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Without soul-life but
skeletons
are we --
On me, Youth, bestow thy wings!
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Then the fair Russian went up to the old
peasant, and said, "Permit me,
venerable
father, to
salute you after the fashion of my country.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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”
4
These
regulations
are instructive enough: we
can see in them the absolutely pure and primeval
humanity of the Aryans,—we learn that the notion
"pure blood,” is the reverse of harmless.
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31 Franz
Baermann
Steiner, Am stu?
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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But often those that do not fear eternal punishments, at all events on account of
temporal
chastening are afraid to do what is bad.
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Kho vêu con kbá h cho ngoan,
IKH
cbừếề
Ibối xíu, dỈJ đang bồ thăm.
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*Fairfax was He, who, in that Darker Age,
By his just Rules restrain'd Poetic Rage:
Spencer did next in Pastorals excel,
And taught the Noble Art of Writing well:
To
stricter
Rules the Stanza did restrain,
And found for Poetry a richer Veine.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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Thou hast
conquered
me, O Lord!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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```Quod juvet: et voces et
anhelitus
arguat oris.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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Ye cannot
penetrate
her regions bright!
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Petrarch |
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The
belief in necromancy,
sortilege
and magic exists at the present
time in cities as well as in rural districts and will always be found
wherever the great emotions of life?
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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Too large for easy
concealment
about a woman's
dress.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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In a
world of Becoming, reality is merely a simplification
for the purpose of practical ends, or a deception
resulting from the
coarseness
of certain organs, or
à variation in the tempo of Becoming.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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attribution
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Schweigende
versammelten
sich jene am Tisch; Sterbende brachen sie mit wa?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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O sonho imperfeito, com ponto de partida na vida, desgosta-me, ou, antes, me
desgostaria
se eu me embrenhasse nele.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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I have not duplicated the original's monorhyme in full, but have rather substituted
assonance
(ending every couplet with the same vowel in the final stressed syllable, though the consonants after it may be different.
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Translated Poetry |
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The great harbour, in addition to its being well enclosed by the mound
and by nature, is of
sufficient
depth near the shore to allow the
largest vessel to anchor near the stairs.
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Strabo |
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Even though you
practice
in such a way that there is not even as much as a hair tip of a concrete reference point to cultivate by meditating, do not stray into ordinary deluded diffusion, even for a single moment.
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The courtly state was about to leave behind the difference between the
nobility
and the people--which was based on social rank and was responsible for the failure of classical ideas of republican "liberty.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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"Dorothy," writes Miss
Yonge, in her "History of
Christian
Names,"
23
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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Notwithstanding this concept, and, although the action of revela- tion in God is
necessary
only morally or in regard to goodness and love, the notion remains of God's deliberating with himself or of a
* Tentam.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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This too
sometime
we shall haply remember with
delight.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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BOND AND FREE
Love has earth to which she clings
With hills and
circling
arms about--
Wall within wall to shut fear out.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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FROM 1692 TO THE
CONSTITUTION
OF 1782.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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He felt himself lowered in the eyes of the
Wedgewoods
: a salary, though small as it was, was provided for him ; and Mackintosh drove him out of the house —an offence which Coleridge never for gave.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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And have your masks and your ruses, that ye may
be mistaken for what you are, or
somewhat
feared !
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Dryf out the
fantasyes
yow with-inne; 1615
And trusteth me, and leveth eek your sorwe,
Or here my trouthe, I wol not live til morwe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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[570] An
allusion
to a verse in his 'Hippolytus,' where Euripides says,
"_The tongue has sworn, but the heart is unsworn.
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Aristophanes |
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1 I doubt whether, subject matter set aside, Claudian might not deceive the very elect into thinking him a
contemporary
of Statius, with whose Silvae his own shorter poems have much in common.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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"
Low spake the voice within his head,
In words imagined more than said,
Soundless
as ghost's intended tread:
"If thou art duller than before,
Why quittedst thou the voice of lore?
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Lewis Carroll |
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The
Riverside
Press
CAMBRIDGE .
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Imagists |
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3 But the reader continues to wonder whether, if Albertine were
restored
to him, as he sometimes dreams is the case, Proust's narrator would still love her?
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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When Maenius, having bravely made away with his
paternal
and maternal
estates, began to be accounted a merry fellow--a vagabond droll, who had
no certain place of living; who, when dinnerless, could not distinguish
a fellow-citizen from an enemy; unmerciful in forging any scandal
against any person; the pest, and hurricane, and gulf of the market;
whatever he could get, he gave to his greedy gut.
