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In the following years, Rome's appeals to the East were based on the unique authority of the Apostolic See and the primacy of Peter, over against the powers of councils as defended by the East ( councils, for example, had endorsed that lofty title which Rome contested ).
Such men have openly libelled him, like Dewes and Weldon, whose falsehoods were detected as soon as uttered, or have fastened upon certain ceremonious compliments and dedications, the fashion of his day, as a sample of his servility, passing over his noble letters to the Queen, his lofty contempt for the Lord Keeper Puckering, his open dealing with Sir Robert Cecil, and with others, who, powerful when he was nothing, might have blighted his opening fortunes for ever, forgetting his advocacy of the rights of the people in the face of the court, and the true and honest counsels, always given by him, in times of great difficulty, both to Elizabeth and her successor.
* 1923 – Louis Gottlieb, bassist and lofty comic spokesman for The Limeliters ( d. 1996 )
Prayer may be directed towards a deity, spirit, deceased person, or lofty idea, for the purpose of worshipping, requesting guidance, requesting assistance, confessing sins or to express one's thoughts and emotions.
Lamentable to behold, in the midst of the streets lay the tops of lofty towers, tumbled to the ground, stones of high walls, holy altars, fragments of human bodies, covered with livid clots of coagulated blood, looking as if they had been squeezed together in a press ; and with no chance of being buried, save in the ruins of the houses, or in the ravening bellies of wild beasts and birds ; with reverence be it spoken for their blessed souls, if, indeed, there were many found who were carried, at that time, into the high heaven by the holy angels ...
While lampooned in Le Corsaire for its lofty subject matter yet extremely modest proportions ( less than one metre across ), overall the work was warmly received ; so much so that on his return to Paris in June 1841, Ingres was received with all the deference that he felt was his due, including being received personally by King Louis-Philippe for a tour around Versailles.
This promise, combined with lofty promises of reduced unemployment and poverty, caused Peru's rank and file to set the bar very high for his administration.
This nature has been lost in many cottages that have been remodeled inside for year-round occupation and for an additional floor of rooms occupying the once lofty interior structures.
According to legend, when Vortigern fled into Wales to escape the Anglo-Saxon invaders, he chose this lofty hillfort as the site for his royal retreat.
To one of his supporters, Harold Begbie, Halifax was " the highest kind of Englishman now in politics " whose " life and doctrine were in complete harmony with a very lofty moral principle, but who has no harsh judgement for men who err and go astray ".
The Evening Standard concluded he was “ more of an artist than architect ,” his work spoke of his “ social dissolution .” The Nation was also critical: “… He adorned many an American mansion with irrelevant plunder .” The yellow press used lurid language to demonize White as “ a sybarite of debauchery, a man who abandoned lofty enterprises for vicious revels .”
*" There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.
The name " Kastoria " first appears in the middle of the 6th century ( 550 AD ), mentioned by Procopius as follows :" There was a certain city in Thessaly, Diocletianopolis by name, which had been prosperous in ancient times, but with the passage of time and the assaults of the barbarians it had been destroyed, and for a very long time it had been destitute of inhabitants ; and a certain lake chances to be close by which was named Castoria. There is an island in the middle of the lake, for the most part surrounded by water ; but there remains a single narrow approach to this island through the lake, not more than fifteen feet wide. And a very lofty mountain stands above the island, one half being covered by the lake while the remainder rests upon it.
In the preamble, the emperor makes a point that he has avoided convoluted expressions and " lofty Atticisms " on purpose, so as to make everything " plain as the beaten track of common, everyday speech " for his son and those high officials with whom he might later choose to share the work.
The lofty gopuram in the temple at the foot of the hill was erected by Raja Vasireddy Venkatadri Nayudu in 1807-1809, and in terms of sculpture and architecture this temple stands to be an ultimate testimant for the ancient vishwakarma sthapathis in planning and sculpting these temples.
With lofty expectations for the playoffs, they were eliminated in the second round by the Buffalo Sabres.
Darkness gathers around, far distant thunder rolls over the trembling hills ; the black clouds with august majesty and power, moves slowly forwards, shading regions of towering hills, and threatening all the destructions of a thunderstorm ; all around is now still as death, not a whisper is heard, but a total inactivity and silence seems to pervade the earth ; the birds afraid to utter a chirrup, and in low tremulous voices take leave of each other, seeking covert and safety ; every insect is silenced, and nothing heard but the roaring of the approaching hurricane ; the mighty cloud now expands its sable wings, extending from North to South, and is driven irresistibly on by the tumultuous winds, spreading his livid wings around the gloomy concave, armed with terrors of thunder and fiery shafts of lightning ; now the lofty forests bend low beneath its fury, their limbs and wavy boughs are tossed about and catch hold of each other ; the mountains tremble and seem to reel about, and the ancient hills to be shaken to their foundations: the furious storm sweeps along, smoaking through the vale and over the resounding hills ; the face of the earth is obscured by the deluge descending from the firmament, and I am deafened by the din of thunder ; the tempestuous scene damps my spirits, and my horse sinks under me at the tremendous peals, as I hasten for the plain.
In the great Indian Muslim salute state of Hyderabad, a first rank-vassal of the Mughal padshah ( emperor ) imitating his lofty Persian court protocol, the word Molk became on itself one of the titles used for ennobled Muslim retainers of the ruling Nizam's court, in fact the third in rank, only below Jah ( the highest ) and Umara, but above Daula, Jang, Nawab, Khan Bahadur and Khan ; for the Nizam's Hindu retainers different titles were used, the equivalent of Molk being Vant.

