Fantastic Wits their darling Follies love;
But find You
faithful
Friends that will reprove,
That on your Works may look with careful Eyes,
And of your Faults be zealous Enemies:
Lay by an Author's Pride and Vanity,
And from a Friend a Flatterer descry,
Who seems to like, but means not what he says:
Embrace true Counsel, but suspect false Praise.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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It’s a fact that a fat man, particularly a man
who’s been fat from birth — from childhood,
that’s
to say — isn’t quite like other men.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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Modern
Discoveries
on
the Site of Ancient Ephesus.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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The joy falters a moment, with closed wings
Wearying in its upward journey, ere
Again it goes on high, bearing its song,
Its delight
breathing
and its vigour beating
The highest height of the air above the world.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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[pv]
The rose was yet upon her cheek,
But mellowed with a
tenderer
streak:
Where was the play of her soft lips fled?
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Byron |
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"
And he dropped his line of cedar
Through the clear, transparent water,
Waited vainly for an answer,
Long sat waiting for an answer,
And
repeating
loud and louder,
"Take my bait, O King of Fishes!
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Longfellow |
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circumstent
te | deindepe-\-ricu\& cernis
( deinde -- synceresis.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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" (path), one should not dwell in 'bahyartha' or only
apparent
meaning (of phenomenon); by stabilizing oneself on the 'alambana' of 'tathata?
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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Vom Dachrand fallen
phantastische
Schatten.
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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" In the portion of the Essay quoted by Hegel, Locke treats reflection as a means by which to
restrict
thought from wandering into "those depths where they can find no sure footing," to set the bounds "between what is and what is not comprehensible by us" and thus avoid questions which lend themselves to "perfect skepticism.
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Hegel_nodrm |
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In a less tight corner he might have been content to
barricade
his mind against the idea.
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Samuel Beckett |
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Let me
illustrate
this point by one poem on each
theme.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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Sin embargo,
la cultura babilónica entera se convierte en el
ámbito
de resonancia
de la narración de la amistad heroica, de la catástrofe de la pérdida
y del visye de duelo.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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The next morning they
used all their sails, and designed to board De Ruy-
ter ; which, the wind lessening, they could not effect,
he
fighting
very well, but running faster: and so,
though very well pursued, he got into his fastness
at the Wierings, with those who were nearest to
him.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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I t is the new ideal of being impartial, and marks the rise Qf a
journalist
who isn't taken sufficiendy seriously as an historian, who probably doesn't take himself for quite the historian that he is.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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Another
policeman
was also
hit in the arm and tried to find cover behind the engine
mount, searching for his weapon in panic.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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It
soon, however, became evident that something besides arguments
for church discipline and pleas for Wales was being hatched in
this little nest of
puritans
in the Thames valley.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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The pseudodialectic that tries to dissolve any particular notion and place it under skepticism is a cheap
sophistic
recourse, and this dialec- tic always stands in the middle of the road, since the end of the road is to understand.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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After three months'
deliberation I had published my
retractation
of the violent
charges which I had made against Rome: I could not be wrong
in doing so much as this; but I did no more at the time: I did
not retract my Anglican teaching.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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The
specific
quality of Buddhahood is that it never abides in samsara or in the selfish peace of the arhats.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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Elle semblait connaître la
vanité de ce bonheur dont elle
montrait
la voie.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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It can hardly be doubted that a story so admirably adapted to the
purposes both of the poet and of the demagogue would be eagerly
seized upon by minstrels burning with hatred against the
Patrician order, against the Claudian house, and especially
against the grandson and
namesake
of the infamous Decemvir.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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e corages of good[e] folk hire
p{ro}pre
honoure.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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This son of Dolon bore his grandsire's name,
But emulated more his father's fame;
His
guileful
father, sent a nightly spy,
The Grecian camp and order to descry:
Hard enterprise!
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Doctrine Over Person
This sterile language
reflects
another characteristic feature of ideological totalism: the subordination of human experience to the claims of doctrine.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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1
In Three Essays, after a section
concerned
with early object relations, he gives a paragraph to 'infantile anxiety' ( SE 7:224).
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Bowlby - Separation |
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Ev'n the poor support of my wretched life,
Snatched by the
violence
of legal strife.
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burns |
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TO HIS
HONOURED
FRIEND, SIR THOMAS HEALE.
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Robert Herrick |
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"
When the prophet, a complacent fat
man,
Arrived at the mountain-top,
He cried: "Woe to my
knowledge!
