perche non sali il dilettoso monte
ch'e
principio
e cagion di tutta gioia?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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This Scipio, we are told, was not
destitute
of the powers of eloquence: but his son, who adopted the younger Scipio (the son of Paulus Aemilius) would have stood foremost in the list of orators, if he had possessed a firmer constitution.
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In the immediacy of this new existence the Spirit has to start afresh to bring itself to maturity as if, for it, all that
preceded
were lost and it had learned nothing from [its earlier experiences].
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Education in Hegel |
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Girard's mas-
terstroke
it is the lack of dimensions of theoretical media in his work.
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seeing that the same hath
drowned the comely noble man; to me it is an
affliction
that Cael
ever sought to encounter it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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"
It was a
political
meeting; at least so Fix conjectured, who said to
Mr.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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—
how is it that on the
contrary
he finds reasons for
being himself the eternal affirmation of all things,
"the tremendous and unlimited saying of Yea and
Amen"?
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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=--Apart from the demands made by religion, it may
well be asked why it is more honorable in an aged man, who feels the
decline of his powers, to await slow extinction than to fix a term to
his
existence
himself?
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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And that might be clear that the already perfect soul, which to be on her guard against the most
insidious
snares of the devil only, says this, see what follows, (ver.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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Parkin:
Problems
of National Unity.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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To catch her glance; to
divine her errand, and run on it before she had spoken it; to watch,
follow, adore her, became the
business
of his life.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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He said : Shun
governed
without working.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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Kings
and knights are bound by it, cherubim and seraphim and all the orders of
angels were
knighted
by Christ and taught to know Truth.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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As to the opium, I have no
objection
to see a picture of
_that_, though I would rather see the original.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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[16] G # The Numantines and Termessians sent
ambassadors
to the Romans, to treat for a peace, which was granted to them upon these conditions.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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'He will be fresh enough,
presently!
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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the islands, where the geographical tie was less strong, political
traditions and manifest
interest
carried the day against language
and a weaker geographical tie.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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" More
recently he has been translating and expounding the Troubadours ; but in
this
stimulating
volume he reappears
as a writer of poems as beautiful,
thoughtful and provocative as any he
has produced.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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The poetry, like the fiction, has a little of this and that; of the nine poets, eight are new to our pages and come from here and there, meaning Edmonton in Cana- da,
Alpharetta
in Georgia, Fitzwilliam in New Hampshire and Madison in Wiscon- sin, all known for their peculiar culinary styles and taste.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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Or mere
chimaeras
in the mind,
That fly, and leave no marks behind?
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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Yet
Nietzsche is never interested in
following
a chronology or telling a
since every story is necessarily entangled in a nondialectical notion of enlight- enment.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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In January there came
bitterly
hard weather.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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_The Stars_
There is a goddess who walks
shrouded
by day:
At night she throws her blue veil over the earth.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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Your mother - or, should we say,
mothers?
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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On the contrary, The
Philosopher
says (Ethic.
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Summa Theologica |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:50 GMT / http://hdl.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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i two sones conseillours of whiche as of
children
of hir age ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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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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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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No artificial graces, no
cosmetic
varnish, no beauty in
grey, hey!
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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Even bucolic
“Epics” have been discovered, and one missionary has
actually
found
an Epic among the wild tribes!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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a far more ugly customer than the mild
onlooker to the most primitive
humanity
No one but an expert photographer could Arawak, or even the bolder and once
that the present earth can show.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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To-day,
All day, beloved, as we fled across
This desolating
radiance
cast by swords
Not suns,--my lips prayed soundless to myself,
Striking against each other--"O Lord God!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Mali, we
find
Cogicopi
e^pc.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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And this is so well known, that many Romany
Chals, not of our family, come and join
themselves
to us, living
with us for a time, in order to better themselves, more espe-
cially those of the poorer sort, who have little of their own.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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Further developments of the theory, supported by all
available
evidence, suggest that time itself began in this mother of all cataclysms.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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Far-called, our navies melt away;
On dune and
headland
sinks the fire:
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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Then, if haply the queen, lone ranger on haunted Itonus,
Pleas'd to defend our people, Erectheus' safe habitations,
Frown not, allow thine hand that bull all redly to
slaughter, 230
Look that warily then deep-laid in steady remembrance,
These our words grow greenly, nor age move on to
deface them ;
Soon as on home's fair hills thine eyes shall signal a
welcome,
See that on each straight yard down droop their
funeral housings,
Whitely the tight-strung cordage a sparkling canvas
aloft swing, 235
Which to behold straightway with joy shall cheer me,
with inward
Joy, when a
prosperous
hour shall bring to thee happy
returning.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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135a27), modification is progressive elevation from the foundations of mindfulness (the smrtyupasthanas) up to
Vajropamasamadhi
(vi.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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Then we begin to understand why the global village has not only not found peace, but also why it could not help
becoming
the all encom- passing arena for anger and envy that it has become.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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O'Curry, from
circumstances
already alluded to, seems to doubt if Aengus had anything to do with its authorship.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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“You are
extremely
kind,” replied Miss Bates, highly gratified; “you who
are such a judge, and write so beautifully yourself.
