Hiera kala: Images of animal sacrifice in archaic and
classical
Greece.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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Such a person can talk at length about Dharma and point out the faults of others, but if asked what
practice
he himself does he will have nothing to say.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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The troops were mostly
mercenaries
and the motivation for war was confined to the aristocratic elite.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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" That the entire old world
deserves
to be dissolved and destroyed should not be forgotten for a second, in spite of the consolidation of the church as a sacred establishment.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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How willing Paul would have been to delay them just a
moment longer, to hear what
Tavernier
was saying to Adèle, or
himself to have saluted the bride!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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He said : That
constitutes
doing what's difficult.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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Perpetual
Radiance on the radiant throne!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Primrose
preaching
his sermon in the prison.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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Nous
avons vu récemment une petite
composition
de lui, où, se reprochant
d'avoir rebuté une pauvresse, le poëte se met à sa recherche, et ne
se couche que tout triste de ne l'avoir pu retrouver.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was
transparent
as a needle
Was it cooing about something else?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Il
est vrai que peut-être Mme
Bontemps
lui parlerait de Balbec.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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The
progress
of these banditti was, as usual, marked by the most
frightful devastation.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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"2 3
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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Biographical
and Critical Studies.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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Which esteeme the greatest miserie
Of
mishehappes
that fortune now can send.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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AT CHIANG-HSIA, PARTING FROM SUNG CHIH-T'I
Clear as the sky the waters of Hupeh
Far away will join with the Blue Sea;
We whom a
thousand
miles will soon part
Can mend our grief only with a cup of wine.
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Li Po |
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Jefferson
thought people would feel responsible, or didn't think, let us say, didn't foresee or clearly think the contrary.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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For thirty years, he produced and
distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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Qualis ubi Arctois Boreas erupit ab antris,
Aerios rapido
perverrens
turbine campos,
It coelo ferus, et piceas toto aelhere nubes
Ineequitur, dant victalocum et cavanubilacedunt.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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#4
***!
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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However, the ignorant persons, by
attributing
a false substantiality to non-existent things, continue to wander in cyclic rounds, experiencing countless dukhas.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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Because
therefore
in prophecy
hath been said, there shall not fail a prince out of Judah, Gen.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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Not for the hand of the
ungrateful
Sarus was reserved that reward which Olympius was yearning to pay for the head of his rival.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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It is
essentially
empty, but this doesn't mean that these actual objects aren't there.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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The
steward never spoke of him without
declaring
that he was the best
gentleman in the world; but excellent care was taken that he should
never stir out of doors.
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Macaulay |
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But they left us so
As to our fate, like fools past
reasoning
with.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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The second half is filled with a more minute description of
the
heavenly
city, of the home and bride of the demigod, and with the
message proper.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:21 GMT / http://hdl.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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The
profound
is obvious.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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All insects engender grubs, with the
exception
of a species of
butterfly; and the female of this species lays a hard egg,
resembling the seed of the cnecus, with a juice inside it.
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Aristotle |
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cal languages
operated
in virtually a separate sphere from elite discussions of the nation and the patrie, but the coming of the Revolution marked the eventual doom of their work on behalf of France's many "maternal lan- guages.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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Now filled with confidence, now doubtfulness,
I promise
deliverance
to my captive heart,
Trying in vain to fool myself by art,
Between hope, and doubt, and fearfulness.
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Ronsard |
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Zan Yu said: Our big man wants to, we two
ministers
are both against it.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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"
"Mark, then," said Saladin; and tucking up the sleeve of his
gown, showed his arm, thin indeed and spare, but which con-
stant
exercise
had hardened into a mass consisting of naught but
bone, brawn, and sinew.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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soon the angel slid
The devil in the sea,
And would of lass
likewise
be rid--
And so we fought it free!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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What folly hath
infected
.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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When the
warriors
marched back again to their master's hall where
did they hide their power?
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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At the temple he practiced
chanting
the Dharani Sutra*.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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You who taught us to mix
saltpetre
with sulphur
to console the frail human being who suffers,
O Satan, take pity on my long misery!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Man
gewinnt eine
vollsta?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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]
YRGOPOLINICES See to it that more
splendid
be my shield,
Than the sun's rays are when the day is bright;
So when there's need, in battle's close array
Its sheen may blind the eyes of enemies.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Ha, in a trice
My rhyme is on it, swiftly
pouncing!
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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We can only
wish this melting away in the hope thereof, and
we are only reasonably
entitled
to hope when we
believe that we and our equals have more strength
in heart and head than the representatives of the
existing state of things.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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These seemed, indeed, to act more suitably to the great principle upon which they all insisted, that kings have their power from God, and are
accountable
only to him for the exercise of it.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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, 30, "Ut si qui
ægrotet
quo morbo
Barrus.
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Satires |
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And what of me,
mistress?
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Lucian |
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" Nor is there anyone, I suppose, outside of institution, who would like to see such
decisions
made by Congress or any of the committees thereof.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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We are now trying to release all our eBooks one year in advance
of the
official
release dates, leaving time for better editing.
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Whitman |
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THE EGG
This piece would appear to have been
actually
inscribed upon an egg, and was probably composed merely as a tour-de-force.
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Pattern Poems |
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The crew set to work in good earnest,
inspired
by the reward to be
gained.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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as well have
remained
in the womb of chaos?
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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And even if this were not so, never forget what, I believe, was
observed to you by Coleridge, that every great and original writer, in
proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste
by which he is to be relished; he must teach the art by which he is to
be seen; this, in a certain degree, even to all persons, however wise
and pure may be their lives, and however
unvitiated
their taste.
