It would appear that after all of this, we are not condemned to free- dom, but to a
clarification
of our illusions from the purview of our dreams of freedom.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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Very well, Professor Pearson replied, if the relations between parent
and child are so intimate that they lead to infection, they are
certainly not less intimate between husband and wife, and there ought to
be just as much
infection
in this relationship as in the former.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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Let us not forget that even for the Russian revolutionaries in exile dur- ing the regime of the czar, the publication and secret distribution of their newspapers—in particular the ominous
Iskar—made
up most of their activities.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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= Why in case you
beléeue
not mee, take the Glasse, & beléeue your
owne eyes.
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Erasmus |
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, published in 1863, and developed from this association ofideas the 19th century's most
powerful
vision of a critique of civilization.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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homines religiosi:
religious
men.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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--In picture light is
required
no less than shadow; so
in style, height as well as humbleness.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Je crois qu'il n'y en a qu'une qui la connaisse et
que les autres l'avaient seulement
accompagnée
jusqu'à la porte.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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11 See Finck for a
discussion
of Trakl based on this remark by Rilke, 115-25.
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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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Simply seeing or
smelling
the food would be enough to make them feel ill.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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Of course, the complete absurdity and rottenness of "realized" socialism was apparent, but as long as the rotten and absurd complex
continued
to exist, the simple "that" of its existence provided a reason to believe that a nonperverse realization of its justified motivations would be possible.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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what a
delightful
room this is!
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Marya, who was working in the same room, all at once
informed
my
parents that she was obliged to start for Petersburg, and begged them to
give her the means to do so.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Yet none of them were
ever able to
influence
that People, and incline them to enter
into your AlHance.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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] -
Phaedrus
of Pharsalus, stadion race
57th [552 B.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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The stubborn- ness with which this stereotypical thought survives would be as puz- zling as its emotional rootedness if it were not fed by motives that are stronger than the painful recollection of how much cultivation is miss- ing from a culture that
historically
scarcely recognizes the homme de lettres.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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Time, duration, impermanence, are relative to the
existence
of empty things.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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Lady, I shall have much honour
If ever the privilege is granted
Of
clasping
you beneath the cover,
Holding you naked as I've wanted;
For you are worth the hundred best,
And I'm not exaggerating either.
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Troubador Verse |
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Nietzsche violates the rules of his profession with his brightly
checkered
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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l2S
Using a propaganda model, we would not only anticipate
definitions
of worth based on utility.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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It moved me by your grief to give myself
Into the pleasure of its
ravenous
love.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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We can establish a
threefold
determination in considering the
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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God knows if it can be found still
scattered
in England.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Mais en même temps je n'avais cessé en écrivant
de pleurer; d'abord un peu de la même manière que le jour où j'avais
joué la fausse séparation, parce que ces mots me
représentant
l'idée
qu'ils m'exprimaient quoiqu'ils tendissent à un but contraire
(prononcés mensongèrement pour ne pas, par fierté, avouer que
j'aimais), ils portaient en eux leur tristesse.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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That you have need of
revenues
and of men to raise
them, and that it behoves Your Majesty to choose
them well.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Such descriptions too
often
occasion
in the mind of a reader, who is determined to understand
his author, a feeling of labour, not very dissimilar to that, with
which he would construct a diagram, line by line, for a long geometrical
proposition.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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There she stood
About a young bird's flutter from a wood,
Fair, on a sloping green of mossy tread,
By a clear pool, wherein she passioned
To see herself escap'd from so sore ills,
While her robes
flaunted
with the daffodils.
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Keats - Lamia |
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I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must
have been
senseless
for a long time.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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As regards matters connected with eating
and drinking, of course she was
extremely
well educated when she came,
and this seems to me the chief education, whether for a man or a woman.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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1
In his less-known Everlasting Man (1926), Chesterton conducts a wonderful mental
experiment
along these lines, in imagining the monster that man might have seemed at first to the merely natu- ral animals around him:
The simplest truth about manisthatheisavery strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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Readers are
referred
to Mr Grosart's 'Introduction.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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These lands should belong to them for ever; the part confiscated
should be divided into lots of thirty _jugera_ and farmed hereditarily,
either to Roman citizens, or to Italiote auxiliaries, on
condition
of a
small rent to the treasury, and with an express prohibition to alienate.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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But, when the saint arrived, all its gates were
miraculously
opened, and even the door of that very prison, in which Cormac had been confined ; the chains also fell from the captive's limbs, to the great alarm of his guards.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Your Committee find that the late Lord Clive constantly
asserted
that the salt trade in Bengal had
been a monopoly time immemorial, -- that it ever
was and ever must be a monopoly, -and that Coja
Wazid, and other merchants long before him, had
given to the Nabob and his ministers two hundred
thousand pounds per annum for the exclusive privilege.
