My only mistake
was that I
confined
myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to
me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its
shadow and its gloom.
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" I have his letters
offering
to treat hopeless cases, and other letters from him offering to take cases which he admits are probably incurable.
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The reader will find both per-
spectives
interwoven.
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For
the Representative must needs be One man, or More: and if more, then it
is the
Assembly
of All, or but of a Part.
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This universal
military
ser-
vice, if it is to preserve the existence of the State, must
naturally presuppose unity in the nation as a whole.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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Who was
caught
disappeared
in a police vehicle.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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-- Have the
seeds of those plants lain dormant in their dark recesses, from
the time when the general deluge, or some later inundation,
providentially overwhelmed the forests of our isle, to preserve
them for remote
posterity
under the more convenient form of
pit-coal ?
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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The Duke of
Kingston
is in France, but is not to go to the cap-
ital: so much for that branch of your family.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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139 And she was the ark of the covenant in which "all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden because in her she
contained
the esh of Christ" (cf.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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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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Champfleury,
où cet écrivain a rendu justice au
caricaturiste
avec la raison
passionnée qui lui est habituelle.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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Or, thirdly, it may have no
relation
to
daily life, and belong to those wishes that originate during the night
from the suppression.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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Among the for-
eign officers were many doubtful adventurers who
only courted favour; for the proud frankness of a
York or a
Bliicher
there was no more room.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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He
accepted
the addition to his burden as manfully as was to
be expected of so generous a nature, but there is no doubt that he
was in great poverty for a few years.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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n of the year 1594 of the era of
Alexander
son of Philip the Greek.
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Let the glad lark-song
Over the meadow, 30
That melting lyric
Of molten silver,
Be for a signal
To
listening
mortals,
How I adore thee.
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Sappho |
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270
CONTINUATION
OF THE LIFE OF
1 663.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Foot-passengers in scarlet
Pass over the
glittering
tide.
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Imagists |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it
universally
accessible and useful.
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Tully - Offices |
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This Subject- centered view of life and of the world, in which recycled
experience
from the past would be projected into the future, i.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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As for the
houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye),
they were all scattered, no two being one by the other, as yet
not so far off as that it barred mutual succor: a show as it
were of an accompanable
solitariness
and of a civil wildness.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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Shall I be
faithless
to myself
Or to you?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Et Swann aperçut, immobile en face de ce bonheur revécu, un
malheureux qui lui fit pitié parce qu’il ne le
reconnut
pas tout de
suite, si bien qu’il dut baisser les yeux pour qu’on ne vît pas qu’ils
étaient pleins de larmes.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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e in forte take; 219
with muchel honour
schaltou
haue
alle ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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How might one
expedite
current business if one saw it from such a distance?
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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Next morning, as he sat over a late
breakfast
in his rooms, he was informed that a young gentleman who would give no name desired earnestly to see him.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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But also as Pound had guessed, the VOU Club was a center of intellectual attention at that time, rapidly in-
creasing
its merpbership during the years 1935-37.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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is a succession of adventures
her for a barmaid and loses his timidity, with Italian banditti, recounted by a
representing himself as “the agreeable group of
travelers
gathered in an inn
Mr.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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He was buried in
crawling
sand,
After having been burnt by royal command.
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Amy Lowell |
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An instance of this had
occurred
in 1711, when the Earl of Nottingham complained in the House of Lords of "a speech printed and published contrary to standing order of the House.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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Paul he armed him
against the terror the fire, this, Dominis fidelis est, non sinet cos tentari ultra quam ferre potestis, That “The Lord faithful, which
will not suffer you tempted above your strength the example the three chil dren, whom God made the flame seem like
pleasant
dew, adding also the rejoicing
St.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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Oh, is God
prodigall?
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Donne - 1 |
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And I and all the souls in pain,
Who tramped the other ring,
Forgot if we
ourselves
had done
A great or little thing,
And watched with gaze of dull amaze
The man who had to swing.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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"
Tattiana asks, and hurriedly
Unto Anicia for the keys
The family of
children
hie.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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org/access_use#pd-google
We have
determined
this work to be in the public domain, meaning that it is
not subject to copyright.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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Lý Thân Tông rewarded him
generously
and earmarked the tax money of ten households to support him.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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Only with the
remaining
noble and free natures will the good state be created.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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I
wish that I was as
fortunate
as I am honest in heart.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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Curll's personal appearance, vividly
sketched
by Amory, was
as unprepossessing as his cast of mind.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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I would urge
the reader not to ask himself, and not to return any answer to the
questions, whether or not this poet is like other poets--whether or not the
particular application of rules of art which is found to hold good in the
works of those others, and to
constitute
a part of their excellence, can be
traced also in Whitman.
