The
consumable
commodities of silks,
laces, trinkets, and expensive furniture, are undoubtedly a part of the
revenue of the society; but they are the revenue only of the rich, and
not of the society in general.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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The Bundle of Sticks
An old man on the point of death
summoned
his sons around him
to give them some parting advice.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Nothing was required of the
townspeople
but the admission of the
garrison.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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prayogamSrga) in which the
meditator
develops profound understanding of the four noble truths and cuts the root to the desre
realm.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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Possible Freudian interpretations apart, inter-
pretations
for example about an "unconscious desire for confession" manifesting itself in accidents of this kind, I believe that it is the dangers of contiguity that lend a background of erotic charge to the solitude of electronic communication.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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The United States and Great Britain stood out
against this clearcut
definition
of aggression; and it is
difficult to understand why.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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I mean, to hire out your pen to a party, which will afford you both pay and protection; and when you have to do with the press, (as you will long to be there) take care to bespeak an importunate friend, to extort your
productions
with an agreeable violence; and which, according to the cue between you, you must surrender digito male pertinaci.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Scene: At the top of a hill
overlooking
the castle.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Did they not
foretell
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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"This is wanting in the
police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the
platitudes of the
magistrate
than upon the details, which to an
observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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"
And I walked into the garden,
Up and down the
patterned
paths,
In my stiff, correct brocade.
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Amy Lowell |
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100
Theft in
churches
74.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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If inexhaustible wit could give perpetual pleasure, no eye would ever
leave half-read the work of Butler; for what poet has ever brought so
many remote images so happily
together?
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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The first half of each stanza has to be linked to the second by at least one alliteration on
stressed
syllables.
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Translated Poetry |
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It lies there
formless
and glowing, with all its crimson gleams
shot out of pattern, spilled, flowing red, blood-red.
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Imagists |
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Demophoon did not hate
Impatient
Phyllis, yet procured her death.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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, et prKter hos etiam
hsereticus
Pantaleon de Viris Germanise par.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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Soon will your queen in daisy-flowered smock
And crown of flower-de-luce trip down the lea,
Soon will the lazy shepherds drive their flock
Back to the pasture by the pool, and soon
Through the green leaves will float the hum of
murmuring
bees at noon.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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In fact, if
sentiment
does not second mo-
rality, how would the latter make itself
respected?
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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How my heart in its terror is
spurning
my breast,
And my eyes, like the wheels of a chariot, roll round!
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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He alludes to the Poet
Stesichorus, on whose lips a
nightingale
was said to have perched
and sung, when he was a child.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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"
(3) It was chiefly through
commerce
that the arts and sciences borrowed
by the colonial Greeks found their way into Greece proper.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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Since we then
understand
in the fire the fury of the consumption of nature's essence, and in the light the birth of the water that takes away the force from the fire as it is set out earlier in the Forty Questions on the Souls.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Moreover
Galba had let fall a remark, which augured well for
Rome, though it spelt danger to himself.
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Tacitus |
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Evena multiformtypologyoffascismwouldproperlyreferto movements
ratherthanto
regimes.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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Dror Wahrman
and his work-in-progress, tentatively titled A
Cultural
History of the Modern
Self.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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Whereupon
the man exclaimed: "What, did my wife write you just what she wrote to me?
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Historia Augusta |
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Think of what thou owest to thine own, who thus
spendest
thy care on another's.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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Block came as soon as he was called, but he remained standing in
the doorway and seemed to be
wondering
whether he should enter or not.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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White were the
fetlocks
of his feet before,
And on his front a snowy star he bore.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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The Pylagoræ
sacrificed
to Ceres.
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Strabo |
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But,
in spite of this outward show, the latter was almost convinced of the
old man's knowledge, or, at least, his confident suspicion, with
respect to his own
interview
with Hester Prynne.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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What if
he was taken away, lest
wickedness
should alter his under- Wind.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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It would really be most un-
pleasant if, owing to your continual pistol-practice,
we were to be subjected to an unending series of
shocks; surely your own feelings will tell you
that it is impossible for you to continue your fir-
ing when you hear that he who has selected this
quiet and
isolated
place for a meeting with a
friend is one of our most eminent philosophers.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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_
Yen Ling is one of the names of the
philosopher
Yen Kuang.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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That it
preceded
in
Britain the race which spoke the Cymric.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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Rupert,
as
by John Colgan,
old tract relates, that when Theodon, Duke of the Boii, with many of his
nobles and a great number of people, had been
baptised
by St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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The series that
constitutes the fuel, is ignited by the fire, and it is reduced to
13
ashes; by means of fire, each moment of existence of the series of
fuel is made different from the
preceeding
moment.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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What am I doing
carrying
off this bottle?
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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It implies the project of transposing the entire life of work, wishes, and expression of the people that it has
captured
into the immanence of purchasing power.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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I know of no such grave record, of no such attempt at faithful portrayal, as "The
American
Scene.
