Quid datur a Divis felici
optatius
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Hymen o Hymenaee!
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By definition, LIQUID is what seeks to obey gravity rather than
maintain
its form, forgoes all form to obey its gravity.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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He became an archetype of the scholar-painter, and his genius allowed him to be
appropriated
later as the founder of the Southern School of landscape painting, though none of his paintings survive.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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By the turning, once again,
The moon
thniwfeh
up your visage wan,
And yet too late to call you back.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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For if truth is only sensation, and one
man's discernment is as good as another's, and every man is his own
judge, and everything that he judges is right and true, then {90} what
need of Protagoras to be our
instructor
at a high figure; and why
should we be less knowing than he is, or have to go to him, if every
man is the measure of all things?
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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Que el papado,
además, se
presentara
temporalmente cismático, como monstruo
con dos, a veces incluso con tres, cabezas, hacía del encuentro en
tre ser y signo algo chillonamente grotesco.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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Congress
should go on the air.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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'
'My dear
Archbishop
Manning,' Mr.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Staff
turnover
is likely to be high and the chance of staff burn-out great.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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But at such now no more of her veil or her fillet a-floating
Had she regard: on thee, O
Theseus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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But at such now no more of her veil or her fillet a-floating
Had she regard: on thee, O
Theseus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I tremble with
pleasure
when I
think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the
lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir
into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss
the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for
me.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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In the physiology of the senses these thresh- olds cannot be
determined
too exactly.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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He continued to work on his Memoirs, and viewed as a member of the political opposition, a great
literary
figure, and a champion of freedom, was celebrated at the Revolution of 1848, during which period of turmoil he died.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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She understood the
Platonic
and Epicurean philosophy, and judged very well of the defects of the latter.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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For over thirty years this
inimitable humorist used the public theatre to lash the follies, and
hold up to
contempt
the wretched leaders, of the Athenian populace,
pointing out to his countrymen the abyss of destruction that was yawning
before them.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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FAUST:
Hat sich dir was im Kopf
verschoben?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I had sat within that marble circle where the
oldest bard is as the young,
And the pipe is ever
dropping
honey, and the
lyre's strings are ever strung.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Et
maintenant
que le plus dur est passé, ne serait-il pas à
souhaiter qu'elle laissât passer ce mois?
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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For in these all must be directed to the concep- tion of the law as a
determining
principle, if the action is to contain morality and not merely legality.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
posted with permission of the
copyright
holder), the work can be copied
and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
or charges.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"You are not very
vulnerable
from above," Holmes remarked as he
held up the lantern and gazed about him.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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For the time being he just lay
there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in
would seriously have
expected
him to let the chief clerk in.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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Apart from the truth of
Soloviev's conception of evil and the Anti-Christ,
which, of course, can be
disputed
on more grounds
than one, the fact that Tolstoy, with his preaching
dmt as a forerunner of the Anti-Christ, shows all
the signs of a bias, sincere and involuntary, no doubt,
but nevertheless hardly justified in fact; particularly so in the light of Soloviev's own- opinion that iHe
element of Anti-Christ has been present in all the
- historical forms of Christianity, and, we may add,
--f was not entirely absent from even his own system.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Apart from the truth of
Soloviev's conception of evil and the Anti-Christ,
which, of course, can be
disputed
on more grounds
than one, the fact that Tolstoy, with his preaching
dmt as a forerunner of the Anti-Christ, shows all
the signs of a bias, sincere and involuntary, no doubt,
but nevertheless hardly justified in fact; particularly so in the light of Soloviev's own- opinion that iHe
element of Anti-Christ has been present in all the
- historical forms of Christianity, and, we may add,
--f was not entirely absent from even his own system.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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" Being reprinted immediately
in the "Home Journal," it was copied into various
publications
with the
name of the editor, N.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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In
1856-7 Sir John Simeon printed in the
_Miscellanies_
of the
Philobiblon Society several 'Unpublished Poems of Donne'.
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Donne - 2 |
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Phaedra
The son of that Amazon mother:
You must know that prince I myself
oppressed
so long?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"In all battles, a moment occurs, when the bravest troops, after having
made the greatest efforts, feel
inclined
to run.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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But it seemed entirely opportune
to the public which read and admired it, and it
continued
to be
a sort of symbolic book to the party which set its hopes on Frederick
prince of Wales, and, after his death in 1751, with perhaps more
show of reason, on his son, afterwards king George III.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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Very well; but
others will come who will
understand
them, and
who will also have understood me" (p.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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307; the idea of the hierarchy of,
308; the
misunderstanding
of, under the pres-
sure of a self-effacing morality, 309.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this
agreement
violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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" said the wife, "these
gentlemen!