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Horace - Works |
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In this sense, the Egyptians remain eternal prisoners of externality to Hegel, like the Chinese, whose language and writing form one giant system of barriers and dis-
turbances
that render impossible the fulfilled moment in which the spirit, distancelessly atten- dant on itself, hears itself speak.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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was offered for the
apprehension of the offenders ; in
consequence
of which, two of them were taken into custody, tried
george ii.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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When guilt goes forth, let
lapwings
shrill,
And dogs and foxes great with young,
And wolves from far Lanuvian hill,
Give clamorous tongue:
Across the roadway dart the snake,
Frightening, like arrow loosed from string,
The horses.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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n amo/esclavo, parece una
prolongacio?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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In this manner of life he would have been content to continue, had Situ
Rinpoche
not finally sent word that it was time for him to return to the world and teach.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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Lest thou make a covenant with the
inhabitants
of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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tho' that long dream were of
hopeless
sorrow,
'Twere better than the dull reality
Of waking life to him whose heart shall be,
And hath been ever, on the chilly earth,
A chaos of deep passion from his birth!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And what is
signified
by Jacob but the Jewish people, and by Israel but the Gentile world?
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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This is
what Petrarch meant when he made the authors of the Roman de
la Rose the reproach that their 'Muse' was asleep;--and when he
contrasted with their coldness the passionate ardour
breathed
by
the verses 'of those divine singers of love', Virgil, Catullus, Pro-
pertius, and Ovid.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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The counsel of the great gods to him I did not impart;
A dream to
Hasisadra
I sent, and the will of the gods he learned.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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Keep to the bare
necessities
for sustaining your life and warding off the bitter cold; reflect on the fact that nothing else is really needed.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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He also gave him all the other authority of a king, except that he instructed him, that he should not wear the diadem, nor do any harm to the queen, the mother of his children, and that he should not meddle with the other
concubines
of the king.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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His golden
keepsake
bought us wine.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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Finally, the growing
consciousness
is a danger,
and whoever lives among the most conscious
Europeans knows even that it is a disease.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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at wat3
Gryngolet
grayth, & gurde with a sadel,
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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That is to say, even in labor
relations
organized business finds itself facing the government.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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Foucault's own theory of power is meant to replace these "juridico-discursive" accounts:
It is this image that we must break free of, that is, of the theoreti- cal
privilege
of law and sovereignty, if we wish to analyze power within the concrete and historical framework of its operation.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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(32)
The least one can say about these lines is that they are profoundly non-Hegelian, even taking into ac- count Jameson's unexpected dialec- tical point: since an element can be properly grasped only through its difference to its opposite, and since the I's opposite--the not-I--is as
inaccessible
to the I as it is in-itself, the consequence of the unknow- ability of the not-I as it is in-itself, independently of the I, is the un- knowability of consciousness (the I) itself as it is in-itself.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up,
nonproprietary
or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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William Browne |
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It is like a
hitherto
unknown and virginal revelation
of the earth.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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32 And clearly, the Nei ye, a text with many
similarities
to the Daode jing, is devoted primarily to urging the reader to engage in such practices.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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The last inducement which shall be mentioned, is the want of precautions to guard against a foreign
influence
insinuating itself into the direction of the bank.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Morning at the Window
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the
trampled
edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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If the theft appeared
incapable
of expiation, or if the thief was not in a position to pay the value demanded by the injured party and approved by the judge, he was by the judge assigned as a bondsman to the person from whom he had stolen.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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The poetry, like the fiction, has a little of this and that; of the nine poets, eight are new to our pages and come from here and there, meaning Edmonton in Cana- da, Alpharetta in Georgia, Fitzwilliam in New Hampshire and Madison in Wiscon- sin, all known for their peculiar
culinary
styles and taste.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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XXIX
Romances pleased her from the first,
Her all in all did constitute;
In love adventures she was versed,
Rousseau and
Richardson
to boot.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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we find a
statement
which, at least in the German version, has echoes of Kafka.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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In the
Nubes of Aristophanes, the λόγος δίκαιος says, "In former days young
men were not allowed οὐδ' ὀψοφαγεῖν,
οὐδὲ
κιχλίζειν.
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Satires |
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And even if your education in studies and
reflections
is boundless, unless you succeed in being in harmony with the Dharma, you will not tame your enemy, negative emotions.
