Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...subjects for his own works. His friends always suggested them, as was the way with Fontaine, who required a guide to direct his course. In 1782 appeared his Table Talk, which attracted some attention. His Moral Satires, although they have little of satire about them, are remarkable for the exact correspondence of phrase and meaning. In them his zeal often carries him higher than in any other of his works...
...Tools and the Man" is the title of a valuable collection of lectures, or to be exact, the substance of lectures delivered to the students of the New Haven Theological Seminary in 1887 by Rev. Washington Gladden, one of the preachers to the University. The book takes as its general theme the subject of property and industry under Christian law. It starts with a discussion of the "Christianization of Society" and then takes up the questions of property, labor, co-operation as advocated by Christianity, re-organization of industry, and concludes with a treatise on scientific and Christian socialism...
...some absolutely unforeseen reason he finds himself unable to go. It is also very desirable that each one should redeem his pledge as early as possible. The tickets will probably not be sold after Tuesday of next week. The committee must know at least a day beforehand the exact number to be provided and for this reason all are asked not to cause inconvenience by needless delay...
These early poems brought Pope much praise but very little money; so in 1715, he began his translation of Homer as a commercial speculation. As he had no knowledge of Greek and was obliged to use Latin and French text, his translation is far from an exact one; in fact a friend remarked to him that he had produced a very good poem but he must not call it Homer's. The translation was, however, very successful, and with his fortune he bought the estate at Twickenham, called by Swift, "Pope's Villa...
...Cornell University Register for 1892-93 has appeared and contains the exact amounts given to the university...