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A Strategy for Israel in the
Nineteen
Eighties, by Oded Yinon, translated by Israel Shahak
even more vital due to a number of central processes which the country, the region and the world are undergoing.
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But by this
time Kazbich was in the saddle, and, wheeling among the crowd along the
street,
defended
himself like a madman, brandishing his sabre.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Nihilism
as a sign of enhanced spiritual
strength : active Nihilism.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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Two cataclysmic world wars in this century have been spawned by the nationalism of the developed world in various guises, and if those passions have been muted to a certain extent in postwar Europe, they are still extremely
powerful
in the Third World.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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To
which is added, A
particular
Account of the Funeral of the King, in
a letter from Sir Thomas Herbert to Sir William Dugdale.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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Do you go about the streets at night, brawling, blowing a trumpet before
you, and making long
prayers?
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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I don't
understand
you.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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[10] and he replied, 'More than two hundred thousand, O king, and I shall make endeavour in the immediate future to gather together the remainder also, so that the total of five hundred
thousand
may be reached.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Wherefore
making the more haste,
we lighted upon an old man and a youth, who were very busy in making a
garden and in conveying water by a channel from the fountain into it:
whereupon we were surprised both with joy and fear: and they also were
brought into the same taking, and for a long time remained mute.
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Lucian - True History |
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A man
who has depths in his shame meets his destiny
and his delicate
decisions
upon paths which few
ever reach, and with regard to the existence of
which his nearest and most intimate friends may
be ignorant; his mortal danger conceals itself from
their eyes, and equally so his regained security.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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6* EXERCISES IN
Statim axe verso, quin exit
protinus
in auras,
Ut ferat laeta nuncia instantis veris.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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gregis ipse magister
inter pascentis me
numerare
solet.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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This is how Gerard Petitjean, a journalist from Le Nouvel Observateur, described the atmosphere at Foucault's lectures in 1975:
When Foucault enters the amphitheater, brisk and dynamic like someone who plunges into the water, he steps over bodies to reach his chair, pushes away the
cassette
recorders so he can put down his papers, removes his jacket, lights a lamp and sets off at full speed.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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It was during the year 1834 that, in Cork, "Father Prout" began
his
literary
career.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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[62] They decided all questions which concerned the
liturgy and religious worship, watched over the sacrifices and
ceremonies that they should be performed in accordance with the
traditional rites,[63] acted as
inspectors
over the other minister of
religion, fixed the calendar,[64] and were responsible for their actions
neither to the Senate nor to the people.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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One night in a dream he saw the Bodhisattva
Manjusri*
cut open his stomach with a knife and wash out his brain.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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There was a ring of
disappointment
in them.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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Ma da ch'e tuo voler che piu si spieghi
di nostra
condizion
com' ell' e vera,
esser non puote il mio che a te si nieghi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The
privations
of the crusaders themselves would have been
intolerable but for the assistance of their Armenian and other native
Christian allies.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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A critical
analysis
of the history of the Soviet Union on the basis
of seven years' residence in Russia as a journalist.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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We pledge our word to him, and
when he has uttered his dolorous tale we deny the word that we have
spoken, and pass from him; such cruelty being courtesy indeed, for who
more base than he who has mercy for the
condemned
of God?
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Oscar Wilde |
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separate
from this, which I hope will
arrive safely.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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For Plato, on the contrary,
knowledge
of the truly real had its ethical purpose within itself; this knowledge was to constitute virtue, and hence it had no other relation to the world given through ception than that of sharply defining its limits.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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_The Lady Mary Villars_, niece of the first Duke of Buckingham,
married
successively
Charles, son of Philip, Earl of Pembroke, Esme
Stuart, Duke of Richmond and Lennox, and Thomas Howard.
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Robert Herrick |
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[144]
Democritus
was a native of Abdera.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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Aft hae I rov'd by Bonie Doon,
To see the rose and
woodbine
twine:
And ilka bird sang o' its Luve,
And fondly sae did I o' mine;
Wi' lightsome heart I pu'd a rose,
Fu' sweet upon its thorny tree!
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burns |
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We
must also know how to live with reduced energy:
as soon as pain gives its precautionary signal, it is
time to reduce the
speed—some
great danger,
some storm, is approaching, and wc do well to
"catch" as little wind as possible.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Arcas, the ancestor of the Arcadians, was the son of Zeus and Lycaon’s daughter
Callisto
who was changed into a bear.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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Only stand and watch awhile
The blue
unbroken
circle of the sea.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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at is
Maidenes
spouse.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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12 (#36) ##############################################
12 ECCE HOMO
valuation of all Values has been
possible
to me
alone.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Ilk hoary hunter mourn'd a brither;
Ilk
sportsman
youth bemoan'd a father;
Yon auld gray stane, amang the heather,
Marks out his head;
Whare Burns has wrote, in rhyming blether,
"Tam Samson's dead!
