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...00 - were subjected to additional slaughter in Syria. People were beaten with blunt instruments, burnt alive or drowned forcibly. The massacres were... ... about 1 million of them annually - of which 50,000 can be felt without the aid of instruments. Tremors of the magnitude of Kobe in 1995 (which cau... ... Eratosthenes (276-196 BC), measured the earth's circumference accurately. He used astronomical observations to calculate the difference in latitud... ...n, even under normal atmospheric conditions, we all see objects that are under the astronomical horizon. How much we see depends on our elevation,... ...ng other variables. Our APPARENT horizon (what we can actually see) and the "real", astronomical horizon (what we would have seen in the absence of ... ...is the "dip". Optics tells us that multiple or inverted images must occur under the astronomical horizon and above the apparent horizon - i.e. withi...

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...fected. The TMT colloquium in Beijing came six months after the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences signed on a... ...Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and India’s Department of Science and ... ...-meter, optical/infrared Subaru Telescope, astronomers with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan are using a powerful laser to illuminat... ...multiyear ocean-drilling project that is attempting to sample, and place instruments on the faults that cause violent, large-scale earthquakes. No... ...res, and carry out other climate change investigations. Complementing the astronomical imaging of the solar system and universe, Dr. Gary Huss, hea... ...hiko. Hula kahiko is danced to chant and accompanied only by traditional instruments such as ipu (gourds), pahu (drums) and ‘ili‘ili (water-smooth... ... or modern hula, danced to tuneful songs with lively lyrics. More modern instruments accompany them, including the guitar, played in kī hō‘alu, or... ...916, the Kamaka family has been fashioning and manufacturing the musical instruments out of Hawaiian koa, an acacia wood with fne grain highlights... ...lulu. Among the specialists are hearing-impaired employees who tune the instruments by “listening” to vibrations. 89 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINES...

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...e. 19 While relativistic distortions are subject to being sensed by our instruments as well as by our eyes, it would be silly to think that our me... ...free in space is self- propelled and disconnected from Earth, Sun, and all astronomical bodies. Its speed might be referenced to some luminiferou...

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...f relativity is thought of solely as a macroscopic theory to be applied to astronomical problems, for then the singularity r=α is buried inside the bo... ...uation, we can hardly remain satisfed by an ap- peal to the known sizes of astronomical bodies. We have a right to ask whether the general theory of r... ...ing that his arguments, derived from a purely phenomenological analysis of astronomical observations, did not link to Riemannian geometry and the math... ...During 1984–1985 I twice visited the laboratory of late Kozyrev in Pulkovo Astronomical Ob- servatory, near Leningrad. Then, in Moscow, we made a copy... ... to one another. And so far as the action is propagated by the intervening instruments, and at last impressed upon the resisting body, the ultimate ac...

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...tter. The arts and sciences, the inventions and manufactures, the books and instruments were shared— 6 making every civilization richer. Because, ... ...of sexual abuse, child pornography and the demand for child prostitutes is astronomical—and growing, 39 --20 million children are refugees of wa...

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...e -- Customs of the natives in disposing of dead bodies -- Theft of scientific instruments -- An entertainment provided by the natives -- Successful o... ...and clear water; in them he had placed beautiful damsels, skilful in songs and instruments of music and dancing, and to make sports and delights unto ... ...at the travellers heard strange whisperings in the air and concerts of musical instruments, and the drums and noises of armies, which so disconcerted ... ...ig06.jpg - 131707 Bytes sporting, singing, dancing, and the playing on musical instruments. But the most distinguishing characteristic, as related by ... ...n, and then the barons and all the people kneel, and the musicians sound their instruments. There is no cause, since I would avoid prolixity, why I sh... ...dition. On April 13th, 1769, the Endeavor reached Tahiti (Otaheite), where the astronomical observations were successfully made (June 3d), after which... ...ay 2d, the observatory having been completed, Mr. Solander prepared to fix the astronomical quadrant in position when to his amazement he found it was...

