The structural technique by which a system avoids this condition of changing
everything
at once is differentiation-or more exactly: a matching of internal and ex- ternal differentiation.
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Those tours, however, were understood to be under the direction of Heaven, and the lighting of the pile of wood, on
reaching
the mountain of each quarter, is taken as having been an announcement to Heaven of the king's arrival.
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The guidance of public affairs had, in
the new epoch of trained
professional
armies, passed into the hands
small hierarchy of military administrators.
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Ididnotknow
One half the substance of his speech with me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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" 11 They brought forward also the
fabulous
accounts of their old crimes, with which they had filled every theatre, to make them odious not only for their recent perfidy, but for their ancient infamy.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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Mark this, thou unprofaned Nature:
thou hast grown old, and for
thousands
of years
this starry sky has spanned the space above thee—
but thou hast never yet heard such conceited and,
at bottom, mischievous chatter as the talk of the
present day!
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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The clergy were mostly loyal to the Government and
others were
threatened
with hanging.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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"
This gave some offense to his
Scottish
admirers.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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(The
ellipses
mark what remains to be said.
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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(No
information
about him for these years could be obtained from Assisi.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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This, too, is the reason why a knowledge of the history of philosophy is a necessary requirement, not only for all scholarly education, but for all culture whatever ; for it teaches how the conceptions and forms have been coined, in which we all, in every-day life as well as in the
particular
sciences, think and
judge the world of our experience.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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THE YEARS
TO-NIGHT I close my eyes and see
A strange
procession
passing me--
The years before I saw your face
Go by me with a wistful grace;
They pass, the sensitive shy years,
As one who strives to dance, half blind with tears.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Full of sorrow was I, fair queen, thy brows to abandon,
Full of sorrow ; in oath answer,
adorable
head.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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I fancy the professional
grammarians
have given but a lame response to this inquiry.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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_Yowie_,
diminutive
of _yowe.
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Robert Forst |
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But now I have also read “The Station
Overseer” in your little volume; and it is
wonderful
to think that one
may live and yet be ignorant of the fact that under one’s very nose
there may be a book in which one’s whole life is described as in a
picture.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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188 ROSE AND EMILT J OR,
their plate; and by these polite, easy,
and kind attentions soon
dissipated
the
reserve that hung upon the younger ones.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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And I live on, a
melancholy
slave,
Toss'd by the tempest in a shatter'd bark,
Reft of the lovely light that cheer'd the wave.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Of shell of cocoa carven
Each little boat is made;
Each carries a lamp, and carries a flower,
And carries a hope unsaid;
And when the boat hath carried the lamp
Unquenched
till out of sight,
The maiden is sure that love will endure;
But love will fail with light.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Tully - Offices |
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By the way, we could understand one indigenism of this sort --but not without a certain smile--, for a priori only one of the existent
indigenous
cultures could be the most valuable; but that is always said from inside hermetism, any comparison with something beyond their piece of land being forbidden.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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He
says that Bibb came out to Canada some three years ago, and
went back to get his wife up, but was
betrayed
at Cincinnati
by a colored man--that he was taken to Louisville but got
away--was taken again and lodged in jail, and sold off to
New Orleans, or he, (Harrison,) understood that he was taken
to New Orleans.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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The heart
resolves
this matter in a thrice,
"Men only feel the smart but not the vice.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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flote on The
Psalmist
reminds the race of Israel of
CXXXV.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation
Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide
spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of
increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be
freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest
array of equipment including
outdated
equipment.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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NOTE: Though written and engraved by Blake, "A DIVINE IMAGE" was never
included in the SONGS OF
INNOCENCE
AND OF EXPERIENCE.
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blake-poems |
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That would mean that God alone could decide whether a
believer
is agreeable to him.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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One of the phenomena which had
peculiarly
attracted my attention was
the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with
life.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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They belong as much to the body as to the soul, and they
seek vent for the energies they arouse, in
physical
manifestations.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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He divided the Fallopian tubes in numerous
instances, and that after the
operation
a foetus is never produced, but
that _corpora lutea_ were formed.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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Leavinggeneralanti- scholasticand anti-intellectualattitudesaside, this explains some of the
currentdissatisfactionwith
ideology critique.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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26 (#52) ##############################################
26 ECCE HOMO
return to myself, the
breathing
of free, crisp, brac-
ing air.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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107-114 / Italian
translation
in: Donatella di Cesare [ed.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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THE SONG-SPARROW
Glimmers gray the
leafless
thicket
Close beside my garden gate,
Where, so light, from post to picket
Hops the sparrow, blithe, sedate;
Who, with meekly folded wing,
Comes to sun himself and sing.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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True Prophets did not speak by Extasy, hut saw and
understood
what they dedar'd, arid were t!