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Austen - Emma |
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Jaffrey's condition would be if the weather did not mend
its manners by noon; but so far from clearing off at noon, the
storm increased in violence, and as night set in, the wind
whistled in a spiteful
falsetto
key, and the rain lashed the old
tavern as if it were a balky horse that refused to move on.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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The
Fifth
invasion
of Attica.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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The cavalry of ‘Abd-ar-Raḥmān routed the right wing
and centre of the army
commanded
by Yusuf and Sumail, who each saw
the death of his own son.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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The announcement of his death was sent to all the Courts as if
he had been a sovereign, and a public
monument
was ordered
for his memory.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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In other words, our wager is that, even if we remove the teleological notion of Communism (the society of the fully unleashed productivity) as the implicit standard by which Marx, as it were,
measures
the alienation of the existing society, the bulk of his critique of political economy, the
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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Martin, " don't add the sin of lying
to those y^u have already committed;
but confess what you have done with the
money, and
likewise
what induced you
to commit such a wicked action.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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The reader will remember that these
lectures were
delivered
when Nietzsche was only in his
twenty-eighth year.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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He was plagued by
increasing
deafness, and weak health, and died on New Year's Day 1560.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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We cannot think that this view of his
subject, which is prominent and dwelt on at great length and with much
pertinacity, is
dictated
either by rigid logic or melting charity!
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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I make it all facile, the rare and the earned;
Here’s
something
like gold (I create it from dirt)
And something like scent, sap, and spices –
And what the great prophet himself never dared:
The art without sowing to reap out of air
The powers still lying fallow.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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He
honours whatever he recognizes in himself: such
morality
equals
self-glorification.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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"I am thy servant," she
repeated
dreamily;
"I am thy servant: give me, give me--a plum!
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Meredith - Poems |
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«Est-ce que je devrai prendre ce soir des
nouvelles
de M.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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Chandos experiences a similar blindness vis-A-vis sig- nifieds, but he develops a new discourse out of alexia (just as sensory lan- guage disturbances often influence the motoric aspect of language):b' he avoids "even pronouncing" signifieds, above all the
transcendental
ones ("Spirit, soul, or body"), and envisions instead "a language in which not one word is known to me, a language in which mute things speak to rne.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain
materials
and make them widely accessible.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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dropped as the brook
murmured
a low, sweet
lullaby.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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, and
director
of the the-
atre in the palace of the Buen Retiro.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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Charles Maurras, je lui
demanderai
de
expliquer sur un malheureux membre de phrase de lui me concernant.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The Jews, too, from early times formed a large part
of the urban
population
in Poland, but, unlike the Ger-
mans, they have never been assimilated to any extent.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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[Footnote 8: Anastasia, daughter of Garassim]
[Footnote 9: Orenburg, capital of the district of Orenburg, which--the
most
easterly
one of European Russia--extends into Asia.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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A Lexicon o f the German in
Finnegans
Wake.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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My heart replied: It's never enough
We'll never have had enough of sadness:
And don't you see that changeableness
Makes past pain dearer to us, and
sweeter?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The period from the death of Moses until Solomon and the building of the temple is described in one way by the book of Judges, with which the holy Apostle agrees in the Acts of the Apostles; but in a
different
way by the book of Kings and the Hebrew tradition.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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And then the
personality
of the office, in principle, corresponded to that, which excluded every inheritance.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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Ita but, they regret not having found elsewhere any-
j— thing more reliable as
relating
to her.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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, and can therefore
scarcely
have been more
than ten years of age when this eulogy was composed.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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For every-
thing conduces to open his eyes for him—every
glance he casts at his clothes, his room, his house;
every walk he takes through the streets of his
town; every visit he pays to his art-dealers and
to his trader in the
articles
of fashion.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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We therefore leave it to those who doubt
Wagner's power of
discerning
the proper time for
action, to be concerned and anxious as to whether
what is now taking place in Bayreuth is really oppor-
tune and necessary.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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To the sailor, wrecked,
The sea was dead grey walls
Superlative
in vacancy,
Upon which nevertheless at fateful time
Was written
The grim hatred of nature.