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Selection of English Letters |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:10 GMT / http://hdl.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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Pero sobre todo:
¿Dónde
habrías de estar para contemplar la to
talidad del ser como si se tratara de una bóveda vista por fuera?
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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" In the Divine Comedy the created universe is but a vast amplification of this nine, which is finally a
numerical
sign for the world-creative fertilization of God by Himself: ?
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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A number of personal references are best pursued by reading a
biography
of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later relationship with the actress Jenny Colon.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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This figure must be considered not only in relation to the whole national
population
but even more to the populations of those larger industrial cities which mainly
fed the exodus.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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Thereby one trains oneself neither for the
increase
of
37
?
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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There can be no
bodhisattva
who is not born of these two.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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Hart
through the Project Gutenberg
Association
(the "Project").
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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He used vessels of gold for
relieving
himself and his urinals were made of murra or onyx.
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Historia Augusta |
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»
At some time after his brother's death Ovid studied at Athens, and
made an
extended
tour in Asia Minor and Sicily in company with the
poet Macer.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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Yet his opening act of sabotage at and before the beginning of the film, co- incident almost with its titles, is the putting out of a lightbulb, of all "light," the
electricity
or "juice" of London, the generator.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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It was no light matter to engage with an enemy who would not retire before any
superiority
in numbers, who was always ready for a fight, who would neither give nor take quarter.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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Brocklehurst could not see them too; he would perhaps have felt that,
whatever he might do with the outside of the cup and platter, the inside
was further beyond his
interference
than he imagined.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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Wherefore reason neither can nor ought to seek wholly to
eradicate these primitive and deep-seated affections of our nature; but
so to exercise a resisting and ordering influence upon them, as to
render them obedient and
subservient
to herself.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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In particular, Alfonso was notorious both for questioning Ptolemaic astronomy and, after having engaged in
extensive
research on it, for making his blasphemous suggestion that had he been "of God's counsel at the Creation, many things would have been ordered better.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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The capability of the American economy to support a build-up of economic and military
strength
at home and to assist a build-up abroad is limited not, as in the case of the Soviet Union, so much by the ability to produce as by the decision on the proper allocation of resources to this and other purposes.
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NSC-68 |
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To all our joy, a sweet-faced child was born,
More tender than the
childhood
of the morn.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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The western
countries
reacted strongly against the U.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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] the cries vehemently uttered by the chosen few, who par-
ticipate
in the saving councils of Nature?
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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The poem, however, is such as may be justly
praised, without much
allowance
for the state of our poetry and language
at that time.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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He is convinced that neither the dreams of the
ancients
nor those of our contemporaries require any new interpreters - there are more than enough of them already.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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" That, then, was the period
fixed for the
fulfilment
of my destiny.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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And in the searchings or
deliberations
of the soul, not the quietest,
as I imagine, and he who with difficulty deliberates and discovers,
is thought worthy of praise, but he who does so most easily and quickly?
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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The great Milon
flourished
B.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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" cried Merlin,
transported
with joy.
| Guess: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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Daguerre now removed one thing after the other from the cupboard, with the
exception
of the mercury, and still he regularly obtained pictures if the plates which had previously been submitted to the action of images in the camera obscura were allowed to remain for several hours in the cupboard.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
|
It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
|
The fourth Cartesian rule that one "should in every case
institute
such exhaustive enumerations and such general surveys" that one "is sure of leaving nothing out" - this ultimate principle of systematic thought - reappears unchanged in Kant's polemic against Aristotle's "rhapsodic" thought.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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”
She had made a sure push at Fanny’s
feelings
here.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Mansfield Park |
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PARACELSUS IN EXCELSIS
" "DEING no longer human, why should I -D Pretend
humanity
or don the frail attire?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Graciously
allow me to
go back to the land of the Gods whence I came.
| Guess: |
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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4, the
festival
was described by some circumlocution, the whole word
being inadmissible into a verse.
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Satires |
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One of Asaf Jah's earliest acts, after taking full
possession
of his
charge (1725), was to make an agreement with the Marathas.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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Among these variations, we can determine two kinds of extremes: one leads to a relative cessation of mobilization as a whole via the mutual deceler- ation of partial processes (a great commendation to the
obstacles?
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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Whereas science treats the difficulties and complexities of an antagonistic and
monadologically
split reality according to the
8.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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PARTING WITH FRIENDS AT A WINESHOP IN NANKING
The wind blowing through the willow-flowers fills the shop with scent;
A girl of Wu has served wine and bids the
traveller
taste.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
John
Masefield
is the author of "The Widow in the the Bye Street," "Good Friday," "The Everlasting Mercy," "Saltwater Ballads," "The Tragedy of Nan," and other volumes.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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applied
a3 For a full account of them and of their
descendants
the reader is referred to Rode-
nia egressi, vel ferro, vel amicitia sibimet inter eos sedes quas hactenus habent vindi- carunt : a quo videlicet- duce usque hodie
in various cases.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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The number
employed
in iron, copper.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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They soon discovered that it
was impracticable to transport the short-lived insect, but that in
the eggs a numerous progeny might be
preserved
and multi-
plied in a distant climate.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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' I stood and
watched her little lamp
uselessly
lost among lights.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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Shuttleworthy dealt, I gave
instructions
to my
servant to wheel the box to Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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And Idas noted him and
assailed
him with loud voice: "Son of Aeson, what is this plan thou art turning over in mind.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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Woodhouse
saw the letter, and
he says he never saw such a handsome letter in his life.
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Austen - Emma |
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, The American Traveller: Containing Observations on the
present State, Culture and Commerce of the British
Colonies
in
America .
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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She has no
sympathy
with the myrtles.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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