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  • Thumbnail for Cnut
    Canute Reproving His Courtiers (1848)...
    76 KB (10,012 words) - 14:03, 5 November 2024
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    reduced both her and himself to tears in front of the court, by publicly reproving her for ignoring his laws regarding worship. Mary repeatedly refused Edward's...
    67 KB (8,317 words) - 08:59, 9 November 2024
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    love-hate relationship with Dickens, finding his novels "mesmerizing" while reproving him for his sentimentalism and a commonplace style. Around 1940–41, the...
    179 KB (18,982 words) - 00:20, 4 November 2024
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    The review prompted Hawthorne to take the "unusually aggressive step of reproving Duyckinck" by criticizing the review in a letter to Duyckinck of December...
    118 KB (16,809 words) - 00:19, 4 November 2024
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    mentioned but seldom in contemporary art criticism and then usually reprovingly". Sir Michael Levey once noted that Watteau "created, unwittingly, the...
    40 KB (4,095 words) - 17:30, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury
    [citation needed] Henry VIII wrote to Margaret, who in turn wrote to her son, reproving him for his "folly". She sent a copy of the letter to the King's council...
    46 KB (5,038 words) - 13:06, 7 November 2024
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    who went throughout the land, from place to place, with unwearied zeal, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting the people to repentance. In this role, Samuel...
    35 KB (4,299 words) - 02:42, 22 October 2024
  • he notes that "...on many occasions, in the management of families, in reproving sin, and even in ordering their temporal concerns", anger is permitted...
    6 KB (819 words) - 00:51, 24 September 2024
  • considered a path to citizenship,' he said, a sentiment both irritatingly reproving and movingly patriotic. I mumbled something about how he was perfectly...
    21 KB (2,211 words) - 11:04, 9 November 2024
  • royal court. He bankrupts the household, killing the treasurer Fole for reproving him, yet ultimately proves to be competent enough to finance the mercenaries...
    6 KB (826 words) - 10:23, 25 August 2024
  • and Zosimus again wrote to the African bishops defending Pelagius and reproving his accusers, among whom were the Gallic bishops Hero and Lazarus. Archbishop...
    11 KB (1,432 words) - 05:57, 4 May 2024
  • drug-aided hypnosis. He surprises his Venus-born friend Oscar by spontaneously reproving him when Oscar utters a curse in Venutian. (Later in the novel, Matt appears...
    11 KB (1,440 words) - 21:50, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nonstandard analysis
    operators. Other results were received along the line of reinterpreting or reproving previously known results. Of particular interest is Teturo Kamae's proof...
    31 KB (3,972 words) - 04:00, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Speaker of the House of Commons (Canada)
    invite particular members to speak, maintain order and decorum (including reproving members who misbehave), and make rulings on points of order and points...
    44 KB (2,892 words) - 19:41, 28 October 2024
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    completely clear except for a cyclist on the horizon, the co-driver might reprovingly say "There's something coming". In saying this, he echoes the driver's...
    24 KB (3,356 words) - 05:31, 6 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    1803, P. D. James has one male character reference Rights of Woman in reproving another (Darcy) for denying voice to the woman in matters that concern...
    49 KB (6,566 words) - 14:44, 28 October 2024
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    to the Louvain theologian Martin Dorp, Thomas More referenced it when reproving Dorp for his attack on Erasmus' In Praise of Folly: "You praise Adriaan...
    6 KB (722 words) - 06:51, 28 October 2024
  • father-in-law and husband: 'she learned Holy Scripture and lived piously, thus reproving the impiety of those men [Leo and Constantine]'. The emperors Leo III...
    5 KB (519 words) - 08:39, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Olympe de Gouges
    forces, including de Gouges herself. The first act ends with de Gouges reproving the queen for having seditious intentions and lecturing her about how...
    57 KB (7,161 words) - 09:17, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kingdom of the Suebi
    of Priscillianism, making no mention at all of Arianism, and only once reproving clerics for adorning his clothes and for wearing granos, a Germanic word...
    73 KB (9,362 words) - 17:53, 25 October 2024
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