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...s case was slipping away in its own right. The senses were becoming faulty instruments for receiving signals while this abstract form of sympathy, adh... ...t her or something like her briefly? It could do nothing else. Traditional instruments were in one far corner but most of the museum seemed to be a di... ...id he object to whores. They had been the holy light in his paintings, the instruments of his success. As the male beast was not any better than the f... ...register; salesmen stood aimlessly behind fruit and noodle carts that were instruments of servitude and sustenance they were invisibly chained to; and... ...enance and mild deprivation instead of being an inconsequential part of an astronomical sum in his savings back home, a vehicle for some degree of equ... ...orcycles had swerved around them, those varmints that had been using their instruments of vile urination for pleasure, and in so doing inadvertently a...

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... words to say something deep. He had dragged it on the plane and had paid an astronomical fee to get it onto the airlines. What a burden it had been t... ...ld you like a cigarette? We've got ten minutes." He thought of the words and instruments which human beings employed to break from their innate states... ... in play the brutality of life on the planet. She sighed and took away their instruments of war. She wanted to scold them but there was no way to sco... ...rs of infants who sat alone as inert and purposeless as rocks until becoming instruments to be used by their babies. To find the source of his discom... ...st dogs beaten with sticks and then shoved into large racket and burlap bag instruments like butterfly nets. She watched the dog catchers dump the h... ...pecial. What are the chances of you liking it, liking the cello above other instruments, favoring your philosophic ponderings above everything, and n...

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...turned to his companion, and their conversation bottomed to a tractor and the astronomical price of hay. Nothing more to be gained here. Kurt scraped... ...nt of beer cans, tip sheets and pizza boxes but found no horseshoes, no blunt instruments. Only the end of a black rubber pad. He yanked it out, ...

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...en energy particles splitting. This expansion of space creates the result of Astronomical bodies moving further away from each other. It is only S... ...cause there is an invisible balance point that is imperceptible to scientific instruments. This is why it repeats itself over and over again withou... ... buffer of your finger to separate one wavelength from another. All stringed instruments with frets use metal bars as buffers to separate one partic... ...elength from the rest of the wavelengths on the string. On fretless stringed instruments: it is your fingers that act as a fret. You can find thi... ...cause there is an invisible balance point that is imperceptible to scientific instruments. This is why it repeats itself over and over again withou... ...hem, and left well enough alone: our population would never have risen to the astronomical height of billions. But once the idea of accumulating foo... ...oil refineries, where will the rich countries buy their oil from… and at what astronomical cost? If the poor countries develop their own high-tech a... ...e is there in spending millions, even trillions of dollars trying to find new astronomical objects, new energy particles, new chemicals, new gadgets... ...humans, the physical standard of living would rise instantly to an unheard-of astronomical level of human affluence all around the world. Today, mo...

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...he aire, the fire, and other members of this my universe, are no more the instruments of thy life than of thy death. Why fearest thou thy last day? h... ... so, though it be out of season, forsaketh us, when he thinks good. Those instruments that serve to discharge the belly, have their proper compressi... ...rant of their owne; mocketh those musitians that so attentively tune their instruments, and never accord their manners; derideth those orators that s... ...8 AM Montaigne's Essays and temperance, not force or waywardnesse are the instruments to bring him unto her. Socrates (vertues chiefe favorite) that... ...xcept the most or least, they are furnished with like meanes to judge and instruments to conceive. But the diversitie of opinions which we have of t... ...r to mistake the height of the sunne, or missereckon the fraction of some astronomical suppuration; but herein, whereon our being and chiefe freehold...

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...racle!‘ ‗But most of the room was filled with hundreds of torture instruments like thumb screws, iron masks, a rack, and metal spikes that w... ...ve in drugging your God-given mind, but alcoholism and drug addiction are astronomical. You don‘t believe in cheating but your students continually ...

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...eeling niid niouidy which was divined from the umsio s«en|iiiig from their instruments last Friday night, during their tirst but only rehearsal. Each ... ... for the laboratory ex- ercises in Physics 4 which will be- gin next week. Instruments for the study of dynamics and statics have been installed. At a... ...th around the sun, precession and mutation. It is one of the most complete instruments of its kin\d. —Reserved seat tickets for the Amherst game will ... ...t to be presented to the col- lege. An orchestra composed only of stringed instruments is practicing with Mr. Salter for a concert to be held after th... ...uadrangle is further to be ' improved by the moving south- ward of the old astronomical ob- servatory and the construction of a collonade to connect t...

