Founders Sentence Examples

founders
  • Founders were advertised for, and records show that Andrew Schalch of Douai was selected.

    17
    10
  • Magnus, and was one of the founders of the Berlin Physical Society.

    9
    5
  • Gregory was one of the founders of the Royal Astronomical Society.

    10
    7
  • He was one of the principal founders of the Philological Seminary established at Heidelberg in 1807.

    1
    0
  • In addition to the Old Testament the Therapeutae had books by the founders of their sect on the allegorical method of interpreting Scripture.

    1
    0
  • He goes so far as to say that "the writings of ancient men, who were the founders of the sect" referred to by Philo, may very well have been the Gospels and Epistles (which were not yet written).

    1
    0
  • He inherited an attachment to scientific discovery, and was one of the founders of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in 1782.

    2
    1
  • The constitution of 1787 was then before the public, and Gallatin, with his dislike of strong government still upon him, threw himself into opposition and became one of the founders of the Anti-Federalist, or, as it was afterwards called, the Republican party.

    1
    0
  • He was active in charity and philanthropic work, being one of the founders of the Shoe-black Brigade.

    1
    0
  • And the question whether the " Armenoid " conquerors of Egypt and founders of the kingdoms there, who came from Syria, were Semites still remains unanswered.

    1
    0
    Advertisement
  • In 1825 he was one of the founders of the National Academy of Design, and was its first president, from 1826 until 1845.

    1
    0
  • Smith, one of the founders of the Linnaean Society, and after his death was purchased by the society.

    2
    1
  • Here are tombs of several rulers and princes of Saxony, including those of Albert and Ernest, the founders of the two existing branches of the Saxon house.

    1
    0
  • His tastes were scholarly, and he was one of the founders of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

    1
    0
  • The Bohemian brethren, whose intellectual originator was Peter Chelcicky, but whose actual founders were Brother Gregory, a nephew of Archbishop Rokycan, and Michael, curate of Zamberk, to a certain extent continued the Taborite traditions, and in the 15th and 16th centuries included most of the strongest opponents of Rome in Bohemia.

    1
    0
    Advertisement
  • By the heiress of the Tonis he left at his death in 1315 a son Earl Thomas, who distinguished himself at Crecy and Poitiers, was marshal of the English host, and, with his brother John, one of the founders of the order of the Garter.

    1
    0
  • The early collectors of natural curiosities were the founders of zoological science, and to this day the naturalisttraveller and his correlative, the museum curator and systematist, play a most important part in the progress of zoology.

    1
    0
  • They called their four original founders apostles and prophets - titles given also in the Key of Truth to the elect one.

    1
    0
  • The same academical influences as surrounded the Dutch and German founders of systems were doubtless partly concerned in leading him to form the plan of a comprehensive system of medicine.

    1
    0
  • Its ancient castle is picturesquely situated on a lofty porphyry rock, and is memorable as the place from which, in 1455, Kunz von Kaufungen carried off the young princes Albert and Ernest, the founders of the present royal and ducal families of Saxony.

    1
    0
    Advertisement
  • In January 1790 he returned to Montpellier, was elected a member of the municipality, was one of the founders of the Jacobin club in that city, and on the flight of Louis XVI.

    1
    0
  • On the left bank of the Reuss, immediately opposite Altdorf, is Attinghausen, where the ruined castle (which belonged to one of the real founders of the Swiss Confederation) now houses the cantonal museum of antiquities.

    1
    0
  • These singers, who, for the most part, belonged to the artisan and trading classes of the German towns, regarded as their masters and the founders of their gild twelve poets of the Middle High German period, among whom were Wolfram von Eschenbach, Konrad von Wurzburg, Reinmar von Zweter and Frauenlob.

    1
    0
  • He was prominent among the founders of Andover Theological Seminary, and was its first professor, occupying the chair of Christian theology from 1808 to 1846, and being professor emeritus until his death in Andover on the 24th of August 1854.

    2
    1
  • Hence the nations of antiquity ascribed to it a divine origin; Brahma in Hindustan, Isis in Egypt, Demeter in Greece, and Ceres in Italy, were its founders.

    0
    0
    Advertisement
  • William Little of Craigmillar, and his brother Clement Little, advocate, along with James Lawson, the colleague and successor of John Knox, may justly be regarded as true founders.

    0
    0
  • The Erasistrateans paved the way for what was in some respects the most important school which Alexandria produced, that known as the empiric, which, though it recognized no master by name, may be considered to have been founded by Philinus of Cos (280 B.C.), a pupil of Herophilus; but Serapion, a great name in antiquity, and Glaucias of Tarentum, who traced the empirical doctrine back to the writings of Hippocrates, are also named among its founders.

    0
    0
  • The tendency of each religion was to quietism, but their separate doctrines were largely influenced by the surroundings of their founders.

    0
    0
  • Heroic honours were at first bestowed upon the founders of a colony or city, and the ancestors of families; if their name was not known, one was adopted from legend.

    0
    0
  • Amongst these the most famous were Goshun (1742-1811), who is sometimes regarded as one of the founders of the school; Sosen (1757-1821), an animal painter of remarkable power, but especially celebrated for pictures of monkey life; ShhO, the younger brother of the last, also an animal painter; ROsetsu (1755-1799), the best landscape painter of his school; Keibun, a younger brother of Goshun, and some later followers of scarcely less fame, notably Hoyen, a pupil of Keibun; Tessan, an adopted son of Sosen; Ippo and YOsai (1788-1878), well known for a remarkable set of volumes, the Zenken kojitsu, containing a long series of portraits of ancient Japanese celebrities.

    0
    0
  • Its founders obtained a measure of official aid, and were able to secure the services of some good artists, among whom may be mentioned Obanawa and Shimauchi.

    0
    0
  • He was a descendant of one of the founders of the New Haven colony, worked as a boy in an uncle's blacksmith shop and on his farm, and in 1797 graduated from Yale, having studied theology under Timothy Dwight.