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Though Kalden Drakpa explains that the fire energy of the right nostril moves at the beginning of a day, the Vow Arisal states that:
From the first day of the white fortnight
Beginning
to move in the moon [channel] For three days in a half session.
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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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150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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They hold the terms of the meeting months, when the sky on eight nights is
deceptive
beyond its wont for lack of the bright-eyed moon.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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They mustmake clear by theirexample on all occasions that,the "peace
forinstancecannotindeed be solved but must question" scientifically; they
showthatit can be
discussedin
a scientificspirit.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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The unique possibility of
criticizing
so-called late capitalism will be its tremendously practical self-critique; the mass price of computer chips, once they have been designed, sinks rapidly to zero.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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magazine's "Take Our Daughters to Work Day" explained recent high school shootings with the
remarkable
assertion that boys in America "are being trained by their parents, other adults, and our culture and media to harass, assault, rape, and murder girls.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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" It is time
to limit the
significance
of certain terms, or to enlarge the
significance of certain things.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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"
"Keep your
boasting
till you've beaten," answered the
Tortoise.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:20 GMT / http://hdl.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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O let us not, like snarling curs,
In
wrangling
be divided,
Till, slap!
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burns |
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10
Her frequent fits of sickness, in most parts of her life, had prevented her from making that progress in reading which she would
otherwise
have done.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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The phrase "an uncomfortable feeling" is particularly
characteristic of his
condition
on that day and during the whole
of that period; it sums up his misery, joylessness, and the feeling
that life was a burden to him.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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These and many things of the like kind he represents
me as saying, taking the pattern of his effrontery from a letter of
Jerome, who complains that his rivals had
circulated
a forged letter
under his name amongst a synod of bishops in Africa; in which he was
made to confess that, deceived by certain Jews, he had falsely
translated the Old Testament from the Hebrew.
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Erasmus |
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At the end of the day, nothing would have been defined; there would not be any
concepts
whatsoever.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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One of the purest
examples
is offered by the voluntary service of the today's military.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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I said a
little while back that the first thing I
remember
is the smell of sainfoin, but the smell of
dustbins is also a pretty early memory.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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Keep to the bare necessities for
sustaining
your life and warding off the bitter cold; reflect on the fact that nothing else is really needed.
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A Connaught Bishop
told his people a while since that they 'should never read stories
about the
degrading
passion of love,' and one can only suppose that
being ignorant of a chief glory of his Church, he has never understood
that this new puritanism is but an English cuckoo.
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A Fund delegation arrived in August to find the budget deficit exploding to almost 20 percent of GDP even after
spending
restraint, as $1.
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It is detrimental to think, ''I'm a wonderful per- son to have been so
virtuous
and accumulated this merit.
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60 VARIOUS PROSE ESSAYS
whole as the Symposion, no orator penned such an
oration as I put up in the
Georgias—and
now I
reject all that together and condemn all imitative
art!
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=--Let us assume for a
moment the
validity
of the skeptical standpoint: granted that there is
no metaphysical world, and that all the metaphysical explanations of the
only world we know are useless to us, how would we then contemplate men
and things?
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the
sentence
set forth in paragraph 1.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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(For what to shun will no great
knowledge
need;
But what to follow is a task indeed.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The city lies on a mountain, at a
distance
from the sea of about 25
stadia.
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* You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form,
including
any
word processing or hypertext form.
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)--This same Necho is
also famous in the annals of geographical discovery
for a voyage which,
according
to Herodotus (4, 42),
he caused to be performed around Africa, for the so-
lution of the grand mystery which involved the form
and termination of that continent.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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In the extremity to
which they have thus reduced me, I embrace the only part that remains
to a man of heart to defend his
political
position.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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"
"But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down
once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you
can understand that I am not
accustomed
to doing such business in
my own person.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Rivers arise; whether thou be the Son,
Of utmost Tweed, or Oose, or gulphie Dun,
Or Trent, who like some earth-born Giant spreads
His thirty Armes along the
indented
Meads,
Or sullen Mole that runneth underneath,
Or Severn swift, guilty of Maidens death,
Or Rockie Avon, or of Sedgie Lee,
Or Coaly Tine, or antient hallowed Dee,
Or Humber loud that keeps the Scythians Name,
Or Medway smooth, or Royal Towred Thame.
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Milton |
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They only perish of winter 10
Whom Love,
audacious
and tender,
Never hath visited.
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Sappho |
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"We have been
betrayed!
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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