How To Use Precept In A Sentence
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My first-ever experience with dentistry was during a preceptorship I had my senior year.
First Person Singular: Barron Hall, animal dentist
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The course will present an in-depth study of the general precepts for menstruation and lochia and the precepts specific to lochia, as well as a detailed study of the chronic annulment of ablution.
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Norris divides a law into a preceptive and a punitive element.
Motherly Advice
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When a Mahometan has killed a certain number of infidels, he is sure of Paradise, no matter what his sins may be��the ordinary Musselman takes the precept in broader acceptation, and counts women and children as well.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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So long as tutors and governesses only had to deal with their own pupils, all went well, but when the brothers and sisters were all together, and influenced by the spirit of insubordination and love of playing pranks which the elder ones brought back from school, we made life hard and sour to the preceptorial body.
Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
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Some of these examples are maxims, precepts, quips, proverbs and epigrams.
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So the Church, recognising that its irenic precepts were largely ignored, tried to reduce the savagery of war.
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The pope and the king of France taught Edward II to dissolve the preceptories, to the number of twenty-three, belonging to the Templars; in 1410 the Commons petitioned for the confiscation of all church property; in 1414 the alien priories in England fell under the animadversion of the government; their property was handed over to the crown and they escaped only by the payment of heavy fines, by incorporation into English orders, and by partial confiscation of their land.
The Age of the Reformation
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The names Temple and Templeman were acquired from residence near one of the preceptories of the Knights Templars, and Spittlehouse (Chapter
The Romance of Names
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It was found that the plaques violated the U.S. Constitution's precepts on separation of church and state.
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It is essentially a small cyclopedia Of ready rules and references packed full from coyer to cover of condensed, meaty information and precepts on almost every leading subject connected with country life.
Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
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Though founded especially for military objects, as for instance the defence of the holy places at Jerusalem, when not so engaged, these knights lived a kind of a religious life in commanderies or preceptories, established on the estates belonging to their order.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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He kissed his child, and saluted her young preceptress with formal courtesy.
The Evil Guest
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They do not adopt an overtly political stance or contradict the precept that physical attractiveness equals romantic appeal.
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On the precept of self-denial he takes notice, that by it Christ commands us, first, to be crucified to our own flesh and will; secondly, to spare ourselves in nothing; thirdly, not only to deny ourselves, but thoroughly to deny ourselves; by this little particle _thoroughly_, adding great force to his precept.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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Earlier exegetes had attempted to do so by distinguishing precepts for ordinary Christians from counsels of perfection, intended only for advanced or perfect Christians.
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But so strong are the temptations to deviate from this path that we must make it an unbreakable precept never to give our assent unless the evidence compels it.
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Kwanzaa pays tribute to seven core precepts of African culture, starting with umoja, which means community, collectiveness, a real keeper of a concept.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: First Fruits of the Harvest
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Fellow-students, neighbors, and citizens teach by precept and by example; and especially do _school-houses teach_.
Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes
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And this entitles the precept, _Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself_, to the pre-eminence given to it, and is a justification of the apostle's assertion, that all other commandments are comprehended in it, whatever cautions and restrictions {28} there are, which might require to be considered, if we were to state particularly and at length what is virtue and right behaviour in mankind.
Human Nature and Other Sermons
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And legitimacy is far more than the artifact of an observed tendency of people to obey institutional precepts; even the term precepts is conceptually slightly different from commands or orders.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Paternalistic versus Therapeutic?
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The rep had recently spent a day doing a “preceptorship,” a practice in which a drug company pays doctors to let a rep shadow them while they see patients.
The Drug Pushers
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She was not a rigorous old moralist, nor, perhaps, a very wholesome preceptress for youth.
The Virginians
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Dekak appointed Subtekkin his lieutenant, to Tata/b. govern his ftate, but foon after fubflituted atabek Tegtek - kin, who had been governor before both of it and Miya - ferkm, under Taj-oddawla, and preceptor to Dekak him - felf.
The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time;
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One Ayscough, who had been preceptor to Prince George, and who had "not taught him to read English, though eleven years old," was about to be removed from the preceptorship.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
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Within these rules or precepts are five which are undertaken by all those trying to adhere to a Buddhist way of life.
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What praxeological precept (s) confirm anarchism over minarchism in providing for societal economic health AND societal security from external threats?