    0
    0
  • Tarentum (whether or no founded by pre-Dorian Greeks - its founders bore the unexplained name of Partheniae) became a Laconian colony at some unknown date, whence a legend grew up connecting the Partheniae with Sparta, and 707 B.C. was assigned as its traditional date.

    0
    0
  • Graf was one of the chief founders of Old Testament criticism.

    0
    0
  • In 1847 he became one of the founders of the Evangelical Alliance, and from 1849 edited the Christian Instructor (Edinburgh).

    0
    0
  • John and Edmund are also important as the founders of the rival houses of Lancaster and York.

    0
    0
  • To mineralogy he was likewise attracted, and he was one of the founders of the Geological Society of London, 1807, and honorary secretary, 1812-1817.

    0
    0
  • In Italy he formed a friendship with Lorgna, professor of mathematics at Verona, and one of the founders of the Societe' Italiana for the encouragement of the sciences.

    0
    0
  • He was one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Religious Tract Society, and the London Missionary Society, and was secretary to the last-named for several years.

    0
    0
  • In 1793 he supported Grey's motion for a return to the old constitutional system of representation, and so earned the title to be regarded as one of the earliest promoters of the cause of parliamentary reform; and he was one of the founders of the "Society of the Friends of the People."

    0
    0
  • He and Baron Sigismund Kemeny may be considered as the two founders of high-class Magyar journalism.

    0
    0
  • In 1737 he had been appointed postmaster at Philadelphia, and about the same time he organized the first police force and fire company in the colonies; in 1749, after he had written Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania, he and twenty-three other citizens of Philadelphia formed themselves into an association for the purpose of establishing an academy, which was opened in 1751, was chartered in 1753, and eventually became the University of Pennsylvania; in 1727 he organized a debating club, the " Junto," in Philadelphia, and later he was one of the founders of the American Philosophical Society (1743; incorporated 1780); he took the lead in the organization of a militia force, and in the paving of the city streets, improved the method of street lighting, and assisted in the founding of a city hospital (1751); in brief, he gave the impulse to nearly every measure or project for the welfare and prosperity of Philadelphia undertaken in his day.

    0
    0
  • He could not indeed tell Amaziah this, but it is nevertheless true that he was the founder, or one of the founders, of a new type of prophet.

    0
    0
  • On his return to Scotland in 1732 he settled as a practitioner in the parish of Shotts, Lanarkshire, and in1734-1736studied medicine at Edinburgh, where he was one of the founders of the Royal Medical Society.

    0
    0
  • The difficulty was that, according to the principles held by the founders of the churches, the admission to membership of a parent involved a similar status in the case of his children; on the other hand, no adult could be admitted unless the church as a whole was convinced that he was a man of proved Christian character.

    0
    0
  • He was one of the founders of the Annali universali di statistica.

    0
    0
  • His son, John Venn (1759-1813), was one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society, and his grandson, Henry Venn (1796-1873), was honorary secretary of that society from 1841 to 1873.

    0
    0
  • He used his influence for the advancement of science and higher education, and with Victor Duruy was one of the founders of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes.

    0
    0
  • The founders of Megara Hyblaea settled here temporarily, according to Thucydides, in the winter of 729-728 B.C., but it seems to have remained almost if not entirely uninhabited until the Athenians used it as a naval station in their attack on Syracuse early in 414 B.C. A number of tombs were excavated in 1894, containing objects belonging to a transitional stage between the second and third Sicel period, attributable roughly to r000-goo B.C., and with a certain proportion of Mycenean importations.

    0
    0
  • After the death of Friedrich Umbreit (1795-1860), one of the founders of the well-known Studien and Kritiken, he was called in 1861 to succeed him as professor of theology at Heidelberg.

    0
    0
  • Greeley's political activity, first as a Whig, and then as one of the founders of the Republican party, was incessant; but he held few offices.

    0
    0
  • He was one of the founders of the General Theological Seminary, became its professor of pastoral theology in 1821, and as bishop was its governor.

    0
    0
  • These have yielded upwards of 4000 implements, weapons and ornaments of bronze, among which were a large proportion of moulds and founders' materials.

    0
    0
  • In 1843 he became president of the Society of the Rights of Man, of which he had been one of the founders in 1832.

    0
    0
  • He took much interest in natural philosophy, and presented various papers before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of which he was one of the founders and, from 1780 to 1790, the first president.

    0
    0
  • Sabine remarked when awarding him the Rumford medal of the Royal Society in 1872, contains a fundamental principle of spectrum analysis, and though for a number of years it was overlooked it entitles him to rank as one of the founders of spectroscopy.

    0
    0
  • A clear narrative of the work of many of the earlier contributors is found in Founders of Geology, by Sir Archibald Geikie (London, 1897-1905).

    0
    0
  • Another change he introduced even more completely than did the founders of the Friars.

    0
    0
  • Indeed, the honour has been claimed for him of being one of the founders of the modern school of historical research.

    0
    0
  • The Rev. John Campbell, one of the founders of the Bible Society, also travelled in southern Bechuanaland and the adjoining districts in 1812-1814 and 1819-1821, adding considerably to the knowledge of the river systems. About 1817 Mosilikatze, the founder of the Matabele nation, fleeing from the wrath of Chaka, the Zulu king, began his career of conquest, during which he ravaged a great part of Bechuanaland and enrolled large numbers of Bechuana in his armies.

    0
    0
  • In 1540 he was one of the founders of the Academy of the Humid (degli Umidi) afterwards called "della Fiorentina," and later took a prominent part in the establishment of the more famous Accademia della Crusca.

    0
    0
  • Papineau, The Most Insistent Demagogue Of 1837, Must Certainly Be Named Among The Founders, For The Sake Of Speeches Which Came Before Written Works Both In Point Of Time And Popular Esteem.

    0
    0
  • At Confederation Many Eager Followers Began To Take Up The' Work Which The Founders Were Laying Down.

