10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAKE SOMETHING UPON ONESELF»
Discover the use of
take something upon oneself in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
take something upon oneself and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
take (something) upon oneself to take responsibility for (something): / took it upon
myself to make sure she arrived safely. take up the cudgels see cudgel. take up
with (someone) (inf) to become friendly with or associate with (someone): She ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
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A Portuguese-English Dictionary
person in charge; — de neg&cios, charge d'affaires, encarregar (v.t.) to charge,
entrust (de, with). — se de, to take charge of; to take (something) upon oneself,
encarreirar (v.l.) to direct, steer, guide (another's course or actions). encarrilar (v.)
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James Lumpkin Taylor, Priscilla Clark Martin, 1970
... a. take control over something or someone b. make someone charge another 4
. take something upon oneself a. carry something on one's own b. take up the
responsibility of doing something 5. set one's heart upon a. determined to do or
get ...
Bhattacharya Supriya, 2009
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Chambers Universal Learners' Dictionary
take (something) upon oneself to take responsibility (for) : / took it upon myself lo
make sure she arrived safely. take up with vtfus ( in/) to become friendly with ; to
associate with : She has taken up with some very strange people. - See also be ...
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Unquiet Understanding: Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics
Hamacher observes that understanding means “to be able,” “to have the capacity
,” to “take something upon oneself” and “to be in charge of it.”9 These
suggestions are innocent enough, but difficulties arise when it be- comes clear
that in ...
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Provocations to Reading: J. Hillis Miller and the Democracy ...
One may hear also an echo of the expression "to take something upon oneself,"
that is, to take responsibility for it. The narrator's phrasing could thus be heard
advancing a rather unconvincing denial of his responsibility for Bartleby's arrest.
Barbara L. Cohen, Dragan Kujundzic, 2005
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A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition
(é1r1-.) (1) To endure evil with fortitude, resolution or patience, to bear up, hold
out, submit ( ='rh1iw (3)): 6161,1101 '8011011010: 10 162. Cf. v 20.—(2) To take
(something) upon oneself, dare or boldly undertake (it) ( =1-Mw (6)): ail/610.1011
...
Richard John Cunliffe, 2012
... (Cairo 1335/1917), of fate; as-Safadi, Nakt at-hzmydn 226 (Cairo 1329/ 1911);
Yaqflt, Irshdd 6.137/16.209 and 7.225/19.245; J3! fool 6, fn. 3; 7, fn. 1. p: M J; 3.2'
to stuff oneself (eating) 80, fn. 1; to take something upon oneself for someone ...
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Premises: Essays on Philosophy and Literature from Kant to Celan
To understand means "to be able" "to have the capacity" "to take something upon
oneself?' "to be in charge of it." The proposition concerning understanding thus
means, in its third version, that understanding requires the ability to be performed
...
10
A Reader's Lexicon of the Apostolic Fathers:
5v)(09 20 ° 23 doubting, hesitating, double-minded elonopeúoual. 3 ° 3 to соте
in, enter êKTpÍßw 6 ° 6 to wear out, drive out êïLßâÄÄw 2 ° 3 to take something
upon oneself, undertake Мптёш 13 ° 17 to vex, irritate, offend, insult МЛН], 23 °
24 ...
Daniel B. Wallace, Brittany C. Burnette, Terri Darby Moore, 2013
