"
"But surely, Sir, there is
something
strange
In a shop with goods at so wide a range
Each from the other, as swords and seeds.
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Amy Lowell |
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I shall not be in
Ayrshire
for four weeks.
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Robert Forst |
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Ungrateful
Florence!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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which from thy
mountain
bed
Gnawest thy shores, whence (in my tongue) thy name;[V]
Thou art my partner, night and day the same,
Where I by love, thou art by nature led:
Precede me now; no weariness doth shed
Its spell o'er thee, no sleep thy course can tame;
Yet ere the ocean waves thy tribute claim,
Pause, where the herb and air seem brighter fed.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Leary
BORIS GODUNOV
A Drama in Verse
By Alexander Pushkin
Rendered into English verse by Alfred Hayes
DRAMATIS PERSONAE*
BORIS GODUNOV,
afterwards
Tsar.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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If there are worlds, as
Sloterdijk
suggests, then there are different existential
viii foreword
possibilities, that is to say, difference itself becomes the unity into which life draws its breath.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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jiijiii :+i;ziE7r1i';j=?
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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t und seiner Gelehrsamkeit
etwas
Kindliches
in seinem Wesen.
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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F-I-',x =;ia =--= -r==
yoi=a=ir
A:a i-i4- -n=ii{;=!
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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Returning home by a circuitous route, I find the streets even more
thronged
than in the morning.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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Art escapes life to capture life, denies the creator immortality in the body while achieving its own immortality of form, and
carrying
a meaning and purpose to come.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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Their history plays like a strange mirage over the
enduring
core of the basic presence of HCE.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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From this point one could only move
straight
as an arrow to refusing to do anything one could not do wholeheartedly, which took her light back to the deep turbu- lence in her marriage.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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Fanny could not look at him, but
there was no
consciousness
of past folly in his voice.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTOR
Ben Morgan is Fellow and Tutor in German at
Worcester
College, Oxford.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Lake Regillus has
disappeared
and its exact site is
no longer known.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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To go for refuge with great faith and to dear away obscurations and to gather
accumulations
are extremely important.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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Just as the Allies erected a last front for the Italians as of
November
1917 who were then able to stay the course until the German surrender, so did the Allies bear the brunt of the war for the French until the unforgettable day of libe?
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Every great career, whether of a nation or of an individual, dates
from a heroic action, and every downfall from a
cowardly
one
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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@E':
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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is she so greatly my
inferior
as I
cannot teach
to speak thus of
think ?
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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XXV
The knight was wroth to see his stroke beguyld,
And smote againe with more
outrageous
might;
But backe againe the sparckling steele recoyld,
And left not any marke, where it did light, 220
As if in Adamant rocke it had bene pight.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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50 Hegel was right
"Ultimately, it is absolutely clear that movement as such only has meaning and existence in a system of many bodies, and by the way, many bodies which stand in reciprocal relation
according
to different determinations" (EPW 269A).
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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wherefore did you blind
Yourself
from his quick eyes?
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Keats - Lamia |
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It was then in your power to remove
all their apprehensions who suspected any danger
from my designs, or to have openly
convicted
me of
consummate baseness.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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Boys with
chaplets
crown'c_ And choirs of virgins, sing and dance around.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Agricultural output of grain, corn, livestock, and other products plummeted in the former
communist
countries, as thousands of cooperative farms were forcibly broken up.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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org),
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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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If Zarathustra must first of all become the teacher of eternal return, then he cannot
commence
with this doctrine straightaway.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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You came, at your sweet will -- oh
wonderous
bliss!
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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Thys merkness doe affraie mie
wommanns
breaste.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Down to Alphéus ' middle shore ,
Invoking
from the depths belowmight, His great forefather Neptune's
And potent sire , whose silver bow 115 Defends the heaven -built Delos ' height.
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Pindar |
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I think this a rather
unimaginative
conclusion.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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"
Man's intellect is only a means in the
struggle
for
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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Philosophy had brought with it mummeries as absurd as any
which had been
practised
by the most superstitious zealot of the darkest
age.
