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  • Drawing on Suarez and Aquinas, as well as Platonist and contemporary philosophy, Culverwell was the only Cambridge Platonist to invoke natural law.

    The Cambridge Platonists Hutton, Sarah 2007

  • (Smith, Culverwell, Cudworth and More were among the first Englishmen to read Descartes).

    The Cambridge Platonists Hutton, Sarah 2007

  • The kick-off was an letter by Culverwell (1894) with the innocently-sounding question, "Will anyone say exactly what the H-theorem proves?"

    Boltzmann's Work in Statistical Physics Uffink, Jos 2004

  • On the other hand, he is entitled and indeed bound to refuse payment if such a cheque is presented before the apparent date of its issue (_Morley_ v. _Culverwell_, 7 M. & W. at p. 178).

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

  • I recollect very well the words of Professor Culverwell, a senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, who formed part of a deputation that was received by Mr. Asquith whilst the Horne Rule bill was being discussed.

    Proportional Representation 1916

  • With him was Culverwell, adjutant of the same battalion.

    The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad Edward John Thompson 1916

  • Culverwell, 'discovers atomes, though they be invisible by candle-light, and makes them dance naked in his beams.'

    Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856

  • Spenser ‘zephyrus’, and not ‘zephyr’; so ‘interstitium’ (Fuller) preceded ‘interstice’; ‘philtrum’ (Culverwell) ‘philtre’; ‘expansum’

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

  • Jonson speaks of ‘the knowledge of the liberal arts, which the Greeks call ἐγκυκλοπαδείαν’ {59}, Culverwell wrote μητρόπολις and ὀφθαλμία,

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

  • Wendy Culverwell covers real estate, retail and hospitality.

    unknown title 2011

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