It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.

At Lee Simonson's house, I had dined with Edith Hamilton, the nonogenarian rationalist and the charming scholar who had a great popular success with The Greek Way.

The great Torah scholar, commentator and kabbalist, Nachmanides ( Ramban 1195-1270 ), attributed Job's suffering to reincarnation, as hinted in Job's saying " God does all these things twice or three times with a man, to bring back his soul from the pit to ... the light of the living ' ( Job 33: 29, 30 ).

The matter is not so: For Rabbi Akiba was a great scholar of the sages of the Mishnah, and he was the assistant-warrior of the king Ben Coziba Simon bar Kokhba ...

Indeed, at the end of the 19th century scholar Ernest DeWitt Burton wrote that there could be " no reasonable doubt " that 1 John and the gospel were written by the same author, and Amos Wilder has said that, " Early Christian tradition and the great majority of modern scholars have agreed on the common authorship of these writings, even where the author has not been identified with the apostle John.

Alessandro Manzoni's novel I Promessi Sposi portrays a pedantic scholar of the obsolete, Don Ferrante, as a great admirer of Cardano.

Although nearing ordination at the Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, he transferred to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( JTSA ), where he was ordained in 1934 and received the advanced Jewish legal degree of Hattarat Hora ’ ah under the great talmudic scholar Rabbi Professor Louis Ginzberg.

When humanist scholar George Buchanan wrote his history Rerum Scoticarum Historia in the 1570s, a great deal of lurid detail had been added to the story.

Maimonides and his wife, the daughter of one Mishael ben Yeshayahu Halevi, had one child, Avraham, who was recognized as a great scholar, and who succeeded him as Nagid and as court physician at the age of eighteen.

In 1460 the papal legate Basilios Bessarion came to Vienna on a diplomatic mission, a humanist scholar and great fan of the mathematical sciences Bessarion sought out Peuerbach's company.

The great 14th-century scholar Ibn Khaldun, wrote: " the Black nations are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because ( Blacks ) have little that is ( essentially ) human and possess attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals ".

The great scholar Rabanus Maurus was abbot from 822 to 842.

Fromm's grandfather and two great grandfathers on his father's side were rabbis, and a great uncle on his mother's side was a noted Talmudic scholar.

In 1523, Holbein painted his first portraits of the great Renaissance scholar Erasmus, who required likenesses to send to his friends and admirers throughout Europe.

Adrian Fortescue regards him as " the most wonderful man of all the Middle Ages ", and stresses that " had not given his name to the great schism, he would always be remembered as the greatest scholar of his time ".

' Every responsible scholar of twentieth century history acknowledges the great catastrophe that befell European Jewry during World War II.

The Brown decision was a powerful moral statement clad in a weak constitutional analysis ; Warren was never a legal scholar on a par with Frankfurter or a great advocate of particular doctrines, as was Black.

About this time he was appointed to a canonry in Utrecht and to another in Aachen, and the life of the brilliant young scholar was rapidly becoming luxurious, secular and selfish, when a great spiritual change passed over him which resulted in a final renunciation of every worldly enjoyment.

In the year of our Lord 886, the second year of the arrival of St Grimbald in England, the University of Oxford was begun ... John, monk of the church of St David, giving lectures in logic, music and arithmetic ; and John, the monk, colleague of St Grimbald, a man of great parts and a universal scholar, teaching geometry and astronomy before the most glorious and invincible King Alfred.

Ravana is described as a devout follower of the god Shiva in addition to his tribe's religious beliefs, a great scholar, a capable ruler and a maestro of the Veena.

Also at this age, he became a student of the great scholar and reformer Tsongkhapa ( 1357 – 1419 ), who some say was his uncle.

According to Sumpa Khenpo, the great Gelug scholar, he also studied some Nyingmapa tantric doctrines.

In the words of one scholar: " The great admirals of the 18th century would have had no difficulty in taking over Codrington's command at short notice.

He also derived great satisfaction from his friendships and correspondence with Erasmus and other scholars.

She was also a patron of Renaissance humanism, and a friend of the great scholars Erasmus of Rotterdam and Saint Thomas More.

Noting Luther's criticism of the Catholic Church, Erasmus described him as " a mighty trumpet of gospel truth " while agreeing, " It is clear that many of the reforms for which Luther calls are urgently needed .” He had great respect for Luther, and Luther spoke with admiration of Erasmus's superior learning.

As a result of his reformatory activities, Erasmus found himself at odds with both the great parties.

* Erasmus Programme, which takes its name from this great traveller on the roads of Europe

In particular, it houses the Erasmus collection, one of the richest resources in North America for the study of works written or edited by the great Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam.

It was not, however, to these sources that Beza was chiefly indebted, but rather to the previous edition of the eminent Robert Estienne ( 1550 ), itself based in great measure upon one of the later editions of Erasmus.

Saxo's skill as a Latinist has been praised by Erasmus, who wondered at how " a Dane of that age got so great power of eloquence.

Around this time, he became influenced by humanism, and he started buying books published by Johannes Froben, some by the great humanist Erasmus.

This was a period of great intellectual activity, the city being the home of many famous people including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward, and prompted Johnson's remark that Lichfield was " a city of philosophers ".

It also became a centre of great intellectual activity, being the home of many famous people including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward ; this prompted Johnson's remark that Lichfield was " a city of philosophers ".

Nor let it be conceived in disparagement of the great undertaking of Erasmus, that he was merely fortuitously right.

Much humanist effort went into improving the understanding and translations of Biblical and early Christian texts, both before the Protestant Reformation, on which the work of figures like Erasmus and Jacques Lefèvre d ' Étaples had a great influence, and afterwards.

In 1533 it was razed to the ground by a great fire mentioned by Erasmus of Rotterdam, but it was soon rebuilt and between 1535 and 1539 Nicolaus Copernicus lived in the local castle.

Erasmus Darwin went further and his Zoönomia asks .. would it be too bold to imagine that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which the great First Cause endued with animality .... possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down these improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end !, anticipating Lamarckism.

Desiderius Erasmus, the great Dutch humanist, even prepared a Greek edition of Aristotle, and eventually those teaching philosophy in the universities had to at least pretend that they knew Greek.

They engendered a great deal of controversy at the time, and Burnet defended himself against selected critics, John Keill and Erasmus Warren.

Her court at Mechelen was visited by the great humanists of her time, including Erasmus.

It is seen as a great opportunity to study abroad while not having the expense of studying outside the European Union as the grant available to Erasmus students are not available to those opting to leave the continent to study.

Erasmus Darwin published his Zoönomia between 1794 and 1796 foreshadowing Lamarck's ideas on evolution, and even suggesting " that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which the great First Cause endued with animality ... possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down these improvements by generation to its posterity.

Volusenus is a great admirer of Erasmus, but he criticises the purity of his Latin and also his philosophy.

Many of Van Delden's compositions form an expression of his deeply felt social concern, such as the orchestral work In Memoriam ( 1953 ), which was written in the aftermath of the great flood disaster of 1953 in the Netherlands, Belgium and England, the oratorio The Bird of Freedom ( 1955 ), which is an emotional cry against slavery, the radiophonic oratorio Icarus ( 1962 ), which questions the usefulness of space travel, or Canto della guerra ( after Erasmus, 1967 ; for chorus and orchestra ), which is a strong condemnation of war.