But the most erudite insult surely comes from Sinclair's complaint.
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Casanova, the most erudite of scammers, was the archetype of the age.
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Line your office bookshelves with the best, most erudite business books out there.
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We can acknowledge that Donald Trump may not be the most erudite and articulate placeholder for the office of the presidency.
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The moon was in Sagittarius, the most erudite of the signs, and the communication planet Mercury had just entered quick-witted Gemini.
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It made me long for the writing of Oliver Sacks, who wrote extensively on these types of neurological oddities in a most erudite but accessible voice.
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"In Cholísmo, the result is God," the former Argentina forward Jorge Valdano — now a columnist for El País, and one of Spain's most erudite soccer observers — wrote last year.
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Partly this is because she was the funniest, the most combative, the most erudite and the most enthusiastic writer in the business (and that is the kind of hyperbole she enjoyed using herself).
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Not even the most erudite of scholars can decipher the text of the Gulshan-i 'Ishq let alone grasp the story's many layers given its heterogeneous qualities: for Sikander, this was a productive point of entry into the work.
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" When Thomson first proposed an opera about 19th-century America to Stein, his longtime collaborator, she immersed herself in the era's literature and political speeches, and remarked in a letter that "if it comes off it will be a most erudite opera.
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Part of the reason that trompe-l'œil images sold particularly well was that they performed a dual function: they told a joke and they demonstrated the skills of a painter who could use his or her paintbrush to fool even the most erudite in society.
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John Simon, one of the nation's most erudite, vitriolic and vilified culture critics, who illuminated and savaged a remarkable range of plays, films, literature and art works and their creators for more than a half-century, died on Sunday in Valhalla, N.Y. He was 94.
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In Pope Paul's New Mass, Michael Davies introduced him as "probably England's most erudite layman".
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Afterwards he was ranked among the most erudite of his countrymen, during an age most fruitful in the production of learned men.
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Eliade, p. 355; Marcu, p. 123 According to historian Vlad Georgescu, Beldiman was still notable as the most erudite chronicler of his generation.Georgescu, p.
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A Jekyll and Hyde. When he was sober, he was Jekyll, the most erudite, balanced, friendly kind of guy ... He was Mr. America. When he would start to drink, he'd be okay at first, then, suddenly, he would turn into a maniac. Turn into Hyde.
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They lived in Siponto at the beginning of the fourth century. Justin as the most erudite and eloquent of the three brothers. He was appointed bishop of Siponto. Florentius, meanwhile, married and had a daughter named Justa, named after Justin, who had baptized her.
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SUNY Press, 1997. Page 8. Although his work has been largely forgotten by Western scholarship (probably due to lack of translations), Veselovsky has been called "one of the most erudite and original scholars Russia has produced"Gogol from the Twentieth Century: Eleven Essays, ed. Robert A. Maguire.
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Teodoro Picado governed Costa Rica immediately after the presidency of Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia and preceded the de facto junta of José Figueres. One of the most erudite presidents to govern Costa Rica, Picado was more moderate and not nearly as inflammatory as either his predecessor or successor.
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Soon after his death in 1775, his home was attacked by a mob of revolutionaries. They burned his library and all of his original drawings. This act of political violence destroyed the collection of one of the most erudite architects of the colonial period. It prevented the preparation of a catalogue of his designs for posterity.
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Alqama ibn Qays al-Nakha'i () (d. Imam Zahid al-Kawthari was a well-known scholar from among the taba'een and pupil of Abd-Allah ibn Mas'ud, who called him the most erudite of his disciples. He also related traditions from Ali ibn Abi Talib, Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas [Sa`d ibn Malik] and `Uthman.Tarikh Baghdad, xII.
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This heralded a forty-year period as a mainstay of radio panel game quiz programmes. In 1967, after much lobbying of the producers, she joined the panel on Round Britain Quiz, regarded as the most erudite of the BBC's quiz shows, and rapidly became its most celebrated panellist. In the 1970s she co presented a BBC daytime television programme entitled The 607080 Show with Roy Hudd.
