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Nimrod's Hunting Tours: Interspersed with Characteristic Anecdotes, Sayings ... - Page 34
by Nimrod - 1926 - 294 pages
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The Passions of the Human Soul, Volume 1

Charles Fourier - 1851 - 476 pages
...sacrilegious, by pretending to equal ourselves with God, who alone enjoy eth the universal science. Se non e vero e ben trovato, ("if it is not true it is cleverly devised") ; but this is not the secret of the problem; the secret is found in the partition...
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A Dictionary of English Phrases: Phraseological Allusions, Catchwords ...

Albert Montefiore Hyamson - 1922 - 392 pages
...Ben. [Benjamin Ben trovato (Hal., well found) : well invented. The phrase is derived from the remark Se non e vero, e ben trovato (If it is not true, it is certainly well invented), attrib. to Hippolito, Card. d'Este (1479-1520), patron of learning, on the...
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Donizetti and His Operas

William Ashbrook - 1982 - 766 pages
...who has waded through much nineteenth-century Italian material on composers knows that the principle 'se non e vero, e ben trovato" (if it is not true, it is a plausible invention) is frequently met. Probably Donizetti did hear Normo that season at La Scala,...
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Breaking with Communism: The Intellectual Odyssey of Bertram D. Wolfe

Robert Hessen - 1990 - 332 pages
...quote in question was manifestly the work of that famous Italian writer Senone, whose full name is se non e vero, e ben trovato (if it is not true, it is well-founded). Wolfe gave the following speech in New York before the Tamiment Institute public forum....
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Diazonaphthoquinone-based Resists

Ralph Dammel - 1993 - 220 pages
...substantiated after such a long time, it is certainly well described with the words of Dante Alighieri: "Si non e vero, e ben trovato" (if it is not true, it has been well invented). [II] Azoplate Corp., US patent 2,766, 118(1 956). [12] In the early sixties,...
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The Search for Terrestrial Intelligence

Mieczyslaw Taube, Klaus Leenders - 1998 - 456 pages
...tool for deception, for lying, for transportation of intentional false information (Section 7.4.4) The Italian proverb Se non e' vero, e' ben trovato, (If it is not true, it has been found well) explains this property of human speech in an excellent way. 6.5.2 Animal communication;...
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What it Contains

Kurt H. Wolff - 2002 - 194 pages
...applied to human relations. We follow the same sequence of permutations as previously described. 1 — K Se non e vero e ben trovato (If it is not true it is well put). An acquaintance told me about his relationship with a newly appointed secretary. After a...
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Theoretical Concepts in Physics: An Alternative View of Theoretical ...

Malcolm S. Longair - 2003 - 592 pages
...places, my exculpation can only be the words attributed to Giordano Bruno, 'Si non e vero, e molto ben trovato' (if it is not true, it is a very good invention). My intention is that all advanced undergraduates in physics should be able to profit from...
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Annotations to <i>Finnegans Wake</i>

Roland McHugh - 2006 - 660 pages
...(the suit) <sombre> Arch grafe: work ph cock a snook Lewis Carroll: Hunting of the Snark damned It pr se non e vero, e ben trovato (if it is not true, it is a happy invention) Kilturk, Co. Fermanagh Viking The Operations of the Belgian Army (Anon.) 10: Bjflrnson,...
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Florence Nightingale on Social Change in India: Collected Works of Florence ...

Lynn McDonald, rard Vall&#233 - 2007 - 952 pages
...levy from them 6 lakhs to pay 3 lakhs to government. And government declined the zemindar's present." Se non e vero, e ben trovato [if it is not true, it is a fine invention] . Our triumphant reception of General [Frederick Sleigh] Roberts in England has excited...
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