The
portrait
has the appearance of a hale man of
sixty, rather than that of 112, which was his age at the period it was painted.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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ue of this
conference!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Ye zephyrs mild, that
breathed
around
The place where Love my heart did wound!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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CXLVI
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
My sinful earth these rebel powers array,
Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,
Painting
thy outward walls so costly gay?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"69They are discourses in the good Nietzschean manner, then, as a self-heightening of
structures
of mastery, which became ever more necessary under the conditions of stan- dardized and mass produced information.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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It must
be as incapable of telling a lie as nature, and it must sometimes say
before all the virtues, 'The
greatest
of these is charity.
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Yeats |
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Inadequate
or excessive armament or foreign aid expenditures.
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NSC-68 |
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These armed forces are probably not yet considered by the Soviet Union to be
sufficient
to initiate a war which would involve the United States.
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NSC-68 |
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Every kind of training, however, which holds out
the prospect of bread-winning as its end and aim,
is not a training for culture as we understand the
word; but merely a collection of precepts and'
directions to show how, in the
struggle
for
existence, a man may preserve and protect his
own person.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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In this respect, we must finally mention Hase's Evangelisch-protes- tantische Dogmatik, the six editions of which are
sufficient
proof of its usefulness.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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Eliot writes in his essay on Dante, "We
have nothing but dreams, and we have forgotten that seeing
visions?
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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XXVIII
With that a thousand blades of burnished steel
Glistered on heaps like flames of fire in sight,
Hundreds, that knew not yet the quarrel weel,
Ran thither, some to gaze and some to fight:
The empty air a sound
confused
did feel
Of murmurs low, and outcries loud on height,
Like rolling waves and Boreas' angry blasts
When roaring seas against the rocks he casts.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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Willow,
twinkling
in the sun,
Still your leaves and hear me,
I can answer spring at last,
Love is near me!
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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me uiso rabidi subito
cecidere
furores;
ridebat summus me ueniente dolor.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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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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It leaps and races east and west, not
hesitating
to go high or low-until it falls into the trap and dies in the net.
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Chuang Tzu |
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"
Struggling in vain, impatient of her load,
And lab'ring underneath the pond'rous god,
The-more she strove to shake him from her breast, With more and far superior force he press'd;
Commands
his entrance, and, without control,
Usurps her organs and inspires her soul.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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The result, in general, is an increase in
slovenliness
and
vagueness.
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Orwell |
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Who serveth Love, can telle of wo;
The
stoundemele
Ioye mot overgo.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Send word then to Master Tao Zhu:
8
“I’m
as wealthy as you are!
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Hanshan - 01 |
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22 5 Just as he was setting out for Germany, he acquired elaborate gardens,
although
he had previously kept only an unpretentious dwelling in the city and a single farm in Venetia.
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Historia Augusta |
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Xem thế đủ thấy phép trị nước ắt phải lấy việc cử
người
hiền dùng người tài làm căn bản vậy.
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stella-03 |
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Beside their
sheltering
[i] cross of wall, the flock
Feeds on in light, nor thinks of winter's shock;
Only in the edition of 1793.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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]
XXV
The
venerable
dame opined
The counsel good and full of reason,
Her money counted, and designed
To visit Moscow in the season.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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insult to the modern by a new irrationalism, but instead speaks to a well-meaning release of
politics
from the suspicion that it could be immediately responsible for the
and the sufferings caused by individuation in individual lives.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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These two en-
tailments are
exemplified
by sentences like The meaning is right there in the words,
which, according to the CONDUITmetaphor, can correctly be said of any sentence.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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" To-day, O Lord, when Thy judgment begins upon
the two thousand years through which Christianity has
already existed, grant us, O Lord, to
resuscitate
ourselves
only through the power given by Thee to holy acts!
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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75
There is something disrespectful about the way
in which we make our young students known to
the ancients: what is worse, it is unpedagogical;
for what can result from a mere
acquaintance
with
## p.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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Gradually, and probably under the influence of a
great variety of causes, the institution familiar to us, individual
property in land, has arisen from the
dissolution
of the ancient
co-ownership.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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XCI
"His younger age foretokens true shall yield
Of future valor, puissance, force and might,
From him no rock the savage beast shall shield;
At tilt or tourney match him shall no knight:
After, he conquer shall in pitched field
Great armies and win spoils in single fight,
And on his locks, rewards for
knightly
praise,
Shall garlands wear of grass, of oak, of bays.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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kẻ sĩ ở chốn trường ốc lều tranh, danh phận thật là nhỏ mọn mà
được
triều đình đề cao hết mực như thế, thì người mang danh kẻ sĩ phải trọng thân danh mình mà lo báo đáp, phải nên thế nào?
