τότε ο ξανθός Μενέλαος 'ς το δώμα τους ωδήγα•
και εις
ταις
καθήκλαις, 'ς τα θρονιά, καθήσαν όλοι αράδα.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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The
inscription
on the stone is as follows:--
"HERE LIES ROBERT FERGUSSON, POET.
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Robert Forst |
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Callimachus's
quarrel with his brother poet seems to have been a
purely
literary
one.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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I
never saw anything handsomer than the
grouping
of towers, chimneys,
&c.
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Selection of English Letters |
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Milo left his place of exile Massilia, and called the
Pompeians
and the slave-herdsmen
48-47.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Generally refers to the followers of Buddhism, and more
specifically
to the community of monks and nuns.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of the South,
Who had an immoderate mouth;
But in
swallowing
a dish that was quite full of Fish,
He was choked, that Old Man of the South.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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glich-
keiten, so
widersinnig
und u?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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349; the
philosopher
as educator, 378; the
warrior as educator, 379.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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"Wonderful yogini,
practitioner
of the secret teachings!
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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[49] L Thus then we have traced the birth and origin of the orators of Greece, who were, indeed, very ancient, as I have before observed, if we compute by the Roman Annals; but of a much later date, if we reckon by their own: for the Athenian State had
signalized
itself by a variety of great exploits, both at home and abroad, a considerable time before she was ravished with the charms of eloquence.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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I recollect our having
appointed
a meeting
in the city of Steubenville, which is situated on the bank of the
river Ohio.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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The General Lascy, who had been hard press'd,
Seeing arrive an aid so opportune
As were some hundred
youngsters
all abreast,
Who came as if just dropp'd down from the moon,
To Juan, who was nearest him, address'd
His thanks, and hopes to take the city soon,
Not reckoning him to be a 'base Bezonian'
(As Pistol calls it), but a young Livonian.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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Ante fores cavus antrum,
fcecundus
papaver floreo,
Et (synon.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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For even if the possibility of morality is incompatible with the idea of the
absolute
woman, it does not follow that man is to make no effort to save the average woman from further deterioration ; much less is he to help to keep woman as she is.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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It is fitting, then, that the crusade as a
behavioural
pattern had a purely metaphorical meaning from the Modern Age onwards.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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And for the
historian
two decades later, when the program contained in them has so crushingly gone into effect up to a point, or down to a squalor.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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; i' ii:g
Eiiiljiii
ii;11i1;i?
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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Chewing his blade of hay he laid the
coffinlid
by and came
to the doorway.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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They
grappled
with each other
goring like an ox.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Mahony)_
Battle of the
Norsemen
and the Gaels
Madelaine
The Fay and the Peri--_Asiatic Journal_
LES ORIENTALES.
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Hugo - Poems |
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He appears to have obtained a considerable reputa tion as a dramatic writer, which will appear from the following
testimony
in Puttenham's Art of Poetry: “I
“think that for Tragedy the Lord Buckhurst and
“Maister Edward Ferrys, for such doings as I have
“seen of theirs, do deserve the highest price; the Earl
“of Oxford, and Mr.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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VROBERTV5 CARD
BELLARMXNVS
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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I
remember
the old garden gate,
There, for her we used to wait ;
And how we used to beg
To the barn to go and hunt the hen's tgg.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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Chez Dostoïevski il y a, concentré
et grognon,
beaucoup
de ce qui s'épanouira chez Tolstoï.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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Sotion seems to have been the intermediate link in which the Stoic morals were brought into union with the
Alexandrian
Pythagoreanism, and given that religious turn which characterises them in the time of the Empire.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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But come with old Khayyam, and leave the Lot
Of
Kaikobad
and Kaikhosru forgot:
Let Rustum lay about him as he will,
Or Hatim Tai cry Supper--heed them not.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The beating of a twenty-year-old heart inside his thirty-two-year-old chest felt like an
improper
kiss given by a boy to a man.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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«a la naturaleza le gusta
permanecer
en la latencia», nombrara un aspecto decisivo de la distribución originaria de lo oculto y de lo mani fiesto.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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The idea of "graduated deterrence" and much of the argument for a conventional warfare
capability
in Europe are based on the notion that if passive deterrence initially fails, the more active kind may yet work.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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Should not our great saints then be received with all possible
manifestations
of respect while on their travels ?
