Or, in truth, are they a
mixture of the action of external objects
upon us, and of the
internal
faculties which
we possess?
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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His face was coated with mud, the eyes wide open, the
teeth bared and
grinning
with an expression of unendurable agony.
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"
He then spoke a verse:
Though it is said to be
auspicious
at first, later it is said to be evil,
From then on we no longer follow the taboo we inherited.
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restrictions
on automated querying.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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And
whatsoever
I shall see or hear:
The translator of the passage, W.
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soon |
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What did you see? |
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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The
Poetical
Works/ of/ Lord Byron.
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Byron |
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”
The troubles spread from
Calcutta
to Noakhali in Bengal.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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E;*ft
pfi
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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NGUYỄN NHƯ ĐỔ 阮如堵16 ngườihuyện Thanh Trì17 phủ
Thường
Tín.
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stella-01 |
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_ This has nothing to do, as Grosart
seems to think, with the name for a certain
measurement
of land in the
north of England corresponding to a hide in the south.
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Donne - 2 |
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Who's the old trader that has lent this girl
The
glittering
cash of pleasure to pay me with?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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To be jealous of a Hebe's fate
Possessed by some demon now a negress
I don't come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast
The sun, on the sand, O
sleeping
wrestler,
Eyes, lakes of my simple passion to be reborn
I bring you the child of an Idumean night!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"
They searched the pit for some fire wood and found all
kinds of
flammable
waste after a few minutes.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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Needless to say that these linguistic
pretensions
were never made
good; but this matters little beside the fact that works of great
freshness and distinction were actually produced under the impulse
of the so-called Provençal revival.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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Therefore in patience I possess my soul;
Yea,
therefore
as a flint I set my face,
To pluck down, to build up again the whole--
But in a distant place.
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Christina Rossetti |
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And to rebel against that lord's command
His Zealand stirred; nor he the war delayed,
Until by him Bireno's blood was spilt:
A
punishment
that ill atoned his guilt.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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cil encontrar situa- ciones que
merezcan
llamarse experiencias in situ (que seri?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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With one phrase he had turned happy picknickers
into a sulky, tense, murmuring crowd, being slowly
hypnotized
by gavel taps lessening in intensity until the only sound in the courtroom was a dim pink-pink- pink: the judge might have been rapping the bench with a pencil.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Valerius
Flaccus is very pretty in particular passages.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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The kingdom of
Gujarāt
had reached
its extreme limits.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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"94 TheManuscriptofCormac'sGlossary95thereprintedbelongsto the
fourteenth
century.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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They were greatly
frightened
for
fear it would drop on the land, but a favoring
breeze bore it out to sea, and presently it sunk,
never to be seen again.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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Vasubandhu asks the
question
and answers it.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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Thon van Irach thóc
thướng
ngày,
CQng lồ vi b&i che hai kèn lira,
Ghi lòng ỈHC ilạ s<5uu trưa,
Lẩy chòng, lựầ cliỏ xứng vừa, thi thỏi.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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She seized a live
horseshoe
by the tail, and made
prize of several five-fingers, and laid out a jelly-fish to melt in
the warm sun.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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In these courses they also had
included
demonstrations of the gas room.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-05 01:02 GMT / http://hdl.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Copyright © 1976 by the
American
Jewish Committee.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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] / Glamis has murdered sleep, and
therefore
Cawdor / Shall sleep no more.
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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From their black tents, long files of horse, they stream'd:
As when, some grey November morn, the files,
In
marching
order spread, of long-neck'd cranes,
Stream over Casbin,[11] and the southern slopes 110
Of Elburz,[12] from the Aralian estuaries,[13]
Or some frore[14] Caspian reed-bed, southward bound
For the warm Persian sea-board: so they stream'd.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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lbis call for distance is an ex
pression
of esteem; for if one can also understand it as an antidote to the dangers of a cultic recep tion, it is all the more necessary in order to develop an image of the mountain range from which la mon tagne Derrida rises up as one of the highest peaks.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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Despite the
estimation
of Cardinal de Bausset, former Bishop of Alais, that Chateaubriand was ".
