" 4 This
firmness
so daunted the king's spirit, that he replied that "he would obey the senate.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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God wishes to be served in such a was as to
preserve this harmony between the two powers which He has
instituted ; maintaining them
balanced
so that one may not us
urp the place that belongs to the other".
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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Their highest
ambition
was
to equal Horace.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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made concessions to Germany without ever being really
generous
or really firm, failed to prevent German rearmament, were inefficient and parsimoni- ous in maintaining their own armaments, palmed off responsibil- ity for European crises onto an impotent League of Nations, and preached the theory that peace was divisible between Western Europe (where peace could and should be saved) and Eastern Europe (where peace couid not and therefore should not be saved).
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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_exitare_ GORVen BLa1, quod tamquam frequentatiuum uerbi _exire_
retinebat Traube
25
_derelinquere_
O cum Parisino 7989: _delinquere_ cett.
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Latin - Catullus |
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-The Lord Chief-Justice of the Court of
Common Pleas
delivered
the unanimous opinion of
the Judges upon the said question, -" That it is not
competent to the Managers for the Commons to examine the witness, Philip Francis, Esquire, to any account of the debate which was had on the 9th day of July, 1778, previous to the written minutes that appear upon the Consultation of that date," -- and
gave his reasons.
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Edmund Burke |
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Thought out
beforehand
in inwardness, the structures d ~
THE CABINET OF CYNICS ?
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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Je me
rappelais, la première fois que je l'avais vue avec Saint-Loup, ma
stupéfaction à la pensée qu'on pût être torturé de ne pas savoir
ce qu'une telle femme avait fait, de savoir ce qu'elle avait pu dire
tout bas à quelqu'un,
pourquoi
elle avait eu un désir de rupture.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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I had no doubt of my mother's tenderness;
but knowing the character and way of
thinking
of my father, I foresaw
that my love would not touch him very much, and that he would call it
youthful folly.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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It is also the proper response to a biological
phenomenon
that appears to be irreducibly complex.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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--Yes, Stephen said, smiling in spite of himself at Cranly's way of
remembering
thoughts
in connexion with places.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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and
Menander
the satrap of Lydia, when he learnt of the arrival of Antigonus and the withdrawal of Asander towards him, vigorously .
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Roman Translations |
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He had shaken the influence of the peace party,
and he seems to have still further
strengthened
his
political position by a speech delivered about three
months after that which we have just been considering.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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For him, the existence of radical evil is
accompanied
by the experience of the radical absence of meaning.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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Now, if you are well up
in your London, you will know that the office of the company is
in Fresno Street, which
branches
out of Upper Swandam Lane, where
you found me to-night.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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There was a whole
collection
made.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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Thus the conception of pure and merely intelligible objects is completely void of all principles
of its application, because we cannot imagine any mode in which they might be given, and the problematical thought which leaves a place open for them serves enly, like a void
space, to limit the use of
empirical
principles, without con taining at the same time any other object of cognitioi beyond their sphere.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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It is enough that the dharmas are a
condition
for the arising of a consciousness in their qualtiy of being an object: let us admit that it is thus for future and past dharmas.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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"
I turn'd me to Beatrice; and she heard
Ere I had spoken, smiling, an assent,
That to my will gave wings; and I began
"To each among your tribe, what time ye kenn'd
The nature, in whom naught unequal dwells,
Wisdom and love were in one measure dealt;
For that they are so equal in the sun,
From whence ye drew your
radiance
and your heat,
As makes all likeness scant.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Old Simon to the world is left
In
liveried
poverty.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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", the middle
gentleman
asked the cleaner
irritably.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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Ayant posé en principe qu'il
avait une haute valeur morale, et que l'espèce de gens qui fréquentait
la Boulie (cercle sportif qui lui semblait élégant) méritait le bagne,
tous les coups qu'il pouvait leur porter lui
semblaient
méritoires.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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He was afraid that his army would perish, lighting upon some uninhabited country, or one desti tute of roadsteads, or not sufficiently
supplied
with the ripe crops.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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In this mode of
analysis
we can see that truth is called upon less as an intrinsic property of statements than at the level of its functionality, through the legitimation it provides for the discourses and practices on the basis of which psychiatric power organizes its exercise, and by the mode of exclusion it authorizes.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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All hopes of new literary institutions were
quickly
suppressed
by the contentious turbulence of king James's reign;
and Roscommon, foreseeing that some violent concussion of the state was
at hand, purposed to retire to Rome, alleging, that "it was best to sit
near the chimney when the chamber smoked;" a sentence, of which the
application seems not very clear.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Let the tortoise have a start of any given length, then
Achilles, however {45} much he excel in speed, will never
overtake
the
tortoise.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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Here is a foreign
hothouse
plant, too
tender for the gardens of the North.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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"Denham and Waller," says Prior, "improved our versification, and
Dryden
perfected
it.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Believe it, my
brethren!
