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It starts off with a satirical learned encomium after the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian, whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin, a piece of virtuoso foolery ; it then takes a darker tone in a series of orations, as Folly praises self-deception and madness and moves to a satirical examination of pious but superstitious abuses of Catholic doctrine and corrupt practices in parts of the Roman Catholic Church — to which Erasmus was ever faithful — and the folly of pedants ( including Erasmus himself ).
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Initially a study of systems of polynomial equations in several variables, the subject of algebraic geometry starts where equation solving leaves off, and it becomes even more important to understand the intrinsic properties of the totality of solutions of a system of equations, than to find a specific solution ; this leads into some of the deepest areas in all of mathematics, both conceptually and in terms of technique.
If sugars are heated so that all water of crystallisation is driven off, then caramelization starts, with the sugar undergoing thermal decomposition with the formation of carbon, and other breakdown products producing caramel.
When a machine starts sending out too many scans, it is a sign that it has been infected, allowing administrators to take it off line and check it for malware.
The board starts off with a portion of the map left blank: when players expand into the blank region, terrain hexes are drawn at random from a supply and placed in the empty space, and, if a land hex is " discovered ", a number token may be assigned.
Before Lanier took over, fans were accustomed to Houston's occasional slow starts, but with Lanier leading the way, Houston got off to a hot start, winning 13 of their first 19 contests.
His The Histories starts in 264 BC and finishes off in 146 BC.
During glottal closure, the air flow is cut off until breath pressure pushes the folds apart and the flow starts up again, causing the cycles to repeat.
When the male springbok is showing off his strength to attract a mate, or to ward off predators, he starts off in a stiff-legged trot, jumping up into the air with an arched back every few paces and lifting the flap along his back.
However, back-up quarterback Mike Livingston of Southern Methodist University fame engineered five wins of the next six starts, with Dawson coming off the bench in the second half of the sixth to clinch the win.
She starts off her speech by giving a little background about her own life.
The song starts off with a heavy crescendo of woodwinds and low strings playing the famous Tomb Raider melody, and then breaks off into an almost playful arc, featuring parts of the harp composition from the Tomb Raider theme.
The hop starts with the athlete jumping from the take off board on one leg, which for descriptive purposes will be the right leg.
Every subsequent round starts with the " strongest link "— the player with the most correct answers — from the previous round, unless that person has been voted off, in which case the second strongest answers first.
Estragon wants to hear an old joke about a brothel, which Vladimir starts but cannot finish, as he is suddenly compelled to rush off and urinate.
* November 15 – American Civil War – Sherman's March to the Sea begins: Union General Sherman burns Atlanta and starts to move south, causing extensive devastation to crops and mills and living off the land.
The festival on the Azores biggest island starts off with a black tie grand ball, then and heats up with Latin music at the recently restored Coliseu Micaelense.
In the PS1 game Final Fantasy IX, the lead protagonist, Zidane, starts off travelling with a group of thieves called Tantalus.
The game starts off with simple training levels, where you are told how to play and how to get around the first corners.
It starts off with a grant of land, at Peppering, by Nunna to Berhfrith probably for the foundation of a minster.
** MAG: Massive Action Game ( 2010 ) The second war of the S. V. E. R starts off in 2020
Vertical, from top to bottom, in the first column, Cardine starts off with neumes representing a single note, then two -, three-and four-note groups and many compound neumes and ornamental neumes.
The TDMA frame starts off with a 20. 32 ms period used for simplex messaging to devices such as pagers and to alert Iridium phones of an incoming call, followed by the four upstream slots and four downstream slots.
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Good service starts with product design and planning: Many products seem to be designed for a production economy, not for a service one.
and independent silhouettes are apt to coincide with the recognizable contours of the subject from which a picture starts ( if it does start from a subject ).
The twenty-three ( or twenty-two with the Paynes themselves omitted ) provided merely a place to start, and their identification was the barest of starts.
-- Congress starts another week tomorrow with sharply contrasting forecasts for the two chambers.
The Dallas Texans were back home Monday with their third victory in four American Football League starts -- a 19-12 triumph over the Denver Broncos -- but their visit will be a short one.
Each meeting starts with a prayer, offered spontaneously by one member of the group.
They are definitely in the same room with you, but your head starts to swing as though you were sitting on the very edge of a tennis court watching a spirited volley.
Dr. Lyttleton backs the theory that we live in an electric universe and this theory starts with the behavior of protons and electrons.
A lawyer traditionally starts an oral argument to any appellate court with the words " May it please the court.
Each stage starts with a few asteroids drifting in random directions on the screen.
* Dysfunction of the spinocerebellum ( vermis and associated areas near the midline ) presents itself with a wide-based " drunken sailor " gait ( called truncal ataxia ), characterised by uncertain starts and stops, lateral deviations, and unequal steps.
Casuistry does not begin with theory, rather it starts with the immediate facts of a real and concrete case.
The oxidation pathway starts with the removal of the amino group by a transaminase, the amino group is then fed into the urea cycle.
Much of the façade is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles ( trencadís ) that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues.
At the end of the game there is a " Pyramid " which starts with a three-letter word.
* 1984 – The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh
It starts again with Poppaea as the motive behind the murder.
The novel starts with an imaginative description of the evolution of this superintelligence through exponentially accelerating developmental stages, culminating in a transcendent, nigh-omnipotent power that is unfathomable to mere humans.
" But in the original, the sentence starts not with the name Crantor but with the ambiguous He, and whether this referred to Crantor or to Plato is the subject of considerable debate.
Fermat always started with an algebraic equation and then described the geometric curve which satisfied it, while Descartes starts with geometric curves and produces their equations as one of several properties of the curves.
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The water system starts with rain water, processed for drinking, then washing, then plant watering, then toilet flushing, and finally black water is recycled again for more plant watering.
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