In the introduction to his book - "the closest I'll ever come to a memoir" - Frayn talks about some of the influences that made him a writer, in particular a comment his father made about his first significant essay, "The House I Should Like to Live in When I Am Grown Up", written when he was six.
After her death, there was for long only one significant essay, the review of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion in the Quarterly for January 1821 by the theologian Richard Whately.
He continued to write nominally from inside the progressive camp, as a fellow-liberal and modernist casting a cool eye on liberalism and modernism; and he produced some significant essays — on the "two cultures" debate between C. P. Snow and F. R. Leavis, on Isaac Babel, on James Joyce's letters.
Third, in some essays, a significant portion of the argument is not attributed to Mozi at all, but presented in a narrator's voice, with only occasional citations of Mozi's words.
A significant part of the essays are taken up by meditations on the transience of human life, not infrequently bearing on the vicissitudes of Metochites' own life and career.
Turgot is generally positive about Christianity, while a significant part of Condorcet's essay consists of polemics against religion and especially priests (1795, 123 124).
There were previously four pre-selected topics for the personal essay: "evaluate a significant experience, achievement or risk" and "indicate a person of great influence" were among the selection.
The current version represents a significant revision of Hull's original essay and may not represent his final views.
In contrast, fall participants only had outscored nonparticipants in total exam score (MC and essay scores were marginally nonsignificant), and this was mainly driven by a significant difference in lower-level (remembering and basic understanding) written essay scores.
A 50th Quarterly Essay is an occasion, and a significant one at that.
