They are the
inventors
in the existential domain.
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If a life without a love-
story is indeed only half a life, a vie manquie, the poet of
love must have learnt in rapture and
suffering
what he is
afterwards to describe in song.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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^^ When he died has not been exactly ascertained ; yet, we have every reason to suppose, this
occurrence
took place, towards the close of the sixth, or about the commencement of the seventh, century.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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logna : he retained this office about five years, and His body was
conveyed
to Rome, and buried there
succeeded, by his prudence and moderation, in re- in a tomb which he had prepared in his lifetime, in
storing the tranquillity of the district.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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"
Consequently
it is of the essence of a nation
that the mutual relations of the citizens be ordered by just laws.
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Summa Theologica |
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Yet, for I'm come upon a madder season, The firm opinion which I held of late
Stands in a changed state,
And I show not how much my soul is grieved
There where I am deceived
Since through my heart midway a
mistress
went And in her passage all mine hopes were spent.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Together have we lived; together bred,
One house
received
us, and one table fed;
That golden urn, thy goddess-mother gave,
May mix our ashes in one common grave.
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Iliad - Pope |
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We are also quite without
arriere-pensee in regard to the Netherland States,
which did so little to win Germany's friendship;
we certainly trust that the strengthening of the
German Empire will of itself bring it about, that
the foolish inclination at The Hague to France may
be moderated, and that the Flemish
majority
in
Belgium may find the courage to assert their race
beside the Walloon minority.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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Learn, too, to
sweep the chords of the festive psaltery [1062] with your two hands;
'tis an
instrument
suited to amorous lays.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge,
Gold that I never see;
Lie long, high
snowdrifts
in the hedge
That will not shower on me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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There, however, he deceived
himself; but who would not have
deceived
himself in his place?
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Now it is
inadmissible
that a cause of pleasure, because it has increased, or presents itself at a different moment,--even if it remains completely the same,--would produce suffering.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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The
restless
spirit that would not be caged himself and tried to sing the world into a love of freedom.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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— ' Thus is he entered, in "Menologium
Scoticum
:" "vii.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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To remain
one's own master in such circumstances, to keep the
sublimity of one's mission pure in such cases,—pure
from the many ignoble and more short-sighted im-
pulses which come into play in so-called unselfish
actions,—this is the rub, the last test perhaps which
a
Zarathustra
has to undergo—the actual proof of
his power.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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So as she sat at her wheel one afternoon in the Autumn, 865
Alden, who opposite sat, and was watching her dexterous fingers,
As if the thread she was
spinning
were that of his life
and his fortune,
After a pause in their talk, thus spake to the sound of the spindle.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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If overcome by a
temptation
of the flesh, do not reckon it
a single defeat, but that you have also strengthened your dissolute
habits.
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Epictetus |
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Theyweregiventhepossibilityofparticipatingindecisionsabout theirown
academic
fate.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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O swald, on his part, was confirmed by this
unusual conduct in the discontent that unluck y fete had
engendered; he was ex cited to
struggle
against the senti-
ment whose empire he dreaded.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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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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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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It is
therefore now a question what is left remaining for metaphysic; wherein I
may without prejudice preserve thus much of the conceit of antiquity,
that physic should contemplate that which is inherent in matter, and
therefore transitory; and
metaphysic
that which is abstracted and fixed.
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Bacon |
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En ese inferno metódico, en esa
indiferencia de un espacio en el que no se produce habitar alguno,
es donde están
desparramados
los modernos individuos-punto.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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And the marsh dragged one back,
and another
perished
under the cliff,
and the tide swept you out.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Unfortunately the systems staff will not be
available
until Monday, to apply fixes.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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The same
thing will follow if I _judge that this Wax exists_, because I _touch_,
or
_imagine_
it, &c.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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35-90 [reprintedin Theiler's Forschungen zum
Neuplatonismus
(Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1966) - Trans.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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The
whole certainly struck me as a compilation, but of the highest
class; for when
possible
the facts have been verified on the spot,
making it almost an original work.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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TO THERON OF AGRIGENTUM , (IN GREEK ACRAGAS,) On his VICTORY IN THE CHARIOT RACE , GAINED IN THE SEVENTY
SEVENTH
OLYMPIAD
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Pindar |
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With this principle of the Aufklarung is further
connected
the incapacity to enter, impar tially and sympathetically, into the modes of thought and the religious interests and wants of the past.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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To Thanatus (Death)
THE ORPHIC HYMNS 1 - 40, TRANSLATED BY THOMAS TAYLOR
TO MUSÆUS
Attend Musæus to my sacred song, and learn what rites to
sacrifice
belong.
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Orphic Hymns |
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This he
conceived
was an erroneous view of the matter; it appeared to him to be a subject of such vast impor tance, embracing as it did, to a considerable extent, the
well-being of so many millions of the people, that there were no financial considerations which ought not to give way, in order that it might at once be settled to the satisfaction of the public and tho advan
tage of every man in the country.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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' Before saying this he had buried a lance in a certain spot and
concealed
all trace of it.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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[187] Taking an opportunity afforded by a pause in the banquet the king asked the envoy who sat in the seat of honour (for they were
arranged
according to seniority), How he could keep his kingdom [188] unimpaired to the end?