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Macaulay |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 15:06 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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No words can tell in what
celestial
hour
God made your soul and gave it mortal birth,
Nor in the disarray of all the stars
Is any place so sweet that such a flower
Might linger there until thro' heaven's bars,
It heard God's voice that bade it down to earth.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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; it is useful and suggestive to
teachers
of
all the social studies and humanities.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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"
The Fear
A LANTERN light from deeper in the barn
Shone on a man and woman in the door
And threw their
lurching
shadows on a house
Near by, all dark in every glossy window.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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'
XXX
"He
afterwards
the dame for tidings pressed
Of those the orc had taken on the shore;
And of Lucina above all the rest;
If slain or prisoner kept.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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NOR will
Judaized
Russia.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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1,=;I=: ;z';:;: tL:f
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: zi:i=;+;*;t-::rU::
=j=*i+=i
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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Also
relevant
here are two features of ancient Chinese thought and rhet- oric.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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He should not go up to, nor descend from, the hail by the steps on the east (which his father used), nor go in or out by the path right
opposite
to the (centre of the) gate.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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As the author points out, it all happened a long time ago and the
participants
are no longer alive--yet their counterparts dwell among us.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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A member of the Young
Ireland' group, he wrote in the
feverish
style that characterised
those fervid patriots.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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"
[Elpino, the
favorite
of the Muses, enters in the last act to explain how
Amintas, stunned, not killed, by his fall, was brought to life by the tears of
Sylvia, whose aged father has been sent for to bless their happy union.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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White shapes flit to and fro
From mast to mast; 10
They feel the distant tempest
That nears them fast:
Great rocks are
straight
ahead,
Great shoals not past;
They shout to one another
Upon the blast.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Modern, no less than
ancient, history
supplies
us with many most painful examples of what I
refer to.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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For here we see that,
whatever were the Wine that Hafiz drank and sang, the
veritable
Juice
of the Grape it was which Omar used, not only when carousing with his
friends, but (says Mons.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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How false and
deceptive
men have always
been concerning the fundamental facts of their
inner world!
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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il CllnaM for thil date as well as the Observation about Ihe ab5cnce or the
Maitrcya
texIS as such.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:57 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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[197] L how often did he urge the authority of his father, who had always been an advocate for a strict adherence to the letter of a
testament?
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Cicero - Brutus |
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Y demostrar que el ojo
izquierdo
es el que engan?
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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if his dogmata, or moral tenets and
opinions
(from
which all motions and actions do proceed), be right and true.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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Within the vastness of
spontaneous
self-knowing, let be freely, uncontrived and free of
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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^) As it was
necessary that "each
department
should havea will of its
?
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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Generated for Christian Pecaut (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 15:02 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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“A score of sheep” : athletes when
training
fed largely upon meat, and kept themselves in condition by shovelling sand.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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The same writer mentions a tree at Gades, which had boughs reaching
to the ground; its sword-shaped leaves often
measuring
a cubit long, and
four fingers broad.
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Strabo |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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For who can say by what strange way,
Christ brings His will to light,
Since the barren staff the pilgrim bore
Bloomed in the great
Pope’s
sight?
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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H--- left on Saturday for Gland--and
yesterday, to the terror of Grissell {5} and all the Papal Court, I
appeared in the front rank of the pilgrims in the Vatican, and got the
blessing of the Holy Father--a
blessing
they would have denied me.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Kline (C) Copyright 2004 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted,
electronically
or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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Ronsard |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past,
representing
a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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The
cruelty of the chase appears like a menace symbolising the spirit of
the king's life clashing against the spirit of the forest retreat,
which is "sharanyam sarva-bhutanam" (where all
creatures
find their
protection of love).
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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What
Paradise
islands of glory gleam!
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Shelley copy |
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Dazu konnte er sich nun nicht ent-
schliessen und den Hass vertrug er nicht -- das war
die verzweifelt
schwierige
Lage, in die ihn sein
Buch gebracht hatte.
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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Tu Mu says they
were wheeled vehicles used in
repelling
attacks, but this is
denied by Ch`en Hao.