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... room instru- ments of whose use I am ignorant.” “You will find these same instruments in my own room, Professor, where I shall have much pleasure in ... ...rne CHAPTER XI ALL BY ELECTRICITY “SIR,” SAID CAPTAIN NEMO, showing me the instruments hang- ing on the walls of his room, “here are the contrivances ... ...Nautilus rises to the surface of the waves.” “These are the usual nautical instruments,” I replied, “and I know the use of them. But these others, no ... ...ssure it indicates, it gives our depth at the same time.” “And these other instruments, the use of which I can- not guess?” “Here, Professor, I ought ... ... partitions had doors that were shut hermetically by means of india-rubber instruments, and they ensured the safety of the Nautilus in case of a leak.... ...ppeared. He did not seem to be aware of my presence, and began a series of astronomical observations. Then, when he had finished, he went and leant on... ...tensils, anchors, pulley-strops, swivel-guns, an 18 lb. shot, fragments of astronomical instruments, a piece of crown work, and a bronze clock, bearin...

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...long as a scythe, set straight upon the handle. The spoons, forks, and other instruments, were all in the same proportion. I remem ber when Glumdalcl... ... should have been curious enough to dissect one of them, if I had had proper instruments, which I unluckily left behind me in the ship, although, inde... ...e throne, was a large table filled with globes and spheres, and mathematical instruments of all kinds. His majesty took not the least notice of us, al... ...s – Swift 142 courtiers, and officers, having prepared all their musi cal instruments, played on them for three hours with out intermission, so th... ...at. I observed in the king’s kitchen all sorts of mathematical and mu sical instruments, after the figures of which they cut up the joints that were ... ...o forementioned sciences. Most of them, and especially those who deal in the astronomical part, have great faith in judicial astrol ogy, although the... ...with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments. But the greatest curiosity, upon which the fate...

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...the College of Science, through a year of dissection and some weeks at the astronomical telescope. So I built up my conceptions of a real world out of... ...ur mental imperfections and to talk and act as though our minds were exact instruments,— something wherewith to scale the heavens with assurance,— and... ...ed to one’s care. One has, I feel, to take all these things as weapons and instruments, material in the service of the scheme; one has to take them in... ...t mean that its mission is a merely verbal and mental one; it must use all instruments and teach by example as well as precept. Socialism by becoming ... ...gs than he might, simply to please base employers, the craftsman who makes instruments for foolish uses or bad uses, the dealer who sells and pushes a...

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...ers, and hardened their hearts. And looking across 5 H G Wells space with instruments, and intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they se... ... talking. Few of the common people in England had anything but the vaguest astronomical ideas in those days. Most of them were staring quietly at the ... ...RKABLE STORY FROM WOKING,” and so forth. In addition, Ogilvy’s wire to the Astronomical Exchange had roused every observatory in the three kingdoms. ...

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...ticed anything decisively alarming. In very many cities bells are the main instruments for communicating be- tween the street and the interior of hous... ...us language, that even, in modern times, has turned out many useful books, astronomical, medical, philosophical, and (as Mrs. Malaprop observes) diabo... ...he title page, I found thus mysteriously expressed: ‘in the 7000th year of Astronomical History, and the first day of Intellec- tual Life or Moral Wor... ... the title page of this work, by the way, I learn that ‘the 7000th year of Astronomical History’ is taken from the Chinese tables, and coincides (as I...

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...ank, paying only for such essentials as university fees, and the books and instruments his brilliant career as a student de- manded. For he was having... ...ool. The hall was crowded with students carrying books, bags, and boxes of instruments, students standing and chattering, students reading the framed ... ...rom the ground floor. The rest of the load in the lift had emerged at the “astronomical” and “chemical” floors, but these two had both chosen “zoology...

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...no longer, and I reproached Parload very bitterly for wasting his time in “astronomical dilettantism.” 31 H. G . Wells “Here,” said I. “We’re on the ... ... as nothing in the skirts of the war storm that was now upon us. It was an astronomical phenomenon, somewhere away over China, millions of miles away ... ...ive crock- ery, and hangings, and embroideries, and bad music, and musical instruments shared this fate. And books, countless books, too, and bales of...

