Re: CHAT: Ability of Americans & Europeans to locate each others cities
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 16:13 |
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 05:53:57PM -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
> Just on the edge of the vast deserts of Louisiana, where poor Manon Lescaut
> took refuge......
I suppose "deserts" in this connection has the archaic sense of "uninhabited
(i.e. deserted) places" rather than the modern sense of sandy and/or waterless
tracts.
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John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan
Promises become binding when there is a meeting of the minds and consideration
is exchanged. So it was at King's Bench in common law England; so it was
under the common law in the American colonies; so it was through more than
two centuries of jurisprudence in this country; and so it is today.
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