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... tradition they will probably be ostracized. Just look at Socrates, Jesus, Galileo and Marx. The only rewards they can claim are that they were using... ...ime for the truth to be accepted. Just like the discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin and Leakey—when the truth goes against one‘s deeply held b... ...uncomfortable to accept. Just look at the Catholic Church‘s inquisition of Galileo for proclaiming the absurd idea that the earth revolved around the... ...008 the universe changed, or the Pope‘s view of the universe changed, and Galileo was hailed as one who helped the faithful to better understand and ... ...m! ―The government of Singapore answered these charges when the Home Affairs Minister stated that ‗Nobody takes any joy in carrying out these s... ...ing scientists to observe more effectively. For example, the telescope of Galileo, which was only 20 power, was continually improved and eventually ... ...ation of Evangelicals, resigned after being accused of a three year sexual affair with a male prostitute and buying methamphetamines from him. Repres...

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...Ever see a human ruler spend more of their time with their children than with affairs of state? How much time do human males spend with their child... ...pervision by the rest of the community. No family is allowed to run its own affairs without the supervision of the community it lives in. One... ...h money to get by. While fancy analysts tut-tut about the worsening state of affairs and give their politically correct double-speak opinions of ho... ... amounts of money just to access one piece of information? It is a haphazard affair with the only rule being: ‘let the buyer beware’. Of all the in... ...logical, practical sense. As one example of why all of Science is evil; take Galileo… His crime was to take all attention away from the Earth we li... ...e human race were still convinced that the sun revolves around the Earth. If Galileo had never discovered the relative facts of Astronomy, we humans... ...er have despoiled the Earth we live on with such blithe unfeeling abandon. If Galileo had never discovered that the sun does not revolve around the ... ...s the problems here on Earth are an evil, a waste of time and money. Without Galileo: scientists would never have become worshipped as a religion, s... ...d, used exclusively to innovate more horror and death on this Earth. Without Galileo discovering the sun did not revolve around the Earth, mankind ...

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...onsiderable series of letters from “Our Own Corre- spondent,” handling the affairs of the world with boldness and industry if not invariably with wisd... ... 21 Balzac voyagings (though by his own account he generally conducted his affairs with the most rigid economy), together with the interruption to his... ...autrin’s Last Avatar Un Prince de la Boheme A Prince of Bohemia Un Homme d’affaires A Man of Business Gaudissart II. Gaudissart II. Les Comediens sans... ...lzac Scenes de la Vie Politique Scenes from Political Life Une T enebreuse Affaire The Gondreville Mystery An Historical Mystery Un Episode sous la T ... ...uperior, of the statesman, is his judgment, what- ever it may be, on human affairs, and his absolute devotion to certain principles. Machiavelli, Hobb... ...same as when Christopher Columbus detected that the earth is a sphere, and Galileo demonstrated its rotation. Our future will be unchanged. The wonder...

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...lis- tened to his sister as to an oracle; he consulted her in his trifling affairs, kept none of his secrets from her, and thus made her taste the fru... ...ss account; nevertheless, the poor old man actually died of the grief this affair had caused him. He regarded it as an attack upon his aged honor. Mad... ...igitte, whose honesty and capacity astonished her, to wind up old Galard’s affairs, and to settle the prop- erty in such a way that her daughter shoul... ...e- mises,—and he related the intrigues and the injustices of the Rabourdin affair. “After that, one can believe all, and believe nothing,” he would sa... ...y of the moment. The Chamber is far from hav- ing its full share in public affairs; the ministers are less for France than they are for the crown, and... ...star that a deputation was appointed to visit the do- micile of the modern Galileo and compliment him in the name of the whole body. And yet this star...

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...house, held him at arm’s length, and never confided any secret or delicate affair to his keeping. In return the clerk fawned upon the notary, hiding h... ...is, but he also had certain reasons for hiding a knowledge of his business affairs from his relatives. At the end of the second year after his arrival... ...In fifteen years he never said a single word to any one in relation to his affairs. His confidence in Bongrand was of slow growth; it was not until af... ...n the public square and before the whole town that we ought to talk of our affairs,” said Zelie; “come home with me. You too, Monsieur Dionis,” she ad... ...et in Paris in the eighteenth century the fate that Truth in the person of Galileo found in the sixteenth; and that magnetism was rejected and cast ou... ...doctor in favor of Ursula; for Nemours was so preoccupied with the Minoret affairs that the matter had been much discussed among the lawyers of the li...

