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...ay exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. -- 13. He Unchained Books-The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the chains of ignorance that held most of mankind in bondage for millennia. -- 14. Printers as Agents of Change-After the fall of Rome, Western culture foc...

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... Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. 13. He Unchained Books The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the c... ... the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldwide public-ations. The doorway i... ...s and courts in the royal hierarchy. Seife suggests that these scribe-mathematicians probably gained control of the temple warehouses by being a... ... risen by now?‖ —Johann Carl Friedrich Gaus (1777–1855), ―the prince of mathematicians‖ The Missing Keys to the Science Chest If the alphabet ... ...spelled some of them but not all of them. They also had no zero, but some mathematicians in the Middle Ages used the word ―nulla‖ (Latin for none) i... ...usand years, the advance of Western science stalled because ancient Greek mathematicians thought zero was a dangerous idea. Those Greeks believed ... ... The cradle of the English we speak rocked in the homelands of invading Germanic tribes. About the time the Romans were pulling up stakes from ... ...s, and the Jutes began launching raids across the North Sea from northern Germany and the Jutland (Danish) peninsula. Each wave brought more seeds... ...aden Zum Gutenberg 15 was born about 1400 in the archbishopric of Mainz, Germany, where his patrician parents reportedly had high-level family conn...

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... Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. 13. He Unchained Books The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the c... ... the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldwide public-ations. The doorway is ... ...ngs and courts in the royal hierarchy. Seife suggests that these scribe-mathematicians probably gained control of the temple warehouses by being a... ...e risen by now? —Johann Carl Friedrich Gaus (1777–1855), ―the prince of mathematicians‖ The Missing Keys to the Science Chest If the alphabet ... ...spelled some of them but not all of them. They also had no zero, but some mathematicians in the Middle Ages used the word ―nulla‖ (Latin for none) i... ...usand years, the advance of Western science stalled because ancient Greek mathematicians thought zero was a dangerous idea. Those Greeks believed th... ...es The cradle of the English we speak rocked in the homelands of invading Germanic tribes. About the time the Romans were pulling up stakes from th... ...s, and the Jutes began launching raids across the North Sea from northern Germany and the Jutland (Danish) peninsula. Each wave brought more seeds o... ...aden Zum Gutenberg 15 was born about 1400 in the archbishopric of Mainz, Germany, where his patrician parents reportedly had high-level family conn...

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...grips with some previously non-experienced part of their cultural past. Take Germany and its flawed attempt to bury its recent past. Now German ch... ...en mostly whitewashed and deleted from their history books. Now: enlightened Germans are forced to re-experience a painful part of their cultural pa... ...cal. The concept, the idea of identicality comes from mathematical numbers. Mathematicians assume that all numbers are identical to each other. T... ...size. So; three round rocks, equals three round eggs. Which is crazy. In a German Concentration camp: the difference between having three eggs as ... ... this to me: I do not understand. There is a famous research experiment in Germany called: Biosphere. Where some of the most famous scientists g... ... human stupidity and destruction called Science… is still being carried on in Germany. Studying the effects of its own experiment. Studying the ef... ...soning their DNA, poisoning their inner auras. They do not pick out the best mathematicians, or the best dancers, or the superficially pretties girl... ...idiotic issue. Thousands of pages were written about his important subject. Mathematicians came up with specific numbers. One would claim that 1,...

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... well have been the natural numbers. For many past aeons, philosophers and mathematicians have studied the sequence of natural numbers, uncovering sta... ... the natural numbers to construct the great edifice of modern mathematics. Mathematicians, in their search for these solutions, progressed beyond the ... ...rationale, transcendetal and complex numbers. However, the majority of the mathematicians recognize that the most important problems in mathematics to... ...dache generalization of Goldbach conjectures C. Goldbach (1690-1764) was a German mathematician who became professor of mathematics in 1725 in St. Pet... ... strong Goldbach conjecture is still not proven, even though virtually all mathematicians believe it is true. Goldbach's weak conjecture has been prov...

