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Tell Lucy, I am obliged to her for her tran-scriptions.
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Their countenances demanded revision of all previous de - scriptions of "chiseled" features.
Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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Its in-scriptions and interior would interest the archeologists, at least.
The End of the Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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Its in-scriptions and interior would interest the archeologists, at least.
The End Of The Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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Its in-scriptions and interior would interest the archeologists, at least.
The End of the Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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This was suggested by the theory of de - scriptions developed in the Principia which distin - guished two kinds of subjects in propositions: proper names representing something that can be directly perceived, and incomplete symbols denoting something that may never have existed and gets its meaning only from the context in which it appears.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas SHIRLEY ROBIN LETWIN 1968
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A prime example is the general flaccidity of theorizing shown by the prestigiously erudite Académie des In - scriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas BURTON FELDMAN 1968
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Since these masks sometimes carry in - scriptions identifying them as images of pagan nature spirits or demons, the faces in our Nativity may have been intended to evoke the sinister forces overcome by the Savior.
CHANCE IMAGES H. W. JANSON 1968
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It is notable that the language used (as later with Newton) is that of mathematics: kinematic de - scriptions, measurable and representable (as his pages show) by numbers and geometry.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY GUERLAC 1968
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Any attempt to separate the often absurd pre - scriptions of the latter from the scientific analysis of the earlier Positive Philosophy was and is doomed to failure.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas WALTER SIMON 1968
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