2 above), we read: 'See divers men
opinions!
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"
la la
To Carthage then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou
pluckest
me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
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Rain and dew are fluids born of the
intercourse
of Heaven and Earth, charged with cosmic energy.
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Such I created all th'
Ethereal
Powers 100
And Spirits, both them who stood & them who faild;
Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.
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Are you going to allow less than thirty
deserters
and
renegades to bestow the crown?
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ftchen sich heiter im alten
Holunder
fing,
In dem Schattengewo?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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Is it the usual an- archic-romantic
flirtation
with the abyss, the well-known playing with fire, which leads to the potential for conflict within the masses, a literary sharpening of an asocial explosive that every socialized subject carries within him?
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Uncarved
and unhewn,
Screened by nature with a roof of clouds.
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& wet thy veil with dewy tears, *
In
slumbers
of my night-repose, infusing a false morning?
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Blake - Zoas |
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I did not repeat the irregular quatraining I used in my
translation
of Labīd's lament.
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Translated Poetry |
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Everybody Talks about the Weather, but No One Does
Anything
about It 217
Sports and Games 221
42.
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liveth yetany
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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to Lord Chancellor Maupeou, argued that the theater, which he compared to the pulpit, had a unique ability to shape moeurs and to bind the French
together
into one nation.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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There is
evidence
in the Assises themselves that they were, in part at
all events, an adaptation of Western usages to the needs of a conquered
land where an ever-present enemy made war almost the normal state.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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and useful.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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Then again
she waited a few moments until she thought to herself, “He has gone to
sleep,” and
departed
to spend an hour with the landlady.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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That is to say, he does not care so much
what happens, as what the
personages
of the poem think and feel.
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Keats |
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Raquel Berman introduced the session, speaking of interminable elaboration as not only related to the Holocaust but
applicable
to all areas of trauma.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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Contemporary writers refer with horror
to the swarm of 'sects, heresies and schisms' which now came into
being, and Milton alone seems to have
understood
that the
turmoil was but the outward sign of a great spiritual awakening?
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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" said Candide, "dear Pangloss has often
demonstrated
to me that
the goods of this world are common to all men, and that each has an
equal right to them.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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La reserva más interesante para nosotros frente al holismo sobreten sionado viene
expresada
en la proposición que afirma «que cada uno de los elementos de un grupo no sólo es parte de la sociedad, sino algo más además de eso»248.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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From him it is that murder's thirst,
Blood-lapping,
inwardly
is nursed--
Ere time the ancient scar can sain,
New blood comes welling forth again.
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Aeschylus |
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I, my good Lord: safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty
trenched
gashes on his head;
The least a Death to Nature
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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What make you, master,
fumbling
at the oar?
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Emerson - Poems |
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I
love thee and,
highborn
or lowly, I will be thine, thine forever.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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I cannotsee thatanyofthedifferencecsitedbyAllardyceis so graveand so unnoticedin the discussionup to thispointas to
requireor
evenmake advisablethe abandonmentofthisconceptwhenused withscholarlycaution forscholarlypurposes.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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Happily,
however, she was not left to weigh and decide between opposite
inclinations and
doubtful
notions of right; there was no occasion to
determine whether she ought to keep Edmund and Mary asunder or not.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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THE
KNOCKING
AT THE DOOR, AND OTHERPOEMS.
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" His madness foiled his
reason, and a puzzled look spread over his face as, shaking his head
with a
decision
which I had but seldom seen in him, he said:--
"Oh no, oh no!
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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" said Alice,
swallowing
down her anger as well as she
could.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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The
Transcending
Perfection of Spiritual Endeavor or Effort (brtson.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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the
d
by
But he who has obtain 'd the meed
That crowns each fair and noble deed ,
With hope and joy
transported
glows .
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Pindar |
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239
man to be arrested, as a
reporter
of empty rumors, and one who had made his troubles more grievous than before on ac count of his foolish joy.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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Lady Russell and Anne paid their compliments to them once, when Anne
could not but feel that
Uppercross
was already quite alive again.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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34 Philosophical Retuning
use their intelligence freely again without perpetual
intimidation
by discourse police.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Somewhat different in origin were the Agricultural
Marketing
Acts ^^ tracing back to 1931.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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Hostile attacks
and derision touched him not; nay, he was known to laugh most
heartily of all the
spectators
when that sinner Aristophanes
exhibited him as a dreamer, abstracted from the world and hang-
ing in a hammock between heaven and earth; and when the
other comic poets made the public merry with his personal
appearance.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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He should now, he said, have no merit in it; all
the
restraint
he put upon himself would be imputed to the fear of
perjury.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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The 16th of July, the day on
which the Romans were defeated by the Gauls at the Allia, was deemed
unlucky, and no business was
transacted
on it.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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Though the later Hebrew
poets made use cf it, the early Hebrew poets, the
authors of the Psalms, used their
literary
ingenuity
in other ways, such as making alphabetical poems
like these Psalms.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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But I had ten
thousand
times
rather have been with you; now had not I, Mrs.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Mine arms enfold
That, which unswayed by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so
infinitely
far.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Answer: A sluggard; how
very pleasant it would have been to hear that of
oneself!
