Properly read, such spoors amount to maps and pictures, and it seems to me
plausible
that the ability to read such maps and pictures might have arisen in our ancestors before the origin of speech in words.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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A few
stanzas of this
description
run as follows.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Banished as heresy beyond the limits of the Catholic Church, in the
fifth and sixth centuries, in the persons of Nestorius and others, it
took refuge in Syria, where it flourished for many years in the schools
of Edessa and Nisibis, the
foremost
of the time.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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Meanwhile
the king, knowing that Deirdre was again within his reach, could not rest at the banquet, but sends spies to bring him word " if her beauty yet lived upon her.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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If practical reason could not assume or think as given anything further than what
speculative
reason of itself could offer it from its own insight, the latter would have the primacy.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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Nay, but in day-dreams, for terror, for pity,
The trees wave their heads with an omen to tell;
Nay, but in night-dreams,
throughout
the dark city,
The hours, clashed together, lose count in the bell.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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--d) with
dependent
clause: inf.
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Beowulf |
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I have other questions or need to report an error
Please email the
diagnostic
information to help2018 @ pglaf.
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hello |
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how are you? |
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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Have you no
reverence
for your tutelary goddess Diana?
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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George Moore for
declaring
that "in art the democrat
is always reactionary.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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The liberty of the
press, says the Parliamentary historian,* "having of late been very grevious," the Commons passed an ordinance to restrain and to
strengthen
some for mer orders made for that purpose.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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He arrives
at length at the French camp, and the young Cheva-
lier de Boufflers, having revived, is informed, that owing
to the
severity
of the wound, it will be necessary to am-
putate the leg.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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All this, however, is
properly
only the outside of our existence; or, at
least, the intellectual part alone, and no more than one side of that.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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My mind, in your
tumultuous
main,
sees itself: I hear the vast laughter of your seas,
the bitter laughter of defeated men,
filled with the sound of sobs and blasphemies.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Between the extremes of complete identity and complete antithe-
sis there are many sub-varieties, the combinations and interchanges
of which, in the hands of a gifted poet, give exquisite
delicacy
and
charm to the form of the verse.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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Where humans are, that’s where the forefield of the covertly
monstrous
can also be found.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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Fortunately, they do not stand alone, but are
accompanied
and
effaced by the Odes.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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"It is certain that in Fichte's philosophy there is quite a
different spirit from that which
pervades
the philosophy of
his predecessor.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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We have
manufactures
of every description.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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When I gave these views in a recent lecture in America, a questioner at the end, no doubt with a glow of political self-congratulation in his white male heart, had the insulting impertinence to suggest that dumbing down might be
necessary
to bring 'minorities and women' to science.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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"
exclaimed
Renaud, rushing to the pal-
"do you want to set he place on fire?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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"Should
Patients
Write Down Their Dreams?
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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How many
living authors have ever attained to writing a single page which
could be for one moment compared, for the simplicity and grace
of its structure, with this green spray of wild woodbine or yon-
der white wreath of blossoming
clematis?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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Roman engineering, especially, deserves the
admiration
even of our own times.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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If he had listened to the offers made to him by the Court of Rome,
he would have been preferred to the highest
dignities
of the Church,
but he was a man of honor.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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No camel but is given to heirs in death,
no plunderer but is
plundered
for his take.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Charms and spells 370
Muttered on black and
spiteful
instigation
Have stopped, as some believe, the kindliest growths.
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William Wordsworth |
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"No," he said coolly: "when you have
indicated
to us the residence of
your friends, we can write to them, and you may be restored to home.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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For thou art gone away from earth,
And place with those dost claim,
The
Children
of the Second Birth,
Whom the world could not tame.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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This brilliant and highly rhetorical
work is metrically more advanced than the Lygdamus elegies
and was
certainly
composed at a later date than these poems.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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Nay, thou mayest see at times
Five or yet more in order
dangling
down
And swaying in the delicate winds, whilst one
Depends from other, cleaving to under-side,
And ilk one feels the stone's own power and bonds--
So over-masteringly its power flows down.
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Lucretius |
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"
The
Sergeant
gives the poker a savage twist;
He is as purple as the cooling horseshoes.
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Amy Lowell |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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Their eyes knew their
years of wandering and, patient, knew the
dishonours
of their flesh.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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25-6, given also in Morris and Skeat's
Speci|mens
of Early English, 1298-1393, p.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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346, we find
Io, and born on the spot where Byzantium was
Cersobleptes
again involved in hostilities with the
afterwards built.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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Poor Mary little
thought it would be such a bone of
contention
when she gave it me to
keep, only two hours before she died.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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Our moral
education
might be learning how to describe the limits o f our "whole history" as a manifestation o f a set o f values.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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Itissome- what strange, that there is no mention of a
festival
in honour of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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Naturally these authors no longer had to take the roads of the slave trade for their journeys back to Egypt; through the diaspora, the exodus became a partial change of
direction
for many.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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— ‘Did you hear the
Lackersteen
kid’s
got off at last?
