Regardless of whether the text chosen for a certain
trimester
is close to my own working agenda or not, the energy of that reading group has become my intellectual lifeline.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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Si mi spronaron le parole sue,
ch'i' mi sforzai carpando
appresso
lui,
tanto che 'l cinghio sotto i pie mi fue.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Peters has introduced White's
likeness
in his pic ture of the Resurrection of a Pious Family.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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Certainly
then it is that, which should be dear
unto us also.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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Of his apophthegms, the
following
are the most celebrated.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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;'
of
" Acta
Sanctorum
Hiber- nice," xv.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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For
without
employing
the word, Mr.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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For Fabullus
and Veranius sent me as a gift
handkerchiefs
from Iberian Saetabis; these
must I prize e'en as I do Veraniolus and Fabullus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The other books, constituting the major portion
of the work, have been pronounced
authentic
by eminent scholars
with Bentley at their head.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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Retuércese entre nudos dolorosos
Mi corazón,
gimiendo
de amargura!
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Jose de Espronceda |
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Lysimachus died in this war, after being struck by a spear which was thrown by a man from Heracleia called Malacon, who was
fighting
for Seleucus.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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Some one else, then, said Critias; for
certainly
I have not.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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What is it, my good lord, the King
languishes
of?
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Shakespeare |
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obtaining
a copy of or access to a Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the
terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or
entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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Peter Sloterdijk
13
parties and
fluctuations
among their consumers.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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That she should love a
stranger
more than her father!
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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Result the
northern
kingdoms vassal states of Denmark.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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While thus suffering under bodily disease, and gnawed and tortured by
some black trouble of the soul, and given over to the machinations of
his deadliest enemy, the
Reverend
Mr.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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Now,
concerning
these things there is not one belief, but many; howbeit,
there are two main kinds of opinion.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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But if you have so sore desire your
daughter
to divorce, .
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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Ye good men of the Commons, with loving hearts and true,
Who stand by the bold
Tribunes
that still have stood by you,
Come, make a circle round me, and mark my tale with care,
A tale of what Rome once hath borne, of what Rome yet may bear.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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q ad-Din of Shaizar, on
Wednesday
Badr ad-Din Yildiri?
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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The Return
I turned the key and opened wide the door
To enter my
deserted
room again,
Where thro' the long hot months the dust had lain.
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Sara Teasdale |
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For that which is not in the sum of
the possible, and
consequently
requires to be added to
manifestly impossible.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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I said: "Then why didn't we bring the body back to the
cantonments?
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Kipling - Poems |
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With a broader and deeper background of experience
and environment, which by some divine special
privilege
belongs to
the poetic imagination, it is easier to set apart and contrast these
opposing words and sympathies in a poet; but here we find them evoked
in a restricted locale- an English county-where the rich, cool tranquil
landscape gives a solid texture to the human show.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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" The
telegrams
from London have been the same: "no further
report.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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He served out some grog with a liberal hand,
And bade them sit down on the beach:
And they could not but own that their Captain looked grand,
As he stood and
delivered
his speech.
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Lewis Carroll |
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky,
And at every
drifting
cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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But who art thou, that
meddlest
in this
matter?
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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Whereas when by yourself you should have called it
Tranquillity
and
Freedom: and herein deemed yourself like unto the Gods.
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Epictetus |
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Io Fra
AmsRocro
CIGNANI DA VENETIA.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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He didn't eat
anything
for so long.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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What do these
recriminations
prove, Ana?
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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They were the carriers of news in Korea, and represented the Press of their land, and their
influence
and power still prevail.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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What will remain of my sadness except that I obligingly promise it an appointment for latcr after the departure of the
visitor?
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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79:1 O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy
temple have they defiled; they have laid
Jerusalem
on heaps.
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bible-kjv |
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It actually does so in
the work of D'Avenant, of
Suckling
and of not a few lesser men,
in the last fifteen or twenty years before the closing of the theatres.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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<<
Ful
curteisly
she called me,
'What do ye there, beau sire?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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SEMICHORUS 2:
Yet were life a charnel where
Hope lay
coffined
with Despair;
Yet were truth a sacred lie, _40
Love were lust--
SEMICHORUS 1:
If Liberty
Lent not life its soul of light,
Hope its iris of delight,
Truth its prophet's robe to wear,
Love its power to give and bear.
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Shelley copy |
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Galileo and his daughter are waiting to be
admitted
to the grand duke.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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You had to duck under the darts as you crossed the room,
there was a
moment’s
hush and people glanced inquisitively at Ravelston.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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The masses mass madder, both
numbskull
and sage;
They root up the arbours, they trample the grain;
Make way for the new Resurrected.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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To his successor, Giovanni de'
Medici, who
succeeded
to the papal throne under the name of Leo X, the
treatise is particularly addressed.
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Erasmus |
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In "Poggendorffs Annalen der Physik"-in 1836, global physics could still be found in German technical periodicals-both of them,
or perhaps really just Wilhelm Weber alone,
stumbled
on a "known technical device" of Faraday, which for a change did not have
anything to do with their common field of research, electro-magnetic induction.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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e
blisfulnes
{and} [the] pouste of gouerno{ur}s is as it
were yshad amonges poeples ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Riches and
pleasure
seemed to him to be really greater tragedies than
poverty or sorrow.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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"
Romanticism
"hovered" between inside and outside, but it could no longer resolve this paradox in favor of the world as it was.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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Generated for
anonymous
on 2014-06-11 22:50 GMT / http://hdl.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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For the crimson flower of our life is eaten by
the
cankerworm
of truth,
And no hand can gather up the fallen withered
petals of the rose of youth.