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...string theory, and these are known as Calabi-Yau spaces, in honour of two mathematicians, Eugenio Calabi, from the University of Pennsylvania, and... ... a four-dimensional spacetime continuum introduced in 1908 by the Russian/German geometer Hermann Minkowski, one of Einstein’s teachers at the Zur... ...ate – nowhere on the p axis is favoured over any other. Applying what mathematicians refer to as a Fourier transform (again I won’t cloud the i... ...lbert space, a mathematical space of infinite dimensions introduced by the German mathematician, David Hilbert, although for our purposes we only n...

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...y years. But that doesn‘t explain the relatively high number in France or Germany. And Norway, with its state religion of Lutheranism, is quite athe... ... of France. The gonorrhea rate is 75 times higher than that of France and Germany. The syphilis rate is more than triple the European rate. ... ...ope. The teen abortion rate is 3 times that of France and 8 times that of Germany. And while Americans start their sexual experiences only a few mont... ...a of immortality, belief dropped from 35% to 8%. (26) About twice as many mathematicians believed in a god than did biologists or physicists. ... ... eye or whether we should turn the other cheek. ―A few years ago in Germany a judge used Koranic law in a case and angered everyone. A German ... ...ved her from the case because the Constitution is the primary standard in Germany. They were backed up by Muslim clerics who stated that the 7 th Ce...

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...xamples are the massacre of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Holocaust of the Jews in Nazi Germany's Third Reich, and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Rad... ...as pliant and compliant butlers, replete with gloves and tarbushes. In the book, a German Jewish family prophetically lands at Jaffa, the only port... ...on. The Holocaust was a massive trauma not because of its dimensions - but because Germans, the epitome of Western civilization, have turned on the... ...taphors. Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for instance, have lately come up with the struc... ...he natives of the captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil. From Congo and Central Africa to Germany and from Mexico to New Zealand, cannibalism is enjoying ... ... harshest terms if it takes place between two consenting, and even eager adults in Germany. Surely, we don't treat murder, pedophilia, and incest t... ...ion of an artwork (e.g., a musical piece) in terms of this type of intuition. Many mathematicians and physicists (following a kind of Pythagorean t...

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...xamples are the massacre of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Holocaust of the Jews in Nazi Germany's Third Reich, and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Rad... ...as pliant and compliant butlers, replete with gloves and tarbushes. In the book, a German Jewish family prophetically lands at Jaffa, the only port... ...on. The Holocaust was a massive trauma not because of its dimensions - but because Germans, the epitome of Western civilization, have turned on the... ...taphors. Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for instance, have lately come up with the struc... ...he natives of the captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil. From Congo and Central Africa to Germany and from Mexico to New Zealand, cannibalism is enjoying ... ... harshest terms if it takes place between two consenting, and even eager adults in Germany. Surely, we don't treat murder, pedophilia, and incest t... ...ion of an artwork (e.g., a musical piece) in terms of this type of intuition. Many mathematicians and physicists (following a kind of Pythagorean t...

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...ntee normalcy. Think about anomic societies and periods of history such as Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia. Model citizens in these hellish envi... ...70). In his book "Die Psychopatischen Minderwertigkeiter", published in 1891, the German doctor J. L. A. Koch tried to improve on the situation by... ...ic Personality" (9th edition, 1950) and "Clinical Psychopathology" (1959), another German psychiatrist, K. Schneider sought to expand the diagnosis... ...on went a lot further than that and transcended the narrow view of psychopathy (the German school) then prevailing throughout Europe. In his work (... ...taphors. Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for instance, have lately come up with the struc... ...Freud revolutionized the field (though, at first, his reputation was limited to the German-speaking parts of the dying Habsburg Empire). He dispense...

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... of my thinking in mathematics can be traced back in some way to these two 8 mathematicians. Prof. D’Ortona, a valued colleague, and my wife Linda... ...rt, D. (1971). Foundations of Geometry (2 nd ed., L. Unger, Trans. from 10 th German ed. (1968)). La Salle, Illinois: Open Court. 15. Iseri, H....

