At one end of the
continuum
we allow things to stand for other things that they resemble - as in cave paintings of buffaloes.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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But it is inevitable that among
passionate
and ambitious men divergent views and conceptions of policy will arise.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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The son's
destruction
waits the mother's fame:
For, till she leaves thy court, it is decreed,
Thy bowl to empty and thy flock to bleed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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'Tis well--
I hope they'll pardon an unhappy fault
My
unmannerly
infirmity has made!
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Thomas Otway |
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Likewise lacking [the wisdom of]
thatness
Even making a few great seeming wonders, Until one can dwell [aloft] in space,
After one's death, one will go to hell.
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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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Wherever I came, I
found silence and dejection,
coldness
and terrour.
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Samuel Johnson |
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THE QUESTIONS PROFESSOR ALLARDYCE RAISES are
legitimateand
necessary.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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It was allowed to use these notes for discounting bills, making
advances
on commodities, and for buying the precious metals.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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c'est vraiment bien
dommage!
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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The nature of provocative
generosity
is such that it is unable to be alone and wants even less to be so.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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The dis-
tracted world already
foresees
a whole brood of
wars springing out of the bloody seed of this.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Cabala, for example,
anything
to make the word mean something it does NOT say.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Hoc dimetiri non ulla
decempeda
possit:
Nec numeret Libycae numerum qui callet arenae.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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But this is a mistake either of Drummond, who
transcribed the poems
probably
as late as 1610, or of Donne himself,
whose tendency was to push these early effusions far back in his life.
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John Donne |
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But when Earl Doorm had eaten all he would,
He rolled his eyes about the hall, and found
A damsel
drooping
in a corner of it.
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Tennyson |
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And what has been said of Wax, may be
apply’d
to all
other outward things.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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tandem
Gorgonei
uictorem Persea monstri
felix illa dies redeuntem ad litora duxit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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In the long
evenings
he would have no one moving on the
other side of the fire.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Such a con-
ception makes it possible to contrast the words,
"On this rock will I build My Church" -- words
most grossly misunderstood -- with these other
words of which the meaning has vital application,
"Where two or three are
gathered
together in My
name, there am I in the midst of them.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:29 GMT / http://hdl.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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The Manual, telling the story in full, differed from
previous
au-
thorities at many points.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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By far the largest portion of hellebore is to be
administered
to the
covetous: I know not, whether reason does not consign all Anticyra to
their use.
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Horace - Works |
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"
For at her look the while,
Her voice, and her sweet smile,
And
heavenly
air, truth parted from mine eyes;
So that, with long-drawn sighs,
I said, as far from men,
"How came I here, and when?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Blessed be the Lord, for He hath shewn His wonderful
mercy to me in a
fortified
city.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Thus too , at the birth of Hercules , Bromia relates to the astonished
Amphitryo
, ( Act .
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Pindar |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation
copyright
in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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To lie and
meditate
at Sha Ch'iu Ch'êng.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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(I say 'caeteris paribus', because the
increase of the produce of any country will always very greatly depend
on the spirit of
industry
that prevails, and the way in which it is
directed.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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It's at the ferry I'm
plucking
lilies.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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'
Both are selfish; and it is on this motive of self-interest, or a view
of one's own advantage, that Smith
constantly
relies.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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The six days'
creative
work is then described in the order of Genesis.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"I flow in man's heart as
ambrosia
flows;
The grain the eternal Sower casts in the sod--
From our first loves the first fair verse arose,
Flower-like aspiring to the heavens and God!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The first
precious
stone on the
breast-plate of the High Priest, was the Ruby, or Sardine stone; the last, the
Jasper.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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Instead of giving their substance, even their very phrases are retained ; and, we often meet with passages, where the present tense occurs,
although
the
past might have been appropriately used, besides finding collateral allusions, havingnoapparenttextualconnexion.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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All the feet in the room except
Ariel's were in dainty kid or satin
slippers
of the color of the dresses
from which they glimmered out, and only Ariel wore a train.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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And ill
Such intertwine beseems triumphal wreaths 95
Strew'd before thy
advancing!
