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Ursula

By: Honoré de Balzac

...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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The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

By: George Bernard Shaw

...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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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

...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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Letters on England

By: Voltaire, 1694-1778

...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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