Snapping away with a camera
when he ought to be
improving
his mind, and then diving down
into the cellar like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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#4$"""
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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A statue ofTara spontaneously
appeared
at Khra-'brug, and the amazed and delighted king had a special temple built there for it.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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The former makes the
character representative and symbolical, therefore instructive; because,
mutatis mutandis, it is
applicable
to whole classes of men.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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” will be
understood
only too well.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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Child Verse
FROG-MAKING
O AID Frog papa to Frog mamma,
*^ " Where is our little
daughter
?
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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Hold on to ecstasy and find its essence- otherwise the secret
teachings
are meaningless.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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Et le duc de Guermantes souffrant de la
réputation de son frère
laissait
entendre que si beau que cela fût,
c'était fort naturel.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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"
"I perceive it," was the short reply of Sir Arthur, as placing
his hands
carelessly
behind his back, he walked towards the win-
dow, and looked out upon the river.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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I cannot
consider
the subject here, but it may be argued that Heisen- berg's great paper introducing quantum mechanics appears to reflect the process just described.
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)
người
xã Diên Trường huyện Thanh Đàm (nay thuộc huyện Thanh Trì ngoại thành Hà Nội).
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stella-01 |
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The only
method of criticising a philosophy that is possible
and proves anything at all—namely to see whether
one can live by
it—has
never been taught at the
universities; only the criticism of words, and
again words, is taught there.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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w, and was made
Provincial
of
his order.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on
automated
querying.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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(Galileo leaves the dais and stands next to Sagredo)
(Applause, Galileo takes a bow)
GALILEO (softly to
Sagredo)
What a waste of time!
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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With a hasty exclamation of Misery, and a sign to her sister not to
follow her, she
directly
got up and hurried out of the room.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Queste parole fuor del duca mio;
per ch'io 'l pregai che mi
largisse
'l pasto
di cui largito m'avea il disio.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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What should a young fellow like you do ashore for
half a year
together?
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Austen - Persuasion |
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" 76
Nietzsche as typist-the experiment lasted for a couple of weeks and was broken off, yet it was a turning point in the
organization
of discourse.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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) The author
terminated
his wedding year with the "Ode to
Louis XVIII.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Here is a nearly direct statement of Wright's
aesthetic
platform and his indebtedness.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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Guồng máy cổ vũ chấn hưng, diệu kế hun đúc xoay chuyển cũng lớn lao cùng với càn khôn, công tạo tác sánh ngang tạo hoá, càng lâu dài càng bền vững, rạng rỡ đời đời, đúng như câu cách ngôn "Cùng trong phạm vi trời đất mà tạo tác muôn vật không bỏ sót", đạo đức cao cả, công
nghiệp
lớn lao thật rất mực vậy!
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stella-04 |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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23
The Most
Beautiful
Spot .
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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Anthony_, the last great dramatic invention of the old romanticism,
contrasts very plainly with _Axel_, the first great dramatic invention
of the new; and Maeterlinck has followed Count
Villiers
de L'Isle
Adam.
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Yeats |
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I have already tried to explain how I believe that the humanities, above all through the cultivation of
counterintuitive
thinking, can play an important role in present-day societies.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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None doubt this truth, except one only fair,
Who all excels, for whom alone I care;
She plainly sees, yet
disbelieves
my woe.
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Petrarch |
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Some of these studies are now
available
in English, such as M.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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It would be an especially natural choice in the case of such an author as Derrida, who never wanted to be anything other than a
radically
attentive reader of the major and minor texts whose sum total con stitutes the occidental archive - assuming one gives the word 'reader' a sufficiently explosive meaning.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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But, in my view of the matter, the dragon is merely a pretty large serpent, who is not half so likely to snap me up at one
mouthful
as I am to cut off his ugly head, and strip the skin from his body.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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The center, the most formless of monsters,
consistently
understood the law of the hour.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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they [the ancient Arabs] meant in
invoking
the deceased [via the formula la yabˁadanna] to have his memory survive and not disappear: for after a man's death, the survival of his remembrance takes the place of his life.
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Translated Poetry |
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by the
acceleration
of its move- ment, as though we are dealing with a nothing that acquires some deceptive substance only by magi- cally spinning itself into an excess of itself.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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As soon as he
perceived
his uneasiness abated, and
that he only wanted to run, he put him in a full gallop,
?