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William Wordsworth |
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there came
A thing which Adam had been posed to name;
Noah had refused it lodging in his Ark,
Where all the race of
reptiles
might embark:
A verier monster, that on Afric's shore
The sun e'er got, or slimy Nilus bore,
Or Sloane or Woodward's wondrous shelves contain,
Nay, all that lying travellers can feign.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Being thus sends the most
important
letters.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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141
the gifts of the Divinity, it is the most noble;
for it may be said to be a
superfluous
one.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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The servants
were taught to obey her mandates with
an
alacrity
never wished for.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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After another broadside for the Doctor, and another for the Doctor's
wife, the boys dispersed, and I went back into the house, where I found
the guests all
standing
in a group about the Doctor, discussing how Mr.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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Still less can it cease to be evil when, instead of one man,
thousands
of people are slaug itered under the name of war.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Strict order and method will, naturally and without farther
care on our part, arise
throughout
the whole subject-matter
of the discourses which I here propose to address to you, as
soon as we shall have made good our entrance within its
boundaries and set our foot firmly on its domain.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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And in his Foster Brothers he says-
How sweet all kinds of
moderation
are!
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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The former is the general conduct of bodhisattvas, and the latter mentions the
perfection
stage by way of example only, intending chiefly the jewel-like person, but includes all the distinctive unexcelled conducts of engaging with the objects of desire.
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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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In purely literary
criticism, Sainte-Beuve is his chief model; but his methods in
other
critical
fields were largely the results of his reading of
Renan.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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Edmund was less
favourably
disposed
towards Norwegians and appointed one Olaf in his stead.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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_ Was it likely that I would be
continually
and forever telling
you about worries that you could not help me to bear?
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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*" This Duke gave the island, with certain reservations, to the British Government, but, it was
purchased
for the sum of ;^7o,ooo.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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Con-
sequently, with a very few exceptions, they may be advantageously
treated here in relation to those kinds or styles—romantic narra-
tive, short lyric, overlapping couplet verse, ‘metaphysical' and
'conceited' diction and thought-as well as by a reasoned catalogue
of the poets, and a
chronological
list, accompanied by criticism, of
the works.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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_
"Thirteen
warriors
lie at rest with a black wound in the breast,
And not one of these will wake.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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He was sitting on
a low red-lac-
quered couch, in a room
furnished
only with a blue-and-white
floor-cloth, some rugs, and a very complete collection of native
cushions.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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For sorrow that you are lost the trees have cast their fruit on the ground, and all the flowers are
withered
away.
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Moschus |
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Prodiga |
divitijas
alilmentaque | mhia | tellus.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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A few fish are in much the same
condition
at all times, whether with spawn or not, as the glaucus.
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Aristotle copy |
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The
most ‘read adily
accepted
designation for Orientalism is an academic one, and indeed the label
still serves in a number of academic institutions.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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And still God's
sunshine
and His frost,
They make us hot, they make us cold,
As if we were not black and lost;
And the beasts and birds, in wood and fold,
Do fear and take us for very men:
Could the whip-poor-will or the cat of the glen
Look into my eyes and be bold?
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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Iswolsky, Helen, "Spiritual Resurgence in Russia," Survey Graphic, Feb-
ruary, 1944,
Melish, William Howard, "Religious Developments in the Soviet Union,"
American
Sociological
Review, June, 1944.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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(though the latter aspira- tion always
accompanied
a fairly predictable, romanticized notion of Paris).
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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[777]
Philippus →
[778]
Philippus →
[786] Anonymous { F 69 } G
The
inhabitants
erected to the god this beautiful altar, placing it here as a sign to mark the boundary of Leuce and Pteleus.
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Greek Anthology |
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taient point
asservis
a` cet
immense travail d'e?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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His prose-poem, Crowds, with its "bath of
multitude," may have been suggested by Poe; but in Charles Lamb we find
the idea: "Are there no
solitudes
out of caves and the desert?
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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366
FINAL STRUGGLE WITH THE MARATHAS
2
influence in Hindustan, dispatched
reinforcements
from Poona under
'Ali Bahadur and Tukoji Holkar.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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net/etext06
(Or /etext 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00, 99,
98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 92, 91 or 90)
EBooks posted since November 2003, with etext numbers OVER #10000, are
filed in a
different
way.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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How
familiar
he
would be with the character and ideals of his nation, how deeply in
sympathy with them!
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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After that comes in another Soup, and then a Service of
Butcher's Meat, that has been twice boil'd, or salt Meats warm'd again,
and then Pulse again, and by and by something of more solid Food, until
their
Stomachs
being pretty well staid, they bring roast Meat or stewed
Fish, which is not to be at all contemn'd; but this they are sparing of,
and take it away again quickly.
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Erasmus |
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What can laws, that needs must fail
Shorn of the aid of manners form'd within,
If the
merchant
turns not back
From the fierce heats that round the tropic glow,
Turns not from the regions black
With northern winds, and hard with frozen snow;
Sailors override the wave,
While guilty poverty, more fear'd than vice,
Bids us crime and suffering brave,
And shuns the ascent of virtue's precipice?
