How To Use Alexandria In A Sentence

Who is willing to believe that Alexandria is exactly 5000 stadia from Syene, whatever the value of the stadium?
The Alexandrian Pleiad is the name given to a group of seven Alexandrian poets and tragedians in the 3rd century B.C.
She recently wrapped up a prestigious year-long stint clerking for Judge Leonie M. Brinkema at the federal court in Alexandria -- but, no, said she couldn't discuss any of the cases she worked on. Cate Edwards lands first law firm job, joins the ranks of Washington lawyers
Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan told Turkey's CNBC-e television channel that Ankara would on Thursday begin to truck goods across Iraq and ship them by sea from the southern port of Mersin to Alexandria, Egypt, avoiding Syria. Tension Rises at Turkey-Syria Border
Charged they were that they worshipped an ass's head; which impious folly -- first fastened on the Jews by Tacitus, Hist., lib.v. cap. 1, in these words, "Effigiem animalis, quo monstrante errorem sitimque depulerant, penetrali sacravere" (having before set out a feigned direction received by a company of asses), which he had borrowed from Apion, a railing Egyptian of Alexandria [224] -- was so ingrafted in their minds that no defensative could be allowed. The Sermons of John Owen

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A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
The Catechetical School of Alexandria was originated in Egypt. Egypt is the birthplace of Christian monasticism, also has experienced in the Christianity history the most serious persecution.
She moved on the perform for the lower and middle classes in larger towns and cities such as Tanta, Alexandria and Cairo. WN.com - Articles related to ETHIOPIA-KENYA: Dam "busters" say Gibe 3 puts thousands at risk
With great joy I received the announcement of Your Beatitude's election to the Patriarchal See of Alexandria for Copts and your request for Ecclesiastical Communion.
Thus animals could be seen as the embodiments of evil, like the asp of Macarius of Alexandria.
Eskendereya also is defined as a flirty Alexandrian dance with a heavy veil, according to a bellydance glossary of Middle Eastern dance teminologies. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
However the Roman prefect of Alexandria was Orestes and Cyril and Orestes became bitter political rivals as church and state fought for control.
Although tsunamigenic earthquakes in the Mediterranean are smaller than the biggest ones around the Pacific rim, Magnitude 8 events have been recorded, such as the 1303 Crete quake whose tsunami devastated Heraklion and Alexandria. BBC News - Home
In fact, they were converted by the Coptic Orthodox Church, home of Nestorius' most determined opponent, St. Cyril of Alexandria. Summorum Pontificum and the Orthodox
In the miniatures of an Alexandrian "Chronicle of the World", written probably during the fifth century we already find pictorial representation of the omophorion. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
From Madrid via Alexandria en route to the city of Antwerp, the current stopover is New Delhi.
Silverberg delights with travelogues to Alexandria, Mohenjo-Daro, and a futuristic New Chicago, all of which were absolutely delightful and worthwhile in themselves. Archive 2009-10-01
Instead of her normal southward course towards Alexandria and home, she headed west.
So far, I've seen two botanica voodoo shops in Alexandria and Arlington. Archive 2009-07-01
On landing at Alexandria, we were hurried on board a large mast-less canal boat, shaped like a Nile dahabeah. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
Then ships bearing news might reach Alexandria by the dozen -- that is, the greybeard added with a defiant glance at the daintily clad city gentleman -- if they were allowed to pass the Pharos or go through the Poseidon basin into the Eunostus. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
Ms. Moore, who was often seen walking her shorthaired pointer through the streets of Alexandria, remained active until the final week of her life, when she catered a large event in Alabama. Mary Moore, caterer to Supreme Court and Old Town, dies at 62
The city was famed for the production of frankincense which in those days was a treasure that commanded a huge price on the open markets of Alexandria, Jerusalem and Damascus.
Observer Vivan Riefberg of Alexandria called 911 using a cellular phone.
However she assisted her father Theon of Alexandria in writing his eleven part commentary on Ptolemy's Almagest.
