There is
that
indescribable
freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person
that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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Mann, Michael,
Giovanni
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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What news, my
Grimbald?
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Dryden - Complete |
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Adorno
Existentialism has been de- scribed by Paul Tillich as "an over one hundred year old movement of rebellion against the dehumanization of man in
industrial
society.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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Refuting
the rejoinder]
L3: [II.
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": thus Hans Magnus
Enzensberger
begins a poem about Johann Gensfieisch zum Gutenberg.
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Her sewing-machine was on the table amid the old
familiar
litter of
scraps of cloth, sheets of brown paper, cotton-reels and pots of paint, and
though the needle had rusted, the thread was still in it And, yes* there were the
jackboots that she had been making the night she went away.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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Gordon drank his cup of tea
standing
up, his eye on the birchwood calendar.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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Their grins--
an
orchestra
of plucked skin and a million strings.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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The fatal
embarkation
took place towards the end of Fall of the
On the voyage the new Syracusan fleet had to ^Bxiam sustain a sharp engagement with that of Carthage, in which
it lost a considerable number of vessels.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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And even I, when I come here,
Move softly on, subdued and still,
Lonely as death, though I can hear
Men
shouting
on the other hill.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Unter
erstarrten
Ha?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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Trước
chọn kẻ sĩ chỉ lấy đỗ không quá hai ba chục người.
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stella-02 |
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10)
The Il:vised
punctuation
makes it evidenltha!
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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" It was on "a scriptural
subject"--"less
speculative
than _Cain_, and very pious" (_Letters_,
1901, v.
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Byron |
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LXXVII
"Too weak are you to bear a helm or shield
Unfit to arm your breast in iron bright,
You run half-naked
trembling
through the field,
Your blows are feeble, and your hope in flight,
Your facts and all the actions that you wield,
The darkness hides, your bulwark is the night,
Now she is gone, how will your fights succeed?
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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The Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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fantastikon delighted
We were not
exasperated
with women, for the female is ductile.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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Every one looked on the adventurers as
brave men going to a dreadful execution; as rushing upon certain death;
and the vast
multitude
caught the fire of devotion, and joined aloud in
prayers for their success.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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ii8 INSTIGATIONS
Attempting to view the jungle of the work as a whole, one notes that, despite whatever cosmopolitan
upbringing
Henry James may have had, as witness "A Small Boy's Memoirs" and "Notes of Son and Brother," he neverthe- less began in "French Poets and Novelists" with a pro- vincial attitude that it took him a long time to work free of.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Or à ce moment je fus
précisément favorisé d'une telle
apparition
magique.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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<^ I '11 have those villains in our notions rest ;
"And I do say it, therefore 'it 's the best"
Next, Painter, draw his
Mordaunt
by his side,
Conveying his religion and his bride :
He, who long since abjured the royal line.
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Marvell - Poems |
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White and golden Lizzie stood,
Like a lily in a flood,--
Like a rock of blue-veined stone 410
Lashed by tides obstreperously,--
Like a beacon left alone
In a hoary roaring sea,
Sending up a golden fire,--
Like a fruit-crowned orange-tree
White with blossoms honey-sweet
Sore beset by wasp and bee,--
Like a royal virgin town
Topped with gilded dome and spire
Close
beleaguered
by a fleet 420
Mad to tug her standard down.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Owenson,
afterwards
Morgan, Lady Sydney (² 1783-1859).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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Whether a book is still in
copyright
varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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There were only two from which
to choose--the Liberals or the
Clerical
Centre.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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"Oh, by gor, the butther's comin' out o' the stirabout in
airnest now,' says he: 'you gommoch,' says he, 'sure I towld
you before that's France, and sure they're all
furriners
there,'
says the captain.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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For all men think that each type of character belongs to its
possessors
in some sense by nature; for from the very moment of birth we are just or fitted for selfcontrol or brave or have the other moral qualities; but yet we seek something else as that which is good in the strict sense-we seek for the presence of such qualities in another way.
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Aristotle copy |
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He disliked and refrained from
displaying
any
feeling at all.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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Were these, in compliance with the first concep- tion, to be expanded parallel with the employers'
associations?
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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Collins for
a few moments, he asked
Elizabeth
in a low voice whether her relation
was very intimately acquainted with the family of de Bourgh.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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Shabli, returning from the shop of a corn dealer, carried
back to his village on his
shoulder
a sack of wheat.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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Then in another place the fruits that be
In gallant
clusters
decking each good tree,
Invite your hand to crop some from the stem,
And liking one, taste every sort of them:
Then to the arbours walk, then to the bowers,
Thence to the walks again, thence to the flowers,
Then to birds, and to the clear spring thence,
Now pleasing one, and then another sense.
