While interest in Plato was increasing in Florence during Machiavelli's lifetime he also does not show particular interest in him, but was indirectly influenced by his readings of authors such as Polybius, Plutarch and Cicero.

While the Greek Laconophiles like Plutarch had praised the Spartans, they did not extend this admiration to the Dorians as a whole.

While others like Plutarch were obviously much more akin to the Greek of their day.

Janis Joplin charted five singles, and other popular songs from her four-year career include " Down On Me ", " Bye, Bye Baby ", " Coo Coo ", " Summertime ", " Piece of My Heart ", " Turtle Blues ", " Ball ' n ' Chain ", " Try ( Just A Little Bit Harder )", " Maybe ", " To Love Somebody ", " Kozmic Blues ", " Work Me, Lord ", " Move Over ", " Cry Baby ", " A Woman Left Lonely ", " Get It While You Can ", " My Baby ", " Trust Me ", " Mercedes Benz ", " One Night Stand ", " Raise Your Hand " and her only number one hit, " Me and Bobby McGee ".

While recording for Decca, Lee had hit singles with the songs Lover and Mister Wonderful.

While Smith wrote the single from as a throwaway, " stupid " pop song to the press, it became a minor hit in the UK, reaching number 44 on the singles chart.

While the two split singing and songwriting duties roughly in half, Linnell's songs enjoyed the most commercial success in their early years: singles like " Don't Let's Start " and " Ana Ng " introduced the band to college radio, and they made waves on the Billboard charts in 1990 with " Birdhouse in Your Soul ".

No singles were taken from The Beatles in either Britain or America, but " Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da " backed with " While My Guitar Gently Weeps ", both from the album, became a double-sided smash in Australia, spending five weeks at Number One in the beginning of 1969.

" While still not known outside the South, Presley's singles and regional success became a drawing card for Sun Records, as singing hopefuls soon arrived from all over the region.

While none of the singles released from The Warning charted domestically, " Take Hold of the Flame " was a hit for the band outside the US ( particularly in Japan ).

While With Teeth and its following singles carry the Nothing Records logo, Reznor has publicly stated that this was at the insistence of John Malm.

" While being popular locally, it did not match the success of the previous singles.

While the first two Stax singles failed to chart, the third, the Hayes / Porter composition ( with similarities, including the title, to a gospel standard ) " You Don't Know Like I Know " hit # 7 R & B in 1966.

While her singles were mostly kept in the then-current sounds of the day such as Rock And Roll, novelty songs, the Twist, torch ballads, or the Girl Group Sound created by Brill Building alumni Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, Francis ' albums represented her in a variety of styles, ranging in everything from R & B, vocal jazz and country to Broadway standards, children's music, waltzes, spiritual music, Schlager music, Traditionals from various ethnic groups represented in the US and select songs from popular songwriters of the day, such as Burt Bacharach & Hal David, or Les Reed.

While Blues Traveler is best known among fans for their improvisational live shows, the general public is most familiar with the group from their Top 40 singles " But Anyway ", " Run-Around " and " Hook ".

While Minott was in England he discovered the group Musical Youth and released a number of successful Lovers Rock singles.

The band's first commercial release in years, Destiny, received a lukewarm reception from music critics, While the album's lead single " Goodbye to Yesterday " still made it to the top five, follow-up " Maybe " and double A-single " Amaze Me "/" Teardrops " became No Angels ' lowest-charting singles to date, never making it to the top 20 of any chart.

While it was not a major hit it still sold well and one of the album's singles " El Bueno, El Malo y El Feo ", referring to Eddie Dee, himself and Tego Calderón respectively.

While at Gibbs ' studio, they recorded a series of powerful singles, starting with " See Dem a Come " and including the hugely successful " Two Sevens Clash " ( which predicted the apocalpyse on 7 July 1977 ), many of which ended up on their debut album Two Sevens Clash.

While these singles didn't do as well as those released from the first album, " Stand Up " still reached No. 3 on the US Mainstream Rock chart.

While it wasn't released until November 4, 1996, singles from the album had been released as early as a few months after Art of Life.