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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The
protagonist
or discoverer of an enlightened thought took this step only earlier and usually by surrendering a former opinion of his own.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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Then, at the end, when years had passed, and the mighty friends still met and smoked by the Rat's hole on the river, the mothers of new
generations
of otters, etc.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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But the achievements of
Alexander
during his twelve years of
reign, throwing Philip into the shade, had been on a scale so
much grander and vaster, and so completely without serious re-
verse or even interruption, as to transcend the measure not only
of human expectation, but almost of human belief.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Sun, whose fires lighten all the works of the
world, and thou, Juno,
mediatress
and witness of these my distresses,
and Hecate, cried on by night in crossways of cities, and you, fatal
avenging sisters and gods of dying Elissa, hear me now; bend your just
deity to my woes, and listen to our prayers.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The Preface came
into being on 3rd
September
1888.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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It had
exterminated
the landlord.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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It belongs to the experience of real progress that a valuable human initiative comes "out of itself," that it tears apart the old limits of mobility, that it broadens its work spectrum, and that it asserts itself with a good
conscience
against inner inhibitions and outer resistance.
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Sloterdijk |
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And thus surprised, as filchers use,
He thus began himself t' excuse:
Sweet lady-flower, I never brought
Hither the least one
thieving
thought;
But, taking those rare lips of yours
For some fresh, fragrant, luscious flowers,
I thought I might there take a taste,
Where so much syrup ran at waste.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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The
instances
at least must be extremely few.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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I have no doubt that she loved you, but
there are women in whom the love of a lover
extinguishes
all
other loves, and I think that she must have been one.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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The British Legation, on the other side of the new palace, is a pretty country mansion, with a loggia, built on a bank, and
enclosed
by a garden.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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nnlein, Weiblein,
traurige
Gesellen,
Sie streuen heute Blumen blau und rot
Auf ihre Gru?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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A strange mystery it is
that Nature, omnipotent but blind, in the
revolutions
of her secular
hurryings through the abysses of space, has brought forth at last a
child, subject still to her power, but gifted with sight, with
knowledge of good and evil, with the capacity of judging all the works
of his unthinking Mother.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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I was going in the wrong
direction
all the time.
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Twain - Speeches |
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How drab it would be if its ideal
Pseudoreality
Prevails
· 2 71
272.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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“I think I'll buy 'im foh a hat sign,” said a
manufacturer
of
ten-dollar Castor and Rhorum hats.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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Let us now examine the reasons which led my father
to
institute
this arrangement.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Pentheus
would flee to his mother, Orpheus to the priestesses of Bacchus, were they to bear but a sound from the barbarous weapon of Antiochus.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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]
[Footnote 18: 'The Poetry of Byron, chosen and
arranged
by Matthew
Arnold'.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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Do these men
Feel
patience
then?
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Amy Lowell |
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A
Bachelor
I will, I.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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’
‘And you didn’t even shave this
morning!
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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And what catastrophic events fall within the limits
which he sets for
himself!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Remorse is memory awake,
Her companies astir, --
A presence of
departed
acts
At window and at door.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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When quite a little
child she would delight in
catching
flies, and tearing off their
wings, so as to make creeping things of them.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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1 These words I hope
everyone
will see—
8 Let them be hung high with the rising sun.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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And as one sees most fearful things
In the crystal of a dream,
We saw the greasy hempen rope
Hooked to the blackened beam,
And heard the prayer the hangman's snare
Strangled
into a scream.
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Wilde - Poems |
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" This means that total devotion makes the guru's blessings so intense that, just as rock
destroys
bone, the blessings pre- vent any possible wrong turns.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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That they rarely
purchase
friends, thou didst
soon discover, when thou wert left to stand thy trial uncountenanced and
alone.
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Samuel Johnson |
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All the rest he died
possessed
of, he bequeathed to Peggotty;
whom he left residuary legatee, and sole executrix of that his last will
and testament.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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Tsongkhapa
wrote in eloquent praise of the Buddha in verse called rTen 'breI bstod pa ("In praise of dependent origination"), TKSB, Vol.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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Other writers deny this; they say that the
Athenians
used to call their villages demes, not κώμαι, and comedy was so named because they held a festival [ἐκώμαζον] in the streets.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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Some one else, then, said Critias; for
certainly
I have not.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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_It was
included
in the Collected Edition of the author's
Poems published by Messrs.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The way in which ecclesiastical history is written is always
largely determined by
dogmatic
or philosophical theology.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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I, who have not refused to be the victim of pleasure in order to gratify him, can he think I would refuse to be a
sacrifice
of honour when he desired it?
