Benito Gerónimo Feyjóo y Montenegro
Benito Gerónimo Feyjóo y Montenegro , 1676-1764, Spanish Benedictine scholar and critic, abbot at Oviedo, Asturias. Feyjóo led in bringing the Enlightenment to Spain. In his social and political ideas, in philosophy, science, and literature, he represented the most advanced European thought of his time. Feijóo is a variant spelling of his name.
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/21/1996; ; 152 words
; ...controversy over the Flick Chair of European Thought at Oxford, James Archer's letter...then says that the Chair of European Thought would have promoted understanding...muddle. J W BURROW Professor of European Thought University of Oxford
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Bad spelling? Ignor it.
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Why 'twelth' night simply will not do ; N a Times Higher Education article published last week, Ken Smith re- ignited the debate about spelling when he called for lecturers to "simply accept as variant spelling those words our students most commonly misspell".
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Balliol loses its `tainted' cash
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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