The above-water section would be feature sail-shaped structures that would complement the architecture of the harbor and have the city's Corniche seabank in the backdrop, with the splendid Alexandria Library on the other end of the bay, he said. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
Page 7 for two or three days without any further attention to the wound, and the result was the flies "blowed" the amputated limb, and when I reached Alexandria City, some days later, the nurse who dressed the wound found that I was being eat up by the vermin. A soldier's story : prison life and other incidents in the war of 1861-'65,
Roy is in a deep state of depression and starts to tell Alexandria an epic story in order to get her to do things for him, namely steal morphine from the hospital pharmacy. Ken's Review: The Fall - Much More Than Eye Candy « FirstShowing.net
A fragment, long ago figured by Semper, showing a classical design of a nereid on a sea-horse, is so like the designs found on many ivories discovered in Egypt that we may probably assign it to Alexandria. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
The Argentine grape has been shown genetically to be a hybrid of the muscat of Alexandria and the criolla, or mission, as it's known in English. NYT > Home Page
By dallying with her at Alexandria, he risked losing what he had just won at Pharsalus.
Ptolemy [Claudio Ptolomeo Alexandrino] "To Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria, for his precise measurement of the stars, and because he imposed lines on the [E] arth, for his observations and everlasting toil Federico gave this. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
Such crimes would have deserved the animadversion of the magistrate; but in this promiscuous outrage, the innocent were confounded with the guilty, and Alexandria was impoverished by the loss of a wealthy and industrious colony.
Young (a local schoolteacher who was recently named the Poet Laureate of Alexandria) that treat each letter of the alphabet to playful and urbane snatches of verse (reminiscent of Ogden Nash at his airiest), and video projections designed by Wendall K. Harrington. In performance: 21st Century Consort
She was no different, an icon of gold, camouflaged against the beige and sepia surroundings of Alexandria.
More "underground" Pagan priests are discovered, arrested, burlesqued, tortured and executed in Alexandria, Egypt. The Church-State Alliance and the future of humanity
And anyway, we know that the Alexandrian editors consulted rhapsodes on matters of pronunciation, so they may well have consulted rhapsodes on the issue of the division.
When an American-flag-waving delegation of their Alexandria hosts, Tenants and Workers United, briefly marches in a lane of traffic, blocking cars, the trekkers stick law-abidingly to the sidewalk. Trail of Dream students walk 1,500 miles to bring immigration message to Washington
I entered the United Methodist Church on the far east side of Alexandria.
With every second word unprintable, McCrimmon anathematized the world in general and Alexandria in particular for five full minutes without repeating himself once. The Lonely Sea
Regarding his importance for the history of cartography, he is compared to Ptolemy, the ancient scholar from Alexandria in Egypt.
This "unspeakable word" of the Sages of the school of Alexandria, this word, which the Hebrew Kabalists wrote יהוה [IHUH], and translated by אראריהא, [ARARITA,] so expressing the threefoldness of the Secondary Principle, the dualism of the middle ones, and the Unity as well of the first Principle as of the end; and also the junction of the number 3 with the number 4 in a word composed of four letters, but formed of seven by one triplicate and two repeated, -- this word is pronounced _Ararita_. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Alexandria is brought to life, with its classical streets and intellectual ferment. The Times Literary Supplement
I live in Alexandria, but I'm here every weekend to de-stress; only here do I feel I can breathe.
The National Democratic Institute, which said its offices in Cairo, Alexandria and the Upper Egyptian city of Assiut were raided, says it provides voter education and training in civil-society development and has provided political-party training to members of 49 of Egypt's nearly 60 political parties. Egyptian Raids on U.S. Groups Draw Ire
The tragedy is a Roman play characterized by swift, panoramic shifts in geographical locations and in registers, alternating between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and the more pragmatic, austere Rome. Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
Alexandrian theology is generally Platonistic and spiritualistic and it sees the soul as the center of human existence.
