» «Souvent, mais peu à la fois, comme le pauvre
père Swann», était devenu une des phrases
favorites
de mon grand-père
qui la prononçait à propos des choses les plus différentes.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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I admired the
endurance
and self-control of the children.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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What can an Author after this
produce?
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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Any
syndical
organization ?
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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Serious child
business
that the world
Laughs at, and grows stale ; Such is the tale
Part of it of thy song-life.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Of the latter I quote a
few lines:
WITH whom spend'st thou thy evening hours
Amid the sweets of
breathing
flowers?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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To summarize, one cannot reach any definite judgement on the
campaign
of Islam in its fifteenth century.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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Was ist schön an einem Mann,
welches Gott nicht dir
beschied!
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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All the whole choir of poets love the grove, and
avoid cities, due
votaries
to Bacchus delighting in repose and shade.
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Horace - Works |
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Epicurus
was more naif, more idyllic, more grateful; Pyrrho had more experience the world, had travelled more, and
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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--Pride, pathos of distance, great responsibility, exuberant spirits, splendid animalism,
conquest, the
deification
of passion, revenge, cunning, anger, voluptuousness, adventure, know
ledge;--the noble ideal is denied: the beauty, wisdom, power, pomp, and awfulness of the type
man: the man who postulates aims, the "future" man (here Christianity presents itself as the
climatic conditions are favourable--as in the case of the Indian ideal.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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The cult of the madman is also always the cult of him
who is rich in vitality, and who is a
powerful
man.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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"A writer of fiction, a professional liar, is paradoxically
obsessed
with what is true," he wrote, and "the unit of truth, at least for a fiction writer, is the human animal, belonging to the species Homo sapiens, unchanged for at least 100,000 years.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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The Broken Field
My soul is a dark
ploughed
field
In the cold rain;
My soul is a broken field
Ploughed by pain.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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As almost
all my
religious
tenets originate from my heart, I am wonderfully
pleased with the idea, that I can still keep up a tender intercourse
with the dearly beloved friend, or still more dearly beloved mistress,
who is gone to the world of spirits.
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Robert Burns- |
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He was a freeman: the Irish
were the
hereditary
serfs of his race.
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Macaulay |
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Only one-third of all Germans lived in cities that were
subjected
to bombing.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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The King brought the great summer
manoeuvres on the Mockerauer Heath to a tech-
nical completeness which the art of manoeuvres
has
probably
never reached since then.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Pray, doth she feed on
dewdrops
like the cricket?
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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We need your
donations
more than ever!
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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24:9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in
the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the
LORD made by fire by a
perpetual
statute.
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bible-kjv |
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And
unreluctant
Hermes 15
Shall give me words to say.
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Sappho |
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See the Ode on the
Progress
of Poetry.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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, one should have
compassion
and strive at the means to avoid birth there.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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As it flowed at the foot of two
precipitous
mountains, the
disposition of the localities did not admit of turning it aside and
conducting it into lower channels.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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Hence it not unfrequently hap- pens, that banks are the first to discover the unsoundness of such characters, and by withholding credit, to announce to the public that they are not entitled to i t
If banks, in spite of every precaution, arc sometimes botrayed into giving a false credit to the persons describ- ed ; they more frequently enable honest and
industrious
men, of small, or perhaps of no capital, to undertake and prosecute business, with advantage to themselves and to the community ; and assist merchants of both capital and credit, who meet with fortuitous and unforeseen shocks, which might, without such helps, prove fatal to them and to others, to make head against their misfortunes, and fi- nally to retrieve their affairs j circumstances which form no inconsiderable encomium on the utility of banks.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Doch den Tod bringt Alles dir,
wo dich dein
Verhängnis
zieht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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Such is the
Precious
Rare Sangha.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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She had known it would irritate and
distress
her;
she had known it her duty to keep away.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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1 The
very legality of the existence of the
committee
of corres-
pondence was questioned in view of the fact that it had
been appointed in November, 1772, to perform a particular
task and its tenure could not continue longer than the end
of that year at the furthest.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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But the
young men were base and proud,
cowardly
and cruel.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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or must the
craftsman
necessarily
know when he is likely to be benefited, and when not to be benefited,
by the work which he is doing?
