And then, continued
Homenas, they were miraculously
transmitted
to us here from the very heaven
of heavens; in the same manner as the river Nile is called Diipetes by
Homer, the father of all philosophy--the holy decretals always excepted.
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OPTICAL MEDIA
dissolves mto countless colors of the spectrum between viOlet and red, from which Newton inferred that light consists of parts or
particles
and that a convex lens would combine many colors to make white again.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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—
appropriated
by certain smug ones, iv.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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'
`Thou seyst wel,' quod Pandare, `and now I hope
That thou the goddes
wraththe
hast al apesed; 940
And sithen thou hast wepen many a drope,
And seyd swich thing wher-with thy god is plesed,
Now wolde never god but thou were esed;
And think wel, she of whom rist al thy wo
Here-after may thy comfort been al-so.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Pre-eminent among
the pigs were two young boars named
Snowball
and Napoleon, whom
Mr.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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The thought that the king does not die produces the classic case of this type of feeling, which is a new principle altogether from the feeling of the purely
personal
sovereign.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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Then he
clattered
home on old
Sorrel in the closing darkness, looking like a very small pin on the top
of a large pincushion.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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Nora (going into room at the
right]—
The more reason for the
thing to happen.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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141
anything of the sort: Goethe's man here parts
company with Rousseau's; for he hates all violence,
all sudden
transition—that
is, all action : and the
universal deliverer becomes merely the universal
traveller.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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"What
forsooth
hath come unto me?
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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gunners
traverses
the rutilanced illu.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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1 198 and 1216,'atnulli
liceat
construere
infra cemeteria terminos
parochse Exoniensis ecclesire sine assensu English monastery, called Mischele
of 1636.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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At
Compiègne, in 816,
Slovenes
and Obotrites appeared, and again at
Herstall (818) and at Frankfort (823); Bulgarian envoys on several
occasions; and in 823 two leaders who, among the Wiltzi, were con-
tending for power, begged the Emperor to act as arbitrator.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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which changed the meaning of
revolution
from turning back to moving forward and put into common use the word avenir.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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_)
AN OLD MAN
The
Almighty
wrath at our great weakness and sin
Has blotted out the world and we must die.
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Yeats - Poems |
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My task becomes inexpressibly painful as the year draws near that which
sealed our earthly fate, and each poem, and each event it records, has
a real or mysterious
connection
with the fatal catastrophe.
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Shelley |
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The rGyu-bon tried to root out the Dharma, but the kings and ministers-of-state did not agree among
themselves
about how to go about this.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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How they contrived to keep
themselves
alive is more than I can imagine.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretch'd in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance
Tossing their heads in
sprightly
dance.
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Golden Treasury |
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The
question
posed in this chapter is whether we should prefer larger or smaller numbers of great powers.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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And
dreadful
the blast of the trumpet.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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And obviously it does not mean either that a certain set of words, which would be the expression of the law in mere sounds and ink- would suffice to produce the real
phenomenon
in question.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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610
Harolde upreer'd hys bylle, and furious sente
A stroke, lyke thondre, at the
Normannes
syde;
Upon the playne the broken brasse besprente
Dyd ne hys bodie from dethe-doeynge hyde;
He tournyd backe, and dyd not there abyde; 615
With straught oute sheelde hee ayenwarde did goe,
Threwe downe the Normannes, did their rankes divide,
To save himselfe lefte them unto the foe;
So olyphauntes, in kingdomme of the sunne,
When once provok'd doth throwe theyr owne troopes runne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Finisterre being the land due south of Marazion, two places
in that district (then by our trade with Corunna
probably
less
unfamiliar to English ears), are named,--_Namancos_ now Mujio in
Galicia, _Bayona_ north of the Minho, or, perhaps a fortified rock (one
of the _Cies_ Islands) not unlike St.
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Golden Treasury |
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One shade
less restraint would have
overstepped
the bounds of
tragedy and turned it into the grotesque: but all is
grave and moving1.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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I said all I could about you in a ringing voice that filled the forum, and the
shouting
and applause of the people was - well, I never saw anything like it!
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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Certainly he did
not as a rule embarrass or limit himself by any
accurate
study of the
topography on the spot.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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The result is a
brilliant
picture of the court of Charles II.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Aussi ce dernier crut-il pouvoir
répondre
d'un air rogue
et à la cantonade à cet interlocuteur qui, à la faveur du brouillard,
était comme un compagnon de voyage rencontré dans quelque plage située
aux confins du monde, battue des vents ou ensevelie dans les brumes.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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But it is hard to understand how we could know some- thing without knowing what its absence entails: and it may well be, as Colin McGinn argues, that consciousness is one of those philosophical problems which human be- ings are structurally unfit to solve; and that in that sense Kant's was the right posi- tion to take: that, although its existence is as certain as the Cartesian cogito, con-
sciousness
must also remain perpetually unknowable as a thing-in-itself.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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It does not require much effort for Derrida to show that Hegel's semiology is Platonically inspired: if signs have a sense, it is because their spiritual side equals a soul that
inhabits
a body - or which, as Derrida states with revealing caution, is 'deposited' within a body.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Under the blossoming plum-tree,
She
expresses
the pilgrimage
Of grey souls passing,
Athwart love's scarlet maples
To the ash-strewn summit of death.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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Was it an
instinct
to save the butt end of the RACE by not fighting?
