She was a good deal
frightened
by this very sudden change, as she was
shrinking rapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other
bit.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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79
Oltre che sempre ci turbi il camino,
che libero saria se non fosse ella,
spesso,
correndo
per tutto il giardino,
va disturbando or questa cosa or quella.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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Where'er the summons found them, whate'er the tie that bound them,
'Tis this alone the record of the sleeping army saith:--
They knew no creed but this, in duty not to falter,
With
strength
that naught could alter to be faithful unto death.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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In the very lairs of the beasts, in the very lurking places of the robbers, where the name of God is not heard, thou didst erect a divine tabernacle, and didst
dedicate
the Holy Ghost's own temple.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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At once the darkness and
dishonour
rather
To the ragged jaws of hungry chaos rake,
And hurl aback to ancient dust
These mortals that make blasphemies
With their made breath, this earth and skies
That only grow a little dim,
Seeing their curse on him.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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John Diamond tells us that the
alternative
medicine business in Britain has a turnover measured in billions of pounds.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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This is what a
relationship
with fire does to water.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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On the assumption that
metaphysics
as a whole, known after Heidegger as ontotheology, took this very path itself!
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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So could I gaze, the while
Love, at his sweet will, governs them and guides,
--E'en though the sun were nigh,
Resting above us on his onward wheel--
On her,
intensely
with undazzled eye,
Nor of myself nor others think or feel.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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assuring
the tranquility of the Caribbean.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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But because in civil war terrorists commonly have access
to victims by sheer physical propinquity, the victims and their properties could not be
forcibly
defended and in the end the
1.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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Ask His
blessings
through the week,
Then let us holy the Sabbath keep.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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O, he's a lovely
gentleman!
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Shakespeare |
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With
Several
Original
Poems, Never before Printed by The Earl of Roscom-
mon, the Earl of Rochester, the Earl of Orrery, Sir Charles Sedley, etc.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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And as to transgressions of the seventh command- ment, let me tell you candidly that it is as difficult to censure them as it is
impossible
to praise them.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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1 I found it out
t’other
day; my thoughts were of you and whether or no you loved me, and when I played slap to see, the love-in-absence2 that should have stuck on, shrivelled up forthwith against the soft of my arm.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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[TO APHRODITE]
Gentle Dame of Cyprus, be’st thou child of Zeus, or child of the sea, pray tell me why wast so unkind alike unto Gods and men – nay, I’ll say more, why so hateful unto thyself, as to bring forth so great and
universal
a mischief as this Love, so cruel, so heartless, so all unlike in ways and looks?
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Bion |
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Philosophically speak- ing,
whenever
people make an outward movement, it brings into play a movement of coming-into-the-world.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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[332b] The Practice Tantra with its eight thousand texts has: the Perfect Enlightenment of
Vairocana
Tantra [Ot.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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And wilt thou know how His
compassions
are over all His
Matt.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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Li comincio con forza e con menzogna
la sua rapina; e poscia, per ammenda,
Ponti e
Normandia
prese e Guascogna.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"We are condemned" is the better phrase; for that lunatic
declares
that I was the ringleader in that splendid achievement of yours.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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2, thus giving a
difference
of 8.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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'(" 655 ""'5#" #"2
+#%!