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Wilde - Poems |
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" he
continued
after a while.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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But to-day being
Saturday rather
complicates
matters.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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THE
MANIPULATION
OF RISK
THE ART OF COMMITMENT 93
But uncertainty exists.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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Hail, rose, ower of summer, O Mary, sweet
habitation
of the living light!
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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6 Nor would amity have ever been restored had not the
populace
cut the water-pipes.
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Historia Augusta |
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In thieving thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high,
surmounted
by a cross-beam.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Presently
they turned a corner
and came to a village.
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Yeats |
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Thomas
reminded
that in 1862, when she read times actually copied.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or
appearing
on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The
incarnation
of Rama_.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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I know his
conversation
among women to be modest and submissive.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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For what
excellence
of mind or body did not adorn thy youth?
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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There on the deadly circle laid ,
Whose
fourfold
chain himself had made ,
The fool who grasp '
d
at
This alludes to the murder of Deioneus by his son - in law Ixion , which was perpetrated by throwing alive into
spokes which Ixion
57
the wheel with four radii was bound
pit filled with burning coals
.
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Pindar |
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The
Knowledge
of Destruction and the
Knowledge of Non-Arising 1093
1.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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But how could the German language, even
in the prose of Lessing, imitate the TEMPO of Machiavelli, who in his
"Principe" makes us breathe the dry, fine air of Florence, and cannot
help presenting the most serious events in a boisterous allegrissimo,
perhaps not without a
malicious
artistic sense of the contrast he
ventures to present--long, heavy, difficult, dangerous thoughts, and
a TEMPO of the gallop, and of the best, wantonest humour?
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Con thánh cháu thần,
ngước
nối chí lớn, qui mô xa rộng, trăm đời sau vẫn còn biết được.
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stella-02 |
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"
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smooths her hair with
automatic
hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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1 years of reIgn gave a SlIver seal to Kung's eplgon
but
gangsters
continued
a pU"ate declIned to turn mandarIn,
a comet exploded In Pleiades Hoang-ho shIfted Its bed
and they said that the Mile Buddha had come down to turn out the mogul,
pseudo-Sung put on red hats
Tlenouan beat the rebels, Talpou was killed by rebels
Slngkl respected
and the lamas put on a ballet for CHUNTI
In Ivory headgear
castagnettes crmkhng and clackIng, and a Tang dance
Without fancy clothes Kongpel saId to Toto Don't open dIspatches
Dragon barge drIfted WIth musIc Statue poured water amldshlp
306
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Then suddenly the spell is
broken: the moon is lost in struggling clouds; the
spectres
glide
away and slowly vanish; and Rip Van Winkle, with the drowsy,
piteous murmur, "Don't leave me, boys," falls into his mystic
sleep.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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Eoger featcfjeL 253
The
Behaviour
and Dying-Words of Mr.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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» Je ne sais pas si Françoise
sentait le mal qu'elle me faisait mais elle
commença
à ébaucher un
sourire qui ne quitta plus ses lèvres.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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The true meaning of prayer, the
communion
of
man with God, comes to us in this Psalm.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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My only mistake
was that I
confined
myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to
me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its
shadow and its gloom.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Thus, to take an instance actually
given, the sack of Rome by Gaiseric is a
cardinal
event in the history of
the Vandals, and a cardinal event in that of the last days of the Empire
in the West.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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340
Or let him die, that
loatheth
living breath?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"A
servant!
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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by Maquet, Paul and Ronald Furlong, Mechanicsof
theHuman
WalkingApparatus(Berlin, Heidelberg, NewYorketc.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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Feeling and
character
grow out of habit;
A people's customs cannot be changed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
The Weimar Republic represents in the course of German history not only the belated
development
of a
nation-state - heavily burdened by the Wilhelminian legacy, the spirit of a cynically illiberal government - but also a paradigm for 'failed
enlightenment.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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Shorn of personal features, the self is recast as an open receptacle that adheres
impersonally
to the world in its natural unfolding.
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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And those and other
passions of this kind, which must have invalidated
the whole act of indemnity, could not have been ex-
tinguished without the king's influence, and indeed
his
immediate
interposition and industry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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In this alone must all our power consist; --
Let us eat and drink, and sate the body well,
Chasing from the brain each noble thought, and swell
Of
fortunate
and fools the length'ning list.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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While his book is too partisan, his Chapter III is
well worth reading by those who want to avoid the gross blunders which
militarists and many biologists have made in
applying
Darwinism to
social progress; it is based on the work of Professor J.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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obscwm his own position- no doubt intentiooaily-- by his <:<>rutant championing
ofallihat
WOUI nol cbauvini.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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6; on
the
morality
of custom, 63; on cruelty, 74; al-
luded to, 145, 146, 198.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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(World's
Classics)
348p.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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”
“Well I’m glad he could, or who’da taught Atticus and them, and if Atticus
couldn’t
read, you and me’d be in a fix.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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The western
countries
reacted strongly against the U.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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Tous les
sanglots
de ta poitrine,
Et crois que ton coeur s'illumine
Des perles que versent tes yeux!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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' As has been said in Arya Tathagata-guhya sutra also; "jfiana accumulation is for the removal of all defilements Cklesas '), 'punya'- accumulation is for the
sustenance
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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At eleven o'clock on the same morning we arrived
at Cuxhaven, the ship dropped anchor, and the boat was hoisted out, to
carry the
Hanoverian
and a few others on shore.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Behold, thy sorrow aches in me
Constrained
by the force of kin.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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But this is impossible without an increase in the
productiveness
of labour.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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CÆSAR’S
POLICY IN GAUL AND AT ROME.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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VIII
Like
swelling
river waves that strain,
Onward the people crowd
In serried, billowing train.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The Booke Of Judges And Ruth Written Long After The Captivity
The same is manifest by like
arguments
of the Book of Judges, chap.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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Later, he is
reconciled
seems to the modern reader disgraceful.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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