Searched over 7.2 Billion pages in 0.58 seconds
Please wait while the eBook Finder searches for your request. Searching through the full text of 2,850,000 books. Full Text searches may take up to 1 min.
...://www.travelchinaguide.com/china_great_wall/ http://www.walkthewall.com/ Greek Philosophers There were so many ancient Greek thinkers that vi... ... its splendid isolation - ostensibly aloof and detached from the petty squabbles of continental countries across the channel. Yet, the record is hel... ... data systems division. In 1989, Nokia emerged as a leader in the cable industry in Continental Europe by purchasing the Dutch cable company NKF. ... ...ten in the form 1.23 in the United States, 1·23 in the United Kingdom, and 1,23 in continental Europe. Thus $14,100 is 14 thousand US dollars in th... ...nd by landslides. Tsunami waves are followed by three to five oscillations of the continental shelf waters. These convulsions may last up to a wee...
...sider only organisms with extremities and the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche, and Aquinas)... ... structurally and functionally. The equivalent in the brain is sometimes called by philosophers and psychologists "a-priori categories", or "the co... ...e Moreover, in life, the human body and form are considered by most religions (and philosophers) to be the abode of the soul, the divine spark that... ...of upbringing and conditioning rather than anything innate. Causes, External Some philosophers say that our life is meaningless because it has a p... ...t also encompass the likes of an increasingly-Muslim Turkey? Is it a geographical (continental) entity or a cultural one? Is enlargement a time bom... .... Nor are the "left" and "right" ideologically monolithic and socially homogeneous continental movements. The central European left is more preoccu... ...ts of the Big Powers, establish their borders of expansion in Europe, and create a continental "balance of deterrence". For a few decades it proved... ...on" separate from the EU. It is all still the same tiresome and antiquated game of continental Big Powers. Even Britain maintains its Victorian pos... ...ent intercourse between its constituents - the Anglo- Saxons (USA and UK) versus the Continentals ("Old Europe" led by France and Germany) - revealed...
...buktu and to the Muslim scholars to its east. There was a history of great philosophers of Greece—Democritus, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates. There were ... ...oponic. Kino‟s government did not give farm subsidies as they have in the continental Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan and Korea... ...l power of educated, wise and socially conscious citizens. Wise political philosophers expected that the electorate‘s decisions would evolve heaven...
...ur thinking. They are absolutely basic to our thinking and our behavior. Philosophers generally realize that they have such assumptions. They call t... ... They call them metaphysics--meaning beyond the physical world. ―Philosophers usually see the world as basically ‗matter‘ or as basically ‗i... ...Matter then comes from God, the ultimate idea. ―Certainly not all philosophers agree. Plato saw the basis, the primary starting point, as ‗i... ..., God or matter. Is there a God. ―Naturally some theologians and philosophers have attempted to prove that a Supernatural exists by using e... ...sitions has its roots in antiquity. Our modern thinking just polishes the philosophers‘ stones a bit. Of course as empirical science has evolved it ... ... abuse of various sorts. ―Remember the UK started it all, then the continental Europeans and the Americans. It doesn‘t seem that you can shor...
...es not have the same luminance and importance for us today as it did for the philosophers of the Enlightenment or the French Revolution. He argued tha... ... that the story takes a new turn, something that neither Jeffer- son nor the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment had thought of, something that... ... of blank DVDs you can have the entire history of weather records across the continental United States. European countries, by contrast, typically cla...
...s of the sea -- Beliefs respecting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking navigato... ...e dead. Pythagoras in the sixth century, and Plato, Aristotle, and other great philosophers and geographers taught the sphericity of the earth, yet a ... ...ors by Henry VII., who appreciated to the fullest extent the importance of the continental discovery. His son Sebastian made two voyages thereafter, o... ... of the islands; but none of them matured, and owing to the rapid extension of continental settlements remembrance of the Solomon group faded away. Th...
...alley opened up like a gaping bleeding wound. We are children of that painful continental splitting of the tectonic Rift of Africa. We did to livin... ...t the corruptness of this rational was exposed thousands of years ago by many philosophers who were ignored in their day, and continue to be ignored ... ...d cottages. How to get rid of them had been a problem argued over by English philosophers like Locke and Hume for decades. The idea of the selecti... ...tems… an upper class North American culture, and a lower class South American continental culture. Upper Canada and Lower Canada. They also manag... ...s and towns. Segment valleys into farms and fields. Then accumulate as many continental states as possible to arrive at the magic number of 50… th... ...ffered: Shay’s Rebellion. This was the only fucking reason there ever was a Continental Congress. There was no other fucking reason. This was why... ...is is the dirty little historical secret why there was such a thing called the Continental Congress in the first place. This was why only the wealth... ...The intelligentsia of France. The elite of French letters. The most renowned philosophers and writers became puzzled at this. European culture was... ...as why the French Revolution happened in the first place. Not because French philosophers tried to recreate the filthy Empire values of ancient Rome...
...lodgement there. It conducts the youthful man to temples of dusky thought: philosophers partaking of it are drawn by the arms of garlanded nymphs abou... ...or at him, I should say. He’s right: if we won’t learn that we have become Continentals, we shall be marched over. Laziness, coward- ice, he says.’ ‘O... ...tin. I must beg of you you write it down. It is orally incomprehensible to Continentals.’ ‘We are Islanders!’ Colney shrugged in languishment. ‘Oh, yo... ..., and painfully, not ignobly—was in process of development: interesting to philosophers, if not to maidens. Victor accused her of paying too much heed...