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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Here was a panacea, a
[Greek text] for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness, about
which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered:
happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat
pocket; portable
ecstacies
might be had corked up in a pint bottle, and
peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Your art
diplomatic
is
stuff:--no truly greatly man now would negotiate upon any such shallow
principles.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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Men,
not great enough, nor hard enough, to be entitled
as artists to take part in
fashioning
man ; men, not
sufficiently strong and far-sighted to allow, with
sublime self-constraint, the obvious law of the
thousandfold failures and perishings to prevail ;
men, not sufficiently noble to see the radically dif-
ferent grades of rank and intervals of rank that
separate man from man :-such men, with their
"equality before God,” have hitherto swayed the
destiny of Europe ; until at last a dwarfed, almost
ludicrous species has been produced, a gregarious
animal, something obliging, sickly, mediocre, the
European of the present day.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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The
Darstantikas
think that there is vitarka and vicdra up to Bhavagra.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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His record of the journey often contrasts the meagre contemporary state of civilisation in Greece, Turkey and the Holy Land with the
richness
of classical antiquity and the Christian past.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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For the
biographies
of literary figures do not simply attempt to locate the ori- gins of the themes and forms of their texts.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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For further
information
on Polity, visit our website: www.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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But that is not all: in our own time this doctrine of the eternal character of the relationship of matter and form, and thus the doctrine of the eternity of movement, has cropped up again in Heidegger's theory which seeks to grasp historicity or
temporality
as an invariant, an Existenzial, that is, a basic condition of exist- ence.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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Cotta, yielding to a sort of
irresistible
despair (his own expression) he attends the Senate less regularly; L.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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A city in Thrace near Macedonia, which
Alexander
founded before the great Alexandria, when he was seventeen years old.
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Roman Translations |
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At death, five signs appear: the god's clothes become smelly, his garland and flowers wilt,
perspiration
breaks out from his armpits, his body begins to smell, and his seat becomes uncomfortable.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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Regis opus;
sterilisve
palus* din, apt ague remis.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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—
MOTHERS AND NURSES
From A Discourse on the
Training
of Children,' in Plutarch's Miscellanies
and Essays': Copyrighted.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Donne, I suppose, was such another
Who found no substitute for sense;
To seize and clutch and penetrate,
Expert beyond experience,
He knew the anguish of the marrow
The ague of the skeleton;
No contact
possible
to flesh
Allayed the fever of the bone.
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T.S. Eliot |
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This gives political critique a
fundamental
ambivalence as suspension, prioritizing always that which is being suppressed or hidden.
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Education in Hegel |
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What may be the exact amount of the
guilt which he thus appropriates is a very dark
question
to his own
judgment, and not much illuminated by any of the masters in casuistry
whom he has consulted on the occasion.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Are there any
limitations
upon the city's powers to incur
debts?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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But
received
now and paid the Chancellor's
custom.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Talk to another of the healthy look of the crops, of a plenti-
ful harvest, of a good vintage, and you will find he only cares
for fruit, and
understands
not a single word you say.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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So the weary hands and knees and shoulders of
Andromeda
are parted – stretched some below and others above the horizon, when the Two Fishes are newly risen from the ocean.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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And with these and a thousand
the like fopperies their heads are so full stuffed and stretched that I
believe Jupiter's brain was not near so big when, being in labor with
Pallas, he was
beholding
to the midwifery of Vulcan's axe.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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This is "Postcard 21":
When will the night trust me and bring me inside its silver bakery
When will the night
drop me from its blue antlers and cavity of stiff fur
O when will the night
pour its nectar of
illusions
through the stars in my forehead
The form is Yau's own, with novel and arresting images that are simultaneously derived from Trakl.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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When Lucian
describes
the famous cobwebs, each one of which
was as big as an island of the Cyclades, Hickes thinks to throw light
upon the text with this astonishing irrelevancy: "They are in the
Aegean Sea, in number 13.
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Lucian - True History |
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He had hoped, that such a collection might afterwards serve to increase devotion, and
preserve
the
memory of those pious servants of God, among the people.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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The words of Erasistratus on the subject are as follows: "I
reasoned
therefore that the ability to fast for a long time is caused by strong compression of the belly; for with those who voluntarily fast for a long time, at first hunger ensues, but later it passes away .
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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Glossary
abhisheka (wang) An
empowerment
ceremony in which the teacher introduces the student to the mandala of a given yidam and empowers him to meditate on that yidam.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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It was
interesting
for me to get an insight into their capabilities and observe their industry.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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"
CXX
Older than Sibyl seemed the beldam hoar,
(As far as from her
wrinkles
one might guess),
And in the youthful ornaments she wore,
Looked like an ape which men in mockery dress;
And now appears more foul, as angered sore,
While rage and wrath her kindled eyes express.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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In chapter 8 ("The Cynicism of Knowledge"), I will
describe
Freud as the protagonist of a kynical theory.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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Each of the ten commanders
receives
as pay a drachma
[about 20 cts.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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CHAMBERLAIN
is in the centre.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Drythelm, a Northumbrian, his visions of Death, Hell and Judgement, xxx,
325-331;
retires into the
monastery
of Melrose, 326, 331;
death, 332.