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Result Power
transferred
to the middle classes.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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" The judges, as men of law, are no longer competent to treat so
difficult
a matter, one so little juridical and so properly psychological as the criminal.
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Foucault-Live |
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[53]
Anonymous
{ F 15 } G
The rose blooms for a little season, and when that goes by you shall find, if you seek, no rose, but a briar.
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Greek Anthology |
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Cada vez que nos sentamos ante nuestro ordenador para escribir un correo
electro?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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In these dwell- ing places all the
mountains
and valleys are ice and snow, and it is as cold as can be.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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But there is a great
difference
between other men's occupations and
ours.
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Epictetus |
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Solo ÉL ve lo que encierra este hemisferio,
Por entre cuyos blancos valladares
La ardua
ascensión
al último acomete,
Cual suelta nube, el Árabe jinete.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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a secret decision
communicated
by word of mouth, which from the summer of 1941 became the order of the day in select SS units.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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29) and "the industrialand
corporateuse
of slave laborin theconcentrationcampsand ghettoestookthisstructuraplropensityof capitalismtoitsfinalconclusion"(p.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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--The best edition of Virgil is that of Heyne,
which first
appeared
from the Leipsic press in 1767-
68, 4 vols.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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Soon after Cleopatra expired, uttering imprecations on her
unnatural
murderers, and commending the avenging of her fate to the outraged deities.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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He was cut off from four things; he had no pre- judices, no categoric imperatives, no
obstinacy
or no obstinate residues, no time-lags, no egotism.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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Its cause, its intensity, its expansion to those uninvolved, the form of the fight as that of the reconciliation is, by its course on the basis of an organic unity matured by thousands of internal and
external
ties, fully idiosyn- cratic, comparable to no other conflict.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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Surplus value arises from
variable
capital alone, and we saw that the amount of surplus value depends on two factors, viz.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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Outside of
learned or
theological
circles people no longer read him.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Damage to five
additional
oil plants brought the loss in synthetic nitro- gen to 91 per cent.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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--Un chant
mysterieux
tombe des astres d'or.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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On these grounds the
authorities
decided that the thing was impossible.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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Morning has not
occurred!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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" What one makes of the reference to Allāh here depends on whether one assumes that Labīd composed this poem (if he is indeed its composer, and if one may speak of
original
composers at all when it comes to poems that are orally transmitted for a century or two before being written down) after or before he became a Muslim, and also what one's view is about the "paganism" that predated Islam.
