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• What does it take to be a social entrepreneur?
• Another "Highland Laddie" is also in the "Museum," vol. v., which I take to be Ramsay's original, as he has borrowed the chorus -- "O my bonie Highland lad," &c. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
• It's a story that occurs in what many of us take to be the mythical past - so what does it have to tell us today?
• For when the spirit, or moisture turned to spirit, has escaped from some porous body (as wood, bone, parchment, and the like), then the grosser parts are with stronger effort drawn and collected together; whence ensues induration or desiccation, which I take to be owing not so much to the motion of connection to prevent a vacuum as to this motion of friendship and union. The New Organon
• And although the English will no lesse disdaine, than any Nation under heaven can doe, to be beaten upon their owne ground or elsewhere by a forraigne enemie; yet to entertaine those that shall assaile us, with their owne beefe in their bellies, and before they eate of our Kentish Capons, I take to be the wisest way. Operation Sea Lion
• The authors offer some propositions which I take to be logically flawed.
• I myself saw, in the little museum of Signor Sartoris at Primiero, a small aryballos-shaped vase of yellow clay with red ornamentation, which I should undoubtedly take to be of Etruscan workmanship, and which they told me had been found by himself in a field not far from the town. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
• Earlier I rejected a crude relativism and suggested that we need to accept that there is a difference between what we take to be true and what is true.
• How would they take to being uprooted from their contented life in California? Times, Sunday Times
• War in Indochina: Lost. French forces plead sickness , take to bed with Dien Bien Flu.