Is the diffusion of truth to be
estimated
by
publications; or publications by the truth, which they diffuse or at
least contain?
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She had
resolved
that
he should perish.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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'^ In the
Metrical
Life, St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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[Various editions of Shadwell's
seventeen
plays, with a general
title prefixed.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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A single tree becomes thus the crowning
beauty of some meadowy vale, and the
expression
of the whole
surrounding forest is at once more spirited for it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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In city parks, national parks, provincial or state parks, eco-parksöeverywhere people must create for themselves rules according to which their
comportment
is to be governed.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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Now, in such
exigencies
not to need,
Upon my word, you must be rich indeed;
A noble superfluity it craves,
Not for yourself, but for your fools and knaves:
Something, which for your honour they may cheat,
And which it much becomes you to forget.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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In vain their fond
Opinions
you deride,
With their lov'd Follies they are satisfy'd;
And their weak Judgment, void of Sence and Light,
Thinks nothing can escape their feeble sight:
Their dang'rous Counsels do not cure, but wound;
To shun the Storm, they run your Verse aground,
And thinking to escape a Rock, are drown'd.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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En concordancia con tradi ciones platónicas, Maimónides habla de la bienaventuranza puramente es
piritual
del alma, que consiste en la presencia y en el constante reconoci miento de Dios.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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With German Idealism, a clus- ter of
professors
had occupied the heavens of grand theory; now, civil-servant idealists in the late-feudal state enshrined the precarious unity of throne and philosophy.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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Like
butterflies
our moments are,
They pass, and death is all our gain ;
One April hour is sweeter far
Than all December's gloomy reign.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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Through its
branches
rushed a rainy wind and
through the wind came the voice of a little child.
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Tennyson |
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At the first general Protestant synod,
held at Kosminek, 1555, a union was effected
between them and the
Reformed
or Calvinistic
churches.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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The deed is, of course, also the most
difficult
thing, for it demands courage.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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Further, he has an instinct for "timing," for choosing the
favorable
moment.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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She watches the
creeping
stalk and counts.
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Imagists |
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"
if
Such were the tempests that vexed the
turbulent
East.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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+ Refrain from automated
querying
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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Both books are printedin
typewritecrharactersand
are thereforedifficulto read.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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The bracelet was of inimitable workmanship, adorned with gems, and had
been given by the
enchantress
Morgana to a favourite youth, who was
rescued from her wiles by Orlando.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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It will prove
inevitable
that the hegemonic powers will begin to blabber out of line in their counter-critiques.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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In this contro
versy the antithesis of >wm and 6i
developed
after the ancient prototype.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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Again, there is the case of Humboldt's nurse, who was attacked one
day by the
temptation
to kill her charge, and ran with him to his
mother in order to avoid a disaster.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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"
'The Codex
Kilkenniensis
MS.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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wounded in the head, that it was thought
impossible
he could recover.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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"
The
festivity
is carried on far into the night,
with Vivats to the bridegroom and bride, to
Napoleon and the leaders of the legiohs.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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, and was a
Divining
Cup.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And in
this way my thesis is to be
understood
and con-
## p.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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By nature he was kindly and social,
and, though severe in judging his own work, he was
generous
in ad-
miring the poetry of others.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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Some attribute this miracle to productive synergy: when fused, the two companies suppos- edly
complement
and boost each other's efficiency.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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If the pimples are few in number the flesh is
comparatively
sweet, but if they be numerous it gets watery and flaccid.
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Aristotle copy |
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Thanks to these forms of ‘deep play’ (as one sometimes calls deeply involving ritual acts), Islamic doctrines are connected to a heavily emotional memoactive
22
a
‘virgin
birth of the Qur'an’.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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Prime Minister Netanyahu ignored the call as he continued with expansion of housing developments as a way to firm his party’s ideological base and offer
alternatives
to unaffordable urban real estate which has recently featured as a major campaign issue.
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Kleiman International |
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# When
Demetrius
undertook an expedition into Lydia, he left Heracleides in charge of Athens in his absence.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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return of the true into what can be
perceived
as true, a re- newed and deepened investigation of knowledge and sensuality.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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It has been the habit of Europe to idealize love at the expense of
friendship and so to place too heavy a burden on the
relation
of man and
woman.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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He was our Eng-
lish Homer, not merely because he
translated
him, but because he
stood in the same lofty relation to English poetry that Homer did to
Greek.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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That dominant de-
pression is primarily fought by weapons which
reduce the
consciousness
of life itself to the
lowest degree.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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gelocen
leoðocræftum
= (1) _spell-bound_ (Th.
