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  • Hart's fundamental objection to Austin's reductionist account of law's normativity is, on his own account,

    The Nature of Law Marmor, Andrei 2007

  • Where he calleth an assembly whereof men can give no just account,

    Leviathan 2007

  • As the organisation had a problem with its bank account,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • As the organisation had a problem with its bank account,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • And taking a pen he wrote at the bottom of the account,

    Madame Bovary 2003

  • If these chickens should really hatch according to my account,

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Of the R8,8-billion allocated to the special defence account,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • It was particularly distressing to me, being accompanied by profuse perspiration during the night, followed by shivering fits towards day-break; and as the caravan could not halt on my account,

    Travels in Arabia 2003

  • Far be it from me, for all this, to value myself upon hitting the words of cant in which my drolling author is so luxuriant; for though such words have stood me in good stead, I scarce can forbear thinking myself unhappy in having insensibly hoarded up so much gibberish and Billingsgate trash in my memory; nor could I forbear asking of myself, as an Italian cardinal said on another account,

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Far be it from me, for all this, to value myself upon hitting the words of cant in which my drolling author is so luxuriant; for though such words have stood me in good stead, I scarce can forbear thinking myself unhappy in having insensibly hoarded up so much gibberish and Billingsgate trash in my memory; nor could I forbear asking of myself, as an Italian cardinal said on another account,

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

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