This conception of Christ is technically called Arianism, from the Alexandrian presbyter of the fourth century who first brought it into prominence. Unitarianism in America
With only eight marines, a Navy midshipman, and 100 mercenaries, Eaton left Alexandria, Egypt, to restore Hamet Karamanli to the throne of Tripoli and overthrow his usurper brother.
They appeared inside a cage in the Alexandria courtroom yesterday dressed in white and holding red roses. Times, Sunday Times
Heron of Alexandria described the screw in Mechanica in the first century A.D., and archeologists have unearthed threaded bolts at early Roman sites.
At age 36, Leyva found herself pregnant with what she calls her "blessed surprise," daughter Alexandria. NPR Topics: News
Founded by Alexander the Great, Alexandria was Egypt's capital until the 7th century. A Tale of Two Alexandrias
[113] The commander of the faithful rejected with firmness the idea of pillage, and directed his lieutenant to reserve the wealth and revenue of Alexandria for the public service and the propagation of the faith: the inhabitants were numbered; a tribute was imposed, the zeal and resentment of the Jacobites were curbed, and the Melchites who submitted to the Arabian yoke were indulged in the obscure but tranquil exercise of their worship. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
The statement of Clement of Alexandria at an earlier date is open to no ambiguity. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
I will not name the sum which he offered, the ghoul, the vampire, the anthropophagous jackal, the sneaking would-be incendiary of my little Alexandrian, the circumcised Goth! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
I've decided to send you both through Africa, starting with Alexandria, Egypt.
One of the protest groups, known as April 6, said a notorious police commander in Alexandria, known as the "flogger of the activists," had been promoted to a top security position in the city. Egyptians rally, demand trials for police shooters
Anyone recognizing the suspect or with any other information about this robbery is asked to call the Criminal Investigations Section of the Alexandria Police Department at (703) 838-4444 or the Crime Solvers tip line at (703) 838-4858. Alexandria bank robbery suspect sought
Alexandria's population was cosmopolitan, but mainly Greek.
Then returning to Alexandria he made his way to Ethiopia to see the gymnosophists and the famous table of the sun spread in the sands of the desert.
The ancientest Fathers must be next removed, as Clement of Alexandria, and that Eusebian book of evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the Gospel. Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: Paras 1-19
Around 120 BC, Ptolemaic Egypt pioneered coastal and then, once the seasonal wind patterns were mastered, open-ocean sea routes to India, making Alexandria a key entrepôt for the eastern trade with the Mediterranean.
In fact, here's what two African American residents wrote to a Boston abolitionist not long after the day in 1846 when Alexandrians (white, male) voted to approve the return of their city to Virginia, an act called retrocession: "[The] poor colored people of this city ... were standing in rows on either side of the Court House, and, as the votes were announced every quarter of an hour, the suppressed wailings and lamentations of the people of color were constantly ascending to God for help and succor, in this the hour of their need. The slave trade and Alexandria's withdrawal from D.C.
The only evidence left is a fragment found in a letter from Clement of Alexandria to a young monk in Corinth. 08/21/2005 - 08/28/2005
The last and the best section is that of Modern Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, and Alexandrian Greek and Persian literatures.
In Alexandrian courtrooms a defendant was permitted to speak for a certain regulated time.
With toasts for a pleasant voyage and prayers for a sure and swift recovery, he was bidden farewell shortly before the vendue at Alexandria. Washington
It was a granary for Rome, and its capital, Alexandria, became the world's chief commercial centre, when the sea route to India was opened in about 106 AD.
From these four types -- of Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, and the so-called Gallican Rite -- all liturgies still used are derived. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
As long as we're upping the stakes here, I sure wish somebody would return the Library of Alexandria that I loaned out, along with the complete works of Archilochus and Sappho. Making Light: Universal Lending Library Amnesty Thread
Being mathematicians, they elected to name their firstborn after someone called Hypatia of Alexandria, a Neoplatonist philosopher who met a sticky end when, presumably having pissed off the wrong people the Antiplatonists? she was stripped naked and flayed with oyster shells before being burned alive. Confetti Confidential
At least 250 more people were reported to have been arrested on Nov. 14 and 15 in the coastal city of Alexandria.