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...two of Corthell, and his hands were large and broad, the hands of a man of affairs, who knew how to grip, and, above all, how to hang on. Those broad,... ...ttain, and how wide and huge and even formidable would be their embrace of affairs. One of those great manoeuvres of a fellow money-captain had that v... ...er wom- anhood, her sex side. And between them it was more a give-and-take affair, more equality, more companionship. Corthell spoke only of her heart... ... had already passed one night in the new home, and they must dress for the affair by lamplight in their unfurnished quarters and under inconceivable d... ...e of the new house-hold ignored the fact. Aunt Wess’ chose to consider the affair as ri- diculous, and whenever the subject was mentioned spoke of Lan... ...and resting his head upon one hand closed his eyes. His manner was that of Galileo under torture declaring “still it moves.” “Left-centre.” “Oh—oh, ye...

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...ff by an immeasurable gulph from the ordinary tide and succession of human affairs—locked up and sequestered in some deep recess; we must be made sens... ...ning. The first great philosopher of the seventeenth century (if we except Galileo) was Des Cartes; and if ever one could say of a man that he was all... ... effects. But another thing, which seems to me still more funny about this affair is, that if these Friezland hounds had been “game,” we should have n... ...ent; be assured that you greatly overrate my poor talents; Mrs. Ruscombe’s affair was far beyond my slender abilities. But I came to know who the arti... ...pinion of all his neighbors, to fix upon him the credit of Mrs. Ruscombe’s affair. One was, the fact of his absence for a whole fortnight at the perio... ...about two thousand of that coin. Be the artist, however, who he might, the affair remains a du- rable monument of his genius; for such was the impress... ...the daughter 1 of a duke. He was, therefore, just twice as great a man as Galileo, who certainly invented (or discovered) the satellites of Jupiter, ...

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... if there ‘s anything in which I shine, ‘T is in arranging all my friends’ affairs, Not having of my own domestic cares. And so I interfered, an... ...east she left it a more slender handle. I can’t tell whether Julia saw the affair With other people’s eyes, or if her own Discoveries made, bu... ...ing the advantage of a virtuous station; Few changes e’er can better their affairs, Theirs being an unnatural situation, From the dull palace ... ...ter a decent time must be gallanted; Although, no doubt, her first of love affairs Is that to which her heart is wholly granted; Yet there are... ..., He caged in one huge hamper altogether. Then having settled his marine affairs, Despatching single cruisers here and there, His vessel hav... ...ed an act of inurbanity Malgre Sir Matthew Hales’s great humanity. Great Galileo was debarr’d the Sun, Because he fix’d it; and, to stop his t...

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...re not a star-gazer,” observed Kenyon, also looking up. “It is higher than Galileo’s tower, which I saw, a week or two ago, outside of the walls of Fl... ... put his unsophisticated cheerfulness to shame. The entire system of man’s affairs, as at present established, is built up purposely to exclude the ca... ...of the nerves than this perception of ambiguousness in familiar persons or affairs. “Speak; for my spirits and patience have been much tried to-day.” ... ...tent to leave all more active measures to Kenyon, and to the Virgin, whose affair it was to see that the faithful votary of her lamp received no harm.... ... V ol 2 trammelled by an unwillingness to draw public attention to Hilda’s affairs, the urgency of the circumstances soon compelled him to be thorough... ...nk would have yielded them- 171 Hawthorne selves to such a marriage as an affair of course. But there was something in Miriam’s blood, in her mixed r...

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...that the present moment is pressed down or crowded out, and our individual affairs and interests are but half as real here as elsewhere. Viewed throug... ...rchlight, thence into the sunshine. It was the further singularity of this affair, that the connec- tion, thus briefly and casually formed, did not te... ...sty of Holy Fathers, who seem to have aimed at making life as agreeable an affair as it can well be. In this pleasant spot, the red-trousered French s... ...st delicacy of perception. Thus, success in art is apt to become partly an affair of intrigue; and it is almost inevitable that even a gifted artist s... ...d over it, I think you will see something very curious.” “It is a hopeless affair, I am afraid,” said Miriam. “I have neither your faith, dear Hilda, ... ...re not a star-gazer,” observed Kenyon, also looking up. “It is higher than Galileo’s tower, which I saw, a week or two ago, outside of the walls of Fl...