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Vik - Vik, 6 years- old, is the most reasonable of the bunch. The smartest and most erudite boy among the friends he has a clearer idea of the rules of a game, although he has trouble catching on when things change. But, once Vik gets the gist he is a skilled role player who really gets into details. He has brown hair, brown eyes, and tan skin.
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Known widely for both munificence and cultural magnificence, Ananda Gajapati Raju was granted the personal title of 'Maharajah'. He was a Member of the Madras Legislative Council for many years and was created a G.C.I.E. in 1892. He was held in awe, reverence and admiration as the most cultured and munificent, the most erudite and graceful, the most accomplished and humane of all the princes of Vizianagaram till his time.
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Sham Lal (1912 - 23 February 2007, in Delhi) was an Indian literary critic and journalist, who served as the editor of The Times of India. He wrote a column Life and Letters for several years for Hindustan Times and later The Times of India. Rudrangshu Mukherjee has described him as the most erudite newspaper editor in India. Sham worked with The Yashpal Times in Gas Land from 1934 to 1948.
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" He ended the speech by saying that the company was standing on the "shoulders of midgets". The company subsequently pulled much of its advertising. In 2010, he published a column in Car & Driver titled "If the original Henry Ford was still alive, he would be building Subarus." Davis was periodically estranged from the editor of Automobile, Jean Jennings, who described him as "the most interesting, most difficult, cleverest, darkest, most erudite, dandiest, and most inspirational, charismatic and all-around damnedest human being I will ever meet.
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Although she did not receive a formal education, her mother taught her and her sisters Mary (1739–1811) and Elizabeth (1742–1816, known as Betsy) to read, write and cipher; her father's, uncle's and grandfather's large libraries enabled the sisters to study English and French literature. Her grandmother, Elizabeth Quincy, also contributed to Adams' education. As she grew up, Adams read with friends in an effort to further her learning. She became one of the most erudite women ever to serve as First Lady.
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Tedald also sponsored the work of the monk Guido of Arezzo, whose treatise on music theory, the Micrologus, was dedicated to him. At Tedald's invitation, Guido took up the training of the cathedral singers at Arezzo around 1025. The bishop also supported the architect Maginardo, who added to the cathedral during his episcopate and was sent by Tedald in 1026 on a paid visit to Ravenna to study its Byzantine architecture.Conant, 106, who notes that Tedald praised Maginardo as arte architectonica optime erudito, "the most erudite in the architectural arts".
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Elise Reimarus Elise Reimarus (22 January 1735, Hamburg, as Margaretha Elisabeth Reimarus – 2 September 1805, Hamburg) was a German writer, educator, translator and salon-holder. She was the sister of Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus and the daughter of Hermann Samuel Reimarus. Elise Reimarus was known as one of the most erudite women of Hamburg and she was in epistolary contact with notable intellectuals of her time, including Moses Mendelssohn, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Carl Leonhard Reinhold. She was also a personal friend of fellow-educationist Caroline Rudolphi.
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Nienhauser wrote that "While the exact constituency of [contemporary Tang Dynasty readers] cannot be determined, Bo Xingjian (and other tale writers) clearly targeted those members of the Tang elite who were themselves active in literature, men who obviously could recognize even the most erudite allusion."Nienhauser, "A Third Look at "Li Wa Zhuan", p. 94-95. Nienhauser explained that "the inner audience-perhaps the primary audience" of the story consisted of men taking the Tang Dynasty imperial examinations.Nienhauser, "A Third Look at "Li Wa Zhuan", p. 96-97.
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Born in a poor family in Qiantang (modern Hangzhou, Zhejiang) and orphaned in early childhood, Li E nevertheless became well educated and made a living as a tutor for many years. In 1720 he passed the imperial examination for the juren degree, but was unable to advance his career in government, partly due to his temperament. Instead, he made a name for himself as the most erudite person with regard to Song Dynasty poetry. He is widely considered a leader of the Zhejiang School of poetry (also known as Western Zhejiang School of Lyrics), which was started by Zha Shenxing and Zhu Yizun.
