10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLOCKISHNESS»
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blockishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced ...
Complete. Or BLOCKISHNESS, Dvmnzss, on STUPIDITY ou may define
blockishness to be a dulness or slowness of Y the mind; where there be question
to speak or do. A blockish fellow is he, who after he hath cast up an account,
asketh him ...
David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler, 1908
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the ...
Of Blockishness, Dulness, or Stupidity You may define blockishness to be a
dulness or slowness of the mind; where there be question to speak or do. A
blockish fellow is he, who after he hath cast up an account, asketh him who
stands next ...
David Josiah Brewer, 1900
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Commentary upon the Acts of the apostles
23 ;) but he reproveth the blockishness of the people, which abused the temple,
as if it had had God tied to it ; which appeareth more plainly by the testimony of
Isaiah, (Isaiah vi. 6,) which he citeth also ; God, saith he, would have Solomon to
...
Henry Beveridge, Jean Calvin, Calvin Translation Society, 1844
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Microcosmographie: or, A piece of the world discovered in ...
XIV Of Blockishness, Dulness, or Stupidity You may define blockishness to bee a
dulness or slowness of the mind ; where there be question to speak or do. A
blockish fellow is he, who after he hath cast up an account, asketh him who
stands ...
John Earle, Theophrastus, 1899
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Crowned Masterpieces of Literature THAT HAVE ADVANCED ...
And if he be urged to take his oath, turning himselfe to the circumstant multitude:
what need I swear now, having sworn oftentimes heretofore ? ou may define
blockishness to be a dulness or slowness of the mind; where there be question to
...
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An Abridgement of the Institution of the Christian Religion ...
Beastly blockishness to make a figure of God—The glory of God is corrupted with
pie. tures—The voice of God is set against figures—God appeared in likeness of
a man—Why the Cherubims were made-Why the Sersphims were showed to ...
Jean Calvin, Christopher FETHERSTONE, William LAWNE, 1837
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Dictionary of the Welsh Language: Explained in English
Adage. PenglognMd, a. (penglog) Blockbeaded. Pengloged'l, ». m. (penglog)
Blockishness. Penglogeiddrwydd, ». m. (penglog) Blockishness. Pengloges, ». /.
— pi. t. au (penglog) A block- headed female. Pcnglogfa, »./. (penglog) A
golgotha.
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A Dictionary of the English and German, and the German and ...
Et' kann die _ohren nicht verstecten, or die -ohren gucken hervor) 118 cannot
hide his stupixlity or blockishness. 2) NZZ'. a) [in contempt] xi. long ears. b) [the
corner of a leaf in a book turned down] a dogls ear. 0) [a species ofsnaill horned ...
Joseph Leonhard Hilpert, Ernst Friedrich Kärcher, 1857
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The imperial dictionary of the English language: a complete ...
'Blockish Ajax.' Shak. Blocklshly (blok'ish-li), adv. In a blockish or stupid manner. '
So blockUhly ignorant.' 1 lacking t Blockishness (blok'ish-nes), n. Stupidity;
dulness. ' Incurable blockishness.' Whitlock. Blocklike(blok/lik),a. Like a block;
stupid.
John Ogilvie, Charles Annandale, 1885
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The Century dictionary
blockish Destitute of Beda : left only to obscure and blockish Chronicles. Milton,
Hist. Eng., iv. blockishly (blok'ish-li), adv. In a blockish or stupid manner: as, "so
blockishly ignorant," Hakluyt, Voyages, II. ii. 174. blockishness (blok'ish-nes), n.
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLOCKISHNESS»
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Paul Staines On BBC's Hypocrisy Over Clarkson And How …
... at BBC were dying to get rid of Jeremy. He stands for things that the BBC can't stand, you know, car driving, smoking, drinking, blockishness". «Carscoops, Mar 15»
The Novel-Machine
It was, he told a friend, “one of the most curious and amazing books in all literature, for its density, blockishness and general thickness and ... «Wall Street Journal, Jan 15»
Revisiting Marisol, years after her heyday
She focused on telling hand gestures and played up the dissonance between, on the one hand, her sculptures' crude blockishness, and on the ... «Boston Globe, Jul 14»
What would taller buildings mean for DC's architecture?
A careful revision of the height limit could resolve much of the blockishness of DC's architecture, but absent more effective guidelines, there's no ... «Greater Greater Washington, Dec 13»