This featured A-side and B-side of his singles, eight rarities that debuted on the CD format, and two previously unreleased recordings ( which were Les Reed and Barry Mason's " Delilah "; and Jim Ford's " I'm Ahead If I Can Quit While I'm Behind ").

While the album failed to produce any hit singles in the US, he did find success in the UK with the release of three modest hit singles " Girl U Want ", " Know by Now " and " You Blow Me Away ".

While DeShannon has not produced any further Top Ten singles of her own, her songs have been covered by other artists who have converted them into hits.

While with this label, Payne released two solo singles " Chasing Me Into Somebody Else's Arms " and " Pure Energy " ( co-written by Payne ), as well as covers of two Diana Ross tunes, " Ain't No Mountain High Enough " and " I'm Still Waiting ".

While pop music continued to dominate the singles charts, rock began to develop into diverse and creative sub-genres that characterised the form throughout the rest of the twentieth century.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

While some think we move too fast and others too slowly, Florida's record is a good one and stands out among the 50.

While this was being discussed, we saw the militia to the west of us fanning out and breaking into little clusters of two and three men as they approached the road.

While she was settling the teacart, he went back across the hall to their bedroom, opened one of the suitcases, and took out powdered coffee and sugar.

While the phonemes can be very easily stated, no one is likely to be satisfied with the statement until phonemic occurrences can be related in some way to morphemic units, i.e. until the morphophonemics is worked out, or at least far enough that it seems reasonable to expect success.

While there are still many bugs to be ironed out, the technique is fast developing.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

While they were away Blanche came into the office every morning, running things as she had always run them for Stanley, going through the week in a dazed stupor, getting things done automatically, out of habit.

While emphasizing that technical details were not fully worked out, Pelham said his resolution would seek to set aside the privilege resolution which the House voted through 87-31.

While details are still to be worked out, Ratcliff said he expects to tell home folks in Dallas why he thinks Berry's proposed constitutional amendment should be rejected.

While working out in Sylvania a swelling developed in the knee and he came here to consult the team physician.

While Crosby distracted the Beardens, stewardesses Carnegey and Toni Besset dropped out of a rear door.

While the diver seeks out colonies of abalone amongst the reef beds the deckhand operates the boat, known as working " live " and stays above where the diver is working.

While working on a second book, Alcott and Peabody had a falling out and Conversations with Children on the Gospels was prepared with help from Peabody's sister Sophia, published at the end of December 1836.

While he was in talks with Hastein, the Danes at Appledore broke out and struck northwestwards.

While they can be a human safety hazard, it is productive for these ecosystems to burn out every once in a while so that new organisms can begin to grow and thrive.

While the Habsburgs were driven out, many of their minor nobles were allowed to keep their lands and offices, though over time they lost power to the Bernese government.

While the creator of the NES version would be restricted from making a competitive version of an NES game, the original arcade copyright holder was not precluded from licensing out rights for a home version of an arcade game to multiple systems.

While singling out our kind of carbon-based life, none of the finely tuned phenomena require human life or some kind of carbon chauvinism.

While it is not recorded as a " steal ", in a practical sense a batter can be said to " steal first base " by successfully running to first base ( without being tagged or thrown out ) in rare circumstances following an uncaught third strike ; the rarely-seen play avoids an " out " and gains a baserunner.

While the town's name is generally seen as a diminutive form of Barcelona in Spain, Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing point out an earlier attestation of the name Barcilona in Barcelonnette in around 1200, and suggest that it is derived instead from two earlier stems signifying a mountain, * bar and * cin ( the latter of which is also seen in the name of Mont Cenis ).

While unsustainable imbalances may persist for long periods ( cf, Singapore and New Zealand ’ s surpluses and deficits, respectively ), the distortions likely to be caused by large flows of wealth out of one economy and into another tend to become intolerable.

While the other major works that came out of Alfonso's workshops, including histories and other prose texts, were in Castilian, the Cantigas are in Galician-Portuguese, and reflect the popularity in the Castilian court of other poetic corpuses such as the cantigas d ' amigo and cantigas d ' amor.

While church members point out that followers are free to choose to seek conventional medical treatment, most rely exclusively on healing by prayer.