Mises Institute Daily Articles (Full-text version)
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Candidates were to demonstrate in their lives the precepts of the Golden Rule.
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For the _distinctions_ are found, many of them, but we conclude _no precepts_ upon them '; it is induction then that we want here, after all -- _here_ also -- here as elsewhere:' the distinctions are found, many of them, but we _conclude no precepts_ upon them: wherein our fault is the greater, because both HISTORY,
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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Ancient traditions and rituals tend to abound with precepts and injunctions.
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The course also includes an education module for preceptors.
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After the classroom component of the program was completed, the educators and manager placed the students with preceptors in the clinical areas.
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But though they mistook his observations of human behaviour for universal precepts, he must take some of the blame.
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Item, gevin to Maister Michael Durehame, doctour in medecyne, be one precept in recompensatioun of service done be him to our Sovernne Lord, quhome God assolze, and for the rest of his feis, as his said precept beris, £200.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
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He that says that the doctor's skill is wanted in the case of a slight skin-eruption or whitlow, but is not needed in the case of pleurisy, fever, or lunacy, in what respect does he differ from the man that says that schools and teaching and precepts are only for small and boyish duties, while great and important matters are to be left to mere routine and accident?
Plutarch's Morals
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I believe in the precept of 'Person first, disability second'.
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But there were many responses all over and we all know that life is stronger and more insistent than its precepts.
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But, although her preceptress practised these arts with a dexterity then only known in foreign convents, the pupil proved so incorrigibly idle and awkward, that the task of needlework was at length given up, and lessons of music substituted in their stead.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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When educators, preceptors, and managers relive situations, it is a form of storytelling.
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Tyler Sudley would break out, addressing the teacher, all unmindful of scholastic etiquette, a flush of pleasure rising to his swarthy cheek as he thrust back his wide black hat on his long dark hair and turned his candid gray eyes, all aglow, upon the cadaverous, ascetic preceptor, "ain't Lee-yander a-gittin 'on powerful, _powerful_ fas' with his book?
The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
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Two years after his death his son Walter obtained the King's precept to his escheator to hand over the lands of his mother's inheritance to him, and shortly afterwards he secured his father's also.
Shakespeare's Family
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Nurse externs work under the direct supervision of preceptors in a variety of settings.
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The general structural and moral precepts around which these relationships are constituted are evident at certain stages of beer drinks.
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I wish I could be a fly on the barroom wall to hear him regale his buddies with his preceptorship experiences over a beer next week. posted by #1 Dinosaur @ 6:14 AM
Archive 2007-03-01
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So, despite all the screaming and wailing from the right about how Obama threatens America, an unnerving bipartisan consensus on the key precepts of American militarism has, in 2010, fully re-asserted itself.
Jonathan Weiler: Deafening Silence: Why Our Ongoing Wars Are Not a Campaign Issue
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They accept the Prophet's precepts but reject some of his strictures.
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I know it sounds horrible to pull away, but it may enable her learn that words can be hurtful - she's a pretty preceptive girl especially for her age, so it just might be a good lesson.
Mommy Dearest
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Consequently, at no time during his pastoral career could he baptize babies or administer the sacraments, although he could both preach and instruct children in religious precepts.
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-- But however great have been your exertions; however much they have been guided by the precepts of humanity and religion, your public reward has been censure and criticism; but let not such airy weapons damp your ardour for doing good; your _just reward_ is in Heaven, not on earth.
Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872
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Individuals who willfully refused to comply with Puritan precepts were excluded altogether from the promise of grace.
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Almost a century earlier, the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits “greatly disproportioned” sentences and stated that “it is a precept of justice that punishment for crime should be graduated and proportioned to the offense.”
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
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Indeed, merging two parallel but undoubtedly different precepts of cybernetics was a feat beyond an overwhelming majority of technicians.
FLOATING CITY
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I know of many systems of religion esteemed heathenish whose precepts fill the reader with shame, and provoke him to new endeavors, though it be to the performance of rites merely.
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Almost a century earlier, the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits “greatly disproportioned” sentences and stated that “it is a precept of justice that punishment for crime should be graduated and proportioned to the offense.”
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
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To think in these terms - clearly derived from popular music practice - is to question an almost universal precept of music education systems, that students need to learn to read and write in music notation.
