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PRESHEAF MODELS FOR CONSTRUCTIVE SET THEORIES
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Nicola Gambino
Published: 06 October 2005
... defined by Dana Scott in the 1980s. In this work, the author has to overcome the challenges intrinsic to dealing with generalized predicative formal systems rather than impredicative ones. An application to an independence result is discussed. References 1. MacLane, S. and Moerdijk, I. ( 1992...
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4 Nineteenth-Century English Afterlives
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Terence Cave
Published: 01 September 2011
...The chapter begins with Carlyle’s landmark translation of Wilhelm Meister and its preface, which singles Mignon out for lyrical praise. It then passes to Walter Scott’s romance Peveril of the Peak , published in the same decade, where the character Fenella...
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Pride and Preference: A Reply to MacDonald
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William E. Mann
Published: 23 June 2016
...Augustine’s Confessions 2 is revisited, this time in response to Scott MacDonald’s “Petit Larceny, the Beginning of All Sin: Augustine’s Theft of the Pears.” Central to MacDonald’s interpretation are the theses that all sins are cases of preferring lesser goods over greater goods...
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Tuesday, April 23: “Fight, Sir, Fight!”
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John Lockwood and Charles Lockwood
Published: 09 June 2011
...This chapter describes the mood in Washington on April 23, 1861 as Union forces continued to make preparations against the Confederacy. It first looks at the return of only two of the eight men dispatched by General Winfield Scott, commander of the U.S. Army, from the capital. It then cites...
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Historical Fiction and the Fractured Atlantic
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Fiona Robertson
Published: 27 November 2014
... argues that the intertextuality between Charlotte Smith’s novel The Old Manor House (1793), Walter Scott’s Waverley (1814), and his short-story ‘The Tapestried Chamber’ suggests an entirely different plot-line in literary history, in which British defeats during the War...
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Modernism and the International Novel
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Mark Scroggins
Published: 14 February 2014
... Dos Passos's U. S. A. trilogy, Gertrude Stein's Three Lives , Philip Roth's Call It Sleep , William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury , Evelyn Scott's The Wave , and Djuna Barnes's Ryder . Darwin Charles...
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The State of the Country and the Church
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Paul C. Gutjahr
Published: 02 March 2011
... Columbia Theological Seminary Dred Scott Case General Assembly Palmer Benjamin Morgan Princeton Theological Seminary Stephens Alexander H Supreme Court Church of the Confederate States of America Spring Gardner Charles Hodge Constitution James Thornwell Missouri Compromise Henry Boardman Hugh...
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The Annals of the Poor
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Nigel Leask
Published: 24 June 2010
... William Watts Isaac Blackwood’s Magazine Clare John Gilmartin Kevin Gilmour John Hyslop James M nonconformism Poetical Magazine Radcliffe David Hill Struther John Wilson John Duncan Ian Hamilton Elizabeth Paine Tom Scott Sir Walter Coleridge Samuel Taylor Wordsworth William Brome...
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Sanctifying Contracts and Persons: Corporate Organization in America’s “Infant Republics”
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Amanda Porterfield
Published: 22 March 2018
... Beecher Lyman Bushman Richard role in industrialized business Young Brigham Appleton Nathan Lawrence Amos Lowell Francis Cabot impact upon American business and industrialization Panic of 1837 Dalzell Robert and the Dred Scott case Beecher Henry Ward and slavery Emerson Ralph Waldo...
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Intellectual History and the Interdisciplinary Ideal
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Warren Breckman
Published: 14 January 2014
... Leroux Pierre Montaigne Michel de Pascal Blaise Scott Joan Burke Peter Lamb Robert Palonen Kari presentism Skinner Quentin Tully James Cicero Derrida Jacques Force Pierre Pyrrhonian skepticism Catana Leo Kleinberg Ethan Arthur Lovejoy Dominick LaCapra interdisciplinarity eclecticism...
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Published: 20 April 2017
...Chapter 2 analyzes the initial encounter and engagement between James Brown Scott and Alejandro Alvarez and the construction of a hemispheric legal network through the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) and the American Institute of International Law (AIIL), as originally conceived...
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The London Mercury (1919–39) and Other Moderns
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J. Matthew Huculak
Published: 30 May 2013
... Scott-James, who made the magazine look like something recognizably and, by this time, even traditionally ‘modernist’. The longevity of The London Mercury on the British literary scene, compared to the more famous and scintillating ‘little magazines’, confirms its place as an important...
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Legalism in the World, 1907–1913
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Benjamin Allen Coates
Published: 23 June 2016
... legalism Nicholas II White Andrew Dickson Choate Joseph Foster John W McKinley William Permanent Court of Arbitration PCA Scott James Brown Carnegie Andrew judicialists Roosevelt Theodore Root Elihu Barbosa Rui arbitration sovereignty Carnegie Endowment for International Peace codification...
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Traditional Systems of Social Security and Hunger Insurance: Past Achievements and Modern Challenges
Jean-Philippe Platteau
Published: 14 February 1991
... characteristics of the institutions providing social security in the societies under concern; (2) to bring into light the basic principles that their functioning obeys; and (3) to identify the most important problems and limitations to which they are subject. It achieves these objectives adopting the Scott–Popkin...
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Maple Leaf Rag, 1899–1900
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Edward A. Berlin
Published: 19 May 2016
...In addition to joining the musical life of Sedalia, Joplin mentored several young ragtime composers: Arthur Marshall, Scott Hayden, and Brun Campbell. Joplin published his first rag, Original Rags , early in 1899, in Kansas City. Later that year, he published Maple Leaf Rag ...
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Re-Imagining the Practice of Law: Popular Twentieth-Century Fiction by American Lawyer/Authors
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David Ray Papke
Published: 07 April 2005
...This chapter examines the lives and works of five 20th-century American lawyers/authors. These lawyers/authors are Melville Davisson Post, Arthur Train, Erle Stanley Gardner, Scott Turrow, and John Grisham. Though these authors abandoned the practice of law, the practice of law did not depart from...
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Clarification and defence
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John Collins
Published: 29 September 2011
.... In particular, the account on offer will be distinguisged from similar accounts recently offered by Jeff King and Scott Soames. The next chapter will consider matters arising in linguistics about the status of Merge. Chomsky N Gaskin R King J LF Lists Merge Soames S Syntax Sentences Set theory...
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Published: 13 July 2006
..., in particular Kipling, Dickens, and Walter Scott, and her abilities in foreign languages, particularly Danish. Her support of the underdog and dislike of snobbery or pretentiousness, and her moral flexibility are all lauded. Rose's relationship with Percy's friends, especially Cyril Scott and Roger Quilter...
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Inclusion and Exclusion in the British State: Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe and The Fortunes of Nigel
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Alison Lumsden
Published: 18 January 2018
...When we consider questions of literature and union, it is impossible to ignore Walter Scott, whose works have been read repeatedly in terms of their pro-union sympathies. However, recent re-evaluations have recognized more complex dynamics within his poetry and fiction. This chapter examines how...
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Published: 15 March 2012
...Chapter 6 concentrates on public recollections of Scott the author. It begins with an analysis of the strategies Scott used to brand himself as the ‘author of Waverley’, and then goes on to give an account of key public commemorations of his memory: his funeral in 1832, the erection of the enormous...