Memoires d'Outre-Tombe: BkXVIII:Chap8:Sec1
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
(Letter from Cardinal de Bausset, former Bishop of Alais)
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Contents
Part I: Greece
Part II:The Archipelago, Anatolia and Constantinople
Part III: Rhodes, Jaffa, Bethlehem and the Dead Sea
Part IV:Jerusalem
Part V: Jerusalem - Continued
Part VI: Egypt
Part VII: Tunis and Return to France
About This Work
Map of the Itinerary
Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary, during the years 1806 and 1807, Translated by Frederic Shoberl -
Francois
Rene de Chateaubriand (p8, 1812)
The British Library
Chateaubriand set out on his travels to the Middle East in the summer of 1806, returning via Spain in 1807.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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8 He
committed
many other crimes over a period of two years, until a band of Gauls left their country because of famine and invaded Macedonia.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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But am busy writing the Wfth canto of ''The
Grandfather
Cycle'' and a full-length play.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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The
subtler development of sincerity and of scepticism
finally made these men impossible; their life also
and their judgments turned out to be dependent
on the
primeval
impulses and fundamental errors
of all sentient being.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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However, theories not based on facts nave a life of their own,
completely
divorced from reality, and, diligently propagated, live on forever.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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1630 Shah Jahan invades Ahmadnagar
territory
(pp.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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His period of mental
production
was not brief nor barren.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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But now because those winds
Blow back and forth in alternation strong,
And, so to say, rallying charge again,
And then repulsed retreat, on this account
Earth oftener
threatens
than she brings to pass
Collapses dire.
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Lucretius |
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Of his
knowledge
of Italian, there is little trace.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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Refuse of Time ripe for
Eternity!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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to the potential aggressor from starting a war decreases substantially as a result of
receiving
a transfer.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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This is the sort of thing which introduces
elements
of criticism and dis- integration in a ruling party at points where it ought to be most strong.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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But all the same, I pray thee, chant some song of Sicily, some sweet
melodious
country-song, unto the Maid13; for she too is of Sicily, she too once sported on Etna’s shores; she knows the Dorian music; so thy melodies shall not go without reward.
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Moschus |
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In Africa, after the tumult of the conquest
had passed over and the
endowment
of the Arian Established Church
was put into effect, Gaiseric only proceeded against those adherents of
orthodoxy from whom danger to the State was to be feared.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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It would not, with respect to most of the problems lying about, hurt capitalism as such to see these problems solved; indeed, capitalism might be
benefited
by having much sand removed from the social gears.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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GERMAN
COLONISATION
197
stretch from sea to sea.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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The Stage its ancient Fury thus let fall,
And Comedy diverted without Gall:
By mild reproofs, recover'd minds diseas'd,
And, sparing Persons,
innocently
pleas'd.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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Such were the figures, so well designed by the Egyptians, which are called
hieroglyphics
or sacred symbols.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Heidegger
notes:
If freedom means man's complete indeterminacy, neither for good nor for evil, then freedom is conceived merely negatively, as mere indecisiveness, behind which and before which stands nothing.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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t'was not
forbidden
to the snake
Nor her, who was not then made; nor is't writ
That Adam cropt, or knew the apple; yet
The worme and she, and he, and wee endure for it.
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Donne - 1 |
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Princeton:
Princeton
University Press.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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– Now these fawns through immortal desire of their dear dam do rush apace after the belovèd teat, all passing with far-hasting feet over the hilltops in the track of that friendly nurse, and with a bleat they go by the mountain pastures of the thousand feeding sheep and the caves of the slender-ankled Nymphs, till all at once some cruel-hearted beast, receiving their echoing cry in the dense fold of his den, leaps
speedily
forth of the bed of his rocky lair with intent to catch one of the wandering progeny of that dappled mother, and then swiftly following the sound of their cry straightway darteth through the shaggy dell of the snow-clad hills.
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Pattern Poems |
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Sir, I believe you may see him, and hear him too, in the next
room: he's
preparing
to go out with the ladies.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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For him, the existence of radical evil is
accompanied
by the experience of the radical absence of meaning.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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71
Our philologists stand in the same
relation
to
true educators as the medicine-men of the wild
Indians do to true physicians.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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And
how’s old
England’s
winding-sheet?