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... sector has been -0.6 percent in the year to the end of the second quarter of 2002. Germany faces the same predicament. As oil prices surge, their ... ... insurance companies merged into what is termed, in French, "bancassurance", or, in German, "Allfinanz" - so did their hedging and insurance operati... ...emnified by the state or insurance consortia it runs. Similar schemes are afoot in Germany. But terrorism and war are, gratefully, still rarities.... ...mpiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers from interviews with 800 CEO's in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Australia, Japan and the US and titled "Innovati... ... between warring or conflicting parties. Switzerland rendered this service to Nazi Germany (1933-1945), Macedonia and Greece to Serbia (1992 to the... ...N. Wiener is without a doubt one of the most brilliant and powerful scientists and mathematicians of the XX century. Apart from his great contribut... ...he life and thoughts of Richard Feynman, who was at the same time, one of the best mathematicians of QM and one of its fiercest critics. Listening ...

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...rship XXI. The Second Gutenberg XXII. The E-book Evangelist XXIII. Germany’s Copyright Levy XXIV. The Future of Online Reference XXV. Ol... ...bones about their offerings. Many of them are located outside the USA (in Germany, or Asia) and at least one offers papers in a few languages, Hebre... ...he sciences, readiness to work outlandish hours at a fraction of wages in Germany or the USA - all combined in one employee in these deprived countr... ...shed "publishers" (monasteries), with a few exceptions (e.g., in Augsburg, Germany and in Subiaco, Italy) shunned it and regarded it as a major threa... ...public domain are no longer there. . . Same goes for the United Kingdom. Germany increased their copyright term to more than 70 years back in the 1... ...is without a doubt one of the most brilliant and powerful scientists and mathematicians of the XX century. Apart from his great contributions to ma... ...nd thoughts of Richard Feynman, who was at the same time, one of the best mathematicians of QM and one of its fiercest critics. Listening to Murray G...

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... usually experiment. Philosophers prefer inductive reasoning while physicists and mathematicians lean toward deductive methods. Medical practition... ...e setting out on their sales territories. Two concepts from social psychology are germane to a discussion of communication sources. The first hold... ...nd outward to consumers and others seeking advice. (In the history of English and German law, the advocate was a special kind of lawyer who advised ...

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...in some ways, crucial. I have spo- ken with Jesuits and Plymouth Brethren, mathematicians and poets, dogmatic republicans and dear old gentlemen in bi... ...pirit. Romeo and Juliet were very much in love; although they tell me some German critics are of a different opinion, probably the same who would have... ...TORY of the wars of Rome which I have always very much envied for England. Germanicus was going down at the head of the legions into a dangerous river... ...gions into a dangerous river – on the opposite bank the woods were full of Germans – when there flew out seven great eagles which seemed to marshal th... ...isappeared into the forest where the enemy lay concealed. “Forward!” cried Germanicus, with a fine rhetorical inspiration, “Forward! and follow the Ro... ...ers prospects of those individual Roman legionaries now fording a river in Germany, looked altogether greater and more hopeful. It is a kind of illusi...

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...; a host of jingling barouches, more miserable than any to be seen even in Germany, were collected at the landing-place; and the Greek drivers (how qu... ...alliance as this?) perpetually pulling and tugging at me, away from honest Germany, where there is beer and aes- thetic conversation, and operas at a ... ...ght of science is made to consist in the answering of riddles! and all the mathematicians and magicians bring their great beards to bear on a conundru... ...Constantinople to-morrow. We had music on board all the way from Smyrna. A German commis-voyageur, with a guitar, who had passed unnoticed until that ... ...e second court under The Sublime Porte—which is like a fortified gate of a German town of the middle ages—into the outer court, round which are public... ...ian, Jew, and Heathen. In the cabin we were Poles and Russians, Frenchmen, Germans, Spaniards, and Greeks; on the deck were squatted several little co...

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...hree hundred several nations; that had fought innumerable battles with the Germans and Gauls, and always carried the victory; that had taken a million... ... that must still be fed with new tro- phies and triumphs, the Parthian and German wars would yield matter enough to satisfy the most covetous of honor... ...ad deserted, and the cities which they had burnt. This he did for fear the Germans should pass in and possess themselves of the land whilst it lay uni... ...it lay uninhabited. His second war was in defense of the Gauls against the Germans, though some time before he had made Ariovistus, their king, recogn... ... upon their very approach; for never expecting the Romans would attack the Germans, whom he had thought it more likely they would not venture to withs... ..., as we have shown in his life. Caesar called in the best philosophers and mathematicians of his time to settle the point, and out of the systems he h... ... brothers should put brothers to death was assumed, like the postulates of mathematicians, as the common and recognized royal first principle of safet...

