LUCIAN'S TRUE HISTORY
TRANSLATED BY FRANCIS HICKES
ILLUSTRATED
BY WILLIAM STRANG
J.
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Lucian - True History |
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2, " And the earth was without form and void, and darkness
was upon the face of the deep," has presented a difficulty to some minds, as if at first the
earth was a
shapeless
mass, though this indeed could not be.
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But ye are
resolved?
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Shelley |
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59-
We
Artists!
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips
compressed, and the veins stood out like
whipcord
in his long,
sinewy neck.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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"I am," it says, "the voice that sings the joys and bewails the sorrows
of the village which I dominate from my spire; I am the humble bell of
the hamlet, that calls down with ardent petitions water from heaven upon
the parched fields, the bell that with its pious conjurations puts the
storms to flight, the bell that whirls, quivering with emotion, and in
wild
outcries
pleads for succour when fire is devouring the crops.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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With regard to the other element
in punishment, its fluid element, its meaning, the
idea of punishment in a very late stage of civilisa-
tion (for instance, contemporary Europe) is not
content with manifesting merely one meaning,
but
manifests
a whole synthesis " of meanings.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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For some are by the Delhi walls,
And many in the Afghan land,
And many where the Ganges falls
Through seven mouths of
shifting
sand.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Rana Sanga now marched on Bayana, where Mahdi
Khvaja was governor, but the troops who came out to oppose the
Rana, being unable to
withstand
him, turned back.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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_16 dead edition 1824; lost
Trelawny
manuscript.
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Shelley |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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Pickwick reminded you of
Christmas?
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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Mobilization of the Planet
Only because of the validity of this formula are ethics an
immediate
result of kinetics
in modernity.
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Fixed rituals are no longer adequate to justify the
specialness
of the Franco-German relationship.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are
located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from
copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative
works based on the work as long as all
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Sara Teasdale |
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"
XIX
WHAT
HAPPENED
TO THEM AT SURINAM AND HOW CANDIDE GOT ACQUAINTED WITH
MARTIN.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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They all work well to mitigate certain
tendencies
to exaggerate on the one or on the other side (on the Catholic or on the Protestant side)*but not more.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently
displaying
the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Who can read with
pleasure
more than a hundred lines or so of
Hudibras at one time?
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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12S
advertisement in every
newspaper
in the United States.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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The point is that something, some
psychological
vitamin, is lacking in
modem civilisation, and as a result we are all more or less subject to this lunacy of
believing that whole races or nations are mysteriously good or mysteriously evil.
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Orwell |
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For them there is
something
afoot.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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As they passed into other rooms these objects were taking
different positions; but from every window there were
beauties
to be
seen.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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At times it even picks up banal ones, holds them high and bronzes them in the fascist manner
6
which wisely mixes
plebeian
with elitist elements.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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"'
Writing is the
actegratuit
itself.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Classical empiricists held that because all our ideas are derived from experience, there is no legitimate role for ideas, or concepts, which are not thus derived, even where there is no obvious account of such a derivation, as with mathematical
concepts
such as infinity.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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What's the difference for the sake of a political
emergency
between an over-abundance and an over- production which rapidly produces an over-abund- ance?
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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It matters little whether a Russian, embittered by this
kind of resistance on the part of good and honest Prus-
sians, burns a few more villages than he at first pur-
posed in his
knoutish
mind.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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A poet's message to the modern generation and he supports his theme with the best possible argument, an abundance of delightful quotations from some of the most
beautiful
passages in English poetry.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to
understand
you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"Of the Python that Apollo slew, the
Psalmist
saith, 'This
dragon which thou hast formed to play therein!
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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This debate (one o f the
Reproduced with permission of the
copyright
owner.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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"
In actions, and in words, in humble guise
I speak my thanks, and ask, "How may it be
That thou shouldst know my
wretched
state?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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They were all anxious to see this
wonderful
soldier who had
travelled about inside a fish; but he was not at all proud.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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In another letter of that summer, Hegel tells her future wife:
I have hurt you by giving the impression that I condemn --as if they were your own principles of thought and behavior-- moral
conceptions
which I am bound to condemn.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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As this saint seems not
bearing a like name in our Calendars ; it may be well to observe, there is
mentioned
aCruimthirBrogan,oneofSt.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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Our opinion of the pure and vigorous
kernel of the German being is such that we
venture to expect of it, and only of it, this elimina-
tion of forcibly ingrafted foreign elements, and we
deem it
possible
that the German spirit will reflect
anew on itself.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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FEi: E;ii:i*;i:il *:;a:*6;E:
EiiiEgl
s{EEIEfEfic?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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Defeat, my Defeat, my
deathless
courage,
You and I shall laugh together with the storm,
And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us,
And we shall stand in the sun with a will,
And we shall be dangerous.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Dio-
dorus declared that
Hercules
allowed the horses to kill and devour their
former master.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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The primary audience for the
congressional
action was inside the Soviet bloc.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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425
But in the midst of his anger a man appeared at the doorway,
Bringing in
uttermost
haste a message of urgent importance,
Rumors of danger and war and hostile incursions of Indians!
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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The site relies on donated servers and bandwidth, so has automated mechanisms in place to detect when too many
downloads
are occurring from a single location (IP address).
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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Ovid himself gave quite
different
de-
71
?
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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The journey from home and yard to school and
playground
is made by way
of steps, trees, curbs, alleys, shops, lots, and dozens of other places useful
for play (Ward 1978).