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Translated Poetry |
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), 1935 Der chemische Krieg 3rd edition (Mittler und Sohn, Berlin)
Haslinger J, 1995 Opernball (Fischer, Frankfurt am Main)
Hegel G W F, 1979 Phenomenology of Spirit translated by A V Miller (Oxford University Press,
Oxford)
Kalthoff J, Werner M, 1998 Die Ha<< ndler des Zyklon B (VSA, Hamburg)
Lepick O, 1998 La Grande Guerre Chimique: 1914 ^ 1918 (Presses Universitaires de France, Paris) Martinetz D, 1996 Der Gaskrieg 1914 ^ 1918: Entwicklung, Einsatz und Herstellung chemischer
Kampfstoffe: das
Zusammenwirken
von milita<< rischer Fu<< hrung,Wissenschaft und Industrie
(Bernard und Graefe, Bonn)
Mordacq J-J H, 1933 Le Drame de l'Yser (Ee` ditions des Portiques, Paris)
Mu<< hlmann H, 2004 The Nature of Cultures: A Blueprint for a Theory of Culture Genetics translated
by R Payne (Springer, New York)
Murakami H, 2001 Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Vintage, London) Shakespeare W, 2004 The Merchant of Venice (Signet, New York)
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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Immediate
mind consciousness
7B.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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Some crumbling ruins,
denominated
St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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This quarrel being hushed, Panurge tipped the wink upon Epistemon and Friar
John, and taking them aside, Stand at some distance out of the way, said
he, and take your share of the
following
scene of mirth.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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Fora daquelas árvores próximas, daquelas latadas afastadas, daqueles montes últimos no horizonte haveria alguma coisa de real, de
merecedor
do olhar aberto que se dá às coisas que existem?
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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The elder lady appeared
£
66 LUCIAN THE DREAMER
Simonstower, and her attire, her lorgnette, her vinai- grette, her fan, and her airs and graces formed a
delightful
contrast to the demeanour of the old earl, who was famous for the rustiness of his garments, and stuck like a leech to the fashion of the ' forties.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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Where no disease reigns, or infection comes
To blast the air, but ambergris and gums
This, that, and ev'ry thicket doth transpire,
More sweet than storax from the hallowed fire,
Where ev'ry tree a wealthy issue bears
Of fragrant apples, blushing plums, or pears;
And all the shrubs, with
sparkling
spangles, shew
Like morning sunshine tinselling the dew.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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Once this mode of being has been realized, it is as difficult to get out of it as to wake oneself up; bad faith is a type of being in the world, like waking or dreaming, which by itself tends to perpetuate itself,
although
its structure is of the metastable type.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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It is only about 24 hours' sail from the Dardanelles to here, at the
rate the _Czarina
Catherine_
has come from London.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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efforts to reestablish an international economy based on multilateral trade, declining trade barriers, and convertible currencies (the GATT-ITO program, the Reciprocal Trade
Agreements
program, the IMF- IBRD program, and the program now being developed to solve the problem of the United States balance of payments).
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NSC-68 |
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She sees in him, her prowess has laid low,
A
venerable
sire, with sorrowing face;
Whose hair and wrinkles speak him, to her guess,
Of years six score and ten, or little less.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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XXXV
"But does no laurel for his brother twine,
Aldobrandino, who will carry cheer
To Rome (when Otho, with the Ghibelline,
Into the troubled capital strikes fear),
And make the Umbri and Piceni sign
Their shame, and sack the cities far and near;
Then hopeless to relieve the sacred hold,
Sue to the neighbouring Florentine for gold:
XXXVI
"And trust a noble brother to his hands,
Boasting no dearer pledge, the pact to bind:
And next,
victorious
o'er the German bands,
Give his triumphant ensigns to the wind:
To the afflicted church restore her lands,
And take due vengeance of Celano's kind.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Then they said Our Father, the Ave and Credo,
The
Commandments
and Rosary too;
And after these prayers were all repeated,
A book from their pockets they drew.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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In
1830 and 1831 I wrote the five Essays since
published
under the title of
_Essays on some Unsettled Questions of political Economy_, almost as
they now stand, except that in 1833 I partially rewrote the fifth Essay.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Writing was
entirely
out of the
line of female education.
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Robert Burns- |
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The Jellyfish
Medusae
'Medusae'
Descriptive Catalogue of the Medusae of the
Australian
Seas, Lendenfeld, R.
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Appoloinaire |
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Until now, it seems to me that historians of our own society, of our own civilization, have sought
especially
to get at the inner secret of our civilization, its spirit, the way it estabUshes its identity, the things it values.