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bede |
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Again,
in his middle life he became interested
in
socialistic
ideas, and gave attention to
the state of the Parisian working-folk,- of
the poor and outcast.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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"It does not quite look like a human being," said Violet
doubtfully; nor could they make out what it really was, till the
Quangle-Wangle (who had
previously
been round the world) exclaimed softly
in a loud voice, "It is the co-operative Cauliflower!
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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THE
IRRELIGIOUSNESS
OF ARTISTS.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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--she languisheth
As a lily
drooping
to death,
As a drought-worn bird with failing breath,
As a lovely vine without a stay,
As a tree whereof the owner saith,
'Hew it down to-day.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Will men not say
That insolently we made of sacred things
A worldly
instrument?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The
primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all
human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal
act of
creation
in the infinite I AM.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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Even if
Vico’s distinction between civil and monastic philosophy seemed to have become obsolete ever since the French Revolution, one is inclined to
reactivate
this distinction for Wittgenstein’s sake.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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Lord Harris was not
appointed
have any part - Wilb.
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| Source: |
Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
|
Later it occurred to Garrick and Col-
man that an entertaining play might be made on the lines of
Hogarth's
Marriage
à la Mode,' and the result of their joint labors
was The Clandestine Marriage' (1766).
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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What is the purpose of the National
Nominating
Con-
vention?
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| Source: |
Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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1700, 13 July-I went to Marden, which was originally a
barren warren bought by Sir Robert Clayton, who built there
a pretty house, and made such alteration by planting not only an
infinite store of the best fruite, but so chang'd the natural situa-
tion of the hill, valleys, and solitary
mountains
about it, that it
rather represented some foreign country which would produce
spontaneously pines, firs, cypress, yew, holly, and juniper; they
were come to their perfect growth, with walks, mazes, &c.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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First in stating that he is an orthodox economist, which he is not, second in saying that the then high cost of living was due to lack of labor, when there were
millions
of men out of work.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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"Lady, could any other as
wonderful
as you exist in this world of men?
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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Psychologically this goes hand in hand with a
scattering
of the ego, literarily and philosophically, with the demise of critique.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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5582)
Twenty Verses on Gathering Merit by
Nagarjuna
Bsod nams kyi tshogs nyi shu pa (?
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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But a Gospel written with a dogmatic purpose, and standing in so close a connection with the speculative movements of its time, as Herder shows to be the case with this, cannot be an his
torical
authority
for the life of Jesus.
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| Source: |
Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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[_He
vanishes
with_ FAUST, _the companions start back from each
other_.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And
underneath
thy cooling shade,
When weary of the light,
The love-spent youth, and love-sick maid,
Come to weep out the night.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Acta
Sanctorum
Hiber- nise," XV.
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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He peeped
over his mother's
shoulder
to see what
book she was reading.
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| Source: |
Childrens - Frank |
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he hurried northwards, entered
Thrace, and took
advantage
of its intestine feuds, with
a view to getting the country under his control.