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Owen has been described by one biographer as having "a claim to be considered the most erudite of the nineteenth-century fellows of his college". He edited The Unbloody Sacrifice by John Johnson in 1847. His major works were An Introduction to the Study of Dogmatic Theology (1858), and Institutes of Canon Law (1884), written at the prompting of Walter Kerr Hamilton, who was Bishop of Salisbury. In 1880, he published Sanctorale Catholicum, or, Book of Saints (1880) which not only included a significant number of Welsh saints but was also the first such book to include "just men" of the Anglican church.
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After his return he settled in London—where he became friends with Thomas More—as a private teacher of grammar, and is believed to have been the first who taught Greek in that city. In 1510 John Colet, dean of St Paul's, who was then founding the school which afterwards became famous, appointed Lily the first high master in 1512. Colet's correspondence with Erasmus shows he first offered the position to the Dutchman, who refused it, before considering Lily. Ward and Waller ranked Lily "with Grocyn and Linacre as one of the most erudite students of Greek that England possessed".
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Roman power, to the history of Rome's conquest of the states of Western Asia. It is no accident that in the Middle Ages and in modern times this book of Josephus was considered one of the most important sources in ancient Roman history, along with the works of Titus Livius, Tacitus, Suetonius, and one of the most erudite Christian authors of the 4th–5th centuries, Jerome called Josephus Flavius "Titus Livius of the Greeks". The extant copies of this work, which all derive from Christian sources, contain two disputed passages about Jesus. The long one has come to be known as the Testimonium Flavianum.
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Fresco from 1597, depicting the then recently demolished Tempio di San Donato by Maginardo Maginardo (fl. 1006-1032), called Aretino, was an Italian architect active in the Diocese of Arezzo during the episcopates of Elempert (986-1010), William (1010-1013), Adalbert (1014-1023), and Tedald (1023-1036), who called him arte architectonica optime erudito (Latin for "the most erudite in the architectural art"). Maginardo's career began in 1006-09, when he participated in the reconstruction of the eighth-century cathedral at Arezzo dedicated to Stephen the Protomartyr and the Virgin Mary. Maginardo's second great project was the addition of a chapel dedicated to Saint Donatus to the side of the cathedral.
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Born in Hunterdon County in the Province of New Jersey in 1740, to James Hugh Martin and Jane Hunter of Ireland, Governor Alexander Martin was a North Carolinian politician and delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention. Aside from his role in the Constitutional Convention, Martin witnessed several significant chapters in colonial and early U.S. history, including the Regulator Rebellion, the Revolutionary War, and the North Carolina ratification debates.Congressional Biography Martin held bachelor's and master's degrees from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), making him one of the most erudite delegates to the Constitutional Convention. After graduating from Princeton, Martin moved to Salisbury, North Carolina.
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He founded and edited a profusely-illustrated quarterly scholarly periodical on genealogical subjects, called The Ancestor (1902–1905), which attempted to debunk many popular myths of the Victorian era and to replace them with properly referenced facts, concentrating especially on the medieval period. The Ancestor discontinued publication with its twelfth issue. From this venture, he moved to the Victoria County History, where he contributed on matters on heraldry and genealogy. He also contributed a major article on heraldry to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, which according to John Campbell-Kease in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography remains "one of the best and most erudite introductions to the subject".
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According to Margaret Drabble, Pearson was one of the most erudite theologians of his age. Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is considered as one of the best production of English dogmatic theology. His soteriological views are discussed among scholars: Nicholas Tyacke have noted that Pearson, maintained the Arminian view of conditional election, in his Lectiones de Deo et Attributis (1660). On the other hand, Jake Griesel and Stephen Hampton have observed that Pearson upheld a Calvinist position on the doctrines of election and grace both in his Exposition (1659) and his Cambridge lectures, and did so explicitly against the Arminians or Remonstrants (contra Remonstrantes, sive eos quos Arminianos vocant).