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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recognised
the dark, slightly bulging eyes -
stood in the hallway in a long white apron, holding a candle in her
hand.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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He was indeed a man of greater
learning
than any of them, but was fitter to appear on the parade, than in the field; and, accordingly, he rather pleased and entertained the Athenians, than inflamed their passions; and marched forth into the dust and heat of action, not from a weather-beaten tent, but from the shady recesses of Theophrastus, a man of consummate erudition.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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Dris Ian blo bzang bzhad pa'i sgra dbyangs
Collected
Works, Vol.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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4] But for him
Poseidon
had made ready a house under the earth constructed by Hephaestus.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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And here ensued a
terrific
struggle; for as
the cavalry of the enemy gave way before us, we came upon the
close ranks of the infantry, at half-pistol distance, who poured
a withering volley into us as we approached.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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Thus has he
taken himself as
something
higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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Luxury, O ebony hall, where to tempt a king
Famous garlands are
writhing
in death,
You are only pride, shadows' lying breath
For the eyes of a recluse dazed by believing.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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But at daybreak, when every
one had given me up, and expected to find me a corpse like the
others, I emerged, to the surprise of all, and
proceeded
to Euba-
tides, informing him that for the future his house would be inno-
cent and free from horrors.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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En tout cas, si tout cela était vrai, quelle
inutile vérité sur la vie d'une maîtresse qui n'est plus, remontant
des
profondeurs
et apparaissant, une fois que nous ne pouvons plus rien
en faire.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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He should endeavour to school his
imagination
into the
apprehension of the true idea of the Beautiful.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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A light is shining but the distant star
From which it still comes to me has been dead
A
thousand
years .
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Rilke - Poems |
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All collective phenomena, all the phenomena of multiplicities, are thus
completely
abolished.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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They should
describe
completely how the machine will react whatever its history might be, whatever changes it might undergo.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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The oratorical
competitions
of the Acade?
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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Bahrām was succeeded by his son Khusrav Shāh, a feeble ruler
in whose reign a horde of the Ghuzz tribe of Turkmāns invaded
Khurāsān and defeated and
captured
Sultān Sanjar, who died in
their hands in 1157.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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j and attacked the Franks, but was
defeated
(in rabi?
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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Consider a specific
phenomenon
like racism.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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This
haue I thought good to deliuer thee (my dearest Partner of
Greatnesse) that thou might'st not loose the dues of reioycing
by being
ignorant
of what Greatnesse is promis'd thee.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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She often visited that closet,
for nurse
sometimes
left the lid off the cracker
?
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Childrens - Brownies |
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Penitents
eat the
bread of sorrow; as they sing in another Psalm, saying, Pa.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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Hi joined with this
adverfary
once before.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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But are there any special occasions when macromutations areI incorporated into
evolution?
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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A number of mole-hills do not make a mountain,
though a
mountain
is actually made up of atoms: so moral truth must
present itself under a certain aspect and from a certain point of view,
in order to produce its full and proper effect upon the mind.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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A causa de una problemática
hipótesis
bautismal del cartógrafo alemán Martin Waldseemüller, el nombre feminizado del descubri-
799
Mapa en forma de corazón
de Giovanni Cimerlino, Cosmographia
universalis, Verona 1566.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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Quite as frequently,
perhaps, do fleshy women think themselves dropsical, and mistake motions
of the child for
movements
of water within the abdominal cavity.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-11-14 08:55 GMT / http://hdl.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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When
Cromwell
took all power into his hands, Walker was
held in great honour, became pastor of a 'gathered church' at
St Martin's Vintry (the 'three cranes' church' as he called it),
published a catechism, a volume of ‘spiritual experiences of
beleevers,' hymns and a treatise entitled “Tpayuata' Sweet-
meats, remarkable for the folly of its contents and its blas-
phemous dedication to Cromwell.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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The Patterns
ERINNA is a model parent,
Her children have never discovered her adulteries,
Lalage is also a model parent, Her
offspring
are fat and happy.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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In that case, it will be a
revolution
that didn't come off.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Rilke - Poems |
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1190, Acre), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of Canterbury, put it in one of the earliest extended
commentaries
on the Ave Maria: " e matter of our salvation begins with a salutation, and the commence- ment of our reconciliation is consecrated by a proclamation of peace.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Since
socially
based metaphors are
part of the culture, it's the society/person's point of view that counts.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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One can easily imagine Derrida visiting Egypt and reciting Baudelaire's line 'man semblable, manfrere' at the
eradicated
monument to Amenhotep IV.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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Thus they who love
Alcibiades
his Body, don't love Alcibiades himself butthatwhichbelongstoAlcibiades.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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As for the " School of Images/' which
may or may not have existed, its principles
were not so
interesting
as those of the
""
inherent dynamists or of Les Unani-
mistes, yet they were probably sounder than those of a certain French school
which attempted to dispense with verbs
altogether ; or of the Impressionists who
brought forth :
"
Pink pigs blossoming upon the hillside" ;
or of the Post-Impressionists who beseech their ladies to let down slate-blue hair
over their raspberry-coloured flanks.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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school system when compared to their black of Hispanic classmates to realize that culture and
consciousness
are absolutely crucial to explain not only economic behavior but virtually every other important aspect of life as well.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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The lonely widow
Marion was fifty-five when her husband died
suddenly
of a heart attack.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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Blesse you faire Dame: I am not to you known,
Though in your state of Honor I am perfect;
I doubt some danger do's
approach
you neerely.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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a, el Premio
Nacional
de Poesi?
