Writing in the 1st century BC, Horace refers to the wax abacus, a board covered with a thin layer of black wax on which columns and figures were inscribed using a stylus.

Writing in the 4th century, the Pilgrim of Bordeaux reported that the sepulchers of David, Ezekiel, Asaph, Job, Jesse, and Solomon were located near Bethlehem.

Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, 16th century painting.

Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, 16th century.

Artist depiction of " Saint Paul Writing His Epistles ", 16th century ( Blaffer Foundation Collection, Houston, Texas ).

A 17th century depiction of Paul Writing His Epistles.

Writing in the British newspaper The Independent in January 2006, Lovelock argued that, as a result of global warming, " billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable " by the end of the 21st century.

Writing in the 1920s, Kondratiev proposed to apply the theory to the 19th century:

Writing in the 2nd century AD, the satirist Lucian points out that while temples to the major Olympians were everywhere, none to Prometheus is to be seen.

Writing in the 2nd century Athenaeus of Naucratis provides a recipe for lagana which he attributes to the 1st century Chrysippus of Tyana: sheets of dough made of wheat flour and the juice of crushed lettuce, then flavoured with spices and deep-fried in oil.

Writing his Lives of Illustrious Men ( Parallel Lives ) in the first century CE, the Middle Platonic philosopher Plutarch's chapter on Romulus gave an account of his mysterious disappearance and subsequent deification, comparing it to traditional Greek beliefs such as the resurrection and physical immortalization of Alcmene and Aristeas the Proconnesian, " for they say Aristeas died in a fuller's work-shop, and his friends coming to look for him, found his body vanished ; and that some presently after, coming from abroad, said they met him traveling towards Croton.

Writing down the targum was prohibited, nevertheless some targumatic writings appeared as early as the middle of the first century AD.

* Late 1st century – Young Woman Writing, detail of a wall painting, from Pompeii, is made.

Writing in the fourth century B. C., Aristotle also mentioned this principle.

Writing nearly a century later both the chroniclers John Mair and Hector Boece relied extensively on Bower for their own narratives.

Writing in 1910, Peirce admits that " in almost everything I printed before the beginning of this century I more or less mixed up hypothesis and induction " and he traces the confusion of these two types of reasoning to logicians ' too " narrow and formalistic a conception of inference, as necessarily having formulated judgments from its premises.

The dominant copybooks in North America at the start of the 20th century included those produced by A. N. Palmer, a student of Gaskell, who developed the Palmer Method, as reflected in his Palmer's Guide to Business Writing, published in 1894.

Writing in the 1960s, the historian Gene Weltfish drew from earlier work of Wissler and Spinden to suggest that the sacrificial practice might have been transferred in the early 16th century from the Aztec of present-day Mexico.

Writing at the end of the 17th century, Francisco Ximénez described the tradition that upon the temple human sacrifices were tied before the representation of Tohil, where the priest would open the victim's chest and cut out his heart.

Writing in the 12th century, Roger of Wendover credits Godiva as the persuasive force behind this act.

Writing in the early-to mid-8th century, he mostly paraphrases Gildas's writings in his Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum and De Temporum Ratione.

Writing more than a century later the writer W. H. Murray agreed, complaining that the visitors spoiled the " character and atmosphere ", and rather stand-offishly suggesting that " to know Staffa one must go alone ".

" Writing in the second half of the same century, Michael Doukas regarded the story as worthy of inclusion in his Historia Byzantina.

After five operations in ten days and physical therapy, King resumed work on On Writing in July, though his hip was still shattered and he could only sit for about forty minutes before the pain became worse.

Writing in Latin letters was introduced to Scandinavia with Christianity, so there are few native documentary sources from Scandinavia before the late 11th and early 12th centuries.

Writing in the Rendiconti of the Lombardy Institution regarding the discovery of the coherer, directs attention to his experiments made in 1884, before Branly had worked on the subject.

" Writing before the proliferation of the internet, Putnam claims to have found an overall decline in social capital ( really civic engagement ) in America over the past fifty years, a trend that may have significant implications for American society.

* The British comedy troupe Monty Python mention Tess of the d ' Urbervilles on their 1973 comedy record album Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief on the track " Novel Writing ", in which Thomas Hardy writes Return of the Native before a live audience.

Writing shortly before Geoffrey of Monmouth, William added much to the damnatio memoriae of Vortigern: " At this time Vortigern was King of Britain ; a man calculated neither for the field nor the council, but wholly given up to the lusts of the flesh, the slave of every vice: a character of insatiable avarice, ungovernable pride, and polluted by his lusts.

Writing in the United Irishman, on 12 February, Mitchel anticipated the Government's response to his open letter to Lord Clarendon: " Yes, of course you will prosecute before long ; in self-defence, I hope, you must ...

" Writing in Auxiliary Magazine, Luke Copping claimed that Brisco was Campbell's " last great " role before the actor fell into " a period of self-parody and overt camp that he did not redeem himself from until joining the cast of Burn Notice ".

" Writing before previously-embargoed material was released by the Russian authorities in the 1990s, Prange and those writing with him appear not to have accepted the veracity of this report.

He was also an editor, having completed The Winnipeg Connection: Writing Lives at Mid-Century in the year before his death.

" In the 1st season 2nd episode " Writing the President " Edith remarks how before her marriage, in 1946 she got a job and started working for the " Hercules Plumbing Company ".

In his (" Discourse on Style "), pronounced before the Académie Française, he said, " Writing well consists of thinking, feeling and expressing well, of clarity of mind, soul and taste ....

Writing in what one commentator deemed a " rueful " tone, he suggested his earlier arguments regarding issues like affirmative action and the future prospects for African Americans were essentially wrong — the civil rights legislation of 1964 and 1965 had not allowed blacks to fully integrate into American society, their situation was worse now than it had been 20 years before, and a multicultural curriculum in schools was essentially the result.

On the Vijayadashami day, Kerala celebrates Vidyarambham also known as Ezhuthiniruthu or Initiation of Writing where children between two and three years old are formally initiated before they are admitted to nursery schools.

Writing before Piltdown was exposed as a hoax, the Eanthropus or " Dawn Man " Osborn maintained sprung from a common ancestor with the ape during the Oligocene period which he believed developed entirely separately during the Miocene ( 16 million years ago ).

Writing in The Guardian to preview the drama before it aired, Mark Lawson said that: " Transmuting different genres like wine made from water — comedy into romance into thriller — Eccleston, Sharp, Davies and his director Adrian Shergold have created a world in which it soon ceases to seem odd that God chose Manchester.

Writing before Li's book was published, Byron and Pack offered other possible diagnoses based on symptoms Kang seems to have displayed, including manic-depressive psychosis and temporal lobe epilepsy.

Writing from a personal perspective for the Village Voice in fall 1994, festival artist and kitchen worker Gretchen Phillips expressed a nearly universal reaction to her first festival --“ I had never seen so many breasts before, so many bare asses, so much damn skin on such a vast terrain.

* Make Sure Everything is Agreed to in Writing: For the protection of both you and the dealer, put everything in writing and review everything before signing it.

A few years before her death, she was allowed to travel to the United States where she was a guest at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.

Other sources state that he studied Dramatic Writing at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University for one semester before dropping out to pursue a career as a professional skateboarder.

" Writing a generation before Nietzsche, Schopenhauer explained that the universe and everything in it is driven by a primordial will to live, which results in all living creatures ' desire to avoid death and procreate.