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...ssive, coercive, or bureaucratic." (Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) A... ...ed: Natural Selection IS the vital power itself. Modern Physics is converging with Philosophy (possibly with the philosophical side of Religion as ... ...ay? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Italians in the United States, political parties the world over ... ...ors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors. Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for inst... ...ck to the future", communism was surely "forward to the past". Competition A. THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPETITION The aims of competition (anti-trust) l... ... of whatever life I can to attain its highest development." Albert Schweitzer, "Philosophy of Civilization," 1923 The Encyclopaedia Britannica ... ...raction of these are likely to communicate with us. But, if this is true, to quote Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi: "where are they?". Ferm...

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...s apotheosis at the Theatre-Francais but the triumph of eighteenth century philosophy? A tri- umph in France means that everybody else feels that he i... ...wer—the Spanish are a generous race. The Spaniard is generous! even so the Italian is jealous and a poisoner, the Frenchman fickle, the German frank, ... ...eshold of the jail, was a piece of cunning strategy—a combinazione, as the Italians call an indefinable mixture of treachery and truth, a cunningly pl...

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...umbents and their avaricious pricing. Peter Suber has both a Ph.D. in philosophy and a J.D. He is a professor of philosophy at Earlham College, ... ...y Institute on FOS issues. He is the general editor of the Web's foremost philosophy search engine Hippias and co-editor of Noesis, both available o... ...esis, both available online free of charge. He serves on the Committee on Philosophy and Computers of the American Philosophical Association. He is ... ...udden were not. Friends told me that in Italy, for example, all the great Italian operas that had entered the public domain are no longer there. . . ... ...nguages as hard as I possibly can. So far we have English, Latin, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portu... ...ed for purposes other than pilfering intellectual property digitally. The Italians, Portuguese and Dutch haven't even considered the option. Hardw... ...rent. Consider, for instance the online and free Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Each entry is written by an expert but is frequently revised b... ...ned in the past 35 years of thinking about eBooks is that the underlying philosophy since time immemorial is: "It is better if I have it, and YOU d...

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...ssive, coercive, or bureaucratic." (Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) A... ...ed: Natural Selection IS the vital power itself. Modern Physics is converging with Philosophy (possibly with the philosophical side of Religion as ... ...ay? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Italians in the United States, political parties the world over ... ...ors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors. Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for inst... ...ck to the future", communism was surely "forward to the past". Competition A. THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPETITION The aims of competition (anti-trust) l... ... of whatever life I can to attain its highest development." Albert Schweitzer, "Philosophy of Civilization," 1923 The Encyclopaedia Britannica ... ...raction of these are likely to communicate with us. But, if this is true, to quote Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi: "where are they?". Ferm...

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...list; epicurean tastes, stoic endurance, dualism arid monism in present-day philosophy, an altruistic world-view; the classics, a realistic novel. ... ... letters). But do not capitalize such phrases when spelled out : doctor of philosophy, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. 21. Nouns and adj... ...eral rules: In Latin, capitalize proper nouns and adjec- tives; in French, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish, capitalize only proper nouns; in German a... ... GaUiczcm; Histoire de la lith?rature fraqaise, Novelle e racconti po#olari italiani, Antologia & poetus l&os castdlams, Svemka litteraturem hist&; ... ...y Carpenter. ["English Men of Letters," 111.1 London: Black, 1900. "As the Italian [Englishman] Dante Gabriel Rodsletti has said, . . . ." Deut. 3... ... marks for, 67; of exclamation point, Heads: see ~eadings,-~eadlines. 1x4. Italian titles of publications, use of capi- Historical: epochs, capital...

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... in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if he were tracking some one. There was a smug expression about the mouth--he looked like a merchant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bachelor emerging from a boudoir in t...

