent in death.
The dedication stone for the church has survived to the present day ; it is dated 23 April 685, and as Bede would have been required to assist with menial tasks in his day-to-day life it is possible that he helped in building the original church.
Wilfrid had been present at the exhumation of her body in 695, and Bede questioned the bishop about the exact circumstances of the body and asked for more details of her life, as Wilfrid had been her advisor.
His life and work have been celebrated by a series of annual scholarly lectures at St. Paul's Church, Jarrow from 1958 to the present.
They are elected for life from among the ordained elders ( presbyters ) by vote of the delegates in regional ( called jurisdictional ) conferences, and are consecrated by the other bishops present at the conference through the laying on of hands.
In doing so, Paul extends Habakkuk's original concept of righteous living at the present time into a future life.
The Cenozoic Era ( or ; also Cænozoic or Cainozoic ; meaning " new life ", from Greek kainos " new ", and zoe " life ") is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras, following the Mesozoic Era and covering the period from 65. 5 Ma to the present.
And this day is indeed a Sabbath to me, for it is the last day of my present laborious life, and on it I rest after the fatigues of my labours ; and this night at midnight, which commenceth the solemn Lord's Day, I shall, according to the sayings of Scripture, go the way of our fathers.
Although his name and history were taken from his early life with his adoptive Earth parents, everything about Clark was staged for the benefit of his alternate identity: as a reporter for the Daily Planet, he receives late-breaking news before the general public, has a plausible reason to be present at crime scenes, and need not strictly account for his whereabouts as long as he makes his story deadlines.
Constantine directed his mother, Helena, to build churches upon sites which commemorated the life of Jesus Christ ; she was present in 326 at the construction of the church on the site, and involved herself in the excavations and construction.
In this regard, Grierson's definition of documentary as " creative treatment of actuality " has gained some acceptance, with this position at variance with Soviet film-maker Dziga Vertov's provocation to present " life as it is " ( that is, life filmed surreptitiously ) and " life caught unawares " ( life provoked or surprised by the camera ).
The central importance of dukkha in Buddhist philosophy is not intended to present a pessimistic view of life, but rather to present a realistic practical assessment of the human condition — that all beings must experience suffering and pain at some point in their lives, including the inevitable sufferings of illness, aging, and death.
However, Vertov's two credos, often used interchangeably, are in fact distinct, as Yuri Tsivian points out in the commentary track on the DVD for Man with the Movie Camera: for Vertov, " life as it is " means to record life as it would be without the camera present.
Since then McLean has stated that the lyrics are also somewhat autobiographical and present an abstract story of his life from the mid-1950s until the time he wrote the song in the late 1960s.
Some experiences were therefore rejected out of hand, and some unpleasant experiences endured in the present to ensure a better life in the future.
present and man
He was a huge young man of twenty-four, clothed in muscle, immensely strong, with a habitual gentleness and diffidence of manner that was submerged under his present agitation.
`` Don't forget, here was a man who had been accusing his colleagues for almost a year of willfully attempting to present an incorrect report.
But, in spite of this, I, at present a man 31 years of age and a College Professor, have been recalled `` by direction of the President '' to report on November 25th to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, for another twelve months of Active Duty as an Sp 4 ( the equivalent of a PFC ).
Also, for the present, great caution should be exercised in the choice of an experimental animal for pulmonary studies if they are to be applied to man.
Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.
Here, in an atmosphere of forthrightness and mutual criticism, each sought to bring his particular insights to bear upon the question of discrimination in housing and the part each man present played in it.
Andrew Carnegie is described in John Dos Passos ' 42nd Parallel as a confident man in whatever he invested in, which included many things that our world flourished on for many years to the present time.
The chronicle goes on to report a victory in 491, at present day Pevensey, where the battle ended with the Saxons slaughtering their opponents to the last man.
" Justice Holmes noted that study of maxims might be sufficient for " the man of the present ," but " the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics.
The historical associations of maleness with power and femaleness with submission and frivolity mean that in the present time a woman dressing in men's clothing and a man dressing in women's clothing evoke very different responses.
In his testament, Lenin referred to Trotsky's " exceptional abilities ", adding " personally he is perhaps the most able man in the present central committee.
* ( dative ) " to man " an indirect object ( e. g., I gave a present to the man ; Man is a wolf to man.
English scholar Russell Martineau, who had studied under Bopp, gave the following tribute: “ Bopp must, more or less, directly or indirectly, be the teacher of all who at the present day study, not this language or that language, but language itself — study it either as a universal function of man, subjected, like his other mental or physical functions, to law and order, or else as an historical development, worked out by a never ceasing course of education from one form into another .”
Though lies seem to present Marlow as a depraved hypocrite, Conrad intends them to show an enlightened and willful man who desires to undo the darkness caused by others.
Stone tools indicate that early man was present in France at least 1. 57 million years ago.
