If it simply ceases after having
continued
a proper time, the effect is indiflerence ; if it be abruptly broken off, there ensues an uneasy sense called disappointment; if the object be so totally lost that there is no chance of enjoying it again, a passion arises in the mind which is called grief.
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"If it be possible," Hamilton observed, "to construct a
federal government capable of
regulating
the common
concerns', and preserving the general tranquillity, it must
carry its agency to the persons of its citizens.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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"From Homer," said Goethe, "I learn every day more clearly, that in our
life here above ground we have,
properly
speaking, to enact Hell.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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Let us hope, that under the careful editorship of a competent Irish scholar, these fragments will be gathered ere they perish, that they will be committed to type, published, and thus ren dered accessible to the
generality
of readers.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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" He then seems
to have abandoned Miss Hsu, who was
impatient
at his lack of promotion.
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Li Po |
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Je n'avais qu'à me
rappeler la rage avec
laquelle
il m'avait parlé, il y avait à peine une
demi-heure.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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A
Criticism
of the " Good Man," of the Saint, etc.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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Among the
pretermitted
saints, p.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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: A key
statement
in Pound's light?
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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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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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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They listen gladly, aye on
mischief
bent,
Gladly draw near, each weak point to espy,
They make believe that they from heaven are sent,
Whispering like angels, while they lie.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Shed from the bosom of the mom^
Into the blowing roses,
(Yet
careless
of its mansion new,
For the clear region where 'twas bom,)
Round in itself incloses
And, in its little globe's extent,
Frames, as it can, its native element.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The first
category prevents sentient beings from freeing
themselves
from samsara, while the second prevents them from gaining accurate knowledge and realising truth.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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indeed david hume
developed
in his influen- tial The natural History of Religion (1757) the theory that all monotheism is fanatic.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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Not that thin Sort of Animal that flutters from Tavern to Play-house, and back again, all his Life ; made up of Wig and Crevat, without one Dram of Thought in his
Composition
; but one who had solid Worth, well drest and set out to the World.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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METHFESSEL/RAMTHUN: Could this
discovery
process also lead to a renaissance of morality?
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Let me hear from you as soon as you
arrive, and in
particular
tell me what you mean to do with Mainwaring.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Eon stored the secret
documents
outside the embassy, in which case, the English might have tried to steal the documents.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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Yet her
heroism was not of that simple sort so dear to the readers of novels and
the
compilers
of hagiologies--the romantic sentimental heroism with
which mankind loves to invest its chosen darlings: it was made of
sterner stuff.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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What shall the kings
of Islam say to your
Christian
kings, when they see the book of judgment
opened, and hear all that is set down in it to their dishonour?
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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’
‘A
geranium’s
no good.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I be- lieve I have offered arguments for that and why this is much greater than can be expressed by the customary speeches of
friendship
and cooperation.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Most writers
imitate, but it cannot be said that Defoe founded himself on any
predecessor, while his
successors
are numbered by hundreds.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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Yet if aes- thetics is to amount neither to art-alien prescriptions nor to the inconsequential
classification
of what it happens upon, then it is only conceivable as dialectical aesthetics; dialectical method is not unsuitably defined as the refusal to rest con- tent with the diremption of the deductive and inductive that dominates rigid, indurative thought, and this is expressly rejected by the earliest formulations of dialectics in German idealism, those of Fichte.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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In order to fight one's way out of that chaos, and
up to this form, a certain
disciplinary
constraint is
necessary : a man should have to choose between
either going to the dogs or prevailing.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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He travelled to Greece and
Constantinople
on his way to Jerusalem, returning through Egypt, Tunisia and Spain.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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The poet Martial wrote over 1,500 epigrammatic poems, most of them in a satirical or social commentary mode mocking the flaws, foibles, and
inconsistencies
of Roman society; mooches, gold- diggers, and legacy hunters are the lowlife types often skewered by Martial.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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In 1809 he published 'Gertrude of
Wyoming,' which had been
completed
the year before.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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Que falta de
humanidade
e de dor!
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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For the
numerous
names of the Danes, "bright-" "spear-" "east-"
"west-" "ring-" Danes, see these words.
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Beowulf |
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In the
philosophy
of the 17th and 18th centuries, the ego was king.
