He assures us, early in the Poetics, that all art is `` imitation '' and that all imitation gives pleasure, but he distinguishes between art in general and poetic art on the basis of the means, manner, and the objects of the imitation.

If the wedding party lasted late, and the travel schedule means there are only a few hours before resuming the trip or making an early start, the husband may forestall tensions and uncertainties by confiding to his bride that lying in each other's arms will be bliss enough for these few hours.

This bodyguard function was often executed by the leader's most loyal warriors, and was extremely effective throughout most of early human history, leading assassins to attempt stealthy means, such as poison ( which risk was answered by having another person taste the leader's food first ).

In early 1964, Benny and Christina joined a group with the odd name " Elverkets Spelmanslag " (" The Electricity Board Folk Music Group "), who by no means was a folk music ensemble: the name was a punning reference to their electric instruments.

An early uncommon means of boat propulsion was referred to as the water caterpillar which is similar in construction to paddles on a conveyor belt and preceded the development of tracked vehicles such as military tanks and earth moving equipment.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

The absence of native British literature during the early part of the first millennium means that Britain owes its knowledge of Boudica's rebellion solely to the writings of the Romans.

" His early years were spent with his mother and brother in the London district of Kennington ; Hannah had no means of income, other than occasional nursing and dressmaking, and Chaplin Sr. provided no support for his sons.

In Greek, the adjective kyriak-ós /- ē /- ón means " belonging, or pertaining, to a Kýrios " (" Lord "), and the usage was adopted by early Christians of the Eastern Mediterranean with regard to anything pertaining to the Lord Jesus Christ: hence " Kyriakós oíkos " (" house of the Lord ", church ), " Kyriakē " (" day of the Lord ", i. e. Sunday ), or " Kyriakē proseukhē " ( the " Lord's prayer ").

Sir Charles Wheatstone discovered its principle and applied it as early as 1838 to the construction of a cumbersome but effective instrument, in which the binocular pictures were made to combine by means of mirrors.

This was the background to the concept of Messiahship in early Christianity, which interpreted the career of Jesus " by means of the titles and functions assigned to David in the mysticism of the Zion cult, in which he served as priest-king and in which he was the mediator between God and man.

Charge can be measured by a number of means, an early instrument being the gold-leaf electroscope, which although still in use for classroom demonstrations, has been superseded by the electronic electrometer.

Different researchers have postulated that without the aid of modern computer graphics, early investigators were limited to what they could depict in manual drawings, so lacked the means to visualize the beauty and appreciate some of the implications of many of the patterns they had discovered ( the Julia set, for instance, could only be visualized through a few iterations as very simple drawings hardly resembling the image in Figure 3 ).

Lacking even modest government-directed land reforms, illegal squatting became the primary means for poor people to gain land throughout the early 1970s.

Formal schooling in a classroom setting has been the most common means of schooling throughout the world, especially in developed countries, since the early and mid 19th century.

Tricksters of various sorts are shown on the early postcards, but not the means of appeasing them ".

Since the early days of writing politicians, diplomats and military commanders understood that it was necessary to provide some mechanism to protect the confidentiality of correspondence and to have some means of detecting tampering.

Regan wanted President Reagan to address the Iran-Contra matter in early 1987 by means of a press conference, though Nancy refused to allow Reagan to overexert himself due to a recent prostate surgery and astrological warnings.

File: Johannes Kepler 1610. jpg | Johannes Kepler ( 1571 — 1630 ): used the accurate observations of Tycho Brahe to formulate three fundamental laws of planetary motion, described elliptical motion of planets around the sun, developed early telescopes, invented the convex eyepiece, discovered a means of determining the magnifying power of lenses.

Some early PDAs were able to connect to the Internet indirectly by means off an external modem connected via the PDA's serial port or " sync " connector, or directly by using an expansion card that provided an Ethernet port.

In reference to the early Kingdom of Rome ( as opposed to the republic or empire ) " the legion " means the entire Roman army.

Models for the Red Brigades included the Latin American urban guerrilla movements-volumes on the Tupamaros published by Feltrinelli were influential, " a sort of do-it-yourself manual for the early Red Brigades " ,-and also the Italian partisan movement of 1943-45 which was interpreted as an example of a youthful minority using violent means for just ends.

In it he states, "[...] the early discovery that the great Andromeda spiral had the quite exceptional velocity of – 300 km (/ s ) showed the means then available, capable of investigating not only the spectra of the spirals but their velocities as well.

A Scandinavian origin has been proposed ( compare, for example, Norwegian slengenamn, which means " nickname "), but is discounted by the Oxford English Dictionary based on " date and early associations ".

