This concludes the commentary on the eleventh chapter, showing how to meditate on refuting time, from Essence of Good Explanations,
Explanation
of the "Four Hundred on the Yogic Deeds of Bodhisattvas".
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All
prisoners
shall
be released and forgiven--I will make two and threefold restitution to
the poor--I will--why don't you run?
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THE COMING OF GOOD LUCK
So Good-Luck came, and on my roof did light,
Like
noiseless
snow, or as the dew of night;
Not all at once, but gently,--as the trees
Are by the sun-beams, tickled by degrees.
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a, pero sus
miembros
no esta?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Of these things the practices are known, but the philosophy that
concerneth them is not much inquired; the rather, I think, because they
are supposed to be obtained, either by an aptness of nature, which cannot
be taught, or only by continual custom, which is soon prescribed which
though it be not true, yet I forbear to note any deficiences; for the
Olympian games are down long since, and the
mediocrity
of these things is
for use; as for the excellency of them it serveth for the most part but
for mercenary ostentation.
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Bacon |
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Suche
meruayles
fortuned than; F.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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il to be put to death as soon as he should
have given
satisfaction
to Herod for the claims which
tbo latter had upon him.
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HULME
Hulme's five poems were published as his Complete
Poetical
Works at the end of Ripostes, in 1912; there is, and now can be, no further addition, unless my abbreviation of some of his talk made when he came home with his first wound in 1915 may be half counted among them.
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The war was for
many their first venture into the more elegant half
of the world: and what an admirable simplicity
the conqueror shows in not scorning to learn some-
thing of culture from the
conquered!
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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It seems
to me that they are lying; a sugary
softness
adheres to every sound.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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"
[3] This idea has been borrowed from _The Theory of Sleep_ by Liebault,
who revived hypnotic
investigation
in our days.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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Very good, I said; and now let me repeat my question-Do you admit,
as I was just now saying, that all
craftsmen
make or do something?
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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rab-tu snang- ba), prelude (amukha), one-act drama (vfthf) and comedy (prahasana); gran- dure (satvatf) which includes haughty provocation (utthdpaka), change (parivartaka), dialogue with or without threats (san:zZapa) and the end of an alliance (sanghatya); grace (kaisikf) which includes amorous play (narman), the partial expression of love combined with other emotions such as fear
(narmasphota), the disguise of a lover (narmagarbha) and
ecstatic
union with a lover which has troublesome consequences (narmasphurja); and conflict or
Fourteen-s' t
IX een 173
en change of characters (samksip and tumultuous situations the supernatural
SIXTEEN ASPECTS OF TH
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These are the SIXTEEN en- Zhl 1 rnam-pa bcu-drug
MINOR TRUTHS.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Besides, in the midst of much
gay and playful matter, several grave and pious
thoughts
are to be
found.
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Petrarch |
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But that _Arithmetick_, _Geometry_,
and the like (which treat only of the most _simple_, and _General_ things
not regarding whether they really are or not) have in them something
_certain_ and _undoubted_; for whether I sleep or wake, _two_ and _three_
added make five; a
_square_
has no more sides than _four_ _&c.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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2 percent, and the ratio in Brazil, China, Poland and
advanced
economy Japan is around the region’s, as the Middle East, Russia and Turkey are further behind on this power curve version.
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Kleiman International |
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”
Catherine was saved the embarrassment of
attempting
an answer by the
entrance of the general, whose smiling compliments announced a happy
state of mind, but whose gentle hint of sympathetic early rising did not
advance her composure.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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He
who has perceived- the
material
of which the
Promethean tragic writers prior to Euripides
formed their heroes, and how remote from their
jmrpose it was to bring the true mask of j l^
reality on the stage, will also know what to make
of the wholly divergent tendency of Euripides.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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Three bells, each with a
separate
sound
Clang in the valley, wearily tolled.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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De l'origine et
institution
de divers ordres de chevalerie.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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The astonish'd archer to great Ajax cries;
"Some god
prevents
our destined enterprise:
Some god, propitious to the Trojan foe,
Has, from my arm unfailing, struck the bow,
And broke the nerve my hands had twined with art,
Strong to impel the flight of many a dart.
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Iliad - Pope |
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In any case,
it is curious enough to think that Athenian, and, generally, Greek,
education
culminated
in dancing.
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Charles Lamb
declared
there was no other such room except in a fairy tale.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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This was re-issued ten years later (there is no
intermediate issue at the British Museum), and from 1619 onwards became
annual under James and Charles in the form of "A proclamation for
restraint of killing, dressing, and eating of Flesh in Lent, or on Fish
dayes, appointed by the Law, to be hereafter strictly
observed
by all
sorts of people".