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Edmund Burke |
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The success
of superior men, and it is a
consoling
thought, is due rather to the
loftiness of their sentiments than to the speculations of selfishness
and cunning; this success depends much more on their skill in taking
advantage of circumstances, than on that presumption, blind enough to
believe itself capable of creating events, which are in the hands of God
alone.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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) Cicero use at that time at Athens, on account of the great
says of his administration, “ Atheniensium rem
expenses
involved in it; and in order to afford the
publicam exsanguem.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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rdzogs), the state of the
primordial
Buddha Samantabhadra, and one will be liberated in the state
of primordial purity.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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"
--And so the
conversation
slips
Among velleities and carefully caught regrets
Through attenuated tones of violins
Mingled with remote cornets
And begins.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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» Ils savaient surtout
que cela leur donnerait moins de peine que de faire
pénétrer
lesdits
amis chez les nièces ou belles-soeurs élégantes de ces dames.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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Let him raise his eyes to his own
dignity, and to law; let him not lower them to
necessity
and
fortune.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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For upon
the highest corner of a large window, there dwelt a certain spider,
swollen up to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers
of flies, whose spoils lay
scattered
before the gates of his palace, like
human bones before the cave of some giant.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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The second day, called Choes (Jugs), was a day of revelry and
feasting
even for slaves.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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)
người
xã Khê Tang huyện Thanh Oai (nay thuộc xã Cự Khê huyện Thanh Oai tỉnh Hà Tây).
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stella-04 |
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" —
" In hell, to burn such
wretches
as regard not the glad tidings of the gospel.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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"I have no rest, nor joy, nor peace,
"For people die and die";
And after cried he, "God
forgive!
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Yeats - Poems |
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2 The inert body of the signifier is
animated
by the intention of the signified, so to speak.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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Leisurely
flocks and herds,
Cool-eyed cattle that come
Mildly to wonted words,
Swine that in orchards roam,--
A man and his beasts make a man and his home.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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It was just the
plan to suit Fanny; and with a great deal of gratitude on her side for
such ready and kind attention, they
proceeded
indoors, and upstairs, and
were soon deep in the interesting subject.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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In 1691, he was
appointed
city
poet, and, in that capacity, produced the annual pageant on lord
mayor's day, of which the official printed record for several years
is extant.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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A flag, a bullet, a military hat; Duke Wellington on his big white horse; three
soldiers
crouch- ing in a ditch; a pair of Napoleon's jinnies,* making believe to read a book of strategy; and a sex-caliber telescope through which the Duke trains on the flanks of the jinnies.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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beseech you then, that six angels, which such one hath mine, may
delivered
unto my brother pay my debts.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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If the passion of their partisans is any indication, translators are a
competitive
lot.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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His left hand all open he lifted up
into the air, then instantly shut into his fist the four fingers thereof,
and his thumb
extended
at length he placed upon the gristle of his nose.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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So, too, by the previous signs thou canst
forecast
the winds or storm or rain to come on the self-same day or on the morrow or it may be on the third morn.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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There are, however, special remarks to be made about many of the
disabilities
that have been mentioned.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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The
background
for this latter shift is illustrated in Figure 17.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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Is it because thy doughty son be given troubles
innumerable
by a man of nought, as a lion might be given by a fawn?
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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Collins was first introduced to her
notice, but he
certainly
has not known her long.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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; --
the pi'epositions becoming adverbs and the
ablatives
by their own power express-
ing a relation to some other word in the sentence.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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The element of wind, the continual movement of mind, is the third aspect,
unimpeded
manifestation.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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In 1859 the first
finance
minister
was appointed and assumed control over all branches
of public accounts.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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I also have a much more romantic, archaic, and unrealistic memory of a moment that I loved, a memory that I am
obsessed
with, a recollection of a world that was never mine and must by now be gone forever.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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The prose has the faults of the
verse, being too highpitched and too
uncontrolled
to give penetra-
tive power to the caricature of a learned circle such as Blake had
known at Mrs Mathew's.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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Gewaltig ist das
Schweigen
im Stein.
