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  • 31Reincarnation — For other uses, see Reincarnation (disambiguation). Past Lives redirects here. For the band, see Past Lives (band). Reincarnation in Hindu art Reincarnation best describes the concept where the soul or spirit, after the death of the body, is… …

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  • 32complacent — complacent, self complacent, self satisfied, smug, priggish are comparable when they mean feeling or showing satisfaction especially in one s own possessions, attainments, accomplishments, or virtues. Complacent implies that a feeling of pleasure …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 33Fitzwilliam Virginal Book — Le Fitzwilliam Virginal Book est le plus important recueil de musique pour le virginal ou le clavecin en Angleterre à la fin du XVIe siècle et au début du XVIIe siècle. Selon la tradition apocryphe le compilateur est Francis Tregian… …

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  • 34Fitzwilliam virginal book — Le Fitzwilliam Virginal Book est le plus important recueil de musique pour le virginal ou le clavecin en Angleterre à la fin du XVIe siècle et au début du XVIIe siècle. Selon la tradition apocryphe le compilateur est Francis Tregian… …

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  • 35comedy — comedial /keuh mee dee euhl/, adj. /kom i dee/, n., pl. comedies. 1. a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance,… …

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  • 36Socrates and the beginnings of moral philosophy — Hugh H.Benson INTRODUCTION Cicero in Tusculan Disputations famously tells us that Socrates first called philosophy down from the sky, set it in cities and even introduced it into homes, and compelled it to consider life and morals, good and evil …

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  • 37Sceptics (The) — The sceptics Michael Frede INTRODUCTION When we speak of ‘scepticism’ and of ‘sceptics’, we primarily think of a philosophical position according to which nothing is known for certain, or even nothing can be known for certain. There are certain… …

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  • 38The Idler (1758–1760) — This article is about the 18th century series of essays. For other publications called The Idler, see The Idler (disambiguation). The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the London weekly the… …

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  • 39JOB, BOOK OF — (named for its hero (Heb. אִיּוֹב), ancient South Arabian and Thamudic yʾb; Old Babylonian Ayyābum, Tell el Amarna tablet, no. 256, line 6, A ia ab; either from yʾb, to bear ill will or compounded of ay where? and ʾab (divine) father ), one of… …

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  • 40international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …

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