“... unwilling subject. The tone of the letters and memoirs she left do not suggest complicity with an unknown reader, and when, in phases of her life which leave nothing to be recorded except externals, the biography becomes overloaded with trivia, one wonders if she is an appropriate subject for biography at all. When one has read the book, one begins to suspect ...”

“... to subtly different uses in the two books. Both show that similarities between the known and the unknown cannot be invoked independently of, and used to explain, our tendency to predict and perceive such similarities. But for Kripke’s Wittgenstein this is an argument about meaning, and one from which nothing systematic can be salvaged. For Goodman, who ...”

“... German administrator would have to go. To them this meant losing an able man and accepting an unknown quantity. The Oberpraesident of Schleswig-Holstein was sacked. But we could also point to men who had for years been forbidden by the Nazis to hold office and who proved to be able administrators. The Oberpraesident of Niedersachsen turned out to be an ...”

“... not be confused with modesty. Locally thought to be a big name in Europe, Brennan was in fact unknown there, but the legend was fed by his notorious epistolary exchange with Mallarmé, who was kind enough to acknowledge Brennan’s admiration. The admiration amounted to abject worship and went on after Mallarmé’s death, which was fulsomely recorded in ...”

“... first time. McGann’s edition of the poetry also contains some poems which were previously either unknown or not identified as Byron’s. But its more significant contribution is to make available passages, either from the poems or from Byron’s or Hobhouse’s notes for them, which on first publication were censored for political reasons. The literary ...”

“... thumb pulled out many a plum. Professor Carringer, however, supplies a great deal of previously unknown detail which must affect all future appreciation of how the images were physically constructed. Many of the most memorable will now be seen to stem not so much from Gregg Toland’s marvellous deep-focus photography as from the dazzling optical tricks ...”

“... failed to find an audience, failed to satisfy its possessor’. Jones’s oil sketches, which were unknown until thirty or so were sent for auction in 1954, are astonishing: in themselves, but especially in their context. The first time you see them hanging among the works of his contemporaries, as a couple of them do in the Tate, you think there has been a ...”

“... and nieces into the ranks of the secret service, just in time for the First World War. But all unknown to Cumming (the original C) and Kell, the first head of what became MI5, or to Dummy Oliver, the Director of Naval Intelligence, and Blinker Hall, head of Room 40 in the Admiralty, who appear as characters in the interests of verisimilitude, Giles Railton ...”

“... for the moment-as-moment we can grant that Professor Booth has brought us face to face with the unknown, perhaps even the unknowable. After all, a poem is much more complicated than a cone in space. Professor Booth makes much of this cone. If an observer sees the cone from end on, he thinks it is a circle. If the observer sees the cone from the side, he ...”

“... de leur maladies. Today, three and a half centuries later, we can admire the lucidity of the unknown native and finally concede that he was right. The Jesuits’ cartography led the way in the European colonial conquest; arrogant European assumptions about the alcoholic beverages which they brought with them was only one aspect of the cultural decay of ...”

“... party, before he [was] heard or even summoned; and the information as well as the informers [were] unknown’. Second, Lord Camden drew attention to the vagueness of the procedures accompanying the execution of the power, with the search taking place ‘in the presence or the absence of the party, as the messengers shall think fit, and without a witness to ...”

“... records show that even in Winchester, the former capital, more than 70 per cent of men bore names unknown in Anglo-Saxon times. Among the examples given by Ms Clark, Herbertus filius Edwini is ...”

“... are probably comparatively rare, over 90 per cent of the galaxy being ‘dark’ material with unknown components. Rees is a leading advocate of the idea that slow-moving ‘cold dark matter’ encouraged galaxies to form. Even though this theory is now winning, he is quick to say that the ‘hot dark matter’ of his competitors could help. As he ...”

“... but the stories were to go on, the responsibility for reading and writing them carried now by unknown friends, new incarnations of Eurydice and Pip and Janey and the Black Tarantula and all the others. ‘So the doves cooed softly to each other, whispering of their own events, over Janey’s grave in the grey Saba Pacha cemetery in Luxor. Soon many other ...”

“... and girls were ‘SPECIALLY WARNED not to accept offers of help from men and women who [were] UNKNOWN to them, or to go to any situation they [had] obtained through ADVERTISEMENTS without first assuring themselves of their RESPECTABILITY’. What’s striking is how modern the sentiment sounds. Last month, following Wayne Couzens’s conviction for the ...”