A further compilation of ancient texts concerning astrology, magic and alchemy was the Hermetica, written in Alexandria around 100 AD.
Bophoria Athenia eonstitait in memo» riam traditae sibi disoiplinae agrestis, cajas festi ritum, nempe calathi pom - pam, nnmas IIL proponit« Calatham so - lom, refertam frogibus, positumque in - ter dnos serpentes dadochos jam Tidimas aopra in numis Luriae i qao loco monaif eo tjpo indicari Thesmophoria ab al* tero Ptolemaeo Atheniensiom exemplo Alexandriae constitota, atqoe is non in Li? iae modo nnmis citatis, sed et inse - quentiom imperatomm perfreqoens tj* pus. Doctrina numorum veterum
Our story ends in faded downtowns across America, bleak landscapes littered with shuttered fleapit theaters bearing names such as the Alexandria, the Luxor, the Isis, and the Nile. Watch Like an Egyptian
Instead of her normal southward course towards Alexandria and home,(Sentencedict) she headed west.
In my 3rd year, a group of four of us were sent on a clerkship to Alexandria.
Demonstrations were held in Alexandria on the north coast, Ismailia and cities in the Nile Delta such as Tanta, Mansoura and Mahalla el-Kubra. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
The disappearance of the library was a loss to Alexandria's eminence.
The Arian controversy was a Christological dispute that began in Alexandria between the followers of Arius, the Arians; the followers of St. Alexander of Alexandria, known as homoousians; and a third group, known as homoiousians.
It sounds like a very magnanimous thing for Google to do - to build a virtual library of Alexandria, but there is a solid business reason as well.
Isaiah had heard people mention a man named General Glalaxien back in Alexandria, but he had only heard negative things about the man.
The notes that the artist has provided beside the five pictures she has chosen — Mantegna ' s " Introduction of the Cult of Cybele to Rome " and Raphael ' s " Saint Catherine of Alexandria, " both painted in the first decade of the 16th century, and three studies by the pointilliste Seurat for his painting " The Bathers at Asni è res " — provide an excellent account of what to notice about their composition. The Beauty of Geometry
NDI President Kenneth Wollack said in a statement that its offices in Cairo, Alexandria and Assiut were raided. Syria, Egypt and Middle East unrest - Thursday 29 December 2011
The walls of the Alexandria seraglio apparently carry large portraits of himself to the total of his ladies.
I watched as Alexandria pumped three bullets into Rafael's chest, and I saw him go down.
Origen is influenced by Philo Judaeus, through the intermediary Clement of Alexandria, and this Alex - andrian tradition, which would show parallels in the development of Hellenistic allegory, suggests that major allegory requires a belief in miracles and epiphe - nomena, at least on a verbal level. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
The above-water section would feature sail-shaped structures that would complement the architecture of the harbor and have the city's corniche seabank in the backdrop, with the splendid Alexandria Library on the other end of the bay, Darwish said. LJWorld.com stories: News
Caesar receives Antony's schoolmaster, sent with terms for peace: continuing queenship for Cleopatra, and a private life in either Alexandria or Athens for Antony.
Among the canons of Nicæa (325) that do not specifically deal with the ordinary ecclesiastical provinces, canons 6 and 7 confirm the rights accorded by immemorial custom to certain great Churches, such as Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and the other eparchies. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
The book of Enoch is quoted by Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, &c. Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, brought home three copies of it in Ethiopic, from Alexandria, of which Archbishop Lawrence, in 1821, gave an English translation. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The former president also denied corruption allegations, seeking to explain why a bank account in his name held millions of dollars in foreign donations intended for the construction and upkeep of a massive library in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Mubarak denies responsibility for deaths
200, Clement of Alexandria reported that certain Egyptian theologians "over curiously" assign, not the year alone, but the day of Christ's birth, placing it on 25 Pachon 20 May in the twenty-eighth year of Augustus, though they did this believing that the ninth month, in which Christ was born, was the ninth of their own calendar. Archive 2005-12-01
Her suffering reflects contemporary physiological theories, and his death from snakebite is a very typical mixture of Alexandrian medicine and myth.