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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There does not appear to be any truth
in the report that Fra Paolo
concealed
his discovery of the valves in the
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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But what, above all, appealed to him in the
_Epistles_, was their
paternal
voice, the mildness and graciousness hidden
beneath the uncultivated roughness of the phrases.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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995
I sey nat that she ne had knowing
What was harm; or elles she
Had coud no good, so
thinketh
me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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There
fore, dear master, enlighten me
concerning
th
public schools; what can we hope for in the wa;
of their abolition or reform?
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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'""- The pupils are thus permitted to write what is inscribed in their brains, not what they believe their teacher
believes
they ought to be thinking.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Here he is, and here I yield him; and I
beseech your Grace, let it be book'd with the rest of this day's
deeds; or, by the Lord, I will have it in a particular ballad
else, with mine own picture on the top on't, Colville kissing my
foot; to the which course if I be enforc'd, if you do not all
show like gilt
twopences
to me, and I, in the clear sky of fame,
o'ershine you as much as the full moon doth the cinders of the
element, which show like pins' heads to her, believe not the word
of the noble.
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Shakespeare |
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Next, the
promontory
Melæna,[83] opposite to
which is Psyra,[84] an island distant from the promontory 50 stadia,
lofty, with a city of the same name.
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Strabo |
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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Charged with this task, which left ample margin for their initiative, Hitler's most faithful helpers set out on their homicidal path of their
fulfillment
of duty.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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Messages
announcing
the good news were written to all the provinces and couriers were sent to bear them in all directions.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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_To the God in Man displayed--
Where e'er we see that Birth,
Be love and
understanding
paid
As never yet on earth!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Both Marcus and the Emperor Antoninus had a high
opinion of Herodes; and all we know goes to prove he was a man of high
character and
princely
generosity.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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), Psycho-analysis and
Contemporary
Thought.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:09 GMT / http://hdl.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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The dissolution of the city merely
provides
a clearing to prepare for the emergenceofitsessence.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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And so the office of the
treasury
.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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Winter points out the
fallacy of this criterion as follows: "It is difficult to
imagine any method for getting away more com-
pletely from the
original
spirit of the Iliad than to
so translate as to have It give to the average modern
reader the same impression that it makes upon the
typical middle-aged professor of dead languages.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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complex scope of Tibetan
Buddhist
thought and practice.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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The first critical point to be made here is that the features Jameson attributes to
Understanding
("common-sense empirical thinking of externality, formed in the experience of solid objects and obedient to the law of non-contradiction") clearly are his- torically limited: they designate the modern/secular empiricist com- mon sense very different from, say, a primitive holistic notion of reality permeated by spiritual forces.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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This he did in the most
striking
fashion.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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18For further
information
on Lambert, see Friedrich Kittler, Phdnomen, Perspektive,
Medium.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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No heralds shall my deeds proclaim
To
Carthage
now: lost, lost is all:
A nation's hope, a nation's name,
They died with dying Hasdrubal.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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foreign poHcy were
compounded
by the revolution in France and the outbreak of war in Europe.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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The mobile images of film are
inextricably
linked with the new automobiles and the only slightly older railroad journey.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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For this reason, perhaps, my Brutus, he appeared less pleasing to you than he would have done, if you had been old enough to hear him, when he was fired with emulation and
flourished
in the full bloom of his eloquence.
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aflame |
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Cicero - Brutus |
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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the
strength
to force the moment to its crisis?
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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Statius occasionally adopted
one of his more
charming
myths.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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"If a general
standard
must be fixed, numbers were pre-
ferable to land.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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He set the world in the dry light
of truth, and since the vanity of mankind is a
constant
factor
throughout the ages, there is scarce a page of Lucian's writing that
wears the faded air of antiquity.
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Lucian - True History |
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Make a chart showing the development of
political
parties
in the United States.
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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the memory of the ecology of suffering, among which are
included
even the reason of exonerations and the construction of what is ?
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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[820] And he again – the husband seeking for his fatal bride snatched from him having heard rumours, and yearning for the winged phantom that fled to the sky – what secret places of the sea shall he not
explore?