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...terary orbs are among the most interesting passages in biography. Thus met Galileo with Milton, Milton with Dryden, Dryden with Pope, and Burns with S... ...icism being by no means the universal con- cern of the world, but only the affair of idle men who write in their closets, and of idle men who read the... ...e One to make these composures natural than when some knowl- edge in rural affairs is discovered. This may be made to ap- pear rather done by chance t... ...rtridge 37 soon shall view in cloudless skies, When next he looks through Galileo’s eyes; And hence th’ egregious wizard shall foredoom The fate of L... ...Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers; Can sleep without a p... ...ers me his case— That, begs my interest for a place— A hundred other men’s affairs, Like bees, are humming in my ears. ... ...elp the cause is gone’— The duke expects my lord and you, About some great affair, at two— ‘Put my Lord Bolingbroke in mind, To get my warrant quickly...

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... but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old a prisoner to the Inquisition, for think- ing in a... ...to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs? some Divine of note and estimation that must be. To him he adhe...

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...is here. He is not at liberty to mention it, but hopes you like travelling.” Galileo likewise had dropped in, with this scientific intelligence. “I am... ...e Haroun repos ing from the cares of State—which were generally, as in most affairs of State, of an arithmetical character, the Commander of the Fait...

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...ed the daughter of a duke. He was, therefore, just twice as great a man as Galileo, who did certainly invent (or, which is the same thing,* discover)... ...ou know, still left a trifle of brain to overlook the whole conduct of the affair. Ah, reader! when I look back upon those days, it seems to me that a...

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...thus hiding so marvellous a discovery?” “Why? Why? How can I tell? Did not Galileo do the same by Saturn? We shall see. I will get at the secret of th... ...nt, for the great mind of so learned a man of course had no place for love affairs, and happily the grand business of the document gained me the victo... ...e of minutes my pretty Virlandaise was fully in- formed of the position of affairs. For a time she was silent. Did her heart palpitate as mine did? I ...

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...s, began immediately to entertain me with the private histories and family affairs of the whole party. A brown, decayed, old town, Piacenza is. A dese... ..., the whole sweet Valley of the Arno, the convent at Fiesole, the Tower of Galileo, Boccaddio’s house, old villas and retreats; innumerable spots of ...

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... that ever kept itself up for any length of time. It was a model, a little affair that would not have lifted a cat; it went up in a spiral and came do... ...ropean country countless people are found delocalised, uninterested in the affairs of that particular locality, and capable of moving themselves with ... ... Local administration falls al- most entirely—and the decision of Imperial affairs tends more and more to fall—into the hands of that dwindling and ad... ...le social order in danger, our Legislature is busy over the trivial little affairs of the Welsh Established Church, whose endowment probably is not eq... ... and purposes. It is not only young as a participator in the discussion of affairs; it is actually young. The average working man is not half the age ... ...ake a few at random: “Columbus, Michael Angelo, Wilberforce, Shakespeare, Galileo, Fulton, Watt, Hargreaves—these will do. “Let us ask ourselves this...

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...te in space, Brit- ish, Germans, Italians, directly concern our own social affairs, but the nature of the interaction cannot be un- derstood without e... ...itation of means which help to reach ends, is a superficial and transitory affair which leaves little effect upon disposition. Idiots are especially a... ...d, that they are still so entrenched in practice? That education is not an affair of “telling” and being told, but an active and constructive process,... ...to an adult’s egoism. To a grown- up person who is too absorbed in his own affairs to take an interest in children’s affairs, children doubtless seem ... ...ren’s affairs, children doubtless seem unreasonably engrossed in their own affairs. From a social standpoint, dependence denotes a power rather than a... ...rew men definitely upon their own resources. The reformers of science like Galileo, Descartes, and their successors, carried analogous meth- ods into ...

