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  • It is not an Imagination that teems with Monsters, an Head that is filled with extravagant Conceptions, which is capable of furnishing the

    Spectator, April 10, 1711 1711

  • Monsters, an Head that is filled with extravagant Conceptions, which is capable of furnishing the World with Diversions of this nature; and yet if we look into the Productions of several Writers, who set up for Men of Humour, what wild irregular Fancies, what unnatural Distortions of

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

  • Conceptions of civil suits have changed dramatically from the time that the U.S. Constitution was written and ratified.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • "I liked what I heard, and we soon recorded Bill's 'New Jazz Conceptions.'"

    This Jazz Master Is No Musician Marc Myers 2011

  • If at any time I speak of Light and Rays as coloured or endued with Colours, I would be understood to speak not philosophically [scientifically] and properly, but grossly, and according to such Conceptions as vulgar [uneducated] People in seeing all these Experiments would be apt to frame.

    The Color Wheel, Part 1 James Gurney 2010

  • Listed below are links to weblogs that reference New Conceptions of Organic Architecture at the Westcott House:

    New Conceptions of Organic Architecture at the Westcott House 2008

  • This weekend was the opening of an exhibit at the Westcott House titled New Conceptions of Organic Architecture.

    April 2008 2008

  • This weekend was the opening of an exhibit at the Westcott House titled New Conceptions of Organic Architecture.

    New Conceptions of Organic Architecture at the Westcott House 2008

  • As one example, a panel on Changing Conceptions of Palestinian Nationalism provided new meanings to the Palestinian struggle and revealed Israel's strategy for containing those meanings – a strategy whose result could vanquish the Palestinian people.

    Palestinian Nationalism 2009

  • Perhaps if your post had been titled “Conceptions of Clarity” rather than “Conceptions of Constitutionality”...

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Conceptions of Constitutionality — More Thoughts In Reply to Randy: 2009

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