the Apollonian as a philosophical
reflection
in the guise of myth is simply a mythical circumscription of the unavoidability of represen- us out of the Dionysian universality and lets us find delight in in- dividuals ?
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O
Bethlehem
palm-trees That move to the anger Of winds in their fury, Tempestuous voices, Make ye no clamour, Run ye less swiftly,
Sith sleepeth the child here Still ye your branches.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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And when I came there, I
struck my talons into a salmon,
thinking
he would serve me as food
for a long time.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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I hope this does not proceed from
anything
wrong, and
that I shall not find out I have thought too well of her.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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On peut appeler les opinions
religieuses de
Schleiermacher
et de ses disciples une the?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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THE ELEMENT OP TIME
The banker, with his
multiplicity
of interests,
cannot ordinarily give the time essential to proper
supervision and to acquiring that knowledge of
the facts necessary to the exercise of sound judg-
ment.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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[1207]
Meantime
Hylas with pitcher of bronze in hand had gone apart from the throng, seeking the sacred flow of a fountain, that he might be quick in drawing water for the evening meal and actively make all things ready in due order against his lord's return.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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The preponderance of the great Powers
in Europe has lately become very marked, and it
is to this that we owe a certain
security
now ob-
servable in our international relations.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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It would resemble the magic
transformation
of Tasso's heroine
into a tree, in which she could only groan and bleed.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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Tange NIHIL,
dicesque
NIHIL sine corpore tangi.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Ulrich did not
Pseudoreality Prevails · 97
g8 • THE MAN WITH0UT QUALITIES
know that on that same day another man had entered her life to lift her up like a giant
mountain
offering a tremendous view.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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6 This and other suits brought by Monnett were
abruptly
quashed as soon as a successor took office in January, 1900, but not before enough information about the secret operations of Standard Oil had been developed to prepare the way for later federal dissolution suits.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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They made a fire,--but such a fire as they
Upon the moment could contrive with such
Materials as were cast up round the bay,--
Some broken planks, and oars, that to the touch
Were nearly tinder, since so long they lay
A mast was almost
crumbled
to a crutch;
But, by God's grace, here wrecks were in such plenty,
That there was fuel to have furnish'd twenty.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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_ Quite too; altogether too: noting great excess
or intensity, and formerly so much affected as to be
regarded
as one
word, and so often written with a hyphen.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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91
which we obtain India rubber; for though many plants, in a measure,
yield a juice of the same character, yet the
Siphonia
Elastica, or Elastic
Gum-tree, supplies the principal demand.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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Here, mother, there is sunshine every day;
It warms the bones and
breathes
upon the heart;
But you I see out-plod a little way,
Bitten with cold; your cheeks and fingers smart.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Thousands
of luxury cars have appeared on the streets of Moscow and Prague.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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******
To access Project
Gutenberg
etexts, use any Web browser
to view http://promo.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Yet to me Love has such honour sent
Since my heart's firmer truer in its ways
Than any other man; and if it seldom says
Who it loves that's for fear of ill intent;
Should her sweet smile, face, eyes fail to tell,
And her fine and noble manners as well,
Her gaiety, and fair speech, miraculous,
Who she is to those who are
connoisseurs!
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Troubador Verse |
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But yet more: he
obtained
an idea of
the loftiness and difficulty of form, and was
prepared for art in the only right way: by
practice.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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The widespread gum-wrap-
per chain is an example of
predicting
a boyfriend's emotions.
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Childens - Folklore |
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He said: "O holy one, a mighty deed
That full-grown elephants with
greatest
pain
Could hardly be successful in, we need
Not ask of elephant-cubs.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Now that the dolls have
crumbled
to dust,
You come and sit by me.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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3043 (#621) ###########################################
CAIUS JULIUS CÆSAR
3043
are
persuaded
that the Cæsar about whom he tells could not have
acted otherwise than he did.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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"
[332] G "And did you become so very
powerful?
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Roman Translations |
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Is there any progress beyond the classical
definition
of time as measure of movement?
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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In order to assess the validity of this reading and to grasp the nature and importance of the aesthetic state of radical reflexivity that Sloterdijk sees
expressed
in Nietzsche's book, I will turn to Nietzsche's text for a while and add my own reading of Nietzsche as a critic of modernity.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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_
The Cock-men, whose badge of office was a red cloth, were in charge of
the water-clock, and their
business
was to announce the time of day.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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) The sense of Joyce's play stands forth sur-
prisingly
when we add the digits ?