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Foucault-Live |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:07 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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In Germa- ny, no
definition
of the 'classic' is more popular than Hans-Georg Gadamer's.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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But to-day
being
Saturday
rather complicates matters.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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Pontus he reduced to the status of a province with the permission of King Polemo, from whom Pontus Polemoniacus is named, as
likewise
the Cottian Alps from the dead King Cottius.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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Herman
regarded
her in
silence.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Succeeding to the throne at an age when even Akbar
was under tutelage, he at once assumed the management of affairs,
overcame an extensive conspiracy backed by armed force, and
administered his kingdom with complete freedom, whether from
the dictation of a minister or from the more
pernicious
influence
of the harem.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The chancellor bent towards him
from his saddle and promised, in the Elector's name, that his
last wishes should be
solemnly
regarded; he bade him, further,
to dispose as he pleased of the articles contained in the bundle.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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"But in former times the inhabitants of Italy were so easily contented, that even now," says Poseidonius, "those who are in very easy circumstances are used to accustom their sons to drink as much water as possible, and to eat
whatever
they can get.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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Distinct and as different as possible from the orderly statements of Eliot, and from the slightly acid whimsi-
calities
of these ladies, are the poems of Carlos Williams.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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But; that they that allow
But one God, should have religions enow
For the Queens Masque, and their husbands, far more
Then all the
Gentiles
knew, or _Atlas_ bore!
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Donne - 1 |
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"
And are there none at
Olympia?
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Epictetus |
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THE PROBLEM
From the Philosophy of History>
[Hegel uses with great effect a quotation from a Neo-Platonist philosopher
who used the clear thoughts of
Aristotle
and Plato to explain the symbolic
consciousness of the Greeks.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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"Catena," a chain or connected series, is
generally
not capitalized.
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Samuel Beckett |
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But we will not leap at once to our journey's end,
though near, but imitate Homer, who
conducts
his reader over the
plain, and along the resounding sea, though it be but to the tent of
Achilles.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I
shall not lose you so soon, and Edward will have greater
opportunity
of
improving that natural taste for your favourite pursuit which must be
so indispensably necessary to your future felicity.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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In reference to which
circumstance
Antagoras has written an epigram on the pair, in which he expresses himself thus:--
Stranger, who passest by, relate that here
The God-like Crates lies, and Polemo;
Two men of kindred nobleness of mind;
Out of whose holy mouths pure wisdom flowed,
And they with upright lives did well display,
The strength of all their principles and teaching.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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##*
The
Absorptions
1243
?
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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But take heed that in thy work
Naught
unbeautiful
may lurk.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It will help if first we
remember
the advice of our true master, [p3] who told his companions [ Acts, 1'7 ]: "It is not for you to know the hours and seasons which the Father has set under his own authority.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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Hermes as guide and protector
Of all the Olympian gods, Hermes is the most "down to earth" (epichthonios), a deity who eschews the heavenly, watery, and underworld abodes in favor of the places
inhabited
by mortals.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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Perhaps the name Kiâo (###) in the title should be
translated
in the plural as the name for all the border sacrifices, or those offered in the suburbs of the capital.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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Con ello se transforma la representación de la historia humana tanto con respecto al estilo como al objeto mismo: mientras «historias universa les» convencionales se contentan con
acompañar
la andadura de las «cul turas» y etnias por los territorios de sus necesidades internas y estresores externos, a una historiografía esferológicamente informada lo que le im porta es rememorar los momentos de impulso hacia arriba, de exceso y li bre deriva en el interior de las islas antropógenas; y, en verdad, porque ahora se sabe que, en general, nunca hay que habérselas con seres de ca rencias en medio de sus apuros, sino con seres de riqueza, diseñados para el mimo, el lujo de intimidad, los privilegios infantiles, las fases de vigilia descargadas y el acopio de estímulos.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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Psychiatrists constructed the first cruise missile systems, reusable systems to boot, long before
cyberneticists
did.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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The wretchedest of poetasters can
take courage, when he contemplates the
profundity
of the depth out
of which uprose the greatest poet of his time.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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sarvajfiata - the
knowledge
of the true nature of all phenomena, that is, 'nissvabhavata'.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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The attitude to history: closeness
and
distance
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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The de constructionist analyst initially does nothing except listen to the metaphors, the leaps, the gaps and slips of the tongue, which possibly reveal motifs at work in this
transmission
of complete knowledge that sab otage its full closure from within.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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All be not wise men, and the
foolisher
thing some (although not the more part) the more pleasant and meet, and peradventure the Sermons there and indeed there true that
have heard) otherwise spoken and reported you, than was the preachers there and then spoken meant.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:45 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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He, foolish child,
A facile, reckless,
wandering
will,
Eager for good, not hating ill,
Thanked Nature for each stroke she dealt;
On his tense chords all strokes were felt,
The good, the bad with equal zeal,
He asked, he only asked, to feel.
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Emerson - Poems |
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941, set out from his fortress of Aileach, made a circuit of Ireland, and compelled all the
provincial
kings and princes to do him homage and deliver hostages as Roy-Damna or heir apparent to the throne, being the successor elect of Donogh, the then reigning monarch.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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20
=Some
Backward
Steps.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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3 The
ambiguity
ofthis: prim- ary for us, or in itself.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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9 While the priests together with women and children were imploring God in the temple to shield the holy place that was being treated so contemptuously, 10 and while
Apollonius
was going up with his armed forces to seize the money, angels on horseback with lightning flashing from their weapons appeared from heaven, instilling in them great fear and trembling.
