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| | Essay - definition of Essay in Encyclopedia |
 | | Francis Bacon's essays were the first in English that bore the name. | | | Montaigne, trying to get over the loss of his close friend, confidant, and perhaps, lover, Étienne de La Boétie, coined the term 'essai' from the French verb essayer meaning, 'to try'. | | | An essay is a short work of authorship. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Essay
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| | essay - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about essay |
| | the formal essay has become more diversified in subject and less stately in tone and language, and the sharp division between the two forms has tended to disappear. | | | said the Editor, sententiously, without looking up from his essay on the circularity of the political horizon. | | | Although such classical authors as Theophrastus, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, and Plutarch wrote essays, the term essai was first applied to the form in 1580 by Montaigne, one of the greatest essayists of all time, to his pieces on friendship, love, death, and morality. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/essay
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| | Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal: Review Essay: Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples.(Review)@ HighBeam Research |
| | The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples exceeds 1300 pages; apart from Aboriginal peoples it includes 118 entries on other ethno-cultural groups or categories, plus thirteen thematic essays, written by 132 authors backed by 182 advisers and eight area consultants. | | | Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal: Review Essay: Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples.(Review)@ HighBeam Research | | | To attempt a review and appraisal of a work of this magnitude may indeed seem like an ambitious undertaking. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:78527366&refid=holomed_1
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| | ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science |
| | A brief essay expressing clearly and unequivocally, and sometimes with artful persuasiveness, the opinion or position of the chief | | | Headwords and text are usually revised periodically for | | | information about a variety of topics in the form of short essays, usually arranged |
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http://lu.com/odlis/odlis_e.cfm
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