Hobbes said :" The Latines called Accounts of mony Rationes ... and thence it seems to proceed that they extended the word Ratio, to the faculty of Reckoning in all other things .... When a man reasoneth hee does nothing else but conceive a summe totall ... For Reason ... is nothing but Reckoning ... of the consequences of generall names agreed upon, for the marking and signifying of our thoughts ...."

:" When the day for the assembly which was held in the town of Birka drew near, in accordance with their national custom the king caused a proclamation to be made to the people by the voice of a herald, in order that they might be informed concerning the object of their mission.

:" When we see leaf-eating insects green, and bark-feeders mottled-grey ; the alpine ptarmigan white in winter, the red-grouse the colour of heather, and the black-grouse that of peaty earth, we must believe that these tints are of service to these birds and insects in preserving them from danger.

:" When you deprogram people, you force them to think ... But I keep them off balance and this forces them to begin questioning, to open their minds.

A 1960s advert, it reads :" When you were a kid, science fiction gave you a sense of wonder.

When it came to time for Ribbentrop to present the German declaration of war on 22 June 1941 to the Soviet Ambassador, General Vladimir Dekanozov, Paul Schmidt described the scene :" It is just before four on the morning of Sunday, 22 June 1941 in the office of the Foreign Minister.

:" The LORD said to Moses, " When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do.

:" When I first caught sight of it over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley, I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary.

When Pausanias visited Argos in the 2nd century CE, he related the succession of Danaus to the throne, judged by the Argives, who " from the earliest times ... have loved freedom and self-government, and they limited to the utmost the authority of their kings :"

:" When I return from Caer Seon

:" When I return from Caer Seon

:" When I step on this site folks ... I just feel different.

:" When I first put pen to paper to write The Golden Bough I had no conception of the magnitude of the voyage on which I was embarking ; I thought only to explain a single rule of an ancient Italian priesthood.

:" When I ’ m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy ; but-the eternal dilemma-how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others?

:" When television is good, nothing — not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers — nothing is better.

:" When at 10 a. m. they entered the village in the wake of a police armored vehicle, the village was nearly deserted.

:" When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him.

:" When the shadowed veil returns to mask the midday sun

:" When it was clear the Israelis were going to withdraw fully from Lebanon, Syrian and Lebanese officials fabricated the fiction that this small, sparsely populated area was part of Lebanon.

It generally just happens without me realising-she says :" When I'm feeling very much in a certain way about something I pour out the emotion onto paper and the music comes with it.

:" When I was still an inexperienced youth, and the suicide of Paul Lafargue and his wife Laura Marx raised such an outcry in the socialist parties, I firmly defended the principled and correct nature of their positions.

" When Wesley's father finally did appear in Angel season five, he said :" I had mixed feelings first.

:" When I asked him why he had done this, the officer answered that this was ' his revenge for the murder of his best friends in the Haifa Oil Refinery massacre.

:" When the spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosovo with the bones of Serbs, for we Albanians have suffered too much to forget.

When it is absolutely necessary to forward messages to recipients who don't know one another, it is good practice to list the recipient names all after " bcc :" instead of after " to :".

:" The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Daxia ) and Parthia ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hanshu, Former Han History ).

:" The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Daxia ) and Parthia ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hanshu, Former Han History ).

:" The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Daxia ) and Parthia ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hanshu, Former Han History ).

:" Ban Gu has recorded in detail the local conditions and customs of each kingdom in the former book of Han or ' History of the Former Han Dynasty '.

:" The Emperor, to discover the true doctrine, sent an envoy to Tianzhu ( Northwestern India ) to inquire about the Buddha ’ s doctrine, after which paintings and statues the Buddha appeared in the Middle Kingdom.

:" The king of the Da Yuezhi, Bodiao ( 波調 ) ( Vāsudeva ), sent his envoy to present tribute and His Majesty granted him a title of " King of the Da Yuezhi Intimate with Wei ( 魏 )".

