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Sarah Cowper's "Character" of John Locke
Locke Studies, 2022 Lady Sarah Cowper (1644-1720) is best known for her commonplace books, which preserve unique and variant versions of poems by Restoration “wits.” She also kept a diary, in which she recorded her readings and meditations.
Mark Goldie
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Bayle historien et critique du matérialisme dans le dictionnaire [PDF]
Kriterion, 2009 Bayle affirme que les atomistes auraient dû rester fidèles à une curieuse thèse attribuée au fondateur de l'atomisme, Démocrite, à savoir que les atomes ont une âme.
Jean-Luc Solère
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Aquinas on the Nature of Lying
New Blackfriars, Volume 104, Issue 1114, Page 613-627, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Aquinas's views about the morality of lying are well known and often discussed by commentators. But his views about the nature of lying have yet to receive the attention they deserve. In this article, I take some of the first steps necessary to correct this state of affairs by clarifying and offering a limited defense of the account of lying ...
Jeffrey E. Brower
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Robert Harley as Secretary of State and his Intelligence Work: 1702–1708
History, Volume 108, Issue 381, Page 328-352, June 2023., 2023 Abstract This article seeks to reassess Robert Harley's role as Secretary of State (1704–10) and especially his work in the intelligence and espionage fields of his day. It examines not only his reputation in such affairs but his skills and techniques in early eighteenth‐century espionage, and also his failures. It sets out the important administrative
ALAN MARSHALL
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Philosophy Compass, Volume 18, Issue 4, April 2023., 2023 Abstract In Part 1, we explored how Berkeley drew from Homeric literature and used literary techniques such as satire to challenge his “freethinking” philosophical opponents in “The Pineal Gland” story published in The Guardian in 1713. Echoing the grand tours Berkeley undertook in subsequent years, Part 1 and 2 both present a “gland tour” of some ...
Clare Marie Moriarty, Lisa Walters
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Republican learning: John Toland and the crisis of Christian culture, 1696-1722 [PDF]
, 2003 This book explores the life, thought and political commitments of the free-thinker John Toland (1670-1722). Studying both his private archive and published works, it illustrates how Toland moved in both subversive and elite political circles in England ...
Champion, Justin
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Ectopic expression of a rice triketone dioxygenase gene confers mesotrione tolerance in soybean
Pest Management Science, Volume 78, Issue 7, Page 2816-2827, July 2022., 2022 Transgenic soybean plants expressing the triketone dioxygenase gene (TDO), a codon optimized version of rice His1, rapidly convert mesotrione into noninhibitory metabolites to hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase and confer a commercial trait level of tolerance to mesotrione.
Shunhong Dai +17 more
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Multistate modeling of Florida scrub‐jay adult survival and breeding transitions
Ecosphere, Volume 13, Issue 5, May 2022., 2022 Abstract Adult nonbreeders are important for the stability and conservation of many species despite that their functional roles are often undervalued. Nonbreeders can buffer breeding population sizes and help their kin raise new generations of offspring, but in high numbers can compete and have negative effects.
David R. Breininger +6 more
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Daimon, 2014 En esta reseña se presenta al lector español la reedición de la oba de John Toland, An Account of the Courts of Prussia and Hanover; Sent to a Minister of State in Holland (1705),The Manuscript Publisher, Dublin, 2013, texto clave para entender un ...
Jordi Morillas Esteban
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Reproductive plasticity as an advantage of snakes during island invasion
Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 3, Issue 12, December 2021., 2021 The California kingsnake (Lampropeltis californiae) is an invasive species in the Canary Islands that originated via the escape or release from captive populations of L. californiae. Our results show that 57.1% of female L. californiae from Gran Canaria were gravid versus 13.4% of the female specimens examined from California.
Samuel Fisher +7 more
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