10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RESIGNEDNESS»
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resignedness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Friends' library: comprising journals, doctrinal ...
... but I trust in Him who is able to keep and preserve both body and soul. Think of
me, my dear wife, relations and friends, as I do of you more often than the day ;
and in a state of resignedness to the Divine will, do I once more salute my dear ...
William Evans, Thomas Evans, 1838
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The Diamond of Psi Upsilon
C. W. Davis, Associate Editor. THE sun is smiling down through the yellowing
trees. The atmosphere about the Hill is one of resignedness, the resignedness of
those who accept gracefully an inevitable fate. The sun is smiling down on
another ...
Psi Upsilon Fraternity, 1928
3
The Sociology of Religion
Both resignedness and mastery are strategies to maintain or enhance personal
dignity within the frame of reference. The path of mastery Weber calls asceticism,
that of resignedness — or "adjustment," if one wishes to use that term — he calls
...
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The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal ...
... but I trust in Him who is able to keep and preserve both body and soul. Think of
me, my dear wife, relations and friends, as I do of you more often than the day ;
and in a state of resignedness to the Divine will, do I once more salute my dear ...
William Evans, Thomas Evans, 1838
Signifying nothing. (5.5.24-28) For Macbeth life is a play as nightmare, for
Prospero it is a play as dream, but both "actors" point to life's insubstantiality.
Some of Macbeth's heavy resignedness resides in Prospero's "vision." Prospero
is not tired ...
Yet he continued in much resignedness to the will of God, and signified that
people had need not have their day's work to do then, for there was work enough
to bear up under the pain of body, and desired Samuel Waring to remember his
love ...
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Sociological theory and modern society
The specification of diese paths is possible by reference to a polarity of
alternatives which is central in the orientation of all action, namely the polarity
between resignedness in a setting of conditions and attempts to master
conditions.
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Cross purposes; or, The way of the world
I will sit here and listen to you, Lady Harriet, by the hour together, if you will only
condescend to instruct me," continued he, leaning back with mock resignedness
in his chair, "and shall rise, I am certain, much benefited by the discourse, for truly
...
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The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, ...
And have I any encouragement to follow too implicitly the example which my
mother sets of meekness, and resignedness to the wills of others? Is she not for
ever obliged (as she was pleased to hint to me) to be of the forbearing side?
Anna Letitia Aikin Barbauld, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), 1820
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The Letters of Charles Lamb: In which Many Mutilated Words ...
Where be the tears, The sobs, and forc'd suspensions of the breath, And all the
dull desertions of the heart, With which I hung o'er my dear mother's corse .F
Where be the blest subsidings of the storm Within, the sweet resignedness of
hope ...
Charles Lamb, Henry Howard Harper, Richard Garnett, 1905
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RESIGNEDNESS»
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resignedness is used in the context of the following news items.
'We are NDA, won't resign', as 2 more join Sushma, Raje
... seemed to be not in any mood of resignedness, so to speak. "Why should Raje resign? On what ground? For signing a document? No such thing will happen. «Bangalore Mirror, Jun 15»
Direction and Misdirection: An Appreciation of Mike Nichols, 1931 …
There was thus about Nichols a resignedness to difficulty, but also to pleasantness. They were both unavoidable. No surprise he shrugged a lot. In his life, as in ... «Vulture, Nov 14»
A Backstage View of How People Transform Into Monsters for Knott's …
"They like to scare me," he declared in fond resignedness. "I'm an easy target." 2014-09-22-CostumeRacks.JPG. A few of the many costume racks in the ... «Huffington Post, Sep 14»
Joanna Scanlan: 'I've never even tried to be funny'
The same could of course be said of Sister Den and her peers in Getting On, which marries Beckettian mordancy with a very English resignedness – “I can't go ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 14»
Ed Gillespie: Republican Voters Resigned To Immigration Reform
"The instinctive resistance to immigration reform amongst Republican primary voters seems like it may be giving way to an instinctive resignedness to it," ... «Huffington Post, Mar 13»
