Do
not you see, how pale each guest rises from a
perplexing
variety of
dishes at an entertainment.
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Horace - Works |
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Yet in the meantime it least comes in their
heads how many things are everywhere extant
concerning
that duty which
they owe the people.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Moreover, if all nations were
agree about certain
religious
matters, for instal
the existence of a God (which, it may be remarke
is not the case with regard to this point), th
would only be an argument against those affirme
matters, for instance the existence of a God; th
consensus gentium and hominum in general can
only take place in case of a huge folly.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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While I was perishing another was
travelling
unhurt.
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Greek Anthology |
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”
O could you but hear it, at
midnight
my laugh:
My hour is striking; come step in my trap;
Now into my net stream the fishes.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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[625] Pompey,
amid the famine and the public agitation, is hardly invested with new
powers, before the Senate on one side, and the popular faction on the
other, plot
together
to ruin his credit: by clever intrigues, they
awaken the old hatred between him and Crassus.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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Seeing your
rhythmic
advance,
your fine abandon,
one might speak of a snake that danced
at the end of the branch it's on.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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A
foreshadowing
of another "era.
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Sloterdijk |
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For we must always
remember
this, that all mankind is accursed, and, therefore, there is a singular remedy promised us, which is performed by Christ alone.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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Round brands of the pyre
a wall they built, the
worthiest
ever
that wit could prompt in their wisest men.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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His chief
prose work, of another character, was his
Rehearsal
Transprosed.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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He never will attempt to vindicate
himfelf from this Charge, and having nothing valid or honefl: to
urge in his Defence, he will engage you, by
introducing
what-
ever is mod foreign to the Purpofe, to forget the real State of
this Profecution.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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At the death ofAntoninus (161), Marcus Aurelius, then thirty-nine years old, became emperor, and he immediately had equal power
conferred
upon his adoptive brother, Lucius Verus.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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So, too, that cold
look which great personages cast upon their servitors is a remnant of
the caste distinction between man and man; a specimen of rude antiquity:
women, the conservers of the old, have
maintained
this survival, too,
more perfectly than men.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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By now our
commitment
to Berlin has become so deep and diffuse that most of us do not often have to think about whom our commitment is to.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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More probably he was deliberately paying a last
instalment
on his debt to Mussolini -- not a very expensive one, either, for he is right if he reasons that Italy will not venture upon any serious undertaking unless the German Army is available from the very outset.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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With five thou-
sand you can buy a pretty little house with two acres of land;
the remaining twenty
thousand
will bring you in a thousand
francs a year.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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I walk face lowered, and I glower,
And neither song nor
hawthorn
flower,
Can please me more than winter's ice.
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Troubador Verse |
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Are you
astonished
at so large a price?
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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Heavenly hurt it gives us;
We can find no scar,
But internal difference
Where the
meanings
are.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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At this
moment a pale watery stuff called beer is
sevenpence
a pint in England.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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Paul Patoff' (1887) relates
personal
experiences
of a visit to Turkey; With the Immortals' (1888) is an attempt to
reanimate dead celebrities.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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* * * *
Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of
windows?
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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Magni Vitam, qualis typis edita est exara- verit, certo
pronunciare
non licet.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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And after the lecture of the law and prophets, the master of the
synagogue
sent to them, saying, Men and brethren, if there be in you any word of exhortation unto the people, say on.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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Monika Zobel
The True Fate of the Bremen Town
Musicians
as Told by Georg Trakl
They haul the donkey, the largest, to the mill first.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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' Somewhat rough on poor Haidee, perhaps, '
answered
Sprats.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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round church-one of London's
greatest
this house for a few days until Arundel
Both streets are ancient as roads, but assets—would alone give distinction to House was ready for his reception.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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It is
certain that
satirical
poems were common at Rome from a very
early period.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Was he like Saadi, who, in his vision, designed to fill
his lap with the celestial flowers, as
presents
for his friends; but
the fragrance of the roses so intoxicated him, that the skirt dropped
from his hands?
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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for
themselves
and for you.
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Whitman |
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We find the
answer in his personality make-up, which was marked by
strongly
repressed
biological drives and a temperament which
was at once hypersensitive and cool.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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It was in 1862 that, in spite of the
Southern
Members of Congress, who
wished a more southerly route, it was decided to lay the road between
the forty-first and forty-second parallels.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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rr;i'::;:
:::,i
i=
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rilliiili
i;I;it= :
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:1 z ;.
