10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PEDANTRIES»
Discover the use of
pedantries in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pedantries and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities.
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Illustrated Encyclopaedia of World Histiry
Nay, the pedantries of classicism itself were sometimes mocked at in this society.
' I am grateful to M. d'Aubignac,' said the king's brother, ' for following so faithfully
the rules of Aristotle, but I cannot forgive the rules of Aristotle for having made ...
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Gateway to the Great Books
So likewise to his third parliament, in similar rebuke for their pedantries and
obstinacies. Most rude, chaotic, all these speeches are; but most earnest-looking.
You would say, it was a sincere helpless man; not used to speak the great
inorganic ...
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc, 1990
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Valmiki-Ramayana(www.islam.co.cc)
parituSTam+munim+j~naatvaa= contended, sage, perceiving; gandharvii+
madhura+svaram= gandharva female, in melodious, voice; uvaaca+parama+
priitaa= spoke, much, delightedly; vaakya + j~naa + vaakya+kovidam=
pedantries, knower ...
IslamKotob, Valmiki Ramayana
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The Miscellaneous Works, in Prose and Verse, of George ...
It happerts, whimsically enough, that he, as well as you, censures both Schools
and Universities for their pedantries— that he ridicules with you the dead
languages of the former; that he inveighs against thelogick,and me'aphysicksof
the latter ...
George Hardinge, John Nichols, 1818
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Pedagogy: Disturbing History, 1820-1930
133 The narrow pedantries of monastic erudition. 1864 BURTON Scot Abr. I. i. 19
A series of feudal pedantries. 2. Undue insistence on forms or details; slavish
adherence to rule, theory, or precedent, in connexion with a particular profession
...
Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori, 2003
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The Major Works of Heinrich Von Kleist
His anxious questioning often produces the youthful pedantries which have
unnerved some of his critics. Ostensibly, Kleist was steeped in the eudaemonistic
canons of a popular and somewhat outdated phase of Enlightenment thought.
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The Degenerate Muse: American Nature, Modernist Poetry, and ...
Pedantries, on all this ground, were anathema; and if our dear parent had at all
minded his not being consistent, and had entertained about us generally less
passionate an optimism (not an easy but an arduous state in him moreover), ...
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A Small Boy and Others: A Critical Edition
Pedantries, on all this ground, were anathema; and if our dear parent had at all
minded his not being consistent, and had entertained about us generally less
passionate an optimism (not an easy but an ar- duous state in him moreover,) he
...
Henry James, Peter Collister, 2011
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The Biblical Illustrator - Jonah
How particular some of us are about these little pedantries of morality! Many of us
are making up by pedantries what we are wanting in the principles of our life. We
have good points without having a good soul; we have beautiful characteristics ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PEDANTRIES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pedantries is used in the context of the following news items.
Roland Denis: "Chavez Didn't Dare to Do What He Had to Between …
This indeed makes all of the sense in the world to study and take on instead of more intellectual pedantries selling world salvation. Was Hugo ... «Venezuelanalysis.com, Jun 15»
'The Political Bubble' by Mark Latham
... have the same problem. There's a place to exchange pedantries with Gerard Henderson, and that place is the Correspondence section of Media Watch Dog. «The Monthly, Sep 14»
Save Footnotes
... Menand noted that “the decorums of citation are the arbitrary residue of ancient pedantries whose raisons d'être are long past reconstructing. «The New Yorker, Sep 14»
Henry Cecil, by Brough Scott - review
These pedantries aside, I raise my hat to Brough Scott, a sportsman turned writer for whom my admiration knows no bounds. What does make ... «Spectator.co.uk, May 13»
Poll: Which grammar rules would you ban?
However, the idea got members of the Telegraph Arts and Entertainment desks thinking – what grammatical and spelling pedantries would we ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 13»
You can't capture majesty without terror
These are pedantries, of course, but pedantry is part of the nature of a constitutional monarchy. The Queen goes to huge efforts to get ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 13»
Recipe: venison chilli
I am fully aware of the minefield that lies before a food writer when writing about chilli (even the spelling of that word has its pedantries and ... «Financial Times, Dec 12»
Imagining a universe for Ian McEwan
... task for his lightweight analogy between moral and Heisenbergian uncertainties. In the original version, Beard skewers him with pedantries. «New Scientist, Mar 10»
The Bizarre Activism of Kurt Daims
... whose mind is incessantly preoccupied with the myriad, aimless pedantries that periodically offer those of his ilk reasons for their existence. «American Thinker, Feb 08»
The Butterfly Effect
Of course, this film sparks the logical pedantries that film geeks post on their favourite websites. How does Evan remember each preceding ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Mar 04»
