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| ... the age of fifty-five, but such calls are rarely, in fact almost never, made. The fifteenth day of October of every year is what we call Muster Day, because those who have reached the age of twenty-one are then mustered into the industrial service, and at the same ... |
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| ... by the Taoists. Our interest in Taoism and Zennism here lies mainly in those ideas regarding life and art which are so embodied in what we call Teaism. It is to be regretted that as yet there appears to be no adequate presentation of the Taoists and Zen doctrines in ... |
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| ... culprit is no longer the same, but another person; and he is pursued by a secret uneasiness, by self-reproach, or the workings of what we call conscience, which is the inevitable doom of the guilty. And here it may be observed how greatly the character may be strengthened and ... |
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| ... 9 Vide Don Quixote. 10 From Swift's 1720 Edition: "The dissenters are accused by those of our establish[ed] Church, as utter enemies to what we call order and regularity in matters of worship." (cited in Guthkelch & Smith, p. 195). -Singh, 1996. 11 The villainies and cruelties committed by enthusiasts ... |
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[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
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| ... expel the power of calculation. Hence they should be moderate and few, and should in no way oppose the rational principle-and this is what we call an obedient and chastened state-and as the child should live according to the direction of his tutor, so the appetitive element should ... |
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| ... rather than the invigorating home-made article?" "Because for the last few days I have been feeling rheumatic and old. A Turkish bath is what we call an alterative in medicine -- a fresh starting-point, a cleanser of the system. "By the way, Holmes," I added, "I have no doubt ... |
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[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
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| ... persistence of such sense-impressions develop a power of systematizing them and those which do not. So out of sense-perception comes to be what we call memory, and out of frequently repeated memories of the same thing develops experience; for a number of memories constitute a single experience. From ... |
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[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
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| ... however, scandalously misuses this name, taking aither as equivalent to fire. It is also clear from what has been said why the number of what we call simple bodies cannot be greater than it is. The motion of a simple body must itself be simple, and we assert that there ... |
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| ... has not the best of this striking difference? Yet it is such senseless and unnatural conventions as this that make us so impatient of what we call family feeling. Even apart from its insufferable pretensions, the family needs hearty discrediting; for there is hardly any vulnerable part of it that ... |
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[ ENGLISH MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
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| ... case of Dutch war, there is a strong body of troops kept there to defend it. At this place may be said to end what we call the Hundreds of Essex - that is to say, the three Hundreds or divisions which include the marshy country, viz., Barnstable Hundred, Rochford Hundred, ... |
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| ... Arthur, with all the gravity of ten Professors rolled into one. "What we call the vertex of the Brain is really its base: and what we call its base is really its vertex: it is simply a question of nomenclature." This last polysyllable settled the matter. "How truly delightful!" the ... |
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