That the
engrossing
object
of--HEEP--was, next to gain, to subdue Mr.
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But now perhaps because she had
escaped from the petty trammels and
irritations
of every-day
life, perhaps because the free air of the mountains which she
loved, disposed her to cast aside formality, or perhaps from causes
unacknowledged by herself-her intercourse with the English-
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He gaily chirp'd to her alone;
But now the gloomy path must trace,
Whence Fate permits
returned
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The author of this
translation
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14 [317b] I f he cannot compose it, let him strive again for his Equipment of Merit in things like reading the
Perfection
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«représenter»
à
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pontifical
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Horace made a peculiar alteration in this species of verse,
which is far from
meriting
the name of an improvement.
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The touch of a vanished hand,
the sound of a voice that is still, the tender grace of a day that
is dead, should be ours forever at our beck and call, by some
exquisite and quite
conceivable
illusion of the senses.
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It ceased to be a
national
institution and became
a department of the revels' office; while its direct subordination
to the court made it more unpopular than ever with the puritans,
who were rapidly becoming the anti-court party.
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Like the American millionaires of to-day, who have their
houses and
properties
in both hemispheres, these great Roman lords
possessed them in every country in the Empire.
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Phileas Fogg was, indeed, exactitude personified, and this was betrayed
even in the
expression
of his very hands and feet; for in men, as well
as in animals, the limbs themselves are expressive of the passions.
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He " zur Ges- published Beytrage
chichte und Literatur," or
Contributions
to History and Literature.
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While Hegel is speaking, we see that Derrida, who had been listening motionlessly un til now, is
beginning
to take notes.
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Yet its presence con rms an im pression we may already have received while reading the work: the Meditations are addressed not only to Marcus the man, but to Marcus the man who exercises the
imperial
nction.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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My current view is that Arabia generally was by this point far more monotheistic and far more
Abrahamic
than the Islamic tradition would have us believe, and that Allah could easily refer to the Abrahamic God even if Labīd was not yet a Muslim.
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1347 John VI
Cantacuzene
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REVENUE ADMINISTRATION OF BENGAL, 1765-86
was remarkable, even if due
allowance
is made for his alleged
indebtedness to the "coaching" of John Shore.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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He
continued
to work on his Memoirs, and viewed as a member of the political opposition, a great literary figure, and a champion of freedom, was celebrated at the Revolution of 1848, during which period of turmoil he died.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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"Have you seen any numbers of The
Pickwick
Papers'?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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The pain from its sting is more severe than that caused by the others, for the instrument that causes the pain is larger, in
proportion
to its own larger size.
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Bevin, but by
starting
on the continent, by the union of all countries which have the same problems.
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libera schola grammaticalis, as the official
designation
of many schools founded under
Edward VI,' but see Murray's Dictionary, s.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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{21a}
Hrothgar
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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« And what
business
had you there?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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The story of the Tarquins, as it has come down to
us, appears to have been compiled from the works of several
popular poets; and one, at least, of those poets appears to have
visited the Greek colonies in Italy, if not Greece itself, and to
have had some
acquaintance
with the works of Homer and Herodotus.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The
Correspondence
between Sir Philip Sidney and H.
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The value, efficacy, strength, apparent veracity of a written
statement
about the Orient therefore
relies very little, and cannot instrumentally depend, on the Orient as such.
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And cruel was the grief that played
With the queen's spirit; and she said:
"What do I hear,
reigning
alone?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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2
While we appreciate the validity of the problem Wirth identifies and have followed him in practice to a significant degree, we have nonetheless chosen a somewhat different guiding principle in our translation; namely, we have translated Wesen either by "essence" or by "being" depending on the
particular
shade of meaning Schelling seems to emphasize in a given instance.
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By the end of some October, when its leaves have fallen, I frequently
see such a central sprig, whose
progress
I have watched, when I
thought it had forgotten its destiny, as I had, bearing its first crop
of small green or yellow or rosy fruit, which the cows cannot get at
over the bushy and thorny hedge which surrounds it, and I make haste
to taste the new and undescribed variety.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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”
“How long were you
together?