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...y never existed but in Pennsylvania. He returned to England to settle some affairs relating to his new dominions. After the death of King Charles II.,... ...r object. In the detestable reigns of Charles IX. and Henry III. the whole affair was only whether the people should be slaves to the Guises. With reg... ...der King James I. Neverthe- less, amidst the intrigues of a Court, and the affairs of his exalted employment, which alone were enough to engross his w... ...ended to destroy religion; nevertheless, religion had nothing to do in the affair, it being a question purely philo- sophical, altogether independent ... ...arther, that the sun, which in France is said to have nothing to do in the affair, comes in here for very near a quarter of its assistance. According ... ...olland, where he again pursued the study of phi- losophy, whilst the great Galileo, at fourscore years of age, was groaning in the prisons of the Inqu... ...ht descend, their fall would certainly be in the progression discovered by Galileo; and the spaces they run through would be as the square of the time... ...the laws by which the celestial bodies move and the manner how light acts. Galileo, by his astronomical discoveries, Kepler, by his calculation, Desca...

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...is a thing of purposes; this, that we have to indicate in the drama, is an affair of method. We have heard a story, indeed, of a painter in France who... ...vices of the most serviceable; setting Jean Valjean to pick oakum, casting Galileo into prison, even crucifying Christ. There is a haunting and hor- r... ...ate sensation novelist. Little as he seems to know of the sea and nautical affairs, he must have known very well that ves- sels do not go down as he m... ...air enslavers in the background. Many – or may we not say most? – of these affairs were entirely artificial. One, he tells us, he began out of “a vani... ...y, zeal, and intrepid dexterity” that recommended him for a second in such affairs; it must have been a distinction to have the assistance and advice ... ...rst he recognised that his Edinburgh popularity was but an ovation and the affair of a day. He wrote a few letters in a high-flown, bom- bastic vein o...

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...he office which corresponded with the government; for, as I have said, the affair took place in a large provincial city, at a great distance from the ... ...s the first thing to be done? Manifestly, to see Agnes: her account of the affair might suggest the steps to be taken. Prudence, therefore, at any rat... ... rapidly coming to be regarded as a hinder- ance to the movement of public affairs; and the recollection that I might again have occasion for some app... ...e. But the hideous despondency which in my mind had settled upon the whole affair from the very first, the superstitious presentiment I had of a total... ...; and again, the majesty of the law was offended at this intrusion upon an affair already under solemn course of adjudication. Every- thing, however, ... ...and strangle all these great purposes? When, therefore, the persecutors of Galileo, alleged that Jupiter, for instance, could not move in the way alle... ...hus threw back upon God the burthen of discovery, which he had thrown upon Galileo, why did they not, by following out their own logic, throw upon the...

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...hem, nor, as his words show, did he see any more sense in martyr- dom than Galileo did. He was executed by the Jews for the blasphemy of claiming to b... ...needing the invention of suitable political machinery to be applied to the affairs of mankind with revolutionary effect. Thus it is not disbelief that... ...or bad, right or wrong, must perforce be left out of the question in human affairs until it is made practically applicable to them by compli- cated po... ...ountryhouse oppresses the village. W orst of all, marriage becomes a class affair: the infinite variety of choice which nature offers to the young in ... ...orks or opinions (other than that particular opinion) bearing on practical affairs. The other is the story of a prophet who, after expressing several ... ...Viceroy of India and a Particular Baptist Secretary of State for For- eign Affairs would wreck the empire. The Stuarts wrecked even the tight little i...

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...ts, got no further in England, where theatres are only ordinary commercial affairs, than a couple of perfor- mances by the Stage Society. We stared an... ...living in a vacuum would have left them helpless end ineffective in public affairs. Even in private life they were often helpless wasters of their inh... ...Second. In international rela- tions diplomacy has been a boyishly lawless affair of family intrigues, commercial and territorial brigandage, torpors ... ...n the ethical sphere, and that was the banishment of conscience from human affairs, or, as Samuel Butler vehemently put it, “of mind from the universe... ...e dragged through the horrors of a criminal court, and have all our family affairs in the papers! If you were a native, and Hastings could order you a... ...e starboard door, again making a pendulum of his poker, and studying it as Galileo might have done. Hector sits on his left, in the middle. Mangan, fo...

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...nocence,—must always be formidable. He would utter opinions on all passing affairs, which being seen to be 29 Emerson not private but necessary, woul... ...as misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. T... ...nd Franklin, whose equip- ment exhausted the resources of science and art. Galileo, with an opera-glass, discovered a more splendid series of celestia... ..., serving; in your agent, good sense applied to ac- 63 Emerson counts and affairs. So do you multiply your presence, or spread yourself throughout yo... ...he approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. I knew a m... ...meal or salt; the house smokes, or I have a headache; then the tax, and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains, and the stingin... ... 120 Essays ter-brained and “afternoon” men spoil much more than their own affair in spoiling the temper of those who deal with them. I have seen a cr...

