A person of nearly the same age as another

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The patriarch, Thomas More Anglesey, Duke of Gunfleet, had been a contemporary, and a mortal rival, of John Comstock, who was the Earl of Epsom and the first great noble backer of the Royal Society.

CHAPTER IV MAGENDIE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES It may be doubted whether any physiologist has ever lived whose cruelty to animals exceeded that which, for a long period, was exercised by Franc,ois Magendie.

To better understand the placement of the dinosaurs within the Archosauria, and their nearest relatives and contemporaries, we need to recall the discussion in Chapter 1 and here take a closer look at the second of these lineages as it relates to the dinosaurs.

Ibn Batlan, a clever physician, was a contemporary of Ibn Ridhwan, and travelled from Baghdad to Egypt only for the purpose of making his acquaintance, but the result does not appear to have been satisfactory to either party.

The contemporaries of Moses and Joshua had beheld with careless indifference the most amazing miracles.

Although Freud has been famously charged with backing away from the cultural implications of this theory, when he proposed the Oedipus complex and thereby transferred the libidinal activity from the parents to the children, we still find the etiology thesis alive and well in contemporary thinking about trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, as evidenced in the work of Judith Herman and Bessel van der Kolk.

Rimbaud, Bocaccio, Petrarch, Voltaire, Goethe and company, are credibly identified as the nicknames of contemporary students.

His contemporary, Berengar of Carpi, professor at Bologna, first did this with marked success, classifying the various tissues as fat, membrane, flesh, nerve, fibre and so forth.

When the French explorers entered it, it was a valley of aboriginal, anarchic individualism, with little movable spots of barbaric communistic timocracy, as Plato would doubtless have classified those migratory, predatory kingdoms of the hundreds of red kings, contemporary with King Donnacona, whom Cartier found on the St.

It is interesting to know that, at this time, Casanova met his famous contemporary, Benjamin Franklin.

Contemporary short story writers push this Chekhovian realization to even more aesthetic extremes.

Ravel is the old clavecinist become contemporary of Scriabine and Strawinsky, the old clavecinist who had seen the projectiles fall at Verdun and lost a dozen friends in the trenches.

He gives Tim cookies while addressing the boxes, exhibiting that ambidextrous bilateral competence so characteristic of contemporary American parents - all boasting hypertrophic corpora callosa, no doubt, could one but see them.

Seeing the premature ruins of contemporary society was creepily post-apocalyptic.

Rylkova suggests, by contemporary scientific discourses on narcissism.