    0
    0
  • The two most famous preachers of Krishna-worship and founders of sects in his honour were Vallabha and Chaitanya, both born towards the close of the 15th century.

    0
    0
  • He was one of the founders of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.

    0
    0
  • The size of churches was not determined by the needs of population but by the piety and wealth of the founders; and the same applies to their number.

    0
    0
  • For three years, it is true, the founders of the "Free Press" went on printing, "not only without selling a single copy, but scarcely being able to get a single copy introduced into Russia"; so that when at last a bookseller bought ten shillings' worth of Baptized Property, the half-sovereign was set aside by the surprised editors in a special place of honour.

    0
    0
  • Though not in existence before the arrival of the Ionians in Asia, its original founders were largely settlers from Phlius and Cleonae.

    0
    0
  • He was also one of the founders of the Physical and Literary Society, afterwards the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

    0
    0
  • Among wellknown natives of the town were Adam Smith, Henry Balnaves of Halhill, the Scottish reformer and lord of session in the time of Queen Mary; George Gillespie, the theologian and a leading member of the Westminster Assembly, and his younger brother Patrick (1617-1675), a friend of Cromwell and principal of Glasgow University; John Ritchie (1778-1870), one of the founders of the Scotsman; General Sir John Oswald (1771-1840), who had a command at San Sebastian and Vittoria.

    0
    0
  • Thus shorn of two chief bodies of supporters, and Presbyterians in England being then comparatively few, the London Missionary Society became in effect a Congregationalist organization, though it has never departed from the broad spirit of its founders.

    0
    0
  • Bellett, who deserve to rank among the founders of the movement.

    0
    0
  • In the better classes of castings it is usually between 0.40 and 0.70%, and in chilled railroad car-wheels it may well be between 0.15 and 0.30%; but skilful founders, confronted with the task of making use of cast iron rich in manganese, have succeeded in making good grey iron castings with even as much as 2.20% of this element.

    0
    0
  • It is a curious coincidence that the sister of each of the three great cenobitical founders, Pachomius, Basil and Benedict, was a nun and ruled a community of nuns according to an adaptation of her brother's rule for monks.

    0
    0
  • Simon Bradstreet (1603-1697), important among the early men of Massachusetts, was one of the founders; and his wife, Anne Dudley Bradstreet (1612-1672), was the first woman versifier of America; the Bradstreet house in North Andover, said to have been built about 1667, is still standing.

    0
    0
  • In front of the temple is a monument which seems to have been the tomb of the founder or founders of the city; so that for a time this must have been the most important temple.

    0
    0
  • Harvey (not Bacon) is the only Englishman he mentions in the dedicatory epistle prefixed to the De corpore, among the founders, before himself, of the new natural philosophy.

    0
    0
  • His experiments and his treatise (written before 1651, published 1663) on the equilibrium of fluids entitle him to rank with Galileo and Stevinus as one of the founders of the science of hydrodynamics.

    0
    0
  • The founders of the school sought to invest their doctrines with the halo of tradition by ascribing them to Pythagoras and Plato, and there is no reason to accuse them of insincerity.

    0
    0
  • His son and grandson were iron founders; the grandson Mordecai (1686-1736) moved to Chester county, Pennsylvania.

    0
    0
  • Alleine was no mere scholar or divine, but a man who associated on equal terms with the founders of the Royal Society.

    0
    0
  • Though never an advanced critic, his article on Daniel in the second edition of Herzog's Realencyklopeidie, his New Commentary on Genesis and the fourth edition of his Isaiah show that as years went on his sympathy with higher criticism increased-so much so indeed that Prof. Cheyne has included him among its founders.

    0
    0
  • He was one of the founders of the Rochdale Literary and Philosophical Society, took a leading part in its debates, and on returning from a holiday journey in the East, gave the society a lecture on his travels.

    0
    0
  • The great saints of Egypt are the imam Ash-Shafii, founder of the persuasion called after him, the sayyid Abmad al-Baidawi, and the sayyid Ibrahim Ed-DesUki, both of whom were founders of orders of dervishes.

    0
    0
  • Settlements were made within the present limits of the township in the latter part of the 17th century by some of the founders of Newark.

    0
    0
  • This group of writers is now claimed by the Norwegians as the founders of a Norwegian literature; but their true place is certainly among the Danes, to whom they primarily appealed.

    0
    0
  • He was one of the founders, in 1805, of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at Philadelphia.

    0
    0
  • Lord Broughton was a partner in Whitbread's brewery, a fellow of the Royal Society, and one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society.

    0
    0
  • Colonel Denison was one of the founders of the "Canada First" party, which did much to shape the national aspirations from 1870 to 1878, and was a consistent supporter of imperial federation and of preferential trade between Great Britain and her colonies.

    0
    0
  • He was one of the founders of the study of " Psychical Research," and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905).

    0
    0
  • He was one of the founders of the Liberal League, and his courageous definiteness of view and intellectual vigour marked him out as Lord Rosebery's chief lieutenant if that statesman should ever return to power.

    0
    0
  • He was one of the founders of the German Nationalverein, and in 1864 he was elected a member of the Hanoverian parliament as a Liberal and an opponent of the government.

    0
    0
  • In 1824 Ann Arbor was settled, laid out as a town, chosen for the county-seat, and named in honour of Mrs Ann Allen and Mrs Ann Rumsey, the wives of two of the founders.

    0
    0
  • He did much for the study of archaeology at Oxford, materially assisted the Hellenic Society and the British School at Athens, and was one of the founders of the British School at Rome.

    0
    0
  • Kosala is also famous as the early home of Buddhism, and of the kindred religion of Jainism, and claims to be the birthplace of the founders of both these faiths.

    0
    0
  • When the lad, who had already taken part in fights with the Matabele and the Zulus, was fourteen his family settled north of the Vaal and were among the founders of the Transvaal state.

    0
    0
  • He was an ardent supporter of the ideas of the Revolution, a member of the Jacobin Club, and one of the founders of the club of the Cordeliers.

    0
    0
  • In 1884, also, he was one of the founders of the American Historical Association, of which he was secretary until 1900.

    0
    0
  • Epimenides must be reckoned with Melampus and Onomacritus as one of the founders of Orphism.

    0
    0
  • Hermann Vischer, in the 15th century, and his son and grandsons were very remarkable as bronze founders.

    0
    0
  • Cast iron, brought to perfection by the Coalbrookdale Company about 1860, but now little esteemed, owing to the poverty of design which so often counterfeits smiths' work, presents great opportunities to founders possessing taste or willing to submit to artistic control.

    0
    0
  • Abundance of remains which date from the Neolithic period testify to the high antiquity of this class of work, and also to the great skill which the ancient founders had acquired.

    0
    0
  • He was one of the founders, in New York, of the short-lived Workingman's party in 1828, and established the Boston Quarterly Review, mainly written by himself, in 1838.

    0
    0
  • The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill in 1854 had finally alienated him from the Democratic party, and he became one of the founders of the new Republican party in the state.

    0
    0
  • Thus the first and second definitions represent the founders of the sophistry of culture, Protagoras and Prodicus, from the respective points of view of the older Athenians, who disliked the new culture, and the younger Athenians, who admired it; the third and fourth definitions represent imitators to whom the note of itinerancy was not applicable; the fifth definition represents the earlier eristics, contemporaries of Socrates, whom it was necessary to distinguish from the teachers of forensic oratory; the sixth is framed to meet the anomalous case of Socrates, in whom many saw the typical sophist, though Plato conceives this view to be unfortunate; and the seventh and final definition, having in view eristical sophistry fully developed, distinguishes it from SfµoXoyuci, i.e.

    0
    0
  • He was also one of the founders of the Theologische Jahrbilcher, a periodical which acquired great importance as the exponent of the historical method of David Strauss and Christian Baur.

    0
    0
  • The most modest and one of the most illustrious of the founders of modern palaeontology, Lartet's work had previously been publicly recognized by his nomination as an officer of the Legion of Honour; and in 1848 he had had the offer of a political post.

    0
    0
  • His grandfather, Andreas, originally a Bremen merchant, was one of the founders (1st of January 1766) of the banking-house of Grote, Prescott & Company in Threadneedle Street, London (the name of Grote did not disappear from the firm till 1879).

    0
    0
  • Among other legends which have at various timesbeen attached to Erigena are that he was invited to France by Charlemagne, and that he was one of the founders of the university of Paris.

    0
    0
  • The broadest and most accurate scholar among the "founders and fathers," he was particularly an expert in constitutional history and theory.

    0
    0
  • Believing that sectarianism was sinful, he separated from the Presbyterian Church in 1843, and was one of the founders of the Church at Peterboro, a non-sectarian institution open to all Christians of whatever shade of belief.

    0
    0
  • Jesus alone of the great founders of religion suffered an early and violent death, even the death of a criminal.

    0
    0
  • The founders of Lowell were Patrick Tracy Jackson (1780-1847), Nathan Appleton (1779-1861), Paul Moody (1779-1831) and the business manager chosen by them, Kirk Boott (1790-1837).

    0
    0
  • Abridgments and newer treatises soon drove out the writings of Aristarchus and other founders of the science.

    0
    0
  • He was also one of the principal founders of reformatory and refuge unions, young men's Christian associations and working men's institutes.

    0
    0
  • Much on the same lines stands the Italian Catholic attempt to show that the Freemasons are the real founders of Italian independence, and to take the field against them with the help of Leon Taxil and " Diana Vaughan."

    0
    0
  • He was a member of the New York Senate in 1850-1851, was one of the founders of the Republican party in New York, and from 1868 until his death was on the staff of the New York Sun.

    0
    0
  • The chief motive of its founders in coming to the New World was the establishment of a new Christian commonwealth, but subordinate to this there was from the first an economic motive.

    0
    0
  • The two founders went to Rome and there obtained the approbation of Innocent III., 1198.

    0
    0
  • In Messenia they were reputed immigrant founders of Pylos, and were connected with the seafaring Taphians and Teleboans of Homer, and distinguished from the Pelasgians; in Lacedaemon and in Leucas they were believed to be aboriginal.

    0
    0
  • He may have been one of those hermits who at that time swarmed in the forests of western Europe, and particularly in France, always surrounded by popular veneration, and sometimes the founders of monasteries or religious orders, such as those of Premontre or Fontevrault.

    0
    0
  • Thomson (Lord Kelvin), he may be regarded as one of the founders of the now universally received law of the conservation of energy.

    0
    0
  • His energies were largely devoted to co-operation among the various Nonconformist bodies, and he was one of the founders and most energetic members of the National Council of the Evangelical Free Churches.

    0
    0
  • He was one of the founders of the anti-socialistic "Adam Smith Society" at Florence.

    0
    0
  • He was one of the founders of the Paris Chemical Society (1858), was its first secretary and thrice served as its president.

    0
    0
  • Emerson refused, in a kind and characteristic letter, to join the undertaking, and though he afterwards wrote of Brook Farm with not uncharitable humour as "a perpetual picnic, a French Revolution in small, an age of reason in a patty-pan," among its founders were many of his near friends.

    0
    0
  • The Cape of Good Hope subsequently " became not a colony of the Republic of the United Provinces, but a dependency of the ` Netherlands Chartered General East India Company ' for mercantile purposes; and to this fact principally can be traced the slow progress, in all but extension of territory, of a country which was settled by Europeans within thirty years of the time when the Pilgrim Fathers, the founders of a mighty empire, landed at Plymouth to plant democratic institutions and European civilization in the West."

    0
    0
  • Reitz, one of the founders of the Bond, in 1889 committed the Free State to an offensive and defensive alliance with the Transvaal.

    0
    0
  • We learn much more about the Stoic system from the scanty fragments of the first founders, 4 or even from the epitomes of Diogenes Laertius and Stobaeus, than from these writers.

    0
    0
  • The foundation was on the model of Merton and Queen's colleges at Oxford, to which grammar schools were attached by their founders, while fellows of Merton were the first wardens of both of Wykeham's colleges.

    0
    0
  • The Jesuit founders of the Mojos missions took cattle with them when they entered that region to labour among the Indians, with the result that the Mojos and Chiquitos llanos were soon well stocked, and have since afforded an unfailing supply of beef for the neighbouring inland markets.

    0
    0
  • By the popes, who represented Italian interests, they were always looked upon with dislike and jealousy, even when they had become zealous Catholics, the founders of churches and monasteries; with the Greek empire there was chronic war.

    0
    0
  • In front is Lesbos, one of whose towns, Methymna, is said to have sent forth the founders of Assus, as early, perhaps, as r000 or 900 B.C. The whole south coast-line of the Troad is seen, and in the south-east the ancient territory of Pergamum, from whose masters the possession of Assus passed to Rome by the bequest of Attalus III.

    0
    0
  • From this it is evident that the Simonians did not allow that they worshipped their founders.

    0
    0
  • In July 1887 bonds bearing interest (from January 1900) at 22% were issued to the amount of £443,000 to represent sums advanced to the founders of the state.

    0
    0
  • He could tell the princes of the states what they ought to be; and he could point them to examples of perfect virtue in former times, - to the sage founders of their own dynasty; to the sage Tang, who had founded the previous dynasty of Shang; to the sage Yu, who first established a hereditary kingdom in China; and to the greater sages still who lived in a more distant golden age.

    0
    0
  • The patriarch receives confirmation from Rome, and the political representation of the Maronites at Constantinople is in the hands of the vicar apostolic. Rome has incorporated most of the Maronite saints in her calendar, while refusing (despite their apologists) to canonize either of the reputed eponymous founders of Maronism.

    0
    0
  • Morgan was one of the founders of the Republican party, and was chairman of the National Republican Committee in 1856-1864 and in 1872.

    0
    0
  • Within a generation of the death of the two great founders, Dominic (1221) and Francis (1226), their institutes had spread all over Europe and into Asia, and their friars could be numbered by tens of thousands.

    0
    0
  • This was St Francis's root idea, and there is no doubt - though it has been disputed - that it was borrowed from him by St Dominic and the other Mendicant founders.

    0
    0
  • The Buddha has not escaped the fate which has befallen the founders of other religions; and as late as the year 1854 Professor Wilson of Oxford read a paper before the Royal Asiatic Society of London in which he maintained that the supposed life of Buddha was a myth, and "Buddha himself merely an imaginary being."

    0
    0
  • The two actual founders of the Bond party were Mr Borckenhagen, a German who was residing in Bloemf ontein, and Mr Reitz, afterwards state secretary of the Transvaal.

    0
    0
  • In a non-literary age fame gathers about great names; and that which, ex hypothesi, has gone on since the beginning of things is naturally attributed to the founders of the society.

    0
    0
  • Baltimore was named in honour of the Lords Baltimore, the founders of the province of Maryland, but no settlement was made here until nearly ioo years after the planting of the colony; meanwhile at least two other townsites, on which it was hoped permanent towns might be established, had received the same name, but nothing came of either.

    0
    0
  • He organized many telegraph construction companies, was one of the founders of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and accumulated a large fortune.

    0
    0
  • Her husband, who was prominent among the founders of Swarthmore College (1864), died in Brooklyn, New York, on the 26th of January 1868; and Mrs Mott died on the 11th of November 1880 near Philadelphia.

    0
    0
  • He was one of the founders of the Preussische Jahrbiicher, the most influential of German political periodicals.

    0
    0
  • The industrious German settlers were welcomed by the Polish nobles and were the founders of most of the towns, in which they lived after their own customs and were governed by their own laws.

    0
    0
  • Yet even in those English regions where the missionaries from lona were the founders of the Church, the representatives of Rome were to be its organizers.

    0
    0
  • The refusal of the council to accept the recommendation of the senate, that they should appoint an eminent Unitarian minister to the professorship of logic and mental philosophy, revived all De Morgan's sensitiveness on the subject of sectarian freedom; and, though his feelings were doubtless excessive, there is no doubt that gloom was thrown over his life, intensified in 1867 by the loss of his son George Campbell De Morgan, a young man of the highest scientific promise, whose name, as De Morgan expressly wished, will long be connected with the London Mathematical Society, of which he was one of the founders.

    0
    0
  • When the order of the Garter was founded, he was instituted as one of the first founders, and his stall in St George's chapel, Windsor, was the eleventh on the side of Edward, the Black Prince.

    0
    0
  • In 1873 he became one of the founders of the free Evangelical Church of Neuchatel, and professor in its theological faculty.

    0
    0
  • He was secretary of the conference of advocates and one of the founders of the Societe de legislation comparee.

    0
    0
  • Following the split in the Republican party he became one of the founders of the National Progressive party and was a delegate at its national convention in Chicago in 1912.

    0
    0
  • He was one of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research, and was a member of the Metaphysical Society.

    0
    0
  • But these varying conceptions with their religious meaning become religiously productive only in the souls of religious heroes, who are the authors of new religions, mediators of the religious life, founders of religious communities.

    0
    0
  • Such a man did not arise; those who afterwards claimed to be ardri lacked the qualities of founders of strong dynasties, and are termed by the annalists " kings with opposition."

    0
    0
  • Gaj was a poet of considerable talent, and one of the founders of Croatian journalism.

    0
    0
  • He was one of the founders of the Royal Agricultural Society, and was chairman of the implement department of the great exhibition of 1851.

    0
    0
  • No records indeed were discovered of the founders of the first great Ethiopian kingdom from Piankhi to Tirhakah, nor has any fresh light been thrown upon the relations which that remarkable king Ergamenes maintained with the Egyptian Ptolemies.

    0
    0
  • He did not sit in any of the assemblies summoned during the revolutionary year, but took a very active part in the formation of a union of the Conservative party, and was one of the founders of the Kreuzzeitung, which has since then been the organ of the Monarchical party in Prussia.

    0
    0
  • He was one of the founders of the Free Art League, of the International Copyright League, and of the Authors' Club; was chairman of the New York Tenement House Commission in 18 9 4; and was a prominent member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, of the Council of the National Civil Service Reform League, and of the executive committee of the Citizens' Union of New York City.

    0
    0
  • He was one of the founders of the Ecole Polytechnique, and shared in the establishment of the Institute of France; the adoption of the metric system and the foundation of the bureau of longitude were also due to his efforts.

    0
    0
  • The former have a very extended application in many branches of industry, being used by both founders and smelters in the fusion of metals; in the concentration of poor metallic compounds by fusion into regulus; in the reduction of lead and tin ores; for refining copper and silver; and for making malleable iron by the puddling processes and welding.

    0
    0
  • I was interested in learning more about the pious founders' past.

    0
    0
  • Back in 1982, when founders Peter Laughton and David Wooding started the company, the market for motorcycle clothing was very different.

    0
    0
  • Upon the roof of the aisles is the engrailed cross of the founders, St. Clairs, once hereditary Grand Masters of Scotch Masonry.

    0
    0
  • Mark and his wife went on to be founders of the Leith School or Art before their untimely death.

    0
    0
  • Certainly, the founders and sages of the early church were less dogmatic than their modern-day epigones.

    0
    0
  • Its octave nominal is however an almost perfect octave, something which modern founders do not usually achieve.

    0
    0
  • The founders of the council include ICM, Mori, NOP and the Internet pollsters YouGov.

    0
    0
  • One of the first recorded incidents of materialization took place in America during 1860 by the Fox sisters, founders of modern spiritualism.

    0
    0
  • We see from the Epistle of John how mortally afraid of gnostic spiritualism were the founders of the historical fraud.

    0
    0
  • I was a close ally of its founders, especially the charismatic Shirley Williams and the organizational supremo of the right, Bill Rodgers.

    0
    0
  • A second major characteristic of Nigerian televangelists is that they are leaders of a church, which in most cases they are the founders.

    0
    0
  • The specters of the Founders hang over us like thunderheads in a storm about to break.

    0
    0
  • Founders of cities, and even of colonies, received worship; the former are, generally speaking, mythical personages and, in strictness, heroes.

    0
    0
  • Thus more than human honour is paid to Zoroaster and Buddha and even to the founders of systems not strictly religious, e.g.

    0
    0
  • At the meeting of the Naturforscherversammlung at Innsbruck in 1869, he was one of the founders of the German Anthropological Society, of which he became president in the following year; and from 1869 onwards he presided over the Berlin Anthropological Society, also acting as editor of its proceedings in the Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologic. In ethnology he published a volume of essays on the physical anthropology of the Germans, with special reference to the Frisians; and at his instance a census, which yielded remarkable results, was carried out among school children throughout Germany, to determine the relative distribution of blondes and brunettes.

    0
    0
  • Colding, who in 1843 presented to the Royal Society of Copenhagen a paper entitled "Theses concerning Force," which clearly stated the "principle of the perpetuity of energy," and who also performed a series of experiments for the purpose of determining the heat developed by the compression of various bodies, which entitle him to be mentioned among the founders of the modern theory of energy, we come to Dr James Prescott Joule of Manchester, to whom we are indebted more than to any other for the establishment of the principle of the conservation of energy on the broad basis on which it has since stood.

    0
    0
  • The other cities in the province are Kin-chow-fu on the west of the Gulf of Liao-tong; Kin-chow, on the western extremity of the Liao-tung peninsula; Kai-ping, on the north-western shore of the same peninsula; Hai-cheng, on the road from Niu-chwang to Mukden; Ki-yuen, a populous and prosperous city in the north of the province; and Sing-king, east of Mukden, the original seat of the founders of the present dynasty.

    0
    0
  • They attribute two Kiani, two Qnumi and one Parsopa in 1 The legendary founders of the Syrian Church.

    0
    0
  • But the Khazars proper were a civic commercial people, the founders of cities, remarkable for somewhat elaborate political institutions, for persistence and for good faith - all qualities foreign to the Hunnic character.

    0
    0
  • He was one of the early founders of the theory of determinants; in particular, he invented the functional determinant formed of the n 2 differential coefficients of n given functions of n independent variables, which now bears his name (Jacobian), and which has played an important part in many analytical investigations (see Algebraic Forms).

    0
    0
  • He was one of the founders 1 Qui giace Arrigo Beyle Milanese; visse, scrisse, amo.

    0
    0
  • We see from the Epistle of John how mortally afraid of Gnostic Spiritualism were the founders of the historical fraud.

    0
    0
  • The book includes some fascinating photos - including that of HP 's founders with Lee De Forest, the triode tube inventor.

    0
    0
  • They need founders who refuse to give up, who won't let an obstacle stop them in their tracks.

    0
    0
  • The good news is that most founders need less than they think, and ironically, there are more advantages exist to having less than having more.

    0
    0
  • While most startup founders fear running short of cash, few worry about having an overabundance of funds.

    0
    0
  • It's not that founders fail poorly because they're nadve or dumb or inexperienced (well, at least most aren't).

    0
    0
  • It's simply that aversion to failure is hardwired into our culture, and this cultural influence affects decisions founders make when things don't go according to plan.

    0
    0
  • That's why even the smartest, savviest founders can make bad choices when things don't go well, as the following example illustrates.

    0
    0
  • The best founders have the capacity to push aside their egos, their biases and everything else and view the feedback for what it is.

    0
    0
  • These founders are a joy to work with; they understand what to do when failure happens and how to quickly move beyond it.

    0
    0
  • Things get rough, but founders with grit and determination tough it out.

    0
    0
  • Being conscious of the traits you need to exhibit to get through a phase successfully-and the emotional traps founders may fall into-can help you navigate the phase better.

    0
    0
  • Creativity is an underrated skill for startup founders, but it's one that is crucial, since it helps you imagine how your product can match with what the customer wants.

    0
    0
  • Founders need to be sticklers for detail during this phase, and if they can't do it, they need to bring in partners who can.

    0
    0
  • Being agile is a challenge to founders with cowboy mentalities; they resent having to submit an expense report to get reimbursed.

    0
    0
  • Certainly startup founders' personalities vary widely-some are outgoing and loquacious, others are introverted and reticent.

    0
    0
  • Founders Frank Toskan, a makeup artist and photographer, and Frank Angelo, a businessman, sought to introduce a high-quality cosmetics line that could be used for photo shoots.

    0
    0
  • Although they are from Pasadena, Rodarte founders Kate and Laura Mulleavy create romantic clothing.

    0
    0
  • A profile of the site's founders shows the young men come at the site with a business mindset, increasing site traffic 300 percent in the first year and a half.

    0
    0
  • With a reputation for explicit raunchy humor and great guitar licks, Blink-182 is hailed as one of the founders of pop/punk music.

    0
    0
  • In 2000, the founders retired and appointed Robert Nardelli as chairman, president, and CEO.

    0
    0
  • The founders of The Silver Ring Thing, Denny and Amy Pattyn, conduct a number of workshops that help teenagers and young adults embrace abstinence.

    0
    0
  • The founders have stuck to their roots and have built a product name on quality, customer satisfaction, and environmental awareness.

    0
    0
  • The items are all organic and have cute sayings and designs on them which were created by one of the company's founders.

    0
    0
  • Ken Ausubel, one of the founders of Seeds of Change, has written several books on biodiversity.

    0
    0
  • First, there was Adele Casagrande and Edoardo Fendi, the founders of the line.

    0
    0
  • The founders of Frubi are Dr. Gary Hall and Renee Resler.

    0
    0
  • The founders of SeaWorld had no intention of building a theme park.

    0
    0
  • The two founders parted ways to pursue learning objectives (Gavin to MIT and Rubin to Newport Beach).

    0
    0
  • In 2000 the founders of Rare, the Stamper brothers, sold their 51% share in the company to Microsoft.

    0
    0
  • Like many of this country's wineries, their founders and heritage immigrated here from Italy.

    0
    0
  • The two founders came together with a purpose, to make a Cabernet Sauvignon with a sense of itself, a fully developed red that could be savored not only after many years of aging but was soft and supple from the get-go.

    0
    0
  • This program was begun in the early 1940s by the wives of some of AA's earliest members and founders, including Lois Wilson, wife of AA founder Bill Wilson.

    0
    0
  • Eventually her efforts paid off, as Graham went on to be one of the founders of the dance department at the Juilliard School, and went on to win international acclaim in her own dance company.

    0
    0
  • In addition, the minutes of church meetings may contain valuable information related to founders, founding families and church members.

    0
    0
  • The Washington State Latter Day Saints Educators is a non-profit association that accepts people from all backgrounds, although the founders subscribe to the beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

    0
    0
  • The larger bathing suits favored in the U.S. probably harken back to the Puritan founders of the country.

    0
    0
  • There are hundreds of these questions, contributed both by the site's founders and by members.

    0
    0
  • A truly American born company, the founders artfully designed leather goods with skills passed down from previous generations.

    0
    0
  • After taking a moment to gush over the new Alina Spring line, LovetoKnow recently leapt at the opportunity to interview the founders of Alina handbags, Alina Garcia and Yamilia Halfon.

    0
    0
  • Growing up in Boston, brothers Bert and John Jacobs had no idea they would be the founders of an $80,000,000 business with revenues that continue to rise.

    0
    0
  • A search for the perfect purse that went with everything led the founders of Lauro Sinclair to create their handbags - basic clutches with interchangeable fashion "slip covers" that can be changed in a moment.

    0
    0
  • You might find it interesting to learn a little more about the founders of this unique tarot and see how their life experiences shaped the deck's distinct character.

    0
    0
  • Unlike Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, the founders of The_Atlantic_Paranormal_Society, Fielding was an actress first and not a paranormal investigator.

    0
    0
  • Founders Hawes and Wilson each had paranormal experiences.

    0
    0
  • On the contrary, say founders Amir Razmara and Zeo Solomon.

    0
    0
  • Run (formerly known as DJ Run, one of the founders of legendary hip-hop group Run DMC), Pastry athletic-inspired and casual shoes are quickly developing a strong fan base.

    0
    0
  • Beth Cross and Pam Parker, the company founders, started manufacturing Ariat boots to service the niche need for comfortable, high-performance footgear for equestrians.

    0
    0
  • Stefan Salvatore and his brother Damon are the sons of some of the town's original founders.

    0
    0
  • The collection of memorabilia was not an original idea of the founders of the Hard Rock Café.

    0
    0
  • The Citizen Watch website reports that the founders of the company chose the name Citizen as the name as the watches would be "close to the hearts of people everywhere".

    0
    0
  • In 1930, the founders changed the name to Citizen Watch Company because the word citizen created a kinship or citizenship among people all over the world.

    0
    0
  • Since Accurist emerged in 1946, its founders wisely understood that innovation, continual advancement and a spirit of eager entrepreneurism were the keys to securing a lasting place in the modern future of horology.

    0
    0
  • It's from this village that Skagen (Skagen Designs, Ltd.) founders, Henrik and Charlotte Jorst, received their inspiration.

    0
    0
  • To acknowledge this generosity, the founders changed the brand name to Elgin National Watch Company in 1874.

    0
    0
  • When PrAna founders Beaver and Pam Theodosakis were thinking of a name for their Southern California company, Pam poured over her yoga books until they found something that embodied what they were trying to do.

    0
    0
  • In 2005, the founders of PrAna formed the Natural Power Initiative.

    0
    0
  • The founders, Mark McMahon and Patrick Shami, started the company in a garage in 2003 with a line of message t-shirts.

    0
    0
  • Apparently the founders of Weblogs, Inc. thought a car blog would be a good idea and were fortunate enough to nab the ultra descriptive name of "Autoblog" for it.

    0
    0
  • The founders of the Fitbit Tracker are a highly educated pair.

    0
    0
  • You can learn more about the founders as well as the assembly, testing and launch of the Fitbit Tracker through their blog.

    0
    0
  • Inspired by Mt. Etna, an 11,000-foot tall volcano on the shores of Sicily, company founders chose the name Aetna for what was once a fledgling venture.

    0
    0
  • In 1995, the founders of Barely There products decided that they needed to make women's underwear way more comfortable and the panty lines far less visible.

    0
    0
  • The Lingerie Bowl became so popular, so fast, that founders scrambled to find a way to capitalize on the phenomenon, thus the LFL was born.

    0
    0
  • Since The Frauenhofer Institute was merely a state-funded think tank, there were no great deals and endorsements made with the founders of MP3.

    0
    0
  • It's discovered that much of the gamma quadrant is under the control of the Founders, a race whose true identity is revealed later in the series.

    0
    0
  • He is a member of the Changeling species who were later discovered to be the race known as the Founders.

    0
    0
  • During his stay on Deep Space Nine, Constable Odo struggles to cope with existing with humanoids and fights a constant battle within himself to accept who he is and what his people have done as the Founders.

    0
    0
  • As punishment, the Founders removed his shapeshifting abilities.

    0
    0
  • He made it very clear he did not condone the actions of his people and did not wish to join the Founders and their rule of terror.

    0
    0
  • For many, it was becoming an obsession.Within 18 months of its launch, MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson sold the business to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for a hefty $580 million.

    0
    0
  • Community members and founders branched off and started other Secrets communities.

    0
    0
  • Soon, founders Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes took the already popular social network to over 30 other colleges.

    0
    0
  • Facebook founders immediatley answered that need with an SMS based interface, where users could send status updates and receive notification via text messages.

    0
    0
  • LoveToKnow spoke with both Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett, founders of ProBlogger, and asked for their advice for people new to blogging.

    0
    0
  • She did attempt to engage an uninterested climber in a conversation about her Great-aunt Annie being one of the founders of the Ouray Woman's Club, back in 1897 and how she helped form the Ouray Library, with her friend, the famous millionaire, of Hope Diamond fame, Tom Walsh.

    4
    4
  • But it was no more a chantry than the other colleges, all of which, like the monasteries and collegiate churches, were to pray for their founders' and other specified souls.

    3
    3
  • He was one of the founders of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), was a member of the New York Council for some years before the War of Independence, a member and president of the First Provincial Congress of New York (1775), and a member of the Second Provincial Congress (1775-1776).

    1
    1
  • He was prominent in the affairs of the New England Confederation, of which he was one of the founders (1643).

    1
    1
  • The three Cipxovms who appear in the loth-century inscriptions just mentioned bear alternately the names Torcotorius and Salusius; and, inasmuch as this is the case with the judices of Cagliari from the 11th to the 13th century, there seems no doubt that they were the successors of these Byzantine ripXovrfs, who were perhaps the actual founders of the dynasty.

    1
    1
  • Harvey in that remarkable work 1 which would give him a claim to rank among the founders of biological science, even had he not been the discoverer of the circulation of the blood.

    1
    1
  • This society was instituted in 1841, the original founders being chemists and druggists in the metropolis and provincial towns.

    1
    1
  • A portion of his correspondence on this subject was published by his son as The Founders of Canterbury (Christchurch, 1868).

    1
    1
  • Frostburg was first settled in 1812; was called Mount Pleasant until about 1830, when the present name was substituted in honour of Meshech Frost, one of the town's founders; and was incorporated in 1870.

    1
    1
  • Who were those warlike men of Ras who are universally recognized as the founders of the Russian Empire?

    1
    1
  • Khomiakov, had been one of the founders of the " Union of 17 October," but even the Octobrists formed but a third of the House and were compelled to act with the reactionaries of the Right; and the vice-president, Prince Volkonsky, was a member of the Union of the Russian People.

    1
    1
  • He became a member of the Young Ireland Party in 1845, and in 1847 was one of the founders of the Irish Confederation.

    1
    1
  • Although the rise of the Hebrew state, at an age when the great powers were quiescent and when such a people as the Philistines is known to have appeared upon the scene, is entirely intelligible, it is not improbable that legends of Saul and David, the heroic founders of the two kingdoms, have been put in a historical setting with the help of later historical tradition.

    1
    1
  • Muurling, one of the founders of the Groningen school, which made the first pronounced breach with Calvinistic theology in the Reformed Church of Holland.

    1
    1
  • Stimulated by this, he brought out his Neun Bucher preussischer Geschichte (1847-48), a work which, chiefly owing to the nature of the subject, makes severe demands on the attention of the reader - he is the "Dryasdust" of Carlyle's Frederick; but in it he laid the foundation for the modern appreciation of the founders of the Prussian state.

    1
    1
  • At Leipzig he was one of the founders of the Akademisch-philosophische Verein, and was the first editor of the Vierteljahrsschrift fiir wissenschaftliche Philosophie.

    0
    1
  • In addition, they formed a source of revenue and power for their founders, who on their part conceded liberal charters to the new towns.

    0
    1
  • It was Radical in politics, and had Roebuck as one of its founders.

    0
    1
  • Search engines also caved company with american the companypartygaming's founders six years would.

    0
    1
  • As founders get their companies up and running, they often are inspired by other startup success stories.

    0
    1
  • There's a reason why many scientists struggle as startup founders. The impulse to keep tinkering in the lab rather than releasing the product is a real problem.

    0
    1
  • The most successful founders possess specific traits and especially a powerful drive to success no matter what obstacles are thrown in their way.

    0
    1
  • Startup founders think that the big, partnering company will solve all their problems, and they rarely do.

    0
    1