From Cahill's
corner the
reverend
Hugh C.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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É
frequente
o desconhecer-me — o que sucede com frequência aos que se conhecem.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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To
write any one a letter in Polish implied that the recipient
was
deficient
in elementary education, and could not
be done without preliminary justification.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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Generated for
Christian
Pecaut (University of Chicago) on 2014-12-24 15:01 GMT / http://hdl.
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My debts are large, my
failures
great, my shame secret and heavy;
yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my
prayer be granted.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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Time will go by, and pass the
appointed
day;
Tidings of us no Frank will hear or say.
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Chanson de Roland |
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In good just as in bad days,
eternity
is the asylum of resentment.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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And since he is assumed to have no more than his share, if he is just (for he does not assign to himself more of what is good in itself, unless such a share is
proportional
to his merits-so that it is for others that he labours, and it is for this reason that men, as we stated previously, say that justice is 'another's good'), therefore a reward must be given him, and this is honour and privilege; but those for whom such things are not enough become tyrants.
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The serpent fled; and to their
stations
back
The angels up return'd with equal flight.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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] G And when all the guests marvelled at the literary accomplishments of Cynulcus,
Plutarchus
said, - In like manner there used to be celebrated in my own Alexandria a Flagon-bearing festival, which is mentioned by Eratosthenes in his treatise entitled Arsino?
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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”
remarked
Chicot, “that is a very hoarse voice
to have come from heaven!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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These
lyrics were all, or nearly all, that he
retained
of the days when
he was twenty,- although he was but twenty-six now.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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This
charming
song is much older, and indeed superior to Ramsay's
verses, "The Toast," as he calls them.
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Robert Burns |
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"'No, Fedosey Nikolaitch, but will you please read this letter,' and I
gave it him
together
with my daily report.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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Prompted by
the desire of increased power, the craft, in 15571, procured a royal
charter of incorporation which invested the
fraternity
not only
with a more formal dignity, but, also, with a greater authority
over the trade.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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And Ba bington saith, that
Abington
moved first the surprize the queen.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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Trust me, our berth was hot,
Ah,
wickedly
well they shot;
How their death-bolts howled and stung!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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”
The tyrant took
advantage
of the moment to speak to the
monk, who was exerting himself to the utmost to restore his
father.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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There was immense destruction and damage wrought on the buildings in German cities, and it is really surprising that the
war industries gathered in those cities should have suffered so little
impairment
or loss of production.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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Here He has laid down the
proposition
in what follows he sets forth in detail.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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Tossing about, she
increased
her
feverish bewilderment to madness, and tore the pillow with her teeth;
then raising herself up all burning, desired that I would open the
window.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Early in his Madrid life he had won the faithful affection of Correa,
another young
literary
aspirant leading a hand-to-mouth existence, but
of vigorous physique and practical capabilities.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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It must be owned that this hope was not without reason although the very example of
Jugurtha
had on the other hand shown how foolish was to confound the bribery of Roman commander and the corruption of Roman army with the conquest of the
Roman people.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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In
theUnitedStatesas
in
France,intheFederalRepublicofGermanyas wellas inItaly,governments whichoriginallyhad looked withmuchsympathyat the "protests"of the studentsagainstthe universitiesintervenedsooner or later,and found considerablesupportamongtheirrespectivelectorateswhentheydid so.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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oit de
vieillesse
a` travers une e?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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Suddenly
a little old buffer rushed up to a front table and began to sputter forty-eight to the dozen: " chubbuchcuchushcushcushcuhkhh.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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ēste bearn-gebyrdo,
_gracious
through the
birth_ (of such a son as Bēowulf), 946.
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Beowulf |
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An
omniscient Creator must have foreseen every
consequence
which
results from the laws imposed by him.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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To be really effective,
dictatorship
requires that the dictator be constantly dynamic.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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And, in his "
Anointing
Woman " (but this play is attributed to Alexis also), he says : —
But if you make our shop notorious,
I swear by Ceres, best of goddesses,
That I will empt the biggest ladle o'er you, Filling it with hot water from the kettle ;
And if I fail, may I ne'er drink free water more.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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And if a suffering friend said to me,
“See, I shall soon die, only promise to die with
me”-I might promise it, just as—to select for
once bad examples for good
reasons—the
sight of
a small, mountain people struggling for freedom,
would bring me to the point of offering them my
hand and my life.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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The Allies in World War I could not inflict coercive pain and suffering directly on the Germans in a
decisive
way until they
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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VIRAG: _(A
diabolic
rictus of black luminosity contracting his visage,
cranes his scraggy neck forward.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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Phyllis, I have a cask full of Abanian wine, upward of nine years old; I
have parsley in my garden, for the weaving of chaplets, I have a store
of ivy, with which, when you have bound your hair, you look so gay: the
house shines cheerfully With plate: the altar, bound with chaste
vervain, longs to be sprinkled [with the blood] of a
sacrificed
lamb:
all hands are busy: girls mingled with boys fly about from place to
place: the flames quiver, rolling on their summit the sooty smoke.