:" The first part of our arithmetic organ ... should be a parallel storage organ which can receive a number and add it to the one already in it, which is also able to clear its contents and which can store what it contains.

In his Materials for a History of the Baptists in Rhode Island, Edwards wrote :" The first mover himself for it Baptist college in 1762 was laughed at as a projector of a thing impracticable.

:" Turning from the northern parts to the mouth of the Baltic Sea we first meet the Norwegians ( Nortmanni ), then the Danish region of Skåne ( Sconia ) stands out, and beyond these live the Geats ( Gothi ) for a long stretch all the way to Birka.

:" For this city he ordained, as the first among our people, the abbot Hiltin, whom he wanted to call John.

:" It is my conviction that intentional phenomenology has for the first time made spirit as spirit the field of systematic scientific experience, thus effecting a total transformation of the task of knowledge.

:" It was from noble families that this evil first started, and when shameful things seem to be approved by the fashionable, then the common people will surely think them correct ... This only, they say, stands the stress of life: a good and just spirit in a man.

:" I remember very vividly the first month, January, 1939, that I started working at the Pupin Laboratories because things began happening very fast.

Tony West, his lawyer, explained it as follows :" One of the first things he told Army interrogators when they questioned him on December 3 of last year was that after 9 / 11 happened, he wanted to leave the front lines but couldn't for fear of his life.

:" You spend the first forty years of your life trying to get in this fucking business, and the next forty years trying to get out.

:" then they joined arms one upon the other, made a circle, went round the circle, with their feet stepping hard and stamping ; one sang first, with the others all following after.

:" It is to be regretted that this first comprehensive and thorough-going presentation of a mathematical logic and the derivation of mathematics from it so greatly lacking in formal precision in the foundations ( contained in * 1 -* 21 of Principia ) that it represents in this respect a considerable step backwards as compared with Frege.

According to the usual precedence rules, the unary message " new " is sent first, and then " label :" and " open " are sent to the answer of " new ".

:" Mozart's music was generally admired by connoisseurs already at the first performance, if I except only those whose self-love and conceit will not allow them to find merit in anything not written by themselves.

:" In 1710, while writing the first biography of Genghis Khan, the French scholar François Pétis de La Croix published a book of tales and fables combining various Asian literary themes.

:" We can guess that Susan original title of Northanger Abbey, in its first outline, was written very much for family entertainment, addressed to a family audience, like all Jane Austen ’ s juvenile works, with their asides to the reader, and absurd dedications ; some of the juvenilia, we know, were specifically addressed to her brothers Charles and Frank ; all were designed to be circulated and read by a large network of relations.

Green wrote to Freeman on 11 November 1875 :" I am very sorry to have missed you, dear Freeman ... Little Evans — son of John Evans the great — has just come back from the Herzegovina which he reached by way of Lapland, having started from the Schools in excitement at the ' first ' I wrung for him out of the obdurate Stubbs ..."

:" If the second variant takes place and the imperialists invade Cuba with the aim of occupying it, the dangers of their aggressive policy are so great that after such an invasion the Soviet Union must never allow circumstances in which the imperialists could carry out a nuclear first strike against it.

The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle in the area on the western end of Long Island, also inhabited by a Native American people, the Lenape ( often referred to in contemporary colonial documents by the Lenape place-name for one of the larger native settlements :" Canarsee ").

:" Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

:" Around 380, Gregory Nazianzen, describing the Constantinian Church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople, was the first to point out its resemblance to a cross.

The spirit of the paper during the first ten years of its existence was summed up in a Feb. 1, 1969 staff editorial :" We believe that people who are serious in their criticism of this society and their desire to change it must involve themselves in serious revolutionary struggle.

:" The very first attempt to devise an algorithmic language was undertaken in 1948 by K. Zuse.

:" To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

:" The first pope who used it in an official act and relied upon it, was Leo IX ; in a letter of 1054 to Michael Cærularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, he cites the " Donatio " to show that the Holy See possessed both an earthly and a heavenly imperium, the royal priesthood.

:" 20 Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction.