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"ref": "1644, John Barwick, Certain Disquisitions and Considerations, Oxford, page 27",
"text": "[…] who may proceed against such Malignants where the Laws are wholy silent, and neither have given name to their fault, nor prescribed any punishment?",
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"text": "1711, letter signed ‘T.’ in Joseph Addison and Richard Steele (eds.), The Spectator, No. 145, 16 August, 1711, in The Works of Joseph Addison, New York: Harper, 1850, Volume 1, p. 218,\nThe skirt of your [men’s] fashionable coats forms as large a circumference as our [women’s] petticoats; as these are set out with whalebone, so are those with wire, to increase and sustain the bunch of fold that hangs down on each side; and the hat, I perceive is decreased in just proportion to the head-dresses. We [women] make a regular figure, but I defy your mathematics to give name to the form you [men] appear in."
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"text": "1977, Audre Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” in Sister Outsider, Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984, p. 36,\n[…] it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are—until the poem—nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt."
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"text": "1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, London: Ward, Lock, Introduction, p. xii,\nthe author must now offer some notices of the individual who gives name to these volumes"
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"ref": "1999, Marc Peter Keane, “Gardens”, in David Scott, editor, Simply Zen, London: New Holland, page 88",
"text": "The new leaders moved their capital to Kamakura, an isolated town near present-day Tokyo, giving name to the era, the Kamakura period (1185-1333).",
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"text": "1568, The Bishops’ Bible, London, Table setting out the genealogy of Adam,\nAnd Adam gaue name to the woman, which was made of his ribbe (while he was a sleepe) and called her EVA, as he gaue name to al other creatures."
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},
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"text": "1977, Audre Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” in Sister Outsider, Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984, p. 36,\n[…] it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are—until the poem—nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt."
}
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},
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"ref": "1999, Marc Peter Keane, “Gardens”, in David Scott, editor, Simply Zen, London: New Holland, page 88",
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}
],
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