This, however, is the third thing which I heard—
namely, that
commanding
is more difficult than
obeying.
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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Cities of London and Westmin- 1605
Gunpowder
plot.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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When the tapers now burn blue,
And the
comforters
are few,
And that number more than true,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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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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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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No longer known to mankind as the
Corsican
ogre.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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Forthcoming
in:
Gyburg Ullmann [ed.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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Just now the
words of my
mistress
make more impression upon me.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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"
_Afternoon_--To close the
melancholy
reflections at the end of last
sheet, I shall just add a piece of devotion commonly known in Carrick
by the title of the "Wabster's grace:"--
"Some say we're thieves, and e'en sae are we,
Some say we lie, and e'en sae do we!
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Robert Burns- |
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As to presents made to herself, she received them with great unwillingness, but
especially
from those to whom she had ever given any; being on all occasions the most disinterested mortal I ever knew or heard of.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The jay screams through the chestnut wood;
The crisped and yellow leaves around
Are hue and texture of my mood,
And these rough burs my
heirlooms
on the ground.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He praised the Bible for placing
before us a number of the most
magnificent
wars
and warriors, and in this way teaching youth
manliness.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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Yes, there is a rumour that a
young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a
vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the
dream of a dew-washed morning--the smile that
flickers
on baby's
lips when he sleeps.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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His historic debate with and victory over the Chinese monk, Hoshang, is
considered
as a landmark in the annals of the spread of Buddhism in Bod.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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Then he tackled all the negative forces and
defeated
them snd achieved Buddhahood under the bodhi tree.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
September
13, 2005 [English version in: www://perlentaucher.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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calm be after ternpest that the ants seem to wobble
as the mornIng sun catches theIr shadows (Nadasky, Duett, McAllIster,
also Comfort K P speCial mentIon
on SIck call Penrieth, Turner, Toth hierl
(no fortune and with a name to come) Bankers, Seltz, HIldebrand and Cornehson
Armstrong speCIal mentIon K P WhIte gratIa Bedell gratIa
WIseman (not WIlham) africanus
wIth a smoky torch thru the
unendIng
labyrInth of the sourerraln
or rememberIng Carleton let hIm celebrate ChrIst In the graIn and 1?
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Or had he read a version
corresponding more or less closely with those
accessible
to us, and
retained nothing more than a confused and indistinct memory of
it?
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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In Strabo 422 Python is a man,
surnamed
Draco.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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" And, in a postscript to the same epistle, he adds, " The strong Kentish-man, (of whom you have heard so many stories) has, as I told you above, taken up his
quarters
in Dorset-gardens, and how they'll get him out again the Lord knows, for he threatens to thrash all the Poets, if they pretend to disturb him.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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But in this case I also must remark,
'T was well this bird of promise did not perch,
Because the tackle of our shatter'd bark
Was not so safe for roosting as a church;
And had it been the dove from Noah's ark,
Returning
there from her successful search,
Which in their way that moment chanced to fall,
They would have eat her, olive-branch and all.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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O say what is that thing call'd Light,
Which I must ne'er enjoy;
What are the
blessings
of the sight,
O tell your poor blind boy!
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Golden Treasury |
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King
Since you wish it, I will grant permission:
But
thousands
will view it as their mission,
The prize Chimene would award their blows
Would make of all my warriors his foes.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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For if the wicked were openly evil, they would not be
received
at all by the good.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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To her children, the words of the
eloquent
dumb great Mother never fail;
The true words do not fail, for motion does not fail, and reflection does
not fail;
Also the day and night do not fail, and the voyage we pursue does not fail.