The Catechetical School of Alexandria was originated in Egypt. Egypt is the birthplace of Christian monasticism, also has experienced in the Christianity history the most serious persecution.
Another performance that Kavita holds close to her heart was at the inauguration of the restored Bibliotheca Alexandria.
Little of Alexandria could be seen except the sea front and the southern and eastern portions which the railway skirted in its way out between the large shallow lakes, Mariut and Abukir, into the The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula
In Alexandria, Egypt, one of the first Greek anatomists to publicly dissect human cadavers, Herophilus of Chalcedon, determines that arteries are thicker than veins and carry blood.
The freighter had sailed from the Syrian port of Latakia and stopped in Mersin, Turkey, before heading toward Alexandria in Egypt, the military said. Israel Seizes Ship Carrying Arms
Already, Sen. Patricia S. Ticer D-Alexandria who has served in the state Senate since 1996, announced that she will retire from the Senate when her term ends this year. Pollard will not seek reelection in the House of Delegates
Since Mary Lang Muir was a highly skilled needleworker, she may well have instructed her daughter and several other young girls in pictorial sampler work and been responsible for the Alexandria architectural sampler group.
After his father's death he was sent to study rhetoric at Alexandria, being yet a catechumen , as it was the custom in Pisidia to delay baptism until a beard should appear.
That's a key advantage over Muscat of Alexandria, which has to be mechanically deseeded - resulting in sticky, damaged raisins.
Even from the island they could perceive that everything known as festal pleasure was rife in Alexandria, and bore along in its mad revelry the court and the citizens. Cleopatra — Volume 08
But walk those extra blocks and through the sterile lobby of the Alexandria Centre and you will find yourself picking among bar snacks that include salt cod croquettes ($8), a raw bar with steak and sea urchin tartare ($14) and charcuterie such as the famed Spanish Iberico Pata Negra ($11). 'Top Chef' Judge Enters Kips Bay
Dr. Westcott conveys the information contained in the single sentence of Clement of Alexandria, [Greek: kathaper ho Basileidês kan Glaukian epigraphêtai didaskalon, hôs auchousin autoi, ton Petrou hermênea], [19: 1] in the following words; and I quote the statement exactly as it has stood in my text from the very first, in order to show the inverted commas upon which Dr. Lightfoot lays so much stress as having been removed. A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays
When Homer said something that would better have been left unsaid, one option for the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria was simply to athetize it - to declare it spurious on the ground that Homer could not have said such a thing.
Throughout Friday, flames rose in cities across Egypt, including Alexandria, Suez, Assiut and Port Said, and security officials said there were protests in 11 of the country's 28 provinces. Protests resume hours after Mubarak address
The many-times written history of the application of steam, from the time of the eolipile of Hero of Alexandria to the heroic period of Newcomen and Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English
Aegineta, and for that matter in certain Egyptian papyri (especially a certain very famous one, still extant, of which Clement of Alexandria speaks as a secret or 'hermetic' book), we can trace the broken and scattered stones of a great edifice of ancient chemistry. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
In their heyday, Beirut, Smyrna and Alexandria—with countless antagonisms bubbling near the surface—could come across as fragile museum pieces as much as centers of vibrancy. On the Eastern Shore
Newton and Locke, on the other hand, leant towards the anti-Trinitarian heresy of Arius of Alexandria that denied Christ and God were consubstantial.
The lunar calendar was called Dionysian, because Dionysius Exiguus, in the sixth century, recommended the introduction of the Alexandrian Easter cycle of 19 years and computed it for 95 years in advance. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
Actually he liked all of the men sitting with him in the corner booth of this little restaurant on the waterfront of colonial Alexandria. NIMITZ CLASS
Mary's marking sampler, with six alphabets worked in black in the Quaker block style, names Alexandria as its place of origin.
The trade of Alexandria is very considerable; ships of almost any burthen can ride in the river.
They were exporting as far afield as Alexandria.