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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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]
[Footnote 69:
Diminutive
of Emelian.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Ipse, rudi fultus solio, nigra^qiie verendus'
Majestate, sedet ; squalent immania foedo
Sceptra situ ; sublime caput moestissima nubes
Asperat ; et dir>> riget
inclementia
form>>.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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Seen fromthisperspectivethebook could
merelybe
a modificationoftheold thesisoftheguiltofGermanhistory"from LuthertoHitler.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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El comincio
liberamente
a dire:
<
qu'ieu no me puesc ni voill a vos cobrire.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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In the public school,
the repulsive impress of our aesthetic journalism is
stamped upon the still
unformed
minds of youths.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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THE
MAUCHLINE
LADY.
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Robert Burns- |
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Formative
types in English poetry, p.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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A very superior travel folder, with map, illustrations and concise
but comprehensive
descriptive
text.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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"He can blow the flute very well, that 'a can," said a young
married man, who, having no
individuality
worth mentioning, was
known as "Susan Tall's husband.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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My conduct has been equally
guarded from the first, and I never behaved less like a coquette in the
whole course of my life, though perhaps my desire of
dominion
was never
more decided.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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" In
that day of worship of the ancient world,
Machiavelli
endeavors to
draw men to a study of its politics as well as its art.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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For since
Each hand made ready in its wrath to take
A vengeance fiercer than by man's fair laws
Is now conceded, men on this account
Loathed the old life
fostered
by force.
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Lucretius |
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This will be less precise than the
definite
assertions of allegory; but
for that reason it will be more deeply felt.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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" What one makes of the reference to Allāh here depends on whether one assumes that Labīd
composed
this poem (if he is indeed its composer, and if one may speak of original composers at all when it comes to poems that are orally transmitted for a century or two before being written down) after or before he became a Muslim, and also what one's view is about the "paganism" that predated Islam.
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Translated Poetry |
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What good does accrue l to the actual adjustment of otherwise "sensible" persons when they subscribe
to ideas which have no basis in reality and which we ordinarily
associate
j with maladjustment?
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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The verb Sum, with a dative expressed or understood,
is often
elegantly
used for habeo; as Sunt nobis poma for
habemus poma:
Hie tamen hanc mecum poteris requiescere noctem
Fronde super viridi.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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All those animals which one can see with one's own eyes, when
examined
accurately, will
be seen to have sorrows which seem in-exhaustible.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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In his capacity as the supreme teacher, Buddha must also theoretically have access to mun- dane information as well, to be used in the contellt of teaching as the
situation
demands.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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It
therefore
becomes necessary to give some account of the
elementary principles of Spanish prosody.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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"
"I am
contented
with my lot," said the Reed.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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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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The other buffalo also
extricated itself from the slime and
lolloped
away.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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The King at Etampe,
Phillipe
August, crowned 29th May 1180, at age of 1 6.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Therefore
'twas
Men would take refuge in consigning all
Unto divinities, and in feigning all
Was guided by their nod.
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Lucretius |
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"
But the rapt sense, by such enchantment bound,
And the strong will, thus
listening
to possess
Heaven's joys on earth, my spirit's flight delay.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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