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Apec Brochure

By: Apec 2011 Hawaii Host Committee

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...ners. The owners’ interests in maintaining stable computing environments are naturally aligned with technologies that tame the wildness of the Interne... ...the current portfolio of tradeoffs is no longer optimal, and that some of the natural adjustments in that balance, while predictable, are also undesira... ...y diskettes through the mail, how can we connect homes to the wider world? A natural answer would be to piggyback on the telephone network, which was ... ...ORK MODEL The first online services built on top of AT&T’s phone network were natural extensions of the 1960s IBM-model minicomputer usage within busin... ...nies with an interest in cutting-edge network research. 31 These users might naturally work on advances in bandwidth management or tools for researche... ... Problems, Proceedings of the 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (Jan. 2003), at http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...or instance, general practice has established certain usages in some of the sciences which it would not be advisable to ignore. Similar discrepancie... ...c. : "This was, however, not the case;" "It is sufticiently plain that the sciences of life, at least, are studies of processes." 51. From foreign ... ...ected insertions; never use the two together (see I 59) : "Since, from the naturalistic point of view, mental states are the concomitants of physio... ...erest in moral society;" "This giving-out is but a phase of the taking-in-a natural and inevitable reaction;" "The advocates of this theory require... ...pride in its neat and orderly appearance. Keeping the records, files, etc., naturally devolves upon you. Perfect your system so that everything can ... ...Mediterranean Sea, reaching to THE IrBOZER NOBTE AND TEE NBBID SOUTH AS ITS NATURAL LIMITS, EXCHANGING TEE nwu OBI# or %Am lu. mm ~Ieaoue~t m0.0 01 ... ...i- terranean Sea, reaching to the frozen North and the torrid South as its natural limits, exchanging the virgin ores of Spain for the long-sought ...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...thtaking achievements. His verbosity reflects this propensity. Reality is, naturally, quite different and this gives rise to a Grandiosity Gap. The... ... vehemently denied. Return The Professions of the Narcissist The narcissist naturally gravitates towards those professions which guarantee the abund... ...gure and enhance it by engendering the adoration of nudity and all things "natural" - or by strongly repressing these feelings. But what they refer... ...rongly repressing these feelings. But what they refer to as "nature" is not natural at all. The narcissistic leader invariably proffers an aesthetic ... ...nts interact? How is the outcome determined? It would seem that people come naturally equipped with a mechanism for the selection of leaders. This ... ... Many appearances in the electronic media on subjects in philosophy and the sciences, and concerning economic matters. Write to Me: palma@unet.com....

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

... It is not uncommon to find a mastery of English, a college degree in the sciences, readiness to work outlandish hours at a fraction of wages in Ger... ...or very cheaply. This is hard to beat and is getting harder by the day as natural selection among dot.bombs spares only quality content providers. ... ... furor over e-books. The lending of e-books to patrons appears to be a natural extension of the classical role of libraries: physical book lendin... ...to decode ancient data files. And, to ameliorate the impact of inevitable natural disasters, accidents, bankruptcies of publishers, and politically ... ...e, even though I never read an electronics book or manuals. . .it was just natural. Let me tell you a story about how the Project started: I happene... ...ade the news. As far as the cost, the happiness, the frustration - I am a natural born workaholic and idealist, so I overcome the technical frustrat... ...loped specifically for undergraduate research in the humanities and social sciences. A staff of academic librarians determined which books are most i... ...ped as a “collection.” Questia specifically excludes titles in the natural sciences, technical and medical fields. We have a strong focus on “collect... ...find innovative ways to consume available resources. D) "Combinational Sciences." More than any one or two individual technologies, I believe th...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

...ational Traffic and Motor Vehicle Act of 1966, the Wholesome Meat Act of 1967, the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act, the Radiation Control for Health ... ...as a result of its eagerness to welcome thinking minds from its neighboring social sciences. Promotion plays a key role in the marketing drama an... ...ry to teach physicians how to teach patients -- a task that was complicated by the natural inclination of many physicians to be know-it-alls and not ... ...help shape programs to needs and circumstances. (Briggs 1980, p. A16) It seems natural that the study of the consumer in social marketing should ... ...ng "concerned with the social consequences of expanded technology and depletion of natural resources" (Sheth 1974, p. 404). Herbert Simons (1976) e... ...1970) hierarchy of needs model. This model is so very much a byword in the social sciences that it hardly needs elaboration here. To be sure, peop... ... M. Frances Van Loo. 1978. "Fertility as Consumption: Theories from the Behavioral Sciences." Journal of Consumer Research 4, 199-228. Baumgarten, S...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

