Why Bohemian music or Czech music or
Slovak music or Czechoslovak music?
Does there exist any nationality in music?
Every nation, with its mother-tongue, its
peculiar customs, its distinct mode of life,
varies more or less in form of culture from all…

— Ladislav Urban
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I. Principe de la méthode. - Je fais tourner uniformément, à un ou deux tours par seconde, autour d’un axe vertical, un plateau horizontal (50 de diamètre) portant, solidement vissées, les diverses pièces d’un interféromètre analogue à celui que j’ai employée…

— Georges Sagnac
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Theories in their own ethereal essence can have no influence on events. But the men who conceive and adopt a theory form, in doing so, certain habits of discrimination and of reaction to things. In fact, they have conceived and adopted their theory because…

— George Santayana
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Mon cher Paillottet, je vous suis bien reconnaissant de vous être souvenu de moi dans nos Pyrénées, et en même temps je suis fier de l’impression qu’elles ont faite sur vous. Que j’aurais été heureux de vous suivre dans vos courses! Nous aurions peut-être…

— Frédéric Bastiat
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Shine spaces of the crystal atmosphere!
What flowers are here! what scented dells of shade!
What carols make the mornings musical!

— Edward Heath Crouch
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.Life. Anaximander, son of Praxiades, was also a citizen of Miletos, and Theophrastos described him as an "associate" of Thales. We have seen how that expression is to be understood (§ XIV).

— John Burnet
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ANALYSE. – En se reportant aux secousses douloureuses qui agitaient le monde Romain lorsque prêchait Saint Augustin, on comprendra mieux l’effet saisissant que dut produire ce discours. Dans les graves embarras de la vie, dit le saint Docteur, on aime…

— Augustin d’Hippone
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Je vais m’occuper de la ferme du Peyrat et du canal. C’est pourquoi je remets à une autre fois de vous en parler.

— Frédéric Bastiat
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LEs Chevaux sont sujets à une infirmité que nous appelions Vertige, qui leur ôte tellement l’usage des sens qu’ils sont presque sans connaissance ; Ce mal les fait chanceler & : tomber, mesme se donner de la teste contre les murs.
Ce mal est causé par…

— Jacques de Solleysel
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… Je suis Français, Tourangeau, gentilhomme,
J’aurais pu naître Turc, Limousin, paysan,

— Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l’Empire romain
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