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:56 GMT / http://hdl.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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52
Tra noi tenere un uom che sia sì forte,
contrario
è in tutto al principal disegno.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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Or welcomes
Jupiter, Father, as guest--me, to
ambrosial
halls?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Woe is me, oh, lost one,
For that love is now to me
A
supernal
dream,
White, white, white with many suns.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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" With the
synoecism
of Megalopolis c.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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Every true
politician
endeavors to draw to his side all ad- jacent force, and is prepared to make sacrifices in order to accomplish this.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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An Essay on the Genius and
Writings
of Shakespeare (1712),
contains some excellent passages, but, for the most part, shows
the writer's inability to understand or appreciate his subject.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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The narrow street was full of cries,
Of bickering and
snarling
lies
In many keys--
The tongues of Egypt and of Rome
And lands beyond the shifting foam
Of windy seas.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Every added pang she suffers,
Some
increasing
good bestows.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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Psalm raise his eves, but beat upon bis breast, saying, God be L^C^ '
merciful
to me a sinner.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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How their mouths water while they are looking
At miles of
slaughter
and sniffing the cooking!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Nếu chẳng phải Thánh
thượng
làm hết trách nhiệm của người làm vua làm thầy, đích thân nắm quyền hành, thì làm sao có thể làm xong những việc mà tiên đế chưa làm xong, hoàn thiện những điều mà tiên thánh chưa làm đủ.
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stella-02 |
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Lhodrak
Sungtrtil
VI, 735
Speech Emanation of Lhodrak lho-brag
gsung-sprul, 839
Ktinzang Tenpei Nyima (1843-91) kun-
bzang bstan-pa'i nyi-ma: i.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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13) says that wine flowed in the sanctuary of
Dionysos
on the island of Andros for the
139
DIONYSOS
seven days of the Theodaisia in the winter.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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[28] G # In Syria,
Diodotus
called Tryphon killed Antiochus son of Alexander, who was a mere child and was being raised to be king.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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137
There is an obstinacy against oneself, certain
sublimated
forms of which
are included in asceticism.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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We can see the Amighty hand-the infinite
goodness in the
humblest
flower.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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The direct and personal
despotism will come on by and by, after the multitude shall have been
gratified with the ruin and the spoil of the old
institutions
of the land.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep
providing
this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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Just as " Electra " changed her robes under the hands of her three distin guished couturieres of the fifth century, so we find in the Comic Fragments more than identical titles reappearing respectively in the writings of from two to eight
different
authors.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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Drew his smile across her folded
Eyelids, as the swallow dips;
Breathed
as finely as the cold did
Through the locking of her lips.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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In his struggle for primacy among New York Whigs in the 1830s, he lost the speakership of the House to Henry Clay; but as runner-up, he became chairman of the powerful Ways and Means
Committee
and thus, in 1841, was able to direct the finances of the nation.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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Sir Francis
and Sir Horace Vere (afterwards lord
Tilbury)
were among the most
celebrated soldiers of fortune of their age.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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' And his Soul answered him and said,
'God filled thee with the perfect
knowledge
of Himself, and thou hast
given this knowledge away to others.
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Oscar Wilde |
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\ As courage and
cowardice
belong respectively to the mother and the prostitute, so is it with that other pair of contrasting ideas, hope and fear.
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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6 POLISH LITERATURE
became
dangerous
to Poland, and from that time onward
the Poles were menaced on both sides by peoples whose
hostility, originating in variety of race, was accentuated
by difference of confession, by the Germans in the West
and the Russians in the East.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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they
were
infinitely
worse.
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| Source: |
Austen - Persuasion |
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He may
therefore
be included in the list of those whom I have placed in the time of Sulpicius; but among his exact contemporaries, such as M.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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This is not the place for a
thorough
delineation of that remarkable man and of his still more remarkable influence on his contemporaries and posterity ; but the intellectual movements of the later Greek and the Graeco-Roman epoch were to so great an extent affected by him, that it is indispensable to sketch at least the leading outlines of his character.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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During the continuance
of the Council he has much to suffer from the petulance of the Suitors,
from whom, having informed them of his design to
undertake
a voyage in
hope to obtain news of Ulysses, he asks a ship, with all things necessary
for the purpose.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Not with less fury stern Tydides flew;
And two brave leaders at an instant slew;
Astynous breathless fell, and by his side,
His people's pastor, good Hypenor, died;
Astynous' breast the deadly lance receives,
Hypenor's
shoulder
his broad falchion cleaves.