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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Never in the German Army
will the day be forgotten when, after fresh and glorious
victories, "Our Fritz" distributed the iron crosses to
his Prussians and
Bavarians
before the statue of Louis
XIV, in the courtyard of the Palace of Versailles.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
|
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about Donations to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation
Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide
spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of
increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be
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array of equipment including outdated equipment.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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It is a state in which there is no centralized power, but only 5 de facto sovereign authorities (Christian in the north, supported by the Syrians and under the rule of the Franjieh clan, in the East an area of direct Syrian conquest, in the center a Phalangist
controlled
Christian enclave, in the south and up to the Litani river a mostly Palestinian region controlled by the PLO and Major Haddad's state of Christians and half a million Shi'ites).
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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* * * * *
In the above
criticisms
I feel that I may have done what critics are so
apt to do.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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ĐỖ HÂN 杜欣15
người
huyện Thanh Miện phủ Hạ Hồng.
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stella-03 |
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in 1857, now
glorifies
the spot.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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The
promotionof
the "multiversity"played an importantrole in the similarandsomewhatearlierdevelopmentintheUnitedStates.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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The one thing really
reactionary
in the movement he con-
templated was the return to the worship of the old official deities, but
he proposed to attempt this in a way which can only be called revolu-
tionary.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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scara, la transparencia: Ensayos
sobrepoesi?
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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The Poles found no
difficulty
in admin-
istering, from time to time, severe blows at these adven-
titious neighbours, but always happy-go-lucky and
debonair, they could never bring themselves to crush or
oust them.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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This impression was strengthened by the
manner in which Bentham put into scientific form the application of
the happiness
principle
to the morality of actions, by analysing the
various classes and orders of their consequences.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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ngt ihn
gewaltig
die ku?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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With
great grumblings, the fellow rose, and
preceded
me in my ascent: we
mounted to the garrets; he opened a door, now and then, to look into the
apartments we passed.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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As he has such
extraordinary
merit even in the common run of his language, I must confess that there is no person I know of, to whom he should yield the preference.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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The Roman lawyer Fulvius, who joins the rebellion and acts as its chronicler,
sets forth the
familiar
dilemma of ends and means.
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Orwell |
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(But) when there is not faith
sufficient
(on his part), a want of
faith (in him) ensues (on the part of the others).
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Tao Te Ching |
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THE TALISMAN
FROM THE RUSSIAN OF
ALEXANDER
PUSHKIN
WITH OTHER PIECES
Contents:
The Talisman
The Mermaid
Ancient Russian Song
Ancient Ballad
The Renegade
THE TALISMAN
From the Russian of Pushkin.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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Unfortunately
the systems staff will not be available until Monday, to apply fixes.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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Odysseus
carried off the Palladium and came alive from Hades.
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Pattern Poems |
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This loathing choketh me, that we kings
ourselves
have become false,
draped and disguised with the old faded pomp of our ancestors,
show-pieces for the stupidest, the craftiest, and whosoever at present
trafficketh for power.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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While Ellen had assumed students would inductively understand this distinction from the nature of the histor- ical documents we were using, Craig's
explicit
instruction put to rest students' initial concerns by pointing to the ways that indigenous peoples articulate a difference between nations and tribes.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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'The moral
character
of those who control events is the breeze' he said, 'the character of others is the grass.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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We who have not the temerity to ally ourselves to this
severe and intolerant school, we simply say that these two
natures were made to understand each
other—
to sympathize.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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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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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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But the blows appeared to have lighted on iron-wood, — to judge, at least, from the
behavior
of the Baital, who no sooner heard the ques tion, " O wretch, who art thou ?
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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Organski'sviewofHitleras "odd manout"; obviously he would liketo
separatethestudyofsmallermovementtshatare
oftencalled fascisticfromtheItalian-Germanmodel;he is notsatisfiedwiththebipolar patternofinterpretatiobnecausetheHitlerianepisodeis unique;butthenhe
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and
donations
can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:11 GMT / http://hdl.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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Then he shut down the trap door with a ring in it
That jangled even above the general noise,
And came up stairs alone--and gave that laugh,
And said
something
to a man with a meal-sack
That the man with the meal-sack didn't catch--then.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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The most advanced as yet go only
far enough to free themselves from
metaphysic
and look back at it with
an air of superiority: whereas here, no less than in the hippodrome, it
is necessary to turn around in order to reach the end of the course.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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Taking my hand in his, the chief turned to his
frowning
countrymen.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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O Rose of the crimson beauty,
Why hast thou awakened the
sleeper?
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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I had
something
else to think of.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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But the
influences
of humanism had already been at
work in Poland, and were betrayed by the elegance of
form and diction, as well as by the nobility of thought,
which the authors of the golden age of Polish literature
displayed when they came to write in the vernacular.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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In cave if I
presumed
to hide,
The walls began to tell;
Creation seemed a mighty crack
To make me visible.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The angry
emotions
which had marked every feature when we
last parted were partially subdued.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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In short,
if this could be arranged there would be nothing left for us to do;
anyway, we should have to
understand
that.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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Absence of
infinity
?