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Horace - Works |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty ordained for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was
abandoned
readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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Or is it
entirely
your
own production?
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Then, 'mongst the foreign ladies, she whose faith
T' her husband (not AEneas) caused her death;
The vulgar ignorant may hold their peace,
Her safety to her chastity gave place;
Dido, I mean, whom no vain passion led
(As fame belies her); last, the virtuous maid
Retired to Arno, who no rest could find,
Her friends'
constraining
power forced her mind.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Thoreau noted the trend wisely in Walden when he com- mented on the fashion of his day: "We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae [Roman godesses of
destiny]
but Fash- ion.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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75 cumulative preferred stock, leaving his
holdings
in this issue at zero.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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Il était tellement
homme d'habitude que les plus simples comme les plus luxueuses, une fois
qu'il les avait prises, lui
devenaient
indispensables pendant un certain
temps.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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HIS noble entertainments raised surprise;
Magnificence alone would not suffice;
Delightful pleasures he dispensed around,
And flattery
abundantly
was found,
An art in which a demon should excel:
No devil surely e'er was liked so well.
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La Fontaine |
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Our last good
broadside
drove them back a
moment.
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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Then believe me, my sweetheart, do,
While time still flowers for you,
In its
freshest
novelty,
Cull, ah cull your youthful bloom:
As it blights this flower, the doom
Of age will blight your beauty.
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Ronsard |
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Mais quand paraissait un
peu épuisé le pouvoir qu’avait de le faire souffrir un des mots
prononcés par Odette, alors un de ceux sur
lesquels
l’esprit de Swann
s’était moins arrêté jusque-là, un mot presque nouveau venait relayer
les autres et le frappait avec une vigueur intacte.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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"Ne
þynceð
mē gerysne, þæt wē rondas beren
2655 "eft tō earde, nemne wē ǣror mǣgen
"fāne gefyllan, feorh ealgian
"Wedra þīodnes.
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Beowulf |
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Finally he got away from her and went back to
the spare bedroom, it was
definitely
a quarrel — the first really deadly quarrel they had
ever had.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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And special debts of
gratitude
to Martin Heidegger and J.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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A
touching
scene, a noble farewell, and all the dreadful trouble
solved--so conveniently solved!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Levanus entered at the 12th of July, in the
anonymous
Calendar published
by saint
he had been confounded with St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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pacifico en Jerusalen, ya depuestas las armas,
que tanto assombro havian dado al Asia, y con
que llegaron sus vanderas y
pavellones
a formar
selvas en las orillas del Euphrates.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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A persuasive threat of war may deter an aggressor; the problem is to make it persua- sive, to keep it from
sounding
like a bluff.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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His careful
descriptions
of the animals and plants of India reves)
great powers of observation.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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or am I pure of blame,
And is it sleep
From
dreamland
brings a form to trick
My senses?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
"I can't explain _myself_, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "because I'm
not myself, you see--being so many
different
sizes in a day is very
confusing.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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ber, das seine edle Empfindsamkeit herausfordert, waltet sein ethisches Pathos; auch gegen die Sprache selbst, in welcher er die
Herausforderung
beantwortet, zeigt er sich von einer Gewissenhaftigkeit, die vor ihm unbekannt gewesen ist.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Finally, there are times when the
qualities
of practice arise all at the same time without going through the stages.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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He reasons
logically from
observed
fact, and his intellectuality is constantly contrasted with the
routine methods of the police.
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Orwell |
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If even
I were as in my boyhood, and could be
The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven,
As then, when to
outstrip
the skyey speed
Scarce seem'd a vision, I would ne'er have striven
As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.
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Golden Treasury |
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Saniette
était plus bête que
méchant
et ne savait pas le tort que la Patronne lui
faisait.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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Life has
loveliness
to sell,
Music like a curve of gold,
Scent of pine trees in the rain,
Eyes that love you, arms that hold,
And for your spirit's still delight,
Holy thoughts that star the night.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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So she stood arrayed
Before the Hearth-Fire of her home, and prayed:
"Mother, since I must vanish from the day,
This last, last time I kneel to thee and pray;
Be mother to my two
children!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And, don't
you see, the terror of the
position
was not in being knocked on the
head--though I had a very lively sense of that danger too--but in this,
that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the
name of anything high or low.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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' but the Ghost
clutched
her hand more tightly, and
she shut her eyes against them.
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Oscar Wilde |
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The
gleanings
of precarious charity
Her scantiness of food did scarce supply.
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Shelley copy |
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, translated into modern German and
commented
by Gisela Vollmann-Profe, Stuttgart 1987, p.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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rzen heiss und klar
In ihre
Augenho?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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Luther and the
"rebirth of
morality
"!