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burns |
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His memory was sacredly
His
portrait
was preserved as an inspiration in innumer-
able homes.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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"After his death and the
election
of Nicholas V, Felix, who was a good
man, weary of contests, abdicated, and the Council of Lausanne, which
had removed thither from Basle, accepted his abdication in favour of
Pope Nicholas, and so ended the schism.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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On his royage to
esbos with Philomeleides,
end
conquered
him (Od.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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One of these as they rode on together related a
horrible
story of how
his friend Socrates saw a companion murdered by a witch.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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AMITIES
III
But you, bos amic, we keep on, Fortoyouweowearealdebt:
In spite of your obvious flaws,
You once discovered a
moderate
chop-house.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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(1, 158)
Nietzsche's "grand politics,"
according
to Heidegger, rejects the "exploitative power politics of imperialism.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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" Only the blind arid the hopelessly romantic among us can still believe that the erstwhile
structure
and divisions of the sciences
• I.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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Our words used as we use them in science, are all vessels capable only of containing and
conveying
meaning and sense, natural meaning and sense.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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Why don’t you tell the truth, child,
didn’t
Bob Ewell beat you up?
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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It was
forbidden
for
anybody to keep at home either jewels, plate, silver or copper money,
above a certain value, and, by the law Oppia, even the toilette of the
ladies was limited.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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The American
Constitution
was a product of compromise among diverging interests, regional, eco- nomic and social.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Nearly all the world of publications is open to the swindler, the exceptions being the high-class
magazines
and a very few independent spirited newspapers.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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The
centripetence
augments the centrifugence.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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, come up against a radical
counterposition
here.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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Legamen ad paginam Latinam 8 1 And now, lest any one
consider
that I have rashly put faith in some Greek or Latin writer, there is in the Ulpian Library,23 in the sixth case, an ivory book, in which is written out this decree of the senate, signed by Tacitus himself with his own hand.
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Historia Augusta |
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You as a Minister of God, can meet them
With
spiritual
weapons: but, alas!
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Longfellow |
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He strove to
forget them in an act of prayer, huddling his limbs closer
together
and
binding down his eyelids: but the senses of his soul would not be bound
and, though his eyes were shut fast, he saw the places where he had
sinned and, though his ears were tightly covered, he heard.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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Now this other clave very
vehemently
to her damsel, saying she was the mother that bare and nursed her, but the outland woman laid violent hands upon her and haled her far away; nor went she altogether unwilling, for she that haled her said: “The Aegis-Bearer hath ordained thee to be mine.
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Moschus |
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Ille, datis vddibus, ruri qui
extractus
in urbem est.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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Spiritual truths are simply
inaccessible
to human cognition without the assistance of the Vedas.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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Here, the
Entwicklung
of reason is re-formed in its Bildung.
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Education in Hegel |
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The sun of
a new gospel sheds its first ray upon the loftiest height in the souls
of those few: but the clouds are massed there, too, thicker than ever,
and not far apart are the
brightest
sunlight and the deepest gloom.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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CHRISTUS and his
disciples
pass.
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Longfellow |
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This occurrence of the terms abhidhamma-abhivinaya is the only place in the Sutras where abhidharma and abhivinaya are ranked
together
with supernormal states of attainment, but such an explanation as Horner's is not necessary for under- standing the sense of this passage.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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It must be
admitted, that the great unifying poet who worked on the epic material
before him, did not always produce
something
which must come within the
scope of this intention.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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A Scotch
miscellaneous
writer; born in
London, 1845.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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A shut door of a silent tower,
entombing
their--blind
bodies, the panthersahib and his pointer.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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We think we've all heard quite enough of this your sad
disaster!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He is the supreme
master of irony and
troubled
voluptuousness.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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el nacimiento y la muerte de los seres hu- manos, la
natalidad
y la mortalidad, por usar sus mismas palabras, deben ser diferentes del na- cimiento y la muerte de cualquier otro ser vivo.
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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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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Sallust - Catiline |
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The links to the tradition are well marked in
Baumgarten
s introduction of the concept of aesthetics: "Aesthetica (theoria lib- eralium artium, gnoseologia inferior, ars pulchre cogitandi, ars analogia rationis) est scientia cognitionis sensitivae" (?
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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When it came to the point, the
Poles found they had been making mountains out of
mole-hills, and the
assimilation
of the Germans, whose
nationality has never been wider than their own frontiers,
was accomplished with rapidity and ease.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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On
discovering
what she had eaten, she threw herself from a window to her death.
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Troubador Verse |
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But have you never found my brother's way
To the
forfended
place?
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Shakespeare |
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One day something happened which in a
roundabout
way was enlightening.
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Orwell |
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diez y
ocho ,
sirviendo
a los Philistcos Jephte?