... of her own heart.’ ‘She took to one of the chaps then?’ ‘Sir, it was only natural that she should incline towards him, for he had many and great adva... ... it out of the way , watches with terrified interest all that goes on. Her natural woman’s aptitude soon renders her able to give a little help. Antic... ...then, that how can she resist it, poor thing! And now he begins to breathe naturally, and he stirs, and the doctor declares him to have come back from... ...ughts concerning what he had done to bring it down upon himself. ‘The mind naturally falls,’ said Mrs Wilfer, ‘shall I say into a reverie, or shall I ... ...and get it over.’ ‘The mind,’ pursued Mrs Wilfer in an oratorical manner, ‘naturally reverts to Papa and Mamma—I here allude to my parents—at a period... ...ccounted for its humidity on natural principles well known to the physical sciences, by explaining that she had looked in at the door to see what o’cl...

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Cousin Pons

By: Honoré de Balzac

...s’ spirit and manner were not haughty enough to overawe his relations, and naturally he had come at last to be accounted less than nothing with them, ... ...f seeing miniature pictures of the view which he can behold about him of a natural size; in the in- quiring turn of mind that sets a learned Teuton tr... ...n that month of October 1844, the number of houses at which Pons dined was naturally much restricted; reduced to move round and round the family circl... ...in lips, that had been softly col- ored once, lent a soured look to a face naturally disdainful, and now grown hard and unpleasant with a long course ... ...moreover, had formed a tolerably correct estimate of her husband. A temper naturally shrewish was soured till she grew positively terrible. She was no... ...by the seven or eight principal methods known to astrology; and the occult sciences, like many natural phenomena, are passed over by the freethinker o... ...the chemist’s retort and the scales of modern physical science. The occult sciences still exist; they are at work, but they make no progress, for the ... ...er kings and queens and wealthy people. Animal magnetism, one of the great sciences of antiquity, had its origin in occult philosophy; chemistry is th...

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Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Volume III : The Third Ten Tales

By: Honoré de Balzac

...and appeared likely to become a great savant, so learned was he in all the sciences. Old Bastarnay had never been more delighted at having been a fath... ...h to let him take loaves out of the oven, until there resulted therefrom a natural swelling, which certain wags in these parts call a nine months’ dro... ...ncealed in your hauberk?” “No,” said the French knight; “it is a perfectly natural thing. Here it is.” And rising suddenly from the table to prepare f... ...e of Venice an illustrious family named Coglioni, who wore three “C—— — au natural” on their coat of arms. The gentlemen of the House of Bonne-C——— st...

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The Last Chronicle of Barset

By: Anthony Trollope

...ve months, since the time in which Grace would have left the school in the natural course of things. There had been no bargain made, and no intention ... ...e, Major Grantly,’ said the little woman, very imperiously. ‘But Grace is, naturally enough, very sad;—very sad indeed. I do not think I can ask you t... ...would have expressed it —had still about him something of that pride which naturally belonged to those clergymen who were closely attached to the pala... ...and his affairs there was not a word about Grace. This, however, was quite natural. Major Grantly perfectly well understood his father’s anxiety to ca... ...es, old or young, who take upon themselves semi-clerical duties. And it is natural that it should be so; for is it not said that famil- iarity does br... ...t he would go deep into Greek and do a transla- tion, or take up the exact sciences and make a name for him- self in that way. But as he had enough fo...

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Hulili Vol. 5 No. 1 2008

By: Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni, Ph. D.

...ging document describes a desired state for the island, where the question of development is secondary to the promise to malama (protect and nurture) natural and cultural resources. Utilizing a community- based, holistic approach, “Molokai: Future of a Hawaiian Island” identifies critical needs and outlines specific steps to achieve change and sustainability....

