Thomas Marryat was born in London in the year 1730. He had a retentive memory and a great love for letters from an early age. He read and spoke Latin with ease, and it is said that he could read any Greek author, even Lycophron, at nine years old. Coming of a long line of Puritan ancestry, he was intended for the dissenting ministry, but literature, the muses and the pleasures of the town had g...

Gnostic prose works cover a wide range of subjects, contents, styles, structures, languages, and manners of expression. They might, therefore, be all categorized under one single literary genre. Applying the general term "gnostic prose works" to these oeuvres hinders our understanding of their true nature. Despite that many gnostic prose works belong to Gnosticism, they have special characteris...

khaghani shervani is one of the greatest authors and poets of the sixth cent. (a.h.) in the persian literature. he has also written poems in arabic. understanding his poetical works is very difficult since he has repeatedly used various knowledge of his time) such as the islamic concepts and the holy hadith. the iranian and semitic mythology) etc. his poetical works have been edited and publish...

In view of the design scheme convergence in the process of product design, a method of product extension case rea-soning based on region semantic correlation is presented. In combination with product semantics and primitives theo-ry in extenics, the knowledge representation method in process of product design and convergence process of design cases were studied. In the convergence process, the ...

the gathas, consisted of seventeen hymns, are the oldest literary work in iran. these hymns are composed in a syllabic meter and poetical language. in recent centuries, many scholarshave studied the gathas andhave consideredtheir poetic features. some scholars have tried to reveal gathas’ poetic technique on the bases of intertextual evidence, and have compared them with rig-veda. in this artic...