WORDSWORTH
and BYRON, these the lordly names
And these the gods to whom most incense burns.
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This is the art of automation, which does not make any fundamental
distinctions
between intelligent machines and human agents.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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This is to pile fire on fire, to add water to water, and is called
`increasing
the excessive.
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At the corner, on the
Westminster
Bridge Road, he paused a moment.
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THE FIRST BOOK OF THE _ 14
A golden bowl, that shone with gems divine,
The queen
commanded
to be crown'd with wine: The bowl that Belus us'd, and all the Tyrian line.
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Je crois qu'il n'y en a qu'une qui la connaisse et
que les autres l'avaient seulement
accompagnée
jusqu'à la porte.
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matic
Literature
of the Age of 1832 Taits Edinburgh Magazine.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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If one wished only the
invisible
eye of the heavenly
Father for witness, to what good this vain ostentation ?
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" Thus you should forsake thoughtless crudity and be
meticulous
about cause and effect.
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So do I; for
I read them in childhood, and
childhood
has a very strong faculty of
admiration, but a very weak one of criticism.
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Selection of English Letters |
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And on this subject, if he did not exactly create a piece of
conventional
wisdom, he certainly helped to popularize it.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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Revolutionary conspiracy raised its head in the Panjab where it
was thwarted by prompt action, and in Bengal where it was repressed
for a while by strong
measures
in 1916.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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Her
companions
were relieved, but there
was no good for _her_.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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*"# #$
$#*!
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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L With what enthusiasm I
defended
your political position, both in the Senate and before the people, I prefer that you should learn from your friends rather than from myself.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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20
LII
Lo, on the
distance
a dark blue ravine,
A fold in the mountainous forests of fir,
Cleft from the sky-line sheer down to the shore!
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Sappho |
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As the new cosmopolitanism
deepened
the gulf between the citizen and the
individual, and immeasurably widened the sphere of the latter, in the
same proportion did the teaching of Plato fail to bridge over that gulf,
and provide activity for that sphere.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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And then, as the tall clock in the corner of the room ticks on
majestically towards nine, the conversation takes, it may be, a
little more serious turn, and it is
suggested
that a very happy
evening may fitly be ended with a prayer.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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Since then no armistice has been
proclaimed
to the feuding between them.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It is certainly impossible to get at a thorough knowledge of the
opinions of Dante even in theology; and his morals, if judged according
to the
received
standard, are not seldom puzzling.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Reaching
this limit (between "the human soul" and music [time]) suggests that the problem o f temporality in the Investigations is also a problem o f the aesthetics o f the text.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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[45] An iron collar, an
instrument
of torture and of punishment.
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Aristophanes |
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Registration as member of a deme or township takes place when
eighteen
years of age are completed.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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δεν ξεύρεις, 'που ο
πατέρας
σου 'ς εμάς ικέτης ήλθε;
τι τον εμίσησε ο λαός, ότ' είχ' εκείνος βλάψει 425
τους Θεσπρωτούς με συντροφιά ληστών από την Τάφο,
κ' ήσαν εκείνοι φίλοι μας• και να τον θανατώσουν
ζητούσαν και όλους να χαρούν αυτοί τους θησαυρούς του•
αλλ', αν κ' εμάνιζαν πολύ, τους κράτησ' ο Οδυσσέας.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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But give me to be Bringer of Light1 and give me to gird me in a tunic2 with embroidered border
reaching
to the knee, that I may slay wild beasts.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are
confirmed
as Public Domain in the U.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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As melts the iceberg in the seas,
As clouds give rain to the eastern breeze,
As snow-banks thaw in April's beam,
The solid
kingdoms
like a dream
Resist in vain his motive strain,
They totter now and float amain.
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Emerson - Poems |
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SLOTERDIJK: You’re talking to
somebody
who has just pro- duced a book trilogy of 2,400 pages.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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" Naturally, people
stared and Baudelaire was happy--he had
startled
a bourgeois.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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Then a mourner moveth pale
In a silence full of wail,
Raising not his sunken head
Because he
wandered
last that way
With that one beneath the clay:
Weeping not, because that one,
The only one who would have said
"Cease to weep, beloved!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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It is also indirectly
injurious in that it opposes the acquirement of
solid knowledge and the
intention
to win the
respect of men in an honest way.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Essaisur
lefontionnemenl de Coracle (Paris: E.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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All the
later credit-unions also have been established
through his aid; and 24 applications are now in
hand requesting like
assistance
from him.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men
On the hills o' Galilee,
They whined as he walked out calm between, Wi' his eyes like the grey o' the sea.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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NOT long he waited, ere our jealous dame,
Who longed to find her
faithless
husband, came,
Most thoroughly prepared his ears to greet.
