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Shamati

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...dges only according to what the senses let it scrutinize and devise some inventions and contrivances to suit the demands of the senses. In other wor... ...uture, broadcasts will also be translated into French, Greek, Polish, and Portuguese. As 405 Appendix Two: About Bnei Baruch with every...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...mmands another expedition. -- A fleet despatched to avenge the massacre of the Portuguese -- A motley crowd of sailors -- The bloodthirstiness of da G... ... in history -- Miserable end of the barbarous voyagers -- The red trail of the Portuguese butchers -- Da Gama sent again, as viceroy of India -- He di... ...s -- Da Gama sent again, as viceroy of India -- He dies of poison -- Demon and Portuguese synonymous terms in India -- Da Gama's ghost, pursued, by th... ...coriation of Davis -- 24 of his men are killed -- Cavendish is defeated by the Portuguese -- A mutiny among the crew -- He attempts the execution of o... ...e and vengeful invaders, leaving deserts of desolation in their place, so have inventions, ambitions, occupations, disappeared with scarcely a relic o... ...e steamship will disappear from the sea, the engine will cease its throbs, all inventions of man may be lost; then will another era in the world's lif... ...he statement may appear, we have it upon the authority of Antonio Galvano, the Portuguese historian, that the Romans, having made themselves masters o...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...innovation policy in which the right to exclude others from novel and useful inventions creates a cybernetic and responsive innova- tion marketplace. ... ... Evans’s elevators. Patents then, as now, were only supposed to be given for inventions that were novel, nonobvious, and useful. Jefferson had conside... ...missing the idea “that inventors have a natural and exclusive right to their inventions, and not merely for their own lives, but inheritable to their ... ...have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. 10 Those who... ...ty rights. But that would be a considerable overstatement. When he says that inventions can never be the subject of property, he means a perma- nent a... ...that lake, baking at that altitude, washing windows, or treating stings from Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish. Someone will have taken a photo of the Du...

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Paradoxism and Postmodernism in Florenitin Smarandache's Work

By: Ion Soare

..., a product (especially) of Smarandache’s brain is among his most convincing “inventions”, a proof being also the volume Paradoxist distichs publishe... ...ent languages of the polyglot Smarandache (he knows French, English, Spanish, Portuguese).Affinities, volume of translations from the universal poet...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

... publisher prices, trade discounts, list prices were all anti-competitive inventions of the 19th century, mainly in Europe. They were accompanied by... ...but a mere channel through which divine grace flowed. Texts, discoveries, inventions, works of art and music, designs - all belonged to the communit... ...se did is the same thing that allows every other inventor to create their inventions: being at the right place, at the right time, with the right ba... ...nch, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portuguese, Old Dutch, Bulgarian, Dutch/Flemish, Greek, Hebrew. We have te... ...poses other than pilfering intellectual property digitally. The Italians, Portuguese and Dutch haven't even considered the option. Hardware manufa... ...but a mere channel through which divine grace flowed. Texts, discoveries, inventions, works of art and music, designs - all belonged to the community... ...ving freelancers who will maintain an ownership stake in their designs or inventions. This intimate relationship between creative person and consume...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...es of North America so exactly it is amazing. Every major migration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English i... ...ous, these tectonic plates arrived in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is ... ...ons stealing patents from creative inventors who were legally robbed of their inventions. Today there are no individuals who invent anything new a... ...ed, harassed, intimidated, squelched, threatened, sabotaged, and all of their inventions have disappeared by the hundreds… destroyed, bought up and ... ...verything, all fighting and bickering over who-owns-what, and who-owns-who. Inventions that are too good are never developed because the only ones ... ...rons stealing patents from creative inventors who were legally robbed of their inventions. Today there are no individuals who invent anything new a... ...de and colonization until these two small states were the envy of Europe. The Portuguese and the Dutch people were small enough as a population and l... ...ire Globe, the entire living Earth and all the wealth found on it: between the Portuguese and Spanish Royalty. They were secretly plotting an attemp... ...at destroyed the entire city, and burned it to the ground. Did this stop the Portuguese? No. An even more rapacious killer Monarch-dictator emerge...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...s, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power an... ...s the auto assembly lines of Henry Ford, the electric light and the other inventions of Thomas Edison, and the development of computers and the inte... ... countrymen. This is normal, but it impedes integration. Whether it is the Portuguese or Italian areas of Toronto, the Cuban areas of Miami, the Moro...