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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net),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of
obtaining
a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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LFS}
Spreading them out before the Sun like Stalks of flax to dry
The infant joy is beautiful but its anatomy
Horrible Ghast & Deadly nought shalt thou find in it
But Death Despair & Everlasting brooding Melancholy
Thou wilt go mad with horror if thou dost Examine thus * {added on center right margin, 90 degrees rotated LFS}
Every moment of my secret hours Yea I know
That I have sinnd & that my Emanations are become harlots
I am already distracted at their deeds & if I look
Upon them more Despair will bring self murder on my soul
O Enion thou art thyself a root growing in hell
Tho thus heavenly beautiful to draw me to destruction
Sometimes I think thou art a flower
expanding
*{This and the following four lines are added evidently in light pencil in the top margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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What can I do,
Caecilianus?
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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237 If "control," or, as engineers say,
negative
feedback, is the key to power in this century,238 then fighting that power requires pos- itive feedback.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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But to wear out your brain trying to make things into one without
realizing
that they are all the same - this is called "three in the morning.
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Chuang Tzu |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations
received
from
outside the United States.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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In vain the poor jackal howled and shrieked to the tiger to stop, — the noise behind him only
frightened
the coward more ; and away he went, helter-skelter, hurry-scurry, over hill and dale, till he was nearly dead with fatigue, and the jackal was quite dead from bumps and bruises.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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Knowing the great advan- tages to be derived from the preservation of pedigrees and genealogies, as also, in order to avoid probable confusion and mistake, in recording them, to Bryan Boiroimhe is attributed the idea of
establishing
surnames for the principal tribal chiefs and families of Ireland,^?
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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He who wants to be responsible for himself stops searching for guilty parties: he ceases to live theoretically and to constitute himself on missing origins and
supposed
causes.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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Assuming ft then- as a consequence, from what has beea said, that, a national bank is a
desirable
institution, two inquiries emerge---Is there no such institution, already in being, which has a claim to that character, and which supersedes the propriety or necessity of another ?
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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But Theseus, who surpassed all the sons of Erechtheus, an unseen bond kept beneath the land of Taenarus, for he had followed that path with Peirithous;
assuredly
both would have lightened for all the fulfilment of their toil.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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We now have the independence to genuinely apply the sacred Dharma, so do not
squander
your life on pointless things.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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In
selection
for eugenic improvement, it is desirable not to have to
select for too many traits at once.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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She
compared
the
black hair of Daphnis to myrtle-berries; while he likened her cheeks to
apples,[29] because the white was suffused with red.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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Les domestiques avaient rentré précipitamment leurs chaises, car quand
les cuirassiers défilaient rue Sainte-Hildegarde, ils en remplissaient
toute la largeur, et le galop des chevaux rasait les maisons couvrant
les trottoirs
submergés
comme des berges qui offrent un lit trop
étroit à un torrent déchaîné.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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Christian
Prayers & holie meditations.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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But to let them see how they are clean out of the way, with the
Muses' good favor we'll take this
syllogism
in pieces.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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“the
misfortunes
which possess us” : the Greeks is ‘Are not the woes which possess us, coming ever latest day, enough!
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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And there
Aegisthus
stayed,
The omens in his hand, dividing slow
This sign from that; till, while his head bent low,
Up with a leap thy brother flashed the sword,
Then down upon his neck, and cleft the cord
Of brain and spine.
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Euripides - Electra |
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3768 (#130) ###########################################
3768
HENRY CLAY
Congress now appropriates yearly for internal
improvements
a
sum far greater than the entire revenue of the government at the
time Clay made this speech.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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It is my selfe I meane: in whom I know
All the particulars of Vice so grafted,
That when they shall be open'd, blacke Macbeth
Will seeme as pure as Snow, and the poore State
Esteeme him as a Lambe, being compar'd
With my
confinelesse
harmes
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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These needs do not form a part of his "better self"; they are not
accepted
by
his ego, and he would conceal them from himself as well as from other people.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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Denial offreedom; this makes the escape by the back door in Book 4
[ofThe World as Will and
Representation]
so feeble.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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Even those who have arguedthatnuclearsoughttobeconsideredjustamoreefficient kind of
artillery
will surely catch their breath when the first one goes off in anger.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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His work is full of
purpose, and has in it the energy of a
forceful
and zealous student.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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Whiles fortune doth support
And further Persey thus, he killes (but yet in sundrie sort)
Two
brothers
by the mother: t'one callde Clytie, tother Dane.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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Cambridge,
University
press, 1906.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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: t
z,t;i =;;:: iilli
=
*liii
iiliiii?
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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_Te nihil attinet_
_Tentare multa cæde bidentium_
_Parvos
coronantem
marino_
_Rore deos fragilique myrto_.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:45 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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I came here in the
responsible
capacity of policeman to watch Mr.
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Twain - Speeches |
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Collections
were made of
the various poems, gay and grave, amatory,
convivial, political, religious, which these wan-
dering minstrels sang at courts and monasteries.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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You have to understand that these people really believe that their question cannot be
answered!
