a counsel of perfection
11advice — 1 Advice, counsel and their corresponding verbs advise, counsel denote recommendation or to make a recommendation as to a decision or a course of conduct. Advice and advise imply real or pretended knowledge or experience, often professional or… …
12Skoptsy — The Skoptsy ( ru. скопцы, also transliterated as Skoptzy, Skoptzi, Skoptsi, Scoptsy and other spellings) were a secret sect of Christianity in imperial Russia. The Skoptsy are best known for practicing castration of men and the mastectomy of… …
13perfectionism — The ethical position that the goal of life is to pursue a perfect ideal of character and conduct. The view is held amongst the Stoics, but also in Christian writing, since Jesus requires perfection of those who would follow him. A ‘counsel of… …
14Goldwin Smith — Infobox Person name = Goldwin Smith caption = birth date = birth date|1823|8|13|mf=y birth place = Reading, Berkshire, England dead=dead death date = death date and age|1910|6|7|1823|8|13|mf=y death place = Toronto, OntarioGoldwin Smith (August… …
15Lucas Malet — is the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley (4 June 1852 Eversley, Hampshire 1931), Victorian novelist. She was the daughter of Charles Kingsley, author of The Water Babies. In 1876 she married William Harrison, Minor Canon of Westminster, and… …
16Vise (tool) — A vise or vice (see under miscellaneous spelling differences) is a mechanical screw apparatus used for holding or clamping a work piece to allow work to be performed on it with tools such as saws, planes, drills, mills, screwdrivers, sandpaper,… …
17Home Place, Kelling — Home Place, Kelling, also called Voewood is a house (1903 5) by Edward Schroeder Prior, near Holt, Norfolk, UK . Home Place is perhaps one of the greatest achievements of house design of the Arts and Crafts Movement. More than almost any other… …
18Гаррисон Мэри — (Mary St. Leger) английская популярная романистка, пишущая под псевдонимом Lucas Malet ; дочь известного романиста и поэта Чарльза Кингслея. Ее сочинения: Mrs. Lorimer (1882), Colonel Enderby s Wife , Little Peter , Counsel of Perfection , The… …
19pacifism — /pas euh fiz euhm/, n. 1. opposition to war or violence of any kind. 2. refusal to engage in military activity because of one s principles or beliefs. 3. the principle or policy that all differences among nations should be adjusted without… …
20Casuistry — • The application of general principles of morality to definite and concrete cases of human activity, for the purpose, primarily, of determining what one ought to do, or ought not to do, or what one may do or leave undone as one pleases; and for… …
