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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... – as in the acquisition of knowledge or in mental therapy where we have no direct observational access to the events and we have to rely on testim... ...onally, we are bound to become angry at ourselves. If his home is devastated by an earthquake – the owner will surely rage, though no conscious, de... ...s top domestic terrorism threat ... Groups such as the Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front and the Britain-based SHAC, or Stop Hunti... ...ental to the environment and reduce the amount of order in the open system that is Earth. Nature must balance this shift of allegiance, this deviat... ...must possess some structural and functional resemblance. But this quantitative and observational facet is not enough. There is also a qualitative o... ...the substance of mental states. This statement is confined to our measurements and observations and to their limitations. Yet, the Chinese Room pur... ...e recorders, DNA imprints, fingerprinting, phone tapping, electronic surveillance, satellites - are all instruments of more effective law enforceme... ...ly played by the U.S.S.R. EU integration is an attempt to assimilate former Soviet satellites and dilute Germany's power by re-jigging rules of vot...

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...nce, that the same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours. If I had remembered this it would have prevented some mis... ...upward also with confidence. Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same propor tion into the heavens above... ...nd, and ice in the Neva, would sweep St. Peters burg from the face of the earth. As this business was to be entered into without the usual capital,... ...d is made, or mechan ics, and not learn how it is earned; to discover new satellites to Neptune, and not detect the motes in his eyes, or to what vag... ...st height at the same time with the latter. The same is true, as far as my observation goes, of White Pond. This rise and fall of Walden at long int...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume One

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...now, Cold as the icy winds that round them moan, Dark as the eaves wherein earth’s thunders groan, Wild as the tempests of the upper sky, Sweet as the... ...bone and sinew it may be, but the wings are wanting. Talent sticks fast to earth, and its most perfect works have still one- foot of clay. Genius clai... ...ies of her son, disclosed at once the presence of one of those angels upon earth that women in adversity can be. It was a hard fate that she was watch... ...occupations. But at the epoch of which I speak, the analogy which a casual observation of a star offered to the conclusions I had already drawn, struc... ...t and the zodiacal light, I had been strengthened in my opinion by certain observations of Mr. Schroeter, of Lilienthal. He observed the moon when two... ... Transactions, in which it is stated that at an occulta- tion of Jupiter’s satellites, the third disappeared after having been about 1" or 2" of time ... ...analogous with, and depending upon, that of the orbs of the planet and the satellites, and by means of which the lives and destinies of the inhabitant... ...oon are periodically subjected.” But this cannot be thought a very “acute” observation of the Doctor’s. The inhabitants of our side of the moon have, ...

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The Gorgias

By: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

...elf, cannot safely go to war with the whole world, and that in the courts of earth he will be condemned. But he will be justified in the world below. ... ...eek to attain harmony, which, as the wise tell us, is the bond of heaven and earth, of gods and men. Callicles has never discovered the power of geome... ...pears to have the 36 Plato s Gorgias best of the argument; or to repeat the observation that he is a poet as well as a philosopher; or to remark that... ...he tyrant now and always; though he is surrounded 38 Plato s Gorgias by his satellites, and has the applauses of Europe and Asia ringing in his ears;... ...n is the business of early education, which is continued in maturer years by observation and experience. The spoilt child is in later life said to be ... ...s the things of sense so as to indicate what is beyond; he raises us through earth to heaven. He expresses what the better part of us would fain say, ... ...ide with the time passed by the spirits in their pilgrimage. It is a curious observation, not often made, that good men who have lived in a well- gove...

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A Treatise on Parents and Children

By: George Bernard Shaw

...f bringing up their children in the way they think they should go. The old observation that members of large families get on in the world holds good b... ...They send their children to school; and there is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for inno- cent people so horrible as a school. To begin with... ... its practical sequel of hypoth- esis and experimental verification; or to observation, induc- tion, and deduction; or even into so rapid and intuitiv... .... I remember once, at school, the resident head master was brought down to earth by the sudden illness of his wife. In the confusion that ensued it be... ...note that though he was happy in his parents and had exceptional powers of observation, divina- tion, and story-telling, he knew less about his father... ...off by pov- erty and town life from the contemplation of the beauty of the earth, with its dresses of leaves, its scarves of cloud, and its contours o... ...) who reveals the world of art to them opens heaven to them. They be- come satellites, disciples, worshippers of the apostle. Now the apostle may be a...

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The Republic

By: Plato

...e with hands, eternal in the heavens,” is reduced to the proportions of an earthly building. Or, to use a Platonic image, justice and the State are th... ...ich is the embodiment of them—about a kingdom which exists no where upon earth but is laid up in heaven to be the pattern and rule of human life. N... ...ir own proper excellence they cannot fulfil their end? True. And the same observation will apply to all other things? I agree. Well; and has not the ... ...erd in the ser vice of the king of Lydia; there was a great storm, and an earthquake made an opening in the earth at the place where he was feeding h... ...re are four notes out of which all the harmonies are composed; that is an observation which I have made. But of what sort of lives they are severally... ... have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others: knowledge should be his guide,... ...ernative. And the more detestable his actions are to the citizens the more satellites and the greater devotion in them will he require? Certainly. And... ... reason, and taken up his abode with certain slave pleasures which are his satellites, and the measure of his inferiority can only be expressed in a ...