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Siege |
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Who are Tu Mu and Ch`en Hao and what is their significance in the context of historical wheeled vehicles used in warfare? |
Answer: |
Tu Mu and Ch`en Hao are commentators on the military theory under discussion. Tu Mu suggests that "mantlets" could refer to wheeled vehicles used in repelling attacks in siege warfare. Ch`en Hao, however, denies this interpretation. These differing interpretations indicate a significant debate regarding the historical use of wheeled vehicles in warfare, especially in context of protective devices like "mantlets". |
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was a
euphemism
for an emperor in flight from his capital.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"As I felt the
sickening
sweep of the descent, I had instinct-
ively tightened my hold upon the barrel and closed my eyes.
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rapid |
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Did you pull the trigger? |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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mercede
placebit
260 proditio ?
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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In other words, it might be said that in view of what we have experienced - and let me say that it is also experienced by those on whom it was not directly perpetrated - there can be no one, whose organ of experience has not
entirely
atrophied, for whom the world after Auschwitz, that is, the world in which Auschwitz was possible, is the same world as it was before.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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Not only were they accus tomed during war to challenge a single enemy to fight, after having previously
insulted
him by words and gestures; during peace also they fought with each other in splendid suits of armour, as for life or death.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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I pass by that way in the
gloaming
with Mary;
'I wonder,' I say, 'who the owner of those is.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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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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Poe - 5 |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to
digitize
public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied
and
distributed
to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
or charges.
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William Browne |
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Entering into our mind, which is most fully done when asleep, dissolves matter, and mattering, into the possibility "[ifs"] of matter and mattering within time, both experienced and measured, as the trace limits of"odd's without ends: "Odd's", or odd is as odd does, or marked out as unique, as a
singular
identity, but without ends.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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And there was a lord, who
would be thought one of the
greatest
soldiers in
Europe, to whom the custody of the Tower was com-
252 CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF
1667.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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The
phonograph
and the type- writer exist for the same reason.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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LOVE, WHAT IT IS
Love is a circle, that doth restless move
In the same sweet
eternity
of Love.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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One of the most articulate of modern mediators, he had condemned Western imperialism, refused the
protection
of his own consul, and advocated love for and intimate identification with the host coun- try; he had set a personal example by taking out Chinese citizen- ship and forming a stretcher-bearing battalion during the Japanese war.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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The others still confess their groundlessness, in order to give char- acter to the paths of offered salvation, which are re- puted to be
successful
in extreme even if imaginary danger.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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"The day
was come," we read in the 'Heimskringla,' "when
foredoomed
was
blood-offering and the men of blood-offerings, and the holy faith
come in their stead, and the true worship.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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Even total victory over an enemy provides at best an
opportunity
for unopposed violence against the enemy population.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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But in order to make meaningful such a grandilo- quent statement, the person in question would have to define life in a
different
way than Hegel.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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" However, with the twenty poems in place, Bly, for whom groping was not enough, again urged Wright to check with
colleagues
"to see if we can pick up any inaccuracies in syntax.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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(d) Likewise in history: fatalism, Darwinism;
the last attempts at
reconciling
reason and Godli-
ness fail.
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"That was part of the
arrangement!
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And in the statistics of capital
punishment at Ferrara, during nine centuries, I
discovered
the
significant fact that there is a succession of notaries executed
for forgery, frequently at very short intervals, in the same town.
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Nor is it wonderful that man should never be exempt from them, because he always hath in himself their source; scarce are we
delivered
from one temptation when another attacks us.
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I did not know
Harold
Frederic
personally, but I have heard a great deal about him, and
nothing that was not pleasant and nothing except such things as lead
a man to honor another man and to love him.
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Twain - Speeches |
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As the ordinary shows of the theatre and of other such places,
when thou art presented with them, affect thee; as the same things still
seen, and in the same fashion, make the sight
ingrateful
and tedious;
so must all the things that we see all our life long affect us.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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From the steep prow I marked with
quickening
eye
Zakynthos, every olive grove and creek,
Ithaca's cliff, Lycaon's snowy peak,
And all the flower-strewn hills of Arcady.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Some critics, however, maintain these verses to be trochaics,
although
very
loose and faulty.
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As the source
is not far distant, and the stream passing through a deep valley, then
flows immediately into the city, the water is cold and rapid in its
course; hence it is of
advantage
to men and beasts affected with
swellings of the sinews, fluxions, and gout.
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