' This was written by Charles Cot-
ton, Esquire, of Beresford Hall, in imitation of his master's manner,
but at a
considerable
distance.
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And if you are
stationed
in a high position,
are you therefor forthwith set up for a tyrant?
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Hence, it was optional with the sane
residents
of this community to perform pious exercises with- out interruption or disturbance within the latter sacred edifice, or to enter St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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Instead she
revealed
how she, unlike her husband, had never wanted children since she feared that this would divert his care and attention from her, as she felt had happened with her mother in her family (she, like Bowlby's mother, was the oldest of six) when her younger siblings were born.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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She expressed the fear lest Niobe's
defiance
should be the
signal for general contempt.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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And so many
children
poor?
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blake-poems |
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No matter what they indi- cate and fixate in the work of art, they always simultaneously present an- other side that must
cooperate
in rendering visible what is determined by the work.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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_
XLVI[161]
So close thy
friendly
roof, so near the spring,
That though not yet dull winter hath gone hence,
The wind that bloweth o'er our parting fence
From thee to me the first gay flow'rs doth bring.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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] G But Archytas, who wrote on the theory of music, says -
according
to Chamaeleon - that Alcman was the original poet of amatory songs, and that he was the first poet to introduce melodies inciting to erotic indulgence, being {by nature eager to pursue} women.
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Only Pentheus had
received
any careful treatment.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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Machares not only
complied
with this, but even sent to Lucullus the supplies which had been prepared for Mithridates' forces.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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Everywhere
almost the lie was copied,
and thus Arian influence corrupted the world.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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These purely
local
officials
were naturally chosen from among the first converts
in each district, and to them were naturally assigned the duties of
providing for the permanently recurring needs of Christian life,
especially the sacraments of Baptism-St Paul indicates that baptism
was not normally the work of an apostle—and the Eucharist.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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] until the fifth month of the second year of the 150th
Olympiad
[179 B.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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246 (#266) ############################################
246
THE ETERNAL RECURRENCE
hitherto contradicts this; no such
universal
similarity
has existed in evolution, for in that case even for
our part of the cosmos a regular spherical form
must have been formed.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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Victory, however, is influenced much less in these later
days by the relative
military
efficiency of two single nations than by
their success in making powerful alliances.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for
the inmost in due time becomes the outmost and our first thought is rendered back to us by the
trumpets
of the Last Judgment.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The Three
Emperors
were saintly men,
Yet to-day--where are they?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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—The
Christian
resolu-
tion to find the world ugly and bad has made the
world ugly and bad.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Den
grasslichsten
Fluch uber dich auf Jahrtausende!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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It is in the figure of Satan
that the imperishable
significance
of _Paradise Lost_ is centred; his
vast unyielding agony symbolizes the profound antinomy of modern
consciousness.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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They
stirred, waking from sleep,
troubled
by the heated air.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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evil spirits perhaps may presume
To haunt thy holy dwelling;
Pale ghosts are, perhaps,
stealing
into the room--
Oh, would that the lamp were relit!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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I’ll do for you
everything
heaven can do.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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He sought every remedy, he had recourse to cunning arts, he
anointed
all the wound, anointed it with ambrosia and with nectar; but all remedies are powerless to heal the wounds of Fate .
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Bion |
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The changes were
reinforced
by significant transformations in the French educational system and in the sphere of religion.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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In one case hereditary
privilege
would have been use!
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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Does he give them his
blessing
and they are immediately transported into Buddhahood?
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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The
Goatherd
& the Shepherd
6.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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hundred Talents, computing the private Contribu-
tions of thofe, who
undertook
the Expedition.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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Of injuries among them done before
All memory, by those
comrades
buried lies:
Nor could they better love, if from one womb
And from one seed that warlike band had come.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Kudszus has described it as follows: "Statt
individueller
Identita?
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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The two passages adduced from
Virgilius
are
both of doubtful import.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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Diseases
like snakes
crawling
over the earth, leaving trails of slime.