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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

...difficult to disentangle the causes that have restricted the flow of these inventions. It has happened, I remark, to others as well as to myself, and ... ...ped in again than read severely through. Essentially it is a miscellany of inventions, many of which were very pleasant to write; and its end is more ... ... Sturdy Boers, dusky Hottentots, Gold Coast negroes, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Portuguese, stood in the warmth of the sunrise watching the setting of this... ...ing, you know, knew what war was; no one could imagine, with all these new inventions, what horror war might bring. I believe most people still believ... ... a Creole, his conceptions of etiquette and disci- pline were pure-blooded Portuguese, and it was only to Holroyd, the Lancashire engineer who had com... ...sh was a negro stoker, who had them all wrong. The second in command was a Portuguese, da Cunha, who spoke French, but it was a different sort of Fren... ...g they became. Gerilleau abandoned his old themes almost suddenly, and the Portuguese lieutenant became a conversational figure; he knew something abo... ...yd. “I have commanded you to go aboard,” he screamed to his subordinate in Portuguese. “If you do not go aboard forthwith it is mutiny—rank mutiny. Mu...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...other men, without ever setting them to work upon their own force, had the inventions and opinions of others been ever been present with me by the ben... ...d do but ob- serve how large and ample Caesar is to make us understand his inventions of building bridges and contriving engines of war,—[De Bello Gal... ...ranny of the T riumvirate, had a thousand times by the subtlety of as many inventions escaped from falling into the hands of those that pursued him. I... ...ifference between them and me; and notwithstanding all that, suffer my own inventions, low and feeble as they are, to run on in their career, without ... ... has anything of a scholar in him, in an ordinary subject to do) under old inventions patched up here and there with his own trumpery, and then to end... ...on of an extreme revenge; as will appear by this: that having observed the Portuguese, who were in league with their enemies, to inflict another sort ... ...rity, even to this day, which is a hundred years 329 Montaigne since, few Portuguese can yet rely; though custom and length of time are much more pow...

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The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf

...s, and painted idols; from the sea came venge- ful Spaniards and rapacious Portuguese; exposed to all these enemies (though the climate proved wonderf... ...was three hundred years ago. In population it is a happy compro- mise, for Portuguese fathers wed Indian mothers, and their children intermarry with t... ...epper, asleep too. Thirty-six, thirty- seven, thirty-eight—here were three Portuguese men of business, asleep presumably, since a snore came with the ... ...s. Paley was wheeled past. Susan followed. Mr. Venning strolled after her. Portuguese military families, their clothes suggesting late rising in untid... ...omething for him. The poor old boy’s come down in the world through trying inventions on his own account, lives in Penge over a tobacconist’s shop. I’... ...at I feel,” Mrs. Thornbury re- joined. “The changes, the improvements, the inventions— and beauty. D’you know I feel sometimes that I couldn’t bear to...

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Across the Plains

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ant at Monterey, we have sat down to table day after day, a French- man, two Portuguese, an Italian, a Mexican, and a Scotchman: we had for common vis... ...with tales, and so had his father before him; but these were irrespon- sible inventions, told for the teller’s pleasure, with no eye to the crass publ...

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The Door in the Wall and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

... Sturdy Boers, dusky Hottentots, Gold Coast Negroes, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Portuguese, stood in the warmth of the sunrise watching the setting of this... ...ing, you know, knew what war was; no one could imagine, with all these new inventions, what horror war might bring. I believe most people still believ...

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Scenes from a Courtesans Life

By: Honoré de Balzac

...plendidly adorned for their love-festival by the most poetical of nature’s inventions, and crushed under the foot of a passer-by. But there is another... ... met, that cream of Paris society, called then le petit chateau. The noble Portuguese lady, one of those who never care to go out of their own home, w... ...e. “Tell her so, for she sits there mumchance, and obliges me to find more inventions than three authors for one piece.” “If Esther turns prudish, jus... ...ess, lined with white watered silk, and bordered with a gimp fit to trim a Portuguese princess’ bodice. The material was silk brought from Can- ton, o... ...e gentlemen whether Monsieur Sechard has a right or no to a patent for his inventions in paper-making?—If you mean to spend the night here—at the Bell... ...chained, in 1819 and 1820. Jacques Collin’s last escape, one of his finest inventions—for he had got out disguised as a gendarme leading Theodore Calv... ...nified and splendid austerity of the Duchesse de Grandlieu’s rooms. She, a Portuguese, and very pious, always rose at eight to attend mass at the litt...

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Gulliver's Travels

By: Jonathan Swift

...seemed to spend our whole lives in vain endeavours to supply them by our own inventions; that, as to myself, it was manifest I had neither the strengt... ...d with an arrow by one of the natives. Is seized and carried by force into a Portuguese ship. The great civilities of the cap tain. The author arrive... ... or a cow should speak in England, or a Yahoo in Houyhnhnmland. The honest Portuguese were equally amazed at my strange dress, and the odd manner of...