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Beowulf |
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As for the subject, Euripides received
it from Phrynichus, and
doubtless
from other sources.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"
Utilitarian considerations, which formed the practical side of
the empirical
philosophy
of the period, also played a pro minent part in orthodox belief; either on the ground of the tangible use of the doctrines of the Church in promoting social order, or with a view to the transcendental benefits implied in the divine reward of virtue.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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Still as a
bloodhound
follows on his track,
Sad he went on.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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" " Sayest
thou so, my lass," cried GromweU, ^« call Goodwyn
—this
business
out of the room.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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,
Problems
of Form, trans.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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This conceptual approach offers several
important
advantages:
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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Our activities of production and
enjoyment
of wealth
attain that spirit of wholeness when they are blended with a creative
ideal.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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Looking at the subject superficially, the collective as such (or
whatever
we want to call ‘society’) is suffering at present from all the experiences related to the production of the feeling of shortage.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Cả con
tbỉẽu
h?
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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Happily for them the names of most of these
mighty
personages
are not known.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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How is it
possible?
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Foucault-Live |
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This music is
successful
with a "dying fall"
Now that we talk of dying--
And should I have the right to smile?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Catuli
Veronensis
liber incipit ad Cornelium I_ D: Q.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Let me touch that hand that has
conquered
so many bar barian races !
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Yet when I heard your name the first far time
It seemed like other names to me, and I
Was all unconscious, as a
dreaming
river
That nears at last its long predestined sea;
And when you spoke to me, I did not know
That to my life's high altar came its priest.
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Sara Teasdale |
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THROUGH THE CENTURIES
The King's method was to set Ovid adrift in a
ship, first
granting
his request for a supply of
pens, paper and parchment.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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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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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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She has shown, more than any other one poet, how free verse can be as finely
polished
as verse in rhyme and regular metre.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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Ainsi l'amant sur un corps adore
Du
souvenir
cueille la fleur exquise.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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dormancy
the elm beg;ns ro llrow (600.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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No higher or
unexpected
tribute to his vanity and power could possibly have been paid.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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And therefore, if this
sacrament
had been consecrated
then, or reserved, when His soul was really separated from His body,
Christ's soul would not have been under this sacrament, not from any
defect in the form of the words, but owing to the different
dispositions of the thing contained.
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Summa Theologica |
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[1496]
_Quidnam
igitur faciam.
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Satires |
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These intriguing facts reflect the over- whelming dominance of the state
propaganda
system and its ability to set the terms of thought and discussion, even fOr those who believe
THE INDOCHINA WARS (I): VIED/AM I8S
themselves to be taking an "adversarial stance.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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As for the other Antinous, Blazes Boylan, he is doomed to be
ridiculous
from the very start of his adulterous journey to Eccles Street, and we end with pity rather than hate.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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" is now
gleefully
brought on
the scene as an advocate of Christ, in order to cast
suspicion on all that is known or knowable as being
mere appearance, and to erect the Cross on the ap-
palling background of the Impossibility of Know-
ledge.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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One of them had been
transmitted
to Louvain.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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We know who once, and in what shrine with you-
The he-goats looked aside- the light nymphs laughed-
MENALCAS
Ay, then, I warrant, when they saw me slash
Micon's young vines and trees with
spiteful
hook.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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no anticipation of the originali- ties of
industrial
production or the factory system"--in short, Hegel's analyses of work and production cannot be "transferred to the new industrial situation" (68).
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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Both bishops were of the
Scottish
nation.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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"
Awa' wi' your
witchcraft
o' Beauty's alarms,
The slender bit Beauty you grasp in your arms,
O, gie me the lass that has acres o' charms,
O, gie me the lass wi' the weel-stockit farms.
