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But it was Newman who, by his "Elucidations", pointed the charge, and gave to less learned combatants an excuse for condemning what the had not read.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Beginning with the Elucidations, Malebranche employs the term ˜intelligible extension™ to denote the general idea of extension, and to distinguish it from actual extension, which again is unintelligible in itself.
Malebranche's Theory of Ideas and Vision in God Nolan, Lawrence 2008
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This argument, which first appeared in Elucidations of The Search After Truth, highlights the Neoplatonic and Augustinian character of Malebranchean ideas and reveals his efforts to correct Descartes.
Malebranche's Theory of Ideas and Vision in God Nolan, Lawrence 2008
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Elucidations, which was first appended to the Search in 1678, only four years after the original edition.
Malebranche's Theory of Ideas and Vision in God Nolan, Lawrence 2008
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Elucidations, amplifications, developments of thoughts and memories and pictures, nuances, corrections with the insertion of alternatives and possibilities, etc. cause the text to grow as if the language were an independently living organism which buds, puts out tendrils and sows seeds of its own accord and as if the author were a tool or a medium for its own creative force.
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[1] _Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, with Elucidations by Thomas
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various
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In Grimm's _Elucidations to Andreas_ he thus notices it: --
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Elucidations are propositions that stood if the meanings of those signs are already known.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein 1920
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I've been mulling over one of my favourite books -- it lies beside me as I write -- Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, edited by Carlyle, with what Carlyle amusingly calls "Elucidations."
The Haunted Bookshop 1918
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(Elucidations, 143, quoted by Driver, "Treatise on the Use of Tenses in Hebrew", xv.)
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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