Dryasdust was an imaginary and tediously thorough literary authority cited by Sir Walter Scott to present background information in his novels ; thereafter, a derisory term for anyone who presents historical facts with no feeling for the personalities involved.

“ Dryasdust ” is mentioned in a whole introductory chapter of Thomas Carlyle ’ s Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, this chapter being entitled “ Anti-Dryasdust .” It is continually referenced, as Carlyle depicts history being surrendered to Dryasdust.

The arguments advanced by those individuals and groups who oppose the system in force and who would drastically curtail or do away entirely with hospital care for the non-service-connected case, seem to be coldly impractical and out-of-step with the wishes of the general public.

If one wishes to discuss a literary figure who uses folklore in his work, the first thing he must realize is that the literary figure is probably part of this ignorant American public.

A woman who undergoes artificial insemination against the wishes of her husband is the unlikely heroine of `` A Question Of Adultery '', yesterday's new British import at the Apollo.

The institutions sketched above — assembly, officeholders, council, courts — are incomplete without the figure that drove the whole system, Ho boulomenos, he who wishes, or anyone who wishes.

A visitor who wishes to become a " dietero " or " dietera ", that is, a male or female apprentice-shaman learning the way of the teacher plants, undergoes a rigorous initiation.

These represent the most intellectual type of chamber-music of their period, and it is to be regretted that they have remained almost entirely in manuscript, since a careful study of them is indispensable to anyone who wishes to form an adequate idea of Scarlatti's development.

A poem of Callimachus to the goddess " who amuses herself on mountains with archery " imagines some charming vignettes: according to Callimachus, at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her six wishes: to remain always a virgin ; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo ; to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer ; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt ; to have sixty " daughters of Okeanos ", all nine years of age, to be her choir ; and for twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested.

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

Beowulf prepares himself for battle ; he is presented with a sword, Hrunting, by Unferth, a warrior who had doubted him and wishes to make amends.

Despite his growing admiration for Wallace and his cause, Robert is dominated by his father, who wishes to secure the throne for his son by submitting to the English.

The Reading Room is open to any member of the public who wishes to read there.

By extension, the term is also used to refer to any system administrator who displays ( or wishes he could get away with ) the qualities of the original.

Lo eventually convinced Jen to return to her family, though not before telling her a legend of a man who jumped off a cliff to make his wishes come true.

In this context, Philo wrote that Caligula " regarded the Jews with most especial suspicion, as if they were the only persons who cherished wishes opposed to his ".

He noted, ' Captains ... to be successful must possess, in a marked degree, initiative, resource, determination, and no fear of accepting responsibility ', and particularly regarding wartime conditions '... as a rule instructions will be of a very general character so as to avoid interfering with the judgement and initiative of captains ... The admiral will rely on captains to use all the information at their disposal to grasp the situation quickly and anticipate his wishes, using their own discretion as to how to act in unforeseen circumstances ..' The approach outlined by Beatty contradicted the views of many within the navy, who felt that ships should always be closely controlled by their commanding admiral, and harked back to reforms attempted by Admiral George Tryon.

Baldrige sees this usage as acceptable ; Miss Manners writes that " only people of the medical profession correctly use the title of doctor socially ," but supports those who wish to use it in social contexts in the spirit of addressing people according to their wishes.

A person who wishes to be vague might conceal words that are too precise in the social context.

Some Progressive Christian congregations offer communion to any individual who wishes to commemorate the life and teachings of Christ, regardless of religious affiliation.

A merchant who wishes to accept EFTPOS payments must enter an agreement with one of the seven merchant service providers, which rent the terminal to the merchant.

In Part 2 of The Road to Wigan Pier, published by the Left Book Club, Orwell stated: " a real Socialist is one who wishes – not merely conceives it as desirable, but actively wishes – to see tyranny overthrown.

Such, he implies, is the case with his friend, who is not really a new convert himself but merely a favorer of new converts.

Though merely clear glass, it was a distinctive trade mark for an aspiring actor who hoped to imprint himself upon the memories of producers.

The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

His views, in fact, coincide with those of foreign enemies of peaceful coexistence, who look upon it merely as a variant of the `` cold war '' or of an `` armed peace ''.

He worked standing, with his left hand in his pocket as though he were merely stopping for a moment, sketching with the surprised stare of one who was watching another person's hand.

The detective, commenting on Barco's behavior, felt that he merely belonged among the myriad citizens of our community who are mentally unhinged -- that he was a more or less harmless `` nut ''!!

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

Religion provides the most attractive rewards, either in this world or the next, for those who not merely abide by its norms, but who engage in good works.

The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

it merely wished to minimize subjective views of officials who wielded public authority.

And are not the State Department men who dispense this largesse merely crackpots and do-gooders who have never met a payroll??

`` Spahnie doesn't know how to merely go through the motions '', remarked Enos Slaughter, another all-out guy, who played rightfield that day and popped one over the clubhouse.

The second reason for being concerned with the dichotomy between faculty members who are part of the `` in-group '' that owns and operates the institution and those who are merely paid employees, is, therefore, the baneful effect on the caliber of the teaching itself.

Palmer was now putting merely for a tie, and Player, who was sitting beside his wife and watching it all on television in Tournament Chairman Clifford Roberts' clubhouse apartment, stared in amazement when Palmer missed the putt.

