74 résultats pour "fate"

• Fire - chemistry.

  were usually natural caves. Eventually people learned to dip branches in pitch to form torches. They created crude lamps by filling a hollowed out piece of stone withmoss soaked in oil or tallow (a substance derived from animal fat). By cooking with fire, prehistoric people made the meat of the animals they killed more palatable and digestible. They learned to preserve meat by smoking it over a fire,vastly decreasing the danger of periodic starvation. Cooking also enabled them to add some for...

• From Uncle Tom's Cabin - anthology.

  the evils of slavery from sketches like these, is not the half that could be told, of the unspeakable whole. In the northern states, these representations may, perhaps, be thought caricatures; in the southern states are witnesses who know their fidelity. What personalknowledge the author has had, of the truth of incidents such as here are related, will appear in its time. It is a comfort to hope, as so many of the world's sorrows and wrongs have, from age to age, been lived down, so a ti...

• Cosmology - astronomy.

  In 1917 American scientist Harlow Shapley measured the distance to several groups of stars known as globular clusters. He measured these distances by using amethod developed in 1912 by American astronomer Henrietta Leavitt. Leavitt’s method relates distance to variations in brightness of Cepheid variables, a class of starsthat vary periodically in brightness. Shapley’s distance measurements showed that the clusters were centered around a point far from the Sun. The arrangement of theclusters was...

• Aboriginal Australians - History.

  Until Europeans began to settle in Australia in 1788, the Aboriginal way of life was supported by hunting, gathering, and fishing. Like other hunting and gatheringpeoples, Aboriginal people had an extremely detailed knowledge of their environment, especially plant ecology and animal behavior. The deep connection betweenAboriginal people and the natural world influenced every part of their culture, including their food gathering, tools, trade, religion, art, music, language, and socialorganizatio...

• Mammal - biology.

  On land, mammals live in many different habitats, and at a wide range of altitudes. Many mammals dig burrows as refuges or as places to raise their young, but somehave developed a largely subterranean lifestyle, feeding on small animals or plant roots beneath the soil's surface. These animals, including moles and mole-rats, digthrough the ground either with spadelike front paws or with their teeth, and they detect danger by being highly sensitive to vibrations transmitted through the soil.Most m...

• Medical Ethics.

  medical profession. In recent years, however, the field of medical ethics has struggled to keep pace with the many complex issues raised by new technologies for creating and sustaininglife. Artificial-respiration devices, kidney dialysis, and other machines can keep patients alive who previously would have succumbed to their illnesses or injuries.Advances in organ transplantation have brought new hope to those afflicted with diseased organs. New techniques have enabled prospective parents to con...

• 121. Fata viam invenient Les destins me traceront la route Cette fu1111ule est encore employée de nos jours pour traduire...

  121. Fata viam invenient Les destins me traceront la route Cette fu1111ule est encore employée de nos jours pour traduire l'inéluc­ tabilité du destin ou pour rappeler que, nonobstant toutes les difficultés et tous les obstacles, ce qui est écrit s'accomplira. Elle provient de I'Enéide, où elle apparaît deux fois : la première en 3, 395, lorsque Hélénus, le prêtre d'Apollon, prédit son avenir à Enée et en 10, 113 où Jupiter conclut son discours par cette foi1r1ule pour révéler qu'il n'in­ terv...

• 114. Amor fati L'amour du destin Cette célèbre expression n'a pas une origine antique: c'est F. Nietzsche, qui l'utilisa pour...

  114. Amor fati L'amour du destin Cette célèbre expression n'a pas une origine antique: c'est F. Nietzsche, qui l'utilisa pour décrire le comportement de l'homme idéal, capable d'accepter et de jouir de la nature même de l'existence humaine et de...

• 122. Fata obstant Les destins s'y opposent Cette expression, empruntée à I 'Enéide et encore employée de nos jours� désigne...

  122. Fata obstant Les destins s'y opposent Cette expression, empruntée à I 'Enéide et encore employée de nos jours� désigne un événement imprévu ou des obstacles insu1111ontables qui empêchent définitivement que quelque chose puisse se réaliser. En 4, 440, c'est par ces mots...

• Pascitur in vivis livor, post fata quiescit L'Envie se repaît des vivants mais se tait lonqu'ils sont morts Cette maxime,...

  Pascitur in vivis livor, post fata quiescit L'Envie se repaît des vivants mais se tait lonqu'ils sont morts Cette maxime, empruntée aux Amores d'Ovide ( 1, 15, 39) est à rattacher au topos précédemment évoqué, qui interdit de dire du mal des morts (n. 1020), puisqu'elle constate qu'habituellement on montre davantage de bienveillance vis-à-vis des morts que des vivants. Les précédents grecs sont nombreux (cf. la fine interprétation psychologique et histo- rique de J.-P. Vernant, la mort dans les...

• piano.

  Barbizet Pierre Barenboïm Daniel Basie (William, dit Count) Bechstein Benedetti Michelangeli Arturo Berman Lazar Naoumovitch Beroff Michel Bley Paul Boëly Alexandre Pierre François Brailovski Alexander Brendel Alfred Cage John Casadesus Chopin Frédéric François clavecin clavicorde clavier Cole (Nathaniel Adams, dit Nat « King ») Collard Jean-Philippe Corea (Armando Anthony, dit Chick) Cortot Alfred Cristofori (Bartolomeo di Francesco) Cziffra György Dalberto Michel Dargom...

