"He is
shouting
like mad, only hark!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Tibullus himself
had narrowed the sphere of Roman elegy by
rejecting
the
natural period and restricting the thought within the mini-
mum space of two lines.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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Let me add to this, that the most effectual way they can take to provoke the
parliament
to take away their ts- leration, to vote, as they have generally done, and am told intend to do so now again, at the ensuing elec tions, for such members ofparliament as axe least in the
security,
is,
I
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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However, Father Limpen adduces
argument
sufficient to prove that our
61
saint had no special connexion with the church of Treves.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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ticular sentence is formed in the way it is (Bishop provides excellent explanations and
justifications
for this), but we must also ask how
can be lost.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"The voice of God whispers in the heart
"So softly
"That the soul pauses,
"Making no noise,
"And strives for these melodies,
"Distant, sighing, like
faintest
breath,
"And all the being is still to hear.
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Stephen Crane |
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In one of the debates about his film Shoa, the French director Claude
Lanzmann
quite vehemently rejected the assumption that the film was meant to make a contribution to the "understanding" of the Holocaust.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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* Examen
Poeticum
(1698) (Essays, ed.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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The Nuncios were thus deprived of some power, as they had been in
the habit of yielding entirely to the
interests
of the Court of Rome.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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'
O
monstrous
treachery!
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Shakespeare |
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2
Therefore
will not we fear, though
the earth be removed, and though the mountains be
carried into the midst of the sea; 3 Though the
waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the
mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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arma rogo
genitrix
nato te fllia | Nerei
( Nerei-- synceresis.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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A muleteer was lately sold for twenty
thousand
sesterces, Aulus.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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It has been universally assumed that
these two plays are either wholly or in part identical with
that which has come down to us under the title The Famous
History of Sir Thomas Wyat (published 1607); and there is no
reason for questioning this
assumption!
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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" (l2 24, 345-347/248-49, l2 27, 599/493) The highest top is the
abstract
thinking, withdrawn in itself.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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belIeve me yr
faIthful
PETRUS GENARIIS"
?
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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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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One can be what one is not when one is
learning
about oneself.
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Education in Hegel |
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Somewhat
envious of Buddha's station, he tried to harm Buddha on a number of occasions.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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Prolonged
exposure
to the gas produced intense damage to the lungs and respiratory system.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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The site relies on donated servers and bandwidth, so has automated mechanisms in place to detect when too many
downloads
are occurring from a single location (IP address).
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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I will fetch your
greatcoat
and open the
garden door for you.
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Austen - Emma |
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I make Beauty, therefore--using the word as inclusive of the
sublime--I make Beauty the
province
of the poem, simply because it is an
obvious rule of Art that effects should be made to spring as directly
as possible from their causes:--no one as yet having been weak enough to
deny that the peculiar elevation in question is at least _most readily
_attainable in the poem.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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2]
----- But we still need adapted progressive skillful means using both methods (non-violence) & wisdom
together
to gain Liberation
.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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It cost Tuzzi an effort to hide his eager
curiosity
in the brown furrows of his face.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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Cesena: Town in Fadi Province, Emilia, Italy;
controlled
by the Malatestas from 1385 to 1465.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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Rptd in
Miscellaneous
Works,
vol.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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This
undifferentiated
thing is a common nature to which the difference, the distinctive form, is joined.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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This occurred as if to illustrate the observation put forth by cul- tural theoreticians that romanticism flourishes if, in the realm of ideas, a compensation for
political
defeat is on the agenda.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Foreman
Click here to hear me recite the Arabic
What
throttled
at my saddle?
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Translated Poetry |
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The Friar also quoted
from bubs of Popes wich expressly admitted to the Republic
the right of punishing all offenders
clerical
or lay.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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It shoots an arrow in the air, described in the words of old European alchemists as an actio in distans, with the
objective
of revealing an unknown friend and enticing him into the circle of friends.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Freud or many
political
allegories).
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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Stachurawith"The NSDAP
andtheGerman
WorkingClass," JamesC.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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_
CATHLEEN
_is kneeling in front of the altar in the oratory; there
is a hanging lighted lamp over the altar_.
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Yeats - Poems |
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Consider
Cromer again, an
accomplished
technician of empire but also a beneficiary of Orientalism.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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The gad-fly
strength
to agony!
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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On the other hand, the
intention
of committing trans- gressions is absent in them.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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"Perhaps there are even greater ones
threatening
us.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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There is a great spirit of enterprise among the back
people, and those that come out as volunteers are not a lit-
tle
formidable
to the enemy.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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* If not corrupt, it must mean that they were
represented
one standing behind the other, only the heads of six showing.
