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Imagine
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TO IMAGINE, Eng. law. In cases of treason the law makes it a crime to imagine the death of the king. In order to complete the offence there must, however, be an overt act the terms compassing and imagining being synonymous. It. has been justly remarked that the words to compass and imagine are too vague for a statute whose penalty affects the life of a subject. Barr. on the Stat. 243, 4. Vide Fiction.


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In the conclusion she writes: "Just as over centuries scribes, editors, scholars, and creative imaginers have all taken these female characters and images and shaped them to fit their own careful construals, so I have been suggesting that for women and fur (post)colonial readers there is a need to scrutinize them afresh and read them again with care" (163).
Qui aurait pu imaginer que des produits de gastronomie fabriques localement des deux cotes d'une frontiere provinciale pourraient attirer 12 000 personnes sur les rives d'un lac du Nord-Est de l'Ontario?
Raban also looks at artists - other devout imaginers confronting the badlands' forbidding perspectives.
 
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