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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Terrible
fear!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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In combination, these effects-and notice that morale was
depressed
by defeats in the ground battles as well as by air raids-resulted in a loss of output of at least 25 per cent during the last year of the war.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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Or rather, it was
the epic
material
which supplied that; the first epic poets gave their
age, as genius always does, something which the age had never thought of
asking for; which, nevertheless, when it was given, the age took good
hold of, and found that, after all, this, too, it had wanted without
knowing it.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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A con-
tributor of the Taglische
Rundschau
gave the following
account: "The meeting had lasted for a considerable
time, and the audience, after standing for hours closely
packed in the heavy, hot air, was tired, when a person
unknown to us started speaking.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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II7
and more fully brought out by the progressive
development
of the Christian world.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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One who has reached my years, and who
has a name for wisdom, whether
deserved
or not, ought not to debase
himself.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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You would have the right to
be angry with a man who could not
understand
you and who
himself had never suffered as you are now suffering.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Anneo Séneca, Epistulae morales 90
Que la naturaleza goza sobre todo en lo redondo es algo que se deduceya
de
lasformas
que ella misma crea, produce y engendra.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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" I thought of
Elizabeth, of my father, and of Clerval--all left behind, on whom the
monster might satisfy his
sanguinary
and merciless passions.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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It still frequently
happens that, when the labourer has finished his toil and
has promised himself in return a lasting endurance both for
himself and for his work, a hostile element will destroy in a
moment that which it has cost him years of patient indus-
try and deliberation to accomplish, and the assiduous and
careful man is undeservedly made the prey of hunger and
misery;--often do floods, storms, volcanoes,
desolate
whole
countries, and works which bear the impress of a rational
soul are mingled with their authors in the wild chaos of
death and destruction.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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" John Simon's brief negative notice ran in the Hudson Review; Bly cheekily
reproduced
it uncut as a paid advertisement in that magazine's next issue:
It is most commendable of James Wright and Robert Bly to offer us Twenty Poems of Georg Trakl, but would it not have behooved at least one of the translators to learn some German?
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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He seems to be fully aware that to encourage the birth
of children, without providing properly for their support, is to
obtain a very small accession to the
population
of a country, at the
expense of a very great accession of misery.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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If the objections which have been stated, to the consti- tution of the bank of North-America, are
admitted
to be well founded, they will nevertheless not derogate from the merit of the main design, or of the serviees which that bank has rendered, or of the benefits whieh it has produc- ed.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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I slumber much, a little read,
Of
fleeting
glory take no heed.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Avant que ton coeur ne se blase,
A la gloire de Dieu rallume ton extase;
C'est la Volupte vraie aux
durables
appas!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The duchess, to
alter slightly her own words, ‘had been bred to elevated thoughts,
not to a
dejected
spirit; her life was ruled with honesty, attended
by modesty, and directed by truth.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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As in the
differential
system, the sine of 0 and 2 x p are one and the same.
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| Source: |
Kittler-Drunken |
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Baccheius
reckons as by their insolence and oppression, of which the
seven modes (pp.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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_ For tho I have experienced in my self this
_Infirmity_, that I cannot _always_ be intent upon _one_ and the _same_
Knowledge, yet _I_ may by a
_continued_
and _often repeated_ Meditation
bring this to pass, that as often as _I_ have use of this Rule _I_ may
Remember it, by which means I may Get (as it were) an _habit_ of _not
erring_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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+ Refrain from automated
querying
Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting research on machine translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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10 What ought to be taken, by their own standards, as success is
restylized
as a crisis.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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He is content with try- ing to establish a geopolitics for post-Soviet Russia, helping the country to become aware of its particular eschatological sensibility: "the cur- rent transformations in Russia's geopolitical space and all of Eurasia are difficult to under- stand unless
interpreted
as a sign of the times, announcing the proximity of the climax.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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And
suddenly
I surrender the garrison,
Feigning treason!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Let euery
Souldier
hew him downe a Bough,
And bear't before him, thereby shall we shadow
The numbers of our Hoast, and make discouery
Erre in report of vs
Sold.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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46; its
origin, 48; the
contemplative
state, 299; why
nearest things become ever more distant, 318.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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Thus, when gold is said to be dearer in England than in
Spain, if no
commodity
is mentioned, what notion does the assertion
convey?
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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Whether Japan will be the master who is to
transform
the Asiatic races is another puzzling problem.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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)
người
xã Đông Côi huyện Gia Định (nay thuộc xã An Bình huyện Thuận Thành tỉnh Bắc Ninh).
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stella-01 |
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IT must be found
scattered
in England.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Monica Zobel
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Copyright of West Branch is the property of West Branch and its content may not be copied or emailed to
multiple
sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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HISTORY OE POLISH
LITERATURE
61
its high artistic value.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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In the West, in Spain, France and Lombard Italy, it
remained
in
practical use for long, chiefly as part of the Code issued to the Visigoths
by Alaric II in 506.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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The love of
pleasure
is not eradicated out of the soul save by extraordinary efforts; it has
[p.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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The different Choruses of musi cians and dancers
immediately
appear on every side.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-4638-1 (hardback) ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-4639-8 (paperback)
A
catalogue
recordfor this book is availablefrom the British Library.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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First,
shake off this panic--or rather change the
direction
of
your fears from yourselves to the Thebans, for they are
far nearer ruin than ourselves.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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He had worked at this most of his life, and had received much
information from
delegates
to the Council and from the reports-
in the Archives of Venice.
