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Ivans : (1) Ivan the Great, Ivan III (1440-1505), Grand Duke of Moscow (1462-1505); (2) Ivan the Terrible, Ivan IV (1530-84), Grand Duke of Moscow, Czar in 1547.

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... successors in France, by the House of Castile in Spain and by the Romanoffs and their predecessors in Russia is still more prominent. In the last of these instances, one might almost say that without the Ivans, Peters and Catherines there would have been no Russia. And even in modern times, the almost mediaeval role played by the Hohenzollerns in the unification and growth of Germany was watched with an uneasy ...

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... elementary school... Until you accede to my request I shall hunt through the Encyclopedic. Oh, I shall be certain to draw out what I want! Meanwhile she was moved by the pedagogical enthusiasm of Ivan Betsky, who had traveled in Sweden, Germany, Holland, Italy, and France, had frequented the salon of Mme. Geoffrin, had studied the Encyclopedic, and had met Rousseau. In 1763 she organized at ...

... earlier discussions with them, Catherine may have approved their plan to seize the Emperor in Page 24 Peter III his room in the Winter Palace, just as the guards d seized Ivan VI and his mother, and had proclaimed Elizabeth twenty-one years earlier. The departure of Peter for Oranienbaum had thwarted1 this plan, and they had then adopted Panin's proposal to arrest Peter ...

... villages of Latin America. Pedagogy of the Oppressed was first published in Great Britain by Sheed and Ward in 1972. Many people today are writing and thinking about education in radical terms. Ivan D. Illich for instance, in Deschooling Society argues that school is one of the major means by which the status quo is preserved. He points out that school is not only inefficient in terms of education ...

... Ruru even catches the vision splendid, sees "the dawn of that mysterious Face/And all the universe in beauty merge"; and yet - he will not accept the promised e Felicity; he would give back, in Ivan Karamazov's deadly expression, "the ticket". It is Priyumvada he wants, and he must have her back; the rest is nothing - less  than nothing - to Ruru. Ruru is now once again in the world of ...

... 2) eno—confirming (1) from another stand-point & throwing light on Vedic images in the hymns to the Aswins (Kaksh[ivan]) read yesterday & today. enodate. enodatio—confirming (1) from another stand-point & throwing light on Vedic images in the hymns to the Aswins (Kaksh[ivan]) read yesterday & today. Lipi, rupa etc are now taking the pragmatic turn more decidedly; but this is not yet extended ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Record of Yoga

... might take the line: Life, life, I'll make no impossible demands on it; life's worth living so long as there's an ounce of vodka or a single woman in the world; let me drink life to the lees! His son, Ivan the intellectual, might call it an "insect's life", but the hardened old sinner recks not. Materialism, of course, needn't degenerate into Karamazovism or mere hedonism, but even at its best it is a ...