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La Fontaine |
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s old men,
supporting
the throne,2 his cultured thoughts recall Emperor Yao.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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It has been successfully
practised by the Hindostan Princes that where a particular district has gone
to ruin to give it to a
Zamindar
or any other man of known good conduct for
a long lease of years or in perpetuity at a fixed rent not to be increased should
ever the industry of the renter raise an unexpected average to himself.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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She had a
tremendous
amount of scope, both intellectually and individually.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die,
And yet complain'st of his great jealousie;
If swolne with poyson, hee lay in' his last bed,
His body with a sere-barke covered,
Drawing his breath, as thick and short, as can 5
The nimblest crocheting Musitian,
Ready with
loathsome
vomiting to spue
His Soule out of one hell, into a new,
Made deafe with his poore kindreds howling cries,
Begging with few feign'd teares, great legacies, 10
Thou would'st not weepe, but jolly,'and frolicke bee,
As a slave, which to morrow should be free;
Yet weep'st thou, when thou seest him hungerly
Swallow his owne death, hearts-bane jealousie.
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Donne - 1 |
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" Nietzsche's "psychology" in no way
restricts
itself to man, but neither does it extend simply to plants and animals.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v3-4 |
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ir, come with a
complaint
against Saladin's nephew Taqi ad-Din.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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The answer is: Haman (who
had come to arrange the
impalement
of his enemy).
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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But
he
possessed
neither honour, religion, morals nor definite political
convictions.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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For the
Soviet Union has
provided
a sufficient example of
what happens to a governing class when the transi-
tion comes from below to make the governing class
chary of achieving state capitalism under the Marx-
ist banner of "class struggle.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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At this time of my parting, wish me good luck, my
friends!
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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The rash man, however, is also thought to be
boastful and only a pretender to courage; at all events, as the
brave man is with regard to what is terrible, so the rash man wishes
to appear; and so he imitates him in
situations
where he can.
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Aristotle |
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What lamb on the altar-strand
Stricken
shall comfort me?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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At present nothing is so discouraging as the shadow which
passes over the face of earnest women when one remarks that
from their sex has never
proceeded
an Iliad, a Parthenon, an
(Organon' or 'Principia.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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They
surrendered
both
themselves and their general; so that Brutus had now
a very respectable army.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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But he was
found that morning; and when Private Gellatly, with a warm
hand,
touching
the glove of "iron and ice," that, indeed, now,-
said, "Sergeant Fones, you are promoted, God help you!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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The first time we meet his name in print, on the
title-page of an
evidently
successful drama, we find it coupled
with the name of an older and very popular dramatist.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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Antipathetic
to the French Revolution, he travelled to North America in 1791.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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Daveog,5° his reputed disciple, is said to have built a church and monastery here, and besides, to have carried out the details of the penitential retreat, of which he had
received
the outlines from his great master.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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"Offer the
offering
of
righteousness and put your trust in the Lord.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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The natives also use its wood for their canoes, and
extract a
valuable
resin from it.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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llhl you must
meditate
aiming your visuali- zation at other key points of the body.
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Once he saw a fat, stupid ass
Grinning
at him from a green place.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written
explanation
to the person you received the work from.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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enS<: of a
marriage
su;, becomes rele- vant later, The bargain arranged, the C.
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In addition to sentences that have no meaning without context, there are cases where a single sentence will mean
different
things to different people.
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A comparable number of pages is given to critical and often fiercely polemical
articles
on developments in the Federal Republic and in West German historiography.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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It was given out that the pasture was exhausted and
needed re-seeding; but it soon became known that Napoleon
intended
to sow it with barley.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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In safety range the cattle o'er the mead:
Sweet Peace, soft Plenty, swell the golden grain:
O'er unvex'd seas the sailors
blithely
speed:
Fair Honour shrinks from stain:
No guilty lusts the shrine of home defile:
Cleansed is the hand without, the heart within:
The father's features in his children smile:
Swift vengeance follows sin.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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45
"When it comes to molecules and cranial pathways, we"-that is, the brain researchers and art physiologists of the turn of the century-" auto-
matically
think of a process similar to that of Edison's phonograph.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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Let's look again at what de Man calls "our question":
Our question, then, becomes whether and where this disruption, this disarticulation, becomes apparent in the text, at a moment when the aporia of the sublime is no longer stated, as was the case in the mathe- matical sublime and in the ensuing general
definitions
of the concept, as an explicit paradox, but as the apparently tranquil, because entirely un- reflected, juxtaposition of incompatibles.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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After he had won so
distinguished
a victory, the story goes that the
king said to the shepherdess: "Ask of me what thou wilt, and even though
it be the half of my kingdom, I swear I will give it thee on the
instant.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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She was quite
convinced
of Mr.
