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  • 1it takes all sorts to make a world — 1620 T. SHELTON tr. Cervantes’ Don Quixote II. vi. In the world there must bee of all sorts. 1767 S. JOHNSON Letter 17 Nov. (1952) I. 194 Some Lady surely might be found..in whose fidelity you might repose. The World, says Locke, has people of… …

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  • 2all — all1 W1S1 [o:l US o:l] determiner, predeterminer, pron 1.) the whole of an amount, thing, or type of thing ▪ Have you done all your homework? all your life/all day/all year etc (=during the whole of your life, a day, a year etc) ▪ He had worked… …

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  • 3all — all1 W1S1 [o:l US o:l] determiner, predeterminer, pron 1.) the whole of an amount, thing, or type of thing ▪ Have you done all your homework? all your life/all day/all year etc (=during the whole of your life, a day, a year etc) ▪ He had worked… …

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  • 4all — /awl/, adj. 1. the whole of (used in referring to quantity, extent, or duration): all the cake; all the way; all year. 2. the whole number of (used in referring to individuals or particulars, taken collectively): all students. 3. the greatest… …

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  • 5all — /ɔl / (say awl) adjective 1. the whole of (with reference to quantity, extent, duration, amount, or degree): all Australia; all the year round. 2. the whole number of (with reference to individuals or particulars, taken collectively): all women.… …

  • 6all manner of — {adj. phr.}, {formal} Many different kinds of; all sorts of. * /In a five and ten cent store you can buy all manner of things./ …

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  • 7all manner of — {adj. phr.}, {formal} Many different kinds of; all sorts of. * /In a five and ten cent store you can buy all manner of things./ …

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  • 8all\ manner\ of — adj. phr. formal Many different kinds of; all sorts of. In a five and ten cent store you can buy all manner of things …

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  • 9Aristotle: Aesthetics and philosophy of mind — David Gallop AESTHETICS Aesthetics, as that field is now understood, does not form the subjectmatter of any single Aristotelian work. No treatise is devoted to such topics as the essential nature of a work of art, the function of art in general,… …

    History of philosophy

  • 10Seventeenth-century materialism: Gassendi and Hobbes — T.Sorell In the English speaking world Pierre Gassendi is probably best known as the author of a set of Objections to Descartes’s Meditations. These Objections, the fifth of seven sets collected by Mersenne, are relatively long and full, and… …

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