Out of that
closeness whose dynamic is enormously productive even if it always demonstrates the
comparatively greater
strength
of the Occident (British, French, or American), comes the large
body of texts I call Orientalist.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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Voltaire so well perceived the influence
that
metaphysics
exercise over the general
bias of the mind, that he wrote Candide, to
combat Leibnitz.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Political and social totalitarianism describes a unique set of object
relationships
that normatively challenge the illusionary realm.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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A gaze that looks upon the disease of life and remains
unshaken
can only emerge from empty eye sockets.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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The red-eyed
scavengers
are creeping
From Kentish Town and Golder's Green;
Where are the eagles and the trumpets?
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T.S. Eliot |
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He lived on terms of
friendship with the most distinguished men of his age,
and almost of all countries, who
frequently
sought his
advice.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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And the reasons for this proscription are
not
difficult
to discover.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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A Saudi source divulged that the Egyptians plan to
increase
their militmy budget by 100% in the next two years; Ha'aretz, 2/12/79 and Jerusalem Post, 1/14/79.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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I have now shown that the difference in extent of the domains
governed
by 8oolean logic and by my concept-script, extraneous as it might at first llaht appear, is in fact as closely as possible bound up with their original uunatruction.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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He or she then concentrates on visualizing the deity's body, speech and mind, the celestial palaces, the spreading and contracting of rays of light from the deity and thereby receives the blessings of the deity through supplica-
tion,
recitation
and meditative stability.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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At the outset it was
understood
as very rare, affecting perhaps 1 in 100,000 children (Rekers et al.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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In January 1799, a younger
brother, Robert, who had rebelled against the quaker
traditions
of
his family, sought refuge with Lamb from his father's supposed
persecution.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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A modern
assailant
of optimism would arm himself with social pity.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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And every video clip shows how far the tricks of music and optics have
surpassed
the speed of film.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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Skilful in
repairing
incessantly its
defeats, it took again, under another form, what it had been constrained
to abandon, losing often some of its attributes, but preserving its
prestige always untouched.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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Sub juga jam Seres, jam
barbarus
isset Araxes.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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The heart asks
pleasure
first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Canto XXV
Al fine de le sue parole il ladro
le mani alzo con amendue le fiche,
gridando: <
squadro!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He made up his
mind to try and find out whether anything had happened at the office,
and if he were not there to go to His Excellency,
ostensibly
to report
on Vasya.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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He returned to France in 1800, and it was a substantial literary defence of Christianity which attracted Napoleon's notice and led to his
employment
by the Emperor at Rome and in Switzerland.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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How oft I bade thee, but in vain, beware
The venomed essence that
destroyed
thy hair!
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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_ and a
_wherefore_?
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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Just before nine o'clock
Sherlock
Holmes stepped briskly into the
room.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Freedom from instincts is nor night, nor day, nor
twilight
dark,
It is just the instant of enlightenment taught by the best mentor, the goal of the yogi/nis themselves.
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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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But phantasia is
understood
to be that which is impressed, and formed, and imprinted by a real object, according to a real object, in such a way as it could not be by any other than a real object; [51] and, according to their ideas of the phantasiai, some are sensible, and some are not.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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185 he was one of the
triumviri
appointed for 5.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his
father stopped,
scurried
forwards again when he moved, even
slightly.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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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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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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']
La indignacion llego a su colmo, hasta el punto que uno de sus
guardas,
lanzandose
sobre el reo, cuya pertinacia en callar bastaria
para apurar la paciencia a un santo, le abrio violentamente la visera.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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and this anguish stings me worst,
That round my royal son's
dishonoured
form
Hang rags and tatters, degradation deep!
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Aeschylus |
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His account of Jerusalem is fascinating, and he was one of the last
travellers
to visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre before the damaging fire of 1808.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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But rarely I neglect so good a thing,
That ills averts, and may such
blessings
bring.
