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To this end, the first and longest section of the tract cites all the laws enacted since the Revolution to defend England against the `` Arbitrary Power of a Popish Prince ''.
The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;
and this first section was somehow preserved ( there are always these annoying little mysteries about the actual facts of Malraux's life ) when the Gestapo destroyed the rest.
A good many pages of the first section are taken up with an account of the dogged determination of the prisoners to write to their wives and families -- even when it becomes clear that the Germans are simply allowing the letters to blow away in the wind.
The Secretary of the Interior or any duly authorized representative shall be entitled to admission to, and to require reports from the operator of, any metal or nonmetallic mine which is in a State ( excluding any coal or lignite mine ), the products of which regularly enter commerce or the operations of which substantially affect commerce, for the purpose of gathering data and information necessary for the study authorized in the first section of this Act.
The salary schedule permits remuneration greater than the average paid to the first level of engineering supervision ( engineering section head ).
The writer began this special class by explaining his background thinking for creating such a section in the first place.
The first reason would never apply to a reorganization transfer which meets the conditions of section 381(a), which is the only type presently under discussion.
The first section of this publication appeared in 1948 and the last supplement in 1960.
He introduced regular briefing sessions for district fire wardens and first aid training for section wardens.
The first section of the last chapter is organized as an outline of various skeptical arguments.
In September 1940 a section of the No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment Company was detached to General Wavell ’ s ground forces during the first offensive against the Italians in Egypt.
By the 19th century orchestral music in Europe had standardized the string section into the following homogeneous instrumental groups: first violins, second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses.
Enumerating the three persons of the Trinity ( i. e., Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit ), the first section of the creed ascribes the divine attributes to each individually.
Naming the central ray passing through the entrance pupil the axis of the pencil or principal ray, it can be said: the rays of the pencil intersect, not in one point, but in two focal lines, which can be assumed to be at right angles to the principal ray ; of these, one lies in the plane containing the principal ray and the axis of the system, i. e. in the first principal section or meridional section, and the other at right angles to it, i. e. in the second principal section or sagittal section.
The first section concludes with a study of Jews as a chosen people.
The Capone family immigrated to the United States, first immigrating from Italy to Rijeka, Croatia in 1893, traveling on a ship to the U. S and finally settled at 95 Navy Street, in the Navy Yard section of downtown Brooklyn.
He was in the chorus and played the tenor saxophone, winning first chair in the state band's saxophone section.
The first section of the poem, ( the first fitt ), helps the poet illustrate the settings of the poem by introducing Hrothgar ’ s lineage.
Scholars have identified several passages in Jeremiah that can be understood as “ confessions ;” they occur in the first section of the book ( chapters 1-25 ) and are 11. 18-12. 6, 15. 10-21, 17. 14-18, 18. 18-23, and 20. 7-18.

first and Enquiry
The most important of his books are two large botanical treatises, Enquiry into Plants, and On the Causes of Plants, which constitute the most important contribution to botanical science during antiquity and the Middle Ages, the first systemization of the botanical world ; on the strength of these works some call him the " father of botany.
Theophrastus ' Enquiry into Plants was first published in a Latin translation by Theodore Gaza, at Treviso, 1483 ; in its original Greek it first appeared from the press of Aldus Manutius at Venice, 1495 – 98, from a third-rate manuscript, which, like the majority of the manuscripts that were sent to printers ' workshops in the fifteenth and sixteenth century, has disappeared.
It was during his 25 years in Liverpool that he published his first work, Rationale of Religious Enquiry, which caught the attention of many religious and philosophical figures.
The first modern author to have published a treatise explicitly advocating the absence of government was William Godwin in An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice ( 1793 ); though he did not use the word anarchism, some today regard him as the " founder of philosophical anarchism ".
In his youth he was interested in early church history, and published anonymously in 1691 An Enquiry into the Constitution, Discipline, Unity and Worship of the Primitive Church that flourished within the first Three Hundred Years after Christ.
Haywood ’ s first novel, Love in Excess or The Fatal Enquiry ( 1719 – 1720 ) touches on themes of education and marriage.
William Godwin, " the author of the Enquiry Concerning Political Justice ( 1793 ), the first systematic text of libertarian politics, was a Calvinist minister who began by rejecting Christianity, and passed through deism to atheism and then what was later called agnosticism .".
Callicott traces the conceptual foundations of the Leopold land ethic first back to Charles Darwin ’ s analysis of the “ moral sense ” in the Descent of Man and ultimately to David Hume ’ s grounding of ethics in the “ moral sentiments ” espoused in An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals.
Her identification with feminism and her focus on bioethics both occurred “ by accident ” during the writing of her first book, The Sceptical Feminist: A Philosophical Enquiry ( Routledge, 1980 ; Penguin, 1982 ) – bioethics being central to the abortion debate.
That he Fraunces was the Person that first discovered the Conspiracy which was formed in the Year 1776 against the Life of his Excellency General Washington and that the Suspicions Which were Entertained of his agency in that Important Discovery accationed occasioned a public Enquiry after he was made a Prisoner on which the want of positive Proof alone preserved his Life.

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In the first part, Hume discusses how the objects of inquiry are either " relations of ideas " or " matters of fact ", which is roughly the distinction between analytic and synthetic propositions.
This position is a more refined version of the theorem first discovered by David Hume.
Induction became associated with Hume only in the early twentieth century ; John Maynard Keynes may have been the first to draw the connection.
In it, Hume contends that polytheism, not monotheism, was " the first and most ancient religion of mankind ".
* the writings of David Hume and Immanuel Kant ( and later, Charles Darwin ), which increased doubt about the first cause argument and the argument from design, turning many ( though not all ) potential deists towards atheism instead
The first botanical observations of the island were made by Hume in 1883, when the coconut plantations had been in operation for a full century.
The first Europeans to encounter the river were Hamilton Hume and William Hovell, who crossed the river where Albury now stands in 1824: Hume named it the Hume River after his father.
ABC, Hume and Papazian realized that for the scene depicting the nuclear blast, they would have to use state-of-the-art special effects and they took the first step by hiring some of the best special effects people in the business to draw up some storyboards for the complicated blast scene.
Hume had studied under Francis Hutcheson and it was he who first introduced a key utilitarian phrase.
It was first sighted by Europeans during an expedition of Hamilton Hume and William Hovell in 1824, when the area, first named " Swampy " was noted that agricultural settlement.
The township is named after the first white settler in the area, Walter Hume, who arrived and built the first house in the 1850s.
Township government was organized in 1860, with the election being held at Hume's store and with Hume being elected the first supervisor.
The first known white settler in the Hume area was Peter Duncan in 1835.
Australia's first pro-voluntary euthanasia billboard, on the Hume Highway in western Sydney ( Australia ) | SydneyIn 2010, Nitschke planned to use billboards in Australia to feature the message " 85 per cent of Australians support voluntary euthanasia but our government won't listen ".
In this period of his life he met and worked with Charlie Hume ( Mason Adams ) for the first time at the San Francisco Call-Bulletin.
Along with Hovell in 1824, Hume was part of an expedition that first took an overland route from Sydney to Port Phillip near the site of present day Melbourne.
There were few opportunities for education in Australia during the first ten years of the nineteenth century, and Hamilton Hume received most of his education from his mother.
David Hume made what he considered to be the first proper attempt at trying to apply Bacon's scientific method to political subjects ( Hume 1896, intro.
At first, Hume used mainly bright colours, but later pieces have used more muted tones.

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