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(indicated by a
watermark
on each page in the PageTurner).
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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But to recommend thrift to the poor is both
grotesque
and insulting.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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Demas de que bien sabeis
vosotras el peligro que la
hermosura
ha corrido
ea
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The heroine
consistently
gives ber name to -I in 11.
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In Greven, and in the
Manuscript
Florarius
Sanctorum, there is a Translation of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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There, as forgetful of his vow'd intent,
In various cares the fleeting days he spent:
His peers, the while, direct to England's strand,
Plough the chill
northern
wave; and now, at land,
Adorn'd in armour, and embroid'ry gay,
To lordly London hold the crowded way:
Bold Lancaster receives the knights with joy;
The feast, and warlike song each hour employ.
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The
burlesque
ends in a mock-heroic contest.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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So Charles heard, and all his
comrades
round;
Then said that King: "Battle they do, our counts!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Community Development
Programme
started on October.
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; and
lectures
on oratory and criti-
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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) They have made the dead bodies of Thy
servants
morsels for the fowls of heaven, the fleshes of Thy saints for the beasts of
the earth.
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Ezekiel Ton :
newest poet going,
whatever
other advertisements may_ say ; announced as "the most remarkable thing in poetry since Robert
Browning," says
:
Borgaic Italy.
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By that hidden way
My guide and I did enter, to return
To the fair world: and heedless of repose
We climbed, he first, I following his steps,
Till on our view the
beautiful
lights of heav'n
Dawn'd through a circular opening in the cave:
Thus issuing we again beheld the stars.
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31X
no se entiende y se imagina,
que es no menos, que de Dios
vuestra
hermosura
cortina:
en una cesta Moysen '.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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XLVII
"Think as I think," said a man,
"Or you are
abominably
wicked;
"You are a toad.
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Thus Conrad lost no time in bringing about, through
the
mediation
of Unwan, Archbishop of Bremen, friendly relations with
Knut (1025).
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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" 42
The greatest value of Ovid as a source lies in the fact that his
works are a
storehouse
of classic myths.
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629); by
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We saw earlier that the
discipline
of assent constitutes, as it were, the ndamental method of the other two disciplines, since both desire and impulse depend on the assent which we either give to, or withhold om, our representations.
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cThe values of the means,
Standard
Deviations, and ranges are given in terms of mean/person/item.
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He later suggested to me that I too should thank Derrida by
commemorating
him.
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Altri attende alle trombe, e a tor di nave
l'acque importune, e il mar nel mar rifonde;
soccorre
altri in sentina, ovunque appare
legno da legno aver sdrucito il mare.
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First to possess the eight opportunities means not to be born in the eight unrestful existences which are the hell, preta and animal realms all
tormented
by suffering exclusively; primitive tribes to which no religion has appeared; the long lived gods adrift on the currents of desire;1 those human beings who have wrong views, believing neither in religion nor in the law of action and result, those born in a dark aeon when Buddha has not appeared; and those who can- not understand the meaning of religion due to retar- dation or defects in speech, ears or eyes.
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But
after some pause, the old man said, What are ye, you
strangers?
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This witness further said, that in his
examination
before the consul, he had given the same account of the murder as he had now done ; and when on board the man-of-war, they were not treated as pri soners, but worked in the ship during the passage,
in the same manner as the ship's company did.
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But ever since VHF radio began transmitting stereophonically, that is, two
amplitudes
per unit of time, fade-outs have been "more difficult to exe- cute": "the mise-en-scene, invisible yet localizable, cannot be dismantled and replaced by a new one in front of the listener as easily as in the case of a monophonic play.
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Mille pensers dormaient, chrysalides funebres,
Fremissant
doucement dans tes lourdes tenebres,
Qui degagent leur aile et prennent leur essor,
Teintes d'azur, glaces de rose, lames d'or.
