Sentences with phrase «of a nobleman who»

Just prior to this event, Jesus told the parable of a nobleman who went to a faraway land to be crowned king.

Luke expands the parable about a man who had entrusted money to his servants with a story of a nobleman who journeys to a distant country in order to confirm his position as king.

Not exact matches

The Mughal power structure rested on a heterogeneous Muslim aristocracy composed of newcomers from Transoxiana (where Bukhara and Samarkand had long been centers of Arabic Islamic culture), of Iranian noblemen seeking careers in the newly conquered country, and of the Turkish and Afghan aristocracy who were already entrenched in India but now removed from supreme power.

So, too, the prophets all speak of the one God, not only as eternally enthroned above all temporal change, the invisible spirit above all earthly affairs, but as the One who has purposes for man, who does not leave man to his own devices like some great nobleman who says: I can get along without them; I can wait until they come to me.

On his return, invested with the royal power in spite of the objections, the nobleman rewards the faithful grants of political power, rebukes the timid ones, and gives order that the citizens who objected to his appointment be put death.

Thus we have the example of Robert de Nobili (1577 - 1656), an Italian nobleman who went to India as a Jesuit missionary, arriving there in 1605.

So when Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston)-- a French - accented nobleman who's already enjoying the innovations of the early Bronze Age — rides in on a mammoth with metal weapons and claims the land, what can the more primitive group do but flee?

Three years later, he earned widespread acclaim for his leading role in Patrice Leconte's Ridicule, in which he starred as an 18th century nobleman who learns to play a delicate and deadly game of wit at the court of Versailles.Born on Tahiti in 1958, Berling studied acting at a Parisian drama school located on la rue Blanche and made his stage debut in 1982.

However, after placing the young nobleman under a spell, the vain monarch still finds herself frustrated by her magical mirror's answer to «Who's the fairest of them all?»

Amanda Bynes («The Amanda Show», «All That») stars as Daphne, bred up to be a free spirit by her hippie - ish mother, who once had a brief fling with a British nobleman, who has been long out of the picture.

Indeed, this dynasty - hopping saga of an omnipotent Elizabethan dandy and nobleman who eventually switches gender, is an abridged adaptation of Virginia Wolff's 1928 novel «Orlando: A Biography», which was inspired by the life of the poet Vita Sackville - West.

It hasn't been clear sailing all the way, mind: popular historian Stephen Marche recently took to the NEW YORK TIMES to debunk such «prophets of truthiness» — Emmerich and Orloff are but a new, high - profile strain of Oxfordians, a group who name nobleman Edward de Vere as the true author of Shakespeare's texts, even the ones dated after his death — for advancing a lunatic conspiracy theory based on little more than class snobbery.

Instead, it's nobleman Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, who allowed an actor named Shakespeare to be his frontman.

She had achieved the seemingly impossible task of bringing to the screen Virginia Woolf's fantastical 1928 novel about a 16th - century English nobleman who lives through three centuries, while aging only three decades and changing gender in the process.

Jack Huston is now starring in the title role of Ben - Hur, in this remake of the 1959 classic.The story follows a falsely accused Jewish nobleman (Huston) who questions his plans for vengeance after he meets Jesus Christ.

Jean Reno is Count Thibault, medieval knight and French nobleman, newly arrived in England to marry his beloved Princess Rosalind (Christina Applegate) who is the daughter of King Henry (Richard Bremmer).

Directed by: Timur Bekmanbetov - A falsely accused Jewish nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his Roman best friend, who betrayed him.

Leopold is then befriended by Kate (Ryan) and Charlie (Meyer), brother and sister who are neighbors of Stuart's, and who think Leopold is speaking and dressing like a 19th Century nobleman for a role he is method acting for.

He leads a peasant rebellion through the countryside in search for the nobleman who upended the system of law and order.

The film follows the story of a nobleman falsely accused and imprisoned for years as a slave before he gets a chance to take revenge on the man who betrayed him.

What's clear from the off is that Swinton and Potter possess an acute understanding of the droll subtleties of the text about an immortal nobleman who leaves his stamp on various points in modern history and then transforms from man to woman.

A fascinating insight into Tudor England and the life of Elizabeth I before she sets foot on the steps to the throne.The story unfolds in 16th Century Tudor EnglandRichard Fitzwarren is a Tudor nobleman with a dubious past who takes risks for a living.His close friendship with Princess Elizabeth leads to his banishment to France, bu...

The discovery of refrigeration and its applications features a cast of characters that includes the Ice King of Boston, Galileo, Francis Bacon, an expert on gnomes, a magician who chilled a cathedral, a Renaissance duke addicted to iced eggnog, and a Bavarian nobleman from New England.

Prince Christian Augustus of Anhalt - Zerbst was hardly distinguishable in the swarm of obscure, penurious noblemen who cluttered the landscape and society of politically fragmented eighteenth - century Germany.

For example, how many romance books feature an innocent and bookish woman who manages to capture the eye of a notorious womanizing nobleman and causes him to reconsider his wicked ways all for the sake of his love for her.

Check out the trailer below: The story will have you following a group of thieves who break into a nobleman's vault to steal an artifact.

You play the role of Báthory's handmaiden and lover Klára, who is blackmailed by the authorities into gathering information about a missing nobleman's daughter.

Looking at the work of Kehinde Wiley — who uses classical poses and situations to recast «urban» men as, say, noblemen on horseback — you can see touches of Marshall.

This class of climate Lords is served in turn by a vast climate clergy, who promise us that the green noblemen are indeed virtuous, and not tainted by the devil's own oils... But their own demands for our austerity aren't matched by humble requests for green taxes, but demands for # billions and # billions, and rising every year.

It was followed two decades later with a traveling English nobleman who used to present acquaintances with a handwritten letter of introduction which he called a resume.