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Whitman |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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Nor even in the case of the former critique could this
reproach
occur to anyone who had thought it through and not merely turned over the leaves.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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"Fret not," she sings, as she
soothingly
pats its fevered forehead.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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Isolated anger quanta heat up in shabby dishes until they evaporate or leave behind burned
sediments
that cannot again be reheated.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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In the mean time were not wanting some forward Loyalists to
complain
of and write against him.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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= j;Ii;= =
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1 +4 ;i, i I j :i++Z,= t'
i=
i+
;t=-e * i +:;i
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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Most special Guide ofall
gathered
here, there is no other like you.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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The last lines of his book, and
for all we know, of his life, are these:
All have I lost; enough of life remains
To furnish
substance
for my spirit's pains.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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With
an
Introduction
by Dr.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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In my view, one of the virtues of Borkenau's model lies in the fact that it helps to understand the complexity of Derrida's
position
a little more clearly.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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Lycius from death awoke into amaze,
To see her still, and singing so sweet lays;
Then from amaze into delight he fell
To hear her whisper woman's lore so well;
And every word she spake entic'd him on
To unperplex'd delight and
pleasure
known.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The Woman remains
in the background while_
HERACLES
_comes forward.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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could only be influenced
unfavourably
and his hopes might be
raised or he might be made too anxious, better just to say that some
individuals have spoken very favourably and shown themselves very
willing to help, although others have spoken less favourably, but even
they have not in any way refused to help.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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Mitford
compares
Letter cxiv of 'The Citizen of the World',
1762, ii.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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Itself revealed to the
servants
of God where God sitteth.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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Child Verse
OUT OF BOUNDS
A LITTLE Boy, of
heavenly
birth,
^^^ But far from home to-day,
Comes down to find His ball, the Earth,
That Sin has cast away.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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For three days the slaughter never stopped; the Franks killed more than 100,000 men and took
innumerable
prisoners.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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13:44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city
together
to
hear the word of God.
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bible-kjv |
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I sometimes fear the Duke of Wellington is too much
disposed
to imagine
that he can govern a great nation by word of command, in the same way in
which he governed a highly disciplined army.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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Fearing a
discovery
by keeping the papers, they made them into a parcel, and sent it by a ticket-porter to the clerks in the India-house, but without demand ing the reward.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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The youngster and the red-faced girl turn aside up the bushy hill,
I
peeringly
view them from the top.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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So the two women were cousins, and also they had been brought up together, which gave them a special
affection
for each other.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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"One of my hungry and
forbearing
friends was sounding in the bows just
below me.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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As twenty-fifth
McKinley
great,
Who, too, shared the martyr's fate.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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The (South Sea Bubble)
might have been; but all that
remained
of the once famous specu-
lation was a building and a staff of clerks.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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Our problem can
* An allusion to the well-known
patriotic
song.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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And ‘tis o
farewell
to thee
“Sweet Arethuse,11 and all pretty watérs down Thymbris vale that flee.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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8
His
festival
day has not been discovered.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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For the
formal invitation of the Pope and for the sending of the escort the
concurrence of the
Frankish
folk had been awaited, and it was autumn
before the embassy reached Rome.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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I begin to
suspect!
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Source: |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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Thus we can
see one important characteristic of Sex and Character: it is to
a certain extent epic, passionate, full of burning faith, but full
also of pain and sorrow for what he
conceived
to be evil in the
world.
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Source: |
Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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But however nicely we may
analyse it, we shall never find in poetry a
significance
which is really
detachable, and expressible in another way.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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tecum Lesbia nostra
comparatur?
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Latin - Catullus |
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s story is of the young prince Gautama who horrified at the nature of life in the world
searches
for, and finds, enlightenment and the route to a higher and nobler existence.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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True
substances
are these, which thou behold'st,
Hither through failure of their vow exil'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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We mistake the state of affairs even further when we subsequently search for the "psychical" which pertains to the body that has already been
misinterpreted
as a natural body.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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The
carpet--of Saxony material--is quite half an inch thick, and is of the
same crimson ground, relieved simply by the appearance of a gold cord
(like that festooning the
curtains)
slightly relieved above the surface
of the _ground, _and thrown upon it in such a manner as to form a
succession of short irregular curves--one occasionally overlaying the
other.
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Poe - 5 |
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stands
obstinately
to it, and will rather part with her life, than
0.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Orithyian
amansfulvis amplectitur alis.
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Source: |
Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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You think that by buying up all the best books you can lay
your hands on, you will pass for a man of literary tastes: not a
bit of it; you are merely exposing thereby your own
ignorance
of
literature.
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Lucian |
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What, the Languishes of
Worcestershire?