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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Am I false,
Or
infamous?
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Dryden - Complete |
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Daphnis too played on
Philetas’
pipe a love-song
and danced with Chloe the story of the origin of the pipe, Pan’s wooing
of the maid Syrinx.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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And it is
time to know them well and
describe
them well,
for the pious ones of the old belief die out also;
let us save their likeness and type, at least for the
sake of knowledge.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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I
resolved
that I would be free if running away
could make me so.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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[p21] Cronus ordered him to bury the beginnings, the middles and the ends of all
writings
in Heliopolis, the city of the Sippareni; to build a boat and embark on it with his close friends; to load the boat with food and drink, and to put on board every kind of bird and four-footed creature; and then, when all the preparations were complete, to sail away.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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The inversion of the
relation
between life and learning is in the air: the end of the belief in education, the end of European Scholasticism.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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Felim, son Hugh
O’Tuathail
(or O'Toole), lord Hy Murray (in Wicklow), died.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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spide, puede
sentirse
seguro.
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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Prince Henry, as another King of Prussia
might very well be imagined writing to another
brother Henry, "that it is only our
interest
which
makes it our duty to act at this moment, but we
must be very careful not to say so.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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In which thing seeing, the
_greatest_
and _chief perfection_ of
_Man_ consists, _I_ repute my self to have gain’d much by this days
_Meditation_, for that therein _I_ have discover’d the _Cause_ of
_Error_, _and Falshood_; which certainly can be no other then what _I_
have now Declared; for whenever in Passing my Judgement, _I_ bridle
my _Will_ so that it extend it self _only_ to those things which I
_clearly_ and _distinctly_ perceive, it is impossible that I can _Err_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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is
it, ;
6o flfliegtern S^actproloijp,
to answer 'em ; yet this one Thing would be sufficient, That in this Sessions, they Kad
Reversed
the Judgment againt this Ver- tuous, Pious, and Honourable Lord.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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His poems form the
synthesis
of
Donne and Butler.
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Marvell - Poems |
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For that investigation one must await the advent of a new order of
philosophers, such as will have other tastes and inclinations, the
reverse of those
hitherto
prevalent--philosophers of the dangerous
"Perhaps" in every sense of the term.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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^'* Here she filled the vessel borne with water, and instantly
of Erin,' and the special Patroness of the sancta puella
fideliter
ministrabat.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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To employers it then became
desirable
to remove the formal prohibi- tions on employer associations.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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Within oral communication, they can serve a
controlling
func- tion--as threats or warnings--so long as communication is working well otherwise.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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Indeed, those beds and bowers
Be
overgrown
with bitter weeds and rue,
And wait thy weeding; yet here's eglantine,
Here's ivy!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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But be-
cause he had no mind to retain his own name, which
was no good one, his first warrant was to be created
Cheney, which was an ancient barony expired, and
to which family he had not the least
relation
: and
for some days upon the signing the warrant he was
called lord Cheney, until a gentleman of the best
1 he] who
EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDON.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Romanticism meant - according to the thesis of these lectures - transferring all of the optical real into the imaginary world of the readers' souls, where it
naturally
could not be stored.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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What was simple in the beginning acquires
monstrous
proportions in the end.
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Chuang Tzu |
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A man lowers himself
by
frequenting
the society of Germans: the German
places every one on an equal footing.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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He says
indifferently
and alike, "_How are you, friend_?
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Whitman |
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)
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Never eye that can behold it,
Though it worketh first by seeing;
Nor conceit that can unfold it,
Though in
thoughts
be all its being.
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William Browne |
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Plato, a full-blooded Athenian, was teaching in
the Academy the intellectual and moral
theories
of his master, while
Antisthenes, a half-breed (his mother being a Thracian), was inculcating
the lesson of his heroic life in Cynosarges.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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The decree was not confirmed by the Assembly, owing
to the opposition of Eschines, who gave notice that he would bring
suit against Ctesiphon for
proposing
an illegal measure.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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1,=;I=: ;z';:;: tL:f
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: zi:i=;+;*;t-::rU::
=j=*i+=i
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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Cut it into the shape of
ordinary
cutlets, and serve up in a clean
table-cloth or dinner-napkin.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Ancient cryptography,
developed
by Julius Caesar and adopted by Augustus, was a simplistic game with the Latin alphabet.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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With many, the regular
payment of interest, by
occasional
grants, would suffice;
but with many more it would not.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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All these together, with what is yet to follow, amount to as strong Arguments and pregnant Circumstances as the
Nature of the Thing will bear, and mark out the
Murtherers
as plainly and visibly, as if they had come out of his Chamber with white Sleeves, and a long Knife in their Hands, bloody all over.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Individualism, then, is to be understood not as an accidental or
avoidable
current in the history of mentalities, but rather as an anthropo logical break which first made possible the emer gence of a type of human being surrounded by enough media and means ofdischarge to be able to individualize counter to its "societal precondi tions.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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The
same affection towards men is possible no doubt, but cannot be
commanded, for it is not in the power of any man to love anyone at
command; therefore it is only
practical
love that is meant in that
pith of all laws.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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The
same affection towards men is possible no doubt, but cannot be
commanded, for it is not in the power of any man to love anyone at
command; therefore it is only
practical
love that is meant in that
pith of all laws.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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The
same affection towards men is possible no doubt, but cannot be
commanded, for it is not in the power of any man to love anyone at
command; therefore it is only
practical
love that is meant in that
pith of all laws.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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Yet if we look more closely, we shall find
Most have the seeds of
judgment
in their mind: 20
Nature affords at least a glimm'ring light;
The lines, tho' touch'd but faintly, are drawn right.
