The
amount of certainty
concerning
the most exalted
desiderata, the highest values and the greatest
degree of perfection, was SO great, that the
philosophers started out from it as if it had been
an a priori and absolute fact: “God” at the head,
as the given quantity-Truth.
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To be sure, the one who practices bad faith is hiding a
displeasing
truth or presenting as truth a pleaSing untruth.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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By the time the President
determined
to resist, he was no longer in a deterrent position and had to embark on the more complicated business of compellence.
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They hoy't out Will, wi sair advice;
They hecht him some fine braw ane;
It chanc'd the stack he faddom't thrice,[40]
Was timmer-propt for thrawin';
He taks a swirlie auld moss-oak,
For some black,
grousome
carlin;
An' loot a winze, an' drew a stroke,
'Till skin in blypes cam haurlin'
Aff's nieves that night.
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— and the
evidence
of the senses, xvi.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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"The
language, too, of these men has been adopted (purified indeed from what
appear to be its real defects, from all lasting and rational causes of
dislike or disgust) because such men hourly communicate with the best
objects from which the best part of language is originally derived; and
because, from their rank in society and the
sameness
and narrow circle
of their intercourse, being less under the action of social vanity,
they convey their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated
expressions.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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“Let’s
get going, boys.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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collaborating
with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of Modern History.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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As evidence, it can be noted that there is something
suspicious
in the power of the vote, and it will soon become one way of
24 P Sloterdijk
avoiding guilt for people to explicitly refuse to exercise the power of selection that they actually have available to them [Sloterdijk (1989), remarks on the ethics of acts of omission and `retarding' as a progressive function].
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Being the Substance of a Course of
Lectures delivered in the Royal
Institution
of Great
Britain, by W.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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But such au opinion cannot be
justified
; and it is sufficient to apply to these reasoners the remark :--
Non defensoribui istis Tempus eget.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Mor-
gan, 48 corporations, including 40 railroad cor-
porations, with at least 100 subsidiary com-
panies, and 16,000 miles of line; 3 banks and
trust or
insurance
companies; 5 industrial and
public-service companies.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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As to a selection of the text from various editions, this would
doubtless be the best plan, were it a practicable one; and perhaps it
may be
attainable
some day.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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It is most interesting, and even moving, to note that at least a part of the
Meditations
was written during the Roman operations carried out on
the Danube in 170-173-not only in the relative calm of a military headquarters, but amidst the discom rt ofan expedition into the land of the Quadi.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Often in peace and wealth you were pensive, or covertly frowned amid all
your children;
But now you smile with joy,
exulting
old Mannahatta!
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Whitman |
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But no man would
sacrifice
his honour for the
one he loves.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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Coulter, Cornelia C, "The Genealogy of the Gods"
[Boccaccio's], in Vassar
Mediaeval
Studies, 317-341
(1923).
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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The
disillusioned
Left of earlier times and the New Left of the present and of the recent past have pointed out more emphatically than any bourgeois historian ever has that the term "socialistic" can be applied to the governments of the Soviet Union, its allies, and the People's Republic of China only in quotation marks and only as a shorthand term of convenience.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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, 'La Calprenede's
Romances
and the Restoration
Drama' in University of Nevada Studies, vol.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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As usual,
Snowball and
Napoleon
were in disagreement.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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Our
house, Casa Magni, was close to this village; the sea came up to the
door, a steep hill
sheltered
it behind.
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Shelley copy |
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--
Be welcome,
strangers
both, and pass below
My lintel.
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Euripides - Electra |
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+ Keep it legal
Whatever
your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Tully - Offices |
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So it overrules the
messages
from the eyes that say, 'This is hollow'; instead, it listens to the messages that say, 'This is a face, this is a face, face, face, face.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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Llegado el caso de estoquear
un toro de mal trapío y torcida
intención
que, empeorado
con la lidia, tomaba el bulto y dejaba el capote, comenzó
Romero á trastearle cuidadosa y maestramente, arrastrándole la
muleta para encariñarle á ella y traerle después sin riesgo
á una estocada por los altos y á una muerte de buena ley.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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how the soul of the sister
breathes
in
every line!
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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It is thy fate, not mine, that
afflicts
me.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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I cannot answer as my spirit prompts ;
You are my guest, and shall be
sheltered
from
All insult 'neath the shadow of my roof!
