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  • Karl Wieder - mann's usual reaction to Hans had been to tell him to go away, he was too busy-or he had brought out the belt.

    The Heirs of Babylon Cook, Glen 1972

  • The movement was most significant in Germany, giving rise to Winckel - mann's esthetic treatise, Thoughts concerning the Imi - tation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture (1755), in which he emphasized the artistic importance of simplicity, not merely that of nature, but that of the absolute or ideal.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas A. OWEN ALDRIDGE 1968

  • In Winckel - mann's earlier works (1754f.) two different theories of ideal beauty (idealische Schönheit) can be found: (1) the natural-selective, deriving from Bellori and (2) the more originally Platonic theory, whereby the Idea of beauty completely derives from the mind, without any connection with experience — as for Lomazzo and others.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas GIORGIO TONELLI 1968

  • Her - mann's Geschichte und System der platonischen Philo - sophie (Heidelberg, 1839).

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ERNST MORITZ MANASSE 1968

  • It suggests that Cantor's theory evolved out of his preoccupation with an everyday problem of working mathematics, namely with Rie - mann's uniqueness problem for trigonometric series.

    INFINITY SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • And no mann's bone could stonde to stoppe itts waie;

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • I asked him how he proposed to enter v on mann's state-room unobserved, and even through the curtained gloom of ours his face lighted up.

    The Amateur Cracksman 1902

  • Hans leaned closer to Kurt, whispered, "Mr. Linde - mann's the only normal officer aboard.

    The Heirs of Babylon Cook, Glen 1972

  • a couple ... steven soderbergh's kafka michael mann's l.a. takedown (predecessor to heat, was on TV in the 80s) kubrick's fear and desire james mangold's heavy the original sleuth for 1972 with michael caine jonathan demme's something wild thief (6-episode andre braugher show on FX) bayamus said ...

    Cinematical 2010

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