Sentences with phrase «written centuries ago»

The closing lines of a farewell poem, written centuries ago by the last great king of the age to his slain wife, might be more than just a poem: The world and Read More

The Book of Common Prayer's description of marriage as «a common life» was written centuries ago.

As was written centuries ago, it may truly be «impossible to survive» if the heart arteries are blocked.

Following the bible, is like following directions written centuries ago by some person helping someone else get from Jerusalem to Damascus, they don't work if you're going from New York to Jersey, or most other places today.

Worry about today, not what someone may have written centuries ago.

As the brilliant Dow Theorist William Peter Hamilton wrote a century ago, in 1909, «One of the platitudes most constantly quoted in Wall Street is to the effect that one should never sell a dull market short.

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Poet Emily Dickinson nailed it more than a century ago when she wrote, «They might not need me — yet they might — I'll let my Heart be just in sight — A smile so small as mine might be precisely their necessity.»

Most of this research backs what happiness gurus have been telling us since before R. H. Tawney wrote about The Acquisitive Society a century ago: that the constant pursuit of more and better stuff — higher salaries, privilege and the baubles that accompany success — doesn't result in increased happiness.

It's always a risk writing about a deal before it is official: CNBC reported a month ago that Disney was in talks to acquire many of 21st Century Fox's assets, including its eponymous movie studio, TV production company, cable channels, and international assets (but not the Fox broadcast network, Fox News, FS1 — Fox's sports channel — and Fox Business).

Shulevitz writes that, «More Americans work during the off - hours than they did half a century ago, the heyday of the nine - to - five, Monday - through - Friday workweek.

A century ago Congress adopted a provision that allowed companies to write off «intangible drilling costs» in the first year of exploration.

A year ago I wrote about the comparative dynamics of three outstanding kinds of money of different generations — the older generation was represented by gold, the 20th - century generation was represented by the Dollar (Index) and for the modern generation I used the cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC).

As published July 25, 2013 in The Globe and Mail: by John Manley «No man is an island entire of itself,» the poet John Donne wrote four centuries ago.

These words were written over a century ago by an American who saw that it was money that put the nation's tangible wealth, its natural resources and labor, in motion.

I suppose you are suggesting the bible is outdate, written by men thousands of years ago and doesn't apply to the 21st century?

It is of no use to read these pages, or other similar pages written twenty centuries ago, merely with one's eyes.

In fact the opposite is true, for they are willing to trust God only if these millions of words written over a period of centuries from two to three thousand years ago are all literally true, whereas my faith in God does not depend on this.

It was written by H. Richard Niebuhr half a century ago now.

Two years ago I wrote an article for The Christian Century on the language of hymns and the new biblical translations which I freely confess was more heat than light («Lord, Bless This Burning Pit Stop,» January 15, 1975, p. 36).

Melville wrote of our condition more than a century ago when he spoke of landlessness: «as in landlessness alone rests highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God — so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety.

What Whitman wrote in Democratic Vistas a century ago is even more apt today:

Writing in The Christian Century nearly two decades ago, educator Richard Baer noted: «So far the church has not sufficiently grasped the nature of the present [ecological] crisis, has not understood how powerfully dehumanizing is man's wanton exploitation of his natural environment, has not appreciated the degree to which man - made ugliness and the fouling of natural beauty are corroding man's mind and spirit» («Land Misuse: A Theological Concern,» October 12, 1966, p. 1240).

Why can't I JUST believe perposterous stories written by MEN centuries ago?

Almost half a century ago, in 1961, he wrote: «Apostolic office is never the taking of some official powers that are then at the disposal of the office - bearer.

Almost a century ago GK Chesterton wrote these words: «We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which furious party cries will be raised against anybody who says that cows have horns, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three - sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.»

Some forty years ago, Hannah Arendt, in her Crises of the Republic, wrote: «Our problem today is not how to expropriate the expropriators, but, rather, how to arrange matters so that the masses dispossessed by industrial society in capitalist and socialist systems can regain property» — in other words, in the twenty - first century, have access to capital.

I would be interested in anything that you, as a 21st century member of the religious cult, might have to say, but am not interested in anything written so long ago by bronze age or iron age cult members because they really knew nothing about the world and believed in gods the same way any primitive man did... through scientific ignorance.

In 1983 a Lutheran bishop wrote that a century ago, we lost many Lutherans as we went through the pain of discarding our mother tongues for English.

This was where Lyman Beecher began over a century ago when he wrote concerning alcoholism, «For verily we all have been guilty in this thing.»

Mary Ann Glendon wrote nearly a quarter century ago that «a new form of rights talk has come into being» in contemporary America, in which rights are «presented as absolute, individual, and independent of any necessary relation to our responsibilities.

Because this «non-traditional depiction» was written many centuries ago.

Perhaps the most unusual theory of the origin of the word curry comes from Selat Elbis Sopmi of London's Punjab Restaurant, who wrote in The Curry Club Magazine that some centuries ago an Irish sea captain married into a wealthy family.

But two centuries ago, Von Clausewitz wrote, «Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.»

The French philosopher Jean Bodin wrote that «sovereignty is indivisible», a prescient warning from five centuries ago.

Thus wrote Sir David Brewster, the noted Scottish physicist and inventor of the kaleidoscope, almost a century and a half ago.

Rydberg atoms can be described with simple rules written down more than a century ago by Swedish physicist Johannes Rydberg.

«Einstein's ideas,» his friend the physicist Max Born wrote over half a century ago, «have given the physical sciences the impetus which has liberated them from outdated philosophical doctrine, and made them one of the decisive factors in the modern world of man.»

As you read the original accounts of this extraordinary age of polar exploration, written a century or more ago, you may be reminded of the common character of exploration, science and technology, each of which celebrate the opening of new frontiers, the discovery of unknown facts and the advancement of human endeavors.

The remarkable thing about the advice in this book, and the reason it shows up on this list, is because a vast portion of the spiritual principles that were practiced and written down so many centuries ago, have since been confirmed by science to be effective on our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well - being.

Stephen Stills wrote those lyrics nearly a half - century ago, but let's just say this song is the perfect fit for the moment that is about to occur, and for the overall story about to unfold.

At a running time of over two hours, there's never a dull moment, and there's even a bit of fodder for pondering, including Thanos» noble intentions that spring from a misinterpretation of the proposition Malthus wrote about a few centuries ago, and just why it is that Thor thinks that Rocky Raccoon is a rabbit.

Nearly thirty years ago, Winston Groom wrote a novel about a simple man whose extraordinary life was intertwined with 20th century American history.

Remember, only a few centuries ago, readingand writing were confined to a small specialistclass whose members we called scribes.

I have sat in a Greek monastery, reading — or trying to read — a codex written on vellum 18 centuries ago.

Federal law demands that schools teach the same content to children they wrote off a quarter - century ago.

Why should we concern ourselves with what Rousseau wrote almost two - and - a-half centuries ago - or indeed with what Plato wrote long before that?

«The current funding formula was written almost two decades ago and has not kept up with the needs of the classroom of the 21st Century,» Speaker Gunn said.

The late Brian Sewell, renowned art critic and ardent car enthusiast, writes with authority and clarity in his retelling of these seminal events of more than a century ago.

This no doubt will provide the newer generation a glimpse of literary works, most of which were written well over a century ago, titles which would have wilted away into oblivion without the digitization efforts.

The Story Behind the Story (from Johanna Moran's website) «More than a half - century ago, my father, a law professor, came across an abstract on the Oades case, and showed it to my mother, who was attempting to write short fiction in her nonexistent spare time.