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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)
tematic
exposition
of the subject; and he aimed at
8.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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It seemed to her that in finding them
she found the very years themselves of her past life; and she
remained
stricken
with a strange and confused emotion before
that pile of cardboard squares.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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His Life and Work 31
fully acknowledged the sorely-tried noble spirit
of the Grand Duke, who had again
stretched
out
the hand, in spite of his former sudden resignation
from Badenese official service; but he made the
acceptance of the position dependent upon the
consent of the Prussian Government.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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This panoramic novel-of the Napoleonic period
presents
a record of
the deeds of Polish soldiers on the battlefields of those stormy years.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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Now
humanity
might
indeed subsist, although no one should contribute anything to the
happiness of others, provided he did not intentionally withdraw
anything from it; but after all, this would only harmonise
negatively not positively with humanity as an end in itself, if
everyone does not also endeavor, as far as in him lies, to forward
the ends of others.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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Other intruding bits are: The Fall of
Troy, Money, The She-Wolf, The Louse, Book
of the Three Maidens, The Rustic, The Won-
ders of the World, -- these titles
indicate
the
range of topics on which Ovid was made,
[128]
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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“I have not the
pleasure
of understanding you,” said he, when she had
finished her speech.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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—In order to
measure the natural
subtlety
or weakness of even
the cleverest heads, we must consider the manner
in which they take up and reproduce the opinions
of their adversaries, for the natural measure of
any intellect is thereby revealed.
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”
“—he just gets passed around from
relative
to relative, and Miss Rachel keeps him every summer.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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THE
INFECTED
MIND
April Fool's Day.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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Adams'problemof introjecting chaos into order can be seen both as organizing the forces o f the world according to a religious sense and in projecting the
scientific
order describing the world into the chaos ofthe mind.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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Chopin wrote for the pianoforte a
revolutionary
etude.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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tong len) A meditation practice promulgated by Atisha in which the practitioner takes on the
negative
conditions
of others and gives out all that is positive.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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O co\lonia \ gua c&fiis
\\fidnte
| ludere f longo.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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The forms of reasoning have no
result, excepting when they are applied to
our judgment of external objects, and in
this
application
they are liable to error;
but they are not the less necessary in them-
selves ;--that is to say, we cannot depart
from them in any of our thoughts: it is
impossible for us to figure any thing out of
the sphere of the relations of causes and
effects, of possibility, quantity, &c.
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this differentiation and likewise the unification of the group's life, still effected through the interchangeability of domination and subordina- tion,
increase
when one makes note of certain contents to which this form corresponds.
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This cloister has
resounded
with my cries, and, like a wretch condemned to eternal slavery, I have worn out my days with grief.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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Can dung and garlike be'a
perfume?
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Donne - 1 |
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Out from a deep-delved way my vision lit
On housebacks pink, green, ochreous--where a slit
Shoreward
'twixt row and row revealed the classic blue through it.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:10 GMT / http://hdl.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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The appeal of the
Congress of London in May, 1864, to
Prussian
good feeling
when the Prussian army had fleshed a victorious sword on
the obstinate Danes was as helpful as an appeal to the good
feelings of a terrier with a live rabbit in its mouth.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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[The
Executioners
strangle the Duchess.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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Woodcock
climbed the trees,
And the rest of us were busv as bees.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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And whatever else they may say, those scientists who sub- scribe to the 'separate magisteria' school of thought should concede that a universe with a supernaturally
intelligent
creator is a very different kind of universe from one without.
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It would be
better to be the thickest-skulled pukka sahib who ever hiccuped over
‘Forty
years on’,
than to live silent, alone, consoling oneself in secret, sterile worlds.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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and should she have
cared as much for his
conscience
as for the good of her house-
hold ?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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O, to see him when
anointed
he is plunging in the flood!
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His account is
consistent
with that of the 'Templar of Tyre', the best known Western source for the episode that marked the end of Christian rule in the Holy Land.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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Carman has undertaken in attempting to give us
in English verse those lost poems of Sappho of which
fragments
have
survived.
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Sappho |
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Its
contents
are
as follows.
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Hesiod |
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And, in testification of my
sincerity in saying this, I shall make the
following
offer.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Monotonous
domes of bowler-hats
Vibrate in the heat.