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He Wahi Moolelo No Na Lawaia Ma Kapalilua, Kona Hema, Hawaii

By: Kepa Maly

...ional cultural properties of on-going cultural significance; the criteria, standards, and guidelines currently utilized by the Department of Land and Natural Resources-State Historic Preservation Division (DLNR-SHPD) for the evaluation and documentation of cultural sites (cf. Title 13, Sub-Title 13:275-8; 276:5 — Draft Dec. 21, 2001); and the November 1997 guidelines for c...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...thics, Law and Policy Center, provided cru- cial support to my work with the sciences in general and synthetic biology in particular. I was also inspi... ...sions of Creative Com- mons that I helped to set up which concentrate on the sciences and on educa- tion, respectively. The practical experience of bu... ...rlan Onsrud in geospatial data. Paul Uhlir’s work at the National Academy of Sciences intro- duced me to many of these issues. The work of Richard Sta... ...as anyone has since. He starts by dismissing the idea “that inventors have a natural and exclusive right to their inventions, and not merely for their... ...l property, then, has still less of a claim to some permanent, absolute, and natural status. [W]hile it is a moot question whether the origin of any k... ...d of property is derived from nature at all, it would be singular to admit a natural and even an hereditary right to inventors. It is agreed by those ... ... those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By a... ...hen, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. 9 Jefferson’s... ...hase III drug trial? Again, my guess is that the increasing migration of the sciences toward data- and processing-rich models makes much more of innov...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...onomy 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies 42 A History of Innovation NATURAL SCIENCE 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences 48 Turning Scie... ...A History of Innovation NATURAL SCIENCE 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences 48 Turning Science Into Practical Inventions TABLE OF CONTENTS CO... ...BUSINESS 56 Winners of the Hawai‘i Business Innovation Showcase HEALTH SCIENCES 60 Breakthroughs in Health and Medicine 68 Hawai‘I Diversity Idea... ...Fossil Fuel Hawai‘i, The CleanTech Paradise Hawai‘i, blessed with abundant natural energy sources, is the center of rapid cleantech development and ... ...Fossil Fuel Hawai‘i, The CleanTech Paradise Hawai‘i, blessed with abundant natural energy sources, is the center of rapid cleantech development and ... ... Dave Kane, VP dkane@trexhawaii.com (808) 245-6465, ext. 15 LIFE & HEALTH SCIENCES SKAI Ventures/CBI/Eyegenix www.skaiventures.com INVESTMENT CONTACT... ...rism CONTACT: energy@dbedt.hawaii.gov 808-587-3807 SKY, OCEAN & EARTH SCIENCES University of Hawai‘i For inquiries regarding astronomy, ocean an... ...Asia Pacifc Economic Cooperation (APEC). Hawai‘i is world-renowned for our natural beauty and warm hospitality. We would like to take this opportuni... ...oductive stay in our islands. Hawaii’s uniqueness lies not only in its natural beauty but its multi-cultural heritage and special connection to A...

... Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences -- 48 Turning Science Into Practical Inventions -- 56 Winners of the Hawai‘i Business Innovation Showcase -- 60 Breakthroughs in Health and Medicine -- 68 Hawai‘I Diversity Ideal for Medical Research -- 74 Perfect Pl...

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An Episode under the Terror

By: Honoré de Balzac

...d perhaps with curios- ity, got the better of her. The old lady’s face was naturally 5 Balzac pale; she looked as though she secretly practised auste... ...der the Terror ways by pity and self-interest, began by lulling their con- sciences with words. “You seem very poorly, citoyenne—” “Perhaps madame mig... ... simple souls is easy to imagine; it produced a tempo- rary imbecility not natural to them. They could not bring the ideas learned in the convent into...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...d poll about so, and go and drown your sorrows in a bowl!’ Exhausted, very naturally, by so stupendous an effort, the great Touch-and-go could attend ... ... wide and social world, was utterly companionless—unless, indeed, that un- natural, impetuous, and fiery-colored horse, which he hence- forward contin... ...ess, attributed the alteration in the conduct of the young nobleman to the natural sorrow of a son for the untimely loss of his parents—forgetting, ho... ... a donkey as the poor unfortu- nate imagined himself. Y our acting is very natural, as I live.” “Mille pardons! Ma’m’selle!” replied Monsieur De Kock,... ...he speaker addressed myself—“it would have done your heart good to see the natural airs that he put on. Sir, if that man was not a frog, I can only ob... ...on Barry. 74 Poe in Five V olumes DIDDLING CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE EXACT SCIENCES Hey, diddle diddle The cat and the fiddle SINCE THE WORLD BEGAN th... ...man in a small way. The other gave name to the most important of the Exact Sciences, and was a great man in a great way—I may say, indeed, in the very... ...e by no means uncivilized, however, but cul- tivated various arts and even sciences after a fashion of their own. It is related of them that they were...