Eratosthenes accurately measured the radius of the Earth by determining the minimum angle between the Sun's direction and the vertical at Alexandria on the day of the summer solstice. Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers
Alexandria makes the term signify in Syria, impudent, thieving, wicked. Arabian nights. English
It involved not only building a library, but inviting savants from all over the Greek world to live in Alexandria.
Anyone recognizing the suspect or with any other information about this robbery is asked to call the Criminal Investigations Section of the Alexandria Police Department at 703-838-4444 or the Crime Solvers tip line at 703-838-4858. N.J. man pleads guilty to threats
John Carlyle operated at Alexandria, but Washington needed commissaries where his troops were stationed. George Washington’s First War
We are told by Clement of Alexandria that St. John appointed bishops in Asia, and there is no reason for doubting that episcopacy dates back to this period. The Books of the New Testament
Suetonius (in Claud.c. 25) may seem to offer a proof how strangely the Jews and Christians of Rome were confounded with each other.] 26 See, in the xviiith and xxvth chapters of the Acts of the Apostles, the behavior of Gallio, proconsul of Achaia, and of Festus, procurator of Judea.] 27 In the time of Tertullian and Clemens of Alexandria, the glory of martyrdom was confined to The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Anzac had anchored in the ancient seaport of Alexandria after a surprisingly rough transit through the Mediterranean Sea.
Robyn describes Cairo as wonderful but crazy, although for her it was love at first sight when she saw the Mediterranean port of Alexandria, with its long-sweeping corniches, beautiful beaches and history.
Zosimus, sir, Zosimus of Panopolis, was a learned Greek, who flourished at Alexandria in the third century of the Christian era, and wrote treatises on the spagyric art. The Queen Pedauque
Farouk betook himself to the Ras el-Tin palace by the western harbour in Alexandria, but the coup leaders ordered the captain of his seagoing yacht, the Mahroussa, not to sail without their orders.
Individual schoolmistresses and teachers in the academies and seminaries that proliferated in Alexandria during the antebellum period offered instruction in a wide range of useful and ornamental subjects.
Several other examples of Alexandria needlework from the first quarter of the nineteenth century survive, but in most cases it has not been possible to assign them to specific schools or teachers.
Alexandriae constituisse, inter quorom caerimonias foit etiam solennis calathi processos, de qoo agam ploribos in nu - Doctrina numorum veterum
A native of Myrina in Asia Minor, where his father was a rhetor, he was educated at Alexandria and Constantinople, where he later practised law, a profession about whose conditions he complains in his Histories.
His younger brother-whom the Alexandrians have decided to call Ptolemy the Cyprian-was sent to be regent of Cyprus. Fortune's Favorites
Irene wasn't a fluke and we are due for worse," said hurricane scholar Richard Schwartz in Alexandria, Va., author of "Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States" who has analyzed hurricanes dating back to the 1600s. Northern Landfall Puts Storm on Map
They were vended by the Jews at Rome and Alexandria, and are at the present day sold in Asia. A Philosophical Dictionary
Nowhere was there such a fusion of Greek, Jewish, and Oriental peculiarities, and an intelligent Jew educated in that city could hardly fail to manifest all these elements in his mental character. eloquent -- turning his Alexandrian culture to high account. and mighty in the scriptures -- his eloquence enabling him to express clearly and enforce skilfully what, as a Jew, he had gathered from a diligent study of the Old Testament Scriptures. came to Ephesus -- on what errand is not known. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
We entrained at the camp & came on to Alexandria & thence to the boat.
Every inch is taken up with merchandise, and browsing the corridors and grottos can feel like a spelunk into a colorful cave or an archaeological dig through the lost library of Alexandria. The best book store in the known universe « The Retort
Again Alexandria laughed at his young ways, but still was taken aback at the beautiful regality she saw in the golden-haired youth.