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Lucifer's
appearance
is a landmark.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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This
catholic spirit was opposed to the gnostic or peculiar spirit,--the humour
of fantastical interpretation of the old
Scriptures
into Christian
meanings.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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The final version added a line which destroyed the very redemption the final
paragraph
of the first published version had seemed to achieve: 'Dem folgt unverga ?
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Marks,
notations
and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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When Lucian describes the famous cobwebs, each one of which
was as big as an island of the Cyclades, Hickes thinks to throw light
upon the text with this
astonishing
irrelevancy: "They are in the
Aegean Sea, in number 13.
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Lucian - True History |
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Tons of paper have been devoted to
dissuasives
from duel-
ing, but the argument was never put more effectively than Frank-
lin put it in these dozen lines of a letter to a Mr.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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came from a
transformation
of the work of mourning into a work of rage.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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One could even go so far as to say that a form of complicity comes about between the king and his dream interpreter; for in order to decipher the king's dreams, the
interpreter
must be able to dream them himself to a certain extent - although his main profession is the resistance to pharaonism and its politics of immortality.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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In this
instance
the vessel was called The
Helmet, and bore on its deck an image of "Minerva
of the Yellow Locks.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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Sumner's
impetuous
advocacy of the
most advanced ideal measures.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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\\Lo-\-ned pe-\-tit dextra
lsevaque
Serestum
( Ilionea -- the E long, according to the Ionic
dialect.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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If, in a labour'd Act, the pleasing Rage
Cannot our Hopes and Fears by turns ingage,
Nor in our mind a feeling Pity raise;
In vain with Learned Scenes you fill your Plays:
Your cold
Discourse
can never move the mind
Of a stern Critic, natu'rally unkind;
Who, justly tir'd with your Pedantic flight,
Or falls asleep, or censures all you Write.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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The tongue
is filiform, and
rendered
tubular by two threads.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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Jaffrey dropped a remark
this morning at
breakfast
which – which was not altogether
clear to me.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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But America,
which seeks "the
greatest
good of the greatest
number," cannot be content with conditions that
fit only the hero, the martyr or the slave.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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" We will get to those terms soon enough, but it is al- ready worth remarking that the word material is one that merely "comes to mind," as though on account of the lack of a word, the proper word, to
designate
the peculiarly unfamiliar nature of this vi- sion.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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O, fiercely doth it draw
Them to its chasm'd maw,
And against it in vain
They linger and strain;
And as they slip away
Into the
seething
gray
Fill all the thunderous air
With the horror of their despair,
And their wild terror wreak
In one hoarse, wailing shriek.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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In a flash of
lightning
heaven opens, and we can
look in; but the sight will strike even human beings blind.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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The culprit, who
violates
and
suffers the vengeance of the laws, is not the dupe of ignorance, but the
slave of passion, the victim of habit or necessity.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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I am ill qualified
to dog the heels of greatness with the impertinence of solicitation,
and tremble nearly as much at the thought of the cold promise as the
cold denial; but to your lordship I have not only the honour, the
comfort, but the pleasure of being
Your lordship's much obliged
And deeply
indebted
humble servant,
R.
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Robert Forst |
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They were, in other words, an
inspiring
or invigorating form of nonsense.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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--Pour cela, cela ne fait
rien, si ça pouvait être
agréable
à M.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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But in the line
iVom
Tibullus
(3, 6, 3.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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" More deep each dread ravine
And hideous hollow yawned, and sadly thus
Answered
that hoar associate of the clouds:
"Spectre, I know not, I am always here.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I am not here to mention any
book of his--that is a subject of dispute in my family circle,
which is the best and which is the next best--but I must put in
a word, lest I should not be true to myself--a terrible thing
--for his Joan of Arc, a book of chivalry, of nobility, and of
manly
sincerity
for which I take this opportunity of thanking
him.
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Twain - Speeches |
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ng against proprietary
medicines
passed lower }iou<> l^ In senate Monday.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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"184 Jacobus would agree: the Father founded the temple, the Holy Spirit
consecrated
it, and the Son inhabited it.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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Such
passivity
itself demands an
activity to which it may be referred, by which it can be
explained, and through which it first becomes conceivable;
--or, as it is usually expressed,--which contains within it the
ground of this passivity.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Imagists |
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2i8 O R A T I O N O F
of the thirty, and fhared in the
Calamities
of her Country.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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1859); the Jena mathematician, Erhard VVeigel, the teacher of Leibniz and
Puffendorf
; Walther von Tschirn- hausen (1661-1708 ; Medicina Mentis sive Artis Inveniendi Prcecepta Generalia, Amsterdam, 1087), and Samuel Puffendorf (1032-1694; under the pseudonym Severinus a Monzambano, De Statu Bei publico: Germanicce, 1667, German by H.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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Presumptions of Power
Ruling classes throughout the world hate and fear communism not for its lack of
political
democracy, but because it attempts to establish economic democracy by building an egalitarian, collectivist social system--though they rarely come right out and say as much.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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[2096] The
circumnavigation of the peninsula, which is
comprised
between this
isthmus and the strait, is 2000 stadia.
