EUCLID [Eucleides], of Megara, founder of the Megarian
(also called the eristic or dialectic) school of philosophy, was
born c. 450 B.C., probably at Megara, though Gela in Sicily has
also been named as his birthplace (Diogenes Laërtius ii. 106),
and died in 374.…
— Megara
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Vers 2916. — Rollanz. O. V. notre note sur les vocatifs (au vers 15). ═ Prozdoem. O. On trouve le plus souvent, dans le texte de la Bodléienne, la forme prozdom, vers 26, 1474, 1593, 2068, et prozdomes, au pluriel, vers 2212, 3076. — Prodome se rencontre au…
— Léon Gautier
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Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard. So very great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow in the course of a night, without…
— Charles John Huffam Dickens
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Esse alios aliis Terrarum in partibus orbes Et varias Hominum gentes et sæcla ferarum.
— La Pluralité des mondes habités
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Problem.—"Two travellers spend from 3 o'clock till 9 in walking along a level road, up a hill, and home again: their pace on the level being 4 miles an hour, up hill 3, and down hill 6. Find distance walked: also (within half an hour) time of reaching top of…
— Lewis Carroll
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'T IS time this heart should be unmoved,
Since others it hath ceased to move:
Yet, though I cannot be beloved,
Still let me love!
— George Gordon, Lord Byron
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You must not think that ranch life consists chiefly of trout-fishing and strawberry-picking, with long intervals of rest under blossoming trees. Some friends—judging from their letters—seem to have an idea that living as we do in this out-of-the-way…
— Louise G. Stephens
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Qu’est ce que la philosophie? Le mot est fréquemment employé. Par cela même, il donne une idée grossière, mais simple de ce qu’il signifie. Philosopher, c’est réfléchir sur un ensemble de faits pour en tirer des généralités. Philosophie, en…
— Cours de philosophie
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Inland here, upon your knees,
You shall breathe from urgent lips
Round the ships that guard your seas
Fleet on fleet of angel ships;
Yea, the guarded may so bless them
That no terrors can distress them.
— Alfred Noyes
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Je rédigeai sur-le-champ une Adresse de remerciement à Buisson, au
bas de laquelle furent apposées de nombreuses signatures, et qui fut envoyée au conférencier. Le Progrès allait être mis sous presse; il fut encore
possible d'y insérer cette pièce en…
— James Guillaume
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Lo ADAM, in the field of Damascene
With Godde's owen finger wrought was he,
And not begotten of man's sperm unclean;
And welt all Paradise saving one tree:
Had never worldly man so high degree
As Adam, till he for misgovernance…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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In nature apt to like when I did see
Beauties, which were of many carats fine,
My boiling sprites did thither soon incline,
And, Love, I thought that I was full of thee:
— Sir Philip Sidney
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HAD Bassett had some wider knowledge of Dick's condition he might have succeeded better during that bad hour that followed. Certainly, if he had hoped that the mere statement of fact and its proof would bring results, he failed. And the need for haste,…
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Lebègue.
Fessard (Noël-Étienne), sculpteur, né en octobre 1765, décédé en mars 1839. — Médaillon en marbre (Diam. 0 35). Signé: L. Lebègue, 1867. — Lebègue (Jean-Louis-Augustin), sculpteur, né à Caply-Vendeuil (Oise) le 4 décembre 1797, décédé à Paris le 27…
— Henry Jouin
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Sir,—I have been bullied by an usurper, I have been ill-treated by a court, but I won't be dictated to by a subject. Your man shall not stand.
— Agnes Repplier
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When Dryden's fool, "unknowing what he sought,"
His hours in whistling spent, "for want of thought,"
This guiltless oaf his vacancy of sense
Supplied, and amply too, by innocence:
Did modern swains, possessed of Cymon's powers,
In Cymon's manner…
— George Gordon, Lord Byron
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"SQUIRE, come nearer if ye will and say somewhat of love;
for certes ye know as much thereof as any man."
"Nay, sir," quoth he, "but I will say heartily as best
I know how; for I will not revolt against your wish; I will tell
a tale. If I speak…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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Depuis quelques minutes, Micaëla est entrée: — jupe bleue, nattes tombant sur les épaules; — hésitante, embarrassée, elle regarde les soldats avance, recule.
— Georges Bizet
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J’estime trop mes chefs et j’aime trop mon métier pour jamais déroger aux principes qui font sa force et sont sa raison d’être.
Je sens comme vous le malaise dont vous parlez, mais je dois vous dire franchement et d’homme à homme que, si vous aviez voulu…
— Joseph Reinach
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Sweet, you must be readie,
And you, Emilia, and you, Friend, and all,
To morrow by the Sun, to doe observance
To flowry May, in Dians wood: waite well, Sir,
Vpon your Mistris. Emely, I hope
He shall not goe a foote.
— Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke
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Fair river! in thy bright, clear flow
Of crystal, wandering water,
Thou art an emblem of the glow
Of beauty--the unhidden heart--
The playful maziness of art
In old Alberto's daughter;
— Edgar Allan Poe
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MRS. CROSBY stood on the pavement, gazing after the car as it moved off. She had not her brother's simplicity nor his optimism. Her married years had taken her away from the environment which had enabled him to live his busy, uncomplicated life; where,…
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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En Rencesvals si est Carles entrez.
L’einz-garde fist li dux Ogiers, li ber:
De celle part il n’unt mie à duter.
Rollanz remeint pur les altres guarder.
E Oliviers e tuit li duze Per,
Des Francs de France xx. milie chevaler;
Bataille averunt, or pitiet en…
— Léon Gautier
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"we are laid asleep
In body, and become a living soul:
While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things."
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
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Généralisation. Une idée générale est une notion qui convient à plusieurs individus. L'opération par laquelle on obtient ces idées c'est la généralisation.
Deux procédés concourent à la généralisation: la comparaison et l'abstraction. Nous comparons ce…
— Cours de philosophie
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An eery story of a fiendish murder and a midget psychic investigator—by the author of "Invaders From the Dark" and "The Devil's Pool"
— Greye La Spina
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LOrs que l’épaule est entr’ouverte par quelque effort violent, ou que le Cheval boitte extremément par un vieux mal il est à propos de luy pratiquer tout au commencement les remedes que je viens de dire, & ensuitte de luy mettre une Ortie, qui est ce…
— Jacques de Solleysel
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MY LORD,
I Find, with some surprise, that you are not supported as you deserve. Your most determined advocates have scruples about them, which you are unacquainted with; and though there be nothing too hazardous for your Grace to engage in, there are some things too…
— Junius
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Oh! weep for those that wept by Babel's stream,
Whose shrines are desolate, whose land a dream;
Weep for the harp of Judah's broken shell;
Mourn--where their God hath dwelt the godless dwell!
— George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Sure is our hope since he who led your nation
Spake for mankind, and ye arose in awe
Of that high call to work the world's salvation;
Clearing your minds of all estranging blindness
In the vision of Beauty and the Spirit's law,
Freedom and Honour…
— Robert Bridges
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