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Among them are: (1) a sharp analytic/synthetic, a priori/a posteriori distinction,
Clarence Irving Lewis Hunter, Bruce 2007
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Owing to its fundamental reliance upon the subject-object distinction,
Arthur Schopenhauer Wicks, Robert 2007
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Let me turn to the investments that we have in the budget as well, because obviously if there is one major distinction,
Briefing On Fy95 Budget By Panetta Tyson Rubin ITY National Archives 1994
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France, and Isaac de Launoy de Razilly, a military man of distinction,
Canada J. G. Bourinot
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More or less in a spirit of defiance of his claim to such distinction,
Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Talbot Mundy 1909
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France the Inquisition entrapped many men of literary distinction,
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901
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This was at first a matter of choice, and carried no idea of rank or class distinction,
The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Emerson Hough 1890
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Returning to Martinique with new titles to distinction,
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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To those who have science enough to appreciate the above distinction,
A Simpleton Charles Reade 1849
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After the founding of Constantinople, the custom of great people carrying an Umbrella seems to have arisen, but in Rome it appears only to have been used as a luxury, never as a mark of distinction,
Umbrellas and Their History William Sangster 1848
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