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He knew the holiest heart and heights of Rome,
He drave the base wolf from the lion’s lair,
And now lies dead by that empyreal dome
Which overtops Valdarno hung in air
By Brunelleschi—O Melpomene
Breathe through thy melancholy pipe thy sweetest
threnody!
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Wilde - Charmides |
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I was the wife of Euphron and I did not escape travail, but
bringing
forth twins, I left one child to guide my husband's steps in his old age, and I took the other with me to remind me of him.
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Greek Anthology |
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heard turn thro'llgh the Potomac,
commerce
of Lake ErIe
I can further say WIth safety there IS not a crowned head 154
?
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Thoughts
of her are of dream's order : God !
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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let it then as well beseem thy heart
To mourn for me since
mourning
doth thee grace,
And suit thy pity like in every part.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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gel,
Des
Weihrauchs
Su?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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So, mother,"
said Cyrus, "I now
understand
exactly what is just.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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TO
MISTRESS
MARY WILLAND.
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Robert Herrick |
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SILENT HOUR
Whoever weeps
somewhere
out in the world
Weeps without cause in the world
Weeps over me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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d these
Calumnies
you are charged with?
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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'Tis Benjamin the Waggoner;
Who long hath trod this toilsome way,
Companion
of the night and [6] day.
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William Wordsworth |
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Each catastrophe was
followed
by a new creation.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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The Pentagon, as if to mock four thousand years of mathematics since Babylon or Baghdad, seeks to classify prime number
algorithms
and others for the sake of the NSA.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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6l, in him too, Christ saith in prophecy, He hath bound a mitre
10"
on Me, as on a Bridegroom the chaplet, and adorned Me with
ornaments
as a Bride.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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We see what the artist means, but his
execution
is
not perfect.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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O das Wohnen in der
beseelten
Bla?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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Like
children
running races who shall be
First in to touch the orchard wall or tree,
The last half way behind, by distance vext,
Turns short, determined to be first the next;
So now the muse has run me hard and long--
I'll leave at once her races and her song;
And, turning round, laugh at the letter's close
And beat her out by ending it in prose.
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John Clare |
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"
"I don't
understand
you, husband," said she, "and I don't
know what you mean by saying you would be glad, if it were
God's will, not to be well pleased; for fool as I am, I don't
know how one can find pleasure in not having it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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This is a very
different
game.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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The Japanese surrender of 1945was marked as much by changes in the
structure
of authority and influence within the government as by changes in attitude on the part of individuals.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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The account of how Gampopa met, learned from, and
practiced
under Milarepa serves as an example for us.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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Enfin aucun des motifs,
connus d'avance par moi, de cette
vulgaire
romance ne pouvait me fournir
la résolution dont j'avais besoin; bien plus, chacune de ces phrases,
quand elle passait à son tour, devenait un obstacle à prendre
efficacement cette résolution, ou plutôt elle m'obligeait à la
résolution contraire de ne pas partir, car elle me faisait passer
l'heure.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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This reflected amoralism, which, paradoxically, carries the mute promise of an
authentic
ethi- cal life within it, has found its opponent in socialist moralism.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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Nor indeed would any of the other writers
included
in the series 'Der Ju ?
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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AMITIES
III
But you, bos amic, we keep on, Fortoyouweowearealdebt:
In spite of your obvious flaws,
You once discovered a
moderate
chop-house.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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" On asking
the cause of her strange
appearance
at that unusual hour ?
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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_Corpora
lutea_ were formerly considered a sure sign of impregnation,
as they were thought to be developed only or chiefly in
cases of pregnancy, but it is now known that they occur in
all cases where a vesicle has been
ruptured
and an ovum
discharged; though they attain a larger, size and are longer
visible in the ovary when pregnancy takes place than when it
does not.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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this becomes already a little bit clear in the chapters about islam in his
philosophy
of history.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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from thy
searching
eyes
So saying--From her bosom weaving soft in Sinewy threads
A tabernacleof Delight for Jerusalem.
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Blake - Zoas |
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--Many men believe not themselves what they would persuade
others; and less do the things which they would impose on others; but
least of all know what they themselves most
confidently
boast.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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The Poet's
Philosophy
of Life
8.
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Bion |
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The inference is that the
detachment
for which he prayed
in the Farewell was achieved, before,--with the last of his
lyrics, the "Malest, Cornifici, tuo Catullo" a poem which
reads like the cry of a tired child,--he died in 54, leaving
his last curse to Caesar's satellite Vatinius, who was
already boasting about the consulship which he was to
hold some seven years later.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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Parents must not possess the absolute power of making their
children
mere ?