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In the South Seas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...pposite island of Tauata slew, and carried home and ate, and were there- upon accounted mighty men of valour. Of one such exploit I can give the accou... ... South Seas, that which I saw in Butaritari stands easily the first. The Hula, as it may be viewed by the speedy globe-trotter in Honolulu, is surely ... ...uery, Reuben?—promoted on my last visit to the greater dignity of governor, is daily present, altering, extending, embel- lishing, pursuing the endles...

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Plain Tales from the Hills

By: Rudyard Kipling

...abused them in the language of the Borderline— which is part English, part Portuguese, and part Native. She was not attractive; but she had her pride,... ... beat upon the table with their fists; and they secrete fragments of their inventions about their persons. Mellish said that there was a Medical “Ring...

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Vailima Letters

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ere some natives in war array; with blacked faces, turbans, tapa kilts, and guns, they looked very manly and purposelike. No, the best part was poor o... ... the law technicalities. Well, these seemed to me always of the essence of the story, which is the story of a cause cele- bre; moreover, they are the ...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...ld. The same observation ap- plies to the mechanical arts. In America, the inventions of Europe are adopted with sagacity; they are perfected, and ada... ... United States. It is superfluous to point out the immense effect of those inventions in extending civilization and de- veloping the resources of that... ...frica has been closed against the arts and sciences of the whites; but the inventions of Europe will perhaps penetrate into those regions, now that th... ...reat colonies which were founded in South America by the Spaniards and the Portuguese have since become em- pires. Civil war and oppression now lay wa... ...constitute flourishing and enlightened nations. But when the Spaniards and Portuguese of South America begin to feel the wants common to all civilized... ...ers, the English, occupy with regard to the Ital- ians, the Spaniards, the Portuguese, and all those nations of Europe which receive their articles of...

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...ade the best of his way to Madrid. That city was itself in danger from the Portuguese, and, indeed, fell into their hands soon after. The Queen, who, ... ...with the army of Berwick, and both set to work to reconquer the places the Portuguese had taken from them. In this they were success- ful. The Portugu... ...rried out. It is good to admit our ignorance, and not to give fictions and inventions in place of what we are unac- quainted with. I know not why, but...

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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

...cut off and one of his nostrils slit, for calling bishops trumpery and the inventions of men. He originated on a Sunday morning the prosecution of Wi... ...were rigid, he was impartial too, in asserting the laws of England. When a Portuguese nobleman, the brother of the Portu guese ambassador, killed a L...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

... bricks, for the whole counting-over—putting for bricks little touches and inventions and enhancements by the way—affect me in truth as well-nigh innu... ... foreign tongue. I can’t make her out. She ought to marry an Armenian or a Portuguese.” “That’s just what I’m afraid she’ll do!” cried Lilian, who tho...

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Ferragus Chief of the Devorants

By: Honoré de Balzac

...spectator of this scene, “but I know that he is Monsieur de Funcal, a rich Portuguese.” Monsieur de Funcal had disappeared. The baron followed but wit... ... questioned the prefect, ascertained that the Comte de Funcal lived at the Portuguese embassy. At this moment, while he still felt the icy fingers of ... ... I have heard poor Justin say, that Monsieur de Funcal lives at either the Portuguese or the Brazilian embassy. Monsieur de Funcal is a nobleman belon... ...ough to read, my friend! It is written on the grid- iron plan, used by the Portuguese minister under Monsieur 76 Ferragus de Choiseul, at the time of... ...ishes are eating. God knows it is not for my own sake I have made myself a Portuguese count!” “Poor Gratien!—you, the wisest of us all, our beloved br... ...fore she entered the fatal chamber:— “You, monsieur, you, with your horrid inventions,—you are the cause of her death!” “Hush, miserable woman!” repli...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Second