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stella-01 |
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Fremd- und
Selbstthematisierung
in soziologisch-historischer Perspektive.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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We are therefore
justified
in saying --If reason stands in a causal relation to phenomena, it is a faculty which originates the sensuous condition of an empirical series of effects.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Daughter of one of the bear-keepers of the
hippodrome, brought up by an indulgent mother amongst the society
which frequented the purlieus of the circus, this young girl, beautiful,
intelligent and witty—if we may believe the gossip of the Secret History
—soon succeeded in
charming
and scandalising the capital.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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Five or six years later, I
returned
to beauti- ful new Iberia with my family.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set
forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from
both the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation and Michael
Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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in some ways the last visitor to the Turkish Empire in its previous form" before the progressive revolutions of the Eastern
Question
gradually weakened Ottoman control.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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Well, the Farmer thought it
best to make it up with the Serpent, and brought food and honey to
the mouth of its lair, and said to it: "Let's forget and forgive;
perhaps you were right to punish my son, and take vengeance on my
cattle, but surely I was right in trying to revenge him; now that
we are both
satisfied
why should not we be friends again?
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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But come he must, and will ; and when he comes, Do Inot all, so far as man may do,
To follow where the God shall point the way, Denounce me traitor to the State I saved
And to the people who
proclaimed
me King.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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155
Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome
there may have been
additional
reasons for its discontinu-
ation.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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The Gadelians
Scythians
again emigrated from Scythia, and having sailed through the Euxine, now called the Black sea, and onward through the Bosphorus, the Hellespont, the Egean Archipelago, and the sea afterwards called the Mediterranean, they made some settle ments Getulia, the coast northern Africa, the country where Carthage was afterwards founded.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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”—If I saw, for example, that
they were training their pupils against German philo-
sophy and German music, I should either set about
combating them or
combating
the culture of anti-
quity, perhaps the former, by showing that these
philologists had not understood the culture of anti-
quity.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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", shouted the middle
gentleman
to Gregor's father,
pointing, without wasting any more words, with his forefinger at
Gregor as he slowly moved forward.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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vous
pourriez passer vos journées avec Elstir qui est un homme de génie et
vous les passez avec votre
cousine!
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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and, if not, are you right or wise in
(an “ act,” whatever that may be, is possible abroad at present in
Cambridge
that a college giving greater currency to the too wide-
in the case of the B.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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Rosinger
believes
that the Burma Government will ultimately stand or fall on its handling of the agrarian problem.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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ON JUDGING FRIENDS
A kindly friend, who balances my good
And bad together, as in truth he should,
If haply my good qualities prevail,
Inclines indulgent to the sinking scale:
For like indulgence let his
friendship
plead,
His merits be with equal measure weighed;
For he who hopes his wen shall not offend
Should overlook the pimples of his friend.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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For Larry, on the other hand, the value for getting ahead does not exclude the possibility of various other kinds of people getting ahead, for he seems to be thinking in terms of an
expanding
economy in which working men can have a strong role (Item 68) and in which depressions are unnecessary (Item 5).
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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that touching glance, that
beauteous
face!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Since there
flowered
the Dry Rod,
Or from Adam sprang nephew and uncle;
Such true love as that which my heart enters
Has never, I think, existed in body or soul:
Wherever she is, abroad or in some chamber,
My heart can't part from her more than a nail.
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Troubador Verse |
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That
faithless
weather stayed your journey and the wet seas washed out your lovely youth.
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Greek Anthology |
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Well you can see him in another Room--Sir Peter and I haven't
met a long time and I have
something
to say [to] him.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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Five, twenty two: This chapter of The Life o f
Apollonius
tells the story of a young man who spent his fortune on building a huge house with gardens and colonades but spent nothing on education.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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A powerful blow could be delivered upon the Soviet Union, but it is estimated that these operations alone would not force or induce the Kremlin to capitulate and that the Kremlin would still be able to use the forces under its control to
dominate
most or all of Eurasia.
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NSC-68 |
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Even Y's very
accomplished
young wife was 'a Communist,' who came from a still successful military family.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread 70
Ends
suddenly
in the one sure centre, death,
The visionary hand of Might-have-been
Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!
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James Russell Lowell |
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Hence, nothing remained but to find
an incontestable objective principle of causality which excludes all
sensible conditions: that is, a principle in which reason does not
appeal further to
something
else as a determining ground of its
causality, but contains this determining ground itself by means of that
principle, and in which therefore it is itself as pure reason practical.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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Title of Work:
Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
Blasting and
Bombardiering
(1937)
?
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Thus, in order to prove that there are only two manners of explaining evil--the dualistic, according to which there is assumed an evil fundamental being [Grundwesen], no matter with which modifications, under or next to the good one, and the Kabbalistic, according to which evil is explained through emana- tion and distancing--and that every other system therefore must abolish the distinction between good and evil; in order to prove this, nothing less would be
required
than the full power of a deeply thought-out and thoroughly developed philosophy.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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Il n'existait plus que deux
demeures
où
cela soit ainsi: le Louvre et la maison de M.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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A close
circle of heroes gathered round the chief or King,
and spread down to the lowest rank of the army
that gay love of daring, that spirit of the offensive,
which has
remained
the strength of the Prussian
army in all its great periods.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
|
About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it
universally
accessible and useful.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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" 93;
the first
engagement
against the morality of self-
renunciation, 95; alluded to, 88.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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In contrast, the American understanding of the Orient will seem considerably
less dense,
although
our recent Japanese, Korean, and Indochinese adventures ought now to be
creating a more sober, more realistic “Oriental” awareness.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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i;i*;i
iiiiziitit
i= iii:r ; il j ?