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| Source: |
Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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It is only right that the vassal should abstain from
injuring
his lord in any of these ways.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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Then shall a son, so born, chant down high favour of
heaven, 5
Melting lapt in flame fatly the
slippery
caul.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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It is obvious that the above military assumptions, and the whole plan too, depend also on the Arabs continuing to be even more divided than they are now, and on the lack of any truly
progressive
mass movement among them.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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Adams to display his character as a minister, the
duke gave him no assistance on that occasion, knowing the
application would have no
favourable
issue.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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It was the
refinement
of thought, and the easy
precision with which a difficult verse-form was handled, that aston-
ished and fascinated.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Farewell my pipe, and all those
pleasing
songs, whose moving strains
Delighted once the fairest nymphs that dance upon the plains!
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William Browne |
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[2] Honor the etext refund and replacement
provisions
of this
"Small Print!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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He is
hampered
by that
affair.
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| Source: |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Nothing is easier than to look down on the flunky who visibly condescends to His Majesty's guests in His Majesty's name, but whether the man who treats Today
respectfully
in the name ofTomorrow is a flunky or not is usually not known until the day after Tol!
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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V
Maintenant, les petits sommeillent tristement:
Vous diriez, a les voir, qu'ils pleurent en dormant,
Tant leurs yeux sont gonfles et leur souffle
penible!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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How has the United States looked upon the establishment
of spheres of influence by foreign powers in
backward
countries?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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n momento
alcanzar
una situacio?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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Miss' That’s what Pither
and me keeps a-saying to ourselves And
that’s
just the one thing as keeps us a-
gomg-just the thought of Heaven and the long, long rest we’ll have there
Whatever we’ve suffered, we gets it all back in Heaven, don’t we.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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Both were Andalusians of noble stock, and, as
we learn from official documents, were held to be
Christians
of clean
blood "without taint of Jews, heretics, Moors, or persons punished by
the Holy Inquisition, and who neither were nor had been engaged in mean
or low occupations, but in highly honorable ones.
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| Source: |
Jose de Espronceda |
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Then looked they, and saw a man come out of the holy ves-
sel that had all the signs of the passion of Jesu Christ, bleeding
all openly, and said, My knights and my servants and my true
children, which be come out of deadly life into
spiritual
life, I
will now no longer hide me from you, but ye shall see now a
part of my secrets and of my hid things: now hold and receive
the high meat which ye have so much desired.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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I sent off an invitation; then after investigation I found the only spare
room
encumbered
with a platform of planks hanging from the beams, piled
with dirty old quilts and bolsters.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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A precise consciousness of reality can only be one that does not fail to note how war and power exist with sexuality and medicine as well as with
religion
and knowledge in deep reciprocal inter- penetrations and amalgams.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-11-14 09:39 GMT / http://hdl.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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His action
and teaching gave force and direction, which Count Cavour
gratefully acknowledged, to the Kingdom of Italy in destroying
the
Temporal
Power of the Pope and establishing a free Church
in a free State.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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It is
improper
to say that one who has entered the 'bhumi' is of 'soft senses'.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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Many writers state that the institution of the games by Heracles the son of Alcmene
occurred
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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The
condition
under which I can attempt 3n effort in bad faith is that in one sense, I am not this coward which I do not wish to be.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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They would be almost gods, and then would
be
realized
the theological state dreamed by the poet for prim-
itive humanity: 'Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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Los signos,
leídos al modo judío, estimulan a la discreción
ontológica
y signifi
can reserva frente a la profusión.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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" But it's not the
sincerity
of the law yer that's in question.
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Foucault-Live |
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"
Stuff and
nonsense!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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As long therefore as we have an enemy with
whom to fight, we make a
tabernacle
for God.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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That
that hath given them grace, and some credit,
consisteth
in three things.
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Bacon |
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Epithet of Helen as
daughter
of Nemesis, who was worshipped at Rhamnus in Attica.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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Its first successful application was on 16 October 1846, in the operating theatre of the Massachusetts General Hospital, where it was
administered
to the patient Gilbert Abbot with the aid of a specially constructed spherical ether inhaler for the removal of a neck tumour.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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Whenever the rational being does not act in accordance with its basic
principles
it does not act according to its will, not according to a rational but rather to an irrational desire.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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Yea, death is better
for
liegemen
all than a life of shame!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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tragedy perishes
as surely by the
evanescence
of the spirit of music.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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But the emperor's
advisors
talked him out of it, arguing that Seneca's fragile health would do him in soon enough.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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