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Why, > Wilson's a very plain bloke, And Scaddan is merely a joke. But hear Stubbs > orate In the heat of debate, And you’re bound to confess that what's crammed > in his plate Would amaze the most erudite folk. He's there with a quip and a > jest When members are feeling depressed, And the hours flit away Nimble- > footed and gay, When the House is entranced with Bartholomew J. When he > really 'lets loose' at his best. Why each of 'em squirms in his seat, When > Bartholomew jumps to his feet; His satirical style, His acidulous smile, And > the scorpion-like lash that he wields all the while Beats them all—with his > epigrams neat.
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About 1900 Frenchman and American Laura Clifford Barney learned of the religion in Paris from Bolles.Biography of Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney by Laura C. Dreyfus-Barney and Shoghi Effendi, edited by Thomas Linard, 1928 Dreyfus would be the first French Baháʼí and the couple would marry a decade later. Barney went to Egypt in the spring of 1901 to see ʻAbdu'l-Bahá and returned with Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl Gulpáygání, one of the most erudite scholars of the religion, to Paris, where Anton Haddad translated for him. At the time, Paris had the most important Baháʼí community in Europe and many of those who were becoming Baháʼís there would in later years would be famous in the religion.
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The poet Pencho Slaveykov, the son of the prominent Bulgarian Renaissance poet and teacher Petko Slaveykov, is one of the most erudite writers of his time. He made a conscious effort to set the beginnings of modern literature and Modernism in the country introducing the European philosophical and metaphysical ideas, partly modified and rebuilt upon the traditional linguistic and imagery heritage. Slaveykov is famous for his philosophical poems, his Epic Songs and the symbolist poetry collection Dream of Happiness. Among others, he wrote a mystifying anthology of poets titled On the Island of the Blissful where he gathered at one place all the traditional ideas of Bulgarian poetry at this time presenting them like belonging to an imaginary island.
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The Seleucids reigned from Antioch. We know little of it in the Hellenistic period, apart from Syria, all our information coming from authors of the late Roman time. Among its great Greek buildings we hear only of the theatre, of which substructures still remain on the flank of Silpius, and of the royal palace, probably situated on the island. It enjoyed a reputation for being "a populous city, full of most erudite men and rich in the most liberal studies",Cicero Pro Archia, 4 but the only names of distinction in these pursuits during the Seleucid period that have come down to us are Apollophanes, the Stoic, and one Phoebus, a writer on dreams.
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Depending upon one's perspective, trends during the 20th century can be seen as evidence of a bright or an uncertain future for theological libraries. In Europe, by the end of the 19th century theological education and training for the ministry had come almost universally under the auspices of the universities. Among other things this usually meant the demise of discrete theological collections within separate facilities, though this did not necessarily mean the devaluation of such collections. Indeed, it is fair to say that as the 20th century opened, not only the finest theological collections but the most erudite and distinguished centers of theological research were in Germany and in Britain (Heidelberg, Tübingen, Göttingen, Berlin, Oxford and Cambridge, to name only a few).
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Jewish law would be rendered unrecognizable—as law—to our laity, and to all but the most erudite and progressive legal theorists. ... :Lending credence to the notion that a person’s core identity is defined by physical drives and sexual desire represents a failure of moral and religious leadership. Rabbinic discourse that even unintentionally vests moral authority in the inclination of the individual, rather than in the will of a commanding God, seems a far graver transgression than prohibited, albeit loving, expressions of intimacy between homosexuals. After the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards adopted the responsum liberalizing its position on homosexual conduct, Rabbi Prouser and three other members of the Committee—Rabbis Joel Roth, Mayer Rabinowitz, and Leonard Levy—resigned in protest.
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In 1854 he won a prize offered by the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences for the best work on the pronunciation and accent of Latin, a treatise which at once took rank, on its publication under the title of Über Aussprache, Vocalismus, und Betonung der lateinischen Sprache (1858–1859), as one of the most erudite and masterly works in its department. This was followed in 1863 by his Kritische Beiträge zur lat. Formenlehre, which were supplemented in 1866 by Kritische Nachträge zur lat. Formenlehre. In the discussion of the pronunciation of Latin he was naturally led to consider the various old Italian dialects, and the results of his investigations appeared in miscellaneous communications to Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn's Zeitschrift für vergleichende Schriftforschung.
