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  • Quel jargon metaphysique jete mal a propos dans l'histoire naturelle, qui tombe dans le galimatias des qu'elle sort des idees claires, des idees justes!

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Quel jargon metaphysique jete mal a propos dans l’histoire naturelle, qui tombe dans le galimatias des qu’elle sort des idees claires, des idees justes!

    Essays 2007

  • Cornell's interest in the ordinary and fleeting was so elevated that he named it the "metaphysique d'ephemera," suggesting that literal things can create an elaborate and subtle form of magic.

    Twelve More by Joseph Cornell, American Master Collagist. 2010

  • I like the idea that we made God in our image and he is, to all intents and purposes, out there now, in our words and our wars, or that other archetypes, other gods, have a similar metaphysique.

    THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE Hal Duncan 2007

  • Voltaire wrote, but left unfinished at Cirey, a Traité de metaphysique that explored the question of human freedom in philosophical terms.

    Voltaire Shank, JB 2009

  • Kepler puts the same _naiveté_ into his speculative activity, with a subtile anatomy laying bare the _metaphysique_ of his science.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

  • Le M. M.rabaud est un vrai abbe Terray de la metaphysique.

    Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918

  • Le M. M.rabaud est un vrai abbe Terray de la metaphysique.

    Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914

  • Ontologie (Louvain, 1905); DOMET DE VORGES, Abrege de metaphysique

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • [10.48] ` ` Experience metaphysique ou Developpement de la lumière et des sensations. ''

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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