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... in the streets the coach of Madame de Bouillon, which the servants of the German woman forced to give way to their mistress’s. The Bouillons, piqued ... ...mself in the matter. She was so outraged, that she resolved to retire into Germany, and in a very few months did so. My year of service in the Muskete... ...aint-Simon to Versailles, and sent off a large detachment of the army into Germany. The surprise of the Marechal de Luxembourg was without bounds. He ... ...d how important it was to draw off detachments of the Imperial forces from Germany into Flanders, and how, by sending an army into Flanders in- stead ... ...many into Flanders, and how, by sending an army into Flanders in- stead of Germany, the whole of the Low Countries would be in our power. But the King... ...ten the admiration of the historian, of jurisconsults, of astronomers, and mathematicians, the most profound. He was especially learned in genealogies...

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...ve not,’ said the Provincial Mayor. ‘It is simply this. That Space, as our mathematicians have it, is spoken of as having three dimensions, which one ... ...ght. ‘In which case they would certainly plough you for the Little-go. The German scholars have improved Greek so much.’ ‘Then there is the future,’ s...

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...a, in spite of the atomic science with which they arrange those zigzags of German alliances. For a long time the Minorets occupied the tanneries, the ... ...of course, the poor working Massins—just as Aus- tria and Prussia take the German princes into their service. It may happen that a public office is ma... ...t at the Italian opera under a feigned name, ran away with a young lady in Germany. The dying father commended the young man, who was really full of t... ... labors of a mother, he had the happiness of seeing this child of the fair German woman and the French singer a creature of vigorous health and pro- f... ...doctor, proud of her talent, had lately sent to Paris for a master, an old German named Schmucke, a distinguished professor who came once a week; the ... ...hair and stroking his chin with the gesture common to valets on the stage, mathematicians, and priests,—a sign of profound meditation on a problem tha...

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... up to perform the like. Besides, they were related, being born of cousins-german. For Aethra was daughter of Pittheus, and Alcmena of Lysidice; and L... ...d not deliver up Daedalus, who was nearly related to him, being his cousin-german, his mother being Merope, the daughter of Erechtheus. In the meanwhi... ...d them on a smooth piece of ground, which they now call Cermanes, formerly Germanus, perhaps from Germani, which signifies brothers. Near this place g... ... also, in imitation, gave the two other following months his own names, of Germanicus and Domitianus; but, on his being slain, they recovered their an... ...ive times consul; the younger, by the son of Scipio Africanus, his cousin- german, and was by him named Scipio. Of the daughters of Aemilius, one was ... ...en the two extreme, to find the two mean lines of a proportion, both these mathematicians had recourse to the aid of instru- ments, adapting to their ...

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...e resistance, so they could expect no mercy. These people are most excellent mathematicians, and arrived to a great perfection in mechanics, by the co... ...w they came to fix on that determinate number, he told me that his majesty’s mathematicians, having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadr... ...rty opin ion. I have indeed observed the same disposition among most of the mathematicians I have known in Europe, although I could never discover th... ...ose and throat, and their language approaches nearest to the High Dutch, or German, of any I know in Europe; but is much more graceful and significan...

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...rical expression involving four dimensions. Fools, common men, even common mathematicians, do not know anything of what some general expression may me... ...s true, certainly. He edged round me into the room, peering about over his German-silver spectacles, and a sudden dread came into my mind that he migh...

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...ons and fault-findings she bore during the day. Like the hero of a ballad, German or Russian, I forget which, her sleep seemed to her the happy life; ... ...set about to search for that unknown human being with as much ardor as the mathematicians of the Bureau give to longitudes. They 13 Balzac literally ... ...ace of the Thibaults who made Provins what Ferrara was to Italy, Weimar to Germany,— what Munich is trying to be to-day.” “Was Provins ever a capital?...

