La zone de
tristesse
où je venais d’entrer était aussi
distincte de la zone, où je m’élançais avec joie il y avait un moment
encore que dans certains ciels une bande rose est séparée comme par
une ligne d’une bande verte ou d’une bande noire.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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While not purporting to offer fresh archaeological evidence, he
established
a 'tourist route' through that antiquity which many other travellers would follow.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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However, users may print, download, or email
articles
for individual use.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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On the
day when I first
received
my 10 pound bank-note I had gone to a baker's
shop and bought a couple of rolls; this very shop I had two months or six
weeks before surveyed with an eagerness of desire which it was almost
humiliating to me to recollect.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Once while attending a lecture at Tinh* Lu* Temple on Mount Ðông Cú'u595 to listen to an
exposition
of the Lotus Sutra*, Chân Không emptied through and had insight.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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Thou findest
' sancti- nuns devoid of self-discipline : is a
monastic
life 1 for this i"Tim.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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The
possession
of the roots of good that the person who again
takes up the roots of good (iv.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Mais si elle trouvait amusant que le visiteur
interloqué ne sût pas que nous déjeunions plus tôt le samedi, elle
trouvait plus comique encore (tout en
sympathisant
du fond du cœur
avec ce chauvinisme étroit) que mon père, lui, n’eût pas eu l’idée que
ce barbare pouvait l’ignorer et eût répondu sans autre explication à
son étonnement de nous voir déjà dans la salle à manger: «Mais voyons,
c’est samedi!
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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We seem to hear a god's lament, The sobbing pathos of despair ;
We seem to see her
garments
rent, And ashes in ambrosial hair.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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Amid the camp, upon the day design'd,
Enough itself beneath those arms to find
Which youth, love, valour, and near blood concern,
Crying aloud: With noble fire I burn,
As my good lord
unwillingly
at home,
Who pines and languishes in vain to come.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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»
Say, “Have ye
considered
if your waters on the morrow should
have sunk, who is to bring you flowing water ?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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They made for Jerusalem, and King Baldwin came out to meet them and to decide with them their plans for the
invasion
of the Muslim empire.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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Discovering the long concealed Originall and
Regiment of Rogues, when they first began to take head, and how they
have succeeded one the other successively unto the sixe and twentieth
yeare of King Henry the eight,
gathered
out of the Chronicle of
Crackeropes, and (as they term it) the Legend of Lossels.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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At length she awaked naturally, but became more restless and uneasy than before ; for six or seven days, how ever, she resumed her usual employments, until she fell asleep again, which
continued
eighteen hours.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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deception (and even as a deception
overcome
and disposed of), could not help recognising the foolish fact that the body still remained: and the most unexpected proofs of this are to be found partly in Pauline and partly in Vedantic philosophy.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Consider
whether thou hast
wrong.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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(Those who)
possessed
the highest (sense of) propriety were (always
seeking) to show it, and when men did not respond to it, they bared
the arm and marched up to them.
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Tao Te Ching |
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----, who write
for their monthly half-crown, and who are
indifferent
whether Lord
Bute, Lord Melcombe, or Maclean is their hero, may swear they
find diamonds on dunghills; but you will excuse _me_, if I let our
correspondence lie dormant rather than deal in such trash.
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Selection of English Letters |
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Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin-liberty;
A countenance in which did meet 15
Sweet records, promises as sweet;
A
Creature
not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
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William Wordsworth |
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BULLEN, _at The
Shakespeare
Head Press,
Stratford-on-Avon_.
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Yeats |
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-- Just as the previously explained reasoning shows that there is no truly existent pot apart from form, smell and so forth, there is no truly existent
component
visible form apart from the great elements such as air, for it is imputed in dependence upon these.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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I
remember
the fact as if it were
but yesterday, and I am sure such an idea never for one minute
entered my mind.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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A brown robe, with threads of gold woven in patterns,
hast thou
gathered
about thee, O Nathat-Ikanaie, " Tree-at-the-river.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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Nietzsche
as lyric poet, or "HOWto Write Poetry with a Hammer.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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XXV
"I had him to the
neighbouring
city brought,
And boarded with a friendly host; and there
Corebo's cure in little time was wrought,
Beneath an old chirurgeon's skilful care.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Byron, seine Gesellschaftskritik und
Stellung
über den Dichtern.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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All summarised, the soul,
When slowly we breathe it out
In several rings of smoke
By other rings wiped out
Bears witness to some cigar
Burning
skilfully
while
The ash is separated far
From its bright kiss of fire
Should the choir of romantic art
Fly so towards your lips
Exclude from it if you start
The real because it's cheap
Meaning too precise is sure
To void your dreamy literature.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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" From a
religious
point of view, these philosophers embody "the principle of Protestantism" (1802b: 57).
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Hegel_nodrm |
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We'll sing auld Coila's plains an' fells,
Her moors red-brown wi' heather bells,
Her banks an' braes, her dens and dells,
Whare
glorious
Wallace
Aft bure the gree, as story tells,
Frae Suthron billies.