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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Chapter Three, “Orientalism Now,” begins where
its
predecessor
left off, at around 1870.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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ItscreatorisneitherHitlernor LeninnorBismarckbutDescartes,whohastobe
stoodonhisheadifa
wayout oftheimpasseofmoderncivilizationis tobe found.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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Cicero
gives us to understand on one
occasion
that a letter addressed
to him had travelled the same distance in seven days.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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(written 1594 ;
acted 159–);“A
Midsummer
Night's Dream,' writ-
ten and acted 1594-95; published 1600; (King
Richard II.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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The fine slender shoulder-blades:
The long arms, with
tapering
hands:
My small breasts: the hips well made
Full and firm, and sweetly planned,
All Love's tournaments to withstand:
The broad flanks: the nest of hair,
With plump thighs firmly spanned,
Inside its little garden there?
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Villon |
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Like henhouses that seem to cluck
contentedly
.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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What nobler land shall e'er be yours,
If once ye give to hostile powers
The deep rich soil, and Dirce's wave,
The nursing stream, Poseidon gave
And Tethys'
children?
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Aeschylus |
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It also happens
sometimes
with TOR, with classrooms/schools, and other situations where the same IP address is being shared.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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3, the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project
Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all
liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal
fees.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Through spiritualization, the radical
domination
of nature - its own - art corrects the domination of nature as the domination of an other.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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We can
scarcely
imagine anything
so likely to imperil the harmony of the
Entente as the idea of a French Holy
Sepulchre.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:07 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Before he had been called away from life, the holy Bishop prayed for an
increase
of saintly relics for his grave-yard.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its
divisions
and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"And thou, O distant, sinful heart
That climbest up so high
To wrap and blind thee with the snows
That cause to dream and die,
What
blessing
can, from lips of man,
Approach thee with his sigh?
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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It is taking
place
everywhere
.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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The Pythian Games were
instituted
in honor of Apollo .
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Pindar |
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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" Though he disagreed with Herrnstein's
argument
about IQ (discussed in Chapter 6), he denied the popular charge that Herrnstein was a racist and distanced himself from fellow radical scientists who were denouncing the facts as dangerous:
A correlation between race and IQ (were this shown to exist) entails no social consequences except in a racist society in which each individual is assigned to a racial category and dealt with not as an individual in his own right, but as a representative of this category.
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if you had loved with delicacy, the oaths I made, the transports I indulged, the
caresses
I gave, would surely have comforted you.
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Impermanent is like a continual water fall:
something
else similar arises.
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There she stood
About a young bird's flutter from a wood,
Fair, on a sloping green of mossy tread,
By a clear pool, wherein she passioned
To see herself escap'd from so sore ills,
While her robes
flaunted
with the daffodils.
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And, to be sure, from two angles: Every whole that is more than a mere pair of given individuals has an
uncertainty
in its boundaries and its power, which easily tempts one to expect all kinds of benefits from it that in fact obligate the individual member; one shifts them onto society, in the way one often in the same psychological tendency shifts them into one's own future, whose vague possibilities give room for everything or will secure through one's own growing powers everything that one would not readily want to take on at the moment.
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7 Thus, not walls, but precipices, not defences formed by the hand, but by nature, protect the temple and the city; so that it is utterly
uncertain
whether the strength of the place, or the influence of the deity residing in it, attracts more admiration.
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Oh lang will his lady
Look o'er the Castle Down,
E'er she see the Earl of Murray
Come
sounding
thro the town!
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In the forty years alone in which television
advertising
has existed, considerable changes have become apparent.
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Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
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My mother sends you a small present of a cheese, 'tis but a very
little one, as our last year's stock is sold off; but if you could fix
on any
correspondent
in Edinburgh or Glasgow, we would send you a
proper one in the season.
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O, dicho de otra ma- nera, en el mundo neoliberal de la
globalizacio?
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)
Frolic, she
Laughs to feel the
pleasant
cool.
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At the outset the traveller discovers
a river of wine, and forthwith travels up stream to find the source,
and "when we were come to the head" (to quote Hickes's translation),
"no spring at all appeared, but mighty vine trees of
infinite
number,
which from their roots distilled pure wine, which made the river run
so abundantly.
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What are the roots that clutch, what
branches
grow
Out of this stony rubbish?
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'191-212'
For a discussion of this famous passage, see
introduction
to the
'Epistle' p.
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What the noble philosophers have said about the world is also true of Shakespeare: What we call evil is only the other side of good; it is
necessary
for the existence of the good and belongs to the whole just as the Torrid Zone must burn and Lapland must freeze so that there may be a temperate zone.
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Why is the latter
celebrated
and not the former?
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