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La Fontaine |
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of an atman {dtmavada)\ if
Scripture
uses the word vdda, "affirmation," it is because the atman does not exist.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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As memory has been shown to be a special character unconnected with the lower spheres of psychical life, and the exclusive
property
of human beings, it is not surprising that it is closely related to such higher things as the idea of value and of time, and the craving for immortality, which is absent in animals, and possible to men only in so far as they possess the quality of genius.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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No, a
thousand
times no.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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was
expelled
from the League of Nations.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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Crossing
the
Dardanelles to Abydos, Henry traversed the passes of Ida, and estab-
lished his headquarters at Adramyttium.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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de las
fealdades
cometidas, despedazan-
do los Idolos , que a los ojos del Propiciatorio
santo havian sido venerados.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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He predeceased his father, and so never wielded power, dying of dysentery while on
campaign
in the Limousin.
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Troubador Verse |
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Galeotto fu 'l libro e chi lo scrisse:
quel giorno piu non vi
leggemmo
avante>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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His mouth had
swollen into a shapeless cherry-
coloured
mass with a black
hole in the middle of it.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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And yet if reading and writing are the same as doing, you were doing
what was not your own
business?
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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Opposition of external mobility to a certain
heaviness
and fatigue.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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I also such
resemblance
find in him
As thou; such feet, such hands, the cast of eye[10]
Similar, and the head and flowing locks.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The five precepts of the lay Devotee, according to the Miilasarviistiviida tradition which the Tibetan
Communities
follow, are found in the vow formula itself:
"0 Aciirya, please heed me!
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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The Descent of Man, and selection in
relation
to sex.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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What
compounds
of Dico shorten the vowel i?
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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There are a few
things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works
even without
complying
with the full terms of this agreement.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Opposite
this, on the other raised space, was another
seat of honor.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And let the Angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee, Macduff was from his
mother’s
womb
Untimely ripp’d
The girls looked puzzled There was a momentary silence, and then a chorus
of voices round the room,
‘Please, Miss, what does that mean?
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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here's a pretty fellow, to marry an old
Duenna instead of my
daughter!
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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There were days when my heart was volcanic
As the scoriac rivers that roll--
As the lavas that restlessly roll
Their sulphurous
currents
down Yaanek,
In the ultimate climes of the Pole--
That groan as they roll down Mount Yaanek
In the realms of the Boreal Pole.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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_ Nor indeed would I myself, who am but an
ordinary
Man, change my
Philosophy for _Diogenes_'s; and I believe your _Catius_ would refuse
to do it too.
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Erasmus |
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This hypothesis, once entertained, is seen to harmonize with
all
primitive
ideas and practices.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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For if it be
true that for the making of a scholar "a number
of very human impulses and desires must be
thrown together," that the scholar is indeed a
very noble but not a pure metal, and "consists of
a confused blending of very different impulses and
attractions," the same thing may be said equally
of the making and nature of the artist, the phil-
osopher and the moral
genius—and
whatever .
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Je finis
par me décider à aller dire à
Françoise
de descendre payer le cocher.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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How is the Principle of the Separation of Powers related
to the Check and Balance System in
government?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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This Troilus this lettre thoughte al straunge,
Whan he it saugh, and
sorwefully
he sighte;
Him thoughte it lyk a kalendes of chaunge;
But fynally, he ful ne trowen mighte 1635
That she ne wolde him holden that she highte;
For with ful yvel wil list him to leve
That loveth wel, in swich cas, though him greve.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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It goes to the
temple of Apollo, where the works of authors old and
new were open for the
inspection
of readers.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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Preliminary Note
xiii
1 I Luhmann and Derrida
Of all the
constellations
in which Derrida's work could be placed, the one involving Luhmann's ceuvre is the most outlandish - but also the most revealing.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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your statue
is spoiled, and there is no hope
whatever
of saving it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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But the war must go ON, according to
Churchill
and Roosevelt.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Money no longer dictates production, but an autarchic-cooperative order does the
dictating
and money depends on this order for its volume and value.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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A reward was oflTered by the government for
the discovery of the author of this " libel," as it
was
pleasantly
designated.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Now, the real nature of Awak- ening is to possess three qualities: the great cessation which is the complete removal ofthe two obscurations together with their associated habits; the great realiza- tion of awareness which is an
accurate
seeing, not confused by all the phenomena of discrimination; and the great brave mind which is activity arising continually and pervasively from spontaneous com-
passion for the benefit ofbeings.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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In reading sentences, he must learn to
run ahead, so that, while he is pronouncing one word with his lips, he
is
recognizing
others with his eye.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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Now may your soul no pain nor sorrow ken,
Finding the gates of
Paradise
open!
