Sentences with phrase «of english»

But there are some areas of the academy, and of the cultural life of the English - speaking world in general, where these obvious truths about the essentially polemical nature of the intellectual life are called into question, even systematically rejected.

Tan is Associate Professor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, while Whalen - Bridge is Associate Professor of English, also at National University of Singapore.

But, I would argue, there is no intrinsic reason why, for example, pupils should not be able to read and enjoy the whole of Bede's History of the English Church and People when studying the Anglo - Saxons, or a Plato dialogue when studying philosophy.

This book is worth buying just for an appendix that gives various prayers: the dedication of England to the Mother of God and St Peter; the litany of intercession for England; prayer from the Mass of English martyrs; an old prayer for the Conversion of England; and a prayer to beg the prayers of the saints.

Maureen Farrell Garcia is instructor of English at Nyack College Manhattan Campus in New York.

Because of his English name, he said, no one thought to ask.

The story now gathers pace with the toing and froing of the order between a number of premises in Rome and the arrival Madeline Hambrough, who takes the name of the English Bridgettine martyr Richard (Riccarda) Reynolds (canonised later in 1970).

In 1906 the newly elected Liberal government proposed an Education Bill which sought a dramatic reform of English schooling.

«Faith», «hope» and «charity» are words that belong to the vocabulary of English, and it is clear that they are not understood in exactly the same way even by all English speakers.

The greatest writer of English prose in the last century, P. G. Wodehouse excepted, was not Lytton Strachey or Logan Pearsall Smith or the E. M. Forster of Pharos and Pharillon or Hugh Trevor - Roper.

Kirsch rightly notes that Donne, one of the greatest of English writers in both poetry and prose, was a complicated man.

«For me,» he writes, «the most attractive Lewis is the author of English Literature «in the Sixteenth Century, a fluent, highly intelligent man talking about books in a manner which is always engaging.»

Can he imagine the effect this strained and diluted nourishment has had on several generations of English - speaking Catholics all over the world?

In 1979, Christopher Monckton, then Editor of the Universe, focussed the complaints ofmany of us in his widely influential paper for the Association of English Worship, published in this magazine (Dec 1979) as «Caught in the Act.

Some theologians have argued that this is also the meaning of the English «almighty,» that is, «mighty over all.»

It was unthinkable, from the perspective of English history, that a Pope would be invited by the Queen to make a formal state visit to England.

Another option is to turn to those parts of the English - speaking world that still produce suitable textbooks.

Heresy understandably became identified with foreignness and a number of English, Dutch and German sailors and merchants were interrogated and punished.

Its task was the «education of the English & Indian youth of the country in knowledge and godliness.»

Rather, they carried the best of English educational ideas and books with them.

'' It's the source of dozens of phrases and concepts that have become part of the English language — «an eye for an eye,» «born again,» «eat, drink and be merry,» «God forbid.»

Most of the residents were descendants of English peasants and sailors who had settled on the coast of the New World in the late colonial period.

'» Alan Jacobs is a contributing writer for First Things and professor of English at Wheaton College.

It may not be too much of an exaggeration to claim, as Terry Eagleton does, that the growth of English studies is explained primarily by the failure of religion in the late 19th century.

«It's passed entirely into the English language, into the thinking of English speakers around the world,» she said.

In that way, the Church assured itself that the man was correctly ordained by a bishop, and that he supported the practice and the faith of the English Church.

The Puritans were never more than a tenth or so of the English population, after all, and many «Puritans» were so designated owing to their views on parliamentary and ecclesiastical government and not to the depth or vigor of their religious sentiments.

Among the many who have drawn or painted The Wind in the Willows, Hague and Arthur Rackham are best, I think, at the more expansive scenes, and no one does the details of English domesticity as well as Hague.

Co-existence was crucial if we were to unite as a country in the face of the brutal tyranny of the English king and the bullying of Parliament.

It was Laud's intention to enforce the use of the English Prayer Book and to strengthen the rule of the bishops over the local clergy.

But even before they had freed themselves from the bonds of English society they had undertaken an «Agreement» in Cambridge, England, the year before and bound themselves to a new covenant with obligations both to God and one another.16 The «Agreement» of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was a beginning that contained its own principle, just as, as we have seen, the acts establishing the new republic did.

Bernard Cottret's Calvin: A Biography is the fifth in a spate of English «language biographies of the Geneva reformer appearing in recent years.

It was certainly a very different culture from that of Britain or even of English Canada.

Just as Winthrop thought of Moses so Captain John Smith thought of Aeneas in what Howard Mumford Jones calls the «prose Aeneid» that he composed to recount his establishment of the English Colony in Virginia.23 But it was not so much Latin myth or legend that dominated the minds of educated Americans in the late i8th century as it was the history of Roman liberty.

Bizarrely enough (and perhaps encouragingly), some 43 per cent of English adults also believe in the resurrection, the survey found.

What if I were a prestigious Oxford don, a professor of English literature, a well - known author, and an authority on religion who repeatedly had some most unusual, unbelievable experiences?

These limitations have been particularly evident in Weberian treatments of English and American Puritanism.

And yet there is remarkably little to show of English influence in the new republic at the level of myth and symbol.

H. Staffner has brought forward the proposal which the late E.D. Devadason mooted, namely that the Christian community should accept the recodified Hindu law as their own civil law in the place of the present quite outdated Indian Christian Law which, as already stated, was an imposition of an English law on Christian converts in India.

Jeanne Murray Walker, professor of English at the University of Delaware, offers in her most recent book of poetry, Coming Into History, some of the finest poems I have read in recent years.

Hirsch, an authority on writing and a professor of English at the University of Virginia, assumes that responsibility himself, aided by his Virginia colleagues historian Joseph Kett and physicist James Trefil.

While the paradisic expectations of the English colonists were not so fully developed as those further South they were strong enough to cause early Maryland to be described as an «Earthly Paradise» and Georgia as «that promis'd Canaan.

Cari Mitchell of the English Collective of Prostitutes is not surprised by the lack of enthusiasm from the women invited.

The Lord of the Rings book trilogy represents, by any measure, some of the most popular books in the history of English literature.

Furthermore, Korean Protestant churches are fruits of English - speaking missions.

Paul Mariani is a poet and professor of English at Boston College.

If I say a particular stool is a «chair» in my version of English and someone argues it's all relative and I can't say it's really a chair because some part of China doesn't assign the word yizi to that thing that's pretty silly, right?

I think it is true to say that preaching at the present time is rarely artistic, because many preachers, while good journeymen, have not become true masters of the English language.

Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language.

The decision to give preference to the Anglo - Saxon elements of English vocabulary over the Latinate ones has the happy effect of creating a poetic diction that frequently recalls the compactness, the concreteness, and the muscularity of the Hebrew.