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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, translated into modern German and
commented
by Gisela Vollmann-Profe, Stuttgart 1987, p.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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And though the god of war should numbers bring,
With all the arms that can his thunders fling,
Before the fort he'll vainly waste his time,
While Cupid, unattended, in shall climb,
Obtain possession perfectly at ease,
And grant
conditions
just as he shall please.
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La Fontaine |
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5:5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh,
and my fingers with sweet
smelling
myrrh, upon the handles of the
lock.
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bible-kjv |
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The old burgess militia had reckoned themselves fortunate when they brought home a
compensation
for the toil of war, and, in the event of success, a trifling gift as a memorial of victory.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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I must remember that all
activity
is the result ofgood and bad thoughts.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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I see another people
struggling
without a pause, and gaining
minute by minute new force in the struggle.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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Groynes, for his fleshly
burglary
of late, 381.
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| Question: |
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Robert Herrick |
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Dilipa
perceives
that a struggle with earthly weapons is useless, and
begs the lion to accept his own body as the price of the cow's
release.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Make
communism
look good.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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Some reasons why IP
addresses
are blocked include:
- Your program is trying to "harvest" the contents.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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Were there not some who
prevented
these things from taking place?
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| Question: |
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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The satyr, again, the wild
creature
tamed by a dim
perception of spiritual beauty, and stedfastly loyal to that per-
ception, is exquisite in its simplicity.
| Guess: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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The theory of parent-offspring conflict says that
families
do not contain all-powerful, all-knowing parents and their passive, grateful children.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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The dates of his birth and death are variously giveii^
but the
divergence
is not wide.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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Among the Thirty-seven Elements conducive to Enlightenment are four essential recollections, four proper attitudes towards what one should
renounce
and what one should accept, four bases for the development of supernormal power, five faculties, and five strengths which are developed in one's Dharma practice.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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” Florus and Dio Cassius add to the obscurities: the
first, by placing the scene of the defeat of the
Usipetes
and Tencteri
towards the confluence of the Moselle and the Rhine; the second, by
writing that Cæsar came up with the Germans in the country of the
Treviri.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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6663
JOHN RICHARD GREEN
(1837-1883)
EAN STANLEY, on reading one of Green's first
literary
produc-
tions, said: "I see you are in danger of becoming pictur-
esque.
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[Legamen ad paginam Latinam] 3 1 He held the quaestorship22 in the fourth consulship of Trajan and the first of Articuleius, and while holding this office he read a speech of the Emperor's to the senate and provoked a laugh by his
somewhat
provincial accent.
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Chung quanh vẫn đất nước nhà,
Với Vương Quan
trước
vẫn là đồng thân.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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What queen or
powerful
lady did not envy me my joys and my bed?
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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Fortune has not led him through the
innumerable
vicissi-
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Their food
consists
of mice, lizards, chafers
and the like little creatures.
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Aristotle |
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He
understood
little or nothing of it at
first but he became slowly aware that his father had enemies and that
some fight was going to take place.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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Clarke,
acknowledging
money and requesting the loan of
a further sum
CCCXXXVI.
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Job had no enemy more cruel than his wife; what
temptations
did he not bear?
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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-- 16 --
Verily the
influence
of.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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He walked amongst the Trial Men
In a suit of shabby grey;
A cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay;
But I never saw a man who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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She was
passionately
fond of the stage
and all connected with it; and liked to put actors and showmen
of all sorts in her books, as she did in 'L'Homme de Neige,' 'Le
Château des Désertes,' 'Pierre qui Roule,' etc.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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According to what has been said, the denial of the will to
live - which is just what is called absolute, entire resignation, or
holiness always proceeds from that quieter of the will which
the knowledge of its inner
conflict
and essential vanity, express-
ing themselves in the suffering of all living things, becomes.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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Ending his Oration, he gives the Secretary a Decree to read,
longer, in very Truth, than Homer's Iliad ; more trivial than
the
Speeches
he generally makes ; more futile, than the Life he
lives ; fraught with Hopes, never to be fulfilled, and Armies
never to be raifed.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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And I was still going, late in the year,
in the cutting wind from the North,
And
thinking
how little you cared for the
cost,
and you caring enough to pay it.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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In 1565 they allowed weavers fleeing from
religious
persecution in Holland to settle in Norwich and produce fabrics, which allowed the "city to recapture its markets and regain its prestige" [ibid.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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