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| Source: |
Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
|
1
Bodleian
MS, Eng.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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The
trooping
fawns at evening came and laid
Their cool black noses on my lowest boughs,
And on my topmost branch the blackbird made
A little nest of grasses for his spouse,
And now and then a twittering wren would light
On a thin twig which hardly bare the weight of such delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Hardly
any book of his has so formal a plan or such consecutiveness of
argument that piecemeal
citation
injures it; and it may well seem
that the process of 'creaming' can be justly and safely applied to
a writer who is both desultory and jocular.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
|
In opposition to both, the essay is informed by the idea of that interaction which in fact tolerates the question of
elements
as little as that of the elementary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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'" Agreeably to the preceding rule, the
primitive
Atrtus
will, either from the Greek dative Atje-i or the Latin Atre-o,
give us the patronymic Ar^-iln; or Atre-ides, in either lan-
guage four syllables, making a dactyl and a semifoot; and,
by the same process, we obtain nuAs-jStw, Pele-ides, &c.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
|
Ye shall watch while strong men draw
The nets of feudal law
To
strangle
the weak;
And, counting the sin for a sin,
Your soul shall be sadder within
Than the word ye shall speak.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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That in thee
displeaseth
thee, which also displeaseth God: now thou hast joined thyself to the will of God, and thou hatest in thyself not what He made, but what He hateth.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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England
supported
Urban, and Wyclif, for a
time, was loyal to him.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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A cupola or lantern admits a
tempered
light from
above, and a free circulation of air.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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Then he climbed to the tower of the Old North Church
By the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread,
To the belfry-chamber overhead,
And
startled
the pigeons from their perch
On the sombre rafters, that round him made
Masses and moving shapes of shade,--
By the trembling ladder, steep and tall,
To the highest window in the wall,
Where he paused to listen and look down
A moment on the roofs of the town,
And the moonlight flowing over all.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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A SINGLE blow he patiently endured;
The second, howsoe'er, his patience cured;
The third was more severe, and each was worse;
The punishment he now began to curse;
Two lusty wights, with cudgels thrashed his back
And regularly gave him thwack and thwack;
He cried, he roared, for grace he begged his lord,
Who marked each blow, and would no ease accord;
But carefully observed, from time to time,
That lenity he always thought sublime;
His gravity preserved;
considered
too
The blows received and what continued due.
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La Fontaine |
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He also greatly increased the congregations of renunciate
meditators
at t?
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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XVI
Later by half an hour, against their foes,
So matched, Rogero and Marphisa speed;
Because the sable angel, who his blows
Aimed at the bands that held the
Christian
creed,
Provided, that the contest which arose
About that horse, his work should not impede;
Which had again been kindled, had the twain,
Rodomont and Rogero, met again.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Echoes of
Titmarsh
are heard in the
passages satirising Dickens and Carlyle; the characterisation and
the creation of a locality show complete originality.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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What Ockham recognizes is that time requires a conceptual uniform and continuous temporal order that
includes
both us and the world.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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But the Chaldaeans say that afterwards, when he went up to the palace, he was possessed by some god, and uttered these words: 'O Babylonians, I
Nebuchadnezzar
predict that a great disaster will befall you.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Imagists |
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But as all conceptions
of things in themselves must be referred to intuitions, and with us
men these can never be other than sensible and hence can never
enable us to know objects as things in themselves but only as
appearances, and since the unconditioned can never be found in this
chain of appearances which consists only of conditioned and
conditions; thus from applying this rational idea of the totality of
the
conditions
(in other words of the unconditioned) to appearances,
there arises an inevitable illusion, as if these latter were things in
themselves (for in the absence of a warning critique they are always
regarded as such).
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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'"
(The first essay of an individual, who has been designated
as "the Founder of the public credit of the United States,"
will have interest, (although his project was not adopted in\
all its parts,) as evincing the
progressive
growth of his mind.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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) beorn wið blōde (_the hero longeth
secretly
contrary
to his blood_, i.
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Beowulf |
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"This 'ere 'd be about a
complete
place for a camp, ef there
was on'y a spring o' sweet water handy.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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O dearest country of my heart, home of the high desire,
Make clean thy soul for sacrifice on Freedom's altar-fire:
For thou must suffer, thou must fight, until the
warlords
cease,
And all the peoples lift their heads in liberty and peace.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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His compliments
to most people are varied with astonishing grace and ingenuity; his
accounts of his condition often sufficient to bring the tears into
the manliest eyes; and his ceaseless and vain efforts to procure his
liberation mortifying when we think of himself, and exasperating when we
think of the petty despot who
detained
him in so long, so degrading, and
so worse than useless a confinement.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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