At the age of sixteen he carried off a first prize in rhetoric; and
from that time began his apprenticeship to the trade of the Muses,
as Ronsard would say, by writing translations of Greek and Latin
He does not seem to have been
particularly
precocious as a
poet, and his imitations of Sappho were even then considered rather
feeble.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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"O thou, who in the fortunate vale, that made
Great Scipio heir of glory, when his sword
Drove back the troop of Hannibal in flight,
Who thence of old didst carry for thy spoil
An hundred lions; and if thou hadst fought
In the high
conflict
on thy brethren's side,
Seems as men yet believ'd, that through thine arm
The sons of earth had conquer'd, now vouchsafe
To place us down beneath, where numbing cold
Locks up Cocytus.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Evelina Hanska, the wife of a Polish count, whose health was
feeble, and who spent much time in
Switzerland
because the climate there
agreed with him.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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nden], in: Frankfurter
Allgemeine
Zeitung, June 14, 2008.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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[54] "Let _p_ be the chance of death from a random, not a constitutional
source, then 1-_p_ is the chance of a
selective
death in a parent and
1-_p_ again of a selective death in the case of an offspring, then
(1-_p_)^2 must equal about 1/3, = .
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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Pan first with wax taught reed with reed to join;
For sheep alike and
shepherd
Pan hath care.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Second, Hegel could not yet imagine the way abstraction rules in developed capitalism: when Karl Marx describes the mad self-en- hancing circulation of capital, whose solipsistic path of self-fecundation reaches its apogee in today's metare- flexive speculations on futures, it is far too simplistic to claim that the specter of this self-engendering monster that pursues its path dis- regarding any human or environ- mental concern is an ideological abstraction, and that one should never forget that, behind this ab- straction, are real people and natural objects on whose
productive
capaci- ties and resources capital's circula- tion is based and on which it feeds like a gigantic parasite.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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The main interest of this essay is to explore the existential consequences of this new - and
enslaving
- law of "universal availability.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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He kept tales of like ending far apart
and he continually associated tales of a different outcome so as to t
give the greatest
possible
variety.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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Pulci was in advance of his time on more
subjects
than one.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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If time permits, I suggest a three-session unit,
developed
as follows.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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Make not your Hecuba with fury rage,
And show a Ranting grief upon the Stage;
Or tell in vain how the rough Tanais bore
His seven-fold Waters to the Euxine Shore:
These swoln expressions, this affected noise
Shows like some Pedant, that
declaims
to Boys.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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is
likewise
the cause of its relaxing quality, namely, the smoothness and slippery texture of its parts.
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Edmund Burke |
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It is quite sure, then, that Stella clung wholly to Swift, and cared
nothing for the
proffered
love of any other man.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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7 And that no changes might be wanting at that period, Hannibal, at a very early age, was appointed general of the Carthaginians, not for want of older men, but because of his hatred to the Romans, with which they knew that he had been imbued from his boyhood; the
mischief
that he did, however, was not so pernicious to the Romans as to Africa itself.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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The Emperor
and his
proposals
began it; I talked merrily on it till I saw my
brother put on his sober face, and could hardly then believe he was
in earnest.
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Selection of English Letters |
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They
disembarked
in order to join them, and marched boldly up to the walls.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad
thoughts
to the mind.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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This is the dilemma,
the first horn of which would be
sufficient
to toss and gore any column
of patient readers, though drawn up sixteen deep and constantly relieved
by fresh men; consequently that is not to be thought of.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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**
FURTHER
RESTRICTIONS
ON OPINION.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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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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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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When Kamaswami came to
him, to complain about his worries or to reproach him concerning his
business, he listened curiously and happily, was puzzled by him, tried
to
understand
him, consented that he was a little bit right, only as
much as he considered indispensable, and turned away from him, towards
the next person who would ask for him.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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gossip illuminating to a student of
Elizabethan
books are well worth waiting for, being excel-
A modest autobiography of a man whose
manners.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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Several American publications have mentioned the UNWILLINGNESS of their
political
bigwigs to learn facts about Europe.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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Elvire
Beware lest Heaven
punishes
your pride
And sees you avenged, though he has died.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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However, users may print, download, or email
articles
for individual use.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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On them I
recognise
the dress
Of my own country.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Raised to the peerage at the Restoration, he entered into a complex relationship with the monarchy which led to him
supporting
the future Charles X.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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I
supposed
you were dead, and was about to
334 SLYBOOTS.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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It is most
singular
that you should laugh
'At nothing at all!