• Les droits de la critique (1607). Boileau (Satire IX)

  Tout Paris pour Chimène a les yeux de Rodrigue.L'Académie en corps a beau le censurer :Le public révolté s'obstine à l'admirer.La satire en leçons, en nouveautés fertile,Sait seule assaisonner le plaisant et l'utile,Et, d'un vers qu'elle épure aux rayons du bon sens,Détromper les esprits 'des erreurs de leur temps.Elle seule, bravant l'orgueil et l'injustice,Va jusque sous le dais faire pâlir le vice,Et souvent sans' rien craindre, à l'aide d'un bon mot.Va venger la raison des attentats d'un sot...

• Perseus Greek Son of the god Zeus and Danae; husband of Andromeda; father of Perses; slayer of the Gorgon Medusa.

  Perseus slew Medusa and cut off her head, which he carefully stowed in his leather bag. From the blood of Medusa sprang Chrysaor and the winged horse, Pegasus, children of Medusa and the sea god, Poseidon. Perseus and Andromeda - Mythology. With Medusa’s head in his leather bag, Perseus set off on his winged sandals to take the head to King Polydectes of Seriphos. As he flew along the coast, he saw a beautiful woman chained to a rock, weeping. She was Andromeda, daughter of King Cepheus of Eth...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: Minerva (Athena) - anthology.

  Spenser tells the story of Arachne in his 'Muiopotmos,' adhering very closely to his master Ovid, but improving upon him in the conclusion of the story. The twostanzas which follow tell what was done after the goddess had depicted her creation of the olive tree: 'Amongst these leaves she made a Butterfly, With excellent device and wondrous slight,Fluttering among the olives wantonly,That seemed to live, so like it was in sight;The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie,The silken down with whic...

• confess, I've never thought too much about giving lessons.

  unpopularity atschool, Grandma's coupons,storagefacilities, peoplewhodon't know whattheInternet is,bad handwriting, beautifulsongs,howthere won't behumans infifty years—" "Whosaidthere won't behumans infifty years?" Iasked her,"Are youanoptimist orapessimist?" Shelooked ather watch andsaid, "I'm optimistic. " "Then Ihave some badnews foryou, because humansaregoing todestroy eachother assoon asitbecomes easyenough to,which will bevery soon." "Whydobeautiful songsmakeyousad?" "Because theyaren't t...

• From Hamlet - anthology.

  Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,Be thy intents wicked or charitable,Thou com'st in such a questionable shapeThat I will speak to thee. I'll call thee Hamlet,King, father, royal Dane. O, answer me!Let me not burst in ignorance, but tellWhy thy canonized bones, hearséd in death,Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchreWherein we saw thee quietly interredHath oped his ponderous and marble jawsTo cast thee up again. What may this meanThat thou, dead corse, again in complete...

• baudelaire analyse L'ennemi

  Baudelaire highlighting the time that passes through a progression from the past to the present, the discouraging record of this stormy youth is underlined by the past composed «on fait» (vers 3) and by the proposition of consequence to the present. The metaphor continues in the mention of a nature which has undergone the meteorological elements in their destructive character, the past having left traces: a life ravaged by «le tonnerre et la pluie», by the blows of fate and the daily g...

• From Paradise Lost, Book I - anthology.

  At once as far as angels ken he viewsThe dismal situation waste and wild,A dungeon horrible, on all sides roundAs one great furnace flamed, yet from those flamesNo light, but rather darkness visibleServed only to discover sights of woe,Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peaceAnd rest can never dwell, hope never comesThat comes to all; but torture without endStill urges, and a fiery deluge, fedWith ever-burning sulphur unconsumed:Such place Eternal Justice had preparedFor those rebellious,...

• Excerpt from Persuasion - anthology.

  “Yes, dear ma'am,” said Mrs. Croft, “or an uncertain engagement, an engagement which may be long. To begin without knowing that at such a time there will be themeans of marrying, I hold to be very unsafe and unwise, and what I think all parents should prevent as far as they can.” Anne found an unexpected interest here. She felt its application to herself, felt it in a nervous thrill all over her; and at the same moment that her eyes instinctivelyglanced towards the distant table, Captain Wen...

• Carbon - chemistry.

  Graphite is black and slippery and conducts electricity. In graphite, the atoms form planar, or flat, layers. Each layer is made up of rings containing six carbon atoms.The rings are linked to each other in a structure that resembles the hexagonal mesh of chicken wire. Each atom has three sigma bonds (with 120° between any two ofthe bonds) and belongs to three neighboring rings. The fourth electron of each atom becomes part of an extensive pi bond system. Graphite conducts electricity,because th...

• Jazz - Musik.

  Pianist und Komponist Jelly Roll Morton. Zu einer der einflussreichsten Persönlichkeiten des Jazz sollte später jedoch King Olivers zweiter Trompeter Louis Armstrongwerden. 4.2 Louis Armstrong und sein Einfluss Der erste virtuose Solist des Jazz, der Trompeter und Sänger Louis Armstrong, war ein atemberaubender Improvisator, sowohl in technischer als auch in emotionaler undintellektueller Hinsicht. Er veränderte das Bild des Jazz entscheidend, indem er den Solisten in den Mittelpunkt rückte. Se...

• Christmas.

  The new custom of Christmas gift giving allowed the marketplace to exert an unprecedented influence on holiday celebrations. Commercial innovations such asdepartment stores and mass advertising further expanded the custom of exchanging Christmas gifts. Seasonal retail sales helped fuel the economy, causing merchantsand advertisers to become some of the season’s most ardent promoters. Many holiday celebrants regretted these changes, however, and began voicing the nowcommon lament that Christmas h...

• Comparative Anatomy.

  In comparing two species, anatomists have to be careful to differentiate between homologous structures, which are ones that have evolved from a shared ancestor, andanalogous structures, which have developed from different origins. Homologous structures are built on the same underlying plan. A human arm, a bat’s wing, and awhale’s flipper look quite different from the outside, but the bones inside reveal that these limbs all have the same basic structure. Analogous structures, by contrast,often l...

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