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| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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As with the force of winds and waters pent
When mountains tremble, those two massy pillars
With horrible
convulsions
to and fro
He tugged, he shook, till down they came, and drew
The whole roof after them with burst of thunder
Upon the heads of all who sat beneath,
Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors, or priests,
Their choice nobility and flower, not only
Of this, but each Philistian city round,
Met from all parts to solemnise this feast.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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ects that the five aggregates are totally empty, and
overcomes
all pain
and wrongdoing.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shobogenzo |
|
Rochester propounded his query:
"Is the wandering and sinful, but now rest-seeking and repentant, man
justified in daring the world's opinion, in order to attach to him for
ever this gentle, gracious, genial stranger, thereby securing his own
peace of mind and
regeneration
of life?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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These demand, with the greater
impetuosity of youth, the
satisfaction
of their
needs, and they insist on having bad authors.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Rejoicing
that he had found what seemed him so fine a bird, he fits all his lime-rods together and lies in wait for that hipping-hopping quarry.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Bion |
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Hee in Celestial Panoplie all armd 760
Of radiant Urim, work divinely wrought,
Ascended, at his right hand Victorie
Sate Eagle-wing'd, beside him hung his Bow
And Quiver with three-bolted Thunder stor'd,
And from about him fierce Effusion rowld
Of smoak and bickering flame, and sparkles dire;
Attended with ten thousand thousand Saints,
He onward came, farr off his coming shon,
And twentie thousand (I thir number heard)
Chariots
of God, half on each hand were seen: 770
Hee on the wings of Cherub rode sublime
On the Crystallin Skie, in Saphir Thron'd.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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mand of Zeus, the
assembly
of the gods.
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| Question: |
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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As a final note, Verene might respond by pointing out that he attends this double negation in
absolute
knowing, and in particular in the transition from the Phenomenology to the Science of Logic.
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| Source: |
Education in Hegel |
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Calasiris like
Apollonius
is a model of Pythagorean asceticism.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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Now, the priest received me
courteously, and when I asked him, concerning Herodotus, whether he were
a true man or not, he smiled and
answered
“Abu Goosh,” which, in the
tongue of the Arabians, means “The Father of Liars.
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| Source: |
Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
|
The whole faculty is in a
dreadful
state.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told
suggesting
her beauty, and independence of mind.
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On the other hand, metaphorical concepts can be ex- tended beyond the range of ordinary literal ways of
thinking
and talking into the range of what is c~lled figurative, po- etic, colorful, or fanciful thought and language.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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The
first
Traveller
takes it up for another draught; but is surprised to
find that the same Water which had tasted sweet from his own hand
tastes bitter from the earthen Bowl.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"Oegrian damsels" :
daughters
of Oeagrus king of Thrace and sisters of Orpheus.
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Moschus |
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Du aber gehst mit weichen
Schritten
in die Nacht,
Die voll purpurner Trauben ha?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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This faith arises in some people from their pre-given powers, which are well disposed and organized, and in others, it comes from a
disturbance
of their powers.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Matthew Prior (1664-1672), in his four dialogues of worthy (or unworthy) dead men, makes his own
stimulating
contribution.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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"Nor less I deem that there are powers,
"Which of
themselves
our minds impress,
"That we can feed this mind of ours,
"In a wise passiveness.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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You roused
yourself
on occasion of the troubles, opened your eyes wide and took a look at the enemy.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Astrologers, too, think that each planet exudes its own, qualitatively
distinct
'energy', which affects human life and has affinities with some human emotion; love in the case of Venus, aggression for Mars, intelligence for Mercury.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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One could spend
paragraphs
trying to describe how the Arabic text's evocative proper names, grammatical oddities and allusions to the Qur'an and the classical tradition create in the reader's mind a single impression of countless blended subtleties.
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Of thee we now should ask forgiving boon;
And of thy spicy myrtles as they blow,
And of thy roses amorous of the moon,
And of thy lilies, that do paler grow
Now they can no more hear thy ghittern's tune, 150
For venturing
syllables
that ill beseem
The quiet glooms of such a piteous theme.
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Keats |
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Acrowcomingup, and trying to drink the milk, overturned the vessel
containing
it, with her
training
charge.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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Like
millstones
do they work, and like pestles:
throw only seed-corn unto them!
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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MON DIEU, what
sufferings!
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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