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Iliad - Pope |
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It was as follows : His road, in returning from the mansion of Lentulus, passed not far from that of Largus ; and the slaves who
preceded
him with the lantern had seen three men, resembling very much Pomponius and the two Perusians, approach the house.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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I sank my head against the dark wall;
Called to a
thousand
times, I did not turn.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Then, how the fire ebbs like billows,
Touching
all the grass
With a departing, sapphire feature,
As if a duchess pass!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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In our present situation mind can experience
anything
but cannot see its own nature.
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| Source: |
Kalu Rinpoche |
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The learned
Heinsius
absolutely
thinks that 'columnas' here means 'mile-stones'!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - Art of Love |
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He is
that rare and unknown being, a genuine poet--a poet in the midst of
things that have
disordered
his spirit--a poet excessively developed in
his taste for and by beauty .
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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Let us
exchange
shields, and accoutre ourselves in Grecian
suits; whether craft or courage, who will ask of an enemy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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I count our strength,
Two and a child,
Those of us not asleep subdued to mark
How the cold creeps as the fire dies at length,--
How drifts are piled,
Dooryard
and road ungraded,
Till even the comforting barn grows far away
And my heart owns a doubt
Whether 'tis in us to arise with day
And save ourselves unaided.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
|
For
additional
material see: Michael Morgan, "USSR's Minerals as Strategic Weapon in the Future," Defense and Foreign Affairs, Washington, D.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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An understanding
must also be
possible
with the magnates of the joint
House of Nassau, whose rights were expressly reserved
in the May Convention.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
|
In a Kantian mode, Jameson seems to imply two modes of ideology: a his- torical one (forms linked to specific historical
conditions
that disappear when these conditions are abol- ished, like traditional patriarchy) and an a priori transcendental one (a kind of spontaneous tendency to identitarian thinking, to reifica- tion, etc.
| Guess: |
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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What could be more obvious than to infer unjust
distribution?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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Lightly such drapery good Rinaldo thins,
And cleaves, and bores, and shears, on either hand;
Nor better from his sword escapes the swarm,
Than grass from
sweeping
scythe, or grain from storm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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And there-
fore we have had it long in contemplation to endeavor to get
an
Agreement
signed not to purchase any English tea till so
much of the Act passed the last session of Parliament enabling
the Company to ship their Tea to America be repealed.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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You are full of life, and you ally yourself
with the dying, because you want to deceive yourself, because
you still want to believe in caste, in the bones of your great-
grandmothers, in the word 'my country': but in the depths
of your heart you know
yourself
that the penalty is owing to
your brethren, and after the penalty, oblivion.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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[Footnote 10: The
translation
of this passage follows Villoisin's
reading.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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[10] Anonymous { F 31 } G
On the Same
The fair-haired
daughters
of Bistonia shed a thousand tears for Orpheus dead, the son of Calliope and Oeagrus ; they stained their tattooed arms with blood, and dyed their Thracian locks with black ashes.
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Greek Anthology |
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The origin of Korea is buried in myth and mystery; its past is so varied, such an
everchanging
chiaroscuro, that we look upon it as legendary.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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And everybody cried,
As they
hastened
to their side,
'See, the Table and the Chair
Have come out to take the air!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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This is
combined
with the Glyconic in Carm.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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The storm had given
place to a soft, breezy morning, the cool
freshness
of which
appeared peculiarly grateful from the oppressiveness of the night;
light downy clouds sailed over the blue expanse of heaven, tem-
pering without clouding the brilliant rays of the sun.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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In such cases as this: Suppose that there is a kind of vision which
is not like
ordinary
vision, but a vision of itself and of other sorts
of vision, and of the defect of them, which in seeing sees no colour,
but only itself and other sorts of vision: Do you think that there
is such a kind of vision?
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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So then in obedience to
Him, he went about delivering the earth from
injustice
and lawlessness.
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Epictetus |
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On the face of it, the unpopularity of poetry is as
complete
as it could be.
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Orwell |
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But a place in RAGGED SCHOOLS,
Where the
outcasts
may to-morrow
Learn by gentle words and rules
Just the uses of their sorrow.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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No, sir,--no
understand!
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sire |
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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And speedily again thou didst go to get thee hounds; and thou camest to the
Arcadian
fold of Pan.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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Well, let it be so; these ghosts, when uninspired by you, were faint and
impotent as “the strengthless tribes of the dead” in Homer’s Hades,
before
Odysseus
had poured forth the blood that gave them a momentary
valour.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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