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Strabo |
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Thus we find that whenever the
occasion
demands it his style rises to
supreme force and beauty.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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And they
received
a fixed allowance from others, and they also took dishes of fish from the fishermen.
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| Source: |
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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What
therefore
put into
Anaxagoras' head that difficult and complex con-
ception?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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He met within the
murmurous
vestibule
His young disciple.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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tuvo
principios
favorables ,
mas el mortal poder le desvanece ,
hasta tenef los fines miserables, ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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20
* * * * * * *
There is nothing more that they can do
For all their
passionate
care,
Those who sit in dust, the blessed few,
And weep and rend their hair:
Peter, Thomas, Mary Magdalene,
The Virgin unreproved,
Joseph, with Nicodemus, foremost men,
And John the Well-beloved,
Bring your finest linen and your spice,
Swathe the sacred Dead, 30
Bind with careful hands and piteous eyes
The napkin round His head;
Lay Him in the garden-rock to rest;
Rest you the Sabbath length:
The Sun that went down crimson in the west
Shall rise renewed in strength.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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But that you will not say; for whoever
prepares and
contrives
the means for my conquest, is
at war with me before he hurls the dart or draws the
bow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
|
To them
must also be attributed the illiberal sneers at the Greeks, the
furious party spirit, the contempt for the arts of peace, the
love of war for its own sake, the ungenerous exultation over the
vanquished, which the reader will
sometimes
observe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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He doubled up the
manuscript
and stuffed it between the bars of the drain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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For if I tell you that this would be a disobedience
to a divine command, and therefore that I cannot hold my tongue, you
will not believe that I am serious; and if I say again that the greatest
good of man is daily to converse about virtue, and all that concerning
which you hear me
examining
myself and others, and that the life which
is unexamined is not worth living - that you are still less likely
to believe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Plato - Apology, Charity |
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Monika Zobel
The True Fate of the Bremen Town
Musicians
as Told by Georg Trakl
They haul the donkey, the largest, to the mill first.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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No; know, bless'd maid, when there's not one
Remainder left of brass or stone,
Thy living epitaph shall be,
Though lost in them, yet found in me;
Dear, in thy bed of roses then,
Till this world shall
dissolve
as men,
Sleep while we hide thee from the light,
Drawing thy curtains round: Good-night.
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Robert Herrick |
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Perhaps I might make out a case of palliation; but shall I
speak
ingenuously?
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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They were, in other words, an
inspiring
or invigorating form of nonsense.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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'Let us not be so
unreasonable
as to allow [15] our deeds to give the lie to our words.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Her nature appeared
to possess depth, too, as well as variety; but--or else Hester's fears
deceived her--it lacked
reference
and adaptation to the world into
which she was born.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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And now, I
conceive me, you see how much this kind of people are beholding to me,
that with their petty ceremonies,
ridiculous
trifles, and noise exercise
a kind of tyranny among mankind, believing themselves very Pauls and
Anthonies.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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org/wiki/Gutenberg:Terms_of_Use">Terms of Use prohibit mass
downloads
or automated harvesting of the collection.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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Mary's Church, Oxford, with solem-
her pregnancy
resenting
her conduct
1714, and was
a
1,
;
a
it, a
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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Then I knew (I know not how) there lurked quicksands full of dread,
Rocks and reefs and whirlpools in the water-bed,
Whence a waterspout
Instantaneously
leaped out,
Roaring as it reared its head.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Ah, Exiles,
wandering
over many lands!
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Yeats - Poems |
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Praesentemque viris
intentant
omnia mortem.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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HENRY IRVING
The
Dramatic
and Literary Society of London gave a welcome-home
dinner to Sir Henry Irving at the Savoy Hotel, London, June 9,
1900.
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Twain - Speeches |
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Há phải chỉ là
chuộng
hư danh, sính hư văn mà đặt ra đâu!
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stella-01 |
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I
remember
a thought (obvious enough, and which has been
prettily expressed by a Roman poet) which gave me some consolation at
that moment under my poverty.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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For four generations we are;
My ancestors drummed for King Harry,
The
Huguenot
lad of Navarre.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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With four
thicknesses
of leather.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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xelvow, ' those ' or 'yonder,' the affairs of distant
Olynthus; separated from rpayud-rwv to
emphasise
xii/Iv and
0.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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Perhaps at no period so many
eminent men made their appearance at the helm:
Leo X, Charles Y, Francis I,
Sigismund
the Old,
Henry YIII, Soliman, Shah Ismael, and Shah Akbar.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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