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If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.
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He cracked, " If it'd been Jack Warner's blood ... I wouldn't have minded so much.
If either player turns up such a card, his opponent has to pay a penalty: four cards for an ace, three for a King, two for a Queen, or one for a Jack.
" If you had Jack Gould in your corner, you could not believe what it meant ," said Cooney decades later.
As an example of the federal bureaucracy involved, Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston said, " If you move a polling place from the Baptist church to the Methodist church, you've got to go through the Justice Department.
When informed that the film was to be made in Africa, Davis refused the part, telling Jack Warner, " If you can't shoot the picture in a boat on the back lot, then I'm not interested.
For example, substituting propositions in natural language for logical variables, the inverse of the conditional proposition, " If it's raining, then Sam will meet Jack at the movies " is " If it's not raining, then Sam will not meet Jack at the movies.
For example, " If it's not raining, then Sam will not meet Jack at the movies " cannot be inferred from " If it's raining, then Sam will meet Jack at the movies.
What can be correctly inferred, is that " If Sam does not meet Jack at the movies, then it is not raining.
If the giant kills Jack, we have missed the whole point of the story .” This observation, however, is from the Cold War perspective, wherein the West are the " good " and the East is " evil ", implying that the story's ending with the British Secret Service agent killed by East German border guards is a victory for Evil.
* " If Your Kisses Can't Hold the Man You Love " w. Jack Yellen m. Vivian Ellis
In 1939, after a series of unsuccessful recordings for Victor Records and Decca Records, The Ink Spots had their first smash hit on Decca Records with " If I Didn't Care ", a song written by Jack Lawrence, that featured Bill Kenny.
McGuinness moved to guitar, his original instrument, contributing the distinctive National Steel Guitar to " If You Gotta Go, Go Now " and " Pretty Flamingo ", and was replaced on bass by Jack Bruce, who had been playing for The Graham Bond Organisation for some time before a recent brief stint with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
If this card is a Jack, the dealer scores two points for " his heels ", also known as " his nibs ".
If Dixon was known to the public, the actor Jack Warner was even better known.
:*" If red touches black, you're okay Jack ; if red touches yellow, you're a dead fellow.
Jack Shaheen, a critic of Hollywood's portrayal of Arabs, believes that " the studio feared financial and possibly political hardships if they made the film's hero Arab ", and claimed that " If no attempt is made to challenge negative stereotypes about Arabs, the misperceptions continue.
If the giant kills Jack, we have missed the whole point of the story.
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If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.
If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.
If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.
If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;
If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.
If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.
If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??
If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.
If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.
If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;
If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.
If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.
If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??
If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.
If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.
If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.
If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.
If and really
I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.
If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
If the President of the United States really feels he won himself a `` lousy job '', then heaven help us all.
If only this could be done more often -- with such heartening results -- many of the earth's `` big problems '' would shrink to the insignificances they really are.
If the dance teachers of America make it their business to prepare their young charges for the gymnastics that must come some day if our schools are really responsible, we will be that much ahead.
If you really insist on knowing their names, an excellent book on the North American species is Bumblebees And Their Ways by O. E. Plath.
If he is not told which of four or five readings was meant for him, he can more readily assess each item in a larger frame: `` Does that statement really sound as if it were for me, significant in my particular life??
If economic integration really shapes congregational life, then evangelism should be a process of extending economic integration.
If you're really serious about working on that story, I'd better take you home ''.
If she and Pete were really getting serious, I'd have to do some hard thinking.
Existence is the principle that gives reality to an essence not the same in any way as the existence: " If things having essences are real, and it is not of their essence to be, then the reality of these things must be found in some principle other than ( really distinct from ) their essence.
If property really does double every seven years then, in 2009, the average Sydney home would have been worth $ 189, 530, 112. 00.
In 1984, Joy Division's bassist Peter Hook named Play Dead, as one of their heirs: " If you listen to a band like Play Dead, who I really like, Joy Division played the same stuff that Play Dead are playing.
If the spheres really are rotating, the tension observed is exactly the centripetal force required by the circular motion.
If Smith really is a big spender but is " not " soft on crime, then both Smith's remark about Jones and Jones's last remark about Smith are paradoxical.
If these assurances are not really serious, there can be grounds for delaying baptism.
He privately expressed concern, noting in the margin of his 1844 Essay, " Better begin with this: If species really, after catastrophes, created in showers world over, my theory false.
If there were really two different memory stores operating in this time frame, one could expect a discontinuity in this curve.
If God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?
If it was really a vassal state, it was contrary to the policy of the Reconquista to allow it to flourish for almost two centuries and a half after the fall of Sevilla in 1248.
If an object with comparable mass to that of the Earth were to fall towards it, then the corresponding acceleration of the Earth really would be observable.
If it was true, this would be a step towards the reunification of Poland, and Henry IV, who was denigrated particularly in the earlier literature, was really a conscious promoter of Poland interests and a true patriot ( apart from the merits of raising the awareness of the problems of ethnic and linguistic diversity in the Middle Ages ).
" If we are really to make the progress that we want, we have to keep the most dangerous weapons that are right here off of our streets ," Daley said.
If some of the stellar magnetic fields are really induced by dynamos, then field strength might be associated with rotation rate.
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