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...an Indian lord, so soon as he heard the first 35 Montaigne whisper of the Portuguese Viceroy’s determination to dis- possess him, without any apparen... ... manly but displeased counte- nance, set forth how much he had obliged the Portuguese nation, and with how unspotted fidelity he had carried him- self... ...onger tickled with Ariosto, no, nor with the worthy Ovid; his facility and inventions, with which I was formerly so ravished, are now of no more relis... ...be greater, but it was recompensed with the pleasure the remembrance of my inventions and doctrines brought to my soul. Now, as the affection thou has... ... Father Jove, Mars Gradivus, and the other angry gods.”—Livy, ii. 45.] The Portuguese say that in a certain place of their con- quest of the Indies, t... ... that great king- dom to the crown of Castile, was extremely sick when the Portuguese entered in an hostile manner into his domin- ions; and from that... ...at battle. He arranged his bat- talions in a circular form, environing the Portuguese army on every side, which round circle coming to close in and to... ...ingly dwells upon his actions as in representing to us the subtlety of his inventions in such kind of handiwork. I have also observed this, that he se... ...y some particular families, but most nations also seek their origin in his inventions. Mohammed, the second of that name, emperor of the T urks, writi...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...ures, must frequently have been shewn very pretty machines, which were the inventions of such workmen, in order to facilitate and quicken their own pa... ...our. All the improvements in machinery, however, have by no means been the inventions of those who had occasion to use the ma- chines. Many improvemen... ...ere never was any demand before. The greater part, too, of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, are altogether new markets. New Granada, the Yucatan, ... ...menting in a still greater proportion. During the sixteenth cen- tury, the Portuguese were the only European nation who carried on any regular trade t... ...utch continually augmenting in a still greater proportion than that of the Portuguese declined. The English and French carried on some trade with Indi... ...stry. The capital which sends British goods to Por- tugal, and brings back Portuguese goods to Great Britain, replaces, by every such operation, only ... ...eplaces, by every such operation, only one British capital. The other is a Portuguese one. Though the returns, therefore, of the foreign trade of cons... ...ery diligent and respectable author, the Marquis de Mirabeau, ‘three great inventions which have principally given sta- bility to political societies,... ...ipally given sta- bility to political societies, independent of many other inventions which have enriched and adorned them. The first is the invention...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...der far, with new contests, New politics, new literatures and religions, new inventions and arts. These, my voice announcing—I will sleep no more but ... ...r the ward and city I live in, or the nation, The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old and new, My dinner, dress, associates,... ... Norwegian! Swede! Dane! Icelander! you Prussian! You Spaniard of Spain! you Portuguese! Leaves of Grass –Whitman 151 You Frenchwoman and Frenchman ... ...s or lucre—it is for thee, the soul in thee, electric, spiritual! Our farms, inventions, crops, we own in thee! cities and States in thee! Our freedom... ...nd the thousand island paradises of the Pacific, Populous cities, the latest inventions, the steamers on the rivers, the railroads, with many a thrift... ...our boundless expectant soul. Bards of the great Idea! bards of the peaceful inventions! (for the war, the war is over!) Yet bards of latent armies, a... ...e, The traders, rulers, explorers, Moslems, Venetians, Byzantium, the Arabs, Portuguese, The first travelers famous yet, Marco Polo, Batouta the Moor,...

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The $30,000 Bequest : And Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

.... .............................. 193 “THE NEW GUIDE OF THE CONVERSATION IN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH” ............................... 193 DIALOGUE 16 ...... ... counts. Every Sunday they put in the whole day, after morning service, on inventionsinventions of ways to spend the money. They got to continuing th... ...hat they may? Satan. INTRODUCTION TO “THE NEW GUIDE OF THE CONVERSATION IN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH” by Pedro Carolino IN THIS WORLD OF UNCERTAINTIE...

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Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

...ds of preserves, vinegars, and sweet liqueurs; he knew also all the latest inventions in economic stoves, together with the art of preserving cheese a... ...mais by the button of his coat, he shouted out in the shop— “These are the inventions of Paris! These are the ideas of those gentry of the capital! It... ...ne, “read D’Holbach, read the ‘Encyclopaedia’!” “Read the ‘Letters of some Portuguese Jews,’” said the other; “read ‘The Meaning of Christianity,’ by ...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...ought in cards, not to play, but to learn a thousand pretty tricks and new inventions, which were all grounded upon arithmetic. By this means he fell ... ...f hypocrites and false prophets, who by human con- stitutions and depraved inventions have empoisoned all the world, shall be quite exterminated from ... ...icers are then held in greater request than the afforders of refrigerating inventions, makers of jun- kets, fit disposers of cooling shades, composers... ... advice, and that of Xenomanes also, was not to steer the course which the Portuguese use, while sailing through the torrid zone, and Cape Bona Speran... ... per- formed in less than four months the voyage of Upper India, which the Portuguese, with a thousand inconveniences and 529 Rabelais innumerable da...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...s was his delight. He had, in his chest, several volumes giving accounts of inventions in mechanics, which he read with great pleasure, and made hi... ... world. A great many from the north of Europe, beside Frenchmen, Spaniards, Portuguese, Italians, men from all parts of the Mediterranean, together...

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