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There were a number of post-Thomistic writers in the medieval and modern periods who in some way denied (2), the natural authority of the natural law, holding that while the content of the natural law is fixed either wholly or in part by human nature, its preceptive power could only come from an additional divine command: the views of John Duns Scotus, Francisco Suarez, and John Locke fit this mold.
The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics
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The title of the series alludes to Schoenberg's precept; "re:sonance," so punctuated, implies both history and sound.
NYT > Home Page
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Using this instrument, preceptees' attitudes toward their preceptors may be identified and professionally inviting practices determined.
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The guru-student relationship is popularly characterised in terms of the student surrendering completely to the will of the preceptor.
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Now it is not probable that a man chosen for a preceptor was a Frank.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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But all the councils have set their precepts for this year and the only way they could afford to employ a lengthman would be to raise the parish precepts next year.
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Edifices for Divine worship, asylums for the poor and sick, monasteries and nunneries, universities and schools, cathedral and collegiate churches, chantries and preceptories, were founded and endowed in great numbers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Yet when I name custom, I understand not the vulgar custom; for that were a precept no less dangerous to language than life, if we should speak or live after the manners of the vulgar: but that I call custom of speech, which is the consent of the learned; as custom of life, which is the consent of the good.
Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
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BF: It was a very dramatic event: on Friday 13, October 1307 the French soldiers broke into all templar preceptories and imprisoned the monks.
Tracking Down the Tale of the Knights Templar | Impact Lab
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You won't find this moral precept in the scriptures.
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Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary -- This precept is frequently repeated along with the prohibition of idolatrous practices, and here it stands closely connected with the superstitions forbidden in the previous verses.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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So a culture based on abstract reasoning, or on various metaphysical precepts, may itself be simply a product of evolutionary change.
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It will mean a rise in the police precept in council tax of seven per cent which equates to 10 pence a week per council taxpayer.
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Up until then, women in Sri Lanka were only allowed to become dasasil matas, “ten-precept practitioners,” but not bhikkhunis.
History of the Theravada Ordination Lineages
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It seemed obvious to me the precepts presented a picture of those traits which arose like this of their own accord in a mind purifying itself.
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The social virtues must, therefore, be allowed to have a natural beauty and amiableness, which, at first, antecedent to all precept or education, recommends them to the esteem of uninstructed mankind, and engages their affections.
An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
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One, Unsho, an instructor in Shingon, kept Buddha's precepts scrupulously. He never drank intoxicants, nor did he eat after eleven o'clock in the morning.
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Thou art called the preceptor that subsists only on the froth of water.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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The flood plain tax would replace the existing system under which householders across the country pay a precept on their Council Tax bills - regardless of whether they live in flood risk areas.
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My survey gives a most minute extent, of 35 preceptories, 23 "cameræ" of the Hospitallers, 13 preceptories formerly commandries of the Templars,
Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850
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These debilitating decisions must be made one at a time, with the organizer instilling certain precepts in the client as they work.
Leaving It to the Professionals
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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge.
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The use of some Keynesian terms by Treasury officials does not imply the acceptance of Keynes's precepts.
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The certificates of admeasurement include the date of the precept from the surveyor general ordering the survey.
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The precept is threefold, ask, seek, knock; there is precept upon precept; but the promise is sixfold, line upon line, for our encouragement; because a firm belief of the promise would make us cheerful and constant in our obedience.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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It occurs to me that example is always more efficacious than precept.
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One of the sacred precepts of modern educational theory is that you must never impinge negatively on the pupil's self-esteem.
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No matter how carefully conformed to the law of God and the precepts of the Church one's life may have been, no Christian will want to enter eternity without some immediate forearming against the terrors of that last passage.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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he believed all the Christian precepts
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My preceptor is a MD, JD and chief of critical care department and does consulting work with insurance companies.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The ABA Wasn’t Always Liberal:
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Kilmainham Wood, County Meath, a preceptory belonging to the Knights
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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If the first, then they cannot intend any but those moral powers who are said to be of God, in respect of his approbative and preceptive will.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
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And, look here, Arjuna, give me now the preceptorial fee in the presence of these thy cousins and relatives. '
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva
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Example is always more efficacious than precept.
