He came to a stretch of old orange groves, the trees dead, some of them uprooted, and then there was an outlying shopping area, and tract houses.

Germain Morin broke new ground by suggesting in 1899 that the writer was Isaac, a converted Jew and writer of a tract on the Trinity and Incarnation, who was exiled to Spain in 378-380 and then relapsed to Judaism ; but he afterwards abandoned this theory of the authorship in favour of Decimus Hilarianus Hilarius, proconsul of Africa in 377.

It was necessary that, in Italy, Columbanus should have a settled abode, so the king gave him a tract of land called Bobbio, between Milan and Genoa, near the River Trebbia, situated in a defile of the Apennines.

A. H. Armstrong identified the so-called " Gnostics " that Plotinus was attacking as Jewish and Pagan, in his introduction to the tract in his translation of the Enneads.

In 1592, he was commissioned to write a tract in response to the Jesuit Robert Parson's anti-government polemic, which he titled Certain observations made upon a libel, identifying England with the ideals of democratic Athens against the belligerence of Spain.

Genosha was also shown to have typical suburban tract housing, like many small towns in America.

In one case in Benicia, California, a housing tract was built over an old landfill.

Dartmouth College was established in 1769 beside the Common at a village called the Plain — an extensive and level tract of land a mile ( 1. 6 kilometers ) from the Connecticut River, and about 150 feet ( 46 meters ) above it.

Rapp was able to secure a large tract of land in Pennsylvania and started his first commune, known as Harmonie or Harmony, in Butler County, Pennsylvania, where the Society existed from 1804 to 1815.

By 1944 the last known Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a female, was gone from the cut-over tract ( Smithsonian p 98 ).

Through most of 1601, he was supported directly by Tycho, who assigned him to analyzing planetary observations and writing a tract against Tycho's ( by then deceased ) rival, Ursus.

However, " farmer " is a common word, and " equivocation " was also the subject of a 1583 tract by Queen Elizabeth's chief councillor Lord Burghley, and of the 1584 Doctrine of Equivocation by the Spanish prelate Martin Azpilcueta, which was disseminated across Europe and into England in the 1590s.

One of the most influential texts that he read was Cheng Kuan-ying's Sheng-shih Wei-yen ( Words of Warning to an Affluent Age ), a political tract that lamented the deterioration of Chinese power in East Asia, arguing for technological, economic and political reform, modelling China on the representative democracies of the western world.

Oxfordian scholars respond that the concept of " equivocation " was the subject of a 1583 tract by Queen Elizabeth's chief councillor ( and Oxford's father-in-law ) Lord Burghley, as well as of the 1584 Doctrine of Equivocation by the Spanish prelate Martín de Azpilcueta, which was disseminated across Europe and into England in the 1590s.

The publication of Saducismus Triumphatus, an anti-sceptical tract that has been implicated in the moral panic at Salem, involved Joseph Glanvill ( a latitudinarian ), Henry More ( a Cambridge Platonist ) as editor, and Anthony Horneck, an evangelical German Anglican, as translator of a pamphlet about a Swedish witch hunt ; and none of these was a Puritan.

Since an actual tract of land could not literally be brought into a courtroom as a person could, this was effected by giving notice upon the real property itself.

His first book, Kashf al-Asrar ( Uncovering of Secrets ) published in 1942, was a point-by-point refutation of Asrar-e hazar salih ( Secrets of a Thousand Years ), a tract written by a disciple of Iran's leading anti-clerical historian, Ahmad Kasravi.

Bates was introduced to the Sabbath doctrine by a tract written by Millerite preacher Thomas M. Preble, who in turn had been influenced by Rachel Oakes Preston, a young Seventh Day Baptist.

In the 19th century, a squatter was a person who occupied a large tract of Crown land in order to graze livestock-the phenomenon is referred to in the song Waltzing Matilda.

But the popular new method of Talmud study was not without critics ; already in the 15th century, the ethical tract Orhot Zaddikim (" Paths of the Righteous " in Hebrew ) criticized pilpul for an overemphasis on intellectual acuity.

Although George Thomason did not date this tract, the last date internal to the document was Saturday 13 November 1647, suggesting a publication date of 15 November 1647.

Other work on Scottish customs includes the editing of the 16th-century tract The Complaynt of Scotland, adding an essay exploring Scottish folk music and customs, printing a volume of Scottish descriptive poems, and nearly finishing his Scenes of Infancy, a diffuse poem based on border scenes and traditions.

This tract contains the earliest known public printing of an account of Joseph Smith's First Vision and also contains material similar to that later published as the 1842 Articles of Faith.

The group's executive director, David Brickner, stated in the letter to Mason that he wanted " to convey my sincere apologies for any distress that you felt over our tract.

According to the United States Department of the interior-Bureau of Land Management, in a letter from Mr William H. Richards, Director and Chief, Branch of Surveys, in his letter to Karl Starkweather dated April 29, 1954, he states that upon inspection of the tract books held by the Bureau: " Of interest to you personally are the notations of the CASH entries Nos.

Before it reached him, Ruhnken wrote a kind letter to Wyttenbach, which the recipient " read, re-read and kissed ," and another on receipt of the tract, in which the great scholar declared that he had not expected to find in Germany such knowledge of Greek, such power of criticism, and such mature judgment, especially in one so young.

