Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer -- `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him -- James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', then Harvard would have a genuine philosophic universe.

Writing in 1872, church historian William Stephens said “ The Patriarch of the Eastern Rome appeals to the great bishops of the West, as the champions of an ecclesiastical discipline which he confesses himself unable to enforce, or to see any prospect of establishing.

Writing during the reign of the Emperor Domitian ( AD 81 – 96 ), the Roman poet Martial expressed his admiration for Otho's choice to spare the Empire from civil war through sacrificing himself:

Writing in Slate Magazine, Judith Shulevitz reported that not only does Fish openly proclaim himself " unprincipled " but also rejects wholesale the concepts of " fairness, impartiality, reasonableness.

" 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 in 1880, William Edward Hall judged that " any sort of previous declaration therefore is an empty formality unless the enemy must be given time and opportunity to put himself in a state of defence, and it is needless to say that no one asserts such a quixotism to be obligatory.

Writing his memories, Guybrush suddenly finds himself in the middle of a battle between the forces of Plunder Island ( led by Elaine ) and LeChuck's undead crew.

Writing all songs and playing all instruments himself, his self-titled debut album, Skold, was released in 1996 by RCA.

Writing of the private interests and personal ambitions of Pompeius ' followers, he seems to give support to Caesar's claims < ref > Cicero, < i > ad Fam .</ i > vi. 6, and his later acerbic comments that Lentulus promised himself Hortensius ' town house, Caesar's suburban villa, and an estate at Baiae as spoils of the civil war do bear out Lentulus ' reputation for avariciousness < ref > Cicero, < i > ad Att .</ i > xi. 6.

Writing in The Times in 2001, Lord Rees-Mogg, who has a house in Somerset, described himself as " a country person who spends most of his time in London ", and attempted to define the characteristics of a " country person ".

Writing about 19th-century naturalist Guillermo Enrique Hudson, Martínez Estrada showed himself to be in sympathy with the idea of a return to a more paradisical natural world.

Writing of the " Lord's Supper " rite in the mid-50s, little more than 30 years after the death of Jesus, Paul says he had already linked it with the Last Supper when he evangelized the inhabitants of Corinth, Greece in 51 / 52, and that this was something that he himself had " received " earlier still.

Written for the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University, which Barth himself later ran, The Shirt of Nessus is not a dissertation, but rather a short novel or novella.

Writing with Harold Arlen, he wrote " Indoor Girl " sung by Pearl Bailey in House of Flowers and then by himself created the score for the English musical Is There Intelligent Life on Earth ?.

Writing about making wall drawings, LeWitt himself observed in 1971 that " each person draws a line differently and each person understands words differently ".

Writing his own libretto, he transformed himself into the forester, and Kamila into the vixen and Terynka.

Writing between 1960 and 1980, Peter Pook produced a series of twenty-three " autobiographical " novels in which the real events of his life were mingled with fanciful situations, and Pook himself is presented as an amiable dunderhead who is taken advantage of at every turn.

Writing twenty years after the event, Abbot Odo of Cluny described how William, duke of Aquitaine, had entreated Gerald to abandon the militia regia, the feudal service performed directly to the king and pay homage to himself, " for the sake of love ".

Writing in The Guardian's film guide, Steve Rose wrote of the season: " It's not often you'll find a movie season where you're offered Charlton Heston receiving the word of God one moment and a man supple enough to fellate himself the next, but such are the broad-minded tastes of William Crawley, journalist and BBC Northern Ireland presenter, who curates his own season here.

`` We, the Subscribers, do agree, that as soon as a convenient Number of Persons have subscribed to this, or a similar Writing, We will present a petition to the Hon'ble General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, praying for an Act incorporating into a Body politic the subscribers to such Writing with Liberty to build such a Bridge, and a Right to demand a Toll equal to that received at Malden Bridge, and on like Terms, and if such an Act shall be obtained, then we severally agree each with the others, that we will hold in the said Bridge the several shares set against our respective Names, the whole into two hundred shares being divided, and that we will pay such sums of Money at such Times and in such Manners, as by the said proposed Corporation, shall be directed and required ''.

Writing that would later be incorporated into the Hebrew Bible names Sheol as the place of the dead.

Writing in Cosmos, journalist Wilson da Silva reacted to Greenpeace's destruction of a genetically modified wheat crop in Ginninderra as another sign that the organization has " lost its way " and had degenerated into a " sad, dogmatic, reactionary phalanx of anti-science zealots who care not for evidence, but for publicity ".