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William Browne |
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The Irānians have disguised
their words by changing (as Greek has also done) s
followed
by a vowel at
the beginning of words, or between vowels in the middle of words, in to h:
thus the word for 7, the equivalent of the Latin septem, the Greek énbá is
in Sanskrit sapta, but in Irānian hapta.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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I had
no
sensation
of poverty, for even after paying my rent and setting aside enough for
tobacco and journeys and my food on Sundays, I still had four francs a day for drinks,
and four francs was wealth.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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God help thee in this
wildness!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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War ensued between the Dryopes and Heracles, and the Dryopes were defeated, and Hylas, son of Theiodamas, was taken as a hostage by
Heracles
(Apollodor.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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Around it are borne two faintly gleaming stars, not far apart nor very near but distant to the view a
cubit’s
length, one on the North, while the other looks towards the South.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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Yet it is but yesterday that I was beseeching God with tears to pardon
me my sins during the late
sorrowful
period--to pardon me my murmurings
and evil thoughts and gambling and drunkenness.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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It would be
interesting
if we could know whether this epic was written
before or after _The Dynasty of Raghu_.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Duessa descends to Erebus and obtains the aid of Night, who
conveys the wounded Saracen in her chariot to
AEsculapius
to be healed of
his wounds.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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] In the subsequent
quarrels
between
Hortensius from the seat which had been already Milo and Clodius, Hortensius showed such zeal for
tottering, and to establish his rival, the despised the former, that he was nearly being murdered by
provincial of Arpinum, as the first orator and ad- the hired ruffians of Clodius (Cic.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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217-232
Published
by: University of Tulsa
Stable URL: http://www.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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His funeral Sermon was
preached
Dr.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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Nothing was to be seen in the Pallace but horrible
Corruption
of Manners and Excesses.
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Nusrat Khân now
discovered
that he was not able to remit
to Delhi even a quarter of the sum of ten millions of tangas which
he had promised to pay annually from the revenues of Bidar, and
rose in rebellion.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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While Nietzsche's and Rilke's poems on Venice fail to allow for the self's escape, the
potential
for such an escape is realized in a Venice poem by Georg Trakl for which I will trace its subversive strategy.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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That is the great problem which
certainly
will em-
barrass your Ministers.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Politically it
mattered
little in the first instance at what sacrifices the victory was bought ; the gain of the first battle against the Romans was of inestimable value for Pyrrhus.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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In addition, Israeli military superiority in such a situation will be much greater than it is even now, so that any
movement
of revolt will be "punished" either by mass humiliation as in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, or by bombardment and obliteration of cities, as in Lebanon now (June 1982), or by both.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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According
to such superstition of detail, Benjamin's investigations seized up in underground library studies, forced into a hopeless direction by a genius without freedom.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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The craft jealously displayed by human experts only
delighted
him.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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Since then, Christianity itself has been the
substitute
religion for Christianity.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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{ { Rhetoric--skill in
persuading
= Holy
{ { Spirit.
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fang and naxi rites in the cantos 199
Naxi word for ''cuckoo,'' Rock states that ''The word 3gkye-2bpu is the most
difficult
to pronounce.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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--Very well, sir--the
performers
must do as
they please; but, upon my soul, I'll print it every word.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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,
astonished
at this number, "Five lawyers besides
this one?
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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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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General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Yet such being Glazed by the sleight of arte,
Gaines admiration,
winninge
many a Harte.
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Donne - 1 |
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Let the left
shoulder
of Andromeda be thy guide to the northern Fish, for it is very near.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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XXIV
I saw a man
pursuing
the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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Yes,
madam, these were the recreations I took you from; but now
you must have your coach-vis-à-vis — and three
powdered
foot-
men before your chair; and in the summer, a pair of white cats
to draw you to Kensington Gardens.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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A costly reestablishment of the status quo might call for some sort of reprisal,
obliging
some counteraction in return.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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SPECIAL
,(1)
VLucchesini
01'.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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Keats - Lamia |
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I just did not want to have
to repeat the same thing again and again, namely, that
machines
are taking over
(according to Turing'sprophecy of 1948) and how they are doing it.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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But what glories that she once enjoyed has she
recovered?