Lipsius saith of himself, that he was [786] humani generis quidem paedagogus voce et stylo, a grand signior, a master, a tutor of us all, and for thirteen years he brags how he sowed wisdom in the Low Countries, as Ammonius the philosopher sometimes did in Alexandria, [787] cum humanitate literas et sapientiam cum prudentia: antistes sapientiae, he shall be Sapientum Octavus. Anatomy of Melancholy
We went out by Gibraltar, flew to Cairo, to Abukir, near Alexandria, where we had a major overhaul. The Japanese Ceylon Attack
He did, however, once refer complimentarily to a maiden lady — a certain Saint Apollonia who leaped into a fire prepared for her by the heathen Alexandrians. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Internally, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church won the right to appoint their own Abuna, rather than have the Abuna always be an Egyptian Copt appointed by the Patriarch of Alexandria.
Eratosthenes of Alexandria used stick shadows to measure its size to within 95 percent accuracy of today's accepted value. Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers
The former, a patriarch of Alexandria, could be hardly suspected of partiality to the enemies of Christianity.
Palermino, a folk artist from Alexandria, Va., has sold limited editions and notecards featuring her work for 15 years but is new to licensing.
But for the use of arche in the sense and with the force which we here demand for it, as "principium," not "initium" (though these Latin words do not adequately reproduce the distinction), compare the Gospel of Nicodemus, c. 25, in which Hades addresses Satan as he tou thanatou arche kai rhiza tes hamartias; and further, Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 15): ho Theos estin panton aitia kai arche; and again, Clement of Alexandria (Strom.iv. 25): ho Theos de anarchos, arche ton holon panteles. Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
UKOK - Cathy Of Alexandria calls it "prickly" - but yes, I think I'm getting grumpy too. The roar of the crowd...
Alexandria, the site of Tuesday's arrests, is a Brotherhood stronghold likely to have one of the most heated races. Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Opposition Group, Jailed Before Election
We invented the omission of punctuation and capital letters, stanzas in the shape of a dove from the libraries of Alexandria. June « 2009 « Sentence first
Below, a group of girls wearing the khimar, a more conservative form of veiled covering, along Alexandria's waterfront. A Tale of Two Alexandrias
One epigram speaks obscurely of the destruction of the idols of Alexandria by the Christian populace in the archiepiscopate of Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
By fknvty, March 27, 2010 @ 8:41 pm get thee awl to greville st, the station hotel alas tuesday night is parma night give ‘em my regards. you might have to venture further afield for some decent pub rock and a few leg openers tho’, like even the iron duke in alexandria has gone fkn all touchy feely with lesbian lounge w/- a touch of techno house. pz.v. Cheeseburger Gothic » Melbourne gig.
Julius Africanus lived at Emmaus and composed a chronography, out of which the episcopal lists of Rome, Alexandria, and Antioch, and a great deal of other matter, have been preserved for us in St. Jerome's version of the Chronicle of Eusebius, and in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Call it bullshit, call it bologna, call it mind trickery or group hysteria, just don't call me crying when a freezing cold vapor-mist tries to push you out of a fourth story window in the Alexandria Hotel. The 12 Scariest Haunted Places In Los Angeles
Alexandria City officials are poised to replace Old Town's more than 1,000 coin operated, single-space meters with 125 multi-space, credit card capable parking meters, The Washington Examiner reports. Alexandria meters may take credit cards
A hundred years later the Eastern Emperor Flavius Phocas Augustus, his own realm crumbling, elevated Boniface III, the patriarch of Rome, to a position of primacy over the other major bishops of the Christian world—those in Antioch, Alexandria, and Constantinople—and bestowed on him the title Vicar of Christ, or Pope. The Great Experiment
With its rich, fruity, muscat-flavor, this grape provides an important alternative to Muscat of Alexandria, the muscat most commonly used to make dessert wines or confections such as chocolate-covered raisins.
A sumptuous domed Byzantine basilica, an imaginative recreation of St Mark's Alexandrian church, dominates the backdrop.
This work is a literary _causerie_ inspired in part by the reading of Alexandrian criticism, but in larger part by experience. Horace and His Influence
Alexandria, built over the grave a place of visitation and endowed it with mortmain writing over the door these couplets, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
From there the scenes jump between the guys in a beach house in Alexandria and their female counterparts back in Cairo.