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...sing hymn tunes, or the British national song for the time being, to these instruments, but latterly she has been silent and even careful over her wor... ...rvatory. The reader is probably familiar with the structure of an ordinary astronomical observatory. The building is usually cylindrical in shape, wit... ...ut the room were traces of numerous students: hand-bags, polished boxes of instruments, in one place a large drawing covered by newspaper, and in anot... ...oise of keys rattling on split rings as lockers were opened and dissecting instruments taken out. Hill was already standing by his table, and his box ... ...tants were unaware of the existence of the planet Neptune, nor outside the astronomical profession did the subsequent discovery of a faint remote spec...

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... Dickens respectable performance (without variations) on stringed and wind instruments, sedately expressive of getting up at eight, shaving close at a... ...at the last moment, for want of some special thing—a clock, a vio- lin, an astronomical telescope, an electrifying machine—they must dismount for ever...

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...ers were Mme. Vauquer’s spoiled children. Among them she distributed, with astronomical precision, the exact proportion of respect and attention due t... ...an expiated the sin of loving them too much? They themselves have been the instruments of vengeance; they have tortured me for my sin of affection. “A...

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...at Poissy, in the municipal department; or else as manufacturer of musical instruments—” “Any one of them would suit me.” “Well, then! if that queer b... ...ille!” imperiously calling him to order. “The point which gives this great astronomical event a spe- cial interest on this occasion,” continued Minard... ...e, has my son concealed a thing from me.” “Then you know about the sublime astronomical discov- 366 The Lesser Bourgeoisie ery which he communicated ...

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...of kicking seized him always after hearing good per- formers on particular instruments, especially the bagpipes. 88 Thomas de Quincey Of kicking? But... ...uation in the school, was to be settled, naturally my al- titude (to speak astronomically) was taken by my proficiency in Greek. But here I had no adv... ...- ian or longitudinarian, literary, social, or mercantile, geo- graphical, astronomical, or (as Mrs. Malaprop kindly sug- gests) diabolical? Apparentl...

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...out nine o’clock — in other words, that he had slept two hours. This small astronomical calculation was made without any positive effort, and whilst h... ...ng relics of the true and original Weatherbury band — venerable worm eaten instruments, which had celebrated in their own persons the victories of Mar...

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... Dickens respectable performance (without variations) on stringed and wind instruments, sedately expressive of getting up at eight, shaving close at a... ...at the last moment, for want of some special thing—a clock, a vio- lin, an astronomical telescope, an electrifying machine—they must dismount for ever... ...tal arithmetic mechanically, sing at sight mechanically, blow various wind instruments mechanically, even play the great church organ mechanically . F... ...k- ing-brush on the family’s boots, instead of performing on enormous wind instruments and double-basses, and that he conducted himself with cheerful ...

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...ons of refined taste, many books, drawings, pots of flow- ers, and musical instruments. A cheerful fire blazed upon the hearth. At a piano, singing an... ... intoxicated to do duty, now sprang all at once to their feet and to their instruments, and, scrambling upon their table, broke out, with one accord, ... ... decisive curvature had become apparent dur- ing the brief period of their astronomical history—during the mere point—during the utter nothingness of ... ...Lyrae around a common centre of gravity! April 7.—Continued last night our astronomical amusements. Had a fine view of the five Neptunian asteroids, a... ... had no room, of course, for any thing except a few posi- tively necessary instruments, some provisions, and the clothes upon our backs. No one had th... ... word, he was short of breath. He thought it extravagant to play upon wind instruments. He was the inventor of self-mov- ing fans, wind-sails, and ven... ...t shall we think of an engine of wood and metal which can not only compute astronomical and navigation tables to any given extent, but render the exac... ... into the understanding of even the most stolid. Finally, all men saw that astronomical knowledge lied not, and they awaited the comet. Its approach w... ...ed. It oppressed us with a hideous novelty of emotion. We saw it not as an astronomical phenomenon in the heavens, but as an incubus upon our hearts, ...