Stone tools discovered at Lézignan-la-Cèbe in 2009 indicate that early man was present in France at least 2 years ago.
Neanderthal man was present in Europe from about 200, 000 BC, but died out about 30 years ago, possibly out-competed by the modern humans during a period of cold weather.
Noting this, Hengist — here described as a " prudent man "— realizes the advantage of the situation and consults with his brother Horsa " and the other ancient men present " about how best to respond to Vortigern's request.
:::"... my liking for painting and my practice in judging it have arrived at such point when any work is brought before me, either of deceased artists or of those of the present day, without the names being told me, I say on the spur of the moment that is the work of such and such a man.
Because man has been deaf to the principles and precepts laid down by God in the past, in this present Avataric form, I observe silence.
The two main conjugations of verbs in present and past tense were also present and like all other North Germanic languages, it used a suffix instead of a prepositioned article to indicate definiteness as in modern Scandinavian: man ( n ) (" man "); mannen (" the man ").
present and O
Some carbohydrates ( especially after condensation to oligo-and polysaccharides ) contain less carbon relative to H and O, which still are present in 2: 1 ( H: O ) ratio.
Traditional songs such as Green grow the rushes, O present religious lore in a mnemonic form.
No long range order is present, however there is local ordering with respect to the tetrahedral arrangement of oxygen ( O ) atoms around the silicon ( Si ) atoms.
A month later, on 18 February, Liam Forde, O / C of the IRA Mid-Limerick Brigade, issued a proclamation stating that: " We no longer recognise the authority of the present head of the army, and renew our allegiance to the existing Irish Republic ".
When one of these keys is pressed, it will cause its control unit, historically, an 3174 or IBM 3274 but later the mainframe integrated communications adapter, to generate an I / O interrupt and present a special code identifying which key was pressed.
As O < sub > 2 </ sub >- rich surface waters seep into deep anoxic karst systems it brings oxygen which reacts with sulfide present in the system ( pyrite or H < sub > 2 </ sub > S ) to form sulfuric acid ( H < sub > 2 </ sub > SO < sub > 4 </ sub >).
The Oligocene ( symbol O < sub > G </ sub >) is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 34 million to 23 million years before the present ( to ).
According to law professor Douglas O. Linder, McVeigh wanted Jones to present a " necessity defense "— which would argue that he was in " imminent danger " from the government ( that his bombing was intended to prevent future crimes by the government, such as the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents ).
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However, unlike YBCO, Cu – O chains are not present in these superconductors.
Similar to the Tl < sub > 2 </ sub > Ba < sub > 2 </ sub > CuO < sub > 6 </ sub > structure, Tl – O layers are present outside the Ba – O layers.
* Conchobar an Abaidh mac Maelsechlainn O Cellaigh succeeds Maelsechlainn mac William Buidhe O Cellaigh as King of Hy-Many in present day County Galway and County Roscommon in Ireland.
The ancient principality of Tír Eoghain, the inheritance of the O ' Neills, included the whole of the present counties of Tyrone and Londonderry, and the four baronies of West Inishowen, East Inishowen, Raphoe North and Raphoe South in County Donegal.
Dehydration experiments and infrared spectroscopy have shown that most of the H < sub > 2 </ sub > O in the formula of SiO < sub > 2 </ sub >· nH < sub > 2 </ sub > O of opals is present in the familiar form of clusters of molecular water.
Recent research on the Sobaipuri, now extinct relatives of the O ' odham, shows that they were present in sizable numbers in the southern Arizona river valleys in the 15th century.
The present building was constructed under the direction of Franciscan Fathers Juan Bautista Velderrain and Juan Bautista Llorenz mainly with native labor working from 1783-1797 with a loan of 7, 000 pesos and serves the Catholics of the San Xavier District of Tohono O ' odham Nation.
The album sessions began in 1994 with only Smith and Bamonte present ; the pair were later joined by Gallup ( who was recovering from physical problems ) and Roger O ' Donnell, who had been asked to rejoin the band at the end of 1994.
Some opponents of Trusted Computing advocate " owner override ": allowing an owner who is confirmed to be physically present to allow the computer to bypass restrictions and use the secure I / O path.
Nitrogen is present in the environment in a wide variety of chemical forms including organic nitrogen, ammonium ( NH < sub > 4 </ sub >< sup >+</ sup >), nitrite ( NO < sub > 2 </ sub >< sup >-</ sup >), nitrate ( NO < sub > 3 </ sub >< sup >-</ sup >), nitrous oxide ( N < sub > 2 </ sub > O ), nitric oxide ( NO ) or inorganic nitrogen gas ( N < sub > 2 </ sub >).
The tetrameric anion is present in the mineral borax, as an octahydrate, Na < sub > 2 </ sub > B < sub > 4 </ sub > O < sub > 5 </ sub >( OH )< sub > 4 </ sub >. 8H < sub > 2 </ sub > O.
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