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Poe - 5 |
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to contemn the stranger's righteous cause,
And violate all
hospitable
laws!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I asked for something greater than I found,
And every time that love has made me weep,
I have
rejoiced
that love could be so strong;
For I have stood apart and watched my soul
Caught in the gust of passion, as a bird
With baffled wings against the dusty whirlwind
Struggles and frees itself to find the sky.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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These
applications
of the principle are of course largely unconscious.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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21
meanderings delay
CLAUDIAN
induat
autumnusque
madentibus ambiat uvis.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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But in
our time it is recognised how quickly fragments of a people adopt the language of
their environment, and the historical arguments against a
radiating
expansion of
the Slavs are admitted by other Slavists.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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So important was it for you resist what you saw as the negative influence of these wrong- headed ideas - especially the neglect of real trauma in favour of phantasy - that you did not really allow
yourself
to feel the full emotional impact of psychoanalysis.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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A little more fantasy is required in order to answer the question as to whether phi- losophers and cultural
scientists
from the two countries con- cerned should make their own contribution to this anniversary and should this be the case, what form it should assume.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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But the investment
bankers prospered amazingly; and financial con-
centration
proceeded
without abatement.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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5
A little moment past so
smiling!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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But ye, I will be bound, like far the best
Love's
tickling
nick-nacks and the laughing jest,
And ten times sooner than be warned by me,
Would each be sitting on some fellow's knee,
Sooner believe the lies wild chaps will tell
Than old dames' cautions, who would wish ye well:
So have your wills.
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John Clare |
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He who
generates
'sobhana'?
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but O my soul is white!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Introduction
by Raleigh, Sir W.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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it floats on the fitful blast of the wind,
And
breathes
to the pale moon a funeral sigh.
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Shelley copy |
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Hrothgar
couldst thou
aid at all, the honored chief,
in his wide-known woes?
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
Let ever, though vainly,
Flow tear upon tear;
Human woe never waketh
Dull Death's heavy ear:
Yet still when the heart mourns the sweet
vanished
love,
No balm for its wound can descend from above
Like Love's sorrows and tears.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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The instability ofthe 'I'within the world ofrock is so great as to make this
subjunctive
fantasy the limit ofthat world.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The site relies on donated servers and bandwidth, so has automated mechanisms in place to detect when too many
downloads
are occurring from a single location (IP address).
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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"When I act," the Spirit claims, "I
doubtless
know that I act, and how I act; nevertheless this knowledge is not the act itself, but only the observation of it" (VOM: 84).
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Hegel_nodrm |
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; but
faithful
to the
trust
?
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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" answered Wamba with the same
caution, and the
swineherd
immediately stood before him.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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"When I act," the Spirit claims, "I
doubtless
know that I act, and how I act; nevertheless this knowledge is not the act itself, but only the observation of it" (VOM: 84).
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Hegel_nodrm |
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It was
published
by Cruttwell at Bath in 1787, 4to, pp.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The ship sailed short
distances
at a time, skirting the
coasts, where the length of the stay at every point touched depended on the
master.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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This was how Gregor
received
his food each day now, once in the
morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the
second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his
parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's
sister would send the maid away on some errand.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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* The Count imposed on the people of
Florinensis
an obligation of bringing from each head of a family one iron rod measuring a cubit, with an obolus,
each year, to keep the roof of that monastery in repair.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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In this kind of observation, the distinc- tion between
distinction
and indication is not thematized.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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In
the judgment of Chosroes it was to Persia's present
advantage
that the
peace should remain unbroken.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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But what accompanied China in the
Fenollosa
notebooks was the near-virgin world of Japan--territory which he set about exploring almost immediately.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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To conceal from the enemy the number of his ships, Thrasyllus ordered the pilots to link them together in pairs,
unfurling
the sails of only one of each pair.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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[b] In order to form a good style, the
sentence
should always be
closed with variety, strength, and harmony.
