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He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.
Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.
His presence there, asleep in the grass, confirmed all that Mary Jane believed it was in his power to teach her: freedom from the tedium of needs such as hotels, the meaning of nature, how to live, simply, with the angels.
She felt the look and looked back because she could not help it, seeing that he was neither as old nor as thick as she had at first believed.
The founder of the Junior Showmanship Competition the late Leonard Brumby, Sr. ( for whom the trophy is named after at Westminster ) was an outstanding Handler and believed a Junior should have an opportunity to exhibit in a dog show starting with the Junior Showmanship Division.
The merit of the pie, Vernon believed, was due more to its making than to the waning heat of the oven.
The increase in oxygen uptake rates from 1.2 to 2.6 mg/l/hr which followed an increase in rotor speed was believed to be related to resuspension of solids which had settled at the lower rotor speeds.
It is believed that Hudson was related to other seafaring men of the Muscovy Company and was trained on company ships.
The route which he had traveled and which he believed might develop into a trade route was followed by his settlers earlier than he might have expected.
Here was a cause she believed in.
The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).
As you approach the church on the Via D. Baullari you are passing within yards of the remains of the Roman Theatre of Pompey, near which is believed to have been the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated.
It suddenly seemed very important to me that Mary Jane Brennan should know the truth about me -- that I was not the confused, sick, irresponsible person she believed me to be.
It was first believed the bomb was rigged to the car's starter.
We have not the leisure, or the patience, or the skill, to comprehend what was working in the mind and heart of a then recent graduate from the Harvard Divinity School who would muster the audacity to contradict his most formidable instructor, the majesterial Andrews Norton, by saying that, while he believed Jesus `` like other religious teachers '', worked miracles, `` I see not how a miracle proves a doctrine ''.
Mr. Philip Toynbee affirms at one point that if he shared the anticipations of Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, if he believed Communism was not only evil but `` also irredeemably evil '', then he might `` think it right to do anything rather than to take the risk of a communist world.
But actually these accounts reveal the supernatural powers that the masters were in fact supposed to possess, as well as the extreme degree of popular credulity: `` Hwang Pah ( O Baku ), one day going up Mount Tien Tai which was believed to have been inhabited by Arhats with supernatural powers, met with a monk whose eyes emitted strange light.
He believed in being seen near the front lines and he was there.
A tribe in ancient India believed the earth was a huge tea tray resting on the backs of three giant elephants, which in turn stood on the shell of a great tortoise.
Even if that's all the promise he ever gave or ever will give, the giving of it once was enough and you believed it then and you will always believe it, even when it is finally the only thing in the world you have left to believe, and the whole world is telling you that one was a lie.
Something in the back of his mind was aware that the magnificence of the plan lay in his faith, that the idea would work because he believed in it, since his courage and virility were involved, because it was truly his.

was and Encyclopédie
He was a prominent person during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder and chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d ' Alembert.
In 1759, the Encyclopédie was formally suppressed.
It was 12 years, in 1772, before the subscribers received the final 27 folio volumes of the Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers since the first volume had been published.
Although the Encyclopédie was Diderot's monumental piece, he was the author of many other works that sowed nearly every field of intellectual interest with new and creative ideas.
The Encyclopédie was edited by Jean le Rond d ' Alembert and Denis Diderot and published in 17 volumes of articles, issued from 1751 to 1765, and 11 volumes of illustrations, issued from 1762 to 1772.
The prospectus stated an ambitious goal: the Encyclopédie was to be a systematic analysis of the " order and interrelations of human knowledge.
In part, it was conceived in reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d ' Alembert ( published 1751 – 1772 ), which had been inspired by Chambers's Cyclopaedia ( first edition 1728 ).
The philosopher Denis Diderot was Editor in Chief of the famous Enlightenment accomplishment, the 72, 000 article Encyclopédie ( 1751 – 1772 ).
While in Paris, Rousseau became a close friend of French philosopher Diderot and, beginning with some articles on music in 1749, contributed numerous articles to Diderot and D ' Alembert's great Encyclopédie, the most famous of which was an article on political economy written in 1755.
Clement XIII placed the Encyclopédie of D ' Alembert and Diderot on the Index, but this index was not as effective as it used to be in the previous century.
In France, Enlightenment was based in the salons and culminated in the great Encyclopédie ( 1751 – 72 ) edited by Denis Diderot ( 1713 – 1784 ) with contributions by hundreds of leading philosophes cousins.
He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie.
The Marquise was a liberal at heart and she steadily defended the Encyclopédie against the attacks of the Church.
The classic illustrated description of 18th century marquetry-making was contributed by Roubo to the Encyclopédie des Arts et Métiers, 1770.
The school's first director, from 1747 until 1794, was Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, engineer, civil service administrator and a contributor to the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d ' Alembert.
His work was later used by Dennis Diderot in the article " Etymologie " in Encyclopédie as a cautionary example of deceptive linking of etymology with mythical history.
Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers () was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations.
As of 1750, the full title was Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres, mis en ordre par M. Diderot de l ' Académie des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Prusse, et quant à la partie mathématique, par M. d ' Alembert de l ' Académie royale des Sciences de Paris, de celle de Prusse et de la Société royale de Londres.
The Encyclopédie was an innovative encyclopedia in several respects.
According to Denis Diderot in the article " Encyclopédie ", the Encyclopédies aim was " to change the way people think ".
The Encyclopédie was originally conceived as a French translation of Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia ( 1728 ).
The material was arranged in an alphabetical dictionary form by M. L. Badiche, for inclusion in Migne's Encyclopédie théologique, under the title " Dictionnaire des ordres religieux " ( 5 vols., I 858 ).

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