It is
more likely that his motives were mercenary, since both law
and custom still imposed some
restrictions
upon a senator's
participation in 'business'.
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Heracleitus
of Samos, stadion race
144th [204 B.
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The view of mahamudra does not involve thinking that mahamudra or mind are one thing or another, nor does ma- hamudra meditation involve
analyzing
thoughts.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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The Governor was strong upon
The
Regulations
Act:
The Doctor said that Death was but
A scientific fact:
And twice a day the Chaplain called,
And left a little tract.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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It happened that a
Man had often prayed to a wooden idol he had
received
from his
father, but his luck never seemed to change.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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What reason had the people for
thinking
that the great man had
come in the person of Mr.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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Pale as the silver cross of Savoy
When the hand that bears the flag is brave,
And not a breath is stirring, save
What is blown
Over the war-trump's lip of brass,
Ere
Garibaldi
forces the pass!
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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The difficulty lies not in carrying out the deed, but rather in
removing
its traces.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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Soon should their hopes in humble dust be laid,
And long
oblivion
of the bridal bed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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» «Que voulez-vous que j'y fasse,
répondit
le duc.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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Thus in the dreams of Little Hans, the horse comes to embody as unchallengeable a malefic power as the animals sacred to
primitive
peoples.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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‘the same
parliament
Statute and Commis 31.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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tendu dans son sang, lui, le secret effroi des Ro-
<< mains, alors me^me qu'au milieu des danses guerrie`res et des
chants de triomphe, ils emmenaient sa Thusnelda captive:
>> non, ne
regardez
pas!
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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"
I could not live at home; and while I was considering to what I should
betake me, one of the girls, who had gone from our school to London,
came down in a silk gown, and told her
acquaintance
how well she lived,
what fine things she saw, and what great wages she received.
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Samuel Johnson |
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THY soul
Grown
delicate
with satieties, Atthis.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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At last, the Angels prevailed, and
conducted
Brito's soul to the joys of paradise.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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(10) For
narrations
and relations of particular actions, there were also
to be wished a greater diligence therein; for there is no great action
but hath some good pen which attends it.
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Bacon |
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Now suppose England
to
discover
a process for making wine, so that it should become her
interest rather to grow it than import it: she would naturally divert a
portion of her capital from the foreign trade to the home trade; she
would cease to manufacture cloth for exportation, and would grow wine
for herself.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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" Or who would endure a converse
or friendship with that old man who to so large an experience of things
had joined an equal strength of mind and
sharpness
of judgment?
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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He again
stressed
Germany's colonial claims.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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"
answered
the Queen hastily; "but
it is madness, and must not be repeated.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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"
answered
the Queen hastily; "but
it is madness, and must not be repeated.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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I shall abide the first blow just as
I sit, and will stand him a stroke, stiff on this floor,
provided
that
I deal him another in return.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I shall abide the first blow just as
I sit, and will stand him a stroke, stiff on this floor,
provided
that
I deal him another in return.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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when the sleety showers her path assail, 270
And like a torrent roars the
headstrong
gale; [83]
No more her breath can thaw their fingers cold,
Their frozen arms her neck no more can fold;
[84] Weak roof a cowering form two babes to shield,
And faint the fire a dying heart can yield!
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William Wordsworth |
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A remonstrance with Alphenus, who had gained
and betrayed the confidence and
affection
of Catul-
lus.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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A remonstrance with Alphenus, who had gained
and betrayed the confidence and
affection
of Catul-
lus.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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Nothing in this license impairs or
restricts
the author's moral rights.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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A remonstrance with Alphenus, who had gained
and betrayed the confidence and
affection
of Catul-
lus.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to
organize
the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to
organize
the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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Of the whole
universe
of touch, sound, sight
The genitive and ablative to boot:
The accusative of wrong, the nominative of right,
And in all cases the case absolute!
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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Of the whole
universe
of touch, sound, sight
The genitive and ablative to boot:
The accusative of wrong, the nominative of right,
And in all cases the case absolute!
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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Le douloureux mystère de
cette
impossibilité
de jamais lui faire savoir ce que j'avais appris et
d'établir nos rapports sur la vérité de ce que je venais seulement de
découvrir (et que je n'avais peut-être pu découvrir que parce qu'elle
était morte) substituait sa tristesse au mystère plus douloureux de sa
conduite.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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I alone am
faithful!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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It
certainly
knows how to be big, though it doesn't know how to catch rats.
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Chuang Tzu |
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Aussitôt il fit
un nouveau
mouvement
en arrière.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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Hence the gods are alternately, and as the subject
requires, venerable or contemptible; and this could not but happen
through the want of some
acknowledged
religious standard, to which all
might with confidence refer.
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Satires |
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It
certainly
knows how to be big, though it doesn't know how to catch rats.
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Chuang Tzu |
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I
remember
how he
looked at me when I went in to him--do you remember?
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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No, pasture molehills used to lie
And talk to me of sunny days,
And then the glad sheep resting bye
All still in
ruminating
praise
Of summer and the pleasant place
And every weed and blossom too
Was looking upward in my face
With friendship's welcome "how do ye do?
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John Clare |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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He is perhaps
incarnate
in the newly elected Pope.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Li Po |
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Feeling
slightly
ashamed of himself, he sat up against the
bedhead.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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He is perhaps
incarnate
in the newly elected Pope.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Li Po |
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3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Li Po |
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XC
And thus, when of the tidesway he was clear,
And in the deepest sea his bark descried,
So that no longer distant signs appear
Of either shore on this or the other side,
He seized the tube, and said: "That cavalier
May never vail through thee his
knightly
pride,
Nor base be rated with a better foe,
Down with thee to the darkest deep below!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Li Po |
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"
Then they
recounted
tales,--
"There were stern stands
"And bitter runs for glory.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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As with Jensen, the writer Freud greets as a colleague, albeit one who was at the time a patient in the
Sonnenstein
asylum in Pima.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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His turban has fallen from his forehead,
To assist him the
bystanders
started--
His mouth foams, his face blackens horrid--
See the Renegade's soul has departed.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Whether that means the letter 'x' or what this letter means or
indicates
is unclear.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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The second fea- ture delineated in this description is that force
relations
are "immanent in the sphere in which they operate".