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... Schmucke was fain to bury his chagrin beneath the flow- ers of his German philosophy; but a week later he grew so yellow that Mme. Cibot exerted her ... ... nor Schmucke fared so sumptuously. The dishes were a rapture to think of! Italian paste, delicate of flavor, unknown to the public; smelts fried as n... ...agnetism, one of the great sciences of antiquity, had its origin in occult philosophy; chemistry is the outcome of alchemy; phrenology and neurology a... ...s yet cannot account. The Catholic Church, the law of the land, and modern philosophy, in agreement for once, combined to prescribe, persecute, and ri... ... the adepts; the result is a lamentable interregnum of a century in occult philosophy. But the uneducated classes, and not a few cultivated people (wo... ... that he thought of it as a deputy-advocate thinks of the silk gown, as an Italian priest thinks of the tiara. It was indeed a wild dream! M. Vitel, t... ...a wife after the pattern of Socrates’ spouse, and ungifted with the sage’s philosophy, he mingled salt with the corn in the man- gers and forbad the g... ...urer, is a portrait of a woman; the second, likewise a portrait, is of the Italian School; the third, a Dutch landscape by Breughel; and the fourth, a... ...ending over the dead Christ, in a pieta carved in bas-relief by some great Italian sculptor. The divine effort, the outpouring of one life into anothe...

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...ding and peripatetic reasons, or the author knows nothing of sound and the philosophy of Aristotle. He has on his side the crown of France and the ori... ...from which the ladies of France were led away when Queen Catherine and the Italians came with their balls and merry-makings. T o these practices Franc... ...el was poor, was that a reason his under- standing should not be rich? His philosophy amused his cli- ents, to whom he would repeat, by way of thanks,... ...o at that time was very ill indeed, presented him, from time to time, with Italian pictures, knowing that he liked them much, be- ing a friend of the ... ... honour of her wedding, which was a wonder- ful ceremony, at which all the Italian princes were present. She had, it is said, a million gold crowns; i...

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...liar tribe or class of philosophers; and this subdivision of employment in philosophy, as well as in every other business, improve dexterity, and save... ...ssive application to their peculiar species of work. Ramuzzini, an eminent Italian physician, has written a particular book concerning such diseases. ... ...fession of physic; a still greater, perhaps, in that of law; in poetry and philosophy it makes almost the whole. There are some very agreeable and bea... ...tageous to plant a new vineyard, was a matter of dispute among the ancient Italian husbandmen, as we learn from Col- umella. He decides, like a true l... ...e history is somewhat different, it is the history of all the considerable Italian republics, of which so great a number arose and perished between th... ...s of the greater part of Europe, were extremely favourable to that of some Italian cities. The great armies which marched from all parts to the conque... ...s are in general the soberest people of Europe; witness the Spaniards, the Italians, and the inhabitants of the southern provinces of France. People a... ...or 457 Adam Smith in their establishment, yet all the arts of refinement, philosophy, poetry, and eloquence, seem to have been cultivated as early, a... ...universities, therefore, that language was taught previous to the study of philosophy, and as soon as the student had made some progress in the Latin....

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...tly arranged. There were shelves and stands of books, English, French, and Italian; and in a portfolio on the writing-table there were sheets upon she... ...ot move his carelessness to do anything but feel sorry . ‘I’m going to the Italian Opera to try on,’ said Miss Wren, taking away her hand after a litt... ...iously fallen into the hands of some of the Christians, I can bear it with philosophy.’ ‘I have had an interview to-day, Eugene, with a Jew, who seems...

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...dy. Wanda and I go way back. We got our doctorates at the same time at your alma mater Commander. Of course I was in psychology and she was in philos... ...g between our conscience and our more basic sensual pleasures. ―As you know, one of the basic questions in psychology, anthropology and philos... ...rdained!‖ —―I get the pun. I‘m sure Thomas Aquinas is turning over in his grave seeing you using language for frivolity rather than for philos... ...ng situation. A driver may buckle the shoulder strap because there is always the possibility of an auto accident. I have heardthat 80% of Italia... ... people have been highly instrumental in developing our morals, our mores, and our laws. ―These people‘s humor is real and related to philos... ... people in your country are in school, either working on a college degree or are taking classes that help them to enjoy life more. Classes in philos... ... If that doesn‘t happen they must find a new identity by identifying with the roots of their ancestors. Americans find comfort in their Irish, Italia... ...alth, the Norwegians and Americans had more money. It wasn‘t low taxes. Middle income Danes are in the 50% tax bracket. It isn‘t sunshine, the Italia...