...by repeated doses of brandy, will be held, according to cer- tain leisured philosophers, to be happier than the huckster is. The one perishes in a bre... ...ure, but that is an effect of the constant calm affected by those profound philosophers with their long pipes, their 16 The Girl with the Golden Eyes... ...ruits and the decrepit age of its pontiffs; but if the church likes!). The continental war prevented young De Marsay from knowing his real father. It ...
...n conscious rectitude =pliers man should have a tail for its just display. Philosophers have drawn attention to the power of the human face to express... ...n of Annette will be disap- pointed by short sentences, just as of old the Continental eater of oysters would have been offended at the offer of an ex...
...us like a tree. There was one odd piece of practical metaphysics which accompanied what I may call the depth, if I must not call it the intensity, of ... ...emporary gossip. It was scarcely so cold in the church as it was with- out, but it looked colder. The white nave was positively arctic to the eye; and...
...ions should also be sought from Russia and Great Brit- ain, and a vigorous continental spirit of independence against European intervention be aroused... ..., it awards to him the merit of having accomplished what but few political philosophers would have recognized as pos- sible,—of leading the republic t... ...s fable of the bundle of sticks; and he whose wisdom surpasses that of all philosophers has declared that “a house divided against itself cannot stand...
...offee- pot before us, shows us what to do. Coffee and milk we have, in the Continental fashion, and some excellent rolls and butter. He is a swarthy l... ...e irreducible mathematical expression will at times bring it to unity. Now philosophers after my Utopian pattern, who find the ultimate significance i... ...who profess what is called Science as against psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, and literary men, whom he regards as wild, foolish, immoral s... ...age humanity, there is probably no pure race in the whole world. The great continental populations are all complex mixtures of numerous and fluctuatin...
...lyly, humbly but cunningly—to those whom he professed to regard as greater philosophers than himself. All parties found their account in the affair. P... ...he gates of cities, under the title of ‘swine,’ but caressed their infidel philosophers. Now, in this category of Jew and infidel, stood the author of... ... kind of tyranny which Cromwell exercised, the misconception is ludicrous: continental writ- ers have a notion, well justified by the language of Engl... ... East and West, and all annuity offices, that stand opposed in interest to philosophers! In 1814, however, to my great regret, I did not see him; for ...
...ge the earth, which it missed so narrowly, has sustained. All the familiar continental mark- ings and the masses of the seas remain intact, and indeed... ... insisted on his lying in the dark, and that was a great misery. And blind philosophers came and talked to him of the wicked levity of his mind, and r...
... just witnessed the spread of republican govern- ment through all the vast continental possessions of Spain in America, and the loss of her great colo... ...b- scure democracy, which had as yet brought forth neither gen- erals, nor philosophers, nor authors, a man might stand up in the face of a free peopl... ... heaviest tax upon the population of that coun- try; yet how could a great continental war be carried on with- out it? The Americans have not adopted ... ...by sacrificing their opinions, they prostitute themselves. Mor- alists and philosophers in America are not obliged to conceal their opinions under the... ... which prevent men, in certain countries, from arriving at this state. The philosophers of the eighteenth century explained the gradual decay of relig... ...d the empire of tradition, and overthrew the authority of the schools. The philosophers of the eighteenth century, generalizing at length the same pri... ...d the depth of these most necessary truths. And, indeed, we see that these philosophers are themselves almost always enshrouded in uncertainties; that... ...is always greater facility and less danger in supporting a maritime than a continental war. Maritime warfare only requires one species of effort. A co... ...mises the existence or independence of the people which endures it. As for continental wars, it is evident that the nations of Eu- rope cannot be form...
...e had never heard there was such a thing as that. But, perhaps, to be true philosophers, we mortals should not be conscious of so living or so strivin... ...a distance off Cape Horn. Of a retiring nature, he eludes both hunters and philosophers. Though no coward, he has never yet shown any part of him but ... ....” Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent minded young philosophers to task, upbraiding them with not feel ing sufficient “interes... ...rom which we shrink? And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues — every stately or lovely emblazo... ...s into tents, and crawled into them. Besides, it has been divined by other continental commen 354 Chapter 83 Jonah Historically Regarded tators, tha... ...ockers of the world; and the thousand harpoons and lances darted along all continental coasts; the moot point is, whether Leviathan can long endure so... ...rhaps fifty of these whale bone whales are harpooned for one cachalot, some philosophers of the forecastle have concluded that this positive havoc has ...
...ing them, was not disappointed. Blue ladies there are, in Boston; but like philosophers of that colour and sex in most other latitudes, they rather de... ...of the rottenness of these things, there has sprung up in Boston a sect of philosophers known as Transcendentalists. On inquiring what this appellatio... ... American Notes – Dickens 94 hotel with stores about its base, like some Continental theatre, or the London Opera House shorn of its colon nade, pl...
... were in Napoleon’s position for mastering the German and the English. His continental policy moved en- tirely upon the pivot of central Europe, that ... ...t is litterateurs) and arithmeticians, the poor remains of the orators and philosophers of the past, and engaged them to accompany him from Italy to F...