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Greek Anthology |
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But now,
on the contrary, favours are all dispensed, affairs all
transacted by the ministers: while you, quite ener-
vated, robbed of your riches, your allies, stand in the
mean rank of
servants
and assistants ; happy if these
men grant you the theatrical appointments, and send
you scraps of the public meal:1 and, what is of all
most sordid, you hold yourselves obliged to them for
that which is your own: while they confine you
within these walls, lead you on gently to their pur-
poses, and sooth and tame you to obedience.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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Regardless of the validity of this attribution, its significance for both
historians
and religious schol- ars working in the field of Tibetan studies cannot be disputed.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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'
Dante - Paradiso XX:73-75
Can vei la lauzeta mover
When I see the lark display
His wings with joy against the day,
Forgetting, fold then fall away,
As
sweetness
to his heart makes way,
Such great envy then invades
My mind: I see the rest take fire,
And marvel at it, for no way
Can my heart turn from its desire.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
A little niece who loved to hear of the Great
Healer one day
startled
her aunt by saying,
"Aunty, if we ask Jesus to make grandma
better, won't He come down and heal her?
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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*
I had an unrealized youthful
ambition
to write a science fiction novel.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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Until some
fragment
of papyrus which can be dated is
discovered, we can place Xenophon merely with some probability about the
end of the second century of our era.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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ge zur
poetischen
Verfahrensweise und zur Wirkungsgeschichte (Vienna: Bo ?
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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If the fundamental process of modernity
promotes
itself as a "human movement to free oneself" then it is a process that we absolutely do not want and a movement that it is impossible for us not to make.
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Sloterdijk |
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Perry
was an intelligent, gentlemanlike man, whose
frequent
visits were one
of the comforts of Mr.
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Austen - Emma |
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Here in an aether more clear now a luster
encircles
my forehead.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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This beautiful and artistic scene
is the
reminiscence
of Krasinski's visits in his childhood
with his father to his mother's grave2.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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For his duty is, not to make a present
of justice, but to give judgment; and he has sworn that he will judge
according to the laws, and not
according
to his own good pleasure;
and neither he nor we should get into the habit of perjuring ourselves
- there can be no piety in that.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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Let a
beneficent
deity
carry off in good time the suckling from the breast of its mother,
let it nourish him on the milk of a better age, and suffer him to
grow up and arrive at virility under the distant sky of Greece.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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'
And they, they
whispered
kindly to him 'Come!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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was no court) of
Catherine
till after The working out of this is a subtle
Mary had left France; besides, Mary showing of the truth, that the depres-
had always shown an invincible dislike sion of the moral tone by long indul-
for Catherine.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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_
whose
epithalamium
I have pledged myself to write.
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Robert Burns |
|
For years PUNCH ran a series of
jokes called
‘Servant
Gal-isms’, all turning on the then astonishing fact that a servant is a
human being.
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Orwell |
|
This was the term applied by the old dialecticians to a
sophistical
argument, which ran thus : If it is your fate tu die of this disease, you will die, whether you employ a physician or not.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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[The
Whitefoords
of Whitefoord, interested themselves in all matters
connected with literature: the power of the family, unluckily for
Burns, was not equal to their taste.
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Robert Forst |
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To the strange crowd I sing, whose very favor
Like
chilling
sadness on my heart is flung;
And all that kindled at those earlier numbers
Roams the wide earth or in its bosom slumbers.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Cicero was
intoxicated
with his success.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
|
XXIII
"To
Sarraguce
I must repair, 'tis plain;
Whence who goes there returns no more again.
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| Question: |
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Chanson de Roland |
|
It is possible that current copyright holders, heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as illustrations or photographs, assert
copyrights
over these portions.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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There were no successful
specimens
of
versification in the German language before this time.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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Jusque-là je m'étais
hypnotisé
sur le dernier mot: «casser», elle
avait voulu dire casser quoi?