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...iritual or purely material; just as there are soldiers, artists, artisans, mathematicians, poets, merchants, men who un- derstand money, or agricultur... ...over- whelmed by it. Was France less prolific of political capacities than Germany? The rather silly game of what are called “con- stitutional institu... ...the triumph of his opinions from end to end of Europe. He dreamed of a new Germany and a new Italy. His heart swelled with that dull, collective love ... ...ret. “Is that your last word?” Bixiou. “Yes, sir! whether English, French, German or Ital- ian,—I let you off the other languages.” 195 Balzac Poiret...

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...d and foot to sell us to the biggest buyer, and were not En- glishmen but ‘Germans and Jews, and quakers and hybrids, diligent clerks and speculators,... ...rom welcoming you. I have telegraphed to him; he is at one of the Baths in Germany, and will come assuredly, if there is a prospect of finding you her... ... are for lifting our clay soil on a lever of Archimedes, and are not great mathematicians. They have perchance a foot of our earth, and perpetually do... ...g counsel, in council, with men upon public affairs, like the women in the Germania! Mr. Austin, if this time he talked in earnest, deemed that Englis... ... for shrewdness, the Spaniards for sobriety, the French for ingenuity, the Germans for enlightenment, the Italians in the Arts; yes, the Russians for ... ... have I. I speak of it because I see it. We scoff at the simplicity of the Germans.’ ‘The Germans live in simple fashion, because they’re poor. French...

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...ndiffer- ence to matters of religion. Like most geometricians, chem- ists, mathematicians, and great naturalists, he had subjected religion to reason;... ...feast of Tantalus had been provided for him: one book was English, another German, a third Russian; there was even one in cabalistic letters that seem...

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...he almost spat it out again, then merely hot and full-flavoured: a kind of German mustard with a touch of horse-radish and—well, mushroom. He swallowe... ... received it just before morning school, and had opened it when the junior mathematicians were well under way. Pres- ently she resumed reading with an...

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...muddled through. Nature gave us a longer credit than she gave to France or Germany or Russia. To British centenar- ians who died in their beds in 1914... ...haw Remonstrances and warnings were met either with an accu- sation of pro-Germanism or the formula, “Remember that we are at war now.” I have said th... ...off his cassock first, and the respect- able school governor expelling the German professor with insult and bodily violence, and declaring that no Eng... ...t was crudely natural, and perhaps necessary for recruiting purposes, that German militarism and German dynastic ambition should be painted by journal... ...hich they certainly are not); but when it came to frantic denunciations of German chemistry, German biology, German poetry, German music, German liter... ... what war is. I doubt whether it was as high as our propor- tion of higher mathematicians. But there can be no doubt 21 GB Shaw that it was prodigiou...

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...sed for the basis of more than one narrative, not inac- curate, in French, German and Spanish journals of high au- thority. It is seldom the case that... ...Spanish blood, a native of Spain; the second, a Roman born in Spain. So of Germanus and Germanicus, Italus and Italicus, Anglus and Anglicus, &c.; an ... ...s memoirs dwells upon the theme. She united, he says, the sweetness of the German lady with the energy of the Arabian, a combination hard to judge of.... ...on or other, [in fact I believe it was myself,] published a paper from the German of Kant, on a very interesting question, viz., the age of our own li... ...fore me: for it takes the shape of a dream; and this most brilliant of all German writers wanted in that field the severe simplicity, that horror of t... ...ans, and was here finally settled, after having occupied most of the great mathematicians of Europe for more than half a century. It was dedicated to ... ...e we must attribute its being so little known amongst the philosophers and mathematicians of foreign coun- tries, and also the fact that D’Alembert, w...

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...lish; and under pressure of necessity I can turn to account some scraps of German and a little oper- atic Italian; but these I was never taught at sch... ...s, and the speeches and pamphlets of the people who want us to make war on Germany, and the Noodle’s Orations and articles of our poli- ticians and jo... ...quarrelsome, petulant, selfish, destructive, and cowardly: afraid that the Germans will come and enslave him; that the burglar will come and rob him; ... ...intellect were a mechanical process and not a passion; and in spite of the German tutors who confess openly that three out of every five of the young ... ...“captains of industry” or scientific politicians than our book- makers are mathematicians. For some time past a significant word has been coming into ...