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But strange to say,
he fancied that Vasya was pretending, that he was deceiving him, that he
was getting up,
stealthily
watching him out of the corner of his eye,
and was stealing up to the writing table.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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[Contains, also, work by
Adelaide
O'Keeffe, q.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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"
And these verses:
"Blessed gold,
offshoot
of the land, what desire you inflame in mortals!
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_180
His strong heart sunk and
sickened
with excess
Of love.
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Do ye
not see it, the rainbow and the bridges of the
Superman?
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The End
Throughout the echoing chambers of my brain
I hear your words in
mournful
cadence toll
Like some slow passing-bell which warns the soul
Of sundering darkness.
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But they that take offence where no name,
character, or signature doth blazon them seem to me like affected as
women, who if they hear anything ill spoken of the ill of their sex, are
presently moved, as if the
contumely
respected their particular; and on
the contrary, when they hear good of good women, conclude that it belongs
to them all.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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56 WHO WROTE THE
PENTATEUCH?
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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How can I live after this
disgrace?
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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Pray, sir, are young ladies good
housewives
at
London-town?
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The perils that
countries
face are not as straightforward as suicide, but more like Russian roulette.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK
METAMORPHOSIS
***
***** This file should be named 5200.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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High in the
mountains
all alone
The wild swans whistle on the lakes,
But I have been as still as stone,
My heart sings only when it breaks.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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Thou
huntress
swifter than the Moon!
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Shelley copy |
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enterd his world of love]
Not long in harmony they dwell, their life is drawn away
And wintry woes succeed;
successive
driven into the Void
Where Enion craves: successive drawn into the golden feast
[In beauty love & scorn ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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drawing our inspiration from our exten- sive cookbook
collection
and seasonal ingredients, and we love global flavors.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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-- So, the whole mathematical system is empty of inherent existence, but still not completely non-existent, or useless, or meaningless (that is evident by looking at its
relative
efficiency).
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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This makes the great
distinction
between virtue and
vice.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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RATIFICATION OF THE
ASSOCIATION
461
Maryland.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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Wrong,
followed
by a deeper wrong!
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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We are justified
in assuming that it was while Babur was
bringing
order into his new
kingdom and somewhat vainly attempting to collect its revenues that
he was first inspired with his Indian dream.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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The two
largest ones, then, run side by side and do not meet; the medium-sized
ones meet-and this is particularly visible in fishes,-for they lie
nearer than the large ones to the brain; the
smallest
pair are the
most widely separate from one another, and do not meet.
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Aristotle |
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Whether it is sheer terroristic violence to induce an irrational response, or cool premeditated violence to persuade
somebody
that you mean it and may do it again~ it is not the pain and damage itself but its influence on somebody's behavior that matters.
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'Is he so
dreadful?
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Yeats |
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The
Evolutionist
at large.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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Government
Printing
Office, 1993), 12.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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They are
producing
'bias'.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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Then, nothing loth, the enamour'd fair he led,
And sunk transported on the
conscious
bed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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320 INSTIGATIONS
And spoil good men, ill luck your
impotence
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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You were born in Syria,
Gentle, poor in worldly goods;
Ever humble, pious, purer,
In all done, said, understood,
Fashioned by such a Master,
Without all evil, with all good,
Of such sweet company there
That in you was
harboured
God.
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Troubador Verse |
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That this thought should be "overcome"-as one of the most sus- pect expressions tirelessly
continues
to proclaim-was not for a moment doubted even by Heidegger; such an attitude created, for him, the double halo of the modern and the supratemporal.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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naval vessels that could have led
straightforwardly
into general war.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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Pursue thy clear and open way
To reach his ancestors'
remotest
line.
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Pindar |
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Night and day,
Recurrent spasms of vomiting would rack
Alway their thews and members,
breaking
down
With sheer exhaustion men already spent.
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Lucretius |
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In these two battles the Teutones and Am-
orones are said to have lost the
incredible
number of
290,000 men (200,000 slain, and 90,000 taken pris-
oners), and the Cimbri 300,000 men (140,000 slain,
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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