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«The talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female.»
Author: Henry Tilney
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peculiarly
«By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
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appeal, argued, at any cost, cheat, claims, confuse, decorous, disputes, fairly, frank, General Public, oddly, Old Course, patiently, peculiarly, persuade, public works, scholars, scholarship, sex appeal, standards, worldly
«The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency-half tiger, half poet.»
«Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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Conscience,
Influence,
Mankind,
Work
| Keywords:
carry on, exert, peculiarly
«HOSTILITY, n. A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth's overpopulation. Hostility is classified as active and passive; as (respectively) the feeling of a woman for her female friends, and that which she entertains for all the rest of her sex.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
entertains, hostility, overpopulation, passive, peculiarly, respectively
«ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abasement, addressing, appropriate, customary, decent, employee, employer, peculiarly
«My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its conseq»
«October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.»
«To begin with Ireland, the most western part of the continent, the natives are peculiarly remarkable for their gaiety and levity of their disposition ; the English, transplanted there, in time lose their serious melancholy air, and become gay and tho»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
gaieties, gaiety, gay and, peculiarly, the continent, Tho, transplant, transplanted, transplants
«Death is dreadful, but in the first springtime of youth, to be snatched forcibly from the banquet to which the individual has but just sat down is peculiarly appalling»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
appalling, banquet, dreadful, forcibly, peculiarly, snatched, springtime
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