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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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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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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ecstatic
joy: and from throat to crown.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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Nevertheless, although no official
statement
could be
obtained, it is presumed that most, if not all, of Den-
mark's exports to the Soviet Union are covered by
Government guarantee.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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It is very true, at the first
entrance
into the war
there had been many unskilful expressions even in
442 CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF
1668.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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For example, in his review of my Parallax View (2006) in the London Review of Books, his
argument
against the notion of parallax is that, as the name for the most elementary split/diffraction, it endeavors to name something that is better left unnamed.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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In truth, there may be
_Multeity_ in things; but there can only be
_Plurality_
in persons.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Through Zarathustra's words, Nietz- sche is here
alluding
to the time when Schopenhauer and Wagner determined his outlook on the world.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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Phong lưu rất mực hồng quần,
Xuân xanh sấp xỉ tới tuần cập kê
Êm đềm
trướng
rủ màn che,
Tường đông ong bướm đi về mặc ai.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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Nay, you are great, fierce, evil--
you are the land-blight--
you have tempted men
but they
perished
on your cliffs.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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There is beauty of a concert, as well
as of a flute; strength of a host, as well as of a hero; and, in
Swedenborg, those who are best
acquainted
with modern books, will most
admire the merit of mass.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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Above all, he criticizes the Platonic
hypostasis
of universal concepts as a duplica- tion of the world.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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He could not forget, or forgive what he called her
infidelity
to
the memory of his father.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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A testing and a
questioning
hath been all my travelling:--and verily,
one must also LEARN to answer such questioning!
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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_ Love,
entering
first through you an easy part,
Took up his seat, where now supreme he reigns.
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Petrarch |
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IN EXITUM CUIUSDAM
On a certain one's
departure
""
rTpIME'S
all very well,
bitter flood
!
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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Table 2-3
compares
media coverage ofthe Popieluszko case with that of the murders of the GAM leaders.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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Soviet leaders like Yuri
Andropov and Leonid Brezhnev lived not in lavishly appointed man- sions like the White House, but in relatively large
apartments
in a housing project near the Kremlin set aside for government leaders.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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It seems, indeed, as if the possibility of a triangle could be
cognized
from the conception of it alone (which is certainly
of experience) ; for we can certainly give to the conception a corresponding object completely h priori, that is to say, we can construct it.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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He
established
a temple of the Athenians, and erected bronze columns on which he inscribed in writing his mighty achievements.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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Therefore
the sixth beatitude
which comprises the sight of God, does not respond to the gift of
understanding.
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Summa Theologica |
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The identification of impulse and will is not solely due to Darwin ; it occurred also in Schopenhauer's
conception
of the will, which was sometimes biological, sometimes purely philosophical.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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See Tucci (1958),
Demieville
(1967), Stein (1987), Houston (1980).
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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”
Another man criticizes those people who make long voyages
either through
nervousness
or to gratify their curiosity; who
write no narrative or memoirs, and do not even keep a journal;
who go to see, and see nothing, or forget what they have seen;
who only wish to get a look at towers or steeples they never
saw before, and to cross other rivers than the Seine or the
Loire; who leave their own country merely to return again, and
-
If you
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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20 In the case of Girri and Cadenas, both authors engage with Taoist and Zen texts, as well as the
writings
of J.
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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He was completely abreast of his times because in the dawning modern age he understood that he could
particularly
arouse interest in the role of a fortune therapist.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Others again there are of a higher and finer sort, though
even these will allow themselves to make use of popular ideas about hell, of those
ideas at any rate which seem to make for
godliness
and purity of life.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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Should I be the hand upon the
strings?
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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Even
Klopstock preached him a moral sermon; there
was a time when Herder was fond of using the
word
“Priapus”
when he spoke of Goethe.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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73 In short, Kann places the massive reaJ- world use of chemical warfare by the United States in Orwell's black hole and
demonstrates
Communist evil by purring forward the discredited claim of Yellow Rain that his paper has still not admitted to be fraudu- lent.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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54, Arta- sertion of him in his
campaign
in Media After
vasdes was an ally of the Romans; but when Antony had conquered Armenia B.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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“Breaking
his fast” : the chief feature of a Greek breakfast, as the word akratizô shows, was unmixed wine; this, being in a bottle, the fox, even if he wished it, could not expect to get at.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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How welcome is its
delicate
overture
At evening, when the moist and glowing west
Seals all things with cool promise of night's rest.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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LUDOVICI
With a Preface by Dr.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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Nay, but thy glory tarried for this hour,
When pilgrims kneel before the Holy One,
The
prisoned
shepherd of the Church of God.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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The morning rises upon new
wrongs, and the dreamer passes the night in
imaginary
shackles.