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Nay but Maria do not leave me with a Frown--by all that's
honest, I swear----Gad's Life here's Lady Teazle--you must not--no you
shall--for tho' I have the
greatest
Regard for Lady Teazle----
MARIA.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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Free Marxism, with the help of its Archimedian point, has a less complex task, and we would do well to keep free Marxism constantly in view to orient
ourselves
by.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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But
everything
that the philo-
sopher says about man is really nothing more than
testimony about the man of a very limited space
of time.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Such restlesse passion did all night torment 5
The flaming corage of that Faery knight,
Devizing, how that doughtie turnament
With
greatest
honour he atchieven might;
Still did he wake, and still did watch for dawning light.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Patriotism
is the forgetting of the man, to be nothing other than
156 The Cult of the Nation in France
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| Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
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Naturally
the first consideration
here had nothing to do with love; on the con-
trary!
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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The facts refute the thesis
according
to which the moral law does not have sanctions.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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: Any of 5 Crommelin brothers who became
American
heroes in WWII [HM, Caged, 69; Zapatka, Pai, 2?
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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It is long
ago that I
experienced
the reasons for mine
opinions.
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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Of course,
according
to the logic of the game, the Enlightener will at least have one victory: sooner or later, he
will force his opponent to speak in self-defense.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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Each was accompanied by the feeling of
complete
self evidence, and each was conclusive in its own way without having to take the opposing claim into account.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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The King had sanctioned the proposal
to
strengthen
his hold on the Tower with trustworthy troops:
the number of men that he desired to introduce was not more
than a hundred, but even this now appeared a dangerous inno-
vation.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Ye lofty thinkers, of whom Aristotle said that ye
wander through life vacillating and
inactive
so
long as no great honour or glorious Cause calleth
ou to deeds!
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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It was
popularly
supposed that magicians and
witches had power to cause eclipses of the moon.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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It reached maturity without a reorganization or
the sacrifice of a single
stockholder
or bondholder.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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It seems to me that he is not
referring
literally to Socrates, but has
merely taken my name as an example, as if he would say to us, 'The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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1669_]
[59
supplications]
supplication _1635-54_]
[61 Courts, _1635-69_, _B_, _JC_, _L74_,
_O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _W_: Court, _1633_,
_D_, _Lec_, _N_, _S_, _TCD_]
[63 'tis.
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Donne - 1 |
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In 1810 there appeared in The Examiner the following paragraph : —
What a crowd of
blessings
rush upon one's mind that might be bestowed upon the country, in the event of a total change of system !
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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His very body had waxed old in lowly service of the Lord--in
tending the fire upon the altar, in bearing tidings secretly, in
waiting upon worldlings, in
striking
swiftly when bidden--and yet had
remained ungraced by aught of saintly or of prelatic beauty.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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Rapture, which does constitute the state of the subject, can every bit as well be
conceived
as objective, as an actuality for which beauty is merely subjective, since there is no beauty in itself.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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Et je m'étais souvent demandé si cette ruse de Françoise
n'avait pas été pour
beaucoup
dans le départ d'Albertine qui voyait
qu'elle ne pouvait plus rien me cacher et se sentait découragée,
vaincue.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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My father,
the son of a petty tradesman and (I believe) small farmer, at Northwater
Bridge, in the county of Angus, was, when a boy, recommended by his
abilities to the notice of Sir John Stuart, of Fettercairn, one of the
Barons of the Exchequer in Scotland, and was, in consequence, sent to
the
University
of Edinburgh, at the expense of a fund established by
Lady Jane Stuart (the wife of Sir John Stuart) and some other ladies
for educating young men for the Scottish Church.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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The part of the 'Discovery of America' which treats of this
subject has great interest; but it is less generally attractive than his
narration of the romantic incidents and
characters
of the period of
discovery.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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The
accusers
said the Black Man stood and
dictated to him.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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Dat varium sensum voci
Antanaclasis
eidem.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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I will consider⸺I am not that
_structure_
of
_parts_, which is called a Mans _Body_, neither am I any sort of _thin
Air_ infused into those Parts, nor a _Wind_, nor _Fire_, nor _Vapour_,
nor _Breath_, nor whatever I my self can feign, for all these things I
have supposed _not to Be_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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He likewise picked out for his use so many mariners, pilots,
sailors, interpreters, artificers, officers, and soldiers, as he thought
fitting, and therewithal made provision of so much
victuals
of all sorts,
artillery, munition of divers kinds, clothes, moneys, and other such
luggage, stuff, baggage, chaffer, and furniture, as he deemed needful for
carrying on the design of a so tedious, long, and perilous voyage.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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To impute such a design to Lady Susan would be taking from her
every claim to that excellent understanding which her bitterest enemies
have never denied her; and equally low must sink my
pretensions
to
common sense if I am suspected of matrimonial views in my behaviour
to her.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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And the book lay open, and my thought flew from it, taking from it
A vibration and impulsion to an end beyond its own,
As the branch of a green osier, when a child would
overcome
it,
Springs up freely from his claspings and goes swinging in the sun.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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The Muse's Looking Glass was
reprinted
in the earlier three eds.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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The chapter on 'Huge Cloudy Symbols of a High Romance' warns against seduction by bad poetic science; against the allure of
misleading
rhetoric.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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