Sahl, a Zoroastrian of great influence, who in 806 had adopted Islam, reanimated his courage, and pointed out to him that certain death awaited him at Bagdad.
Among them were Ashnas, Itakh, Wasif, Sima, all of whom later became men of great influence.
He also set up societies, in accordance with the recommendations in Josiah Wedgwood's little book on the subject; and these exercised a great influence on the religious life of the people.
Nevertheless, they already exercise a great influence in its councils; and they arrive at the government of the commonwealth before they have learnt to govern themselves.
These circumstances exercise a great influence on the estimation in which human actions are held in the two hemispheres.
Phoenicia is another country which exercised a great influence on the civilization and commerce of the ancient world, though its history does not go back to the extreme antiquity of the early dynasties of Egypt and of Chaldaea.
The stream had a great influence on my whole life, by giving me a taste for the beauty of wild streams in Scotland and elsewhere.
This first experience of lake scenery was an enchantment, and it had a great influence on my future life by giving me a passion for lakes, or by increasing the passion that (in some inexplicable way) I had felt for them from childhood.
Francois Xavier de Feller belonged to this period, and in the opinion of Gerlache, the historian of the Netherlands, "he exerted a great influence on the Belgian Congress of 1790.
Indeed, Cardinal Castelli, whose learning and piety gave him great influence in the Sacred College, was strongly opposed to him.
His education was partly at the grammar school of that town, and partly at the Lycee Charlemagne, where he made friends with Gerard de Nerval, who was destined to have a great influenceon his life.
He had a great influence both on men and on books in France, and his literary work is extremely remarkable.
Few French writers have exercised such a great influence in so many directions, and it became specially marked after her death; while living, the gossip against her salon prevented her opinions from being accepted or taking root.
La Fayette exercised a great influence upon La Rochefoucauld--an influence that was wholesome in every way.
It is usually said that political affairs and such matters as Religion are to be taken into consideration because they have exercised a great influence on the Philosophy of the time, and similarly it exerts an influence upon them.
But when people are content with such a category as “great influence” they place the two in an external relationship, and start from the point of view that both sides are for themselves independent.
He did not live apart, like Heraclitus, but in the exercise of great influence on the affairs of the town of Agrigentum, like Parmenides in Elea.
The stand taken by Hamilton in the provision he proposed and which was adopted for a portion of the domestic debt had a great influence in creating the impression that his funding system had other than fiscal objects in view.
Upon these points the characters and successive conditions of the early emigrants exerted a great influence.
Nevertheless, they already exercise a great influence in its councils; and they arrive at the government of the commonwealth before they have learned to govern themselves.
As before stated, the outline of the frontiers, and the geographical character of the theater of operations, exercise a great influenceon the direction to be given to these lines, as well as upon the advantages to be obtained.
Independently of the general combinations, which exercise a great influence in fixing the point of passage, there is still another consideration, connected with the locality itself.
Whatever system of organization be adopted, it is certain that a numerous cavalry, whether regular or irregular, must have a great influence in giving a turn to the events of a war.
There was another hard old character with whom I became acquainted in those days, and one who, though not a Carlyle, still, like him, exercised in a peculiar way a great influence on English literature.
But that this reason can have no great influence, is evident.
This is carrying the matter too far; but still it must be owned, that the opinion of right to property has a great influence in this subject.
Both through these university imitations and directly, Seneca's very faulty plays continued for many years to exercise a great influence on English tragedy.
Morris' main occupation to the end of his life, and has exercised a great influence, both in England and elsewhere, on the beautifying of the surroundings of domestic life.
Ruskin, now arriving at fame and influence, wrote vigorously in their favor, and though the Brotherhood did not last long as an organization, it has exerted a great influence on subsequent painting.
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