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burns |
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, 1, 42, 2 ) iEschylus also, according
to Strabo, spoke of the Cissian, that is, Susian, parent-
age of Memnon (Strabo, 720): and Herodotus men-
tions the palace at Susa, called Memnonia, and also
says, that the city itself was
sometimes
described by
'he same name.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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As such, they are not just teaching; they are also learning, and part of their
teaching
is that one learns to be teachable.
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Education in Hegel |
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Nothing, however, is served by affixing a temporal index externally to these norms; the dialectic
ofartworks
takes place between these norms -more precisely, between the most advanced norms - and the works' specific form.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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2 In Merleau-Ponty's case, despite the absence of a father, this period seems to have been one of exceptional happiness and intimacy, and he carried the memory of it throughout his life:
It is at the present time that I realize that the first twenty- five years of my life were a
prolonged
childhood, destined to be followed by a painful break leading eventually to independence.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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he speech
against Meidias is
assigned
by Dionysius to 01.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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" Such Paper may, within two years after publication, be
produced
as evidence in any proceeding, civil or criminal.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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It would also be important to discuss the ethics and responsibility of such writing: is it ever acceptable to
characterize
a person or a group as "despica- ble," "cruel," and "unjust"?
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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But, from the moment of that
shameful flight, the sagacious Trimmer,
convinced
that compromise was
thenceforth impossible, had taken a decided part.
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Macaulay |
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A
loquacity of malicious natures: whoever reads
writings of our period will
recollect
two authors in
this connection.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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I was so
impressed
by the force of their utterances, that I made an effort to consult those whose business it was to make [298] a record of all that happened at the royal audiences and banquets.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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One who is fasting (in preparation for a
sacrifice)
should neither listen to music nor condole with mourners[3].
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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Hence is magnified the value set upon
whatever things may be loved or
whatever
things conduce to self
sacrifice: although in themselves they may be worth nothing much.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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Now granting that the
moral norm-even as Kant understood it-is
never completely fulfilled, and remains like a sort
of Beyond hanging over reality without ever
falling down to it; then morality would contain
in itself a judgment concerning the whole, which
would still, however, allow of the question : whence
does it get the right
thereto?
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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As soon as the absolute
imperative
takes broader effect, the age of propaganda begins.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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To expel the whole Alban- ian
population
from Kosova, 2.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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" What fortune has the son of
Laetitia
arrived at !
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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Downward the various goddess took her flight,
And drew a
thousand
colors from the light;
Then stood above the dying lover's head, And said: "I thus devote thee to the dead
This off'ring to th' infernal gods I bear.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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'23 a Birth-night Beau':
a fine gentleman in his best clothes, such as he would wear at a ball on
the
occasion
of a royal birthday.
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Alexander Pope |
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1 1 5
Yet, for again I come to the former story, beseems not
Linger on all done there ; how left that daughter a
gazing
Father, a sister's arms, her mother
woefully
clinging,
Mother, who o'er that child moan'd desperate, all heart-
broken ;
How not in home that maid, in Theseus only de-
lighted ; 1 20
How her ship on a shore of foaming Dia did harbour;
?
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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_And like vile lying stones in
saffrond
tinne,
Or warts, or wheales, they hang upon her skinne.
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John Donne |
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—that is to say, for the News-letters which thus seem to have been still competing with public prints—whilst the Evening Post might be had for a much more
moderate
sum.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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transverberat
| dbiete | pectus
( abjete, or ab- yete.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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For those who take up the book in a serious and scholarly
spirit, the following remarks on the plan and the
execution
are added.
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Golden Treasury |
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Then must compare my self and see where
the salus populi most fasely deposited, whether in kings, with all their faults or in the mob, with all their
vertues!
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Soon kindled, soon burnt out,
A blaze of
momentary
heat at best is yours.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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These are two
alternative
ways of making a living.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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She’d turned pale pink and she was wriggling,
actually
wriggling with
pain.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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To endure bodily suffering for the sake of doing
good, is
certainly
the most rare and most affecting
kind of charity, and a few days afterwards, Pulcheria
made a charming observation to me, when I asked her
whether she was not pleased to have her fire again,
while she was dressing; 'Mamma,' said she, 'I have
lost the habit of enjoying a fire in my chamber.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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He accounted it a pity that
so fine and
talented
a young man should have formed the design of going
out as a missionary; it was quite throwing a valuable life away.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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It remained for Sir Philip Sidney to make the one great apology
of his time by
transcending
in a serene and noble way the turmoil
and logomachy which is here passed in review.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to
darkness
utterly,
It might be well perhaps.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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At the same time, they saw themselves confronted with the task of constructing primi- tive furnaces in order to increase steel production in the country
overnight
using only local methods.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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But the agricultural year in
Wallachia
numbers in consequence of the severe climate only 210 days, of which 40 for Sundays and holidays, 30 on an average for bad weather, together 70 days, do not count.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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"La
physique
comme exercice spirituel, ou pessimisme et optimisme chez Marc Aurele," Revue de theologie et dephilosophic (I972), pp.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Discovery
of Witches in the County of Lancaster.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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In den
folgenden
Monaten bescha?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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See also the
critical
appraisal of Clarke's work in the symposium ''The Tao of the West: Western Transformations of Taoist Thought,'' in Religious Studies Review 28 (2002): 303-338 (commentary by N.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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FEi: E;ii:i*;i:il *:;a:*6;E:
EiiiEgl
s{EEIEfEfic?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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The folk-tales,
and Keating in his
description
of Hell, make use, however, of the
ordinary symbolism of fire.
