Alexandria, by a learned compiler and inventor named Hero.
He left the papers; but neither Marcy nor his successors ever found time to examine that tenth volume, though on the first day of every official year the compiler called their attention to it.
The compiler has shown rare judgment in the performance of his task, he justly says that the treatment of this subject has not been confined to the great poets.
The various young heroes described represent in their characters some particular quality which entitles them to be classed under the title which the compiler has given the book.
For this reason the compiler has added only the necessary explanatory notes, and (on the advice of professional friends) the remarks introductory to the various subdivisions of the book.
Attention must be directed to two matters in particular: after considerable reflection the compiler decided to include in the collection a few quotations which Beethoven copied from books which he read.
It had always been thought the most likely one, of the set to be authentic; the compiler has therefore, used it without hesitation.
Phaer was more of a literary compiler than a physician with original knowlege of diseases and their pathology.
The only way we can account for such strange conduct is that the compiler or editor in question had two different myths or stories before him, and he wished to use them both.
One editor or compiler of the Gospel describes Jesus as an ascetic and a mendicant, wandering from place to place, without a roof over his head, and crawling at eventide into his cave in the Mount of Olives.
As the compiler gives over six thousand proverbs, we may regard the book as a fairly adequate one.
A collection of proverbs was presented by its compiler to Queen Elizabeth, with the declaration that it contained every proverb in the English language.
He was a son of Mr. John Hill, the compiler of the once popular "Norwich Tune Book," and was largely identified with musical matters in Norwich and Norfolk.
It would, however, have been very easy for the compiler to have imitated Monstrelet in this point, for the greater part of these pieces are reported by the chronicler of St Denis, whom he often quotes in his first fifty pages.
Daniel Wallace Culp, compiler and editor of this book, was born about forty-seven years ago, of slave parents, four miles from Union Court House in South Carolina.
Says the compiler of the eleventh census: "Of juvenile criminals the smallest ratio is found among Negroes.
Malachi, they came to the compiler of the "book" of the Twelve Prophets anonymously, and he simply attached them at the point which his collection had reached (i.
From historical allusions in the book of Nehemiah, it may be inferred that the compiler wrote at about 300 B.
Hobbes argues in the case of the Pentateuch that two authors are distinguishable--Moses and a much later compiler and editor.
A single compileris not likely to have introduced double recensions of one and the same psalm (as Ps.
The following are examples of the standing formulae used by the compiler for the purpose:--"In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah.
The compiler is strongly imbued with the spirit of Deuteronomy; and the object of his comments is partly to exhibit the chronology of the period as he conceived it, partly to state his theory of the religious history of the time.
The Books of Kings are a compilation made at about the beginning of the Exile, and one object of the compiler was to give a consecutive and complete chronology of the period embraced in his work.
The compiler dedicated it to Mr. James Lenox, from whose rich collection he derived much help.
This doubt was soon afterwards changed into a proposition, strenuously maintained by the supposed compiler of these Reports, lord Redesdale, on the claim to the barony of L'Isle in 1829.
Almost every one is a compiler of scraps from the fathers, or from such semi-classical authors as Boethius, Cassiodorus, or Martianus Capella.
In a house of earlier date lived the father of Samuel Rudder, the laborious compiler of the 'History of Gloucestershire' (1779).
He was the compiler of a polyglot dictionary in the Manx, Gaelic, and Erse languages.
A composer or compiler of hymns; one versed in hymnology.
The compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences.
A writer or compiler of, or a commentator on, institutes.
Of all the books mentioned in this list it is the one which the compiler would most strongly recommend to the notice of those anxious to win a firmer intellectual standing-ground.
Of these the second seems to the present compiler the best; being, indeed, more intellectualized and subtle than the first and less mannered and obscure than the final one.
The compiler has placed in this list only one of Dickens' books for a somewhat different reason from that which has influenced him in other cases.
He did not resign his vicarage and rectory until the same time, and he was succeeded in the first by Robert Nares, the compiler of the well-known glossary.
A portrait is given in this book, which represents the compiler as a wild-looking, unkempt, man.
In this, the compiler has had the coöperation of The Riverside Press, and has had frequent occasion to admire the care and knowledge of the corrector and his assistants.
Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography fails to give his first name, nor does any history or cyclopædia of American literature with which the compiler is familiar.
So it has been necessary, in order to keep the thread of history unbroken, to admit some strands anything but silken; and if the choice has sometimes been of ills, rather than of goods, the compiler can only hope that he chose wisely.
These are the two principles which the present compiler has had constantly in mind.
The learned compiler forgot that Dion is relating not a real fact, but a dream of Severus; and dreams are circumscribed to no limits of time or space.
The undistinguishing compiler has buried these interesting anecdotes under a load of trivial unmeaning circumstances.
Footnote 60: Even the credulous compilerof his life, in the Augustan History (p.
It has portraits of the compilerand his wife, and many other illustrations, and is dedicated to a Royal Duke.
But, nevertheless, both are very admirable performances; and yet the compiler survives scarcely more than in an anecdote for which I can see no authority.
The compiler dedicates her book to "The honourable Lady Elizabeth Warburton," in whose service she had been.
If any translation of it has ever been made, the compileris unable to say where it can be found.
The Byzantine medical scholars were at best compilers, and a typical compiler was Oribasius, body-physician to the Emperor Julian (4th century, A.
A most intelligent group of creatures, some of which the compiler has watched in Yell Sound, close to Mossbank.
Not many years ago the compiler saw traces of the holes the poet had cut in the skirting-boards of the room for their ingress and egress, that they might have ampler room for wandering.
As the first compilerof the Canon, he is considered the fountain of Chinese orthodoxy, and counted as the first patriarch.
He was one of the three leaders of the first synod, and the principal compiler of the original Vinaya books.
The beeping sounds continued to be received by Earth.
There simply couldn't be any, except in the ship where the hydroponic wall-gardens keep it fresh.