Irenaeus does not regard Adam and Eve merely as private individuals, but as universal human beings, who were and are all of humanity.

That is a sound position, but it is important that Moscow shall recognize it not merely as the word of a president but as the mind of a free people who are not afraid.

In its monastic form, Mahayana was merely an organization of magic-practicing monks ( bonzes ), who catered to the Chinese faith in the supernatural.

The absence of any ruling about matches played before 1947 ( or before 1895 in Great Britain ) has caused problems for cricket historians and especially statisticians who have been forced to compile their own matchlists.

In 1946, U. S. Attorney General Tom C. Clark authorized Hoover to compile a list of potentially disloyal Americans who might be detained during a wartime national emergency.

Edinburgh Review published a " Trocchi Number " in 1985 and their parent house published the biography, The Making of the Monster by Andrew Murray Scott, who had known Trocchi for four years in London and who went on to compile the anthology, Invisible Insurrection, in 1991, also for Polygon.

Ill-health ( a tropical fever ) forced his return to England where he met George Grey and John William Colenso, the Anglican Bishop of Natal, who invited Bleek to join him in Natal in 1855 to help compile a Zulu grammar.

Renaissance decided to let the duo compile the triple mix album, entitled Renaissance-The Mix Collection, releasing it on the club's own Renaissance Records label in April 1994, by which point Sasha had already left Renaissance, who, at this point, was featured on the cover of Mixmag with the tagline " SON OF GOD?

* Level 2 are engineers or experienced technicians who are able to set up and calibrate testing equipment, conduct the inspection according to codes and standards ( instead of following work instructions ) and compile work instructions for Level 1 technicians.

Though the concept of Mother 1 + 2 was to compile two separate games into one easily accessible package, promotion focused entirely on EarthBound, much to the dismay of long-time fans, who argued that the promotional strategy was reducing the importance of the first game.

Unfortunately, many of the " rules " were frequently broken, especially by COBOL programmers who were frequently unaccustomed to the internals of their programs or else did not use the necessary restrictive compile time options.

The original New York Social Register first was published in 1886 by Louis Keller, a German-American of wide social acquaintance, who combined the " visiting lists " of a number of fashionable ladies to compile the families included.

Other than newspaper, there are also coupon book publishers and retailers who compile vouchers and coupons into books, either for sale or free.

: Nor is the Author the first, though the first in this peculiar Mayden fancy, who deeming it a flat and vulgar task to compile a plain and downright story, which consists meerely of collections, and is as easie as walking horses or gleaning of corn hath under heiroglyphicks, allegories and emblems endeavour'd to diversifie and enrich the matter, to embroder it up and down with Apologs, Essays, Parables, and other flourishes ; for we find this to be the ancient ' st and most ingenious way of delivering truth, and transmitting it to posterity: Omnis fabula fundatur in Historia.

Note that users who wish to use this free version, as supplied by the realvnc. com site, may need ( for example ) to patch and compile the XFree86 source code by themselves, as the free binaries available for download are outdated and typically fail to operate in modern environments.

In 1548 he helped Thomas Cranmer compile the Book of Common Prayer and in 1549 he was one of the commissioners who investigated Bishops Stephen Gardiner and Edmund Bonner.

He received an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of no-nonsense White House Counsel Oliver Babish, brought in during season two to compile a defense for President Bartlet and others who covered up his non-disclosure of multiple sclerosis.

From the Collectio Francofurtana ( around 1180 ) onwards collections get a more systematic character and a school appears, the decretalists, who compile, organise and study the decretals as the basis of canon law.

In a 2005 article, Weinstein wrote that the unexplained postpartum death of a woman who had hemolysis, abnormal liver function, thrombocytopenia, and hypoglycemia motivated him to review the medical literature and to compile information on similar patients.

His letter found its way to Kees ’ s father, John, who eventually gave Justice permission to compile and edit The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees ( Iowa City, IA: The Stone Wall Press, 1959 ), which was subsequently released as a trade paperback in the 1960s.

" It noted a " lack of transparency about the practices of information brokers, who often buy, compile, and sell a wealth of highly personal information about consumers ," unbeknownst to them.

He works for Dunstable helping to compile the Dunstable family history, but is poorly treated by the Duke, who suspects him of going on " toots ", and hits him in the face with a well-thrown egg when he hears him singing on the lawn outside his rooms, and also has him help steal Emsworth's prize pig Empress of Blandings, a task which sorely tries Baxter's nerve ; he is later slipped a Mickey Finn by Uncle Fred.

His escape from Auschwitz, and the report he helped compile, telling for the first time the truth about the camp as a place of mass murder, led directly to saving the lives of thousands of Jews-the Jews of Budapest who were about to be deported to their deaths.

Muhammad ibn Ismaa ’ eel al-Bukhari said, “ We were with Ishaq ibn Rahoyah who said, ‘ If only you would compile a book of only authentic narrations of the Prophet .’ This suggestion remained in my heart so I began compiling the Sahih .” Bukhari also said, “ I saw the Prophet in a dream and it was as if I was standing in front of him.

Unlike commercial index sites, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert.

The term reporter was originally used to refer to the individual persons who actually compile, edit, and publish such opinions.

These resulted from an approach by Canon Percy Dearmer of Westminster Abbey, who in 1931 was commissioned by Oxford University Press to compile a collection of hymns.