Fairbairn, Sir William, Bt.
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Fairbairn, Sir William, Bt. (1789–1874). Scots engineer. He assisted Robert
Stephenson in the design of the bridges over the Menai Straits and at Conway, describing his contributions in
An Account of the Construction of the Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges, with a Complete History of their Progress (1849). His numerous papers and books on various practical matters concerned with iron construction contributed to advances in engineering in the Victorian period.
Bibliography
Fairbairn (1849, 1869, 1870);
Fairbairn & and Pole (1970);
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)
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Gorgias: Sophist and Artist.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Argumentation and Advocacy; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
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Ranasinghe, Nalin. Socrates in the Underworld: On Plato's Gorgias.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/2009; ; 700+ words
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The myth of the last judgment in the Gorgias.(Critical Essay)
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; ...of the Phaedo, the Republic, and the Gorgias as follows: "there [that is, in the...the judged, and here [that is, in the Gorgias] about the judges who render the verdict." (3) However, the myth of the Gorgias can hardly be said to focus on the judges...
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Gorgias-Menon; selected papers from the Seventh Symposium Platonicum; proceedings.(Brief article)(Book review)
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COLUMN: Daydreaming test preparation
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Ancient & modern
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 10/16/2004; ; 595 words
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Crecer es desdecirse.- Herrasti.(Cultura)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 4/15/2004; 700+ words
; ...Si algo podran aprender del filsofo Gorgias, personaje de mi novela, es que crecer...fallecimiento, a los 109 aos de edad, de Gorgias, padre de la retrica y maestro del tirano...que su valor resida en ser discpulo de Gorgias. Haciendo una analoga con lo que vivimos...
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Two chariots: the justification of the best life in the Katha Upanishad and Plato's Phaedrus.
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...dialogues (the definitional dialogues, the Gorgias, the Republic, the Phaedrus, etc...most formidable interlocutors, in the Gorgias. In this dialogue, Socrates' account...Upanishad certainly differs from that of the Gorgias, a similar challenge is issued. This...
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The Art of Plato.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Rutherford cites Dodds' commentary on the Gorgias as the best on any dialogue.) We are...chapters on the Symposium, Protagoras, Gorgias, Republic, and Phaedrus; a concluding...views (cf. the strident tone of the Gorgias). The dialogue ends on a conciliatory...
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Afrodita en la lirica de Safo.
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Gorgias
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Gorgias Gorgias (ca. 480-ca. 376 B.C.) was a Greek sophist and rhetorician...contributions to the development of epideictic, or ceremonial, oratory. Gorgias was born in Leontini on the island of Sicily and is said to have lived...
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Sophists
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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sophists
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...for public life, especially rhetoric, in return for fees. Gorgias of Leontini ( c. 483–376 BC) specialized in teaching...the truth. However, the most renowned sophists, such as Gorgias and Protagoras ( c. 485–415 BC) drew relativist...
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Speech Act Theory
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...reflection on the performative dimension of language can arguably be traced back to the Sophists (Corax of Syracuse, Tisias, Gorgias, Protagoras, and Isocrates) of the fifth century BCE and their (lost) treatises on rhetoric and argumentation, it is...
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Hippias of Elis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...placed from 488 to 485. In Plato ’ s Apology 5 set in 399, Hippias is mentioned as a teacher o youth along with Gorgias and other famous Sophists, and may then be presumed to have been at the hight of his fame. He was therefore a contemporary...
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