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A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases

2016-02-01 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2016-02-01
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Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases by : Yuri Dolgopolov

Download or read book A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases written by Yuri Dolgopolov. This book was released on 2016-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, the book can also be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, cliches, and set expressions. Most phrases included in the dictionary are in active current use, making information about their meanings and usage essential to language learners at all levels of proficiency.

The Women Are Up to Something

2021 Philosophy
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Release : 2021
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Women Are Up to Something by : Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb

Download or read book The Women Are Up to Something written by Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Résumé éditeur : This book tells two intertwined stories, centered on twentieth-century moral philosophers Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch. The first is the story of four friends who came up to Oxford together just before WWII. It is the story of their lives, loves, and intellectual preoccupations; it is a story about women trying to find a place in a man's world of academic philosophy. The second story is about these friends' shared philosophical project and their unintentional creation of a school of thought that challenged the dominant way of doing ethics. That dominant school of thought envisioned the world as empty, value-free matter, on which humans impose meaning. This outlook treated statements such as “this is good” as mere expressions of feeling or preference, reflecting no objective standards. It emphasized human freedom and demanded an unflinching recognition of the value-free world. The four friends diagnosed this moral philosophy as an impoverishing intellectual fad. This style of thought, they believed, obscured the realities of human nature and left people without the resources to make difficult moral choices or to confront evil. As an alternative, the women proposed a naturalistic ethics, reviving a line of thought running through Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas, and enriched by modern biologists like Jane Goodall and Charles Darwin. The women proposed that there are, in fact, moral truths, based in facts about the distinctive nature of the human animal and what that animal needs to thrive."

Building up the Waste Places

2014-12-01 Religion
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Release : 2014-12-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Building up the Waste Places by : Peter Anson

Download or read book Building up the Waste Places written by Peter Anson. This book was released on 2014-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this book gives a general idea of its subject matter--a sideline of the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival in art and literature. This took the form among High Church Anglicans, not only of restoring parish churches and cathedrals, but also founding brotherhoods on supposedly medieval lines. "Olde Worlde" externals, such as flowing black robes, shaven heads, sandals and rosary beads, helped to make young men forget that they were living in the midst of an industrial revolution. To a large extent, the whole business of building up monastic waste places was a form of escapism. As the reader will discover, the result was often as unreal as the twilight world pictured by Alfred Tennyson in his series of connected poems entitled Idylls of the King, which appeared at intervals between 1842 and 1885. The earlier "monkeries," with their dim religious light and Gothic gloom described in these pages, were contemporary with Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire series of novels. Anson has dealt already with the revival of the religious life for men and women within the Anglican Communion in The Benedictines of Caldey (1940), The Call of the Cloister (1955), and Abbot Extraordinary (1958). In his latest book, he concentrates on Father Ignatius of Jesus, Abbot Aelred Carlyle, and Father Hopkins, each of whom tried to restore Benedictine monastic life in the post-Reformation Church of England. Much new material has been discovered in recent years that debunks more than one lovely legend. The octogenarian author has not been afraid to disclose many facts which some readers may feel ought to have been kept hidden, for they are not exactly edifying. The entire book might be summed up in Lord Byron's words: "'Tis strange--but true; for truth is always stranger than fiction."

Parliamentary Debates

1934 New Zealand
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Release : 1934
Genre : New Zealand
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Book Synopsis Parliamentary Debates by : New Zealand. Parliament

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by New Zealand. Parliament. This book was released on 1934. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Against All Odds

2006-07 Soldiers
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Release : 2006-07
Genre : Soldiers
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Book Synopsis Against All Odds by : Herbert Fowle

Download or read book Against All Odds written by Herbert Fowle. This book was released on 2006-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays W.W. II through the eyes of F Company of the United States Army, 22nd Infantry Regiment. John Ipjian, an E.T.H.S. graduate of the class of 1942 was one of the soldiers in F Company.

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