While the technical distinction between the latria due to God and the dulia permissible to the saints was only beginning to emerge in the patristic epoch, the consistent teaching of the Church, voiced as much by Polycarps devotees as by theologians like Augustine and Cyril of Alexandria, was that while the saints and martyrs deserved honor and devotion, only God could be worshiped.
He travelled to Alexandria to oversee the construction of a practical water supply and to determine the size and nature of the local populus.
President Gamul Abdel Nasser had dissolved the organization after a failed coup attempt in Alexandria in which he claimed it was involved.
A fleet of thirteen ships and over 36,000 troops set forth for Alexandria, at the mouth of the Nile, in June 1798, conquering Malta on the way.
Cowboy boots and hats might be unusual in haughty Charlottesville or super-snobby Alexandria, but not so odd in many other parts of the state. Waldo Jaquith - Mike Shear on Allen’s cowboy schtick.
Venice had placed an embargo on Bosphorus trade and was hesitant even over her Alexandria fleet.
This was the state of the _Apocalypse_, till the thousand years being misunderstood, brought a prejudice against it: and _Dionysius_ of _Alexandria_, noting how it abounded with barbarisms, that is with Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John
While the Moscato grape is grown all over the world (i.e., Chile, Argentina, Australia, California, Spain and Italy) and goes by a variety of names and clones (from the fine Moscato Bianco to the plebeian Muscat of Alexandria) the Piedmontese version, Moscato d'Asti—a sweet, soft, low-alcohol, lightly sparkling (frizzante) wine with delicate notes of peach and apricot—is probably the most famous. Why You'll Be Drinking Moscato This Year
The name Hypatia comes from ancient Greece, Hypatia of Alexandria born between AD 350 and Out-Loud Brainwaves
What sustains them is the thought that when they get to Alexandria they will have an ice-cold beer. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of her normal southward course towards Alexandria and home, she headed west.
Judging from the tragic footage that has come out of Tahrir Square and Alexandria, and the horror stories leaking out of jail cells, Mr. Mubarak may, in fact, protract his rule for weeks or even months. Mubarak's Interests Are Not America's
The commander of the faithful rejected with firmness the idea of pillage, and directed his lieutenant to reserve the wealth and revenue of Alexandria for the public service and the propagation of the faith: the inhabitants were numbered; a tribute was imposed, the zeal and resentment of the Jacobites were curbed, and the Melchites who submitted to the Arabian yoke were indulged in the obscure but tranquil exercise of their worship. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
Piscean cities include Seville, Warsaw, Alexandria and Jerusalem. Yvonne Yorke: Choose Your Next Vacation Spot by Astrology?
Christians there worshipped in Greek and were subject to the patriarch of Alexandria.
Clement of Alexandria was acquainted with the pseudograph. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Priests, who advance their Standard, and make their publike predications against our wives, winning such advantage over them, that they can pardon them both of the sinne and punnishment, whensoever they are once subjected unto theyr perswasions, even as if they brought the Soldane bound and captived, from Alexandria to The Decameron
The contents of the New Testament were formalized by Athanasius of Alexandria in 367 CE, and finally canonized in 382 CE.
I turned the car off and unbuckled my seat belt, also watching Alexandria struggle with her own.
Barbara Jean Bosworth, an Alexandria woman who apparently had been abducted from the Springfield shopping mall and forced into her own car by robbers was killed yesterday in Prince William County when the car crashed as the robbers fled from pursuers, authorities said. Matthew Yglesias » Rich Lawyers Boosting Traffic Jams and Calling It Charity
Alexandria is brought to life, with its classical streets and intellectual ferment. The Times Literary Supplement
And when the emperor saw that in no manner he could resist her wisdom, he sent secretly by letters for all the great grammarians and rhetoricians that they should come hastily to his pretorium to Alexandria, and he should give to them great gifts if they might surmount a maiden well bespoken. The Golden Legend, vol. 7

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