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David Hume famously argued in A Treatise of Human Nature that people invariably slip between describing that the world is a certain way to saying therefore we ought to conclude on a particular course of action.
Of course the life of God is endless ; but the question is whether, in describing God as aionios, it was intended to describe the duration of his being, or whether some different and larger idea was not contemplated.
* J. C. Wells ' English Accents course Includes class handouts describing Cockney, Scottish, Australian, and Scouse, among other things.
* the Port Phillip myth ( recorded as told to Robert Russell in 1850 ), describing Port Phillip Bay as once dry land, and the course of the Yarra River being once different, following what was then Carrum Carrum swamp.
Statements made during the course of medical treatment, for example, are considered reliable because patients typically have little reason to lie to a doctor while they are being treated, and will generally be accurate in describing their ailments.
He then moves on to the lungs, describing the course of the vena arterialis ( pulmonary artery ) and the arteria venalis ( pulmonary vein ).
" Conspiracy " is perhaps too strong a term to use in describing varied actions taken by disaffected officers and Congressional delegates unhappy with the course of the war.
When describing the intrinsic rotations in the ( e ) reference frame we must of course transform the matrices used to represent the rotations.
Roger Ebert awarded the film four stars out of four, describing Redgrave's performance as " superb ", and praising the work of Oldman and Molina: " The great performances in the movie are, of course, at its center.
* Overcome by events ( or Overtaken by events ), a term used to describing when a planned course of action is no longer relevant due to subsequent events.
Of course it was entirely possible that the computer would send this sequence for other reasons, for example, the sequence might be contained within a text file describing how modems worked.
With the changes in the local economy in Plymouth over the course of the 1980s and 1990s, from the Royal Navy being the major employer to being a university city housing a large number of students from outside the city, the term has developed an additional secondary pejorative sense describing the locals.
) As a radio broadcaster one of Kay's best known trademarks was describing the uniforms of the Yankees and their opponent, this description typically ended with him describing the back of the Yankees ' jersey as having " no name, of course.
In the course of his investigation, a photographic record of a research paper by Villiers describing his theory is discovered on a windowsill of the room, but is found to have been ruined through exposure to sunlight.
The accomplishes this by describing the many beautiful sights the cloud will see on its northward course to the city of Alakā, where his wife awaits his return.
History Today magazine in summer 2006, published an article by Brian James describing how three military historians, Drs Christina Goulter and Gary Sheffield as well as Dr Gordon, who teach on the higher command and staff course at Shrivenham have concluded that it was the Royal Navy, and not the RAF, that prevented a German invasion in 1940.
It is to be noted that Procopius, who tells us how barges were dragged up the river by teams of oxen moving along it, must be describing the towpath, and not either the Via Portuensis or even the Via Campana, which is in many places at quite a considerable distance from the winding course of the river.
Right in the centre of the course, is a grave with the epitaph on the tombstone describing the tale of a 27 year old Foreman of the Erecting Shop who was killed by a tiger near the spot two years after the workshop had been established in 1862.
The lyrics of the song are of a man describing his feelings for a woman with whom he has a long lasting and, of course, intimate relationship (" You're still the one, I want to talk to in bed ; Still the one that turns my head ") and all the reasons why she is " Still the One " for whom he has feelings.
Enter Soyapango to 2. 3 miles west of the city, describing a course from south to north.

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I am not aware of great attention by any of these authors or by the psychotherapeutic profession to the role of literary study in the development of conscience -- most of their attention is to a pre-literate period of life, or, for the theologians of course, to the influence of religion.
This understanding, of course, may in its turn take many forms and some of these -- especially those most interesting to the student of comparative literature -- are essentially historical.
Each will decide on his own course somewhere between these two extreme cases according to the sense of responsibility which is determined for him by the particular circumstances of his own life.
Of course, these works are not comparable, even though the same brain conceived them.
We may then dismiss the time difference between these courses and the usual four year course of the interior design student as not having serious bearing on the subject.
There are, of course, certain times during the 24-hour daily cycle when most of these conditions will be met.
He found, as he had suspected, a general consensus that perhaps over half of the present functionally designed course was not really functional for these students.
One cannot assume, of course, that all these accumulated meanings were inherent in the stereotype at the beginning of the therapy, or at any one time later on when the stereotype was uttered ; ;
The typical appearance of these various mechanisms is illustrated in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, which are single frame enlargements of high speed movies taken during the course of the knife removal process.
Of course, there is an element of training here: these gifted people, by concentration, study, guidance, have learned to develop their power.
Students of the college who are candidates for the A.B. degree and can satisfy the academic requirements of the medical and business schools, may enter either of these associated schools at the beginning of senior year, thus completing the two-year postgraduate course in one year.
Ulyate made no comment but his face showed what he thought of poking ropes over lions' heads with poles, and of course these were the lions of fifty years ago, not the gentler ones of today, and this one was angry, with good reason.
`` This very seldom happens in this class or in other cases, and of course all of these matters led to a volume and an expense of the record beyond what ordinarily would occur ''.
And these days, of course, in terms increasingly vivid and jubilant, it speaks of the end of that domination.
Anyone who now doubted that a personal duel was under way had only to watch how these exceptionally gifted golfers were playing this most difficult golf course.
Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — By what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?
Course of the aorta in the thorax ( anterior view ), starting posterior to the main pulmonary artery, but then anterior to the right pulmonary arteries, the human trachea | trachea and the esophagus, but then turning posteriorly to course dorsally to these structures.
In the course of these travels he made a point of complying with all local enactments, even where such compliance laid him open to the charge of inconsistency ( Yer.
Over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, these amalgamated or were bought by competitors until only a handful of larger companies remained ( see railway mania ).
For a girl in puberty, during thelarche ( the breast-development stage ), the female sex hormones ( principally estrogens ) promote the sprouting, growth, and development of the breasts, in the course of which, as mammary glands, they grow in size and volume, and usually rest on her chest ; these development stages of secondary sex characteristics ( breasts, pubic hair, etc.
This revision modified the traditional psalm scheme so that, while all 150 psalms were used in the course of the week, these were said without repetition.
Of course, some of these upstarts may then join with the established networks to help deter any other new competitors.
However, the instability in the ratio between the two grew over the course of the 19th century, with the increase both in supply of these metals, particularly silver, and of trade.
In the course of the proof, he made use of a lemma that from any countable cover of the interval by smaller open intervals, it was possible to select a finite number of these that also covered it.
The latter course seems to have been seldom adopted ; the ordinary mode of inflicting the punishment was simply this: the censors in their new lists omitted the names of such senators as they wished to exclude, and in reading these new lists in public, quietly omitted the names of those who were no longer to be senators.

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