This early work went unnoticed, and the field was relatively quiet until the late 1960s when cognitive psychologists, including Melton and Landauer & Bjork, explored manipulation of repetition timing as a means to improve recall.

The French avant-garde kept abreast of Dada activities in Zurich with regular communications from Tristan Tzara ( whose pseudonym means " sad in country ," a name chosen to protest the treatment of Jews in his native Romania ), who exchanged letters, poems, and magazines with Guillaume Apollinaire, André Breton, Max Jacob, Clément Pansaers, and other French writers, critics and artists.

Of the 33 works dedicated to him, thirteen were original or translated works of literature, which May says suggest he was more sought out for patronage by literary writers, as opposed to authors of religious or scientific works, than other patrons of similar means.

" In Old French, san graal or san gréal means " Holy Grail " and sang réal means " royal blood "; later writers played on this pun.

While serving the government as a silent weapon against political adversaries or dangerous writers and as a means of punishing culprits of high birth without the scandal of a lawsuit, the lettres de cachet had many other uses.

Thus, in the first twenty years of the 20th century many writers, thinkers, and artists broke with the traditional means of organizing literature, painting, and music ; the results were abstract art, atonal music, and the stream of consciousness technique in the novel.

Macrobiotics writers present it as a means of combating cancer.

Other writers believe it comes from the Arabic word طرق turuq, which means ' ways '.

: the interpreter of Sacred Scripture, in order to see clearly what God wanted to communicate to us, should carefully investigate what meaning the sacred writers really intended, and what God wanted to manifest by means of their words.

Singers, painters, writers, theorists and other individuals employing a number of means of action have attempted to oppose or undermine consensus reality while others have declared that they are " ignoring " it.

All Bible writers use the term " sea " ( Hebrew yam or Greek thalassa ) except the gospel of Luke, written to Theophilus of Macedonia, where it is called " the lake of Genneseret " in, from the Greek λίμνην Γεννησαρέτ, ( limnen Genneseret ), the " Grecized form of Chinnereth " according to Easton, who says Genneseret means " a garden of riches ".

At 24 years of age, Mao Dun was already renowned as a novelist by the community in general, and in 1920, he and a group of young writers took over the magazine Xiaoshuo Yuebao ( 小说月报 ), which translated means " fiction monthly ", to publish literature by western authors, such as Tolstoy, Chekhov, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Byron, Keats, Shaw, etc., and make new theories of literature better known.

" In other words, accord means “ I just cited something that supports my proposition, and now here ’ s another thing that supports it too .” Legal writers often use accord to show that the law of one jurisdiction is in accord with that of another jurisdiction.

Chryseis, her apparent name in the Iliad, means simply " Chryses ' daughter "; later writers give her real name as Astynome ().

Some modern writers, including Alison Weir, are of the opinion that Rosamund had no children ; but whether this means she never gave birth or merely that none of her children survived remains unclear.

< http :// www. jstor. org / stable / 441074 >.</ ref > Many writers are categorized as " magical realist ," which confuses what the term really means and how wide its definition is.

The whole-body transplant is just one of several means of putting a consciousness into a new body that have been explored by both scientists and writers.

The introduction of movable-block printing by Caxton in 1474 provided the means for the more rapid dissemination of new or recently rediscovered writers and thinkers.

) Given the diffusion of different Piers / Ploughman texts, it is usually not possible to be certain about what someone means to refer to when they mention " Piers Plowman " unless they provide specific identifying details — and most writers do not.

Kuzmin's association with the Symbolists was never definitive, and in 1910 he helped give rise to the Acmeist movement with his essay " O prekrasnoi yasnosti " ( On beautiful clarity ), in which he attacked " incomprehensible, dark cosmic trappings " and urged writers to be " logical in the conception, the construction of the work, the syntax ... love the word, like Flaubert, be economical in means and niggardly in words, precise and genuine -- and you will find the secret of an amazing thing — beautiful clarity — which I would call clarism.

Orwell notes that writers of modern prose tend not to write in concrete terms but use a " pretentious latinized style ," ( compare Anglish ) and he compares an original biblical text with a parody in " modern English " to show what he means.

By later writers using the character the original etymology was generally forgotten, and a folk etymology was constructed based on the name's superficial similarity to the Italian word macigno " large stone "; in the first of the 1960s films, Maciste tells another character in the film that his name means " born of the rock ".

It was also a means of commercial self-promotion on the part of writers and printers.

While the two above-named reporters broke the news, they are by no means the only sports writers of note at the Chronicle.

Catholic writers have claimed that these were by no means strange or novel at the time.