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Compared
with genuine
personal
advantages, such as a great mind or a
great heart, all the privileges of rank or birth, even of royal birth,
are but as kings on the stage to kings in real life.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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China, essentially an agricultural country, was economically
self-sufficient,
producing
everything needed by her population.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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had in the past
participated
in the aggression.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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One does not undergo his bad faith; one is not
infected
with it; it is not a state.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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You must tame your own shortcomings and cultivate
impartial
pure perception, for a biased attitude will not let you shoulder the Mahayana teachings.
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One day--oh, bitter
thought!
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Hugo - Poems |
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1610
`And
thenketh
wel, that som tyme it is wit
To spende a tyme, a tyme for to winne;
Ne, pardee, lorn am I nought fro yow yit,
Though that we been a day or two a-twinne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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This then
the Apostle doth not
cursorily
speak of, but doth heedfully notice, writing to Timothy, Be thou mindful, that Christ Tim.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
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Appoloinaire |
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The old owls might have hallooed if they durst,
But joy just then was up and
whistled
bye
A merry tune which I had known full long,
But could not to my memory wake it back,
Until the ploughman changed it to the song.
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John Clare |
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quence la plus
naturelle
tire?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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had in the past
participated
in the aggression.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Stephen Crane |
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Her
interest
in the great practical problems that concern
her country is illustrated in the series of Stories of Capital and
Labor,' which at the present writing stand for her latest work.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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eleven
30 JANUARY 1974
The problem of
diagnosis
in medicine and psychiatry.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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A new
test, The First Public Examination before Moderators' (who
were empowered to award honours), was set up mid-way in the
degree course, and two new schools, Natural Science and Law and
Modern History were made; subsequently, the latter school became
two and
Theology
was added.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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Frightened, I sheltered at the Green Grave,[59] where the frozen
grasses are few:
Stealthily I crossed the Yellow River, at night, on the thin ice,
Suddenly
I heard Han[60] drums and the sound of soldiers coming:
I went to meet them at the road-side, bowing to them as they came.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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MID-FLIGHT
We rush, a black throng,
Straight
upon darkness:
Motes scattered
By the arc's rays.
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Imagists |
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O sonho, porém,
substitui
tudo.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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e
rumo{ur}
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Nor in ought more this worlds decay appeares,
Then that her influence the heav'n forbeares,
Or that the
Elements
doe not feele this,
The father, or the mother barren is.
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Donne - 1 |
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To conclude, consider later, confirming evidence from two exact literary his- torians, who have
registered
the central fact and its preconditions.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Henceforth there burnt in them a fanati-
cal love of equality which loathes as feudalism any
and every advantage of birth, however innocent,
and the
measureless
self-consciousness of the
Fourth Estate, which in France is unable to forget
how the existence of the State once rested on the
points of its pikes.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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" (l2 27, 675/567) god is justice in that he does not abandon the world but
maintains
his relation to creation by means of a divine purpose.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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LVI
How is it then that certain
external
things are said to be natural, and
other contrary to Nature?
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To discardthese and otherconceptsforthatreasonwouldbetoabandonthecapacitytoorder and
makecomprehensibltehegreatmassofhistoricalfactswithwhichthey
areconcerned.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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Is this rationality not
necessarily
beyond us?
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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The Croatians laughed aloud as they cast
little children into the midst of the flames,
even while they stretched out to them
their
suppliant
hands.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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PLUNGE
WOULD bathe myself in
strangeness
: These comforts heaped upon me,
smother me !
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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You are sad when others chaff,
And grow merry as they laugh;
I that hate it, and am free,
Laugh and weep as
pleaseth
me.
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e marchal,
In
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Hence arises the need of new
translations
of old
classics.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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And I say that the expressed, sensible and
unfolded
being does not constitute the fundamental essence of actuality, but is a conse- quence and effect of it.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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If you do not charge
anything
for copies of this
eBook, complying with the rules is very easy.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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They
deserted
Nerd
1 In the life of Nero, which is lost.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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It is an arduous task to preserve
morality
from the corruption of riches, and to be a Numa after surpassing so many Croesuses.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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236 (#260) ############################################
CHAPTER X
PLAYS OF UNCERTAIN AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTED
TO SHAKESPEARE
THE
foundations
of the Shakespearean apocrypha were laid
while the dramatist was still alive, when a number of plays, in the
composition of most of which he could have had no hand, were
entered upon the Stationers' register as his, or were published
with his name or initials on the title-page.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Of these sensation
originates
no action; this is plain from the fact
that the lower animals have sensation but no share in action.
