Sentences with phrase «great man of letters»

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Warren Buffet: One of the world's richest men, perhaps its greatest living investor, a global philanthropist, sage, paragon of modesty, and a damn fine letter writer to boot.

my greatest concern is this «new teaching» on cussing is that I don't see it throughout the life, ministry or teachings of Jesus or any of the disciples or really any man God uses in the word... What I do hear Him say is that we will be «judged by every careless word» and that's not legalism, that's red letter.

Whatever the future holds for Chesterton's cause, his greatest legacy isn't about being a brilliant intellectual, or an immortal man of letters, or even a possible saint.

We would add Newman's actual words from the «Letter to the Duke of Norfolk»: «Unless a man is able to say to himself, as in the Presence of God, that he must not, and dare not, act upon the Papal injunction, he is bound to obey it, and would commit a great sin in disobeying it.»

Jerome, the great Latin scholar who in the fifth century was responsible for the Latin translation of the Bible known as the Vulgate, in his brief biography of James, says: «James wrote a single Letter... and even this is claimed by some to have been published by someone else under his name, and gradually, as time went on, to have gained authority» (Lives of Illustrious Men 2).

Johann Lang, in a letter to Spalatin in March 1516 (shortly before he was appointed to Erfurt) referring to the large numbers of students who were dropping out of the courses on scholastic philosophy and theology, and explaining the rebirth of biblical studies (he used the Renaissance type word reviviscere) and the new Strong interest in antiquae scriptores, identified the phenomenon by pointing to the international influence of Reuchlin and Erasmus, «men of great erudition and integrity».

Or consider the great uproar over Susan Patton's open letter to female Princeton undergraduates warning them that they'd be wise to land a good man while in college, because our culture has otherwise made such a hash of the mating game.

Kunle Ajibade, the convener, Prof. Niyi Osundare, ace poet and public commentator, Prof. Adigun Agbaje, famed professor of political science, Basorun J.K. Randle, the grand old man of numbers and letters, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, critical voice in gender and development studies, and Nike Ransome - Kuti, she of the great Ransome - Kuti clan.

Newton's law of gravitation first allowed such apparently instantaneous «action at a distance», but he himself was not a fan, describing it in a letter as «so great an Absurdity that I believe no Man who has in philosophical Matters a competent Faculty of thinking can ever fall into it».

My top 10 posters: Blackfish, Blue is the Warmest Color, Fast & Furious 6 (especially the Paul Walker one), The Great Beauty, Man of Steel (any), Nymphomaniac (any), Room 237, Spring Breakers (the «towel poster»), Warm Bodies, You're Next (the viral posters with just a giant letter on it).

As Trumbull wrote in his autobiography, Autobiography, reminiscences and letters of John Trumbull, his greatest gift with this painting was to preserve the likeness of those men «to whom we owe that memorable act and all its glorious consequences.»

A letter of recommendation from his previous employer to Thomas Edison said, «I know two great men and you are one of them; the other is this young man.»

The old man had been living a life of seclusion ever since the death of his benefactor, the great anatomist Lord Drogo, so when I received his letter, asking me to come to him at once, I wasted no time.

In the film version of Sex and the City, Carrie reads aloud from a book of great love letters by great men.

The story of the Nicola letters, in which one man expresses his desire for George Washington to become king of The United States of America, has mutated over time into a great American myth.

In the photo - realist painting Brave Men Run In My Family (1988), part of the artist's «Dysfuntional Family» series, Ruscha runs the text over the silhouetted image of a great, listing tall ship; the piece was a collaboration with fellow Los Angeles artist Nancy Reese (she did the painting, he the lettering).

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