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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11 Ptolemy objected to
Arrhidaeus
as king, not only on account of the meanness of his mother (he being the son of a courtesan of Larissa), but because of the extraordinary weakness with which he was affected, lest, while he had the name of king, another should exercise the authority; 12 and said that it would be better for them to choose from those who were next in merit to the king, and who could govern the provinces and be entrusted with the conduct of wars, than to be subjected to the tyranny of unworthy men under the authority of a king.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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Yet one afternoon, on passing in front of a very ancient, gloomy
mansion, in whose lofty, massive walls might be seen three or four
windows of dissimilar form, placed without order or symmetry, I happened
to fix my
attention
on one of these.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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This
difference
is partly a battle between Newton and Goethe.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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n de ausencia de privilegios lo atribuyen todos
tendenci?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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He passed through North
Yarmouth
Academy,
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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Be assembled, all of you;
And, after, raise your triumph-song to greet
This
pitiless
Power that yawns beneath our feet.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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O cruel veil, that whether heat
Or cold be felt, art doom'd to prove
Fatal to me,
shadowing
the lights I love!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And around thee glory
Lives and will force its
splendour
on the harm
Thy purity endured, making it shine
Like diamond in sunlight, as before
Unviolated it could not.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Each passion seemed by turns to have exercised its ravages on it,
and to have successively
abandoned
it.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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In the
presence
of others I feel so small;
I never can be at my ease at all.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Lies and threats against Italy, after the
Versailles
cheatin'.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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His money thus
deposited
or invested, is a fund upon which himself and others can borrow to a much larger amount.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Again, in Latim- er's words: "I did not speak against well saying of [the Ave Maria], but against
superstitious
saying of it, and of the Pater noster too.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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As Hegel turns it, Fichtean
philosophy
"knows only the knowing, but is not the knowing itself" (1802b: 157).
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Hegel_nodrm |
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12
Absolute religion differs from
absolute
knowledge only in form, the content is true in both; religion represents with images what philosophy grasps conceptually.
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Hegel_nodrm |
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Nor can lovers of poetry
afford to forget the influence which the poem
exercised
on
Virgil.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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Nature and
Function
of the
Three Refuges 601 i.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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The philosophy of wild and naked nature
beholds with the undissembled mien of truth the
myths of the Homeric world as they dance past:
they turn pale, they tremble before the lightning
glance of this
goddess—till
the powerful fist * of
* Die mächtige Faust.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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If ideology is produced by the irresistible tropologi- cal
potential
of language, which carries or directs thought (porte la pense?
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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"SENTO L' AURA MIA ANTICA, E I DOLCI COLLI»
HE
REVISITS
VAUCLUSE
NCE more, ye balmy gales, I feel you blow;
Again, sweet hills, I mark the morning beams
Gild your green summits; while your silver streams
Through vales of fragrance undulating flow.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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Gabriel Michel de la Rochemaillet, Pourtraictz de plvsievrs hommes illvstres qvi
ont flory en France depvis l'an 1500 ivsques a` present (Paris, 1600) printed as a
broadside
(Bibliothe`que Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes, Hennin 1200/ G151576).
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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To fuse two great literary phenomena into one may have something
alluring
in it, but in any case a mistake has been made in the person.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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Yea, he
expresseth
in this place four marks whereby the true and natural face of the Church may be judged.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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The differences between them
were clearly in the main
economic
and not due to differences of legal
status.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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That they who loved so well unloved into
Death’s
house should pass.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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DON JUAN: A mí: To me: that's clear
mirad a mi alrededor look now all around me
y no veréis más que amigos and you'll see only friends
de mi niñez o
testigos
of my childhood, or testaments
de mi audacia y mi valor.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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Stephen smiled at the manner of this
confidence
and, when Moynihan had
passed, turned again to meet Cranly's eyes.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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CLXXVII
A hundred men had past before the rest,
All taken from the poorest of the town;
And in one fashion equally were drest
Those
beadsmen
all, in black and trailing gown.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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‘The
chestnut’s
not bad.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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" If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written
characters
of the absent friend.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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They
commonly
had the date of their
erection on them.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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They believe they have discharged all the duty of a prince if they hunt
every day, keep a stable of fine horses, sell
dignities
and commanderies,
and invent new ways of draining the citizens' purses and bringing it into
their own exchequer; but under such dainty new-found names that though
the thing be most unjust in itself, it carries yet some face of equity;
adding to this some little sweet'nings that whatever happens, they may be
secure of the common people.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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