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Imagists |
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Radbert was a
man of very wide reading and had one of the best
libraries
of the time
at his command.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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"
"Nothing, good nurse, there's nothing wrong,
But send your
grandson
before long.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Nor were his
accomplishments
entirely those of the scholar.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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A
modest woman may be
ravished
once, but her virtue is strengthened by it.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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He saw too deep into the world and took things too rebelliously to produce calm and
successful
poetry.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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Anhes of Rocacoart, Ardenca, Aemelis,
From the power of grass,
From the white, alive in the seed,
From the heat of the bud,
From the copper of the leaf in autumn,
From the bronze of the maple, from the sap in the
bough ;
Lianor, loanna, Loica,
By the stir of the fin,
By the trout asleep in the gray-green of water ;
Vanna, Mandetta, Viera, Alodetta, Picarda, Manuela From the red gleam of copper,
Ysaut, Ydone, slight rustling of leaves,
Vierna, Jocelynn, daring of spirits,
By the mirror of
burnished
copper,'
O Queen of Cypress, Out of Erebus, the flat-lying breadth,
Breath that is stretched out beneath the world :
Out of Erebus, out of the flat waste of air, lying
beneath the world ;
Out of the brown leaf-brown colourless
Bring the imperceptible cool.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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[5] The Ganges is
represented
as a white woman, with a water-lily in
her right hand, and in her left a lute.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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To his Russian confreres gathered
there he read fragments of "Konrad Wallenrod,"
published in Moscow in 1828, the poem in which
the sentiment of
patriotism
finds its best expres-
sion.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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1722), 342, 470
James, Choice Collection, 204, 217
Richard, bishop of
Llandaff
(1737–
1816), 98, 400
Watt, William, 445; Kate Dalrymple,
243; Tinkler's Waddin, 243
Watts, Isaac (1674-1748), 373, 383 ;
Divine and Moral Songs, 184, 372 ;
*Hush !
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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On the level of the
individual
we need a new logic of discretion, of distance or even of not-knowing.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Apologies
for this problem.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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When he got to Master Sang's gate, he heard something like singing or crying, and someone
striking
a lute and saying:
Father?
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Chuang Tzu |
|
Likewise, Cadenas' poetry can be read in two movements: the first---influenced by the ideologically
revolutionary
"Tabla Redonda" group-- spans roughly from Una isla (1958) to Intemperie (1977).
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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244 I have a place on the
Chungnan
slopes.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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Out of some forty dramatic pieces
recorded
as Shirley's, not more
than three have been lost.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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and statistics coming up
in the
seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries corresponds closely to an emerging interest in the future and to the idea that it may be a rational and even a secure strategy to prefer the insecure over the secure.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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The
strangers!
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Euripides - Electra |
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It is in his letters, however,
that he fully
expresses
his individuality.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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Can a brave man do more or less
Than with nice conscientiousness
To exercise the calling he
inherits?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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From the tone
of resignation in which you have just referred to
students many would be inclined to think that you
had some peculiar
experiences
which were not at
all to your liking; but personally I rather believe
that you saw and experienced in such places just
what every one else saw and experienced in them,
but that you judged what you saw and felt more
justly and severely than any one else.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:20 GMT / http://hdl.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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On my first arrival,
the Greeks received me without enthusiasm: they did not, however,
wholly reject my advances; by slow degrees I gained over seven men to
be my
companions
and disciples, and Samos, Ephesus, and Abdera,[7] each
added one to the little company.
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Lucian |
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Dympna's mother, the daughter and king with their attendants standing beside the bed and
bewailing
the queen's departure.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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VIGNETTES
OVERSEAS
I
Off Gibraltar
BEYOND the sleepy hills of Spain,
The sun goes down in yellow mist,
The sky is fresh with dewy stars
Above a sea of amethyst.
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Sara Teasdale |
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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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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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"Bloody Fingers," another very popular variant of type 326, some-
times has a
victorious
baby as its central character.
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Childens - Folklore |
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We feel sure that this
easy-going
appreciation
of the Paris deci-
sions cannot be shared in Germany.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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Some mothers would have insisted on
their daughter's accepting so good an offer on the first overture; but I
could not reconcile it to myself to force Frederica into a marriage from
which her heart revolted, and instead of
adopting
so harsh a measure
merely propose to make it her own choice, by rendering her thoroughly
uncomfortable till she does accept him--but enough of this tiresome
girl.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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XLIV
She pricks her horse behind the two, and gains,
Well nigh as soon as they, that valley; how
Her coming thither either lover pains,
Who lives and loves, untaught by me, may know:
But sorest vext sad Bradamant remains;
Beholding
her whence all her sorrows flow.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Thus
speaketh
one Ferdinand in the words of the play--
"She died full young"--one Bossola answers him--
"I think not so--her infelicity
"Seemed to have years too many"--Ah luckless lady!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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TO EVA
O fair and stately maid, whose eyes
Were kindled in the upper skies
At the same torch that lighted mine;
For so I must interpret still
Thy sweet
dominion
o'er my will,
A sympathy divine.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Και των μνηστήρων την καρδιάν ηύρ' εντροπή και λύπη•
απ' το
παλάτι
'ς την αυλή σιμά 'ς το μέγα τείχος
εβγήκαν όλοι κ' έμπροσθεν της θύρας εκαθίσαν,
και ωμίλησεν ο Ευρύμαχος, το τέκνο του Πολύβου• 345
«Έργον μέγα ο Τηλέμαχος κατώρθωσε μ' αυθάδεια,
τέτοιο ταξείδι, κ' είπαμε 'που δεν θα το τελειώση.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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They were not
to eat of the fruit of the
forbidden
tree.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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i=;ii:i'ii1t-=ii+
; :j i:
=i,i=i: :i f ; : i'zii i
+\=r=ii=
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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To oppose this
we can enhance courage, insight, hardness, inde-
pendence, and the feeling of responsibility; we can
also subtilise and learn to forestall the
delicacy
of
the scales, so that favourable accidents may be
enlisted on our side.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
|
I shall feel
myself under an obligation to anyone who is the means of sending my
brother home, because,"
recollecting
myself, "I know my father wants
very much to see him.
