A number of important philosophical societies were formed, which were centers of the city's intellectual life: the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture ( 1785 ), the Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures and the Useful Arts ( 1787 ), the Academy of Natural Sciences ( 1812 ), and the Franklin Institute ( 1824 ).

The university founded in 1796 through the will of Professor John Anderson, professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow who left instructions and the majority of his estate to create a second university in Glasgow which would focus on " Useful Learning " – specialising in practical subjects – " for the good of mankind and the improvement of science, a place of useful learning ".

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Originally modelled on the Dublin Society for improving Husbandry, Manufacturers and other Useful Arts, the RSA in its early years offered prizes — which it called " premiums " — for people who could successfully achieve one of a number of published challenges.

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Diogenes Laërtius says that he declined to identify the Good with the Useful, and that he denied the value of the negative proposition on the ground that affirmation alone can express truth.

Also, his Bemerkungen und Ansichten, published in an incomplete form in von Kotzebue's Entdeckungsreise ( Weimar, 1821 ) and more completely in Chamisso's Gesammelte Werke ( 1836 ), and the botanical work, Übersicht der nutzbarsten und schädlichsten Gewächse in Norddeutschland ( View of the Most Useful and the Most Noxious Plants of North Germany, with Remarks on Scientific Botany, 1829 ) are esteemed for their careful treatment of their subjects.

Its family-friendly storyline, universal themes and catchy music have resulted in numerous productions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ; according to the Really Useful Group, by 2008 more than 20, 000 schools and amateur theatre groups had successfully put on productions.

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In 1767, however, it was revived, and, on January 2, 1769, it united with the American Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge under the name " American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge ".

He also wrote An Essay on Electricity: Explaining the Theory and Practice of that Useful Science, and the Mode of Applying it to Medical Purposes ( London, 1784 ), which ran to four editions in his lifetime.

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Few persons are aware that the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge have done, and are still doing, more to ruin the Book trade than all the change of times, the want of money, the weight of taxes, and even the law of Libel have accomplished ; yet they-a committee of Noblemen and pretended Patriots-are permitted to go on in their unfeeling, nay, considering the hundreds of thousands engaged in the Book trade, we may add brutal, career, without interruption.

One significant set of publications by the SDUK was the Library of Useful Knowledge ; sold for a sixpence and published biweekly, its books focused on scientific topics.

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* Erskine, R., Democratic Architecture: The Universal and Useful Art, in: D. Lasdun ( ed.

* Thomas, Edward ( 1858 ) Essays On Indian Antiquities, Historic, Numismatic, And Palæographic, Of The Late James Prinsep, F. R. S., Secretary To The Asiatic Society Of Bengal ; To Which Are Added His Useful Tables, Illustrative Of Indian History, Chronology, Modern Coinages, Weights, Measures, Etc.

In December, 2007, Keith Olbermann devoted the closing segment of an episode of his show to a reading of " Bill O ' Reilly's Very Useful Advice for Young People ," a two-page cartoon / cover story by Perkins for the Village Voice.

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Useful sources explaining the symbols and / or with comparisons of the alphabets used at different times are Campbell ( 1997: xii-xiii ), Goddard ( 1996: 10-16 ), Langacker ( 1972: xiii-vi ), Mithun ( 1999: xiii-xv ), and Odden ( 2005 ).

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In April 2010, Jerry, with Rich Cohen, published a memoir, When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man.

Like many other works in the new genre of popular scientific narratives — such as the Bridgewater Treatises and Humphry Davy's Consolations in Travel — the books of the Library of Useful Knowledge focused on natural theology and imbued scientific fields with concepts of progress: uniformitarianism in geology, the nebular hypothesis in astronomy, and the scala naturae in the life sciences.

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However, Mrs. Gaugain, in her 1840 The Lady's Assistant for Executing Useful and Fancy Designs in Knitting, Netting, and Crotchet Work, refers to " Tambour, or Crotchet ," then proceeds to call it " tambour " in all the instructions, indicating a strong connection believed in at the time of crochet's beginning, and that it was, perhaps, the older name.

Encyclopædia Britannica appeared in various editions throughout the century, and the growth of popular education and the Mechanics Institutes, spearheaded by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge led to the production of the Penny Cyclopaedia, as its title suggests issued in weekly numbers at a penny each like a newspaper.

" Why the Scottish Enlightenment Was Useful to the Framers of the American Constitution ," Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol.

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Many of these books are published in conjunction with the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Information.

* Philosophy of Religion Useful annotated index of religious philosophy topics.

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The said Patentee hath also projected a Very Useful Engine for starting of beer and other liquors which will deliver from 20 to 30 barrels an hour which are completely fixed with Brass Joints and Screws at Reasonable Rates.

Useful and skilful industry is the soul of an active life.

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Useful for reference purposes is that the expensive nard perfume spoken of in John 12: 3 and Mark 14: 3 is mentioned in Song 1: 12, 4: 13, 4: 14.

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Tecumseh Sherman, Late General, U. S. A. ( 1891 ) Useful 19th century biography.

The Evolution of Useful Things.