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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~4)
UpOn this call the
landlord
ofthe .
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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Than gan I loken ofte sythe
The shap, the bodies, and the cheres,
The
countenaunce
and the maneres
Of alle the folk that daunced there, 815
And I shal telle what they were.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Last
Christmas
morning the teacher ot an
infant class asked a child, "What day is this?
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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But, in
extremes
to be, appears my lot;
Just now I felt quite chilled:--at present hot;
Pray tell me which is best?
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La Fontaine |
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February
is therefore the "purifying"
* At the battle of Actium (fought B.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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If
the
constitution
is bad, then the education best fitted to make a man
loyal to it may have to be very different from that which you would
choose to make him a good man.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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But it's a horror to fear on the pathways of love you'll discover
Snakes and their venom beneath roses of eager desire--
That at the moment supreme, when I'm yielding to
pleasure
so fully,
Right at my head as it droops, hissing disease may approach.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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, or for money, or to protect oneself or one's friends; out of anger means that which is done in enmity or quarrelling; and to take life for
offering
or gifts, thinking it is virtuous or the like, is to kill from stupidity.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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The rich might become poor, and some of the poor rich,
but a part of the society must necessarily feel a
difficulty
of living,
and this difficulty will naturally fall on the least fortunate members.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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Evening falls and in the garden
Women tell their histories
to Night that not without disdain
spills their dark hair's mysteries
Little children little children
Your wings have flown away
But you rose that defend yourself
Throw your
unrivalled
scents away
For now's the hour of petty theft
Of plumes of flowers and of tresses
Gather the fountain jets so free
Of whom the roses are mistresses
?
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Appoloinaire |
|
Exterior
of New Simla Library
on a foggy evening.
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Kipling - Poems |
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SHE followed his advice: avenged the wrong;
And naught omitted,
pleasures
to prolong.
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La Fontaine |
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ISS
cheek was immediately
crimsoned
with
the blush of conscience* "We will cross
the river," said Mrs.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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He thought:
--The language in which we are
speaking
is his before it is mine.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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TO INDIA
O young through all thy
immemorial
years!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The
relations
between Author and Publisher
in the Seventeenth Century.
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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Muslins are much in
taste; no silks but lutestrings worn; but send not to London for
any article you want: you may purchase
anything
you can name
much lower in Boston.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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As
long, though, as tractors help produce grain that may
be sold abroad to buy the
machines
that make ma-
?
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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The auto was an
elaboration
of the older miracle-play, and a spec-
tacle as much in keeping with the temper of the Spanish court and
people as Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream' or Ben Jonson's
'Fortunate Isles' was in accord with the tastes of the English.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
|
The retail price of all the patent
medicines
sold in the United States in one year may be very conservatively placed at one hundred million dollars.
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Source: |
Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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Such a change in readers'
perspectives
can partially explain the allure and even the academic rehabilitation of the biographical genre.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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Is it to be
understood
as [referring] to above and below the eight petalled heart center?
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
|
Aphorism
44, together with
the first half-dozen or so in the book, may be taken
as typical specimens of Nietzsche's protest against
this state of things.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
|
In the most ex- treme case, it is the culprit who, almost like a
provoked
enlightener, merely exe- cutes on the victim the latter's own amorality.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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Because of his shattered animality, the
indeterminate
being falls out of the environment and manages to develop a world in an ontological sense.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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It is in this sense that I say that the species is learning from its
experience
in the art of building good individual bodies, and it stores its experiences in coded form in the set of genes in the gene pool.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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So the answer to Agathe's question, what a
contradiction
signifies between two books both of which one loves, is: it never signifies a calculation or a balance, but signifies a third, dynamic thing, which envelops both as- pects in itself.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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It should be stressed, however, that I dealt with a very special group of subjects: any Westerner living in China over many years is likely to have experienced some form of profound identity search, and many had missionary ties which enhanced their
susceptibility
to guilt.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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150 What We Demand from France
spirit of old Spener, and, after him, of the worthy
Oberlin, the benefactor of the Stein thai, survives to
this day in the excellent
evangelical
pastors of
Alsace ; and perhaps they are the only men in the
country who secretly long for its return to Ger-
many.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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”
[29] Lost is her lovely lord, and with him lost her
hallowed
beauty.