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One cannot decide that this Church precept is false this one true, that that one is empty and useless and that one is meaningful.
True or False? « So Many Books
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Example is always more efficacious than precept.
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Three bhikshus officiate during the bhikshuni ordination: [a bhikshu preceptor (mkhan-po, Skt. upadhyaya, Pali: upajjhaya) who has held bhikshu vows for at least ten years, a bhikshu procedural master, and a bhikshu instr u cting master for private matters].
A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages ��� Part Two: Day One
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Fit iterum cerastes in semita que quos fideles repperit et sese ad precepti celestis angusta itinera constringens non solum nequitia callide persuasionis impedit sed etiam terrore potestatis premit et in persecutionis angore post beneficia ficte dulcedinis, exercet cornua potestatis.
Archive 2008-06-01
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After the preceptorial letters cease the others are concerned with domestic events, health and sickness, visits or introductions, birth or death.
Meditations
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I then went to bed, resolving my first business in the morning should be to discharge this troublesome, pedantic, self-conceited coxcomb, who seemed so much disposed to constitute himself rather a preceptor than a domestic.
Rob Roy
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To follow up on the last post one the thing I liked a lot about the Netroots Nation conference was the sense that I was among people that were really preceptive and knowledge.
2008 July « Christopher Colaninno
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Others extracted from the sayings of Michael Angelo the precept that serpentine undulating lines were the true _lines of beauty_.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
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Charlotte was a precept: — to take pleasure in seeing her humbled was a natural consequence which had not been guarded against.
Isabella. A Novel
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These are but some of the wise precepts your Lord has inspired you with.
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These precepts are so fundamental to the democratic process that without adherence to them, any attempts at calling interparty talks meeting will be regarded as a mere headline seeking ploy intended to please donors who fund such organisations (monitoring groups)," the booklet further stated.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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He is happy to talk to those who want to discuss issues with the parish precept.
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The basis of the punishment is the rationale of a law, or the preceptive aspect of a law.
Motherly Advice
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In ecclesiastical jurisprudence, the word precept is used:
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Towards the close of the year the influx from Oxford became so dangerous that it became necessary for the mayor to issue a precept (17 Dec.) for special precautions to be taken against danger arising from ill-affected persons. —
London and the Kingdom - Volume II
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Gordon Craig with his "this is I" and "this is mine," with his three wise men, his "sad French greens" and his Chinese cherries -- Gordon Craig, so inclinational and unashamed -- has carried the precept of being a good critic, to the last extreme.
Two Poems
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For example, Albert the Great remarked that the more general a precept is, the more properly it may be said to belong to the natural law.
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The title of this improbable vade mecum — a sternly selective, mostly chronological survey of some two dozen canonical philosophers and their core precepts — is a fair question (even if bathetically asked).
Cover to Cover
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He enriched humanity by his precepts and his personal example.
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Then Drona, desirous of humiliating king Drupada, called together his disciples and addressed them, 'Ye sinless ones, it behoveth you, after you have been accomplished in arms, to give me as preceptorial fee something that I cherish in my heart.'
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
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On the whole there is a sincerity and heartiness of interest in his long account of this sect, which persuades one that he was moved by a genuine sympathy with a religion that could enjoin the humane and peaceful and spiritual precepts of Christ, while putting away baptism, ceremonial communion, and hierophantic orders.
Voltaire
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The town council has managed to keep the rise in its council tax precept to the rate of inflation in the next financial year.
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It is a must for educators, preceptors, and managers of perioperative services.
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- Forest Laboratories created "preceptorship" programs in which physicians were paid up to
NPR Topics: News
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The precepts prohibit killing, stealing , harmful language , sexual misbehavior , and the use of intoxicants.
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West Yorkshire Police Authority chiefs spelt out how they set their spending and council tax precepts to Bradford councillors last night.
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He said the total precept charged by North Yorkshire Police increased by 182.9 per cent between 2000/1 and 2003 / 4.
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Bowing unto the gods, and especially unto the Brahmanas, I then smilingly addressed Rama stationed for battle, saying, -- Although thou hast shown little regard for me, yet I have fully honoured thy preceptorship!
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
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Fit iterum cerastes in semita que quos fideles repperit et sese ad precepti celestis angusta itinera constringens non solum nequitia callide persuasionis impedit sed etiam terrore potestatis premit et in persecutionis angore post beneficia ficte dulcedinis, exercet cornua potestatis.