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
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How true it is to nature, he has himself finely
expressed
in the
instance of love in his 98th Sonnet.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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And assuredly, (as we have already said,) Luke
reciteth
not word for word all those things which Stephen uttered; but it is sufficient for him to note the principal points of matters.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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And one shilling
threepence
change.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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I feel the
strength
of my soul.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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; early courts at Bombay,
100, 114; at Madras, 104, 589;
at Calcutta, 590; Admiralty
courts, 102; charter of 1726, 113;
Supreme Court of Calcutta, 189;
Company's courts in Bengal, 415,
426, 440;
proposed
amalgamation,
242 sqq.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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The world and its affairs
Could not absorb me so,
That when men spoke of her
My heart it would not glow,
My face not
brighten
there.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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LFS}
Hearing the march of long
resounding
strong heroic Verse
Marshalld in order for the day of Intellectual Battle
The heavens shall quake, the earth was moved & shuddered & the mountains
With all their woods, the streams & valleys: waild in dismal fear
Four Mighty Ones are in every Man; a Perfect Unity John XVII c.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"Whether under a
different
currency system
the resources in our banks would be greater or
less is comparatively immaterial if they continue
to be controlled by a small group.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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Muslim political and legal theories have
consequently never been able wholly to shake themselves free from the
unreality that marked their
beginnings
in the rarified atmosphere of
speculation in which early Muslim thinkers lived in Medina.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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' He plucked an
olive branch as he hurried through Avignon on his way to
Paris, and was in Berlin on the morning of
September
20.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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For have heard the rebuking of many s2
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I aai
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I I
I
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I is
I i8[
is
if IIa
;
260
Indiscriminate
censure.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And
vanishes
along the level of the roofs.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Nietzsche libe rated modern language in
associating
eulogies with publicity.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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7
Second, the disciplinary system does not need this discontinuous, ritual, more or less cyclical game of
ceremonies
and marks in order to Junction.
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| Source: |
Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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In other
respects
Xenocrates was always of a solemn and grave character, so that Plato was continually saying to him,--"Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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finely tempered
personalities
which give to
In The Indian Tribes of the Upper Missis.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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Should it
ultimately be proved that, in so doing, Wagner
attempted the impossible, he would still only share
the lot of all those who have meditated deeply on
art; and even so he would be ahead of most of
them in this, namely, that the strongest instinct for
all arts
harboured
in him.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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They took a base fellow, whom
they had
themselves
ordered their commissioner to
imprison for crimes, (crimes charged on him, not by
the commissioner, but by themselves,) and made him
a complainant and a witness against him in the stupidest and most improbable of all accusations, -namely, that Paterson had menaced him with punishment, if
he did not, in so many words, slander and calumniate Debi Sing; and then the Committee, seating this wretch as an assessor at their own board, who a few
days before would have trembled like a whipped slave
at the look of an European, encouraged him to interrogate their own commissioner.
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| Source: |
Edmund Burke |
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Indeed the Bankers'
Trust Company with
resources
of $205,000,000,
and the Guaranty Trust Company, with re-
sources of $232,000,000, are among the most
useful tools of the Money Trust.
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| Source: |
Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:56 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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It is equally evident that the starting point of the Islamic commune as a small, sworn community did not
constitute
an ideal, but was intended to be overcome as quickly as possible.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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CXXIII
No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
Thy pyramids built up with newer might
To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;
They are but
dressings
of a former sight.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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In the night, if Astyages wanted anything, Cyrus was the first to perceive it, and started up, more nimbly than any one else, to serve him in
anything
that he thought would gratify him ; so that he gained the entire love of Asty ages.
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(I think there is no
evidence
that Laoists turned away from the human social world to become interested in the natural world of trees and animals, rocks and rivers, other than as sources of meta- phorical images representing Laoist themes.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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The
revolution
indeed
was not effected without a struggle.
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To give a precise example, I believe that these analyses of power held nothing more than a relatively restricted place in the
institutionalized
discourse of Marxism.
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Foucault-Live |
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To give a precise example, I believe that these analyses of power held nothing more than a relatively restricted place in the
institutionalized
discourse of Marxism.
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synonymous
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"Shall I have the
pleasure
of seeing Miss Fairfax to-night?
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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He entrenched himself upon
the Oder, at Gartz, above Stettin, in order, by commanding that river,
to cut off the water
communication
of the town with the rest of Germany.
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His
immediate
successor was
Richard Bower.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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'Did he
ever
purchase
a certain female?
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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"They are all made to unscrew," said the Crabs; and forthwith they
deposited a great pile of claws close to the boat, with which Violet
uncombed all the pale pink worsted, and then made the
loveliest
mittens
with it you can imagine.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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To the extent that the page substitutes for memo- ry, or becomes the figure through which memory is understood, then does that figure have philosophical consequences, namely, that intro-
spection
as method succeeds only to the extent that it is performed in writing on the page?
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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What effect
is
produced
in xxx and how?
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious
thoughts
descend upon me?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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His
manner of reading his own poetry is particularly imposing; and in his
favourite
passages
his eye beams with preternatural lustre, and the
meaning labours slowly up from his swelling breast.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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And now I only
remember
my dead Joy in remembering my dead Sorrow.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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