Plutarch devotes a fairly lengthy section of the biography to the exploits of
Archimedes
in that conflict, as well as the famous mathematician's other achievements.
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The censorship still allowed the paper to publish manifestos of opposition groups and a
pastoral
letter critical of the regime.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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No, mother, we must die:
Since such is the reward of innocent lives;
Such the
alleviation
of worst wrongs.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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None felt stern Nature rocking at his feet,
And yawning forth a grave for those who lay
Upon their bucklers for a winding-sheet;
Such is the
absorbing
hate when warring nations meet.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Latium once reduced, it remained to
determine
the lot of the
vanquished.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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Arnold's active
mind was diverted from political and theological
speculations
to the
study of philology, and to historical composition.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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_Ri-mat
ilat_Nin-sun should be
rendered
"The wild cow Ninsun.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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'
WOODNOTES II
_As
sunbeams
stream through liberal space_
_And nothing jostle or displace,_
_So waved the pine-tree through my thought_
_And fanned the dreams it never brought.
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Emerson - Poems |
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So what if medieval Christians
believed
their o -repeated saluta- tions of the Virgin brought her great joy and them a sweet taste to the mouth?
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Ifthe mind can dwell
according
to our wishes, this is
one-pointedness.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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She must not make it a
more decided subject of misery to him, by a
melancholy
tone herself.
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Austen - Emma |
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He is a
constant
friend.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Their conduct in the
Hannibalic
war, ii.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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"27 What is the ontological status or the
intentional
claim of a dream exposing
the world and not our psychology?
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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This would be a radical standardization and reduction of manufacturing costs, but it would also cost billions of dollars to replace all the television and film systems on the planet, which means that it will pass to the Japanese
electronics
industry.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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Pure reason has therefore nothing left but nature in general, and the completeness of
conditions
in na ture in accordance with some principle.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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As the Nobel Prize-winning American physicist Steven
Weinberg
said, 'Religion is an insult to human dignity.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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The censorship still allowed the paper to publish manifestos of opposition groups and a
pastoral
letter critical of the regime.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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_105
THIRD CITIZEN:
You seem to know the
vulnerable
place
Of these same crocodiles.
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Shelley |
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— the man who, they say, carries about with him the gods of his country, and took up on his
shoulders
his old worn-out father !
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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A
destructive
revolution was not inevitable in the nature
of things, but resulted from the incapacity of the rulers
and nobility.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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Vindication
of the Duke of Guise 1683.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Nothing, at the time, appeared
more
unlikely
than that a candidate (if candidate I could be called)
whose professions and conduct set so completely at defiance all ordinary
notions of electioneering, should nevertheless be elected.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Nothing, at the time, appeared
more
unlikely
than that a candidate (if candidate I could be called)
whose professions and conduct set so completely at defiance all ordinary
notions of electioneering, should nevertheless be elected.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Come rimane
splendido
e sereno
l'emisperio de l'aere, quando soffia
Borea da quella guancia ond' e piu leno,
per che si purga e risolve la roffia
che pria turbava, si che 'l ciel ne ride
con le bellezze d'ogne sua paroffia;
cosi fec'io, poi che mi provide
la donna mia del suo risponder chiaro,
e come stella in cielo il ver si vide.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Reply to Objection 3: When many
movements
arise from one cause, it does
not follow that they all regard chiefly that which the cause regards
chiefly, but only the first of them.
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Summa Theologica |
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Ah, but I had given over to despair
The mind in me, I ground the stubborn tribes,
I quarried them like rocks and broke them small
And ground them down to
flinders
and to sands;
But never gleamed the jewel-stone therein,
Naught but the common flint of earth I found.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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1 Since Schroder and Husserl did not distinguish, in the way Frege did, between the Sinn and Bedeutung of an expression, we have thought it best in this paragraph to preserve the actual German where these terms or (more commonly) their cognates with 'sinnig' and 'deutig' occur in quotation from these authors, or where Frege himself uses the latter in
alluding
to their views.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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When the Marathas (says their historian) proceeded beyond their boundary,
to collect revenue and make war were synonymous;
whenever
a village resis-
ted, its officers were seized, and compelled by threats, and sometimes by torture,
more or less severe, to come to a settlement; money was seldom obtainable, but
securities from bankers, with whom all the villages had dealing, were prefer--
able, as they were exchanged for bills payable in any part of India.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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rs savages against manIacs
and VIce versa Alfred sorted out hundreds, ttthings,
They probably
murdered
Erlgena, Athelstan gon Yllden rere, after 925
Aunt Ethelfled had been lIterate, Canute for alleVIatIon of Alp tolls
Gerbert at the astrolabe better tha.