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Childens - Folklore |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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This text is
significant
for several reasons.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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El
gigante habia tenido en cuenta el consejo del muchacho pigmeo, y el
actor habia ganado para sí al público que tan hosco se
mostraba
con el
autor.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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The phlegm of the Chancellor's disposition
gives one almost a surfeit of impartiality and candour: we are sick
of the eternal poise of
childish
dilatoriness; and would wish law and
justice to be decided at once by a cast of the dice (as they were in
Rabelais) rather than be kept in frivolous and tormenting suspense.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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Does that mean that the epic must be
allegorical?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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It might have been
imagined that the party of the Saigu journeying towards or from Ise,
might be
something
similar to this one.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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XXXIV
With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee
As those, when thou shalt call me by my name--
Lo, the vain
promise!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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On the
authority
of the English Martyrology,^ at the 27th of March, we find St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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The county hastes in his
impatient
heat,
Eager to reach that isle, the monster's seat.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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The bird that once
appeared
on earth
As phenix, is your guest.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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To explain
the different general impression of the two books
on the assumption that one poet composed them
both, scholars sought
assistance
by referring to the
seasons of the poet's life, and compared the poet
of the Odyssey to the setting sun.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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How does this
correspond
to Jonson's life?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The gentleman seeing only one robber, was
preparing
to make resistance, when King called to Turpin to hold the horses.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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He walked amongst the Trial Men
In a suit of shabby grey;
A cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay;
But I never saw a man who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Michel Foucault: Beyond
Structuralism
and Hermeneutics.
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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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9 The city of Nicaea took its name from a Naiad (river nymph) called Nicaea, and it was
established
by the men of Nicaea who fought in Alexander's army.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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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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The_satires_of_Persius |
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were no
possible
negotiations to be made,
and force of arms alone could give them
again their rights.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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I might ask where his
islandi?
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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These never
offered us any violence, nor once shunned our sight; but passed along
in our company without fear, in a peaceable manner,
wondering
at the
greatness of our ship, and beholding it on every side.
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Lucian - True History |
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In a person so extraordinary, perhaps it may be pardonable to mention some particulars,
although
of little moment, further than to set forth her character.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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It is delivered With such bnlhant
eloquence
that It reminds us of another lengthy and authontatlve piece of propa- ganda-Father Arnall's sermon on hell, which this peripateti~ dis- course exactly balances.
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_ Canst thou not kill a
senator?
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Thomas Otway |
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I have learnt, proudly, that my University cannot legally oblige me to change office computers each time that we are offered the opportunity to do so - and I relish the shock that some of my colleagues register when they realize, for example, that the size of the computer screen in my office is three and a half
technological
generations behind what they consider to be standard.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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If I should write what manner of eyes they have, I doubt I should be
taken for a liar in
publishing
a matter so incredible: yet I cannot
choose but tell it: for they have eyes to take in and out as please
themselves: and when a man is so disposed, he may take them out and lay
them by till he have occasion to use them, and then put them in and see
again: many when they have lost their own eyes, borrow of others, for
the rich have many lying by them.
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Lucian - True History |
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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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Sallust - Catiline |
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For it is easy to see that we have up to the present
been living and
educating
ourselves in the wrong
way—but what can we do to cross over the chasm
between to-day and to-morrow?
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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Thus is installed spatially a type of
ontological
differ- ence: the lethal climate in the interior of the chamber clearly defined, meticulously made hermetic, and the convivial climate of the vital^worldly realm of the execu- tioners and observers: to be (Sein) and to-be-able (Seinko<< nnen) to be outside, to exist (Seiendes) and not-to-be-able (Nicht-Seinko<< nnen) to be inside.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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Here
hospitality
still holds good ; every one who has but imbibed mother's milk is welcome.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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" The 'Maxims' are faultless in style and form: brief
complete sayings, forming doorways neither too strait nor too broad
into the House of Life, whose many chambers La
Rochefoucauld
had
explored.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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His powerful review of Mitford's 'Greece' in 1843 prepared the way
for the
enthusiastic
welcome accorded in 1845 to the first two volumes
of his 'History of Greece.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Many of Bowlby's
metaphors
were medical.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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Laurence
and to St.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan
translation
which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A Friar, who
gathered
simples in the wood,
A grey-haired man--he loved this little boy,
The boy loved him--and, when the Friar taught him,
He soon could write with the pen: and from that time,
Lived chiefly at the Convent or the Castle.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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mulo,/ al ir
avecina?
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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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I had not the
smallest
idea of their being ever felt in such
a way.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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, the adaptation of experience and the choice among multiple future possibilities, have constituted and shaped our
conception
of what Subjectivity (and Agency) was supposed to be, while the narrow present of transition became the epistemological habitat of the Subject.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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Julius Vestinus, who is
described
in an inscription as “High-priest of Alexandria and all Egypt, Curator of the Museum, Keeper of the Libraries of both Greek and Roman at Rome, Supervisor of the Education of Hadrian, and Secretary to the same Emperor.
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Pattern Poems |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are confirmed as not protected by
copyright
in
the U.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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'
Genes will spread by reason of pure
parasitic
effectiveness, as in a virus.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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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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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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; with
fur,furis; lux, I uc is; Pollux, Pollucis ; and frugis from
the obsolete
nominative
frux.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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All monotheistic religions will draw an
absolute
ontological line of separation between the sphere of their God as a (necessarily?
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resolutely
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'I believe you think me a fiend,' he said, with his dismal laugh:
'something too
horrible
to live under a decent roof.
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1572
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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What is the
difference
between the status of a citizen
and an alien?
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anywhere
in the world.
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both
paragraphs
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Saintsbury, after Swinburne the warmest advocate of Baudelaire among the
English, thinks that the French poet in his picture
criticism
observed
too little and imagined too much.
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remarked
one of the
men, addressing a young officer of the Engineering Corps.
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The conversation was
interrupted
at this point, to the great regret of
the young girl.
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