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...ecause it is the custom to eat veal and insist on its being white; or as a German purveyor nails a goose to a board and stuffs it with food because fa... ...ifficult technical business, not to be tackled successfully except by high mathematicians; and I cannot resist Professor Karl Pearson’s immense con- t... ...nd naval forces. It is silly that an Englishman should be more afraid of a German soldier than of a British disease germ, and should clamor for more b... ...us it makes us paupers, though they never say that if the State fights the Germans for us it makes us cowards. Fortunately, when a habit of thought is...

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...ith a fa, la, la. 4 Alas! like Schutz I cannot pun, Like Grafton court the Germans; Tell Pickenbourg how slim she’s grown, Like Meadows 76 run to ser... ...elling Locke, 396 Came whip and spur, and dash’d through thin and thick On German Crousaz, 397 and Dutch Burgersdyck. As many quit the streams 398 t... ...e first was Philip Horneck, author of a Billingsgate paper called The High German Doctor. Edward Roome was son of an undertaker for funerals in Fleet ... ...kingdom.—P . 380 ‘Mad Máthesis:’ alluding to the strange conclusions some mathematicians have deduced from their principles, concern- ing the real qu... ...W . 429 ‘Moral evidence:’ alluding to a ridiculous and absurd way of some mathematicians in calculating the gradual de- cay of moral evidence by math...

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...nial. On the other hand, Rabelais has been several times trans- lated into German. In the present century Regis published at Leipsic, from 1831 to 184... ...t it would be none the less curious were some one thoroughly familiar with German to translate Fischart for us, or at least, by long extracts from him... ...s, or at least, by long extracts from him, give an idea of the vagaries of German taste when it thought it could do better than Rabelais. It is danger... ..., between the two extremes. He was neither Lutheran nor Calvinist, neither German nor Genevese, and it is quite natural that his work was not re- 27 ... ...; what by desire; and what your name is. The companion answered him in the German (The first edition reads “Dutch.”) tongue, thus: ‘Junker, Gott geb e... ...im who is the wisest of the troop. In approbation also of this fashion the mathematicians allow the very same horo- scope to princes and to sots. Wher... ...gers, fortune-tellers, alchemists, rhymers, poets, painters, projec- tors, mathematicians, watchmakers, sing-songs, musicianers, and the devil and all...

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... harvest, large or small, of lectures from Scot- tish, English, French, or German representatives of the science or literature of their respective cou... ...r proposition. The answer to the other is a proposition of value, what the Germans call a Werthurtheil, or what we may, if we like, de- nominate a spi... ...shness running away with the bit between its teeth. The sallies of the two German au- thors remind one, half the time, of the sick shriekings of two d... ...are now this mood with that of the old Chris- tian author of the Theologia Germanica:— “Where men are enlightened with the true light, they renounce a... ...t his place in the uni- verse is! Marcus Aurelius agrees to the scheme—the German theologian agrees with it. He literally abounds in agreement, he run... ... us- ing different conceptions and assuming different atti- tudes, just as mathematicians handle the same numeri- cal and spatial facts by geometry, b...

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...e that I can only speak with that species of indefinite definiteness which mathematicians are, at times, forced to put up with in certain algebraic fo... ... Chickasaw. There is no passing muster, however, without Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, and Greek. I must look you out a little specimen of each. An... ...write! ‘Und sterb’ich doch, no sterb’ich denn Durch sie—durch sie!’ That’s German—from Schiller. ‘And if I die, at least I die— for thee—for thee!’ He... ...ncholy, in the corner? Hearken! for she speaks, and, heavens! it is in the German of Schiller— “Unt stubby duk, so stubby dun Duk she! duk she!” Alas!... ...aggerated sense of honor. They abounded in the most ultra 69 V olume Four German opinions respecting the duello. To these Quixotic no- tions some rec... ... and for ever, was actuated by the one movement of the hand. This fact the mathematicians of our globe well knew. They made the special effects, indee... ...en condi- tions, in determining the value of the original impulse. Now the mathematicians who saw that the results of any given impulse were absolutel...