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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The hills untied their bonnets,
The
bobolinks
begun.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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A peering star blazed in its
piercing
stare.
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Translated Poetry |
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EDMONDS
This piece of
Anacreontean
verse is shown both by style and metre to be of late date, and was probably incorporated in the Bucolic Collection only because of its connexion in subject with the Lament for Adonis.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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One may deliberately choose to be unclear and to keep the enemy guessing either to keep his defenses less
prepared
or to enhance his anxiety.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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\Y/e know that the German university system was
perverted
from the search for truth (material truth in natural research) into a vast machine for conduct- ing the mental segment of the nation A W A Y from actual problems, getting them embedded and out of the way of the tyrants.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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Those violet-gleaming
butterflies
that take
Yon creamy lily for their pavilion
Are monsignores, and where the rushes shake
A lazy pike lies basking in the sun,
His eyes half shut,--he is some mitred old
Bishop in _partibus_!
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| Question: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past,
representing
a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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:
Excerpts
from Flaubert in Egypt,
translated and edited by Franscis Steegmuller.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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(a) depreciated the joy living and the
gratitude
felt towards Life, etc.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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The day which
dismissed the music-master was one of the happiest of
Catherine’s
life.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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"
The eyes of the wrinkled scholar glowed so intensely upon her, that
Hester Prynne clasped her hands over her heart,
dreading
lest he
should read the secret there at once.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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_The Old Love and the New_
Beware, for the dying vine can hold
The
strongest
oak.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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Carr, "a new and well-grounded pessimism about the prospects of the
European
revolution confirmed and reinforced the drive towards a temporary accommodation with the capitalist world.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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And life is among the things that are good and pleasant in themselves, since it is
determinate
and the determinate is of the nature of the good; and that which is good by nature is also good for the virtuous man (which is the reason why life seems pleasant to all men); but we must not apply this to a wicked and corrupt life nor to a life spent in pain; for such a life is indeterminate, as are its attributes.
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Aristotle copy |
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+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Oh, he was multiform--
Which then was he among the
manifold?
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Imagists |
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Any Catholic who wilfully
adopts this practice violates the law of God in a serious matter, and is
therefore guilty of mortal sin, an outrageous and deliberate insult offered
by a human
creature
to the Infinite Majesty.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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To this corresponds, on the attacking side, an escalation to an attack on the atmosphere through the use of toxic materials that penetrate the
protective
respiratory devices of the enemy.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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It is the fruition ofthe second level of the
Hinayana
path through contemplation on the twelve interdependent links in reverse order.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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And then,
voluptuousness
divine!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Also, the greater incidence in "high" stories of refer- ences to death and affliction was noted before in the
discussion
of responses to Picture 3?
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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The abandonment of the world of pet- rified transcendences resulted eo ipso in a sepa- ration from the pyramids, which served as immortalizing
machines
for the great dead.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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Even with its worn down profile the genetic
material
of Gaullism poses a volatile risk for Europe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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in Sylloge
Tacticorum
Grae-
corum.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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The war was unjust,
admitted
by
the enemy to be unjust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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Who can engage his fancy with
their match-makings and the conduct of their affections, when so many
daring and dazzling
heroines
approach and solicit his regard?
| Guess: |
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Still more
might it have been expected, when that dominion was
found to issue from the bosom of a free country, that
it would have carried with it the full benefit of the
vital principle of the British liberty and Constitution,
though its municipal forms were not communicable,
or at least the
advantage
of the liberty and spirit
of the British Constitution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edmund Burke |
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon
Turns Ashes--or it prospers; and anon,
Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face,
Lighting
a little hour or two--is gone.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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It has to do with a
profound
change that time has undergone as the form and condition under which we live our now mostly globalized world and produce experience (we may also call this change a transformation of our ''chronotope'').
| Guess: |
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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She gives her dainty finger tip
To thy sharp little bill
In
sportive
play -- a ruse, I trow,
Her longing love to still.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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Think
of thyself, O
Zarathustra!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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Pigmy seraphs gone astray,
Velvet people from Vevay,
Belles from some lost summer day,
Bees'
exclusive
coterie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Addison, when he was in Ireland, being introduced to her, immediately found her out; and, if he had not soon after left the kingdom, assured me he would have used all
endeavours
to cultivate her friendship.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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He was, in short,
fortunate
enough to have escaped the deadening effects of the formal
pedagogy of the schools.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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Yet for Love's shame and sweet humility,
She dared not meet him with their
queenlike
grace.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Nor couldst aught apply
Unto their members light enough and thin
For shift of aid--but
coolness
and a breeze
Ever and ever.
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Lucretius |
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Suddenly they heard
growling
and barking.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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So the Jay could do no better
than go back to the other Jays, who had watched his
behaviour
from
a distance; but they were equally annoyed with him, and told him:
"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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It costs them
scarcely
any thing, we find.
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La Fontaine |
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He conquered these countries, and settled some of their
inhabitants
on the right-hand shore of the Euxine Sea.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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He who contemplates war and its
uniformed
pos-
## p.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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Si tu m'avais
regardee
tu m'aurais aimee.
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Oscar Wilde |
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What was
becoming
to Phoebus, to whom
is it not becoming?
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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