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Bion |
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The three kayas are not
separate
from each other.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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'
I adore you, wrath of virgins, O shy
Delight of the nude sacred burden that glides
Away to flee my fiery lip, drinking
The secret terrors of the flesh like quivering
Lightning: from the feet of the
heartless
one
To the heart of the timid, in a moment abandoned
By innocence wet with wild tears or less sad vapours.
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Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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"
" Stop, Frank," said his father; "this
fire is enough to
frighten
any horse;
stop!
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Childrens - Frank |
|
His action
and
teaching
gave force and direction, which Count Cavour
gratefully acknowledged, to the Kingdom of Italy in destroying
the Temporal Power of the Pope and establishing a free Church
in a free State.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
|
It may be, that, when we forgot our
God,--when we violated our reverence each for the other's soul,--it
was
thenceforth
vain to hope that we could meet hereafter, in an
everlasting and pure reunion.
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Source: |
Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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They often exceed
it, and are
sometimes
found where conception has not been known to take
place.
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Source: |
Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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We use information
technology
and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship.
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Source: |
Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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But I begin to get into a somehow
legislating
tone myself.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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Note: Ixion was tormented on a wheel in Hades, Tantalus by water and food just out of reach, Prometheus by having his liver torn by vultures,
Sisyphus
by being forced eternally to roll a boulder to the top of a hill and see it roll back again.
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Ronsard |
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rzliche Fahrt
Entschwand
am Kanal.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
|
Hark how the cry grows on the wind;
They leave the lagging gale behind,
Their savage fury, pitiless, they pour;
With
murdering
eyes already they devour;
See Brunswick spent, a wretched prey,
His life one poor despairing day,
Where each avenging hour still ushers in a worse!
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Source: |
burns |
|
That is to say,
incident
and situation, not
character, are its aims.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
|
Beingfree
from all ideas o fmeditation and meditator.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
|
bynear saw
altitudinous
wee a schelling in kopfers.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
|
The new place of America in the world as a whole, the
awakened
interest in other peoples, other cultures must inevitably draw the minds of men away from the mere practicalities of living.
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Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Childrens - Book of Poetry |
|
12 See Stein Braten, 'Between Dialogic Mind and
Monologic
Reason, Postulating the Virtual Other', in M.
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Source: |
Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
|
those which least give
rise to pure and noble art, and most of all to low
and
degraded
forms of it.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
|
The
messianic
perception of history is based on the idea that the long march of peoples through the deserts of time must one day come to an end – when the Messiah completes the alienation era and establishes a final kingdom that does not resemble the current world in any way whatsoever.
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Source: |
Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
|
Alfred Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady
Preludes
Rhapsody
on a Windy Night
Morning at the Window
The Boston Evening Transcript
Aunt Helen
Cousin Nancy
Mr.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Down went the
Cumberland
all a wrack,
With a sudden shudder of death,
And the cannon's breath
For her dying gasp.
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Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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passer mortuus est meae puellae,
passer,
deliciae
meae puellae.
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Latin - Catullus |
|
That supposes that I am not
originally
what I am.
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Source: |
Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
|
The
vengeance
exacted by the spouse of Attila for the
murder of Siegfried was celebrated in rhymes, of which Germany is
still justly proud.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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If she did so, it would mean loss to the foreign
oil
companies
of their rich French market.
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Source: |
Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
|
" "What kind of an
emergency
would it be if it were on fire there?