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Multispace & Multistructure Neutrosophic Transdisciplinary : 100 Collected Papers of Sciences : Volume 4

By: Florentin Smarandache

................................53 5. A Triple Inequality with Series and Improper Integrals, by Florentin Smarandache, in Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences, Vol. 25E, No. 1, 215-217, 2006.........54 6. Immediate Calculation of Some Poisson Type Integrals Using SuperMathematics Circular Ex-Centric Functions, by Florentin Smarandache & Mircea Eugen..........................

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Multispace & Multistructure Neutrosophic Transdisciplinary : 100 Collected Papers of Sciences : Volume 4

By: Florentin Smarandache

................................53 5. A Triple Inequality with Series and Improper Integrals, by Florentin Smarandache, in Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences, Vol. 25E, No. 1, 215-217, 2006.........54 6. Immediate Calculation of Some Poisson Type Integrals Using SuperMathematics Circular Ex-Centric Functions, by Florentin Smarandache & Mircea Eugen..........................

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Smallholder Dairying in the Tropics

By: Lindsay Falvey & Charan Chantalakhana

...eriod of five years and in the tropics of Northern Australia for five years. Recipient of various awards and a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, he has authored seven books and more than 100 journal papers. Professor Charan Chantalakhana was born in 1936 at Songkhla, Th...

...orage and fodder in food crops Forage under plantation crops Forage and fodder under forest Forage and fodder on fallow land Forage and fodder in natural grassland Forage and fodder on critical land Yield of forage and fodder Potential yield and lopping yield Sustainable yield Predicting potential yield Means and ways of increasing yield Land preparation and pla...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...ng cultural preference for technical fields over the humanities and social sciences. Many of these young men, even if able to study abroad, lacked the... ...ce sources to the FBI or CIA for counterterrorism use. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), with its 9,000 Border Patrol agents, 4,500 in... ...est border, criminal aliens, and a growing backlog in the applications for naturalizing immigrants.The White House, the Justice Depart- ment, and abov... ...ght unsuccessfully to require that CIA security checks be completed before naturalization applications were approved. 43 Policy questions, such as whe... ... making it responsible for military response to domestic emergencies, both natural and man-made. 91 Pursuant to the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici Domestic Prepa... ...even more obvious early in 1999, when he addressed the National Academy of Sciences and presented his most somber account yet of what could happen if ... ...in Oklahoma City).As we pointed out in chapter 3, the White House is not a natural locus for program management. Hence, gov- ernment efforts to cope w... ...,Apr. 30, 2003. In 1987, Sufaat received a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences, with a minor in chemistry, from Califor- nia State University, Sa... ...ca Secure for the 21st Century,” Jan. 22, 1999 (at the National Academy of Sciences,Washington, D.C.), in which he spoke directly to these topics. 3. ...

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Modeste Mignon

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ing it, for the reason of such physical misrepresentation. Jean Butscha, a natural son abandoned by his parents and taken care of by the clerk of the ... ...o sur- rounded her, as if surprised by their silence, and exclaimed in her natural manner, “Why are you not playing?”—with a glance at the green table... ... is moved to en- thusiasm all his feelings and attachments are genuine and natural. And how could he fail to adore that blonde beauty, escaping, as it... ...ractice of three languages. This advantage was still further enhanced by a natural bell-like tone both sweet and fresh, which touched the heart as del... ...in a poet, a delicate charm of manner, and a vibrant voice; yet a taint of natural charlatanism de- stroys the effect of nearly all these advantages; ... ...ean Butscha. I will not be notary; I shall give that up; I shall study the sciences.” “Why?” “Ah, mademoiselle, to train up your children, if you will... ...erdict of the prince of science. That illustrious member of the Academy of Sciences put about a dozen brief questions to the blind woman as he examine...