Writing data to a disk was done by converting 256-byte pages into sets of 5-bit or, later, 6-bit nibbles ; loading data from the disk required the reverse.

Writing 10 years later, Cubs ' shortstop Ernie Banks would call it the longest ball he'd seen hit at Wrigley Field ; according to Banks, the consensus among the Cubs was that " it must have traveled more than 500 feet ( 152. 4 m ) on its trip into Waveland Avenue.

Writing that Mexico is composed of a vast patchwork of differences – linguistic, ethnic, and class-based – King says " The Virgin of Guadalupe is the rubber band that binds this disparate nation into a whole.

* Writing as " William Irish ", Cornell Woolrich published Waltz into Darkness ( 1947 ), set in 1880 New Orleans.

Writing in early Mesopotamia seems to that the need to document economic transactions, and consisted often in lists which scribes knowledgeable in writing and arithmetics engraved in cuneiform letters into tablets of clay.

Writing for The One, Paul Presley stated that " Lucasfilm appears to have taken all of the elements that worked in its previous releases and, not only incorporated them into this tale of scurvy swashbuckling, but even improved on them in the process!

Sheldon Richman, editor of the libertarian journal, The Freeman, also sees the IMF imposing “ corporatist-flavored ‘ neoliberalism ’ on the troubled countries of the world .” The policies of spending cuts coupled with tax increases give “ real market reform a bad name and set back the cause of genuine liberalism .” Paternalistic supranational bureaucrats foster “ long-term dependency, perpetual indebtedness, moral hazard, and politicization, while discrediting market reform and forestalling revolutionary liberal change .” Free market economist Richard M. Salsman goes further and argues the IMF “ is a destructive, crisis-generating global welfare agency that should be abolished .” “ In return for bailouts, countries must enact such measures as new taxes, high interest rates, nationalizations, deportations, and price controls .” Writing in Forbes, E. D. Kain sees the IMF as " paving the way for international corporations entrance into various developing nations " and creating dependency.

Writing of the period 1883 – 1884, Yiddish theatre actor Jacob Adler wrote, " The further we penetrated into this Whitechapel, the more our hearts sank.

Writing in 1993, Jane D ’ Artista and Tom Schlesinger noted that “ the ongoing integration of financial industry activities makes it increasingly difficult to separate banking and securities operations meaningfully ” but rejected Glass-Steagall repeal because “ the separation of banking and securities functions is a proven, least-cost method of preventing the problems of one financial sector from spilling over into the other ” ( which they stated was “ most recently demonstrated in the October 1987 market crash .”)

Writing at the time of Popish Plot, Crowne, who was a devout royalist, used his adaptation to warn about the danger of allowing England to descend into another civil war, which would be the case should the Whig party rise to power.

Writing at the time of Popish Plot, Crowne, who was a devout royalist, used his adaptation to warn about the danger of allowing England to descend into another civil war, which would be the case should the Whig party rise to power.

Writing for Allmusic, critic William Ruhlman wrote the album was " Al Kooper's finest work, an album on which he moves the folk-blues-rock amalgamation of the Blues Project into even wider pastures, taking in classical and jazz elements ( including strings and horns ), all without losing the pop essence that makes the hybrid work.

Writing in People magazine in 1995, Craig Tomashoff said the cancellation of Brisco was " one of the tragedies going into 1994 – 1995 TV season ".

* Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy, an online guide to the crafting of SF and fantasy, covering fundamentals of turning ideas into stories, creating believable characters, language and style, workshopping, etc.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph in November 2003, Nigel Short claimed that " Tony was insanely jealous of my success, and his inability to accept that he was no longer Britain's number one was an indication of, if not a trigger for, his descent into madness.

Writing a decade later, one of the chief officials of the Labour Party, Fergus Finlay, said Browne had developed into a " bad tempered and curmudgeonly old man ".

The Plain Writing Act of 2010, signed into law on October 13, 2010, requires US federal agencies to use plain language in every covered document that the agency issues or substantially revises, and to train its employees in plain language.

" In 1829, he published the first book about his system, Method of Writing Words, Music, and Plain Songs by Means of Dots, for Use by the Blind and Arranged for Them.

* Plain writing legislative history, Irwin Berent, Plain Writing Association

* A Historical Bibliography of the Plain Language Movement, Plain Writing Association

* Plain Writing Legislation: A Comparison of Bills, Plain Writing Association

* The Plain Writing Act of 2010

Many agencies now have long-standing policies mandating plain language, and in 2010 this was made a federal requirement with the Plain Writing Act.