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  2. Barnes' Notes of Practice - Wikipedia

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    Notes of Cases in points of practice, taken in the Court of Common Pleas, from M.T. 1732, to H.T. 1756, inclusive. To which is added a continuation of cases to the end of the reign of Geo. II. is the title of a collection of nominate reports , by Henry Barnes, [ 1 ] of cases decided between approximately 1732 and 1760.

  3. Albert Barnes (theologian) - Wikipedia

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    Albert Barnes (December 1, 1798 – December 24, 1870) [1] was an American theologian, clergyman, abolitionist, temperance advocate, and author. Barnes is best known for his extensive Bible commentary and notes on the Old and New Testaments , published in a total of 14 volumes in the 1830s.

  4. Bureaucracy - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] Weber's critical study of the bureaucratization of society became one of the most enduring parts of his work. [5] [67] Many aspects of modern public administration are based on his work, and a classic, hierarchically organized civil service of the Continental type is called a "Weberian civil service" or a "Weberian bureaucracy". [68]

  5. Goodhart's law - Wikipedia

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    Goodhart's law is an adage often stated as, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". [1] It is named after British economist Charles Goodhart, who is credited with expressing the core idea of the adage in a 1975 article on monetary policy in the United Kingdom: [2]

  6. SparkNotes - Wikipedia

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    The following year, Barnes & Noble [4] purchased SparkNotes and selected fifty literature study guides to publish in print format. When Barnes & Noble printed SparkNotes, they stopped selling their chief competitor, CliffsNotes. [5] In January 2003, SparkNotes developed a practice test service called SparkNotes Test Prep.

  7. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    Curme, George O. (1925). College English Grammar, Richmond, VA, Johnson Publishing company, 414 pages. A revised edition Principles and Practice of English Grammar was published by Barnes & Noble, in 1947. Curme, George O. (1978) [1931, 1935]. A Grammar of the English Language: Volumes I (Parts of Speech) & II (Syntax). Verbatim Books. p. 1045.

  8. Notes on the State of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Notes was the only full-length book published by Thomas Jefferson in his lifetime. Notes on the State of Virginia (1785) is a book written by the American statesman, philosopher, and planter Thomas Jefferson. He completed the first version in 1781 and updated and enlarged the book in 1782 and 1783.

  9. Logic - Wikipedia

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    Logic is traditionally defined as the study of the laws of thought or correct reasoning, [5] and is usually understood in terms of inferences or arguments. Reasoning is the activity of drawing inferences. Arguments are the outward expression of inferences. [6] An argument is a set of premises together with a conclusion.