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...said, “really a little fool! A fool in four letters! A phlebotomy’ s a big affair, isn’ t it! And a fellow who isn’t afraid of anything; a kind of squ... ...ive coarseness that scandalised her. Rodolphe reflected a good deal on the affair of the pistols. If she had spoken seriously , it was very ridiculous... ...ersation. What he did not understand was all this worry about so simple an affair as love. She had a motive, a reason, and, as it were, a pendant to h... ...ught about it. He wished to have two more weeks before him to arrange some affairs; then at the end of a week he wanted two more; then he said he was ... ...a stupidity, a Gothic idea, worthy of the abominable times that imprisoned Galileo.” “I know very well,” objected the cure, “that there are good works... ...ke to have a private talk with you.” Then in a low voice, “It’s about that affair—you know.” Charles crimsoned to his ears. “Oh, yes! certainly.” And ...

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...another. Yet the New Testament treats of man and man’s so called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone... ...o the backbone Unto itself alone, And false to none; Born to its own affairs, Its own joys and own cares; By whom the work which God begun ... ...m, the old routine was pro ceeding still. There is, indeed, a tide in the affairs of men, as the poet says, and yet as things flow they circulate, an... ...nother thing Than what they in discoursing papers read; The world’s affairs require in managing More arts than those wherein you clerks pro... ...ts, I require a prudent and able man, who is capable of managing the state affairs of my kingdom. The ex minister said: The criterion, O Sire! of a wi... ...ter his death the telescope was invented, and that prediction verified, by Galileo,—I am not without hope that we may, even here and now obtain some a...

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... Straw built Cittadel, New rub’d with Baume, expatiate and confer Thir State affairs. So thick the aerie crowd Swarm’d and were straitn’d; till the S... ...n of God, with Cedars crownd Above all Hills. As when by night the Glass Of GALILEO, less assur’d, observes Imagind Lands and Regions in the Moon: Or... ...hrough Sin to Death expos’d by my exploit. If your joynt power prevaile, th’ affaires of Hell No detriment need feare, goe and be strong. So saying ...

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...aw-built Cittadel, New rub’d with Baume, expatiate and confer Thir State affairs. So thick the aerie crowd 775 Swarm’d and were straitn’d; till t... ...od, with Cedars crownd 260 Above all Hills. As when by night the Glass Of GALILEO, less assur’d, observes Imagind Lands and Regions in the Moon: ... ...ough Sin to Death expos’d by my exploit. If your joynt power prevaile, th’ affaires of Hell No detriment need feare, goe and be strong. So say...

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...mote from public opinion and how full of their own little family and party affairs British governments, both Liberal and Unionist, still are. The cens... ...ing when he was a priest, but actually marrying a nun; the het- erodoxy of Galileo; the shocking blasphemies and sacrileges of Mohammed against the id... ...espects as wiser than himself assure him that it must be so, or the higher affairs of human destiny will suffer. Such admission is the more difficult ... ...horse and the jury find against you, you wont have any time to settle your affairs. Consequently, if you feel guilty, youd better settle em now. BLANC... ...airs. Consequently, if you feel guilty, youd better settle em now. BLANCO. Affairs be damned! Ive got none. THE SHERIFF. Well, are you in a proper sta...

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...but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the fa mous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astron... ..., to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs; some divine of note and estimation that must be. To him he adher...

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...e successor of Albert was Henry of Luxembourg, by whose interposition in the affairs of Italy our Poet hoped to have been reinstated in his native cit... ...i. p. 36.) have considered this an anticipation of a profound discovery of Galileo’s in natural philosophy, but it is in reality taken from a passa...

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...e successor of Albert was Henry of Luxembourg, by whose interposition in the affairs of Italy our Poet hoped to have been reinstated in his native cit... ...i. p. 36.) have considered this an anticipation of a profound discovery of Galileo’s in natural philosophy, but it is in reality taken from a passa... ... Robert with employing necessitous and greedy Catalonians to administer the affairs The Divine Comedy of Dante Paradise 347 of his kingdom. v. 9... ...amme est une banniere De cendal roujoyant et simple Sans portraiture d’autre affaire , CANTO XXXII v. 3. She.] Eve. v. 8. Ancestress.] Ruth, the anc...