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Source: |
Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
|
Li porta, lor mal grado, a quella via
il crudo vento e la
tempesta
ria.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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The Original:
باتَ لَيلي بالأَنْعَمَين طَويلا أَرْقُبُ النَجْمَ ساهِراً لَنْ يَزولا
كَيف أٌمدي ولَا يزالُ قتيلٌ مِن بَني وائلٍ يُنادي قتيلا
أُزْجُرِ الْعَينَ أَنْ تُبَكِّي الطُلولا إِنَّ في الصَدْرِ مِنْ كُلَيبٍ فَليلا
إِنَّ في الصَدْرِ حاجةً لَنْ تُقَضَّى ما دَعا في الغُصونِ داعٍ هَديلا
كَيفَ يَبْكي الطُلولَ مَن هو رَهْنٌ بِطِعانِ الأنامِ جيلا فَجِيلا
كَيف أَنساكَ يا كلَيبُ ولمّا أقضِ حُزناً ينوبُني وغَليلا
أيُّها القَلبُ أَنْجِزِ اليومَ نَحْباً مِن بني الحِصْنِ إذ غَدوا وذُحولا
انتَضَوا مَعْجِسَ القِسي وأَبْرَقْـنا كَما تُوعِد الفُحولُ الفُحولا
وصَبَرْنا تَحتَ البوارِقِ حتَّى دَكْدَكَتْ فيهِمِ السُيوفُ طَويلا
لم يُطيقوا أنْ يَنْزِلوا ونَزَلْنا
وَأَخو
الحَربِ مَن أَطاقَ النُزولا
Romanization:
Bāta laylī bi-l-'Anˁamayni ṭawīlā arqubu l-najma sāhiran lan yazūlā
Kayfa umdī wa-lā yazālu qatīlun min Banī Wā'ilin yunādī qatīlā
Uzjuri l-ˁayna an tubakkī l-ṭulūlā inna fī l-ṣadri min Kulaybin falīlā
Inna fī l-ṣadri ḥājatan lan tuqaḍḍā mā daˁā fī l-ġuṣūni dāˁin hadīlā
Kayfa yabkī l-ṭulūla man huwa rahnun bi-ṭiˁāni l-'anāmi jīlan fa-jīlā
Kayfa ansāka yā Kulaybu wa-lammā aqḍi ḥuznan yanūbunī wa-ġalīlā
Ayyuhā l-qalbu anjizi l-yawma naḥban min Banī l-Ḥiṣni iḏ ġadaw wa-ḏuḥūlā
Intaḍaw maˁjisa l-qisiyyi wa-'abraqnā kamā tūˁidu l-fuḥūlu l-fuḥūlā
Wa-ṣabarnā taḥta l-bawāriqi ḥattā dakdakat fīhimi l-suyūfu ṭawīlā
Lam yuṭīqū an yanzilū wa-nazalnā wa-'aḫū l-ḥarbi man aṭāqa l-nuzūlā
Labid: Lament for Arbad (From Arabic)
This poem is an elegiac lament for Arbad, the poet's deceased adoptive brother.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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[425] The second (mythical) king of Athens,
successor
of Cecrops.
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Aristophanes |
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Thereupon
the thought of that being, in so far as it
flits before his fancy as retributive justice, occasions him anxiety.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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All functional things are dependent, an effect, thus
impermanent
-- dependent on other causes and conditions, on parts, on their characteristics, on the mind conceptualizing them.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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Then his men looked to and fro, when they heard him
speaking
so--
_Toll slowly.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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—
Whoever is very busy retains his general views
and
opinions
almost unchanged.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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To find her half alone, Montfort away,
And a brown, placid, hated woman
visiting
her, Spoiling his visit, with a year before the next one.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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The swing of his nature took him from
extreme languor to
devouring
energy; and, as I knew well, he was
never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been
lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his
black-letter editions.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Orpheus
invented
all the sciences, all the arts.
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Appoloinaire |
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