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Letters on England

By: Voltaire, 1694-1778

...rest of the brethren.’ Thanks to the Almighty, we are the only people upon earth that have no priests. Wouldst thou deprive us of so happy a distincti... ...luntary motions. Consequently he who created thy body gives motion to this earthly tabernacle. And are the several ideas of which thy soul receives th... ...ne against the other. William Penn might glory in having brought down upon earth the so much boasted golden age, which in all probabil- ity never exis... ...k through, they never leave the least scar in the face. From these natural observations they concluded, that in case an infant of six months or a year... ... the moon; and that the sun gravitates towards both. That every one of the satellites of Saturn gravitates towards the other four, and the other four ... ...to be. He grounds his opinion on the ordinary course of Nature, and on the observations which astronomers have made. By the course of Nature we here u... ...ently some years must be sub- tracted from their computation. Astronomical observations seem to have lent a still greater assistance to our philosophe...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...that somebody in the sixth heaven had seventy thousand heads; and that the earth was supported by a sky-blue cow with an incalculable number of green ... ...d in a perfectly rational manner to all that I said; and even her original observations were marked with the soundest good sense, but a long acquainta... ...ple— neat—no trouble at all—in fact it was delicious it was Here my host’s observations were cut short by another se- ries of yells, of the same chara... ... you cannot conveniently tumble out of a balloon, or be swallowed up in an earthquake, or get stuck fast in a chimney, you will have to be contented w... ... his most skeptical companions. The adroitness, too, was no less worthy of observation by which he contrived to shift the sense of the grotesque from ... ... explained it to me, was a fabric composed of the entrails of a species of earth-worm. The worm was carefully fed on mulberries—kind of fruit resembli... ...bodies had been well established. They had been observed to pass among the satellites of Jupiter, without bringing about any sen- sible alteration eit... ... our rarest gas; and the harmless pas- sage of a similar visitor among the satellites of Jupiter was a point strongly insisted upon, and which served ...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...ts union under one government. It is not, however, my design to dwell upon observations of this nature. I am well aware that it would be disingenuous ... ... commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants. In the course of the preceding observations, I have had an eye, my fellow-citizens, to putting you upon yo... ...ndent Journal. JAY To the People of the State of New York: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelli... ...g nations. Perhaps the greatest proportion of wars that have desolated the earth have sprung from this origin. This cause would exist among us in 28 ... ... otherwise? Could that which procures a freer vent for the products of the earth, which furnishes new incitements to the cultivation of land, which is... ... in equal pride and majesty around the common center, had become, in fact, satellites of the orbs of primary magnitude. Had the Greeks, says the Abbe ... ...heir source in that relation in which Europe stands to this quarter of the earth, and which no other quarter of the earth bears to Europe. This pictur...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

... a jail delivery of such lumber as was not Literary. These were herErdbeben (earth quakes), which Teufelsdr¨ ockh dreaded worse than the pestilence; ... ...in its kind; a tag for hooking together; and, for the rest, was dug from the earth, and hammered on a stithy before smith’s 20 SARTOR RESARTUS fingers... ... progress he has made. He digs up certain black stones from the bosom of the earth, and says to them, Transport me and this luggage at the rate of file... ...d the Bill to discharge. But the whole particulars of his Route, his Weather observations, the picturesque PROSPECTIVE 51 Sketches he took, though al... ...re it not cruel in these circumstances, here might be the place to insert an observation, gleaned long ago from the great Clothes Volume, where it sta... ...ce’s Book on the Stars, wherein he exhibits that certain Planets, with their Satellites, gyrate round our worthy Sun, at a rate and in a course, which...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...th in! Our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that God will not forsake him. He wi... ...and Pierre escape, Anna Pavlovna, the more conveniently to keep them under observation, brought them into the larger circle. 9 Tolstoy CHAPTER IV JUS... ... for the conversation interested him, but Anna Pavlovna, who had him under observation, interrupted: “The Emperor Alexander,” said she, with the melan... ...murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one hero less on earth.” Before Anna Pavlovna and the others had time to smile their appreci... ...er guests. Berg with tender smiles was saying to V era that love is not an earthly but a heavenly feeling. Boris was telling his new friend Pierre who... ...ra’s remark was correct, as her remarks always were, but, like most of her observations, it made every- one feel uncomfortable, not only Sonya, Nichol... ...with ringing bells; but on a long journey Alpatych liked to have them. His satellites—the senior clerk, a countinghouse clerk, a scullery maid, a cook...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...utants general remained with the army to keep the commander in chief under observation and arouse his energy, and Barclay, feeling less free than ever... ...nd arouse his energy, and Barclay, feeling less free than ever un- der the observation of all these “eyes of the Emperor,” be- came still more cautiou... ...with ringing bells; but on a long journey Alpatych liked to have them. His satellites—the senior clerk, a countinghouse clerk, a scullery maid, a cook... ...ked one. “Knocked the roof and ceil- ing all to splinters!” “Routed up the earth like a pig,” said another. “That’s grand, it bucks one up!” laughed t... ...nd the sun set in reddish-brown mist. Heavy night dews alone refreshed the earth. The unreaped corn was scorched and shed its grain. The marshes dried... ... was the battle of Shevardino.) He was told that there in Perkhushkovo the earth 90 War and Peace – Book Ten trembled from the firing, but nobody cou...

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