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burns |
|
In
in expedition against Nineveh, he was
defeated*
by the
Scythians, who had made an irruption into Southern
Asia, and was deprived of his kingdom for 28 years.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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” Then
answered Yudhisthira and said,
“Unheard
of is such a play as
this, that one should offer the stake and another should cast the
dice.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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Both ways of thought have however played many variations on the theme generating a popular Taoism
intoxicated
with the search for immortality, often through sexual practices or sympathetic magic, and a popular Buddhism of worship of the Bodhisattvas.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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3 Georg Trakl,
Dichtungen
und Briefe.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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OFFICER:
My Lord, we found this ruffian and another _80
Lurking among the rocks; there is no doubt
But that they are the murderers of Count Cenci:
Each had a bag of coin; this fellow wore
A gold-inwoven robe, which, shining bright
Under the dark rocks to the
glimmering
moon _85
Betrayed them to our notice: the other fell
Desperately fighting.
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Shelley copy |
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Plato
immediately
used all the Addreis he had to know ifhehadatruedesireofbecomingVertuous.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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Andronicus, a man full of
ambition
and
succeeded sultan Urkhan in 1359, took up and destitute of principles and honour, now sought for
realized his plans.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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II
Byron
burlesque effects which he produces with his double and triple
rimes lie equally within the
provinces
of diction and metre, while
the epigrammatic gems with which his cantos are bestrewn gain
half their brilliance by being set within the bounds of the couplet
that rounds off the ottava rima.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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A similar picture is provided in the records of
timber imports from the Soviet Union, another item
placed on the list of commodities
requiring
licenses.
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| Question: |
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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I forgot
that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character,
and that
therefore
what one has done in the secret chamber one has some
day to cry aloud on the housetop.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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" Historicalunder- standingrequiresus to identifycertaincommonfeaturesor
qualitiesofnew
forceswithina givenperiod,ifonlyto recognizeand clarifytheirdifferences and uniqueness.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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His prayer, addressed neither
to God nor saint, began with a shiver, as the chilly morning breeze
crept through the chink of the carriage door to his feet, and ended in
a trail of foolish words which he made to fit the insistent rhythm of
the train; and silently, at
intervals
of four seconds, the
telegraph-poles held the galloping notes of the music between punctual
bars.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
|
Is there
anything
more pathetic than those tens of thousands (I fear it is hundreds of thousands) of blogs that are being written with such a sense of self-importance - and will forever remain unread (for good reasons, I want to add).
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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Exeunt
Lucretius
and Eunomia right.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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Therefore
I shall be glad to feast with you to-day.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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While not purporting to offer fresh archaeological evidence, he established a 'tourist route' through that antiquity which many other
travellers
would follow.
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| Question: |
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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That, the idea of which as a determining
principle
of our will humbles us in our self-consciousness, awakes respect for itself, so far as it is itself positive and a determining principle.
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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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A partial
translation
exists in Napper (1989).
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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Nor could you so easily
persuade
them to cultivate the ground,
or to await the return of the seasons and produce of the year, as
to provoke the foe and to risk wounds and death: since stupid and
spiritless they account it, to acquire by their sweat what they can gain
by their blood.
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Tacitus |
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I was an
organization
myself once--for twelve hours.
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Twain - Speeches |
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That is why,
according
to my will,
Castile was ruled these ten years from Seville,
To be nearer them, and be the swifter
To oppose whatever threat they offer.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Yet all the indications are that
Catholic
apologists, from the Pope down, sincerely believed that what they were doing was right: absolutely right morally, and right for the welfare of the child.
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Because
Oh, because you never tried
To bow my will or break my pride,
And nothing of the cave-man made
You want to keep me half afraid,
Nor ever with a
conquering
air
You thought to draw me unaware--
Take me, for I love you more
Than I ever loved before.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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The philosophers did
insolently, to
challenge
only to themselves that which the greatest
generals and gravest counsellors never durst.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The Porter-But
Monsieur
le Marquis has not given the order.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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But today he seemed to have been sitting at his desk, although this "roaring loom of time" had not been used for years; a packet ofletters lay on the baize cloth, and the chrome- plated telephone, otherwise used only by the ladies, was
standing
askew, as if it had just been in use.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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"Friend, thou hast
forgotten
thine intention!
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Epictetus |
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Unbelief
had shown in ev'ry eye,
Had any dared to say: "Nimroud will die!
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Hugo - Poems |
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And, though
exceedingly
guilty, I am, as thou knowest, exceeding innocent.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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