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...n to suffer interruption. Wherefore books appear to be the most im mediate instruments of speculative delight, and therefore Aristotle, the sun of p... ...decaying team, harrow, flail and mattock, and every manual artificer for the instruments of his craft; it is The Philobiblon Richard de Bury 22 on... ... be understood. And we must come to a like judgment as to Arabic in numerous astronomical treatises, and as to Hebrew as regards the text of the Holy ...

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...upper rim or base of the cone, a circle 28 Poe in Five V olumes of little instruments, resembling sheep-bells, which kept up a continual tinkling to ... ...common barometer with some important modifications, and two astro- nomical instruments not so generally known. I then took op- portunities of conveyin... ...es the gross ignorance which is so generally prevalent upon subjects of an astronomical nature. The moon’s distance from the earth is, in round number... ...ng oceans and other large bodies of water in the moon; whereas there is no astronomical point more positively ascer- tained than that no such bodies e... ... out some claim to attention, as affording a naive specimen of the current astronomical notions of the time. One of these as- sumed, that the “gravita... .... Shouts of laughter ascend the skies. The air becomes dissonant with wind instruments, and horrible with clamor of a million throats. Let us descend,... ... what a Babel of languages! what a screaming of beasts! what a tinkling of instruments! what a parcel of philosophers!” Come let us be off. “Stay a mo... ...ld not understand, and groped in a corner among a pile of singular-looking instruments, and decayed charts of naviga- tion. His manner was a wild mixt...

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... their children so that they may get on; princes educate their subjects as instruments of their own purposes. Who, then, shall conduct education so th... ...the case where mind is not concerned with the physical manipulation of the instruments but with what one intends to write, the case is the same. There... ... case not merely conducts inquiry and learning without the use of the best instruments, but fails to understand the full meaning of knowledge. For he ... ...f an analysis of the knowledge of cobblers, carpenters, players of musical instruments, etc., pointing out that their art (so far as it was not mere r... ...ed in those confines, they are curious facts to be laboriously learned. As instruments for extending the limits of expe- rience, bringing within its s... ...hical study which tend to become specialized and separate. Mathematical or astronomical, physiographic, topographic, political, commercial, geography,... ...nd it in its connections with other events. We place it, as we say, in the astronomical system. We respond to its connections and not simply to 348 D...

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... these we choose some with a view to others (wealth, for instance, musical instruments, and, in general, all instruments), it is clear that all are no... ...noble actions: for friends, money, and political influence are in a manner instruments whereby many things are done: some things there are again a def... ... cases rests with us). And the object of search is sometimes the necessary instruments, some- times the method of using them; and similarly in the res... ...because they agree in opinion on any point, as, for instance, on points of astronomical science (Unity of Senti- ment herein not having any connection... ...of virtue, and so of hap- piness. P . 17, l. 3. But why give materials and instruments, if there is no work to do? P . 18, l. 6. The supposed pair of ... ... every man’s estate in this present life requireth. External abilities are instruments of action. It contenteth wise artificers to have their instrume...

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.... But my wrath still rises, like a towering flame, against all the earthly instruments of this ruin; I am still at times as unresigned as ever to this... ...f it? I could wish we had a theodolite here, and a spirit-level, and other instruments, for settling some impor- tant questions. Yet no: on considerat... ... nor B is the abiding law: and next it becomes an object by science and by instruments to distin- guish more readily and more certainly between the ca... ...ld stand aside when the question arose about glasses, or the graduation of instruments, were now literally obliged to stand cap in hand, bowing to Mr.... ... by sleep, resting from its labors, secret eyes are lifted up to heaven in astronomical watch-towers; eyes that keep watch and ward over spaces that m... ...eous Papers intrenchments. Another feature challenges notice. In read- ing astronomical works, there arises (from old experience of what is usually mo... ...hich are said at times to fill the air with choral music from all kinds of instruments, from drums, and the clash of arms: so that oftentimes a whole ...

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...edly, some miscellaneous letters and other papers, with one or two musical instruments and a few books. Here, however, after a long and very delib- er... ...her the star passes through the ether or the ether through it. There is no astronomical error more unaccountable than that which rec- 66 Poe in Five ... ...e was profuse, comfortless, antique, and tattered. Many books and musical instruments lay scattered about, but failed to give any vitality to the sce... ...a faint light; and there were but peculiar sounds, and these from stringed instruments, which did not inspire him with horror. To an anomalous species... ...lerable to the sufferer, with the exception of certain effects of stringed instruments. It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined ... ...rst into pieces; and from it, with a rattling sound, there rolled out some instruments of dental surgery, intermingled with thirty-two small, white an...