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Post (1992) has similarly argued that depression in adult life may
originate
with environmental trauma that is encoded in brain changes in protein and RNA, on the analogy of the 'kindling' phenomenon in epilepsy in which the sensitivity of brain cells becomes progressively greater with each seizure, so that what starts as a response to an environmental stimulus becomes eventually an intrinsic feature of the brain.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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ga are believed to have widened the "great"
Mahayana
path.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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In the days when the nobility had manly
passions, they amused themselves with tournaments which counter-
feited war; now it was dancers who,
mingling
with the nobles,
wore the colors of their ladies in fêtes counterfeiting tourna-
ments!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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So he told her, saying, Thus and thus it must be, and we that
survive will
accompany
you to the river-side.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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Are they not
heavenly
— those bright fields ?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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He sees
nothing
attractive
in me; not even youth--only a few useful mental
points.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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) Barba arrived at the head of a large force of Italians and Triarius the Roman general advanced and started to besiege Apameia; the citizens of Apameia
resisted
as much as they could, but finally they opened their gates and let the Romans in.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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) Barba arrived at the head of a large force of Italians and Triarius the Roman general advanced and started to besiege Apameia; the citizens of Apameia
resisted
as much as they could, but finally they opened their gates and let the Romans in.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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Let my despair burst forth, at liberty,
Your speech has now too long
restrained
me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Around, around, they waltzed and wound;
Some wheeled in
smirking
pairs;
With the mincing step of a demirep
Some sidled up the stairs:
And with subtle sneer, and fawning leer,
Each helped us at our prayers.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Finden from
drawings
by J.
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Byron |
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But however you got it, you did for a time more or less justify keeping it, on the ground that you exported good
government
or better government than the natives would have had without England.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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procul igneus horror
thoracum,
gladiosque
tegat vagina minaces.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Sociologists of religion put it quite bluntly: people keep believing
everywhere
else, but in our society we have glorified disillusionment.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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WHAT should a husband do whose wife is sought,
With anxious fondness by
another?
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La Fontaine |
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20
I, TOO, CAN WRITE--and, at a pedant's frown,
ONCE poured my fustian rhetoric on the town:
And idly proved that Sylla, far from power,
Had passed, unknown to fear, the tranquil hour:--
Now I resume my pen; for, since we meet 25
Such swarms of
desperate
bards in every street,
'Tis vicious clemency to spare the oil,
And hapless paper they are sure to spoil.
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Satires |
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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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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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What blessing shall the bard entreat
The god he hallows, as he pours
The
winecup?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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”
He came Dublin, and was married Gyda, sister
daughter
Aulaf Quaran, Danish prince, and stated that he was converted the Christian faith, and resided long time Ire land.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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o-not extremely high by
previous
standards-and the values di- minish very gradually.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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The leading men of Jājpur sent an
envoy to ask him to formulate his demands, and on
learning
that
he required elephants sent him seventy-five.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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2 The Fimbrian soldiers were
concerned
that their leaders would regard them as disloyal because of their crime against Flaccus, and they secretly sent to Mithridates, promising to desert to him.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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The Germans, with their reverence for
everything that came from the court, intentionally
took the
chancery
style as their pattern in all that
they had to write, especially in their letters, records,
wills, &c.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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187 See Foot, Wrong War, 230, and A Substitutefor Victory: The
Politics
ofPeacemaking at the Ko- rean Armistice Talks (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990).
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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It
wasn’t
so in the
old days.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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uchacriti-
as serves in a twofold as a theoryofstruggle, Enlightenment way:
que,
weapon against a hardened,
conservativelycomplacent
conscious- ness, and as an instrumentfor practiceand self-assurance.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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He
is
waiting!
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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Most Arab
commentators
give this poem the sort of banal, inexcusable explication that reduces this poem and others like it by Umar Ibn al-Fāriḍ to a mere mystical code that needs decipherment.
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Translated Poetry |
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" "And have you
nothing else to
request?
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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Writing not only creates a telecommunicative bridge between known friends, who at the time of the
transmission
live in a geographical proximity to one another; but it sets in motion an unpredictable process.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Why was it that the
ancients
prized this Tao so much?
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Tao Te Ching |
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Syme, the man of whom he said "he never wasted a drop
of ink or blood," and whose character he has drawn in one of his
most
charming
biographies.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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Thou maruell'st at my words: but hold thee still,
Things bad begun, make strong
themselues
by ill:
So prythee goe with me.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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meditation
on the mind is a peerless vehicle for accumulating enormous merit quickly.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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till the marks
Of fire and
belching
thunder fill the dark
And, almost torn asunder, one falls stark,
Hammering upon the other!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Vita Gildae (Caradoc of
Llancarvan
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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μείνε συ μόνον ως να ιδής 'ς τ' αμάξι εγώ να θέσω 75
τα ωραία δώρα και να ειπώ των γυναικών 'ς το σπίτι
μ' αυτά, 'που ευρίσκοντ' άφθονα, τραπέζι να ετοιμάσουν•
δόξα και
λάμψι
και όφελος απολαμβάνει ο ξένος,
αν γευματίση πριν εβγή 'ς απέραντο ταξείδι.
