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  • speech form δεδημηγόρηκα "I have delivered orations" or a pluperfect one ἐδεδημηγορήκειν "I had delivered orations", the interpretation being left exclusively...
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  • os- against Latin ob obduracy, obdurate, obduration, obfuscate, oblique, obliquity, obstinate, obstreperous, occur, offend, omit, oppose, ostensible...
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  • Chinese, recognized two kinds of tones: the level (平 píng) tone and the oblique (仄 zè) tones, a category consisting of the rising (上 sháng) tone, the departing...
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    prayers like the Angelus and the Regina coeli there is a versicle before the oration. "Preces". Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol. 1. Oxford University...
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    Affinity. Congressus Nonus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum I: Orationes plenariae & Orationes publicae. Tartu. Branch, Hannele (28 April 2009). "Who's afraid...
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    affairs at Princeton University Julian Zelizer called the speech a "powerful oration for a contentious moment in national politics", Georgetown University professor...
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    expensive marbles in previous centuries. Pliny the Younger, in a laudatory oration delivered in 100 AD in Trajan's honour, described the surrounding landscape...
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    proponent on laissez-faire economics in the late 18th century, but dealing obliquely with the 2007–2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession; in the premiere...
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  • Thumbnail for 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
    The gathering featured speakers from various backgrounds who gave public orations commemorating Hu and discussed social problems. However, it was soon deemed...
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    discussion, the seed of a richer and more daring matter, and they resonate obliquely with a more delicate tone,' Michel de Montaigne, Essais, Pléiade, Paris...
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    Headed Eagle and Scottish Rite Masonry" (PDF). Colorado Council of Kadosh Oration. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 21 December...
    183 KB (17,742 words) - 00:20, 13 November 2024
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    Affinity. Congressus Nonus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum I: Orationes plenariae & Orationes publicae. Tartu. Posti, Lauri (1953). "From Pre-Finnic to Late...
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    protection, he was to use royal troops, the Papal commander was then obliquely threatened. The provincial Protestant synods of Dauphiné and the Lyonnais...
    382 KB (57,570 words) - 10:45, 15 November 2024
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    pilgrims' travelogues. Beginning in the early 6th century, commentators on the orations of Gregory of Nazianzus record that it was known there were competing explanations...
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    created in God's image, was epitomized by Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man, which was referenced in sermons given at the papal...
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    Congressman Charles Ogle. He referred obliquely to her as part of the presidential "household" in his famous Gold Spoon Oration. The attack was delivered in Congress...
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  • os- against Latin ob obduracy, obdurate, obduration, obfuscate, oblique, obliquity, obstinate, obstreperous, occur, offend, omit, oppose, ostensible...
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    their preconceived objections against them. The subject-matter of his orations, and his peculiar treatment of his themes, no doubt also, at least at first...
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    performances; judging him as a writer (his For the Oracles of God, Four Orations had just gone into a third edition), Hazlitt finds that "the ground work...
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    Denis (2012). "Prières et oraisons dans le Quart Livre" [Prayers and orations in the Quart Livre]. Langue et sens du Quart Livre [Language and meaning...
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