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...‘Confessions of an Opium-eater’—fine, very fine!—glorious imagination—deep philosophy acute specula- tion—plenty of fire and fury, and a good spicing ... ...scrit, or Chickasaw. There is no passing muster, however, without Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, and Greek. I must look you out a little specimen of... ... ‘huomo che non se’n era accorto, Andava combattendo, e era morto.’ That’s Italian, you perceive—from Ariosto. It means that a great hero, in the heat... ...r. Is it not truly remarkable that, before the magnificent light shed upon philosophy by Humanity, the world was accustomed to regard War and Pes- til... ... is what he has been bargaining 111 V olume Four about with Nicolino, the Italian Jew.” This idea satisfied me, and I dismissed my curiosity for the ... ...OST NOTORIOUS ill-fortune must in the end yield to the untiring courage of philosophy—as the most stubborn city to the ceaseless vigilance of an enemy... ... might even have a tangible form. Most philoso- phers, upon many points of philosophy, are still very unphilosophical. William Godwin, however, says i... ...of building. There are the stately avenues and retirements of V ersailles; Italian terraces; and a various mixed old English style, which bears some r... ...ring the play- ing of a game at chess by the Turk, and, secondly, that the Italian being taken seriously ill, the exhibition was suspended until his r...

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...nd of card, you know. That was the sec- ond father. Then his mother was an Italian princess; and she had an Italian priest always about. He was suppos...

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...tinued to face him as if he really troubled her a little. “Oh you deep old Italians!” “There you are,” he returned—“it’s what I wanted you to come to.... ...mong the Barbarians, of all civil graces, a perfect felicity in the use of Italian. He had known strangers—a few, and mostly men—who spoke his own lan... ...ame; all he could do was practically to leave it to her, emulating her own philosophy. He had again and again sat up late to discuss those situations ... ...s was the case the impression of course could only be lost on a mere vague Italian; it was one of those for which you had to be blessedly an American—... ...nse, from the sound of his words; which was that of the suddenest sharpest Italian. Charlotte exchanged with her friend a glance that matched it, and ... ... door, but immediately addressing the speaker from where he stood. “You’re Italian then, are you?” But the reply came in English. “Oh dear no.” “You’r... ...ool upper air of the finer discrimination, the deeper sincerity, the larger philosophy. No mat ter what were the facts invoked and arrayed, it was onl... ...hetic for the advantage now extracted from it by Fanny Assingham’s bruised philosophy. This good friend’s relation to it was ac tually the revanche, ...

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...n of whom we speak, after losing the heart’s fresh gayety, imagined a wild philosophy of pleasure, and came hither to act out their latest day-dream. ... ...nothing; but, if half the stories told of it be true, not one of the great Italian masters has ever produced so marvellous a piece of work as that bef... ...ly as he turned to Alice, “have you brought hither your painter’s art—your Italian spirit of intrigue—your tricks of stage effect—and think to influen...

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... upon those innumerable knowledges, those secrets of nature and physi- cal philosophy which Homer is generally supposed to have wrapped up in his alle... ... (with the same sort of diligence as we daily see practised in the case of Italian operas), will find more sweetness, variety, and majesty of sound, t...

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... matters of detail never troubled him much. His teaching was as the German philosophy calls it, ‘subjective’; it was to benefit himself, not others. H... ...th century; I mean Latin. If I am mistaken, I can but try Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, or Hebrew. But the savants of the sixteenth century gener- ... ...nt appellet-on cette Montagne, mon enfant?” Silence still. “Now let us try Italian,” said my uncle; and he said: “Dove noi siamo?” “Yes, where are we?... .... It would not have been wise to tell how we came there. The superstitious Italians would have set us down for fire-devils vomited out of hell; so we ...

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...t, his smile, the shedding of his rose-leaves, in short by his in- fantile philosophy. He imitates so well the language of our early youth that he lea... ...luminous. It’s arched roof, brilliant with gold and azure like those of an Italian cathedral, sparkled above my head. Melodies such as the angels sang... ...y a series of fluted pilasters surmounted by an entablature which hides an Italian roof, from which rise several stone chimneys masked by carved troph...