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| Question: |
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Horos Dios: An
Athenian
shrine and cult of Zeus.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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The
whole train of their thought runs, as was always
the ,_way__5r oldTasEiohecf " pBirosopHefsP^ori
thoroughly unhist6ncaniH5sT"'thef6~ is n5' doubt
on~ THI5''poinl:r~ TTiS ~ crass ineptitude of their
genealogy of morals is immediately apparent
when the question arises of ascertaining the origin *
of the idea and
judgment
of " good.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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'Molecular clock' refers to the observation that certain
biological
molecules change at a rather fixed rate over the millions of years.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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) And we
should note for what it is worth the observation in the ancient Greek
argument: "The play is
somewhat
satyr-like ([Greek: saturiphkoteron]).
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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As for the Greeke, wherein I have but
small understanding, my father purposed to make me learne it by art;
But by new and uncustomed meanes, that is, by way of
recreation
and
exercise.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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'Tis known that he was Vishnevetsky's servant;
That to a ghostly father on a bed
Of sickness he disclosed himself; possessed
Of this strange secret, his proud master nursed him,
From his sick bed
upraised
him, and straightway
Took him to Sigismund.
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[1] I cry woe for Adonis and say The
beauteous
Adonis is dead; and the Loves cry me woe again and say The beauteous Adonis is dead.
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Bion |
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Behold, the heedless, torpid, yearn to try
And block the
insidious
entry, there they lie,
Whom the herald summons urging them to rise.
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Troubador Verse |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Tully - Offices |
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Elsewhere
dukkhassantakaro hoti (Puggalapanfiatti).
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Dehors, des
thèmes populaires finement écrits pour des instruments variés, depuis
la corne du raccommodeur de porcelaine, ou la
trompette
du rempailleur
de chaises, jusqu'à la flûte du chevrier qui paraissait dans un beau
jour être un pâtre de Sicile, orchestraient légèrement l'air
matinal, en une «ouverture pour un jour de fête».
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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--Whoever examines the conscience of the present-day European,
will always elicit the same imperative from its
thousand
moral folds
and hidden recesses, the imperative of the timidity of the herd "we wish
that some time or other there may be NOTHING MORE TO FEAR!
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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It was published and preached through all their territories, and the
Romanists were ashamed and
confounded
at it, and knew not what
to doe, lest this discovery should proceed further.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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The growth of the Russian empire implies not only the extension of
the area of its civilisation but also the
absorption
of many elements
belonging to foreign races and speaking foreign tongues, and their
coalescence with the dominant Russian nation.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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Golding, Lodge, Webbe, and others,
with whatever delight they may have read poetry and discussed
it with their intimates, ventured to defend the poems of Ovid only
on the ground that superior insight into such matters or the proper
method of interpretation enabled them to see deep meanings of
moral or philosophical import where
ignorant
or untrained readers
saw only "toyes.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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Later
invasion
of the Turk and his character.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went shuffling through the gloom:
And each man trembled as he crept
Into his
numbered
tomb.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Your wise men don't know much of navigation;
And
swimming
long in the abyss of thought
Is apt to tire: a calm and shallow station
Well nigh the shore, where one stoops down and gathers
Some pretty shell, is best for moderate bathers.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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Such work requires an idealized version of democracy, one that rests on a fundamental cleavage between actual existing
democracy
and democracy itself.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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pars acrior anni
exulat ; aeterni patet
indulgentia
veris.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Who can exhaust the possibilities of their
combination?
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The-Art-of-War |
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"Would,"
exclaims
Cicero, "that
we still had the old ballads of which Cato speaks!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The
downward
path—hitherto this had been called
the road to "Truth.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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```Me voces audire juvat sua gaudia fassas:
````Utque morer memet,
sustineamque
roget.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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