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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But it is exactly the
existing
conditions that one objects
to; and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and
foolish.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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has
been
teaching
me since that time,"
said Frank.
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Childrens - Frank |
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My love is not at all lessened by those
reflections
I make in order to free myself.
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Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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Achilles
Tatius seems to have been to Greek Romance
what Euripides was to Greek Tragedy.
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Source: |
Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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But I am sure that he could, when it suited him, converse as well
as any one else, and with women he
frequently
did converse in a very
winning and popular style, confining them, however, as well as he could, to
the detail of facts or of their spontaneous emotions.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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nevertheless
the subject 'feels' this unity already, and it anticipates this oneness.
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Source: |
Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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One may be astonished: that Du Bois-Reymond is not exactly writing about drunks at the town fair or
stroboscope
exhibitors is already a
wonder.
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Source: |
Kittler-Drunken |
|
The situation of the house excluded the
possibility
of much prospect
from any of the rooms; and while Fanny and some of the others were
attending Mrs.
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Source: |
Austen - Mansfield Park |
|
But immediate reason cannot
withstand
the rela- tion to itself that thought brings about here.
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Source: |
Education in Hegel |
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In
the north the republic, in revenge for ancient and recent
wrongs, had already in 47 1
annihilated
the Celtic Senones ; 288.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
|
They suppose her Acts to have been
confounded
with those of a St.
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Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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Of my
companions one did not hear the remark, another did not understand, while
the third
dismissed
it with the reply: "Yes, very pretty.
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Source: |
Tagore - Creative Unity |
|
The
incarnation
of God (Gott-
?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
|
non rapio praeceps alienae foedera taedae,
sed quae sponsa mihi pridem patrisque relicta mandatis uno materni sanguinis ortu
communem
parti tur avum.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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In that Di- ogenes, as they say, placed "nature against the law," he anticipated the
principle
of self-regulation and restricted active interventions to an extent "in accord with nature.
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Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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It mattered nothing that at the moment
he wrote this book no visible sign of Poland's
resurrection could be
discerned
on the political
horizon.
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Source: |
Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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ee, but rather--it goes without saying-- the
noblesse
de robe.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
|
24 Since they had been
educated
by the same law and trained in the same virtues and brought up in right living, they loved one another all the more.
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Roman Translations |
|
Patrick's father is called Calpuirn f in the Third Life, Calburnius f in the Fourth, Kalfurnius f° in the Fifth Life, Calpurnius
Diaconus
;" in the Sixth Life, Calphumius ;'^ and in the Seventh Life, he is said to have been Cal- phurnius, who, after the birth of his son, was a noble priest.
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Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
|
Yet now your parts with
emulation
bear.
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Source: |
Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
|
Dein
entschlagen
will ich mich,
weil weil mich deine Antwort flieht.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
|
No matter how degraded a criminal may be, no one ought to
arrogate
to himself the functions of the law ; no man has the right to lynch such an offender.
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Source: |
Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
|
When I told him where we were staying, he said, ‘That place is uncanny,
old fellow;
they’re
wicked people there!
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Source: |
Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
|
_
You that are she and you, that's double shee,
In her dead face, halfe of your selfe shall see;
Shee was the other part, for so they doe
Which build them friendships, become one of two;
So two, that but themselves no third can fit, 5
Which were to be so, when they were not yet;
Twinnes, though their birth _Cusco_, and _Musco_ take,
As divers starres one
Constellation
make;
Pair'd like two eyes, have equall motion, so
Both but one meanes to see, one way to goe.
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Unde non proprie
dicuntur
virtutes _humanae_ sed
_suprahumanae_, vel _divinae_.
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The content is however universal enough, I think, for a reader of any spiritual
persuasion
to respond in their own manner, within their own belief system.
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-18 00:55 GMT / http://hdl.
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Perhaps Gracchus would have survived the attack on his life had lictors been
provided
for him.
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First one notices that anger has arisen and ac-
knowledges
it.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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The of
elegance
and refinement.
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Li Po |
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The Sirens
Odysseus
and the Sirens
'Odysseus and the Sirens'
Johannes Glauber, Gerard de Lairesse, 1656 - 1726, The Rijksmuseun
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
When you grieve so widely under the stars?
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