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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Sing on dearest brother, warble your reedy song,
Loud human song, with voice of
uttermost
woe.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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There are books which have an inverse value for the soul and
the health
according
as the inferior soul and the lower vitality, or the
higher and more powerful, make use of them.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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My subject was the new and
strange experience of the fallen humanity, as it went forth from
Paradise into the wilderness; with a
peculiar
reference to Eve's
allotted grief, which, considering that self-sacrifice belonged to her
womanhood, and the consciousness of originating the Fall to her
offence,--appeared to me imperfectly apprehended hitherto, and more
expressible by a woman than a man.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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However, users may print, download, or email
articles
for individual use.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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Nearer the boat stood Alden, with one foot placed on the gunwale,[36]
One still firm on the rock, and talking at times with the sailors,
Seated erect on the thwarts,[37] all ready and eager for starting, 560
He too was eager to go, and thus put an end to his anguish,
Thinking
to fly from despair, that swifter than keel is or canvas,
Thinking to drown in the sea the ghost that would rise and pursue him.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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Had he done this he would not have marred what is otherwise a very
beautiful
piece of critical exposition.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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This confused neohumanism, looking through Weimar towards Rome, was a dream of the salvation of the
European
soul through a radicalized bibliophilia, a determinedly hopeful infatuation with the civilizing, the humanizing, power of classical readingöan attempt, if we can take the liberty of so describing it, to conjoin Cicero and Christ as coeval classics.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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The hank furnishes an
extraordinary
supply for borrowers, within its immediate sphere.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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8 Zeller concludes from the Aristotelian
definitions
of matter that
one might think that matter could not be distinguished from form solely by a lack, by a not-being-there-yet, but must add to it something of its own.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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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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The_satires_of_Persius |
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(I as a finite subject finds in front of me material objects and then
proceeds
to positing by working on them.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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Their grins--
an
orchestra
of plucked skin and a million strings.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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I was bound Motionless and faint of breath
By
loveliness
that is her own eunuch.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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And this at a moment
Totai Sponsoring I 49
when an unspeakable responsibility rests on me-when no word can be too gentle, no look
respectful
enough for me.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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It must be merged in
instinct
before we become fine.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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He broke a bit from a
fishing-rod, secured the line round the middle of it with a notch,
put the stick through the
bunghole
in the bilge, and corked up
the whole with a net-float.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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We'll give them an Oliver their
Rowland!
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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And who can do this better than Krupps, Du Ponts, Rockefellers, Fords, Pews, Gettys,
Rosenwalds
and their kind?
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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In the modem, pluralistic context, "Individual Vehicle," while descriptively accurate, need
not be taken as derogatory, since for all beings to be liberated from suffering, they must achieve that happy
condition
one individual being at a time.
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Evidently _C_ is a selection of poems either made
directly
from _A25_,
or from the collection of Donne's poems (with one or two by Beaumont
and others) which _A25_ itself drew from.
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Donne - 2 |
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His will grow a
towering
stalk,
Hers, a cowering flower under it.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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"
Nee mora; celato figit sua pectora ferro,
Et cadit in patrios
sanguinolenta
pedes.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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It had, though in
a different place, a triumph as
memorable
as that of
Dr.
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The 'Jahrbuch' contained, amongst other things, Trakl's last poems, including 'Grodek', a translation of Kierkegaard's 'Vom Tode' (one of his Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions), Carl Dallago's translation-cum- paraphrase of Lao Tse, and an essay critical of the culture that produced the
7 For a considered account of what Trakl's writing has in common with other writers associated with Expressionism in terms of his use of the 'Reihungsstil' and his
treatment
of madness, see Maurice Gode ?
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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'n the other hand, whatever she
in
wrote, even, as it were, in passing, was invariably lucid ; and no
pen has ever better than hers illustrated the truth of her own
assertion: ‘the last degree of clearness can only come by
writing?
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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Li Po |
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i;i*;i
iiiiziitit
i= iii:r
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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What is clear,
what is
“explained”?
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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ra
On barren days,
At hours when I, apart, have
Bent low in thought of the great charm thou hast, Behold with music's many
stringed
charms
The silence groweth thou.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The Praise of Folly, which
electrified
both the fools and the savants of Europe, is charged with the Lucianic current.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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The images are
provided
for educational, scholarly, non-commercial purposes.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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3:2 Be watchful, and
strengthen
the things which remain, that are
ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
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bible-kjv |
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[125] Seneca was a sounder
astronomer
than Bacon.
