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    Edmund Burke (/bɜːrk/; 12 January [NS] 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher who spent most of his career in Great Britain....
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  • Two-Shoes (anonymous, 1765) The Adventures of Nicholas Experience, by Ignacy Krasicki (1776) Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, by Thomas Carlyle (1838–1839)...
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  • Kosierkiewicz Krzysztof Kotowski Ryszard Kotys - hycel Andrzej Krasicki Piotr Krasicki Roman Kruczkowski Małgorzata Kurmin - Ela Kwiatek, współpracownica...
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    Kazimierz Ostrowski 1785–1794 Michał II Jerzy Poniatowski 1795–1801 Ignacy I Krasicki 1801–1806 vacant 1806–1818 Ignacy Raczyński 1818–1821 vacant 1821–1825...
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  • (original title: Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki) (1776) by Ignacy Krasicki Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) by William Godwin Description...
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  • (1680–1740) 1741–1766 Adam Stanisław Grabowski (1698–1766) 1767–1795 Ignacy Krasicki 1795–1803 Karl von Hohenzollern-Hechingen 1803–1808 sede vacante 1808–1836...
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  • in Dalmazia ("Journey to Dalmatia") and started Morlachism. 1776 Ignacy Krasicki published the first novel in Polish, The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom...
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    Fontenelle at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive...
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  • influence on the Greek language, culture and Greece's legal system. Ignacy Krasicki 1735–1801 Polish Leading poet of the Polish Enlightenment. Joseph-Louis...
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  • Sleep and Poetry Jan Kochanowski Laments (Translated Collection) Ignacy Krasicki Fables and Parables Jean de La Fontaine Mikhail Lermontov Boyarin Orsha...
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    scientist, and politician, 1748–1757. ISBN 978-0-8122-4121-1. Morgan, Edmund S. (2002). Benjamin Franklin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10162-7...
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    state legislative campaign for its charter and, with the assistance of Edmund Bacon, purchased the location. He was the principal designer of the buildings...
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    humanities of the Renaissance. Decades later, Joseph de Maistre in Sardinia and Edmund Burke in Britain both criticised Enlightenment ideas for leading to the...
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  • Naruszewicz (1734–1823) Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1735–1801) Ignacy Krasicki (1746–1835) Izabela Fleming Czartoryska (1750–1812) Hugo Kołłątaj (1755–1826)...
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    Mandeville Meyer Nieuwentyt Spinoza Swammerdam Poland Kołłątaj Konarski Krasicki Niemcewicz Poniatowski Śniadecki Staszic Wybicki Portugal Carvalho e Melo...
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    ISBN 978-0-8091-2611-8. Brown, Raymond Edward; Fitzmyer, Joseph A.; Murphy, Roland Edmund (1990). The New Jerome Biblical Commentary. G. Chapman. ISBN 978-0-225-66640-3...
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    Sacred Origins of Profound Things, by Charles Panati The Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spenser The Seven Deadly Sins Series, Oxford University Press (7 vols.)...
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  • Twardowski and Wacław Potocki. During The Enlightenment bishop and poet Ignacy Krasicki wrote his mock-epics (Monachomachia, Antymonachomachia and Myszeida) in...
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    and that the author should not write primarily for money. Phillips and Edmund Wilson have praised Sade's knowledge of the history of European fiction...
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    never ached but when he was studying the subject". According to Brewster, Edmund Halley also told John Conduitt that when pressed to complete his analysis...
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    after Thomas Becket (born in Cheapside), Thomas More (born on Milk Street), Edmund Campion (son of a London bookseller) and Polydore Plasden (of Fleet Street)...
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    government in Britain. In 1771, while he was in Paris, Charles dispatched Sir Edmund Ryan, an Irish officer in Berwick's regiment, to seek out a bride for him...
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    abandonment of his children was used by his critics, including Voltaire and Edmund Burke, as the basis for arguments ad hominem. Beginning with some articles...
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    Men (1790). She had written the Rights of Men in response to the Whig MP Edmund Burke's politically conservative critique of the French Revolution in Reflections...
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    his birth, but he was close to his brother Edmund, nicknamed Mundek, who was 13 years his senior. Edmund's work as a physician eventually led to his death...
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    Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Atherton 1999, p. ?. Cranston, Maurice, and Thomas Edmund Jessop. 2020 [1999] "David Hume." Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 18...
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  • Mandeville Meyer Nieuwentyt Spinoza Swammerdam Poland Kołłątaj Konarski Krasicki Niemcewicz Poniatowski Śniadecki Staszic Wybicki Portugal Carvalho e Melo...
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    Revolution against its critics, particularly the Anglo-Irish conservative writer Edmund Burke. His authorship of the tract led to a trial and conviction in absentia...
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    Thomas Shadwell). Satirical poets outside England include Poland's Ignacy Krasicki, Azerbaijan's Sabir, Portugal's Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, and Korea's...
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    Voltaire, or Rousseau. However, its leading intellectuals such as Gibbon, Edmund Burke and Samuel Johnson were all quite conservative and supportive of the...
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