People
Alternate meaning: People (magazine)[?]
In general, the English word people refers to a specific group of humans, or to persons in a general sense.
A people is also the problematic concept of a group of humans which are united by some common factor, for example nationality, skin colour or a common culture. For example the Christian Bible refers to the people of Moses. The individuals of the people are assumed to share values and beliefs and be aware of the fact that they are part of the group.
Because of the intuitive strength of this concept, it has often been used as a basis for various arguments trying to promote one issue or another. In the West, a recent notable example is the German Nazi Party's propaganda against the Jews in the 1930s and 1940s.
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billets, to which it was a labor for me to answer, and I had continual
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interesting. Nothing so cordially attaches two persons as the
for our reciprocal consolation, and the want of this has frequently made
that after having sometimes shown so little esteem for her character, a
forgive me.
The following letter is a specimen of the epistles I sometimes wrote to
to them seemed to be in the least degree piqued.
MONTMORENCY, 5th November, 1760.
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pretended stupidity for the purpose of making me feel my own. You boast
being taken at your word, and you make me apologies to tell me I owe them
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as much attention to words, and speak as well as you do. But consider
troubling my head about the polite acceptations in which they are taken
equivocal, I endeavored by my conduct to determine their meaning," etc.
watch after all my friends, soon introduced himself in my name to the
familiar than myself. This Coindet was an extraordinary man. He
a footing in them, and eat there without ceremony. Transported with zeal
suffused with tears; but, when he came to see me, he kept the most
on that in which he knew I must be interested. Instead of telling me
my speaking to him, and even interrogated me. He never knew anything of
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