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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He is still in the process of expanding the stage for his great play, exposing its antiquated
foundation
and properly de- termining what masks the actors will wear.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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His book
(A Walk in Hellas) is a
remarkable
study of
Greece as it is to-day, illuminated by what it
was in its prime.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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You are like the
meditative
man With the perfunctory heart; its
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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"She certainly is not a favorable
specimen
of a Scotch gude-
wife," answered Mr.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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The nirmanakaya, on the other hand,
expresses
itself with respect to what beings need.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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CATHLEEN
What evil is there here
That is not
everywhere
from this to the sea?
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tossed |
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Yeats - Poems |
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Alciphron was copied by
Aristænetus, who lived in the fifth century of our era, and whose
letters have been often
imitated
in modern times, and by Theophy-
lactus, who lived in the seventh century.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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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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Historical account of the rise and
progress
of the Bengal native
infantry.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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But what or whose was the pastoral poem of “Thealma and
Clearchus,” which thou didst set about
printing
in 1678, and gavest to
the world in 1683?
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Yet we believe that the
Prthagjana
perfects his faculties in these two manners, for, later, Vasubandhu declares that the Aryans do not perfect their faculties by an impure (sdsrava) path (vi.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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Among the Romans, when
the bride reached her husband's house, he
received
her with fire and
water, which it was the custom for her to touch.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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What judge
had
pronounced
his sentence?
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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So may thro' Albion's
farthest
ken,
To social-flowing glasses,
The grace be--"Athole's honest men,
And Athole's bonnie lasses?
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'For-
wardlike
but however and like favourable heaven heard these' is the Joycean'last line of Hopkins's 'The Bugler's First C~mm':ln.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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No
more do the
unfinished
towers rise, no more do the people exercise in
arms, nor work for safety in war on harbour or bastion; the works hang
broken off, vast looming walls and engines towering into the sky.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I suspect that
they must have been of the same animal with those found on the
Ohio; and if so, they could not have
belonged
to any human
figure, because they are accompanied with tusks of the size, form,
and substance of those of the elephant.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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How shall the
emancipation
be wrought?
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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The
king's anxiety to discover whether the maiden's father is of a caste
that permits her to marry him is
reproduced
(Act I).
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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In May 1845 I
procured
a leave
for twenty days, visited St.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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" According to the geographical knowledge of the time, the two regions were seen as the
northernmost
and southernmost extremes of the world.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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If our imagination can carve no bas-relief
From hostile soil and cloud, O grief,
With which to deck Poe's dazzling sepulchre,
Let your granite at least mark a boundary forever,
Calm block fallen here from some dark disaster,
To dark flights of Blasphemy
scattered
through the future.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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It is physical force;
but it is also an institution aiming at the
betterment
of
mankind.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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This movement had
greatest
vitality in New
York, where a number of prominent men in December, 1764,
organized the " Society for H1o frnmnn'op r,f A rtv Agri-
culture and Oecpnomy, and proceeded to award premiums
fora great variety of local productions, to print informing
pamphlets, and to promote the formation of similar societies
throughout the province8 Ja_other provinces, the news-
1 Bos.
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I been looking forward all the
morning to a little prayer ’
Mrs Pither was always ready for a
‘little
prayer’ at any hour of the night or
day.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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I peer for
friends!
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Sometimes
she stood for hours in the heavily failing snow,
and would only reach her hut at dead of night after walking for miles
through perilous ravines.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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'Tis evident, they have it not in their pow-
er to subdue us by force of arms;-- in all these states they
have not more than fifteen thousand effective troops, nor is
it
possible
for them much to augment this number.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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" The plans
pertaining
to this title contain as their fourth
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part the "Philosophy of Eternal Return," and they propose another part, concerning the "yes-sayers," whose place within the whole was not fixed.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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As the
requirements
for other states are met, additions to this list
will be made and fund raising will begin in the additional states.
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Lucian |
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In the long run it has become more than clear that it was Camus who had the right answers to the
fundamental
questions back in the late 40's.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Blocks
automatically
expire.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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