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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i: 'How long did the canvas hang afore
Aldgate?
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John Donne |
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I
am not
interfering
with any one, let me write!
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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See key to translations for an
explanation
of the format.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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An hundred great towns are
inhabited
in that opulent
realm; from it our forefather Teucer of old, if I recall the tale
aright, sailed to the Rhoetean coasts and chose a place for his kingdom.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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With
guerillaman
aspear aspoor to prink the pranks of primkissies.
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Finnegans |
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Its distinctive nature, its
essential
characteristics, and its specific development would finally be able to become reality through the effect of hospitalization.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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While there upon the verdant glade
By his
afflicted
parent laid ,
Two dragons of cærulean eye Commission 'd by the will divine ,
With bees ' innoxious produce hie
To feed the youth of heavenly line .
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Pindar |
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No one can point
to any moment of my life in which I have assumed
either an arrogant or a
pathetic
attitude.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Compare
Pericles
and Julian.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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The meeting chains are knit by a single
beautiful
and great star, which is called the Knot of Tails.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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Do thou inspire my
melancholy
song.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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Abélard
afterwards
modified his
nominalism and behaved somewhat unhandsomely to him, but never
escaped from the influence of his teaching.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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Of the Court of Wiirtemberg and its
Protestings, and "extensive Deduction" about nothing
at all, we do not speak; ** nor of
Montmorency
claiming
Luxemburg, of which he is Titular "Duke; nor of
Monsignore di Guastalla claiming Mantua; nor of --
In brief, the fences are now down; a broad French gap
in those miles of elaborate paling, which are good only
as fire-wood henceforth, and any ass may rush in and
claim a bellyful.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Faro had already given him permission, to
appropriate
so much of the wood, as he desired.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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These books are of different kinds, and often, as then was
usual, included various works by several hands—the volume which
contained two of Chaucer's poems
contained
also Lydgate's The
Temple of Glass and The Grene Knight Another included The
Dethe of Arthur begynyng at Cassabelaun, Guy of Warwick,
Richard 'Cur de Lyon' and a Chronicle to Edwarde the iii.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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I can cure them of
anything!
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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1 The
discussion
took place in April, 1898.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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When
old age approaches they become either
peaceful
landed-gentry or
drunkards--sometimes both.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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I was called by my nighest name by clear loud voices of young men as they
saw me
approaching
or passing,
Felt their arms on my neck as I stood, or the negligent leaning of their
flesh against me as I sat;
Saw many I loved in the street, or ferry-boat, or public assembly, yet
never told them a word;
Lived the same life with the rest, the same old laughing, gnawing,
sleeping;
Played the part that still looks back on the actor or actress,
The same old role, the role that is what we make it,--as great as we like,
Or as small as we like, or both great and small.
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Whitman |
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This argu- ment is neither for nor against the use of nuclear weapons, but for recognizing that this consequence of their use equals in im- portance- and could far transcend- their
tactical
battlefield accomplishments.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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This I forgot last night:
you must not be blamed,
it is not your fault;
as a child, a flower--any flower
tore my breast--
meadow-chicory, a common grass-tip,
a leaf shadow, a flower tint
unexpected
on a winter-branch.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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@E':
: i ,; iiiis ; i,
uiitiii=
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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Like Pascal, Amiel was a thinker
interested
above all in the soul
of man.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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org/wiki/Gutenberg:Terms_of_Use">Terms of Use
prohibit
mass downloads or automated harvesting of the collection.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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I will honor the
religion
of my fathers.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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Are you sure that
everything
is fastened?
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Guenes beholds: his sword in hand he takes,
Two fingers' width from
scabbard
bares the blade;
And says to it: "O clear and fair and brave;
Before this King in court we'll so behave,
That the Emperour of France shall never say
In a strange land I'd thrown my life away
Before these chiefs thy temper had essayed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Vesta - Under these circumstances they will
certainly
not
allow the holy fire in my temple to burn any longer!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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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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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any
specific
use of any specific book is allowed.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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an and Taoist
thinking
merged.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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So how should I
presume?