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Alexander Pope |
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Yet if we look more closely, we shall find
Most have the seeds of
judgment
in their mind: 20
Nature affords at least a glimm'ring light;
The lines, tho' touch'd but faintly, are drawn right.
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Alexander Pope |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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concitaverit: 266
Semicinctia: 166
Seque eo dictante statuisse quod scribunt: 60
Serio: 94
Sermocinandi: 153
Sesterties an densrios: 171
Si difficilis ad eum fuisset accessus: 261
Si ex illiberali quaestu in diem vivunt: 173
Si impetrasset: 283
Si non annunciaveris ut se convertat: 143
Si non pergant usque in illos esse injusti et crudeles: 98
Sibi praesse: 49
Sic Galli sacrifici magnae Cybeles
caelibatum
genuerunt: 13
Sic praefati: 175
Sicut magis idonei erant cognitores: 36
Silentio.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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concitaverit: 266
Semicinctia: 166
Seque eo dictante statuisse quod scribunt: 60
Serio: 94
Sermocinandi: 153
Sesterties an densrios: 171
Si difficilis ad eum fuisset accessus: 261
Si ex illiberali quaestu in diem vivunt: 173
Si impetrasset: 283
Si non annunciaveris ut se convertat: 143
Si non pergant usque in illos esse injusti et crudeles: 98
Sibi praesse: 49
Sic Galli sacrifici magnae Cybeles
caelibatum
genuerunt: 13
Sic praefati: 175
Sicut magis idonei erant cognitores: 36
Silentio.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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Flat, clear drops of sweat
gathered
on everyone’s face, and on the men’s bare forearms.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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Flat, clear drops of sweat
gathered
on everyone’s face, and on the men’s bare forearms.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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When he woke up in a sweat besidus it was to pardon him, goldylocks, me having an airth, but he
daydreamsed
we had a lovelyt face for a pulltomine.
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Finnegans |
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When he woke up in a sweat besidus it was to pardon him, goldylocks, me having an airth, but he
daydreamsed
we had a lovelyt face for a pulltomine.
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Finnegans |
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Use well the
precious
time, it flips away so,
Yet method gains you time, if I may say so.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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‘You take my word, Miss, and don’t you let Miss Mayfill hear nothing about
A Clergyman’s Daughter 27 s
it It’d scare the life out of her If she thought as that tower wasn’t safe, we’d
never get her inside that church again ’
‘Oh dear 1 1 suppose not ’
‘No, Miss We shan’t get nothing out of her, the old-’
A ghostly B floated once more across
Proggett’s
lips His mind a little more
at rest now that he had delivered his fortnightly report upon the bells, he
touched his cap and departed, while Dorothy rode on into the High Street,
with the twin problems of the shop-debts and the Church Expenses pursuing
one another through her mind like the twin refrains of a villanelle
The still watery sun, now playing hide-and-seek.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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If a breath of
air stirred, it made no sound here; for there was not a holly, not an
evergreen to rustle, and the
stripped
hawthorn and hazel bushes were as
still as the white, worn stones which causewayed the middle of the path.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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‘You take my word, Miss, and don’t you let Miss Mayfill hear nothing about
A Clergyman’s Daughter 27 s
it It’d scare the life out of her If she thought as that tower wasn’t safe, we’d
never get her inside that church again ’
‘Oh dear 1 1 suppose not ’
‘No, Miss We shan’t get nothing out of her, the old-’
A ghostly B floated once more across
Proggett’s
lips His mind a little more
at rest now that he had delivered his fortnightly report upon the bells, he
touched his cap and departed, while Dorothy rode on into the High Street,
with the twin problems of the shop-debts and the Church Expenses pursuing
one another through her mind like the twin refrains of a villanelle
The still watery sun, now playing hide-and-seek.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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The resounding colours
with which you
sprinkle
your dress,
inspire the spirits of poets
with thoughts of dancing flowers.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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The resounding colours
with which you
sprinkle
your dress,
inspire the spirits of poets
with thoughts of dancing flowers.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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When I consider
your characters, fellow-soldiers, and reflect on your past achieve-
ments, I have great hopes of victory: your spirit, your age, your
virtue encourage me; and our
necessity
too, which even inspires
cowards with bravery,- for the narrowness of our position will
prevent the enemy's numbers from surrounding us.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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Harpourt had been worried to the point of death
had never
pubhshed
an3^hing.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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Let me never be
believed
again, if
I do not gallantly prove it by several people who have seen the light of
the day.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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