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Whitman |
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The statements examined with
curiosity
by the tiny folk.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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Chorus of
Husbandmen
(off scene) -- O.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's
information
and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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kind to be found, for example, in the entourage of
Napoleon: indeed, perhaps it may have been he who
inspired the soul of his century with that romantic
prostration in the
presence
of the“ genius” and the
“ hero,” which was so foreign to the spirit of rational-
ism of the nineteenth century—a man about whom
even Byron was not ashamed to say that he was
a “worm compared with such a being.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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0 ihr dunklen Augen,
Die lang mich
anschaun
im Voru?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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16
The Anaxagorean chaos is not an immediately
evident conception; in order to grasp it one must
have understood the
conception
which our philo-
sopher had with respect to the so-called "Becoming.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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;
fly
300
MISCELLANEOUS
POEMS OF CATULLUS.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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Nor ceased the strife till Jove himself opposed,
And all in
Tempests
the dire evening closed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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That which
recollects
itself as recollec- tion loses itself to itself.
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Education in Hegel |
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extent simply
reproductions
of the spirit of these
circumstances.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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THE POET'S LOVE-SONG
In noon-tide hours, O Love, secure and strong,
I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bind
The world to my desire, and hold the wind
A
voiceless
captive to my conquering song.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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4, 318 the
provinces
by the senate, iv.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Sweet bird, that singest on thy airy way,
Or else
bewailest
pleasures that are past;
What time the night draws nigh, and wintry blast;
Leaving behind each merry month, and day;
Oh, couldst thou, as thine own, my state survey,
With the same gloom of misery o'ercast;
Unto my bosom thou mightst surely haste
And, by partaking, my sad griefs allay.
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Petrarch |
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Agilo was despatched to
Aquileia and at length the besieged were convinced of the Emperor's
death and
thereupon
their stubborn resistance came to an end.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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The Peak's proud height the
Spaniards
all
admire,
Yet in their breasts carry a pride much higher.
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Marvell - Poems |
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It was in vain that
he made repeated
attempts
to expose, with the
utmost clearness, how worthless and humiliating
such successes were to him: people were so unused
to seeing an artist able to differentiate at all
between the effects of his works that even his
most solemn protests were never entirely trusted.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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He has attacked the makers in print, organized a society, and established a publication mainly de- voted to their destruction, and
circulated
far and wide injurious literature
(most of it true) about their product.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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There are men who are unavoidably intellectual, let them turn
and twist themselves as they will, and hold their hands before their
treacherous eyes--as though the hand were not a betrayer; it always
comes out at last that they have
something
which they hide--namely,
intellect.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Thus the moral law expresses nothing else than the
autonomy
of the pure practical reason; that is, freedom; and this is itself the formal condi- tion of all maxims, and on this condition only can they agree with the supreme practical law.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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1 Account of Hacket,
prefixed
to his Century of Sermons, by Thomas Plume, D.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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40
a "Sicelidas": He means
Asclepiades
the writer of epigrams, who was Samian by birth.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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WILL HITLER SAVE
DEMOCRACY?
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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To
these were soon added isolated
pamphlets
usually termed Relations
of news; but pamphlets of this nature, describing domestic events,
were rare before 1640.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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The
economic
intuition behind the above propositions do not require the assumption that consumption proO?
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Schwarz - Committments |
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Jaini also discusses the nature of Jaina omniscience in this way: "Such knowledge is com- pared to a mirror in which
everyone
of the innumerable existents, in all its qualities and modes, is simuhaneousiy reHected.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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53, there can be no doubt that no further characteristic marks are
ascribed
to our concept in these two sentences, but that proper- ties are asserted of it.
