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Vous avez contribué ainsi à approfondir votre démocratie.
Crossover Dreams: Fifteen minutes of undeserved fame in Port-au-Prince 2010
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Vous avez contribué ainsi à approfondir votre démocratie.
Crossover Dreams: Fifteen minutes of undeserved fame in Port-au-Prince 2010
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Il semble donc qu'on ne sauroit trop approfondir un objet qui tient si intimément à toutes les classes des sciences, & auquel un grand nombre d'arts sont encore si particulierement intéressés.
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I agree with you, but it is a pity indeed for him to tie himself to the wheels of the 'Athenaeum,' to _approfondir_ the ruts; what other end?
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I agree with you, but it is a pity indeed for him to tie himself to the wheels of the 'Athenaeum,' to approfondir the ruts; what other end?
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898
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Carré held there were no _little_ tricks, that everything had its importance as a means to a great end, and that if you were not willing to try to _approfondir_ the reason why, in a given situation, you should scratch your nose with your left hand rather than with your right, you were not worthy to tread any stage that respected itself.
The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879
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He cannot pass carelessly by the slightest incident; it is his nature to _approfondir_ all his surroundings: if the hero breaks his stirrup and stops at the blacksmith's to have it mended, the blacksmith will appear at the end of the story united to the rider, from the third and fourth generation, by a subtle thread of connection.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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Mais en même tems que je sens l'élégance de la méthode synthétique suivant laquelle Newton a présenté ses découvertes, j'ai reconnu l'indispensable nécessité de l'analyse pour approfondir les questions très difficiles que Newton n'a pu qu'effleurer par la synthèse.
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville Mary Somerville 1826
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Prefomptueux Mortel, ta raifon inquiete Voudroit approfondir, quelle caufe fecrete 5P T'a forme fi petit, fi foible & fi borne.
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