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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The slaves return to their mistress
and report upon their mission,
eulogizing
the goodly qualities of the hero.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
|
]
CHAPTER VIII
THE RELIGIOUS
ARGUMENT
AGAINST BIRTH CONTROL
Section 1.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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many parts of Europe the
opinions
of the great Commentator were held
to be the law itself.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
|
We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Book of Poetry |
|
Let us transvalue the values: all capacity is the outcome of a happy organisation, all freedom is the outcome of capacity (freedom
understood
here as facility in self-direction.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Let not the old ascetic say we ought
not to gratify our appetites any further than is necessary to maintain
health and to
perpetuate
the species.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
|
Why, what harm does he do to your ghostly
community?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucian |
|
The
Reformation
certainly seemed at one moment to be
carrying all before it, but several causes contributed to
a decay of the new faith which was as unexpected as
had been its success.
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| Source: |
Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
|
He heard the fellows of the higher line stand up at the top of the
refectory and heard their steps as they came down the matting: Paddy
Rath and Jimmy Magee and the Spaniard and the Portuguese and the fifth
was big
Corrigan
who was going to be flogged by Mr Gleeson.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
|
"
"
Suspensus
in oscula matris Laetare, parens ; inmane tropaeum
cingitur, impulsos pluviis quo mitigat amnes, 125 quo mare, quo ventos irataque fulmina solvit.
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| Source: |
Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
|
Apologies if this happened, because human users who are making use of the eBooks or other site
features
should almost never be blocked.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
|
Maximinus
died a simple death at Tarsus.
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| Source: |
Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
|
It was hardly to be expected that, in his criticisms of social life,
1
Provenit
ex versu nausea nulla tuo.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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And it was in such a country as this I was
condemned
to pass my youth!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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That same tusk, all flecked with glistening foam, when he had fallen took
vengeance
on his slayer, smiting with unescapable blow the dancer’s ankle-bone.
| Guess: |
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
|
A bibliography will include Colebrooke, “Essays,'
re-edited by Cowell and Whitney; Max Müller, Ancient Sanskrit Lit-
erature); Whitney, Oriental and Linguistic Studies); Weber, Vorle-
sungen ueber
Indische
Literaturgeschichte (English translation, as
'Indian Literature, published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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For, perhaps, a rhymer is as
necessary
amongst servants of a house, as a Dobbin with his bells, at the head of a team.
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| Source: |
Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Sweet moan, sweeter smile,
All the
dovelike
moans beguile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Rhys Davids, "that our present knowledge of such
philosophy
as is revealed in the Buddhist Pali canon would be practically undiminished if the whole of the Abhidhammapitaka were non-existent .
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| Question: |
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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distinctly
greater claims upon his attention, he could find in Ovid
"right commendable and noble sentences.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
|
Each one was nicely shown in this new Glass,
And smil'd to think He was not meant the Ass:
A Miser oft would laugh the first, to find
A
faithful
Draught of his own sordid mind;
And Fops were with such care and cunning writ,
They lik'd the Piece for which themselves did sit.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Boileau - Art of Poetry |
|
It also seems to me that when one says it sends all forms forth from its womb, we must declare that it
possesses
them all.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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56 Subsequent Tibetan Madhyamikas have attacked Tsongkhapa for suggesting that Prasangika-Madhyamaka has unique tenets, especially such constructive theories as the acceptance of the cessation of empirical things as a
conditioned
phenomenon.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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"Beneath the screaming
insubordination
of the South
German rabble"--so he writes--" there is not sufficient
courage left to even smash a window-pane.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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(See Wagner's essay,
“Religion
and Art.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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The snow is fled: the trees their leaves put on,
The fields their green:
Earth owns the change, and rivers
lessening
run.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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In a Cuban Garden
Hibiscus
flowers are cups of fire,
(Love me, my lover, life will not stay)
The bright poinsettia shakes in the wind,
A scarlet leaf is blowing away.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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regiou{n}
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Then Conchubar, the
subtlest
of all men,
Ranking his Druids round him ten by ten,
Spake thus, 'Cuchulain will dwell there and brood
For three days more in dreadful quietude,
And then arise, and raving slay us all.
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Yeats |
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Alexander
was slaughtered by Constantine's army.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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Though low and poor and broken down,
Am I to think myself
distrest?
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John Clare |
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But how unequal it bestows, observe;
'Tis thus we riot, while, who sow it, starve:
What Nature wants (a phrase I much distrust)
Extends to luxury, extends to lust:
Useful, I grant, it serves what life requires,
But,
dreadful
too, the dark assassin hires.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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A superb example of this process, one involving local incidents, accidents of darkness and morning mist, overzealous commanders, troops in panic, erroneous assessment of damage, public opinion, and possibly a little "catalytic action" by warmongers, all
conjoining
to get governments more nearly committed to a war that might not have been inevitable, occurred within drum-call of my own home.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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