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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Without making this break, you might enter the door of the
Teachings
with an unresolved mind, still attached to your homeland, wealth, relatives, friends and so forth.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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I^Howev^r'as to whether or not, all the
Abbesses
and Nuns of Ireland embraced that nilp established bv St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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Such an
ontology
built out o f a
Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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The herald blew; Heart shot a glance
To find his lady's eye,
But Brain gazed
straight
ahead his lance
To aim more faithfully.
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Sidney Lanier |
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{14} "A Puritan is a
Heretical
Hypocrite, in whom the conceit of his own
perspicacity, by which he seems to himself to have observed certain
errors in a few Church dogmas, has disturbed the balance of his mind, so
that, excited vehemently by a sacred fury, he fights frenzied against
civil authority, in the belief that he so pays obedience to God.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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speaks about, but has gone one step farther in t
civilisation
before which Rousseau stood in horra
We have grown stronger, we have drawn nearer the seventeenth century, more particularly to t
taste which reigned towards its close (Dancou Le Sage, Regnard).
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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Time, which puts an end to all human pleasures and sorrows, has
likewise
concluded
the labours of the Rambler.
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Samuel Johnson |
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The
exhaustive investigation of the Galton Laboratory of National Eugenics
leaves little room for doubt that in England the decline in the
birth-rate began about 1876-78, when the trial of Charles Bradlaugh and
the
Theosophist
leader, Mrs.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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[Still half asleep, he lets his head fall
back, with mouth open and Adam's apple protruding from his
withered
throat
like the blade of a tomahawk .
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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And I and all the souls in pain,
Who tramped the other ring,
Forgot if we
ourselves
had done
A great or little thing,
And watched with gaze of dull amaze
The man who had to swing.
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Wilde - Poems |
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”
“What a pity," he said, "that their parties should want such
an
ornament!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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On one
occasion
the small band of
fugitives had to march for more than three days without water as the
wells had been filled in or destroyed.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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Percy, were, at last, obtained;
and that no man may ever want them more, I will extract enough to satisfy
all
reasonable
desire.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Further, while
Becky fights her own battle and Rawdon Crawley and the watch-
dog Briggs are only pawns in her game, Valérie is a deadly weapon
employed by the diabolical
intelligence
of Lisbeth Fischer, to whose
part in the story she is always secondary.
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2 Of these the father, from paternal fondness, made Darius king during his own lifetime, contrary to the usage of the Persians, among whom the king is changed only by death; 3 for he thought nothing taken from himself that he conferred upon his son, and expected greater
enjoyment
from having progeny, if he saw the insignia of royalty adorning his son while he lived.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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What they have in common is their quasi-putschist determination to break out of the
openness
of a life full of experimentation in order to jump ahead to the end of all attempts and errors.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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It generates
qualities
like 'riddhi"!
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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" National
Interest
(Summer 1989): www.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Now all's reversed: dejected is thy mien, 15
Thy locks are like a tangled thicket seen;
And every limb, once
smoothed
with nicest care,
Rank with neglect, a shrubbery of hair!
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Satires |
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"
exclaimed
the nun, looking at her.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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Copyright, 1896, by Harper & Brothers
be
20
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NDEED, even from his early boyhood, he was the most extraor-
dinarily gifted creature I have ever known, or even heard of;
a kind of
spontaneous
humorous Crichton to whom all things
came easily — and life itself as an uncommonly good joke.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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Veterano, from whose pursuits the play is named,
is an original
conception
; but the author fails to give him life,
lacking the capacity to use the opportunity with which he has
provided himself.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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Snell to mount on horse back, and ride at the head of them, there being a horse pro vided on purpose, which he did ; and all the people attend
ed with I the bells shouts ofjoy,
in all the ringing quarters of
never ; and, I fuller of people
town, and
dent happened in this great
concourse
ofpeople.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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If he does not do so, he exposes the truth about himself and his hypothesis in that, like the heroes of antiquity, he
succumbs
to his dilemma and runs aground on his own inability to understand himself.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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Schiller's
importance
in the intellectual history of Germany is by
no means confined to his poetry and dramas.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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They
gathered
the flowers
Each to himself.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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THE LIFE OF TREITSCHKE 99
about that we had
gradually
to rely less upon his co-opera-
tion in the struggle.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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This is
obviously
being claimed by the text itself.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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" the
Commandant
rapped out a Tartar oath, "I'll make you speak.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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" Page replied, " myself
fellow that ever crossed these plains, but thou art an
obstinate
fellow, and so go about your business.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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To whom can I tell the sad
thoughts
I think?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"Cadenus and
Vanessa" was meant as polite and
courteous
admonition to Miss Hester Van
Homrigh, a young lady in whom green-sickness seems to have produced
devotion to Swift in forms that embarrassed him, and with which he did
not well know how to deal.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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