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Aristotle |
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"But at the brook we'll meet,
That ripples down the
boundary
line;
There you may wed, and Heaven shall see't.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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For some minutes the whole court was in
confusion
and by the time they
had settled down again, the cook had disappeared.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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Then they set out for home, but on the way they had some dispute or
some
argument
together, for Jack was not well pleased to hear he had
spent the night with his wife, and Bill got angry, and he struck Jack
with the rod, and turned him to a green stone.
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Yeats |
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" The De Eloquio is ever
excellent
testimony of the way in which, a great artist approaches the detail of metier.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Secondly, it is peace because it is completely free from
anything
rough and coarse or harsh.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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"At Montebello, I ordered
Kellermann to attack with eight hundred horse, and with these he
separated the six
thousand
Hungarian grenadiers, before the very eyes
of the Austrian cavalry.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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It has
destroyed
its near neighbors.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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Published
by Houghton, Mimin & Co.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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Time was (my
fortunes
then were at the best)
When at my house I lodged this foreign guest;
He said, from Ithaca's fair isle he came,
And old Laertes was his father's name.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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She visits
Serenely
down the busy stream
the Boot-maker.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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this
breach be upon thee:
therefore
his name was called Pharez.
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bible-kjv |
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We say then that
intermediate
existence is so called because it is intermediate between two realms of rebirth, but it is itself not a realm of rebirth.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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" The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this attitude is dangerous, If the meaning of the words "machine" and "think" are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is
difficult
to escape the conclusion that the meaning and the answer to the question, "Can machines think?
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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to feel that one's
condition
is a
danger).
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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And in chapter 52 he talks of holding on to the Mother, even after we have become aware of her sons, and he says that one who does so will remain free from harm
throughout
his life:
There was a beginning of the universe
Which may be called the Mother of the universe.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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'
'It was me,'
muttered
Hareton.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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The
ordering
of the book posed substantial difficulties.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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In his dream he becomes
aware first of the effects, which he explains by a subsequent hypothesis
and becomes persuaded of the purely
conjectural
nature of the sound.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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The weakness of the circulating ad hoc explanations for the unexpected
eruptions
of violence in France is revealed primarily by the fact that most of them attempted to identify the riots as mere momentous symbolic actions, though the interpretations of the symbolized affects varied significantly: depending on the inclination of the interpreter, they ranged from help- less anger through a subsequent need to revenge chronic humiliation up to manifestations of pure "pleasure in evil.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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This he was easily persuaded to do; and the
three passed weeks and months of a
languorous
and alluring intercourse
among the lakes and the seductive influence of romantic Italy.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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Perhaps in twenty-five
years, we shall plunge into another, so much worse
that we shall then be
compelled
to realize our plight
and act accordingly.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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9 1 Now when Maximus set out to the war the guard
remained
at Rome; 2 and between them and the populace such a rioting broke out that it led to a domestic war,41 to the burning of the greater part of Rome, the defiling of the temples, and the pollution of all the streets with blood — when Balbinus, a somewhat mild man, proved unable to quell the rioting.
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Historia Augusta |
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1 The confession by Derrida quoted at the start, namely that he held two completely oppos ing convictions as to his continued presence as an
1 Franz Borkenau, End and Beginning: On the
Generations
of Cultures and the Origin of the West (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001).
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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In the very
act of deception, amid all the accompaniments, the agitation in the
voice, the expression, the bearing, in the crisis of the scene, there
comes over them a belief in themselves; this it is that acts so
effectively and
irresistibly
upon the beholders.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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That seems
1 The difficult word 'Vorstellung' we have rendered throughout as 'idea', sometimes
enclosing
the word 'image' in brackets afterwards where this sense seems more appropriate.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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In this positive view, to translate is to construct a bridge, to negotiate meaning, to make witness, to reconcile, to melt and refreeze an ice cube, or to resurrect--a` la Pound, to gather the
scattered
limbs of Osiris so that their "reunited energies assert themselves.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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