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Jovan Đorđević was born in Senta, a town on the bank of the Tisa river in the region which eventually became Serbian Vojvodina, on 13 November 1826 (Julian Calendar) to merchant Filip and Ana (née Malešević) Đorđević. Jovan was baptized on 17 November of that year in the Serbian Orthodox Church of Archangel Michael, officiated by Very Reverend Georgije-Đuka Popović, one of the most erudite clerics of his day in that region of Potisje, and author of Put u raj (The Road to Heaven), a book in praise of moral principles. The acting bug bit hard when he first appeared as a teenager in Hungarian and Serbian amateur theatricals in his hometown of Senta. He started his schooling in Senta, Novi Sad, Szeged, Temisvar, and Pest, where he was a Tekelijanum scholar (having received a stipend from the Sava Tekelija Endowment).
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The Smarak's construction was completed in 1989 by the followers of Acharya Vijay Vallabhsuri, to whom the temple is dedicated as a memorial. Having been solemnized as a Jain saint at a very early age by the illustrious Jain Acharya Shri Vijayanand Surishwer Ji (also popular as Muni Atmaram Ji), he was one of the most erudite saints of his era. Apart from being an effective preacher of Lord Mahavira's message of Non-violence, World Peace and Universal brotherhood, Acharya Vallabh Suri was a great reformer, thinker, writer, and educationist who actively supported India's freedom movement and relentlessly worked for the upliftment of the Jain community as well as the masses. His Panchamrut of Sewa (Service), Sangathan (Organisation) Shiksha (Education), Swawlamban (Self-reliance) & Sahitya (Literature) gave a new direction and impetus to the Jain community towards a holistic development.
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Many notes of this last category are not only extremely fine in themselves, but have the ability to produce a kind of resonant and magnetic vibration, which, through some still unexplained combination of physical phenomena, exercises an instantaneous and hypnotic effect upon the soul of the spectator. :This leads to the consideration of one of the most uncommon features of Madame Pasta's voice: it is not all moulded from the same metallo, as it is said in Italy (which is to say that it possesses more than one timbre); and this fundamental variety of tone produced by a single voice affords one of the richest veins of musical expression which the artistry of a great cantatrice is able to exploit.Pleasants 1961, p. 374 In 1829 named cantante delle passioni by Carlo Ritorni, one of the most erudite critics of the period, he described her as such because her voice was directed "towards expressing the most intense passions, accompanying it with expressions of physical action, unknown before her in the lyric theatre".
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In 1839 Ficquelmont was recalled to Vienna to assume the duties of the Foreign Office during the absence of Prince Metternich. In 1840 he was appointed Minister of the State and Conferences and staff chief of the Imperial Army. Ficquelmont was not only Prince Metternich's right-hand man but officially the second most senior statesmen of the Empire, "Count de Ficquelmont stands just behind or next to Prince Metternich (..) Every conference start with count de Ficquelmont and end with Prince Metternich".« M. le comte de Ficquelmont trouve sa place au-dessous ou à côté du prince de Metternich (...) C'est avec M. de Ficquelmont que commencent toutes les conférences ; c'est avec M. de Metternich qu'elles se finissent » Back in Vienna, the Ficquelmonts were some of the most prominent social figures of the Imperial court, "Count de Ficquelmont's salon is the most sophisticated, the most erudite, the most mindful, and the most beloved of Vienna".« Le salon de M. le comte de Ficquelmont est le plus raffiné, le plus érudit, le plus instruit, le plus aimé de Vienne » In 1841, Ficquelmont's daughter, countess Elizabeth Alexandrine, married Prince Edmund von Clary-und-Aldringen, heir to one of the Empire's most prominent princely family.
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