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to theIr representatIves Sam Adams has taken some paragraphs
Stamp Act spread a SpIrIt from GeorgIa to New HampshIre
wIth honour, more InqUISItlVC 15 to theIr lIbertIes
even the lowest
Your courts are shut down) JustIce VOID
I have not drawn a wrIt since the Ist of
November
If thIS authorIty be once recognIzed
rUIns AmerIca
I must cut down my expenses
For my rwn as well as AmerIca's
To renounce under tree, nay under the very branch where they hang'd him In effigy
UNANIMOUS for GrIdley, Jas OtIS, J Adams pray that the Courts may be opened
(orIginal of thIS IS preselved) If what I wrote last nIght
recall what Lord Bacon
wrote about laws InVISIble and correspondences
th,t parlIament
hath no authorIty
to unpose Internal taxes upon us
Common Law 1St Inst 142-
Coke, to the 3rd Inst Law IS the subject's bIrthrIght Want of rIght and of remedy are all one CONSTRUED that no Innocent
may by lIteral constructIon be damaged actus
legIS nulh facIt InJurIam
Governor In counCIl as supreme court of probate
by more ravenous sort of ambItIon
or avarIce
aVOId as the plague
tendency of the a<:t to reduce the body of people
356
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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How
powerful
the heart is!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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"Criticism" in this sense is not an
absolute
privilege of the West, however much it unfolded paradigmatically in the West; it is present in every culture that was suc- cessful in withdrawing from domination by servile, holistic, monologi- cal, and masochistic motives.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-05 01:02 GMT / http://hdl.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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Locked up as a
malefactor
in
prison, to converse with horrible torments--the sweet, unhappy creature!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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To take the "neo-realist" theory seriously, one would have to believe that "natural"
competitive
behavior would reassert itself among the OECD states were Russia and China to disappear from the face of the earth.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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_Laurence Binyon_
VERDUN
Three hundred thousand men, but not enough
To break this
township
on a winding stream;
More yet must fall, and more, ere the red stuff
That built a nation's manhood may redeem
The Master's hopes and realize his dream.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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There is no forcing the pathetic effect
in the history of the heroic young daughter who braves a long and
terrible journey to
petition
the Czar for her father's release from
Siberian exile.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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A ne^ scheme of
civilization
is forming, quite as strange to us, quite as exacting in the requirements it imposes on the individual, as the new technology-
Shall we find that we can adapt ourselves to this new order of civilization without liberal education?
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and
donations
can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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William Browne |
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It's
difficult
to put my ideas into words.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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My best
compliments
to Mrs.
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In Germany the essay provokes resistance because it is reminiscent of the intellectual freedom that, from the time of an unsuccessful and lukewarm Enlightenment, since Leibniz's day, all the way to the pres- ent has never really emerged, not even under the conditions of formal freedom; the German
Enlightenment
was always ready to proclaim, as its essential concern, subordination under whatever higher courts.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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2 Guan Zhong lived in poverty, but Bao Shu treated him very well; and when Bao entered the service of the Count Huan of Qi, he
recommended
Guan Zhong.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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VII
Talking of "survival," I think it would make a positive difference to admit, once and for ever and officially from the humanities' side, that
humankind
and the existing societies would most likely live on without our work.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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How
inimitably
graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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Severely as his country had suffered from the Imperialists, the risk of
incurring the Emperor’s
vengeance
prevented him from declaring openly
for the Swedes.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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I know not who these mute folk are
Who share the unlit place with me--
Those stones out under the low-limbed tree
Doubtless
bear names that the mosses mar.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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Ah, that
irrecoverable
time!
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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Roth
The Dao and the Field:
Exploring
an Analogy, 31 Robert G.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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What if its venomous spell
Breathed into Arnold a
prompting
of Hell,
With slow empoisoning force indued?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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In theory children were still
thrashed
and put to
bed on bread and water, and certainly you were liable to be sent away from table if you
made too much noise eating, or choked, or refused something that was ‘good for you’, or
‘answered back’.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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And when he came to observe his feet,
Formerly garnished with toes so neat,
His face at once became forlorn
On
perceiving
that all his toes were gone!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I must accept it as a
punishment, and if one is ashamed of having been punished, one might just
as well never have been
punished
at all.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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T o compel an enemy's retreat, though, by some threat of engagement, I have to be
committed
to move.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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Nietzsche set out to
dislodge
an aesthetic culture that is centered on male fortifications, even where it institutionalizes momentary forms of ego ?
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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To put the point sharply: Why should
humanism
and its general philosophical self-representation be seen as the solution for humanity, when the catastrophe of the present clearly shows that it is man himself, along with his systems of metaphysical self-improvement and self-clarification, that is the problem?
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Felix Schmidt was chief editor for culture at Der Spiegel, editor-in-chief of Welt am Sonntag, Stern and Hörzu, and was director of television at Südwestfunk Baden-Baden before becoming
managing
director of the TV production company AVE.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Zen Master Vu'o'ng Chí Nhàn
transmitted
it to Venerable Nhiem* Tang*.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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