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The inside, which is capacious, and lofty, and will hold six people in great comfort is lined with leather padded, and surrounded with little pockets, in which travellers deposit their bread, snuff, night caps, and pocket handkerchiefs, which generally enjoy each others with hats, swords, and band boxes, the whole is convenient, and when all parties are seated and arranged, the accommodations are by no means unpleasant.
* Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay ( 1787 – 1835 ): Eliza appeared to many a haughty, pompous socialite, quick to remind others of her good breeding and lofty station.
The central dome, with a metallic spire is lofty, while the others are concealed in the roof.
While others approached the epic as a celebration of national origins ( Dryden, for example ) or sought in it the most lofty subject matter possible ( as Edmund Spenser and John Milton had done ), Blackmore argued that the form of the epic would " reform " poetry, that it would cease the cavils of wits and the sexuality of rakes.
While some have praised the movement for its role in raising the quality of life somewhat during the war with Japan, others have criticized it for its lofty goals that were out of touch with the suffering of the general populace.
By assessing the military, economic, ideological and juridical facets and applications of power, Carr brings harsh criticism to bear on utopian theorists and others inclined to imagine that lofty rhetoric conditions state behavior more forcefully than the exigencies of survival and competition.
Having rounded out a useful life in the exercise of those virtues which win the generous regard of our fellow-citizens, he died, leaving behind him a legacy of simple faith, of unbroken loyalty to duty, of conscientious tolerance for the severe convictions of others, even when opposed to him, of unfaltering belief in the effectiveness of lofty ideals, of tireless service for the welfare of the city he loved so well, and of generous help in all movement that helped either to lighten the burdens of the breadwinner or to brighten the pathway of the toiler.

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The name " mountain house " suggests a lofty structure and was perhaps the designation originally of the staged tower at Nippur, built in imitation of a mountain, with the sacred shrine of the god on the top.
Of his cult at Eridu, which goes back to the oldest period of Mesopotamian history, nothing definite is known except that his temple was also associated with Ninhursag's temple which was called Esaggila, " the lofty head house " ( E, house, sag, head, ila, high ; or Akkadian goddess = Ila ), a name shared with Marduk's temple in Babylon, pointing to a staged tower or ziggurat ( as with the temple of Enlil at Nippur, which was known as E-kur ( kur, hill )), and that incantations, involving ceremonial rites in which water as a sacred element played a prominent part, formed a feature of his worship.
This was a highly prestigious Japanese family, so lofty that the older and more powerful noble, Saionji Kinmochi, addressed the young student as " your Excellency " when he first met him.
The concealed Asmodeus tells travelers who have ventured up to King Solomon's grand lofty palace that the Seal of Solomon was thrown into the sea.
The " University of the Masses " was unable to lift all its students to the " lofty, elite positions " enjoyed by previous generations of academics.
Charles's imperial policy was focused on the dynastic sphere and abandoned the lofty ideal of the Empire as a universal monarchy of Christendom.
Tyndaris was situated on a bold and lofty hill standing out as a promontory into the spacious bay of the Tyrrhenian Sea bounded by the Punta di Milazzo on the east, and the Capo Calavià on the west, and was distant according to the Itineraries 36 miles from Messana ( modern Messina ).
* The Palazzo del Comune ( or Palazzo degli Anziani-Elders palace ), built in 1250, with lofty arched substructures at the back, was the work of Margaritone d ' Arezzo, and has been restored twice.
7 ), describes a similar concept of prophecy, since a voice that did not originate from a body cannot exist, the understanding of Moses was based on his lofty philosophical understandings.
Once when the Holy Prophet was reciting verses 19 and 20 of Najm one of the pagans recited: " Tilkal gharani-ul ula wa inna shafa-atahuma laturja "-( These are the lofty ( idols ), verily their intercession is sought after.
The kind of lofty and stately poetry that celebrated the achievements of these archaic aristocrats was within the reach of ' The Cean nightingale ', yet he seems to have been more at home in verses of a humbler and lighter strain, even venturing on folksiness and humour.
In the realm of a shah ( or a more lofty derived ruler style ), a prince of the blood was logically called shahzada as the term is derived from shah using the Persian patronymic suffix-zāde or-zāda, " son, descendant ".
Her temple, the Esagila ( from Sumerian E ( temple ) + SAG ( head ) + ILA ( lofty )) was located on the KUR of Eridu, although she also had a temple at Kish.
) nor Thessalian by race nor an Erysichaean shepherd: he was from lofty Sardis.
These hardships, combined with increasing unemployment and stagnant wages caused the general public to doubt that Toledo was living up to lofty campaign promises.
According to Fray Diego Durán it was " lofty and magnificently built.
The entire castle was enclosed by a lofty curtain wall.

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