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Samuel Johnson |
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There can be no farewell to scene like thine;
The mind is coloured by thy every hue;
And if reluctantly the eyes resign
Their
cherished
gaze upon thee, lovely Rhine!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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6
3;
Office and Memorials
—Conclusion
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Εκείνου
τότε
ο μαχητής Μενέλαος απαντούσε•
«Να σε κρατήσω εδώ πολύ, Τηλέμαχε, δεν θέλω,
αν την πατρίδα σου ποθείς• τον άνδρα κατακρίνω
εκείνον, οπού περισσή 'ς τους ξένους έχει αγάπη, 70
ή μίσος έχει περισσό• καλ' είναι 'ς όλα η τάξι.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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In Sardinia
communications
entered into with the natives led the Carthaginians to hope that they should be able to master the island, which would have been of importance as an intermediate station between Spain and Italy.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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he
possesseth
me altogether.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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After the
Khrushchev
revelations in 1953, U.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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Sporting with the queen in the celestial realm, Lord repas, greater and lesser, I
supplicate
you.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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She is a peculiarly
interesting
figure,
because in the Celtic races women have always counted peculiarly:
and there are signs that they will count even more in time to
come.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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The lesson of repeti- tion is rather that our first choice was
necessarily
the wrong one, and for a very precise reason: the right choice is only possible the second time, after the wrong one; that is, it is only the first wrong choice that creates the conditions for the right choice.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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520
While down the summer stream of vice
The
thoughtless
many glide,
You upward steer your steady bark,
And stem the rushing tide.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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—To draw such a distinction between
Government and people as if two separate spheres
of power, a stronger and higher, and a weaker and
lower, negotiated and came to terms with each other,
is a remnant of transmitted political sentiment,
which still accurately represents the historic estab-
lishment of the
conditions
of power in most States.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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The Poetry of
Friedrich
Nietzsche.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:25 GMT / http://hdl.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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For example, in his review of my Parallax View (2006) in the London Review of Books, his
argument
against the notion of parallax is that, as the name for the most elementary split/diffraction, it endeavors to name something that is better left unnamed.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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In truth, there may be
_Multeity_ in things; but there can only be
_Plurality_
in persons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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One is the understanding of the persons to whom you are
to write; the other is the coherence of your sentence; for men's capacity
to weigh what will be apprehended with
greatest
attention or leisure;
what next regarded and longed for especially, and what last will leave
satisfaction, and (as it were) the sweetest memorial and belief of all
that is passed in his understanding whom you write to.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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More than any other feudal principality, Normandy had derived from
the very nature of its history a real
political
unity.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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Làm sao có thể từ nền trí trị mà làm cho phong tục lên cao, điển
chương
văn vật được đầy đủ?
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stella-02 |
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The following are some of
the
proverbs
or proverbial phrases to be found in the dialogue of his extant dramas:
in A Woman Kilde, etc.
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_Ionas_, I pitty thee, and curse those men,
Who when the storm rag'd most, did wake thee then;
Sleepe is paines easiest salue, and doth
fullfill
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All offices of death, except to kill.
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" Original sin is,
according
to Mr.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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Cowardice
is called loyalty ; fear, a sense of justice.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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The first that in your
pleasure
grounds appears;
I'd have you, on his wings, to use the shears.
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Give up your
attachment
to this
life.
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I skoal to the eyes as grey-blown mere (Who knows whose was that
paragon?
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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' He calls on his little-cloud sister for
confirmalion
of the skill and strength of Shaun's blow.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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War upon great men
justified
on economic grounds.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Já este modo de dizer parece querer dizer
qualquer
outra coisa, e efetivamente a quer dizer.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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And there were ploughmen
breaking
up the good soil,
clothed in tunics girt up.
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He says
that the Mediterranean, which, according to his own description, is one
entire sea has not the same level even at points quite close to each
other; and offers us the authority of engineers for this piece of folly,
notwithstanding the affirmation of
mathematicians
that engineering is
itself only one division of the mathematics.
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its conditions not
themselves
capable
of being experienced, 677 ; cf.
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Hud erat ; ver magnus agebat
Orbis; et
hybernis
parcebant flatibus Euri.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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Great the
treasures
that they hold, -
Silks and plumes, and bars of gold;
While the spices which they bear
Fill with fragrance all the air,
As they sail, as they sail.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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Lucrative Charities
One may deduct up to 30 per cent of gross
adjusted
income for contributions to charities, and if contributions exceed 30 per cent in any one year they may be spread over five years.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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The Fox and the Grapes
One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard
till he came to a bunch of Grapes just
ripening
on a vine which
had been trained over a lofty branch.
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