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Bacon |
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" This is again a curious
extension
ofFrege.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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Passepartout
had been a
sort of vagrant in his early years, and now yearned for repose; but so
far he had failed to find it, though he had already served in ten
English houses.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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When the
marvellous
chorus comes over the
water,
Songs of carmine, violet, green, gold.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature
in certain virtues and powers not
communicable
to other men, and,
sending it to perform one more turn through the circle of beings, wrote
"Not transferable," and "Good for this trip only," on these garments
of the soul.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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With you goes my
handsome
friend,
The gentle, noble, and brave I send;
Into great sorrow I must descend,
Endless longing, and tears so bright.
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Troubador Verse |
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Yo veo lo mejor, y amor me
fuerza a que lo mas
contrario
siga.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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cs and Adorno both refer to the idealist- subjectivist (mis)reading of Hegel, to the standard image of Hegel as the absolute
idealist
who asserted Spirit as the true agent of history, its Subject-Substance?
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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But speed on, let not the sails fall, and the breezes lull:
like brittle ice, anger
disappears
in lapse of time.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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—In 948, the Cloicthech, that is, the Belfry,
otherwise
the Round Tower Slane, which was the time full relics and religious people, was burned the Danes Dublin; Caoinechair, learned lecturer Slane, who
heroes,
idols, and offered sacrifices their gods Odin and Thor, but the time Godfrey III.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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tablir partout le mouve-
ment
spontane?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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"Ah," said he,
"No
gratitude
from the wicked.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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And yet,
Benlowes
is not a mere madman or a mere mounte-
bank.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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1 The
identity
of Xu Six is not known.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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This is without considering the many costly local
elections
in off years or parallel with the national elections.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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196 refers to the
progress
of
Hadrian through Britain, which would fix the date to A.
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Satires |
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The
position
of that force, either for defence
or offence, will necessarily be such as will afford a prompt
and easy access to us.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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His dress, though departing
sufficiently from the regular mode of male fashion to make him
a somewhat
conspicuous
figure, was likewise severe and formal.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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{3c} One of the
auxiliary
names of the Geats.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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gif him þonne
Hrēðrīc
tō hofum Gēata
ge-þingeð _(if H.
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You make a little
foursquare
block of air,
Quiet and light and warm, in spite of all
The illimitable dark and cold and storm,
And by so doing give these three, lamp, dog,
And book-leaf, that keep near you, their repose;
Though for all anyone can tell, repose
May be the thing you haven't, yet you give it.
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PREFACE
IT is thought that a selection from Oscar Wilde's early verses may be of
interest to a large public at present familiar only with the always
popular _Ballad of Reading Gaol_, also
included
in this volume.
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Wilde - Poems |
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See, for example, Gottfried Wilhelm
Leibniz,
NewEssays
on Human Understanding, ed.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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The caravan
was taken by
surprise
and the raiders came back with a considerable
amount of booty to Medina.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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DIARIES AND
PERSONAL
MEMOIRS
a
A.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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In other words, my hybrid
perspective is broadly
historical
and “anthropological,” given that I believe all texts to be worldly
and circumstantial in (of course) ways that vary from genre to genre, and from historical period to
historical period.
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may be seen from the fact that we must believe in time, space, and motion, without
feeling ourselves
compelled
to regard them as ' absolute realities.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Have you seen my
housekeeper?
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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His father was Simichus, as he himself says:
Son of Simichus, where are you
treading
in the middle of the day?
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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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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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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As always, Chateaubriand enriches his narrative with extensive quotations and vivid moral and philosophical perceptions, to create a colourful and resonant self-portrait of the intelligent wealthy European traveller, in touch with the ancient world through Christian and Classical writers, and dismayed by the present but
stimulated
and inspired by the past.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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And many a verse which to myself I sang,
That woke the tear yet stole away the pang,
Of hopes which in
lamenting
I renew'd.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The desire of the successful General Sir Thomas Fairfax was complied with, and Mabbott became li censer — an ungracious post for a man of honour and probity, and one which Mabbott resigned after a full trial of its
troublesome
duties.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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34 He is called the
fourteenth
Kin;^ of France, and his reign dates from a.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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Does
philosophy
now suffer from an Atlas complex?
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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Do you really believe yourself able to
reckon up history like an addition sum, and do you
consider your common
intellect
and your mathe-
matical education good enough for that?
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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Once, I know, there was a nest,
Held there by the
sideward
thrust
Of those twigs that touch his breast;
Though 'tis gone now.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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