Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Analysis of his success of the Platinum Award by the H.M.V. Company for the outstanding sale of of his classical records [Deśapāṇḍe, Vāmana Harī, Between Two Tanpuras, http://books.google.com/books?id=-EkDt0Gboe8C&pg=PA177, 1 January 1989, Popular Prakashan, 978-0-86132-226-8, 177–]
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Eric Hoffer book The True Believer
Section 9
The True Believer (1951), Part One: The Appeal of Mass Movements
Francis Bacon book The Advancement of Learning
And the coming of this Holy Spirit was chiefly figured and expressed in the similitude and gift of tongues, which are but vehicula scientiæ.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Aryabhata (476–550) Indian mathematician-astronomer
In, p. 254.
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures
George Long (1800–1879) English classical scholar
The Philosophy of Antoninus
Context: The doctrines of Epictetus and Antoninus are the same, and Epictetus is the best authority for the explanation of the philosophical language of Antoninus and the exposition of his opinions.
Totaram Sanadhya (1876–1947) Fijian writer
K.L. Gillion, Fiji’s Indian Migrants: A History to the end of Indenture in 1920, (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1962).
Titian (1488–1576) Italian painter
Quote from a letter of Titian, to the Marquess Gonzaga of Mantua, from Venice 22 Juin 1527; as quoted by J.A.Y. Crowe & G.B. Cavalcaselle in Titian his life and times - With some account..., publisher John Murray, London, 1877, p. 317
Assuredly Titian at this time had Messer Pietro Aretino for a sitter; this letter proves his intimacy with the secretary of Giovanni de Medici
1510-1540
“It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we measure a great man.”
George Henry Lewes (1817–1878) British philosopher
On Actors and the Art of Acting (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1875) p. 13
Nancy Pelosi (1940) American politician, first female Speaker of the House of Representatives, born 1940
Referring to Bertie Ahern (Ah-hern) at a joint meeting of the US Congress at Capital Hill in Washington (April 30th, 2008) http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0430/ahernb.html
2000s