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  • Once he had apportioned the work among the dures of his troops, he returned home.

    De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Medieval Warfare in the reign of Charlemagne 2009

  • Seuen months the Winter dures, the glare it is so great, As it is May before he turne his ground to sow his wheate.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • M. Gibbon, doue de la memoire la plus heureuse, et ayant tous les faits presens a la pensee, domina bien-tot la conversation; I'Abbe se facha, il s'emporta, il dit des choses dures; l'Anglois, conservant le phlegme de son pays, prenoit ses avantages, et pressoit l'Abbe avec d'autant plus de succes que la colere le troubloit de plus en plus.

    Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

  • Opinions about just what these proce - dures are, or should be, vary significantly from period to period.

    METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION MICHAEL MORAN 1968

  • What he sought was a middle way between those who relied wholly on accu - mulated experience, and those who based their proce - dures upon medical theory.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY GUERLAC 1968

  • Hindu and Chinese records of the same era are hardly available, but China's reliance upon its past enables its earliest known codes to indicate proce - dures analogous to the preceding, and even the hetero - geneous and religion-oriented peoples of India were given a monarchical personal form of justice which included such minimal procedures.

    DUE PROCESS IN LAW MORRIS D. FORKOSCH 1968

  • In the biological sphere, the ever more exact clarification of the physicochemical processes of the organism — and of the electrochemical properties of its nervous component — has had the cu - mulative effect of justifying the experimental proce - dures and theoretical standpoint of the “mechanists.”

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARAM VARTANIAN 1968

  • Viollet-le-Duc regarded Gothic architecture primarily as a system of equilibrium, and emphasized the rationality and economy of its proce - dures.

    CONCEPT OF GOTHIC WAYNE DYNES 1968

  • There is plentiful discussion of legal rights and proce - dures by lawyers and students of law, and there are many accounts of how institutions and systems of insti - tutions function.

    LIBERALISM JOHN PLAMENATZ 1968

  • For example, Charles Fourier, whose ideal community, the phalanx, was to number some 1600 souls, felt no need to discuss, in the manner of Benjamin Constant, the judicial and political proce - dures required to secure his essential rights to everyone in a country the size of France.

    LIBERALISM JOHN PLAMENATZ 1968

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