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  • Thumbnail for Teresa Wright
    me well, but in the future I shall gladly work for less if by doing so I can retain my hold upon the common decencies without which the most glorified...
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    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    logical argument or what makes for proof. He does not even preserve the common decencies of scientific writing, though his book is professedly a scientific...
    104 KB (13,427 words) - 19:22, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself
    that could "not protect them from the dampness and cold, nor permit the existence of the common decencies of life." By the age of 15, Henson states that he...
    20 KB (3,265 words) - 03:51, 16 April 2024
  • soul. It was the need of food that brought this strange group together, and there were no other ties than certain common human decencies that enabled...
    6 KB (726 words) - 01:59, 17 January 2024
  • God and man that the interference of the criminal law took place. The dictum "if the decencies of controversy are observed, even the fundamentals of religion...
    44 KB (5,801 words) - 11:51, 13 May 2024
  • Marion Hamilton Carter (category Progressive Era in the United States)
    condition, oblivious to the white man's common decencies, the negro is thus the great reservoir and spreader of the hookworm disease in the States that harbor...
    54 KB (6,473 words) - 23:30, 15 July 2023
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    Child Labor Amendment (category Child labor in the United States)
    all the decencies and privacies of the home?" Organized labor portal List of amendments to the United States Constitution, amendments sent to the states...
    23 KB (2,279 words) - 11:01, 14 May 2024
  • policy of perfidy and the brutal disregard for all the elementary decencies of civilised behaviour". Critical and public response in the U.S. was muted, but...
    112 KB (14,270 words) - 17:48, 25 April 2024
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    Wuthering Heights (category Novels set in the 18th century)
    been accomplished with ease, but with an ill-mannered contempt for the decencies of language, and in a style which might resemble that of a Yorkshire...
    86 KB (10,761 words) - 21:41, 25 May 2024
  • Mary Whitehouse (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    Muggeridge wrote: "It is literally true that but for her the total demolition of all Christian decencies and values in this country would have taken place virtually...
    83 KB (9,112 words) - 22:07, 22 May 2024
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    deed after another. In the second part there had remained some chivalric feeling [...] But in the third part all the decencies of chivalric warfare are...
    180 KB (26,580 words) - 01:08, 3 December 2023
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    Paul Bayes (category Alumni of the Queen's Foundation)
    Europe, you see the rise of the extreme right in France, and you see what you see in the United States … Basic decencies have been lost.” In the Diocese of...
    13 KB (1,188 words) - 14:58, 12 May 2024
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    imagination of no common order, and, unlike many of her sex, is not content to dwell in decencies forever. While she can, upon occasion, compose the ordinary singsong...
    7 KB (727 words) - 11:43, 14 May 2023
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    fact. The German people must have it driven home to them that the whole nation has been engaged in a lawless conspiracy against the decencies of modern...
    83 KB (10,628 words) - 00:28, 22 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mary Heaton Vorse
    the excesses of life in the village as an embrace of the "unfulfilled joys which died unborn in our parents' souls" and as casting away of "decencies...
    43 KB (5,340 words) - 20:44, 5 May 2024
  • objections to the single-apartment or one-roomed house as a home for married couples. In it she describes how difficult it is to observe the decencies of life...
    12 KB (1,463 words) - 08:25, 29 November 2023