In another letter, he said that he and Madison Grant, the secretary of the New York Zoological Society, who ten years later would publish the racist tract The Passing of the Great Race, considered it “ imperative that the society should not even seem to be dictated to ” by the black clergymen.

He firmly contended in the same tract for the sovereign rights of the people, quoted approvingly John Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates ( 13 February 1649 ), and maintained that the proceedings against Charles followed the spirit of the law if not the letter.

The collection begins with an undated, unaddressed letter, but it appears in another tract attributed to Gilby ( A pleasaunt Dialogue, betweene a Souldior of Barwicke and an English Chaplaine ), where it is dated May 10, 1566, and is addressed to Miles Coverdale, William Turner, Whittingham, Sampson, Humphrey, Lever, Crowley, " and others that labour to roote out the weedes of Poperie.

In addition, according to a letter released by Genentech and OSI Pharmaceuticals, some people prescribed erlotinib have developed serious or fatal gastrointestinal tract perforations ; " bullous, blistering, and exfoliative skin conditions, some fatal ; and serious eye problems such as corneal lesions.

He met with Luther in Altenburg on 5 – 6 January 1519, and negotiated a tentative settlement to the controversy: Luther would remain silent on the indulgence issue, write a conciliatory letter to the pope, and write and publish a tract supporting papal authority.

Miltitz's later meetings with Luther in Liebenwerda ( October 1519 ) and in Lichtenburg, near Wittenberg ( October 1520 ) were fruitless ; however, Luther did publish a letter to Pope Leo X along with his tract, dedicated to the pope: On the Freedom of a Christian ( 1520 ).

The Carson family settled on a tract of land owned by the sons of Daniel Boone, who had purchased the land from the Spanish prior to the Louisiana Purchase.

The firm's initial location was in Naples, but even before the construction of the planned factory had started, Darracq decided late in 1906 that Milan would be a more suitable location and accordingly a tract of land was acquired in the Milan suburb of Portello, where a new factory of was erected.

At the same time, Raeder worked to promote National Socialist ideology as opposed to the NSDAP in the Navy, ordering in September 1936 that all officers read a tract by Kriegsmarine Commander Siegfried Sorge called Der Marineoffizier about what it took to be a good officer., Sorge had claimed that one could not be a good naval officer without believing in National Socialist values.

Negotiations with England then began, from which Knox was excluded ; in particular his earlier tract The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, although it had been aimed at Mary Tudor, rendered him unacceptable to the female English monarch.

The tract it was built on had previously been the site of the old Masonic Widows and Orphans Home.

He received Neleus, who had been driven out of Iolcus by Pelias, and assigned to him a tract of land in the maritime part of Messenia, where the main city was Pylos ; in the same fashion he welcomed the exiled Lycus, son of Pandion, who revealed the rites of Demeter to Aphareus and his family.

Willoughby pointed out that much of the rest of the country had been explored and mapped except for this part of Florida, writing, "( w ) e have a tract of land one hundred and thirty miles long and seventy miles wide that is as much unknown to the white man as the heart of Africa.

From the Franciscan's letters it appears that the earl had studied a political tract by Grosseteste on the difference between a monarchy and a tyranny ; and that he embraced with enthusiasm the bishop's projects of ecclesiastical reform.

File: Edgar County Illinois 1823. png | Edgar County was created with its present borders, but had a large tract of unorganized territory temporarily attached to it.

The book had been intended in part as a satire, a tract against child labour, as well as a serious critique of the closed-minded approaches of many scientists of the day in their response to Charles Darwin's ideas on evolution, which Kingsley had been one of the first to praise.

tract, but for those cities that had not yet delineated census tracts, ‘‘ block areas ’’ ( called ‘‘ block numbering areas ’’ in later censuses ) were created to assign census block numbers.

He bought a large tract of land from the Pequannocke sachems ,-afterwards greatly enlarged by other purchases to the westward ,- and recalling the attractive region beyond ( Uncoa ), which he had personally seen on the second Pequot expedition, he also “ set down ” there, having purchased the territory embraced in the present town of Fairfield, to which he gave its name.

Prior to its construction, the tract of land had been used as a horse racing track and a fairground.

Milan Getting, Czechoslovak Consul for Pennsylvania and West Virginia, who also had become a shareholder, took it upon himself to write to the Agricultural Department of the University of Florida, inquiring about the above-mentioned tract south of Brooksville.

W. R. Hendricks, son of Glenn and Nancy Hendricks, had been given a large tract of land by his parents.

Moore, who had been a member of a George Rogers Clark 1778 Illinois campaign, ( he shared this distinction with several other of the early settlers ) established himself at the site of the spring, this tract remained in possession of the Moore family for over a century, until at least the 20th century.

Later in 1909, with the move complete, the former citizens left the old town site just as they had found it, a rolling tract of prairie.

The arrival of the automobile eventually transformed the area into a commuter suburb of Washington, D. C. By the 1950s, the area had sprouted a number of developer-conceived neighborhoods with tract houses for the middle-class.

Since there were no plantations left along the coastline, Reverend Rogers settled a tract of land between Ipswich and Newbury, where a land boom had developed.

These two towns had already established grants on this tract, so the newcomers were required to purchase them for £ 800.

Prior to settlement, the tract of land that became known as Rushford had been a favorite planting and camping ground for the Sioux and later Winnebago.

McMinn, who owned of river bottom land near Buchanan, had been trying for some time to buy the mill tract from David and Louisa Cloninger, but they could not agree on the price.