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Yeats - Poems |
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182 THE LIFE OF
Baron was too valuable to be offended, and too
sensitive
to
be easily satisfied.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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(5) His
Meditations
are written in
Greek.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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Great art thou,
Carthage!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Then she roused the
Ixomatae
to war, and engaged many warlike nations around the Maeotis to join the alliance.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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In that they side
AGAINST appearance, and speak superciliously of "perspective," in
that they rank the
credibility
of their own bodies about as low as the
credibility of the ocular evidence that "the earth stands still," and
thus, apparently, allowing with complacency their securest possession
to escape (for what does one at present believe in more firmly than
in one's body?
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Assim,
rejeitado
depois de me comerem o miolo prático, vou com o pó do que resta do corpo de Cristo para o caixote do lixo, e nem imagino o que se segue, e entre que astros; mas sempre é seguir.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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The
few
hypocrites
I have known only imitated hypoc-
risy: like almost every tenth man to-day, they were
actors.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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For before the Maid I swear it, and before the robed Demeter – and any that
willingly
and of ill intent foresweareth these will rue it sore – I love thee no whit less than I had loved thee wert thou come of my womb and wert thou the dear only daughter of my house.
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| Source: |
Megara and Dead Adonis |
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It is for the well-being
of Germany, and for the
independence
of
the Protestant faith, that I do battle; no
obstacle can stop me, for I am conscious of
the justice and nobleness of my cause.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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” When
Gianotto
heard this he was very sor-
rowful, saying to himself: I have lost all my trouble which it
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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The reasons for this, as
Lawrence
K.
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| Source: |
Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Certain is my death,
Thine is uncertain: but reflect, О queen,
To what
thou’rt
destined, if he spare thy life.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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'T is true that I am gay,
Quite gay, for I have her alone here And no man
troubleth
us.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Recall how, in their description of the primitive myths of origin, the early anthropologists read, say, the statement that a tribe
originates
from the owl, as a literal belief ["They really believe their predecessors were owls"], totally missing the way such statements ef- fectively functioned.
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And the King bids me say, Rise from thy feast;
For thou must be to-night thyself a feast:
The vision of thy loveliness must now
Feed with
astonishment
my vassals' hearts.
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Then believe me, my sweetheart, do,
While time still flowers for you,
In its freshest novelty,
Cull, ah cull your
youthful
bloom:
As it blights this flower, the doom
Of age will blight your beauty.
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{17a} That is, these two Danes,
escaping
home, had told the story of
the attack on Hnaef, the slaying of Hengest, and all the Danish
woes.
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The other was, that people in general
attached
more
value to verse than it deserved, and the power of writing it, was, on
this account, worth acquiring.
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I should not chuse to have the
business brought on here, and
canvassed
by the wise heads of Mr.
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» Doubtless, the
existing
round tower is the one alluded to.
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Against this background, I would like to pose the narrower (and in its narrowness essentially empirical)
question
of whether a change in our attitude toward classics is expressed in new approaches and attitudes to the reading of texts.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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Stage Political Satire
and the
Licensing
Act of 1737.
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' He says, 'Going to make tracks with 'em; because:
"'Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime;
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints
on the sands of time.
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She is compelled by the silent entreaties of a father, perishing with
"bitter shameful want on the cold earth," to give her hand, with a heart
thus
irrecoverably
pre-engaged, to Lord Aldobrand, the enemy of her
lover, even to the very man who had baffled his ambitious schemes, and
was, at the present time, entrusted with the execution of the sentence
of death which had been passed on Bertram.
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Bancroft calmly and clearly show's
how the great law grew with the kindly aid and
watchful
care of
these men and of others.
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Sanderson's hatred of any locked door which might stand between a boy and some worthwhile enthusiasm
symbolized
his whole attitude to education.
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[4] G Dionysius became the next ruler [of Heracleia ] and increased its power; Alexander's victory over the Persians at the river Granicus had opened the way for those who wanted to increase their power, by cutting down the strength of the Persians, which had
previously
been an obstacle to them all.
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More pleas'd we are to see a River lead
His gentle Streams along a flow'ry Mead,
Than from high Banks to hear loud
Torrents
roar,
With foamy Waters on a Muddy Shore.
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