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Перевод: sprat

[существительное]
килька ; шпрота ; салака ; всякая мелкая рыба, похожая на кильку; малыш ; худенький ребенок; мелкая сошка

Тезаурус:

1. The frontispiece of Sprat's History shows a spacious study lined with books and scientific instruments.
2. Sprat shoals concentrated in the Thames estuary.
3. Thomas Sprat refers to "the late extravagant excesses of enthusiasm.
4. Sprat tells us that in pursuit of Bacon's aim of making "faithful records, of all the works of nature or art, which can come within reach", the Royal Society sent out, world-wide, letters and questionnaires on all conceivable topics, discussing and debating the replies at their meetings.
5. According to Sprat, then, and others of the Society, knowledge was to be had by turning away from the teachings of the scholastics, from their undue concentration on words, to the world itself.
6. Not long after its foundation, Thomas Sprat was commissioned to write the Society's History .
7. It is a remarkably piscatory street - a choice of three fish-and-chip shops, a jellied eel bar and an excellent wet fish shop that smokes everything from conger eel and whole salmon down to the humble sprat.
8. In Bacon's books, Sprat says, "are every where scattered the best arguments, that can be produced for the defence of Experimental Philosophy; and the best directions, that are needful to promote it", while according to Glanvill "all the main heads of natural history have received aids and increase from the famous Bacon, who led the way to substantial wisdom, and hath given most excellent directions for the method of such an history of nature".
9. Hastings, Sussex angler Martin Hemsley float legered a sprat in 20 feet of water at his local Buckshole Reservoir to catch the largest pike from the water for several years.
10. The movements of Cambridge Platonism (involving Henry More, Benjamin Whichcote, and Ralph Cudworth), and of Latitudinarianism (involving many members of the Royal Society, such as Sprat and Glanvill) encouraged the idea that, by itself, reason could provide the essentials of religious belief and the means to salvation.
11. Indeed, "the weightiest, and most solemn part" of Sprat's History is "to make a defence of the Royal Society, and this new experimental learning, in respect of the Christian Faith".
12. As a couple, they had the Jack Sprat symmetry of the man who eats no fat and the wife who eats no lean.
13. Sprat says that he "had the true imagination of the whole extent of this enterprise, as it is now set on foot".