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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Something like this, then, my guide had to tell,
Perched on a saint cracked across when he fell; 10
But since I might chance give his meaning a wrench,
He talking his _patois_ and I English-French,
I'll put what he told me,
preserving
the tone,
In a rhymed prose that makes it half his, half my own.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Therefore he must know
how to influence his hearer's
imagination
favour-
ably towards himself.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Just for the swirl
Thy satins made upon the stair, 'Cause never a flaw was there Where thy torse and limbs are met Though thou hate me, read it set
1
In rose and
Or when the minstrel, tale half told, Shall burst to lilting at the phrase
" Audiart, Audiart "
Bertrans, master of his lays,
Bertrans
of Aultaforte thy praise
Sets forth, and though thou hate me well, Yea though thou wish me ill
Audiart, Audiart.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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The essayist
dismisses
his own proud hopes which sometimes lead him to believe that he has come close to the ultimate: he has, after all, no more to offer than explanations of the poems of others, or at best of his own ideas.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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72 Let none
disparage
Artemis.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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I cannot here enter on a dis- cussion as to the idea of religion ; but it is enough to say that it is associated essentially with an acceptance of the higher and eternal in man as different in kind, and in no sense to be derived from the
phenomenal
life.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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CHAPTER 19
Edward
remained
a week at the cottage; he was earnestly pressed by Mrs.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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The strange figures of poetic drama and
ballad are made by the
imagination
of others, but out of his own
imagination entirely did Jesus of Nazareth create himself.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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Under the roof were
loopholes
to shoot through, and to pour
down boiling water or even molten lead on the enemy, should he
approach.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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"
This account is true, and agrees with our scriptures; for in them it is written that Nebuchadnezzar, in the eighteenth year of his reign, destroyed our temple, and so it lay in ruins for fifty years; but in the second year of the reign of Cyrus its foundations were laid, and it was
completed
again in the second year of Dareius.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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”
O could you but hear it, at
midnight
my laugh:
My hour is striking; come step in my trap;
Now into my net stream the fishes.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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He took office a second time in 1872, and
later filled the post of
Minister
of Finance, which he resigned on the
proclamation of the Republic.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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It will of course be
preserved
here.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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His advent momentarily interrupts, but does not dam up, a flood of supernatural incidents which are being
exchanged
between the sick man and a coterie of distinguished friends, including reverend heads of philosophic schools, among them a Platonic D.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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Desire is, as it were, an ine ective will, whereas active impulse or tendency is will which
produces
an action.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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But me thinkes that Caesar above all doth
singularly deserve to be studied, not onely for the understanding of
the
historie
as of himselfe; so much perfection and excellencie is
there in him more than in others, although Salust be reckoned one of
the number.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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Ye must have experi-
enced every form of
scepticism
and ye must have
wallowed with voluptuousness in ice-cold baths,-
otherwise ye have no right to this thought; I wish
to protect myself against those who are over-ready
to believe, likewise against those who gush over any-
thing!
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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Upon the whole, the World is left to its Liberty to believe, at least Three Dying Mens Asseverations, against those who so plainly swore others Necks into the Halter, to get their own out, that West himself is not ashamed to own in his
forementioned
Answer, That he was still in Danger of Death, though not so eminent as it had been ; not at the apparent Point of Death.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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, whereas the food-producing area
increased
by only 4.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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Argonauts, he
attempted
to get rid of Aeson hy
viii.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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And during the feast offenng,
when nectar was offered to the guru, she said, "This is a
sacrament
of the <;lakinIs.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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The buddhas and the patriarchs have never made the teachings, practice, and
experience tainted, and so the teachings, practice, and
experience
have never
hindered the buddhas and the patriarchs.
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Shobogenzo |
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When the Crusaders
breached
the walls of Jerusalem they sacked the city while the mood was on them.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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KONRAD
FERDINAND
MEYER
(1825-)
OREMOST among the German poets and novelists of our time
stand the two Swiss writers Gottfried Keller and Konrad
Ferdinand Meyer.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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'Neither, Sir,' replied my mother, pro-
voked at his
sarcastic
manner, which my
retort had instantly revived; * they are
neither; but whatever they are, they
would do honour to any person, even
to Pope himself.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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That people keep on
translating
Catullus is rea-
son enough why they should.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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This book, the voice of which speaks out across
the ages, is not only the loftiest book on earth,
literally the book of mountain air,—the whole
phenomenon, mankind, lies at an incalculable dis-
tance beneath it,—but it is also the deepest book,
born of the inmost
abundance
of truth; an inex-
haustible well, into which no pitcher can be
lowered without coming up again laden with gold
and with goodness.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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" You shall swear, by the custom of our confession, " That you never made any nuptial transgression;
" Since you were married man and wife,
" By
household
brawls or contentious strife ;
georce 11.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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