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Roman Translations |
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Jules
Laforgue
(1860-1887)
Jules Laforgue
'Jules Laforgue'
1885, Wikimedia Commons
Pierrots
Emerges, on a taut neck,
From a starched ruff idem
A beardless face, cold-creamed,
A beanpole: hydrocephalic.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
*ARISTOTLE*
*CHAPTER I*
*LIFE AND WORKS*
It has not commonly been the lot of philosophers, as it is of great
poets, that their names should become
household
words.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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In all the
instances
just given, we
have no basis for proof; and, as to all of them, opinion can
never be final, because every person of fair intelligence and
education has a right to his own.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Thus, while through life's
uncertain
paths 1 rove,
Should dark Despondence spread the gathering
gloom,
M ay Hope's soft lustre, streaming from above,
Dispel the bodtngs Hf a mournful doom.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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It is these last which are
expressed by the conclusions of
scientific
demonstration.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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The
orchestra
is silent; you can hear me:
And distance puts us both more at our ease.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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Great
geniuses
have the shortest biographies.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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Cession of the
Northern
Sarkars to Bussy.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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I was com-
pletely
overcome
with the ghastliness of the thing.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Saltó Arias de él por encima
Y, del caballo tendido
Quedándose
guarecido,
Volvió la lid á empezar.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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456, in these Annals, a great battle was fought in Waterford, between Gerald, earl of Desmond, and Thomas, earl of Ormond, in which Desmond, being defeated and taken prisoner, was, as mentioned by Cox, carried on a bier from the field of battle on men's shoulders, and one of the Butlers having
insultingly
asked him, “Where is the great earl of Desmond now?
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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456, in these Annals, a great battle was fought in Waterford, between Gerald, earl of Desmond, and Thomas, earl of Ormond, in which Desmond, being defeated and taken prisoner, was, as mentioned by Cox, carried on a bier from the field of battle on men's shoulders, and one of the Butlers having
insultingly
asked him, “Where is the great earl of Desmond now?
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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456, in these Annals, a great battle was fought in Waterford, between Gerald, earl of Desmond, and Thomas, earl of Ormond, in which Desmond, being defeated and taken prisoner, was, as mentioned by Cox, carried on a bier from the field of battle on men's shoulders, and one of the Butlers having
insultingly
asked him, “Where is the great earl of Desmond now?
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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But can you really be so
credulous
as to think that I will print all
this and give it to you to read too?
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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This is Wellington,
brandishing
his telescope on the runaway jinnies.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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”
They were
entering
the hall.
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Austen - Emma |
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What does it
signify?
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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While the
sickness
raged, the privy council
was as ready to close the playhouses as was the corporation?
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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" Drusus was,
however, sent away, as I have said, with the
character
of a negotiator
of peace.
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Tacitus |
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Here I
sometimes
walk, discoursing
with myself, and meditating upon the unspeakable Counsel of God, in
giving his Son for the Redemption of Mankind.
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Erasmus |
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And therefore all the danger that can be pretended, must
arise from the
Contention
of those, that for an office of so great
honour, and profit, may become Competitors.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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Cecil pressed his knees closer
and closer, and worked the gallant hero for the test; the surging
roar of the throng, though so close, was dull on his ear; he heard
nothing, knew nothing, saw nothing but that lean
chestnut
head
beside him, the dull thud on the turf of the flying gallop, and the
black wall that reared in his face.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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They may make medicines that are sold at a profit for the cure of various diseases, and any discoveries made by the laboratories to which his taxfree
foundations
"give" money will be utilized by his medicine-making corporations in making further profits.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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or their
mutual
quarrels
in verse and prose of Whig and Tory, wherewith the stars
have little to do?
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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Would
any but a poet--at least could any one without being
conscious
that he
had expressed himself with noticeable vivacity--have described a bird
singing loud by, "The thrush is busy in the wood?
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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And if the son deigned to
engage in conversation with him, the old man always rose a little from
his chair, and answered softly, sympathetically, with something like
reverence, while strenuously endeavouring to make use of the most
recherche (that is to say, the most
ridiculous)
expressions.
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Seulement j'avais cru à cause du geste grossier dont il était
accompagné que c'était un regard de mépris parce que ce que je
souhaitais me paraissait quelque chose que les petites filles ne
connaissaient pas et ne
faisaient
que dans mon imagination, pendant mes
heures de désir solitaire.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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The low-emission Messiah ruled in his celestial empire; with electronic ignition and ABS, with
a controlled
catalytic
converter and turbo charger he lifted up his people to a celestial ride.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk |
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Thus weakened by internal divisions,
Bulgaria was further crippled by the attacks of her Christian neighbours,
at a time when all should have united their
resources
against the Turks.
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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These will exist, for the future, I trust, only in the poetic strains,
which the
feelings
at the time called forth.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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Luis, y concluye el
acto segundo
diciendo
D.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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