Sigh. WMAM.
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Their use, for the begetting and continuing communion between God and us, with the concomitancy of precepts, places them in the capacity of a covenant.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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Rambam excluded the levirate wife from the condition to prohibit the husband from taking another wife because he considered the precept of yibbum as taking precedence, both because he lived in a polygynist milieu and because the husband did not seek out the marriage.
Legal-Religious Status of the Married Woman.
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Fit iterum cerastes in semita que quos fideles repperit et sese ad precepti celestis angusta itinera constringens non solum nequitia callide persuasionis impedit sed etiam terrore potestatis premit et in persecutionis angore post beneficia ficte dulcedinis, exercet cornua potestatis.
Sigh. WMAM.
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Although some of its forms are general in scope – commensalism being an example – most of its operations are founded in balanced reciprocal relations, with reciprocity enforced by social precepts that provide for inclusion as well as sanction.
Climate change impacts on Canadian Inuit in Nunavut
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Every question was considered in light of the King's conscience and of divine precepts.
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To apply critical criteria derived from careful and extensive study of literary history and aesthetic precepts is not to belittle the reader's own standards but to encourage the reader to engage with that history and those precepts and apply them as well -- an activity that will always have a "subjective" character to it.
Principles of Literary Criticism
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Dhritarashtra accomplished in arms, Drona thought the time had come when he could demand the preceptorial fee.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
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The due performance of these eternal duties, viz., the worship of the gods, the study of the Vedas, and the gratification of the Pitris, as also regardful services unto the preceptors -- these are called the austerest of penances.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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Adventurous young men tried their swords in the East, banished men there sought to recover their fame, the excommunicate strove to win pardon by his sword, or the forgiven to expiate his past crime; and, besides these irregular aids, the two military and monastic orders of Templars and Hospitallers were constantly fed by supplies of young nobles trained to arms and discipline in the numerous commanderies and preceptories scattered throughout the West.
Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
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Early the next morning Dr. Marchmont came to Etherington, and brought with him Lionel, by the express direction of his father, who never objected to admit the faulty to his presence; his hopes of doing good were more potent from kindness than from severity, from example than from precept: yet he attempted not to conquer the averseness of Mrs. Tyrold to an interview; he knew it proceeded not from an inexorable nature, but from
Camilla
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As for rant and rhetoric , they could enter easily into any contest with their Latin preceptor.
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These intuitionist approaches, whether at the level of specific precepts or general principles, are not only theoretically unsatisfying, but are also quite unhelpful in practical matters.
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Taxpayers will receive their bills as part of their council tax invoices issued from April this year, although the police and fire precepts are both separate from Town Hall rates.
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At the root of what makes this debate so acrimonious is the clash of two opposing philosophies of life -- one broadly humanist and the other based on traditions derived from religious precepts.
The Continuing Controversy on Abortion
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He has inverted the traditional precepts governing the photographic image, demonstrating the value of visual contradiction.
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There is no such thing as vengeance for a private wrong, and therefore we have the precept to forgive our enemies, and not to avenge ourselves, in which phrase the emphasis falls on the word _ourselves_.
Moral Philosophy
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The sopherim were so called because they wrote out the law, or because they classified and arranged its precepts, or because they counted with scrupulous minuteness every elapse and letter It contained.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Hanc autem exhortacionem supplicacionem et preceptum tu, fili ceterique successores nostri prestanti animo complere curetis, si nostram benedictionem habere velitis, una cum benedictione filii summi Regis, qui filios docuit patrum voluntates in bono perficere, asserens in mundum se venisse non ut suam voluntatem faceret sed paternam.
The Abbot
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Thus have I recited to thee the religion of desireless Devotees, O best of kings, incapable of being comprehended by persons of uncleansed souls but this I acquired through the grace of my preceptor.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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The doctor was sent for, who, very sick himself, and holding by the table to keep himself from falling, told her, without looking at her very particularly, that there was nothing the matter, only to keep yourself "quite quiet and still;" and the ship rolling at the same moment, he pitched head-foremost out of the cabin, showing practically how much easier precept is than example.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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Reply Obj. 3: He that backbites his brother, seems to detract the law, in so far as he despises the precept of love for one's neighbor: while he that strives to sever friendship seems to act more directly against this precept.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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The executive's budget recommendations will now go to Monday's meeting of the full council, along with the council tax precepts of Lancashire County Council and the Police Authority.