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The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

...nts for the kindness shown them, was wanting; the French, it is known, are naturally apt enough to exceed that way. The captain and one of the priests... ...he whole society well enough – planted, sowed, reaped, and began to be all naturalised to the country. But some time after this they fell into such si... ...a retreat in the thickest part of the woods, where, though there was not a natural cave, as I had found, yet they made one with incessant labour of th... ...ame. But it was impossible to express it by words, for their excessive joy naturally driving them to unbecoming extravagances, they had no way to desc... ...se, as I called it; and they both owned they never saw an instance of such natural ingenuity before, nor anything so regular and so handily built, at ... ...urope; also, in their knowledge, their learning, and in their skill in the sciences, they are either very awkward or defective, though they have globe...

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The History of Tom Jones

By: Henry Fielding

...and biographer, than of any other species of writing; for all the arts and sciences (even criticism itself) require some little degree of learning and... ...ed— not by the miraculous intervention of any heathen deity, but by a very natural though fortunate accident, viz., by the arrival of Partridge; who e... ...s vindice nodus, and the present security of Jones may be accounted for by natural means; for as love frequently preserves from the attacks of hunger,... ...which lay in a disordered manner on the floor. All these, operating on the natural jealousy of his temper, so enraged him, that he lost all power of s... ...ence, I think, we may very fairly draw an argument, to prove how extremely natural virtue is to the fair sex; for, though there is not, perhaps, one i... ...o that all the secrets there deposited run out. These sluices were indeed, naturally, very ill secured. To give the best natured turn we can to his d... ...But though a miracle of this kind might have engaged all the Academies des Sciences in Europe, and perhaps in a fruit less inquiry; yet the reader, b...

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The Heir of Redclyffe

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... lead us astray.’ ‘I see,’ answered Guy, musingly; ‘and this reading comes naturally , and is just what I wanted to keep the pleasant things from gett... ...’ ‘It does not suit him at all,’ said Mrs. Edmonstone; be- cause he has no natural dignity.’ ‘A man ought to be six foot one, person and mind, to suit... ...dy!’ thought Charles; ‘yes it was. I wonder I don’t laugh at it; but I was naturally carried along. Fancy that! He did it so naturally; in fact, it wa... ...nce rage had swept away such recollections. Indeed, so far had he lost the natural generosity of his character, that his remorse had been comparativel... ...that very at- tractive manner, all are so many perils, and he has not that natural pleasure in study that would be of itself a preserva- tive from tem... ...ce. You were always too young, and Laura too much addicted to the physical sciences to get on together.’ ‘A weak, silly mother, sighed Mrs. Edmonstone... ... could be together without apprehension, or playing tricks with their con- sciences; but she had as yet scarcely been able to spend any time with him;...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ut the Cocoa-nut, whose milk has refreshed the traveller and perplexed the natural philosopher. The shop in question was, in a word, a Grocer’s. In th... ...ous to evoid a persnal leave-taking—Mary Hann Oggins, I mean—for my art is natural tender, and I can’t abide seeing a pore gal in pane. I’d given her ... ...saty in my disposishn I never should have eluded to, but to show that I am naturally of a noble sort, and have that kind of galliant carridge which is... ...urse never go out of curl; whose cheek, pale as the lily, could, as it may naturally be supposed, grow no paler; whose neck and beauteous arms, dazzli... ... 186 Thackeray fancy my astonishment when I found—with a rope cutting his naturally wide mouth almost into his ears—with a dreadful sa- bre-cut acros... ...o him to legislate for us: he is wise in the law, and as- trology, and all sciences; he shall aid my Ministers in their councils. I have written to hi...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

... putting it down in writing. Hereby, too, I shall indulge the inclination so natural in old men, to be talking of themselves and their own past action... ...lities for study. He was of opinion that it was improper, and that they were naturally unequal to it. I took the contrary side, perhaps a little for d... ...to it. I took the contrary side, perhaps a little for dispute’s sake. He was naturally more eloquent, had a ready plenty of words; and sometimes, as I... ...and, leaving his books, which were a pretty col lection of mathematicks and natural philosophy, to come with mine and me to New York, where he propos... ...Stephen Potts, a young countryman of full age, bred to the same, of uncommon natural parts, and great wit and humor, but a little idle. These he had a... ...cause to repent my silence; for my friend M. le Roy, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, took up my cause and refuted him; my book was translated into t...

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