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| Question: |
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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Parfois, martyr lasse des poles et des zones,
La mer dont le sanglot faisait mon roulis doux
Montait vers moi ses fleurs d'ombre aux
ventouses
jaunes
Et je restais ainsi qu'une femme a genoux,
Presqu'ile ballottant sur mes bords les querelles
Et les fientes d'oiseaux clabaudeurs aux yeux blonds,
Et je voguais lorsqu'a travers mes liens freles
Des noyes descendaient dormir a reculons.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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All of this is partly
flattering
(one feels "in demand") and partly nerve-wreck- ing (especially for somebody who relies, for lectures, on barely handwritten notes, i.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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As opposed to the application of poisonous gas in open air, its use in a chamber offered the advantage of
eliminating
the problem of unstable deadly concentrations in unconfined sites.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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Poor artists, with
such a public as this; half of whose
thoughts
re-
quire the attention of a priest, and the other half
the attention of an alienist!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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The Idea of beauty was considered to be an
intrinsically
necessary unity, and only its realization was believed to generate variation and diversifica- tion.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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In 1543, Fernand Pinto, observing some
ruins near Peking, was told by the people, that 200 years before, a holy
man who worshipped Jesus Christ, born of a virgin, lived there; and
being murdered, was thrown into a river, but his body would not sink;
and soon after the city was
destroyed
by an earthquake.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Instead, as in As You
Like It and Much Ado About Nothing, it is the motive force be-
hind events and scenes, but not the one absorbing
interest
for
author or reader: it is refined, sublimated, etherealised.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Several times she glanced at me with
mournful
perplexity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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Ay, though I were that
laughing
shepherd boy
Who from Mount Ida saw the little cloud
Pass over Tenedos and lofty Troy
And knew the coming of the Queen, and bowed
In wonder at her feet, not for the sake
Of a new Helen would I bid her hand the apple take.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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Lehrbuch der
historischen
Methode und der Geschichtsphilo-
sophie.
| Guess: |
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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He hastened
to take up arms once more, and, as Henry was
preparing
to cross the
Channel and fight King Stephen for the English crown, he again invaded
Normandy.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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For, how-
ever mildly the Conference may decide, and it
may even abandon the idea of occupation, the
actual removal of Ottoman suzerainty in Bosnia
and Bulgaria is
inevitable
if the whole reform work
is not again to be mere jugglery, and the conceit
of the Mohammedans will not admit such imputa-
tions.
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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LXXXVI
Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
Bound for the prize of all too precious you,
That did my ripe
thoughts
in my brain inhearse,
Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, in The
Standard
Edition of the Complete
Psychological Works,vol.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep
providing
this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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His
plays also are of political and social
tendencies
;
they are vigorous, and while somewhat sensa-
tional, show real originality.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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Gone from sweet sunshine
Underneath the sod,
Turned from warm flesh and blood
To
senseless
clod,
Gone as if never
They had toiled or trod,
Gone out of sight of all
Except our God.
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Christina Rossetti |
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[Attack on
contemporary
dramatists.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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If you flout
horario
le despreciáis, al instante that
prayerbook
you crave
le preparan el sudario.
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This accommodation has been sensibly felt in the payment of the duties
heretofore
laid, by those who reside where establishments of this nature exist.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Response
959 Why the Srotaapanna is Incapable of Falling 961 J.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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"
"No,"
answered
her brother, not anxious for
the privilege; "ladies first.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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he should
continue
meditating till
he sees (during 'dhyana') Tathagata as vividly as the image in front of him.
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--that sweet child, whose smiles
delighted
and warmed
my heart, who was so gentle, yet so gay!
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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Given data on the market value and price of any set of commodities, calculating its 'real' quantity and growth rate is a simple matter of
plugging
in the numbers and computing the results.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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Giọng Kiều rền rĩ
trướng
loan,
Nhà Huyên chợt tỉnh hỏi: Cơn cớ gì ?
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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Walter Duranty in the New York Times magazine section for July jo,
1944, asks: "Is the Russian Revolution over, or at least is it settling
down, as other
revolutionary
movements have done, to something more
mellow and conservative?
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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" So saying, she loosened from her waist the
fillet[9] which had been exposed with her, unrolled, and
presented
it
to Persina.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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Or of what authority will the
censure of so few wise men be against so great a cloud of
gainsayers?
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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"
This explanation stilled the alarm,
Cured the foreboder like a charm;
This, and the manner, and the voice, 575
Summoned
the Sailor to rejoice;
His heart is up--he fears no evil
From life or death, from man or devil;
He wheels [52]--and, making many stops,
Brandished his crutch against the mountain tops; 580
And, while he talked of blows and scars,
Benjamin, among the stars,
Beheld a dancing--and a glancing;
Such retreating and advancing
As, I ween, was never seen 585
In bloodiest battle since the days of Mars!
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William Wordsworth |
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In fact, noncombatants
appeared
to be primary targets at both ends of the scale of warfare; thermonuclear war threat- ened to be a contest in the destruction of cities and populations; and, at the other end of the scale, insurgency is almost entirely terroristic.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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176
Men not to be used like things
From the former very incomplete
philology
and
knowledge of antiquity there flowed out a stream
of freedom, while our own highly developed know-
ledge produces slaves and serves the idol of the
State.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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