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While it is true I am not seeking to please God by obeying the precepts of the Law of Moses, I still am not living in sin.
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The principles of this religion are contained in a book written in the Hebrew tongue, which they call the Torah, or law, composed of several precepts, promises, and threatenings; together with histories of things past, and prophecies of things to come: this book, they say, was written by men inspired by God himself; and therefore they avouch it not to be of human invention, but merely of divine institution.
Private Thoughts Upon Religion and a Christian Life; to which is Added the Necessity and Advantage of Frequent Communion. Volume I.
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Moral philosophy reposes on natural law precepts as common presuppositions, but its advice will be true only in the main.
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It is important to remember these two types of personalities when educators and preceptors plan lessons, classes, or demonstrations.
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They do not preach learning precepts , they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
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A positive precept is right because it is commanded, and ceases to be obligatory when abrogated; a moral precept is commanded eternally, because it is eternally right.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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“Neither does our excellent preceptress approve of puns,” said Clara.
A Tangled Tale
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At four schools, preceptors were available for counseling and to act as resource people.
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Thus was I then to lose my faithful preceptress, as did the
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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He said the issue arose because Ilkley was in the unique position as the only parish council in the district charging a precept.
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Accordingly we conclude that just as, in the speculative reason, from naturally known indemonstrable principles we draw the conclusions of the various sciences, the knowledge of which is not imparted to us by nature, but acquired by the efforts of reason; so, too, it is from the precepts of the natural law, as from general and indemonstrable principles, that the human reason needs to proceed to the more particular determination of certain matters.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
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For they mean a contriving of directions and precepts for readiness of practice, which I discommend not, so it be not occasion that some quantity of the science be lost; for else it will be such a piece of husbandry as to put away a manor lying somewhat scattered, to buy in a close that lieth handsomely about a dwelling.
Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature
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Neoconservative wars create democracies that are bounded within neoconservative precepts, like extremely limited government and considerable corporate power.
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Some of these examples are maxims, precepts, quips, proverbs and epigrams.
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The spirit and intention of the law of God, yea, of all law, requires a suitable confession on the part of all those who have infracted its precepts: honor, truth, justice, demand it.
Confession a Fundamental Doctrine of the Gospel Economy:
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I can easily," says a sensible friend of mine, "hire a woman to make my linen and dress my dinner, but I cannot so readily procure a _friend_ and _companion_ for myself, and a preceptress for my children.
The Wedding Guest
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But finding those phrases in men's writings, and being not able or not willing to enter into a consideration of the circumstances, they mistake sometimes the precepts of counsellors for the precepts of them that command; and sometimes the contrary; according as it best agreeth with the conclusions they would infer, or the actions they approve.
Leviathan
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Many of the precepts of Puritanism survived well into the nineteenth century.
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There was hardly a major centre of civilization where they did not have a preceptory—as, for example, the wide scatter of such place names as Temple Fortune and Temple Bar (London) and Temple Meads (Bristol) in England still shows.
The Templar Revelation
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The nontraditional clerkships are designed to be part-time and indirectly precepted at the students' practice site or another clinical site.
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If then this distinction is denied, and the providential will of God asserted to be declarative of his preceptive, and so of his approbative will; it remains to be manifested, where and how it has been appointed of God for such an end, an end that is by the Spirit of God denied unto it: _Eccl. _ ix, 1, 2, 4.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
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Having already removed the prejudices against public spirit, or the love of our neighbour, on the side of private interest and self-love, I proceed to the particular explanation of the precept before us, by showing, _Who is our neighbour_: _In what sense we are required to love him as ourselves_; _The influence such love would have upon our behaviour in life_; and lastly, _How this commandment comprehends in it all others_.
Human Nature and Other Sermons
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Many religions discourage skepticism or critical examination of cherished precepts.