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Austen - Emma |
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Protes-
tants in all parts of Poland established print-
ing presses, which published large numbers not
only of religious but of
literary
and scientific
works.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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But the object of the essay is the new as something genu- inely new, as something not
translatable
back into the staleness of already existing forms.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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My
boyfriend
gave me fifty cents,
And threw me down the stairs.
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Childens - Folklore |
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net),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of
exporting
a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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The spirit behind Housman’s poems for instance,
is not tragic, merely querulous; it is
hedonism
disappointed.
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Orwell |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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) He encouraged Nero
the 454th year after the
foundation
of the city.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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And the will inaugurates the
unintelligible
life of magia--that it is a mysterium--because an understanding lies essentially within and receives therefore an essential spirit, since every essence is an arcanum or a mysterium of a whole being.
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Manso was enough delighted with his accomplishments to honour
him with a sorry distich, in which he commends him for every thing but
his religion: and Milton, in return,
addressed
him in a Latin poem,
which must have raised an high opinion of English elegance and
literature.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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For even thou art able to draw near to Him, that doth speak to thee through man : for it is not so, that He hath made him to draw near unto Himself, and
rejecteth
thee.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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But it is very foolish to ask questions about
any young ladies--about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows,
without being told, exactly what they are: all very
accomplished
and
pleasing, and one very pretty.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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Quotation:
CLEOPATRA: The odds is gone, / And there is nothing left
remarkable
/ Beneath the visiting moon.
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Here is an
insolence!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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In:
Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung, March 15, 2006.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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It says that the Buddha is the dharmas that form a Buddha, that is to say, either the worldly or transworldly dharmas which are the objea of the
designation
"Buddha," are the Buddha.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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15See Martin Luther, Werke: kritische Gesammtausgabe,
Tischreden
(Weimar: H.
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therefore, the Hindus who are not Brahmans (see infra), have to make themselves into abstract egos: they must give up any movement, any interest, any incli- nation, any
connection
with their families.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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Comments:
GILBERT ALLARDYCE 'S ESSAY IS A WELCOME DEFLATION of the
excesses
and reificationfrequentleyncounteredin theorizingabout "fascism.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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He was a
Lieutenant
in the 10th/13th West
Yorkshire Regiment, and was killed in action on July 1, 1916.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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AN OBJECT
thing, that hath a code and THISnot a core,
Hath set acquaintance where might be affections,
And nothing now
Disturbeth
his reflections.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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They dug about for three days and three nights, for they
searched
even in all the catacombs which were in the cemetery of Koptos ; they turned over the steles of the scribes of the "double house of life," and read the inscriptions that they found on them.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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11525 (#139) ##########################################
PLATO
11525
policies, is
described
in the language of poetical Platonism as the
acquisition of the highest knowledge, the knowledge of the Idea of
Good, on which the value of all partial and relative "goods" depends.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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La profundidad de la edificante confusión se muestra, entre otras
cosas, en que
todavía
el hombre loco de Nietzsche, que creyó anun
409
ciar la muerte de Dios, es víctima de la confusión de centros, sin si
quiera imaginar que en su intervención tendrían que haberse dis
tinguido dos conceptos radicalmente diferentes del Uno-y-Todo.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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The
despair in this early moment was far too big that it could
give room to
feelings
like hate or rage.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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What
figure of a body was Lysippus ever able to form with his graver, or
Apelles to paint with his pencil, as the comedy to life expresseth so
many and various
affections
of the mind?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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2 6 7
the
flanking
towers.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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--From a short dialogue in Paradise between Chitralekha and
another nymph, we learn that a
misfortune
has befallen Pururavas and
Urvashi.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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And to Pandare he held up bothe his hondes,
And seyde, `Lord, al thyn be that I have; 975
For I am hool, al brosten been my bondes;
A
thousand
Troians who so that me yave,
Eche after other, god so wis me save,
Ne mighte me so gladen; lo, myn herte,
It spredeth so for Ioye, it wol to-sterte!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Get thee back, thou
abomination
of Osiri,.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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is
required
(N 46).
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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In fact, all
available
treasures
were exhausted on the occasion.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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