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Imagists |
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1 Boldly it
bestrides
all the world:
8 Tiantai: the name stands alone above all.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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Since Reinhart Koselleck, scholars in Germany have tended to
associate
important changes in the decades before and after 1800 with the metaphor of the 'saddle period.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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Till
Darkness and silence of the hill
Received her in their restful care
And stars came
dropping
through the air.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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AschheimaboutWeimarcultureandtheEast EuropeanJews)does
notconstitute
a counterweightI.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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(Orelli, 2253) Luperrur Quinctialir vetur; and the praenomen Kaeso, which was most probably
connected
with the Lupercal worship (see Rb'm.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Jennings laughed again, but Elinor had not spirits to say more,
and eager at all events to know what
Willoughby
had written, hurried
away to their room, where, on opening the door, she saw Marianne
stretched on the bed, almost choked by grief, one letter in her hand,
and two or three others laying by her.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Here the city slime is made of our
weeping!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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xiv FOREWORD
notion of the sublime, although never mentioned by Sloterdijk, seems to be an important point of
reference
in Sloterdijk's discourse.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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_Fugitive Beauty_
As the fish that leaps from the river,
As the dropping of a November leaf at twilight,
As the faint flicker of lightning down the
southern
sky,
So I saw beauty, far away.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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AN
INTELLECTUAL
ON TRIAL
INTRODUCTION
When we ponder the array of intellectuals who added color and controversy to ancient Athenian life, we would be hard pressed to come up with a more famous name than Socrates (469-399 BCE).
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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—
Whoever is obliged to speak louder than he
naturally does (say, to a
partially
deaf person
or before a large audience), usually exaggerates
what he has to communicate.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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and its content may not be copied or emailed to
multiple
sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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Only 160,800 tons of bombs were dropped on the home islands of Japan,
compared
with
1,360,000 tons dropped within the borders of Germany.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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, Walt Whitman
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, James Russell Lowell
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY, Francis Miles Finch
AT THE
FARRAGUT
STATUE, Robert Bridges
GRANT, H.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Ungeachtet dieser
grundsa?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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*
An unknown
Alexandrian
author retold the story with many
changes.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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It is
certain, therefore, that the great Latin writers of the Augustan
age did not possess those materials, without which a trustworthy
account of the infancy of the
republic
could not possibly be
framed.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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All but topic [2], the All-inclusive, represent
succinct
meditational or ascetical practices.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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This
unresolved
yet dis- avowed dualism defines the illusory mastery of the bourgeois.
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Education in Hegel |
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My glorious father got me in his heat,
When all he did was eminently great:
When warlike Belgia felt his
conquering
power,
And the proud Germans owned him emperor,
Why should it be a stain then on my blood,
Because I came not in the common road,
But born obscure, and so more like a god?
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Thomas Otway |
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Behold his wretchedness
Gilded at last with beauty
pleasant
to God!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The various cities which had at different times been the capital
of the kingdom were now held by the
factions
of one puppet or the
other.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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CANTO DICIOTTESIMO
1
Magnanimo
Signore, ogni vostro atto
ho sempre con ragion laudato e laudo:
ben che col rozzo stil duro e mal atto
gran parte de la gloria vi defraudo.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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In Memory of a Sister
She applied herself to the
mightiest
test,
But to give her all the honors
They did not think best.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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These systems are
dominated
by extreme idealization, denigration and intolerance of reality.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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The father prescribes repeated visual exercises and advises
spraying
the eyes with cold water should there be irritation and fatigue following over-stimulation.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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irpoadi
TlXdcrav
(prosthe Platon), etc.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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I said to my heart, my feeble heart;
Haven't we had enough of
sadness?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Post-
Babylonian
theology discovered the counterfactual and utopian mode of thinking.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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Bands of armed barbarians ranged the
country, seeking a home for themselves; Saxon pirates infested the
coasts, and had
established
themselves in some force at Bayeux.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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ere holy seintz & gode,
Martirs,
virgines
mylde of mode,
And ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Like Parnassian pinnacle yet to be scaled,
In its form from afar, by the aspirant hailed;
On its side the rainbow plays,
And at eve, when the shadow sinks
sleeping
below,
The last slanting ray on its crest of snow
Makes its cap like a crater to blaze.
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Hugo - Poems |
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In his finest verse
Coleridge
has the finest style perhaps in
English; but his prose is never quite reduced to order from its tumultuous
amplitude or its snake-like involution.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And when our
arguments
grew louder and more free,
Mr.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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Christ, I have read, did to His
chaplains
say, II.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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430] Trim wreathed up with yvie leaves, and with hir thumbe gan steare The
quivering
strings, to trie them if they were in tune or no.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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