Word Finder - writings

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Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.

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Something written, such as a document, article or book.

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The process of representing a language with symbols or letters.

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A work of an author.

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The style of writing of a person.

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I can't read your writing.

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(as a modifier) Intended for or used in writing.

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a writing table

She walked into the chamber, awed by the drawings and writings on the walls.

Maximilian was also a writer of books, and his writings display his inordinate vanity.

I knew Quinn kept cryptic notes of machine settings and results but I was sure the majority of his writings remained in Keene.

Dean too was curious about Annie Quincy's writings but decided not to join the pair.

Delbriick's writings are chiefly concerned with the history of the art of war, his most ambitious work being his Geschichte der Kriegskunst im Rahmen der politischen Geschichte (first section, Das Altertum, 1900; second, Reiner and Germanen, 1902; third, Das Mittelalter, 1907).

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau both climbed the peak multiple times and praised it in their writings.

Why would a woman hide her writings from her husband?

I sure wish this young lady wrote a date on her writings.

My Donnie's been showing me her writings.

These different tasks, which philosophy had to fulfil, mark pretty accurately the aims of Lotze's writings, and the order in which they were published.

The object of those writings was to establish the all-pervading rule of mechanism.

Appended to this volume is a complete list of Lotze's writings, compiled by Professor Rehnisch of Gottingen.

To understand this series of Lotze's writings, it is necessary to begin with his definition of philosophy.

Much in this direction is said by Lotze in various passages of his writings; anything complete, however, on the subject is wanting.

But this formal agreement includes material differences, and the spirit which breathes in Lotze's writings is more akin to the objects and aspirations of the idealistic school than to the cold formalism of Herbart.

Vico's writings suffer through their author's not having followed a regular course of studies, and his style is very involved.

By his writings he maintained his hold on his numerous followers in Holland and Friesland.

These monotonous writings, all in Dutch, flowed in a continual stream from 1524 (though none is extant before 1529) and amounted to over 200 in number.

If I could have foreseen what a stir my writings would make, I think I should have jealously guarded the privacy of this sanctuary where, till then, I perhaps was the only soul who had fed the artist's visions and the poet's dreams. But I had no such anticipation; I never gave it a thought.

The Everard of the Lettres introduces us to a new and for the time a dominant influence on the life and writings.

Between them they rendered into Hebrew all the chief Jewish writings of the middle ages.

Indeed all the extant writings by which he has earned his place as a poet and translator belong to this period.

The murder of Kotzebue by Karl Sand, however, shocked him out of his extreme revolutionary views, and from this time he tended, under the influence of the writings of Hamann and Herder, more and more in the direction of conservatism and romanticism, until at last he ended, in a mood almost of pessimism, by attaching himself to the extreme right wing of the forces of reaction.

The view (traceable no doubt to the Aristotelian definition) that equity mitigates the hardships of the law where the law errs through being framed in universals, is to be found in some of the earlier writings.

The writings of Propertius are noted for their difficulty and their disorder.

A just appreciation of the genius and the writings of Propertius is made sensibly more difficult by the condition in which his works have come down to us.

A full list of Collier's writings is given by the Rev. Wm.

Artisans came from a great distance to view and honour the image of the popular writer whose best efforts had been dedicated to the cause and the sufferings of the workers of the world; and literary men of all opinions gathered round the grave of one of their brethren whose writings were at once the delight of every boy and the instruction of every man who read them.

Besides the last two parts of the Principles of Philosophy, the physical writings of Descartes include the Dioptrics and Meteors, as well as passages in the letters.

At Leiden, Utrecht, Groningen, Franeker, Breda, Nimeguen, Harderwyk, Duisburg and Herborn, and at the Catholic university of Louvain, Cartesianism was warmly expounded and defended in seats of learning, of which many are now left desolate, and by adherents whose writings have for the most part long lost interest for any but the antiquary.

In1859-1860Foucher de Careil published in two parts some unedited writings of Descartes from copies taken by Leibnitz from the original papers.

The writings of Thomas are of great importance for philosophy as well as for theology, for by nature and education he is the spirit of scholasticism incarnate.

The conception will be made clearer when it is remembered that Aquinas, taught by the mysterious author of the writings of the pseudo-Dionysius, who so marvellously influenced medieval writers, sometimes spoke of a natural revelation, or of reason as a source of truths in themselves mysterious, and was always accustomed to say that reason as well as revelation contained two kinds of knowledge.

All the many writings of Thomas are preparatory to his great work the Summa Theologiae, and show us the progress of his mind training for this his life work.

There is no hint in Ezekiel's writings of the grandiose conception of Isa.

The relations between the writings of Ezekiel and those of Jeremiah is not clear.

The growth of legends and traditional identifications can be traced in the writings of the pilgrims who have visited the town from Jerome's time till our own.

He was specially devoted to the Virgin Mary, and wrote an Officium Beatae Virginis, in addition to many letters, sermons, and other writings.

Macdonald at Edinburgh in 1889, and that there is appended to this edition a complete catalogue of all Napier's writings, and their various editions and translations, English and foreign, all the works being carefully collated, and references being added to the various public libraries in which they are to be found.

There seems to be evidence of this in the later writings of the New Testament.

He admits in the sacred writings as in the classics only one acceptation, and that the grammatical, convertible into and the same with the logical and historical.

See Johann Franz Encke, sein Leben and Wirken, von Dr C. Bruhns (Leipzig, 1869), to which a list of his writings is appended.

His later writings were nearly all upon the theory of navigation..

The writings of Josephus give a good idea of the fortifications and buildings of Jerusalem at the time of the siege, and his accurate personal knowledge makes his account worthy of the most careful perusal.

Many of his numerous writings are collected in Poverty and Un-British Rule in India (Igor).

He violently attacked Politian (Poliziano), whose Miscellanea (a collection of notes on classical authors) were declared by Merula to be either plagiarized from his own writings or, when original, to be entirely incorrect.

Among his later writings, besides numerous pamphlets on what was known as "the Apocrypha controversy," are a treatise On the Inspiration of Scripture (1828), which has passed through many editions, and a later Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans (1835), which has been frequently reprinted, and has been translated into French and German.

Phinehas, Eli's son, becomes in later writings the name of a prominent Aaronite priest in the days of the exodus from Egypt.

The older records utilized by the Deuteronomic and later compilers indicate some common tradition which has found expression in these varying forms. Different religious standpoints are represented in the biblical writings, and it is now important to observe that the prophecies of Hosea unmistakably show another attitude to the Israelite priesthood.

The three subjects to which Smith's writings relate are theory of numbers, elliptic functions and modern geometry; but in all that he wrote an "arithmetical" made of thought is apparent, his methods and processes being arithmetical as distinguished from algebraic. He had the most intense admiration of Gauss.