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... train him in body, while his tutorshaped his mind, had other ideas. Palsgrave repeatedly complained that theduke’s household servants were distracting his charge from learning withhunting ... not the day forth in vain idleness,” gained his king’s love by conduct-ing his business. Thanks to Wolsey, Henry could live the life of pleasure hisminister eschewed:The King was young and ... disappoint. The conjoiningof governmental experience and the authority of Greek and Latin texts, ini-tially adopted in order to provide a meliorating supplement to Elyot’s expe-rience in government,...
... protect freedom to have genetic oVspring?To answer this question, I suggest that some insight can be gained bystarting with what might be called ‘ordinary procreation’ – not involving in vitro ... Harris.Neil McIntosh (Chapter 21), a consultant paediatrician in Scotland, oVersa practising clinician’s slant on disability, in the context of ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. ... pregnancy – in part because it isintended for a clinical audience, in part because the stages of pregnancy oVera narrative framework for understanding the recent debates in maternal–fetalmedicine....
... and Legal TheoryTwining: Rethinking EvidenceTwining & Miers: How to Do Things with RulesWard: A Critical Introduction to European LawWard: Shakespeare and Legal ImaginationZander: Cases ... ConventionGiventhatthecasesIdiscussinthebookaremerelyillustrative,thereisastrongelementoffortuityinthewaythefive‘criticallight’chaptersareassembled.Theimageofthekaleidoscopecomestomindinthatitpointstoaninfinitenumberofcombinationsofeithertheoreticalorempiricalelements,orboth.IneachchapteritisasifIhadcollectedpiecesofcaselaw,shakenthem,andobservedtheresultingcombination–ifnotexactlysymmetry–inthemirror(orlight)ofaparticulartheory.Icouldhaverepeatedtheexerciseoverandoveragain,adinfinitum,eitherwiththesameorwithslightlydifferentmaterial(caselaw)ormirrors(critiques).30Eachtimetheresultwouldhavebeendifferentbut,Iwouldargue,nolesscompelling.Theimageofthekaleidoscopedrawsattentiontothewayoursensesconstructpatternswhichdonot‘really’existexceptthroughtheartificeofreflection(theory).ItcouldbesaidthatIofferakaleidoscopicreadingoftheConvention,i.e.onegeneratingarrangementswhichare,ifnotaestheticallypleasing,atleastdeceptivelyattractiveintheirsimplicityand(imposed)regularity.AfriendwhoreadChapter3wasnotdeceived.Sheremarked,disapprovingly,thatitwasasthough ... Iwas‘musing’.Itookthisasacompliment;theMuses,offspringofZeusandMnemosyne,aretraditionallyseenasinspiringcreativityandlearning.‘Musing’alsoembracestheideaofmeditation,perhapsofwastingtimebutinorderbettertoponderandreflect.Theselectionofajudicialinstitutionasthepracticalfocusofmyreflectionresultsinabookwhichcontainsfarmorelawthannon-lawyersareusedto,thoughlesslawthanlawyersmayhavewished.IbrieflyintroducetheConventioninChapter2sothatthereadercanseehowthecasesIdiscussfitwithinthelawofthe...
... italicized words in (13) and think about the question whether kicks in (13a), drinking in (13b), or students in (13c) should be regarded as ‘new words’ in the sense of our definition. (13) ... meaning through which speakers signal their belonging to a certain group. In sum, truncations can be assigned a meaning, but the nature of the morph expressing that meaning is problematic. In ... should be redefined as “a phonetic string which can be connected to a linguistic entity outside that string” (1976:15). In the case of verbs involving the phonetic string [fär], the ‘linguistic...
... stopped doing some things and started doing other things: He stopped studying hard/going to bed early/running three miles e3very morning He started smoking/going out in the evening/spending a lot ... covered in paint. She has been painting the ceiling. Has been Painting is the present perfect We are interested in the activity. It does not matter whether something has been finished or not. In ... I/he/she/it was playing/doing/working etc. we/you/they were playing/doing/working etc. B. We use the past continuous to say that somebody was in the middle of doing something at a certain time.The...