Comparatively few of the 2,000 or more portraits (a contemporary attributes 10,000) that bear his name are wholly his handiwork.
Cincinnati editor Murat Halstead, a contemporary, attributed the fact that Foraker did not get nominated in 1888 to the surplus of ambitious Ohio men at the convention: in addition to Sherman, Foraker, and McKinley, even Harrison had been born in Ohio.
Art historians and some of his contemporaries attribute such interpretations to the losses suffered during his youth to the bleak outlook of his adulthood, while Friedrich's pale and withdrawn appearance helped reinforce the popular notion of the "taciturn man from the North".
Contemporaries attributed this to the effects of overwork, which had certainly taken its toll, but there were also other aspects; Newall had lost political support, particularly following a dispute with Lord Beaverbrook over the control of aircraft production and repair.
Legal scholar in early Islam, Abu al-Faraj, wrote, "People do not in fact own things, for the real owner is their Creator; they only enjoy the usufruct of things, subject to the Divine Law".(5) Contemporary property laws do not attribute all to God, per se, but certain lands and commonly needed resources, like water, have religious basis for protected status and shared ownership.
Extending Karl Marx's theory of modern man's alienation from his work, many contemporary students attribute faddism, crowds, movements of the spirit, and interest-group and revolutionary movements to a wide-ranging alienation from family, community, and country, as well as from work.
At its worst, contemporary British culture attributes adult motives to children's behaviour.
Indeed, some contemporary Christian accounts attributed the defeat of the People's Crusade to them.
We can admire the boldness and talent that propelled a young woman into print in a male-dominated world without anachronistically attributing contemporary intentions to her.
The colloquial novel Xingshi yinyuanzhuan (c. 1644 61; "A Marriage to Awaken the World"; Eng. trans. The Bonds of Matrimony), which realistically portrays an unhappy contemporary marriage, was attributed to him by some scholars.
