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Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks. It was founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books. The ...
A disease characterised by an excessive discharge of urine, and accompanied with great thirst; there are two forms of this disease.
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A mountain of the Bernese Alps, between the Cantons de Vaud and de Valois.
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A Greek philosopher, born in Melos, one of the Cyclades, 5th century B.C., surnamed the Atheist, on account of the scorn with which he treated the gods of the popular faith, from the rage of whose devotees he was obliged to seek safety by flight; died in Corinth.
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In the Hegelian philosophy the logic of thought, and, if of thought, the logic of being, of essential being.
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Philosophical dialogues, in which Socrates figures as the principal interlocutor, although the doctrine expounded is rather Plato's than his master's; they discuss theology, psychology, ethics, aesthetics, politics, physics, and related subjects.
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The process of separating the crystalloid or poisonous ingredients in a substance from the colloid or harmless ingredients.
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A Spanish dramatic poet, who plagiarised Corneille's "Cid" and passed it off as original; born 1826.
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A district in Brazil, in the province of Minas Geraes, rich in diamonds.
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The name of Newton's favourite dog that, by upsetting a lamp, set fire to MSS. containing notes of experiments made over a course of years, an irreparable loss.
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