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...certain knowledge of and assent to them; and, by this means, there will be no difference between the maxims of the mathematicians, and theo- rems they... ...ill not dispute whether this acceptation of the word solid be nearer to its original signification than that which mathematicians use it in. It suffic... ...hose stock is inexhaustible and truly infinite: and what a large and immense field doth extension alone afford the mathematicians? Chapter VIII Some f... ...any object of sense, or operation of our mind, has, nevertheless, as all our other ideas, its original there. Some mathematicians perhaps, of advanced... ...elations depending thereon as lasting as the subjects to which they belong, v.g. father and son, brothers, cousin- germans, &c., which have their rela... ...l as men; but yet it is sel- dom said, this bull is the grandfather of such a calf, or that two pigeons are cousin-germans. It is very conve- nient th... ...he properties of that one, no very com- pound figure, a triangle; though it be no small number that are already by mathematicians discovered of it. 1...

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...ch that fact or series belongs. The primeval world,—the Fore-World, as the Germans say, —I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with resea... ...f good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians if you will, to say that the shortness of life considered, i... ...k of Webster. We conceive dis- tinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German ge- nius, and it is not the less real that perhaps we should not mee... ...iad, the Hamlet, the Doric column, the Roman arch, the Gothic minster, the German anthem, when they are ended, the master casts behind him. How sinks ...

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... this land, we soon arrived at another in which the bees and the birds are mathematicians of such genius and eru- dition, that they give daily instruc... ...g of an infinity of big books, during a long series of years, that the men-mathematicians at length arrived at the identical solutions which had been ... ...ture. During the latter part of the last century, the question arose among mathematicians—”to determine the best form that can be given to the sails o... ...and futile attempts to answer the queryon the part of the most illustrious mathematicians, and when at length, an undeniable soloution was discovered,... ...’ and has since been extensively copied, sev- eral misapprehensions of the German original seem to have been made by the translator, who professes to ... ...ve been so long the fashion of the moralists of England, of France, and of Germany. Abstractions may amuse and exer- cise, but take no hold on the min...

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... without giving you so much as a French centime, a para from the Levant, a German heller, a Russian kopeck, a Scottish farthing, a single obolus or se... ...w, or think they know, the origins of his life, then this man got rid of a German and some others—his best friend for one, and the mother of that frie... ... of moss, green, translucent, and fragile as ocean weeds. The revenue of a German prince would not have defrayed the cost of this arrogant display. Si... ..., but subdued with its dead gold hues. It had all the vague sentiment of a German ballad; it was a retreat fit for some romance of 1827, perfumed by t... ...nually asking my opinion, and I have to look as if I entered into all this German sensibility, and to know a pack of bal- lads—drugs, all of them, tha... ...sins, and finally to build an asylum on purpose for impoverished or insane mathematicians.” “That would be exceedingly useful,” Planchette replied. “W...

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...tobiography of Benjamin Franklin 56 pleasing companion; as, like most great mathematicians I have met with, he expected universal precision in everyt... ...there, as he understood his old friend and host, Mr. Benezet, was removed to Germantown. My answer was, “You know my house; if you can make shift with... ...of some advantage: I drew it in the accustomed stile, it was translated into German, printed in both languages, and divulg’d thro’ the province. This ... ...ions on the road to shelter us, till we arriv’d near night at the house of a German, where, and in his barn, we were all huddled together, as wet as w... ..., took up my cause and refuted him; my book was translated into the Italian, German, and Latin languages; and the doctrine it contain’d was by degrees...

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... now hardly one peculiar mammal, and France but few distinct from those of Germany and conversely, and so with Hungary, Spain, &c., but that each of t... ...as species. Look at the common oak, how closely it has been studied; yet a German author makes more than a dozen species out of forms, which are very ... ...make cells, which have practically anticipated the discoveries of profound mathematicians? Fourthly, how can we account for species, when crossed, bei... ...utifully adapted to its end, without enthusiastic admiration. We hear from mathematicians that bees have practi- cally solved a recondite problem, and... ...e still involved in doubt. For when it is stated, for in- stance, that the German Spitz dog unites more eas- ily than other dogs with foxes, or that c...