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
|
For that I am the same that _doubt_,
_understand_, and _will_ is so _evident_, that I know not how to explain
it more _manifestly_, and that I also am the same that _imagine_, for tho
perhaps (as I have
supposed)
no thing that can be _imagined_ is _true_,
yet the _imaginative Power_ it self is _really_ existent, and makes
up a part of my _Thought_; and last of all that I am the same that am
_sensitive_, or _perceive corporeal_ things as by my _senses_, yet that
I now _see_ light, _hear_ a noise, _feel_ heat, these things are false,
for I suppose my self _asleep_, but I _know_ that I _see_, _hear_, and am
_heated_, that cannot be _false_; and this it is that in me is _properly_
called _Sense_, and this strictly taken is the same with _thought_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Were you
thinking
that those were the words--those delicious sounds out of
your friends' mouths?
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Whitman |
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),
AGAINST EUTROPIUS, II
longer aureole-crowned and she no more bright of
countenance
nor clothed with the saffron of the dawn.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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"
It would have been impossible to enhance more worthily than thus the spirit of
courtesy
and knightly kindness which was in Hector — qualities, in truth, which, together with his loyalty to Andromache, endeared the champion of the Trojans to chivalry, and placed Hector upon the list of worthies beside King Arthur and Godfrey of Bouillon.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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Dominique
must have been
landing on the other bank.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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Or, de
telles qualités
exercent
sur toute situation mondaine une action morbide
élective, comme disent les médecins, et si désagrégeante que les plus
solidement assises ont peine à y résister quelques années.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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carmina cum primum populo
iuuenalia
legi,
barba resecta mihi bisue semelue fuit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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For discriminating their merits, deciding their
comparative eminence, I have no inclination; and
fortunately
it does not
come within the requirements of this essay.
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Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Joyful are the
thoughts
of home,
Now I'm ready for my chair,
So, till morrow-morning's come,
Bill and mittens, lie ye there!
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John Clare |
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’
He turned ferociously upon the suspect, advanced his face tomcat-fashion till it was
almost
touching
the other’s, and roared in an enormous voice:
‘You stole the ring!
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
|
+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional
materials
through Google Book Search.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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The solution was found in
substituting
a narrative manner of representing the world and ordering our experience for the mirror-like structure.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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Therefore I shot him, but
nevertheless
I was unable to obtain
it.
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Kipling - Poems |
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But it's the
illigant
big
figgur that I ave, for the rason o' which all the ladies fall in love
wid me.
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Poe - 5 |
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Otherwise
the provinces as a whole and all Rome exulted in his death to such a degree that the urban masses donned the caps of freedmen and celebrated manumission, as if they had been delivered from a savage dominus.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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Emperor Lý Thái Tô was then his bodyguard and had not
ascended
the throne.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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Bacon of Verulam says: Infimarum virtutum
apud vulgus laus est,
mediarum
admiratio, supre-
marum sensus nullus.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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Note:
Cassandra
of Troy refused Phoebus Apollo's love.
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Source: |
Ronsard |
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"42Its capacity for change derives in part from the fact that it fosters relatively
autonomous
scholarship that calls both itself and the society in which it is based into question.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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They prepare for death, yet are they not the finish, but rather the outset,
They bring none to his or her terminus or to be content and full,
Whom they take they take into space to behold the birth of stars, to
learn one of the meanings,
To launch off with
absolute
faith, to sweep through the ceaseless
rings and never be quiet again.
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Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Chambers
justly calls 'a very good
authority'.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Donne - 2 |
|
283
Basil
{interrupting
him).
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Source: |
Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
|
By day she stands a lie: by night she stands,
In all the naked horror of the truth,
With pushing horns and clawed and
clutching
hands.
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Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
By alone I mean without a
material
being, and my cat is a mystic companion, a spirit.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Although it seems unlikely that Weininger's in-
terior change resulted from such external
influence
as these
friends exerted, nevertheless external factors of the sort may
very well have been instrumental in urging forward a develop-
ment which was already under way.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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Samsa appeared in his
uniform with his wife on one arm and his
daughter
on the other.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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Ere long, in rush'd the suitors, and the thrones
And couches occupied, on all whose hands
The heralds pour'd pure water; then the maids
Attended
them with bread in baskets heap'd,
And eager they assail'd the ready feast.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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must be
conceived
as effecting salvation, or eternal life, not merely as the indirect result of Christ's work, but as inwardly connected with as, in fact, already included in that work.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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La paloma-espíritu surgida de
la palabra
«hágase»
traza el primer círculo de luz.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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Clinia - When will that
presently
be?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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DI-BAL,
ideogram
in incantations, 194, 10.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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No doubt if the legislator
required
from all judges a simple Yes
or No, then perhaps the jury would be as good as the magistrate.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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Patroclus
the knight [ Iliad 16.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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