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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Finally, an important autobiographical theme also makes its
appear
ance in Book V: the opposition, which constitutes a serious personal problem r Marcus, between the court at which he is obliged to live, and philosophy, to which he would like to devote himself entirely (V, 1 6 , 2).
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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They were the sort of clothes you see on a
bootlace
seller, or a tramp.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any
statements
concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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7 This is the
expression
used by Thurman Arnold in his various speeches dealing with what is commonly called "cooperation" by businessmen.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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Project
Gutenberg is a
registered
trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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For such men justly hope for all manner of
estrangement
of
(ver.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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The Swiss undertook
to
chastise
those who had revolted.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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He that cannot look into his own estate at all, had need both
choose well those whom he employeth, and change them often; for new
are more
timorous
and less subtle.
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Bacon |
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Those who are greatly deluded about
realization
are ordinary
beings.
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Shobogenzo |
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There is nothing even to prove that Domitius
pontifical law, was given to mythological research, Labeo was a jurist, though he is classed as such by
and was learned in antiquity (literas
antiquiores
altio- Cotta, Rivallius, Eberlinus and others.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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He was to be taken to
the country to be buried there in his own grave; so they carried him
away; no one
followed
him, for all his friends were dead; and the
little boy kissed his hand to the coffin as the hearse moved away with
it.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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This was the sad end of the
transfer
of technology from West to East.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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Indeed, in this one, the height is no greater than the length or depth, so that it is called a sphere by analogy,
although
it is not a sphere.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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In spite of this
deterring
episode, the spirit of the blessed Charles A.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Rage |
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It does not require any speculative genius to say that the desire behind this return of ''incarnation'' must have been provoked by an everyday
environment
which for most
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Gue ?
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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The best
critical
edi-
tion of his poems is K.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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His principal ethical work, the 'Prole-
gomena to Ethics,' appeared in 1883 under the
editorship
of his
friend A.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Bingley, she had
likewise
seen for an instant, and in that short period
saw him looking both pleased and embarrassed.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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Daughter
of Homer, fair to see,
Of Virgil's son the mother she.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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'
chanted the little girl, still
capering
round.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - 1984 |
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Perhaps as $Orne kind of
compensa_
tion for hi.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Elle cherchait dans l'oeil de sa pâle victime
Le
cantique
muet que chante le plaisir,
Et cette gratitude infinie et sublime
Qui sort de la paupière ainsi qu'un long soupir.
| Guess: |
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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Chamisso translated Andersen and
Béranger, made
translations
from the Chinese and Tonga, and his
version of the Eddic Song of Thrym (Das Lied von Thrym') is
among the best translations from the Icelandic that have been made.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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The great individual is entirely illuminated by significance; he burns up without a remnant in his
historical
task, so as to be no more than a figure in its constellation.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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The moon is a flower without a stem,
The sky is luminous;
Eternity
was made for them,
To-night for us.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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O vain and
causeless
melancholy!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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His /ury thus appeas'd, he puts to land;
The ghosts forsake their seats at his command:
He clears the deck,
receives
the mighty freight;
The leaky vessel groans beneath the weight.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Where it is clear that the italics are to
indicate
the text is quoting,
I have introduced quotation marks.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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Begone, ye
chilling
water sprite;
Here burning Bacchus rules tonight!
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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The Dog in the Manger
A Dog looking out for its
afternoon
nap jumped into the Manger
of an Ox and lay there cosily upon the straw.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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His brother had been obliged to take the position of an officer in the Gallic army to answer in some measure as a hostage for him ; Pompeius had compelled Cicero himself to accept a lieutenant-generalship under him, which furnished a handle for politely banishing him at any moment Clodius had doubtless been instructed to leave him meanwhile at peace, but Caesar as little threw off Clodius on account of Cicero as he threw off Cicero on account of Clodius ; and the great saviour of his country and the no less great hero of liberty entered into an antechamber-rivalry in the head
quarters
of Samarobriva, for the befitting illustration of which there lacked, unfortunately, a Roman Aristophanes.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Rapid, ætherial bolt,
descending
fire, the earth all-parent, trembles at thy ire;
The sea all-shining; and each beast that hears the sound terrific, with dread horror fears:
When Nature's face is bright with flashing fire, and in the heavens resound thy thunders dire.
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Orphic Hymns |
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Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
is a non profit
501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the
state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal
Revenue Service.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Nature does not give a damn about making anybody or
anything
happy.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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