Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote. From LearnThat.org. [Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)]
Adjective : Refer back to the footnote on the preceding page. From Dictionary.com.
The term preceding the Commencement of 1799 was especially stormy. From Wordnik.com. [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868] Reference
Here, apparently, is a meaning of the call preceding the convulsions. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
Each passage, let it be noted, solves a problem posed in preceding stanzas. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth] Reference
Now, if you hate writing short stories, most of the preceding is probably irrelevant to you. From Wordnik.com. [My shameful lie about short fiction «] Reference
I looked up the word preceding and was, after a brief moment, asked to type in the word, which I did. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3] Reference
Consumer credit, which had risen markedly in preceding years, showed little further increase during 1957. From Wordnik.com. [Dollars and Sense] Reference
I would compare them with curls I had cut from your head in preceding years and which I kept in my wallet. From Wordnik.com. [Indiana] Reference
Safety and services that come long before items such as, but not limited to, those listed in preceding posts. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Government incompetence kills again] Reference
The most sophisticated people in preceding generations were formed by their struggle to break free from something. From Wordnik.com. [The Organization Kid] Reference
The preceding is an excellent example of the ridiculous hold that “energy independence” maintains over American political discourse. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Farm Blogging] Reference
The preceding was a Cinema Static on Brusimm review. From Wordnik.com. [DOCTOR WHO with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in The Eleventh Hour] Reference
Apparently lighter than the preceding was the Cidon or. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Very similar to the preceding is the process known as Immediate. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
All titles preceding a proper noun: President Taft, Governor-elect. From Wordnik.com. [Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing] Reference
The preceding is a summary of the intelligence by this day's mail. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete] Reference
Again different in style from any of the preceding are the works of. From Wordnik.com. [The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players] Reference
The meanings of 6 to 9 in this and the preceding are my conjectures. From Wordnik.com. [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference
Quite as lovely in every detail as the preceding is the Fountain of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition] Reference
I guess I could have titled my preceding post "My Beef with Philosophy.". From Wordnik.com. [A case in point ...] Reference
The paraphrase preceding the quote was not attibuted and was my own view. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Dissing Your Partners:] Reference
The preceding is a singular tale, for it teaches that Spirits are divisible. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
Of equal interest to the preceding is the badly frayed bag shown in plate V. From Wordnik.com. [Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46] Reference
Previously each sub-expression preceding a bracket was evaluated separately. From Wordnik.com. [AutoHotkey Community] Reference
Another work of Caesarius identical in historical value with the preceding is his. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
The preceding was my assumption, but I must be getting some of it right ... the old. From Wordnik.com. [The ZehnKatzen Times] Reference
To call the preceding player is to stake an amount equal to his stake (see p. 37). From Wordnik.com. [Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice] Reference
How should you treat foreign titles preceding names of persons, streets, and the like?. From Wordnik.com. [The Uses of Italic A Primer of Information Regarding the Origin and Uses of Italic Letters] Reference
Cleland, following Rove, joked that "the preceding was a paid political advertisement.". From Wordnik.com. [Karl Rove: Not Citizen 2.0] Reference
The preceding are the cases in which representative government cannot permanently exist. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Government] Reference
Many Iranian surnames end with - nejad, with a first name preceding it, like AHMADinejad. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The preceding is the address, as it was taken down at the time, by a practised stenographer. From Wordnik.com. [Speeches of His Majesty Kamehameha IV. To the Hawaiian Legislature] Reference
The preceding was a spoof on the "Goodbye" entry that all diaries eventually come around to. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
Don’t know if this adds anything to the splendid material so well stated in preceding posts. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Health insurance mandate as a privacy right violation] Reference
Cautiously, the point of his own sword preceding him, he advanced in the direction of the cage. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
24Chapter 6, the book's final chapter, departs from the thematic approach used in preceding chapters. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
Comparison is instead relevant in the phrase preceding "in an ideal direction", i.e., "the most outstanding". From Wordnik.com. [Topping Shakespeare? Aspects of the Nobel Prize for Literature] Reference
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