10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAPTIOUSNESS»
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captiousness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Maxims, Characters, and Reflections: Critical, Satirical, ...
Delicacy, which by an exquisite sense seels that a certain refinement is due to
itself from others, is not only urged by that very sense to bestow it more freely
upon them, but is also guarded against requiring more than is its due :
Captiousness, ...
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Some thoughts concerning education
Captiousness is another fault opposite to civility, not only because it often
produces ... , . . CAPTIOUSNESS. misbecoming and provoking expressions and
carriage, but because it is a tacit accusation and reproach of some incivility, taken
notice ...
John Locke, John Milton,
1830
CAPTIOUSNESS— CENSURE. Judge not, that ye be not judged. Matthew, vii, 1.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, and considerest not
ths beam that is in thine own eye ? Matthew, vii, 3. Let us not therefore judge ...
REV H. HASTINGS WELD,
1869
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The Church of England Magazine
However, this captiousness is a quality which, like jealousy or suspicion, nothing
can disarm. It converts every word that is said into food to minister to its appetite.
The things spoken, which have no more reference to an individual or his ...
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An apology for the conduct of the Gordons: containing the ...
... which fuppofing them to exift, are me&fured not by reafon but pride. £) e- licacy
finds its refourfe in itfelf for real injuries, Captiousness is wounded by imaginary
ones: Delicacy is fenfible and exalted exalted, Captious ness foolifh and mean.
Loudoun Harcourt Gordon, Lockhart Gordon, Great Britain. Assizes (Oxford, England),
1804
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The Importance of Civility
In this book those three undesirables are specifically referred to as cacology,
cathexis, and captiousness and are discussed individually below. CACOLOGY
One of the definitions for the word cacology is socially unacceptable speech.
Usually ...
T S Bogorad, Terry Bogorad,
2006
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Nox Philologiae: Aulus Gellius and the Fantasy of the Roman ...
Are these the stores of a uir bonus who is a bonus agricola or those of a luxuriant
sensualist who wallows in the exotic and the antique? Captiousness is a critical
conundrum and a quasi-legal one, then. Oh, but what is captiousness, you ask?
... and biasses of her mind, but never we think by a maligmint. and. fault-finding.
spirit. There. is. none. of. the. captiousness. too common in British travellers, who
are'annoyed by the strangeness 1837.] Miss Martineau's Society in America. 229.
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The North British Review
to. resent,. the. nugatory. and. heartless. captiousness. of. recent. disbelief. ' . . . It
is one thing to make frank and full allowance for the human element in the
Scriptures, and quite another to forget or explain away the co-presence of the
divine.
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The Conquerors of the New World and Their Bondsmen: Being a ...
There. is. much. here. of. the. usual. captiousness. to. • Faria y Sousa, torn, i, part i
, cap. i. be found in bystanders' criticisms upon action, mixed with a ao
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6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAPTIOUSNESS»
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Review of Books
... for the captiousness found in Ó Cadhain's graveyard), and sometimes as overheard bits of carping. Here, tombstone material, French lessons ... «Irish America, Mar 15»
Twitter has become anti-social media
... the worst developments to happen to sports consumption, serving as an online autobahn of vitriol, snark, schadenfreude, and captiousness. «Boston Globe, Nov 14»
New Film About Liberal Gadfly Gore Vidal Totally Misses the Point
... ones—and, unlike Chomsky, the genuine if snobbishly customized devotion to a Platonic ideal of America underneath his own captiousness. «The American Prospect, Jun 14»
I Fought PBS and PBS Won
It wasn't just captiousness, honest. I'd been reared on mold-breaking pop critics who taught me to be suspicious of gentility as a comforting ... «The American Prospect, Jan 12»
Open Book: Among Others, by Jo Walton
The reader can safely determine that the adolescent aspects of Morwenna's character are recalled or imagined — her captiousness for ... «National Post, Feb 11»
Nominee For US Envoy To Azerbaijan Takes Two Steps Forward …
... which once again shows that the American political elite with which captiousness relate to this issue. The debate is over the appointment of a ... «RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Sep 10»