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  • 21Sir Walter Raleigh (essay) — Sir Walter Raleigh is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that has been reconstructed from notes he wrote for an 1843 lecture and drafts of an article he was preparing for The Dial .It was first published in 1950, in a collection of Thoreau’s… …

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  • 22empty vessels make the most sound — Foolish or witless persons are the most talkative or noisy. Vessel here means a receptacle, as a drinking vessel. a 1430 J. LYDGATE Pilgrimage of Man (EETS) 1. 15933 A voyde vessel..maketh outward a gret soun, Mor than..what yt was ful. 1547 W.… …

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  • 23What Is Man? (Martin Luther King, Jr. essay) — What is man? is a piece from Measure of a Man which was written by Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1959. King begins by stating that he will attempt to answer the question “what is man”, which he believes leads to determining the political, social and …

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  • 24attempt — I. v. a. 1. Try, essay, make trial or experiment of. 2. Undertake, go about, set about, take in hand, endeavor to accomplish. 3. Assail, attack, assault, etc., which see. II. v. n. Try, strive, endeavor, seek, aim, make an attempt, make essay, do …

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  • 25try — I. v. a. 1. Examine, test, prove, make experiment of, make trial of, put to the test, put to proof, prove by experiment. 2. Experience, have knowledge of (by trial). 3. Attempt, essay. 4. (Law.) Hear, examine judicially, adjudicate, adjudge. 5.… …

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  • 26Essayed — Essay Es*say , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Essayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Essaying}.] [F. essayer. See {Essay}, n.] 1. To exert one s power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.… …

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  • 27Essaying — Essay Es*say , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Essayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Essaying}.] [F. essayer. See {Essay}, n.] 1. To exert one s power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.… …

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  • 28Essays — Essay Es say, n.; pl. {Essays}. [F. essai, fr. L. exagium a weighing, weight, balance; ex out + agere to drive, do; cf. examen, exagmen, a means of weighing, a weighing, the tongue of a balance, exigere to drive out, examine, weigh, Gr. exa gion… …

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  • 29put something together — make something by assembling different parts or people he can take a clock apart and put it back together again | they decided to put a new band together ■ assemble things or people to make something a carpenter puts together shaped pieces of… …

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  • 30Hydropolitics in the Nile Basin — Essay like|article|date=December 2007The Nile River is subject to political interactions. It is the world s longest river flowing 6,700 kilometers through ten countries in northeastern Africa – Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo… …

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