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Stephen Crane |
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Wherefore
I praise thee not for this that thou hast
done, but I bid thee ride back to the Palace and make thy face glad, and
put on the raiment that beseemeth a king, and with the crown of gold I
will crown thee, and the sceptre of pearl will I place in thy hand.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Why this
ridiculous
mania for affirming that every thing has been said,
which means that we know all about mental and moral science?
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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These two
characteristics
together constitute the third: power operates through a cycle of prohibition, a law of interdiction.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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" He felt a
slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back
towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found
where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little
white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried
to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back
because as soon as he touched it he was
overcome
by a cold shudder.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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Such revenge doth mine
abundance
think of: such mischief welleth out of
my lonesomeness.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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org/access_use#pd-google
We have
determined
this work to be in the public domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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Yes, sweet peas for
everybody
As soon as the pods burst!
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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It is, therefore, quite evident that
this kind of satisfaction which nature causes us to feel is not a
satisfaction of the aesthetical taste, but a satisfaction of the moral
sense; for it is produced by means of a conception and not immediately by
the single fact of intuition:
accordingly
it is by no means determined by
the different degrees of beauty in forms.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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We were all on the
deck; but in a short time I
observed
marks of dismay.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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)- In the first-named variety of revenge it is
just fear that strikes the counter-blow; in the second
case it is the absence of fear, which, as has been said,
wishes to
manifest
itself in the counter-blow.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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Kent and
Elizabeth
C.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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The other troops of Caesar, leaving out of account the raw divisions of recruits still in course of formation, were stationed, one half on the Saone and Loire, the other half in Belgica, while Pompeius* Italian reserves were already arriving from all sides at their rendezvous ; long before even the first of the
Transalpine
divisions of Caesar could arrive in Italy, a far superior army could not but be ready to receive it there.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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before the Sun,
Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice
Of God, as with a Mantle didst invest 10
The rising world of waters dark and deep,
Won from the void and
formless
infinite.
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements
concerning
tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Dion was no sooner seen in Sicily
than he was joined by thousands; bat the
authority
of
Ca?
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The public judgement has
raised a demand for harmonious periods, and, in compliance with the
taste of the age, our orators grow every day more
polished
and
adorned.
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at is
establissed
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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i;i*;i
iiiiziitit
i= iii:r
; il j ?
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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Waller, who
obtained
his traditional title 'reformer
of our numbers' from his practice in the stopped kind, wrote
some of his latest, and some of his best, work in the other.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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" All plurality and multiplicity belong to perception
in space and time; these latter are the
principium
indieiduationis.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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frenzied
Lear
Should at thy bidding wander on the heath
With the shrill fool to mock him, Romeo
For thee should lure his love, and desperate fear
Pluck Richard's recreant dagger from its sheath--
Thou trumpet set for Shakespeare's lips to blow!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Since, however, you address yourself to
me, and shew this first mark of humanity, in that you seek to obtain
what you desire, by persuasion rather than force; since the main
subject of your
discourse
relates to me alone; I am compelled to lay
aside the common reserve of my sex, and to explain myself in regard
to the proposal of marriage which you have made, even before such an
audience.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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its forms; as on the prognostications to be derived
POLIEUS (Ionieus)," the protector of the from the objects that met a traveller on his way;
city,” a surname of Zeus, under which he had an from what occurred at home ;
regarding
the result
altar on the acropolis at Athens.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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Endymion was loved by the Moon, and Jasion – as in the
Eleusinian
mysteries – by Demeter.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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** I met with this idea in an old English tale, which I am
now unable to obtain and quote from memory:--"The verie
essence and, as it were, springe-heade, and origine of all
musiche is the verie
pleasaunte
sounde which the trees of
the forest do make when they growe.
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These are not the conditions most favourable to
reducing the past to pure science: and we see here
too, as we saw in the case of monumental history,
that the past itself suffers when history serves life
and is
directed
by its end.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Artists speak of their souls although they have not studied philosophy or
theology
; atheists like Shelley use the ex- pression and know very well what they mean by it)-
Others have suggested that the " soul " is only a beautiful empty word, which people ascribe to others without having felt its need for themselves.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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I have seen its nest placed
under the thatched roof of a
deserted
barn, and in one instance, where
the adjacent country was nearly destitute of trees, together with two
of the phoebe, upon the end of a board in the loft of a sawmill, but
a few feet from the saw, which vibrated several inches with the motion
of the machinery.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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