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Samuel Johnson - Wikipedia  Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September]  13 December 1784), often referred ... Samuel Johnson c. .... At the age of 16, Johnson was given the opportunity to stay with his cousins, the Fords, ... "angered by the impertinence of this long absence," refused to allow Samuel to continue at the grammar school.
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The starting point | The Economist  Dec 1, 2012 ... It contains, for instance, two conflicting accounts of the order of creation. (According to Professor Hendel, some fundamentalists account for such ... Unlike his ecclesiastical successors in the 17th century, Augustine ... Baruch Spinoza, a 17th-century Dutch-Jewish heretical philosopher. ... Let's stay together.
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Baruch Spinoza - Wikipedia  Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin. By laying the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy. .... We order that no one should communicate with him orally or in writing,...
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jeopardy/11 at master  towski/jeopardy  GitHub  ... order to remain independent, this 17th C. Dutch philosopher declined a professorship &amp; a pension","category":"ADD A \"PIN\"CH","value":"$600"...
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History of Spain - Wikipedia  The history of Spain dates back to the Early Middle Ages. In 1516, Habsburg Spain unified a ... In the later 17th century, however, Spanish power began to decline, and after the death .... The emperors Trajan, Hadrian, and Theodosius I, the philosopher Seneca, and the ...... Trade was handled by American and Dutch traders.
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Verloren  Boeken en tijdschriften over geschiedenis, lang leverbaar. Informatie over tijschriften en nieuwe uitgaven, zoekfunctie en een paar digitale bijlagen.
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BBC - History - Thomas Becket  In 1164, realising the extent of Henry's displeasure, Becket fled into exile in France, and remained in exile for several years. He returned in 1170. On the 29 December 1170, four knights, believing the king wanted Becket out of the way, ... Becket was made a saint in 1173 and his shrine in Canterbury Cathedral became an...
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Benedict de Spinoza  Benedict de Spinoza was born as Baruch on 24 November 1632 in Amsterdam. ... Haim, an educational brotherhood within the Jewish community of Amsterdam. ... but in 1656 Spinoza was banned from the Jewish community, which put an end ... his first name to Benedict and that he attended the Amsterdam Latin School of...
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Label Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits zoom in zoom out reload ...  After three years with this master, Rembrandt left for Amsterdam 1/8 in 1624, ... In 1639, at the height of his success, Rembrandt purchased a large house on the ... He became more and more isolated from the mainstreams of 6/8 Dutch art. ... The Apostle Bartholomew 1661 oil on canvas The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los...
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Rembrandt van Rijn (16061669): Paintings | Essay | Heilbrunn ...  He worked first in his native Leiden and, from 1632 onward, in Amsterdam, where ... as is obvious in paintings like his early self-portraits and the Saint Paul in Prison ... with dramatic compositions like The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632; The ... made Rembrandt a famous painter in his own time also made him a virtuoso...
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Confucius - New World Encyclopedia  Jun 13, 2013 ... 2.4 Politics; 2.5 Was Confucius a Philosopher or a Religious Sage? ... At 15, I set my heart on learning;: At 30, I took my stand;: At 40, I no longer ... In the Analects, Confucius presents himself as a "transmitter and not an inventor. ... His ethics may be considered one of the greatest examples of virtue ethics.
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The Jewish Spinoza - jstor  In July of 1656, however, Spinoza was expelled from the Amsterdam ... outside the jurisdiction of the Portuguese community to the Dutch authori .... name, was also influenced by what Spinoza read in Maimonides as well as ... Baruch or Benedict: On Some Jewish Aspects of Spinoza's Philosophy (New York: Peter. Lang...
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Beginning of Modern Science & Modern Philosophy  So Copernicus did not let his book be published until he lay dying. ... Galileo thus represents a transition in these matters, much more than may be .... Ren Descartes (1596-1650) and the Meditations on First Philosophy ..... A split brain patient [the hemispheres of whose brain have been surgically separated] cannot say the...
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Renaissance Philosophy | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy  Zabarella's work was instrumental in a renewal of natural philosophy, methodology, and .... The most important Christian humanist was the Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus (c.14661536). ... In 1524, he published De libero arbitrio (On Free Will), an open attack a one central doctrine of Martin Luther's theology: that the...
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Milton Agonistes - The New York Times  Apr 6, 1997 ... he year 1660 was not a good one for John Milton. ... He lost his position as Latin secretary and had to go into hiding. He was arrested and imprisoned for about a month, and two of his ... While this Milton is historically grounded, he very unhistorically flees London, escaping to New England to establish a...
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Leiden Law School - Leiden University  Jan 29, 2013 ... Leiden University is the oldest university in the Netherlands. It was a gift by the Prince of Holland, William of Orange to reward the citizens of Leiden for their ... On February 8, 1575, the university was founded, and later was granted ... his days in Leiden, and Matthias the Vries, the father of Dutch linguistics.
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Jean Bodin (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)  Mar 25, 2005 ... Jean Bodin (1529/301596) was a lawyer, economist, natural ... Bodin's Politics: Sovereignty or Absolutism? .... In the meantime, on January 6, 1577, Henry III had revoked the ..... For instance he defined a monarchy as the rule of one; aristocracy as the rule of a few; and democracy as the rule by all people.
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Education of an Ox: Tales of type 1675  How an Ox Became Mayor (Netherlands). ... So the years went by and they became richer and richer, but there was no .... "Yes I will get up," he said, and jumped out of bed into his clothes as quickly as possible. .... Once upon a time there was a peasant who had a great deal of money but .... 10 (January 1893), item 642, p.
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Baruch Spinoza - Wikipedia  Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin. By laying the ... Spinoza was raised in the Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam. ... excommunication) against him, effectively excluding him from Jewish society at .... In March 1656, Spinoza filed suit with the Amsterdam municipal authorities to...
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Bodin, Jean | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy  Jean Bodin's last will and testament, dated 7th June 1596, states that he was 66 years ... In 1576, Bodin lost the favor of King Henri III after he opposed, among other .... Bodin's most prominent contribution in the field of political philosophy was first ... book, Bodin discusses different types of states (democracy, aristocracy, and...
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Carneades - Wikipedia  Carneades was an Academic skeptic born in Cyrene. By the year 159 BC, he had started to refute all previous dogmatic doctrines, especially Stoicism, and even the Epicureans whom previous skeptics had spared. As head of the Academy, he was one of three philosophers sent to Rome in ... The elder Carneades died at the advanced age of 85 (although Cicero says...