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... no trace of an opening could be found, Doctor Ponnonner was preparing his instruments for dissection, when I observed that it was then past two o’clo... ...ceed with the investigation intended. Here Doctor Ponnonner made ready his instruments. In regard to the latter suggestions of the orator, it appears ... ... put me a little out, but I began to make other inquiries in regard to his astronomical knowledge, when a member of the company, who had never as yet ...

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.... “Where is Miss Ward?” demanded Mrs. Miller. “Miss Ward has gone for some astronomical diagrams in which we are interested,” said Agatha, looking up ... ...than I ought to be, sprung as I am from monopolists of all the sources and instruments of production—of land on the one side, and of machinery on the ... ... Our mistuned and unplayable organs and pianofortes replaced by harmonious instruments, as man- ageable as barrel organs! Works of fiction superseded ...

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...lves of their dearest members, as of sight, 48 Book the Second and of the instruments of generation, lest their too delight- ful and effeminate servi... ...tuce in my garden. I do not so much as un- derstand the names of the chief instruments of husbandry, nor the most ordinary elements of agriculture, wh... ...ed in possession of their kingdoms under their authority “Ut haberent instruments servitutis et reges.” [“That they might have even kings to be t... ...t danger in our mistaking the height of the sun, or the frac- tion of some astronomical supputation; but here, where our whole being is concerned, ’ti...

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...antagruel attending the digestion of his food, they made a thousand pretty instruments and geometrical figures, and did in some measure practise the a... ... instruments and geometrical figures, and did in some measure practise the astronomical canons. After this they recreated themselves with singing musi... ...e mattocks, pickaxes, grubbing-hooks, cab- bies, pruning-knives, and other instruments requisite for herborizing. Being come to their lodging, whilst ... ...had given thanks, he set himself to sing vocally, and play upon harmonious instruments, or oth- erwise passed his time at some pretty sports, made wit... ...d make an end of those whom he had already crushed. Can you tell with what instruments they did it? With fair gullies, which are little hulchbacked de... ...eys at a slower pace, bringing with them all his books and philo- sophical instruments. As soon as he had alighted at Parille, he was informed by a fa...

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...ght have been broken from the parent substances by those tremendously hard instruments their own names; and, to paraphrase the idle legend of Peter Pi... ...d if those con cerned could only have been brought to know it. As if an astronomical observatory should be made without any win dows, and the astr...

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...ns less. Every thing that is his,—his name, his form, his dress, books and instruments,—fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his... ...superficial tenants of the globe. Then the new molecular philosophy shows astronomical interspaces betwixt atom and atom, shows that the world is all... .... That discovery is called the Fall of Man. Ever afterwards we suspect our instruments. We have learned that we do not see directly, but mediately, an...

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...chus, “Pythagoras did not procure for himself a thing of this kind through instruments or the voice, but employing a certain ineffable divinity, and w... ...be through their desert. The roving mind impatiently bursts the fetters of astronomical orbits, like cobwebs in a corner of its universe, and launches...

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...ling of impalpably fine dust, which was found to have slightly injured the astronomical instruments. The morning before we anchored at Porto Praya, I ... ...pably fine dust, which was found to have slightly injured the astronomical instruments. The morning before we anchored at Porto Praya, I collected a l... ...cially nu- merous: by digging amongst the ruins, bits of woollen articles, instruments of precious metals, and heads of Indian corn, are not unfrequen... ...-islands in the midst of the Pacific, obtained stones for sharpening their instruments by searching the roots of trees which are cast upon the beach. ...

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...d. Above them they see no God; or they even do not look above, except with astronomical glasses. The Church indeed still is; but in the most submissiv... ..., with the pricking of semstresses stilettos, scissors, and female pointed instruments. Horrible to behold; the ancient Dead, and Petrarchan Laura, sl... ...;—recalling to mind the Priests of Cybele, whose panniers, filled with the instruments of their worship, served at once as storehouse, sacristy and te...