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  • Lyric Essay is an odd hybrid which combines poems and essays.

    Essay Mania « Write Anything 2009

  • But hope if the Essay is publisht with the poem as I think it should, that Dr Drake will see the force of these objections ....

    Letter 111 2009

  • Alexander Pope, a Catholic also, must have been thinking about that mind-set when he wrote, I believe in Essay onMan,

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews? 2010

  • Although the Essay is largely descriptive, I conclude with some modest normative observations about whether constitutional hardball is healthy for a constitutional community and, for those who think it is not, how we can avoid the practice.

    Matthew Yglesias » Constitutional Harball 2010

  • Link: David Brin Essay: “Star Wars” despots vs. “Star Trek” populists (6/1999)

    KAMN Show #9: Sundiver : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas 2006

  • Link: David Brin Essay: J.R.R. Tolkien — enemy of progress (12/2002)

    KAMN Show #9: Sundiver : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas 2006

  • Prosodists, and we must refer the reader for the remaining classes and subdivisions of the Basít as well as the other metres to more special treatises on the subject, to which this Essay is intended merely as an introduction, with a view to facilitate the first steps of the student in an important, but I fear somewhat neglected, field of Arabic learning.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • It was entitled An Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society, and with it perished at one blow all the fond hopes of a harmonious universe.

    The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

  • It was entitled An Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society, and with it perished at one blow all the fond hopes of a harmonious universe.

    The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

  • Sartre gave his book Being and Nothingness (L'être et le néant, 1943), the subtitle Essay on Phenomenological

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JEAN WAHL 1968

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