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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As a consequences of the events at Ypres, there rapidly emerged a type of
military
climatology from nothing, about which one does not say too little if one recognizes it as the guiding phenomenon of terrorism.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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1 The poem may be taken as an allegory of the
individual
human (barge), endowed with the Buddha nature (treasures), attempting to reach enlightenment (the shore).
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Hanshan - 01 |
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Separated as they were from the others, they were easily hemmed in by the
Syracusan
cavalry and driven into a narrow space.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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I would have stood,
and watched and watched
and burned,
and when in the night,
from the many hosts, your slaves,
and
warriors
and serving men
you had turned
to the purple couch and the flame
of the woman, tall like cypress tree
that flames sudden and swift and free
as with crackle of golden resin
and cones and the locks flung free
like the cypress limbs,
bound, caught and shaken and loosed,
bound, caught and riven and bound
and loosened again,
as in rain of a kingly storm
or wind full from a desert plain.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Let
me, however, exceedingly commend you all, for hearing me
with Silence and
Impartiality
; from whence, if I do not acquit
me of thefe Crimes, I fhall not blame you, but myfelf.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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There is another city called Soli in Cyprus; but the inhabitants of the Cyprian city were called Solioi, whereas the inhabitants of the Cilician city were called Soleis, as is made clear by the
quotation
from Callimachus above.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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As
gan to make complaints in the public assemblies soon as peace was
concluded
on these terms, he
respecting the demands of Pyrrhus and the conduct promised to return all the Roman prisoners with-
of his troops; but Pyrrhus forth with treated them out ransom.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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"
This
courageous
Young Lady of Norway.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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O homem, que cruza comigo sob a Arcada ao pé da Bolsa, olha-me com uma
desconfiança
de quem não sabe explicar.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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A
combination
of anguish and disgust.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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219) 'bee', but as he also
places a
semicolon
after (l.
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Donne - 2 |
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For in former times
we wished to
penetrate
for a moment by means of
art into the element in which we are now living
permanently: at that time we dreamt ourselves
into the rapture of a possession which we now
actually possess.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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This is because often the only way to become committed to an action is to
initiate
it.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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" On the pattern of
deviations
here and later, see note 26 below.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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Napoleon took no
interest
in Snowball's committees.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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Mks, Ruby Bdsh was really a very handsome
young fox -- the handsomest in the whole neigh-
borhood, so it was said, and they said, too, how
good and gentle she was, which was lots better
than being called beautiful, for
kindness
goes a
great deal farther than good loolis.
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I took thee as my staff to guide
Me on the road I did pursue,
And when my weakness most relied
Upon its
strength
it broke in two.
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Leave for awhile thy costly country seat,
And--to be great indeed--forget
The nauseous
pleasures
of the great:
Make haste and come,
Come, and forsake thy cloying store,
Thy turret that surveys from high
The smoke and wealth and noise of Rome,
And all the busie pageantry
That wise men scorn and fools adore:
Come, give thy soul a loose, and taste the pleasures of the poor.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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If a connecting part, mediating between the
grosser and more subtile motions and
affections
of the body,
were to be broken, a resemblance of death would be superin-
duced upon the part.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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--I say, have
there been any avalanches on Mount
Krestov?
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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EUNOMIA, Wife of
Lucretius
and Mother of Hermia.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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‘But we’ve no
alternative
— if you’re really going to have this baby.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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They carry them far, they carry them wide,
To all the Seven Seas,
But never beyond her love and pride,
And ever the
deathless
tales abide
They learned at the Mother's knees.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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,
Professor of English in the
Sheffield
Scientific School of
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Conn.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Ever since then I learn something new about the court every time
he comes to visit, and so little by little I get to
understand
something
of how it works.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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Beauty that is to be more than symmetrically trimmed shrubbery is no mere fonnula reducible to sub- jective
functions
of intuition; rather, beauty's fundament is to be sought in the ob- ject.
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' 15 He sang to you songs of the psalmist David, who said [Psalms, 34'19], 'Many are the
afflictions
of the righteous.
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Roman Translations |
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Thou sawest, in these woods by Loire side, the fair shapes of old
religion, Fauns, Nymphs, and Satyrs, and
heard’st
in the nightingale’s
music the plaint of Philomel.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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^ Soller de-
ever, the peculiar
Martyrology
of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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Further still, Bethel's extreme and sordid meanness gave
great disgust to the citizens, who were accustomed to
consider
the
exercise of a splendid and ostentatious hospitality as the principal
part of a sheriff's duty.
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Dryden - Complete |
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But Daud Khan,
the
governor
of Patna, with a second army and plenty of boats and
artillery, was advancing along the Ganges to co-operate with Mir
Jumla, and on hearing of this Shuja' evacuated Rajmahal and fell
back on Tanda.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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Yes, as Sparrowes, Eagles;
Or the Hare, the Lyon:
If I say sooth, I must report they were
As Cannons ouer-charg'd with double Cracks,
So they doubly
redoubled
stroakes vpon the Foe:
Except they meant to bathe in reeking Wounds,
Or memorize another Golgotha,
I cannot tell: but I am faint,
My Gashes cry for helpe
King.
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