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Foucault-Live |
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In dealing with a murderer or a scoundrel he must surely have adopted quite a
different
tone.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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For, first of all, unless they had conducted themselves far too violently, he preferred to mollify followers of the tyrant rather than to destroy them after they had been tortured, having
reckoned
most prudently that nefarious works are carried out by the majority of the men through fear.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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The
Catonian
section had undertaken to push matters to a rupture and to carry the senate along with them, and now saw their vessel stranded after a most vexatious manner on the sandbanks of the indolent majority.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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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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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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Crashaw,
_Musicks
Duell_.
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Donne - 2 |
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) It has
happened
before, and it will again.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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", since 2005 member of the board of
directors
of the "Vereinigung Deutsch-Franzo?
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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} The former husband of the
priestess
.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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Defects of the Total or Expanded form of value
In the first place, the relative
expression
of value is incomplete because the series representing it is interminable.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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From the Northwest comes a shadowy wind,1 somberly
following
the Uighurs.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Name of Person:
Helena
Petrovna
Blavatsky, ne?
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Claims of omniscience arc as absurd as
claiming
thaI one can hear with one's nose, or see with one's ears.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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What I say is the following: even if we were to suppose that the inference was legitimate, the meaning itself of the word 'every' does not coincide with any of the
empirical
data nor with the whole of the really empirical data; this is why it is would be necessary to infer it, because we do no experience it.
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On the other hand, without the willingness of the Roman readers to be seduced by the missives of the Greeks, there would have been no recipients:
Rules for the Human Zoo: a
response
to the Letter on Humanism 13
and, had the Romans with their extraordinary receptivity not come into play, the Greek message would never have reached western Europe, which retains to this day an interest in humanism.
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The Hippopotamus
Similiter et omnes revereantur Diaconos, ut
mandatum
Jesu Christi; et Episcopum, ut Jesum
Christum, existentem filium Patris; Presbyteros
autem, ut concilium Dei et conjunctionem
Apostolorum.
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Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:06 GMT / http://hdl.
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[Sidenote H: if the young one was fair the other was yellow,]
[Sidenote I: and had rough and
wrinkled
cheeks.
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' For example : one wisheth to buy a country seat ; he is with child, for his object is not gained as yet, the womb
swelleth
in hope : he buyeth it ; he hath brought forth, he now giveth suck to what he hath bought.
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This was not contested until art began to
experience
itself as transient.
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Something had been said the evening before of her being shown over the
house, and he now offered himself as her conductor; and though Catherine
had hoped to explore it accompanied only by his daughter, it was a
proposal of too much
happiness
in itself, under any circumstances, not
to be gladly accepted; for she had been already eighteen hours in the
abbey, and had seen only a few of its rooms.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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The tendencies that ultimately
resulted
in the formation of a
uniform written language began to act before the fourteenth
century closed.
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Both contain an element of personification; it is dangerously easier to personify
organisms
than to personify genes.
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gen dun) These are the
companions
on the path.
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Archive
Foundation
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501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the
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Revenue Service.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Henry Ward Beecher's religion
probably
wasn't one of them.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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The sounds I had heard after the scream, and the words that
had been uttered, had
probably
been heard only by me; for they had
proceeded from the room above mine: but they assured me that it was not a
servant's dream which had thus struck horror through the house; and that
the explanation Mr.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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As I am entered into the
holy state of matrimony, I trust my face is turned completely
Zion-ward; and as it is a rule with all honest fellows to repeat no
grievances, I hope that the little poetic
licenses
of former days will
of course fall under the oblivious influence of some good-natured
statute of celestial prescription.
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6
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attained by Newton's contemporary, Francis Cranmer Penrose,
who, as 'travelling bachelor of the university of Cambridge,'
studied architecture in Rome and in Athens, where he was led by
the theories of Pennethorne to determine the
hyperbolic
curve of
the entasis of the columns of the Parthenon.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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The first thing his
art places in our hands is a
magnifying
glass: we
look through it, and we no longer trust our own
eyes.
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how seldom do we meet in this world, that we have reason
to
congratulate
ourselves on accessions of happiness!
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Robert Forst |
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XII
In cruel
solitude
each day
With flame more ardent passion burns,
And to Oneguine far away
Her heart importunately turns.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The
following
elegiacs will serve
as a sample.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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No theatre at
Everingham!
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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