The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages, Том 10F. Finley & Company, 1895 |
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... turned to Syracuse and Tarentum , where the followers of Pythagoras flourished . He had passed the age of forty when he returned to Athens , and opened a school of philosophy in the suburbs , in the grove of Academus , a name which he ...
... turned to Syracuse and Tarentum , where the followers of Pythagoras flourished . He had passed the age of forty when he returned to Athens , and opened a school of philosophy in the suburbs , in the grove of Academus , a name which he ...
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... turned against him , and was active in his prosecution for treason . James I. ascended the throne in 1603 , and Bacon eagerly offered his services for accomplishing the union of Scotland with England . They were accepted , and ...
... turned against him , and was active in his prosecution for treason . James I. ascended the throne in 1603 , and Bacon eagerly offered his services for accomplishing the union of Scotland with England . They were accepted , and ...
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... turned against him . Charged with taking bribes , he was tried by the House of Lords , and signed a confession admitting all the charges . Being questioned by a committee about the subscription , he said , " It is my act , my hand , my ...
... turned against him . Charged with taking bribes , he was tried by the House of Lords , and signed a confession admitting all the charges . Being questioned by a committee about the subscription , he said , " It is my act , my hand , my ...
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... it is not good to look too long upon these turning wheels of vicissitude , lest we become giddy . -LORD BACON . GALILEO . THE history of scientific discovery contains no name 22 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS .
... it is not good to look too long upon these turning wheels of vicissitude , lest we become giddy . -LORD BACON . GALILEO . THE history of scientific discovery contains no name 22 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS .
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... turned out to be not sixty miles , but nearly seventy miles . Armed with this new datum , his old speculation concerning gravity occurred to him . He had worked out the mechanics of the solar system on a certain hypothesis , but it had ...
... turned out to be not sixty miles , but nearly seventy miles . Armed with this new datum , his old speculation concerning gravity occurred to him . He had worked out the mechanics of the solar system on a certain hypothesis , but it had ...
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