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Chanson de Roland |
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" end or
contrary
approach.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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"
In preferring the Baudelaire translations of Poe to the original--and
they give the
impression
of being original works--Stedman agreed with
Asselineau that the French is more concise than the English.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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WHILE moving round his post, he saw at night
Shine, cross the tomb, a strange, unusual light,
Which thither drew him, curious to unfold
What, through the chinks, his
eyesight
could behold.
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La Fontaine |
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"
Then
farewell
hopes of laurel-boughs,
To garland my poetic brows!
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burns |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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We press forward with no knowledge of when we shall return;
We look back, thinking of our former home;
Grieving and
lamenting
in the midst of ice and snow;
Groaning aloud, with our bowels rent asunder.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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XVIII
Astolpho
with desire to bring to end
An enterprise so passing fair, delays
No more, but to the task his force does bend,
And prove how much the heavy marble weighs.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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"
The Flowery Banks Of Cree
Here is the glen, and here the bower
All
underneath
the birchen shade;
The village-bell has told the hour,
O what can stay my lovely maid?
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burns |
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Parrhasius was the first won reputation by adding symmetry to picture; he
added subtlety to the countenance, elegancy to the hair, love-lines to
the face, and by the public voice of all artificers,
deserved
honour in
the outer lines.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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No change is
necessary
if an be taken to
govqern hire, = _on her_, and dæges be explained (like nihtes, etc.
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Beowulf |
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Whatever is actualized at a given mo- ment
occupies
only one position in time.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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Sappho was at the height
of her career about six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric
poetry was peculiarly esteemed and
cultivated
at the centres of Greek life.
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Sappho |
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Without any doubt, the number of cash machines that we can use now, twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week, exceeds the highest number of bank employees ever hired and paid in order to provide
customers
with cash.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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It was
Onomastus
who established the rules of boxing.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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Il me
semblait
un être si
extraordinaire que je trouvais merveilleux que des personnes que je
fréquentais le connussent aussi et que dans les hasards d’une journée
quelconque on pût être amené à le rencontrer.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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This is a sort of talking which is very
unpleasant
to me.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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The
contrast
is so marked that as
we turn from the one to the other we find ourselves asking
whether they can both be the work of the same man,
unless, indeed, we accept the Diana and the Sirmto as
fruits of study--an acquired calm, and say that the " fever
and the pain" were in the blood--an inheritance and a
birthright.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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They
should be regarded in many cases as merely the first strong and
suggestive
sketches
of an artist, intended to be embodied at some
time in the finished picture.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The
wrinkled
matron opes her treasm'd store
Of fairy tales and legendary lore.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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" His advocacy of the
measures
of James the Second caused him to be suspected of Popery, and he was at considerable pains to contradict the charge.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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Often a hidden god
inhabits
obscure being;
And like an eye, born, covered by its eyelids,
Pure spirit grows beneath the surface of stones!
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Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Since men lived
very
differently
then, when the world was new, and the sky but freshly
created, who, born out of the riven oak, or moulded out of clay, had no
parents.
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Satires |
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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I think we should all feel
better after that,
shouldn’t
we?
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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Indeed, it was all so simple that Fix
and
Passepartout
felt their hearts beating as if they would crack.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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DAVID HUME
Since the rise of the modern
critical
school of history his work has
in fact been largely superseded.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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[134]
Poseidippus (I)
[135] Anonymous { H 57 } G
To his Jug
Round, well-moulded, one-eared, long-necked, babbling with your little mouth, merry
waitress
of Bacchus and the Muses and Cythereia, sweetly-laughing treasuress of our club, why when I am sober are you full and when I get tipsy do you become sober ?
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Greek Anthology |
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But oh, the sea came
creeping
up,
And washed the name away,
And on the sand where it had been
A bit of sea-grass lay.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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It is mistaken to assume that Genesis necessarily
constituted
the beginning of the Jewish canon.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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He
has been
regarded
as the type of a race now gone by.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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Johnson, who has
followed
Wood, is right.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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