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...to battle under the command of one of the con- suls. Many little States or Italian tribes, who had nearly the same customs as Rome, surrounded the Cam... ...ad their dominion over the cen- tral part of Italy. They were well used to Italian and Etruscan ways of mak- ing war, but after nearly 400 years of th... ...t that time, the first soldier of Rome, and had taken several of the chief Italian cities, espe- cially that of Veii, which had long been a most dange... ...ge glaciers of the Alps, be afraid to climb where a soft dweller in a tame Italian town could venture a passage? Brennus chose out the hardiest of his... ...of the best and noblest of the Greeks held what was called the Pythagorean philosophy. This was one of the many systems framed by the great men of hea... ... attempt to over- throw his power. He was a good scholar, and very fond of philosophy and poetry, and he delighted to have learned men around him, and... ...church door barred against a monarch. This time it is not under the bright Italian sky, but under the grey fogs of the Baltic sea. It is not the state...

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...much of a higher grade equally new to you. I suppose you do not understand Italian?’ ‘No,’ said Guy , abruptly, and his dark eyebrows contracted. Phil... ...In the midst of it, while Amy 158 The Heir of Redclyffe was intent on the Italian words of a song, Guy touched her hand, and pointed to a line in the... ...had left orders that such should be forwarded to Como. Amabel, in her best Italian, strove hard to explain the differ- ence between the captain and Si... ...es were strangely familiar, like a bit of Hollywell transplanted into that Italian scene. He hastened to the landing-place, and was met by a hearty gr... ...t is true. It can be no other than poor Philip. I have seen his doctor, an Italian, who, when he saw our name written, said it was the same. He calls ... ...spoiling uncle you will be! But now, having heard you reason yourself into philosophy, I’ll leave you to write. We were so anxious, that I could not h...

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...was explaining to Godefroid how Mon- sieur Barbet, having lent money to an Italian named Fresconi, the manager of the business, could recover his mone... ...ay-scholar at the school of Louis-le-Grand, where he is nearly through his philosophy course, and only sixteen, too; that’s something to boast of! but... ... a kind of a Jew, with a score of trades; he was even a part- ner with the Italian who built this barrack to lodge silk- worms.” “So this house is a r... ... but creased like a bit of crumpled paper, resembled that given by the old Italian masters to Saint Joseph. The eyes, of a sea- green, and circled, li...

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...opu- lar accomplishments. Had the standard of the public taste been set in philosophy, and the national enthusiasm centred in philosophers, he would a... ...strict for the strenuous exercise of her climbing powers because she loved Italian colour; and it seemed an exceedingly good reason to the genial imag... ...wakened in Mr. Whitford. “Though,” said he, abruptly, “you are not so much Italian as French.” She hoped she was English, she remarked. 112 The Egois... ..., justly relieving a father. With demagogues abroad and daughters at home, philosophy is needed for us to keep erect. Let the girl be Cicero’s T ullia... ...anked him, promising to depart immediately. “Now you are at the section of Italian literature, my love,” said Dr Middleton. “Well, Mr. Whitford, the l... ...d the second time it will be entirely his own fault. Inspire him with some philosophy.” “I have none.” “I if I thought so, I would say you have better... ....” “I if I thought so, I would say you have better. There are two kinds of philosophy, mine and yours. Mine comes of coldness, yours of devotion.” “He... ...visedly, for there are doctors of divinity who would shake giants:—that an Italian trip will send you back—that I shall bring you home from Italy a bl... ...to Tyrol, and round away to 480 The Egoist the right, Southward.” “To the Italian Alps! And was it assumed that I should be of this expedition?” “You...

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...n interested in the oddities of mankind. At one time I read a good deal of philosophy and a good deal of science, and I learned in that way that nothi... ...ith water. They were made in five weeks, by the Count von Küffstein and an Italian mystic and rosicrucian, the Abbé Geloni. The bottles were closed wi...