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Thus the kind of sexuality that we recognize today in practice contrib- utes to the
dissociation
of the ego, at least in the form in which that term is understood from Descartes onward.
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Foucault-Live |
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And now Ulysses from his seat arose
To seek the city, around whom, his guard 20
Benevolent, Minerva, cast a cloud,
Lest, haply, some
Phaeacian
should presume
T' insult the Chief, and question whence he came.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Well, I saw I must try to help the
medicine
do its work
with my will, if it was to do me any good, so I resolutely set myself to
sleep.
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| Source: |
Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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Rather then so, come Fate into the Lyst,
And
champion
me to th' vtterance.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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A building up of the military capabilities of the United States and the free world is a pre-condition to the achievement of the objectives outlined in this report and to the
protection
of the United States against disaster.
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| Source: |
NSC-68 |
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For the
sacerdotal
garment denotes the
Church.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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The shades that are here and there blended in the picture give
spirit, life, and prominence to her exuberant beauties, and those
roughnesses and inequalities, those inferior parts that support the
superior, though they sometimes offend the fastidious
microscopic
eye
of short-sighted man, contribute to the symmetry, grace, and fair
proportion of the whole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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THE RUINED MAID
"O 'Melia, my dear, this does
everything
crown!
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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She leaped into the boat, and I after her;
and I had not time to recover my wits before I
observed
that we were
adrift.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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The long,
plain house, built on one story, stood on a low hill, and
was
encircled
by a flat, marshy landscape.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Nor in AEschylus nor Dante, those stern masters of
tenderness, in Shakespeare, the most purely human of all the great
artists, in the whole of Celtic myth and legend, where the loveliness of
the world is shown through a mist of tears, and the life of a man is no
more than the life of a flower, is there
anything
that, for sheer
simplicity of pathos wedded and made one with sublimity of tragic effect,
can be said to equal or even approach the last act of Christ's passion.
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| Source: |
Wilde - De Profundis |
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Yet
graceful
ease, and sweetness void of pride, 15
Might hide her faults, if Belles had faults to hide:
If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Compellence and Brinkmanship
Another important distinction is between compellent actions that inflict steady pressure over time, with cumulative pain or damage to the
adversary
(and perhaps to oneself), and actions
that impose risk rather than damage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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His faith was a power- ful ally, one he would under no condition surrender: hence his dra- matic assertion that "to take off my religion it is
necessary
to take out my heart and to kill me"--both a statement of creed and a quashing of self-doubt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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It is the Whole
The Discipline
ofDesire
143
which, through and by me, loves itself, and it is up to me not to destroy the cohesion of the Whole, by re sing to accept such-and-such an event.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
|
When Christians and Persians first accepted Islam it
was not possible to include them in the
theocracy
in any other way than
by attaching them as clients (Mawali) to the Arabian tribal system.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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And
it came to pass, when the
minstrel
played, that the hand of the Lord came
upon him.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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of
duration
of time as in 8 ?
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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Davis,
resolved
to do the thing thoroughly, since he had begun.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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The same effect
u seen when muddy rivers of
considerable
volume
mingle with the sea or any other clear water.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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ditty of his own
composing,
expressive
of his own hap-
piness, and his attachment to himself.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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176 bart labuschagne
as we have seen, the religion of the Romans is all about everyday human affairs: personal and
political
success, well-being, prosperity etc.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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What
explanation
do you suppose they offer when they do this?
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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Thinkers of all classes have borne
testimony
in favour of the Newspaper Press.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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Should he choose you
for allies, you would serve him so far only as justice
would permit; but, if he attached himself to them,
he gained
assistants
in all the schemes of his ambi-
tion.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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"The long wordy
discussions
by which he tries to reason us into
admiration of his poetry, speak very little in his favor: they are
full of such assertions as this (I have opened one of his volumes at
random)--'Of genius the only proof is the act of doing well what is
worthy to be done, and what was never done before;'-indeed?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Das liebe Heil'ge Rom'sche Reich,
Wie halt's nur noch
zusammen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Knock down half a score reputations, and you will
infallibly
raise your own; and so it be with wit, no matter with how little justice; for fiction is your trade.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Yea, man and birds are fain of
climbing
high.
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Shakespeare |
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D'abord c'était elle qui
soignait
(Mlle A.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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The
background
was somber--almost black.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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FIGHTING THE RED TRADE MENACE 249
losses from France and Belgium added to those from
the six
countries
that laid down complete embargoes
would mean that the Soviet Union had lost a grand
total of 1.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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