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    Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-75826-7. Tone, John Lawrence (1996). "Napoleon's uncongenial sea: Guerrilla warfare in Navarre during the Peninsular War, 1808–14"...
    190 KB (20,992 words) - 04:42, 8 July 2024
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    had been excluded from the panel of translators because of his utterly uncongenial temperament, issued in 1611 a total condemnation of the new version....
    115 KB (14,536 words) - 19:24, 27 June 2024
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    (1863) 251) 1842: "To tell a healthy vegetarian that his diet is very uncongenial with the wants of his nature." (Healthian, Apr. 34) The 1839 occurrence...
    178 KB (17,548 words) - 15:52, 25 June 2024
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    clerics of his day. This may be because Wilfrid's opulent lifestyle was uncongenial to Bede's monastic mind; it may also be that the events of Wilfrid's...
    86 KB (10,825 words) - 22:32, 8 July 2024
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    family, Galsworthy was destined for a career as a lawyer, but found it uncongenial and turned instead to writing. He was thirty before his first book was...
    55 KB (6,983 words) - 01:41, 3 July 2024
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    requested the play, "got rather more than he bargained for ... It was uncongenial to the whole spirit of the neo-Gaelic movement, which is bent on creating...
    153 KB (19,234 words) - 02:21, 11 July 2024
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    epic, on Paradise Lost. John Keats found the yoke of Milton's style uncongenial; he exclaimed that "Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful...
    98 KB (12,126 words) - 02:43, 9 July 2024
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    not more so than to tell a healthy vegetarian that his diet is very uncongenial with the wants of his nature, and contrary to reason." In 1838 William...
    250 KB (25,752 words) - 07:21, 3 July 2024
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    Shanghai Bank. He was unsuited to it and found the work baffling and uncongenial. He later wrote a humorous account of his experiences at the bank, but...
    102 KB (13,298 words) - 03:26, 28 June 2024
  • Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko dubbed the project “stupid and uncongenial”. The Belarusian authorities’ subsequent actions confirmed the political...
    32 KB (3,671 words) - 05:56, 29 May 2024
  • defence of "isolation ... The division of objects into congenial and uncongenial ones ... making 'disconnections'". It was the latter sense of the term...
    36 KB (4,481 words) - 22:34, 9 July 2024
  • another author initially involved with the club but "found the atmosphere uncongenial before long". Petrie's memoir also mentions Yeats-Brown as soon complaining:...
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    antithesis and epigram... owes its origin to this forced contentment with an uncongenial sphere. With the decay of freedom, taste sank... In Cruttwell's view...
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    because his literal hope of an earthly millennium may have made him uncongenial reading in the Greek East. Even though no complete version of Against...
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  • demands intellectual engagement with people and ideas one might find uncongenial or wrong". They also said that it has become "unacceptable to question...
    55 KB (6,074 words) - 16:49, 10 June 2024
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    little wife you are my greatest and only stimulus now to battle with this uncongenial, unsatisfactory and ungrateful life." But by November of that year, Virginia's...
    32 KB (4,664 words) - 12:53, 5 July 2024
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    Smetana arrived in Prague in the autumn of 1839. Finding Jungmann's school uncongenial (he was mocked by his classmates for his country manners), he soon began...
    72 KB (9,417 words) - 21:16, 3 July 2024
  • April 1695 – 7 April 1762), finding life in Casa Guarneri in some way uncongenial, left Cremona for good in 1718, eventually settling in Venice. Here he...
    9 KB (1,153 words) - 05:19, 29 August 2023
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    "obsessive perfectionist". Doherty, Elliot and Adler found the arrangement uncongenial. Elliot complained to Rolling Stone on October 26, 1968, "We spent one...
    50 KB (6,638 words) - 23:41, 2 July 2024
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    Barbey as an idealist, who sought and found in his work a refuge from the uncongenial ordinary world. Jules Lemaître, a less sympathetic critic, thought the...
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