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Brewer's: Laughing Philosopher
Democritos of Abdera, who viewed with supreme contempt the feeble powers of man. (B.C. 460-357.) (See Weeping Philosopher.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Samosatian Philosopher
Lucian of Samosata. (Properly Samos'a-tan.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Sampford GhostSamoor A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T…Brewer's: Weeping Philosopher
Heraclitos. So called because he grieved at the folly of man. (Flourished B.C. 500.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Coleridge: The Beginnings
At Nether StoweyThe Beginnings Coleridge lived in what may safely be called the most momentous period of modern history. In the year following his birth Warren Hastings was appointed first…Heraclitus
Heraclitus (sometimes Heracleitus) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher whose obscure brand of metaphysics has been boiled down to the tidy maxim "you can never step in the same river twice." He is…The Upanishads, translated by Max Müller: Preface
I MUST begin this series of translations of the Sacred Books of the East with three cautions: the first, referring to the character of the original texts here translated; the second, with regard to…Low, Juliette Gordon
(Encyclopedia) Low, Juliette Gordon, 1860–1927, American founder of the Girl Scouts, b. Savannah, Ga., as Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon. From a prominent Southern family, she met Robert Baden-Powell…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Peter Bell, Damnation
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Grace Double Damnation Damnation 'O that mine enemy had written A book!'—cried Job:—a fearful curse, If to the Arab, as the Briton, 'Twas galling to be critic-bitten…Georg Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was one of the most influential western philosophers of the 19th century. While a professor in Heidelberg and Berlin he wrote his most famous works, The Phenomenology of…Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach is best known for an 1877 paper on supersonic velocity in which he gave his name to the ratio of an object's speed to the speed of sound (an object moving at the speed of sound is at Mach…Trending
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