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We must suppose either that the bishops introduced directly by a positive precept as a liturgical pontifical badge a humeral cloth resembling the ordinary omophorion and called by that name, or that the civil omophorion was at first used by the bishops as a mere ornament without any special significance, but in the course of time gradually developed into a distinctively episcopal ornament, and finally assumed the character of an episcopal badge of office.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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Seasoned preceptors can teach, express their feelings about a given situation, and satisfy their need to demonstrate their knowledge by telling stories.
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It occurs to me that example is always more efficacious than precept.
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The George circle was close and intimate and his disciples vowed to perpetuate his memory by remaining faithful to his precepts of service, heroic values and fidelity to the ideal of the true Germany.
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Too many attitudes will have become ingrained, too many old moral precepts will have disappeared.
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The results show that 83% do not place their students in a perioperative preceptorship or internship.
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Armed with such a precept, a number of doctors may slip into deceptive practices.
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Not only is there thus evidence of Auchterarder being assessed in dues and exercising the privileges of a Royal Burgh, but, what is of more importance, as showing its burghal character, is, that there are three separate precepts of Parliament -- in 1570, 1581, and 1600 -- summoning
Chronicles of Strathearn
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We appear prepared to follow the precepts of free trade wherever they lead us, even if that means plunging lemminglike to our economic ruin.
"As an economist, I am supposed to have something intelligent to say about the current financial crisis."
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Lakes parish councillors are considering whether to increase parish precepts in order to safeguard the future of two public toilets.
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A precept that underlies much of Western thought is that people will by nature seek freedom and strive for liberty.
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The five precepts are the nearest rules to the Ten Commandments.
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For far too long local people have been forced to pay precepts which are nearly twice the rate of other neighbouring town councils.
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It involves rules and precepts - the do's and don'ts of life with others - as well as explicit instructions, exhortations, and training.
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‘I do not think the electorate will wear very large precepts from police authorities any more than they would wear very large precepts from local authorities,’ he said.
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_Torphichen Church_, Linlithgowshire, represents the hospital or preceptory of Torphichen, from 1153 the principal Scottish residence of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
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Should it be admitted that Moses here imprecated utter destruction on himself, it could not be alleged as a precept given to direct others, but only as a solitary incident, in the history of a saint, who was then compassed with infirmity.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects
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Rational Review
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Helping the poor and the downtrodden is a precept that has come down as a tradition well-remembered on Baisakhi day.
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To sum up, we can say that the form of the moral law as a categorical imperative is the personal command of God and that the general precepts of this law constitute the content of his will.
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One of the precepts was to pay your bills as they come in, rather than wait till the end of the month, since that makes it less of an outgo shock, plus it spreads out the work involved in balancing your checkbook.
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He lived by the precept'practise what you preach '.
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A questionnaire and stamped self-addressed return envelope were mailed to 21 current preceptors of community health practicum students.
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In short, those negative precepts which we call taboo are just as vain and futile as those positive precepts which we call sorcery.
Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic
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Armed with such a precept, a number of doctors may slip into deceptive practices.
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Example is better than precept.
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It is significant that the town of Troyes, from which Chrétien took his surname, was a cabalistic centre and the site of the original Templar preceptory—and it was where the Count of Champagne held his court.
The Templar Revelation
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V. ii.114 (330,6) the card or calendar of gentry] The general preceptor of elegance; the _card_ by which a gentleman is to direct his course; the _calendar_ by which he is to choose his time, that what he does may be both excellent and seasonable.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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Many career centers facilitate establishment of internships and preceptorships.
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For administrative purposes the possessions of the Order were grouped in ten provinces, each province being further subdivided into preceptories or commanderies, and each of these into still smaller units.
The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304
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Collaboration between the extern or intern, clinical educator, and preceptor is extremely important if the student is to successfully achieve the goals.
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Despite their non-Christian inspiration the practical effect of these beliefs was an asceticism among the perfecti far more in accord with Christian precepts than the laxity of many of the Roman clergy.
HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
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Human nature is too strong for them, and they don’t follow their own precepts.
Tom Brown's Schooldays
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The simple fact is that for any of our thoughts, words or actions to be dharmic, we should be mindful of invoking these three precepts.
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: The Dharma Of An Apology
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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.
Chapter 4
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The preceptorial system, soon moribund, had become nominal.
Medical Education in America
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Observing she was learned, and knew so well the duties of life, I turned my arguments rather to dehort her from this public procedure by examples, than precepts.
The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899