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...arrested, but research has shown that what European scholars knew of Greek philosophy, of mathematics, as- tronomy, and like sciences, for several cen... ...owever, is full of difficulties. The Arabic is a lan- guage in which, like Italian, it is almost impossible not to rhyme.” Pilgr. ii. 78. 31 The Kora...

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... at least, not opposing attitude– or, shortly, to a man who is of Christ’s philosophy– every such saying should come home with a thrill of joy and cor... ...e with determined views– roues in speculation– having gauged the vanity of philosophy or learned to shun it as the middle- man of heresy– a company of... ...nion’ at Cambridge or the ‘Union’ at Oxford. COLLEGE PAPERS CHAPTER IV–THE PHILOSOPHY OF UMBRELLAS* I T IS WONDERFUL to think what a turn has been giv... ...manufacture of the article. 103 Lay Morals COLLEGE PAPERS CHAPTER V – THE PHILOSOPHY OF NOMENCLATURE ‘How many Caesars and Pompeys, by mere inspirati... ...and pronouncing, without further preface, a short epitome of the ‘Shandean Philosophy of Nomenclature.’ T o begin, then: the influence of our name mak... ... the success of the perfor- mance. At the end of the incantation scene the Italian trans- lator has made Macbeth fall insensible upon the stage. This ... ... from pit to gallery with inextinguishable laughter. It is, I am told, the Italian tradition; but it is one more honoured in the breach than the obser...

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...ingle with yon springalds and beaux.” “To vaunt a knowledge of the stoical philosophy,” said the youth addressed as Sam, “might elicit a smile of incr... ...rom one to twenty-four: the day Mac landed at Naples his repeater rung the Italian hours, from one to twenty-four; as soon as he crossed the Alps it o... ...entertainer, when he put this question to her, “than are dreamt of in your philosophy:” and, sooth to say, the archer was by this time in such a state... ...rates wonderful reverses of fortune; it affords the moralist scope for his philosophy; perhaps it gives amusement to the merely idle reader. Nor must ... ... they call it, comes the opera, which, as I am given to understand, is the Italian for singing. Why they should sing in Italian, I can’t conceive; or ... ...o support her father, the Count, when he emigrated) a French dancer at the Italian Opera. French dancing, and Italian, therefore, we had at once, and ... ... of the county, and the very pink of Croydon; several Polish noblemen; two Italian counts (besides our Count); one hundred and ten young officers, fro...

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...ving his books, which were a pretty col lection of mathematicks and natural philosophy, to come with mine and me to New York, where he propos’d to wa... ...t, opposite to the Romish Chapel. It was two pair of stairs backwards, at an Italian warehouse. A widow lady kept the house; she had a daughter, and a... ...d produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Poli tics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss’d by the company; and once in three months prod... ... much originality as if you had been conducting discus sions in politics or philosophy; and what more worthy of experiments and system (its importanc... ...f the French as to be able to read the books with ease. I then undertook the Italian. An acquaintance, who was also learning it, us’d often to tempt m... ...language entirely. But, when I had attained an acquaintance with the French, Italian, and Span ish, I was surpriz’d to find, on looking over a Latin ... ...ould not have been better to have begun with the French, pro ceeding to the Italian, etc.; for, tho’, after spending the same time, they should quit ... ...ation of my improvements and discov eries in the electric branch of natural philosophy. In 1754, war with France being again apprehended, a con gres... ... Sciences, 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 b...

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...e a dupe of me, even as he was seeking to make a dupe of himself, wresting philosophy to the needs of his own sorrow. But in the light of this new fac... ...s a contribution to the theory of life. So with the more icy parts of this philosophy of Thoreau’s. He was affecting the Spartan- ism he had not; and ... ... beyond, for which he had found or sought no formula, on which perhaps his philosophy even looked askance, is wanting in my study, as it was wanting i... ... in romance, that has since renewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested... ... more curiously like a satire, than when Mr. Spen- cer found his Synthetic Philosophy reverberated from the other shores of the Atlantic in the “barba... ...f accent on the different syllables, almost as in French, the vowels as in Italian, but the consonants in the English manner – except the J, which has...