mattered (verb)
11Valla, Lorenzo — born 1407, Rome, Papal States died Aug. 1, 1457, Rome Italian humanist, philosopher, and literary critic. Unable to find a post as a papal secretary, Valla left Rome in 1430 and spent five years traveling in northern Italy. He was royal secretary …
12gloom — 1. noun a) darkness, dimness or obscurity. Here was a surprise, and a sad one for me, for I perceived that I had slept away a day, and that the sun was setting for another night. And yet it mattered little, for night or daytime there was no light …
13Polis and its culture (The) — The polis and its culture Robin Osborne INTRODUCTION ‘We love wisdom without becoming soft’, Thucydides has the Athenian politician Pericles claim, using the verb philosophein.1 Claims to, and respect for, wisdom in archaic Greece were by no… …
14Stoicism — Stoicism1 Brad Inwood 1 FROM SOCRATES TO ZENO More than eighty years passed between the death of Socrates in 399 BC and the arrival in Athens of Zeno in 312. Athenian society had undergone enormous upheavals, both political and social. The Greek… …
15Locke’s political theory — Ian Harris The author of Two Treatises of Government also wrote An Essay concerning Human Understanding. This is an elementary fact, but one with an important implication for understanding Locke’s political theory. For Two Treatises is an… …
16keep in with — PHRASAL VERB If you keep in with someone, you stay friendly with them, often in order to gain some advantage for yourself because they have power or influence. [mainly BRIT] [V P P n] I had to keep in with the people who mattered …
17merit — [[t]me̱rɪt[/t]] merits, meriting, merited 1) N UNCOUNT: usu with supp If something has merit, it has good or worthwhile qualities. The argument seemed to have considerable merit... Box office success mattered more than artistic merit... Your… …
18come through — phrasal verb Word forms come through : present tense I/you/we/they come through he/she/it comes through present participle coming through past tense came through past participle come through 1) come through something [transitive] to be still… …
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