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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First were but few simple
dwellings
here, suddenly sunlight discovered
Nations enlivening hills teeming with fortunate thieves.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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[729] It has been of use, too, to waft a breeze with the graceful fan,
and to place the hollow footstool beneath her
delicate
feet.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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Here, a minority is filtered out from within a minority in order to continue the monotheistic
adventure
in its original form, life under the law and behind the ‘fence around the
doctrine’6 as unadulteratedly as possible.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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Admirest
thou a fight
for liberty ?
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Source: |
Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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The laborer's wages exceed but little his
running expenses, and do not assure him wages for to-morrow; while the
capitalist finds in the instrument produced by the laborer a pledge of
independence and
security
for the future.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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Thus, then the intricate relation
of the Apollonian and the Dionysian in tragedy
must really be symbolised by a fraternal union of
the two deities:
Dionysus
speaks the language of
Apollo; Apollo, however, finally speaks the lan-
guage of Dionysus; and so the highest goal of
tragedy and of art in general is attained.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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lacks" in
American
public schools.
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Source: |
Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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Bersezio,
Vittorio
(ber-sets'yo).
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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Verse without rhyme, is a body without a soul, (for the "chief life
consisteth
in the rhyme") or a bell without a clapper; which, in strictness, is no bell, as being neither of use nor delight.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Divested of its ide-
ological
and organizational paraphernalia, fascism is nothing more than a final solution to the class struggle, the totalistic submergence and exploitation of democratic forces for the benefit and profit of higher financial circles.
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Source: |
Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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llauthorsmoreorlessagree withthe"middleclass thesis"andthe"clean-sweepideal," thuswiththeconviction that"Fascism" (or "Nazism" or "National Socialism") was
essentiallya
phe- nomenonofthemiddleclasses, andthattheWeimarRepubliccouldhaveescaped its downfallif it had in due timeeliminated"the generals,cartel-bosses,and East-Elbian landlords" (p.
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Source: |
Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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Cyrus, alarmed at the cavalry, had recourse to the following stratagem: having collected together all the camels that followed his army with provisions and baggage, and caused their burdens to be taken off, he mounted men upon them equipped in cavalry accouterments ; and having furnished them, he ordered them to go in advance of the rest of his army against the Lydian horse,
commanded
his infantry to follow the camels, and placed the whole of his cavalry behind the infantry.
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Source: |
Universal Anthology - v03 |
|
were between
fourteen
and eighteen, and 12 per cent.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
|
And you thought I didn't care for the
pleasant
things
of life.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Oscar Wilde |
|
The
shepherd
sees them and the boy goes bye
And gets a stick and progs the hole to try.
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Source: |
John Clare |
|
My house is a decayed house,
And the jew squats on the window sill, the owner,
Spawned in some estaminet of Antwerp,
Blistered
in Brussels, patched and peeled in London.
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Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Dupin's
cosmopolitan
works, 44.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
" At this Anaxi-
mander stayed; that is, he remained within the deep
shadows which like
gigantic
spectres were lying on
the mountain range of such a world-perception.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
|
But not all contemporaries let
themselves
be convinced that this ultimate automobile empire was paradise on earth.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sloterdijk |
|
And
dreadful
the blast of the trumpet.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
|
Khi ăn, kbỏug nối 8Ờm trưa,
Khi lãm, kiếm
chuyện
nắng mưa làng xăng.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
|
At the same time the Thebans and
Arcadians
pressed hard upon them, and there was general consternation between the dangers of war and mutiny.
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Source: |
Polyaenus - Strategems |
|
Representaba
una imagen
en el sentido pretenciosamente filosófico de la palabra: una ima
gen dada de lo no-dado.
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Source: |
Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
|
the same object often likened to contrary things, the ex
planation
must be sought from the context, v.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
|
Life is
fleeting
as the day.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
|
And surely what I said cannot but be
considered
complimentary to you if even in the fullest splendor of my renown and achievements I still longed to have some confirmation of this from your own lips.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Universal Anthology - v05 |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 09:46 GMT / http://hdl.
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Source: |
Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
|
The pens are found fault with to no purpose,
and the
harmless
wall, which must have been built under the displeasure
of gods and poets, suffers [to no end].
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Horace - Works |
|
Certainly his doctrine of
hysteria
has not remained wholly intact.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
|
The songs in which he cele-
brates his love breathe the same spirit of
adoration
and of wor-
ship which we find in the poets of chivalry; and the most beautiful
of the Persian ghazeles, and the Arabian cassides, seem to be
translations of the verses or songs of the Provençals.
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
|
The same intelli-
gence that selected the rifle and the long pivot-gun for favorite
weapons was shown in
handling
the carronade, and every other
instrument however clumsy.
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
|
When the war of 1828 broke out, the King had
openly told the Czar that he
disapproved
of his
declaration of war.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
|
About our souls in care and cark
Our
blackness
shuts like prison-bars:
The poor souls crouch so far behind
That never a comfort can they find
By reaching through the prison-bars.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
|
'
' A year will do for me,'
answered
Mr.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
|
I took
care to see her alone, that I might say all this, and I hope made her a
little more comfortable; but I shall not be easy till I can go to town
and judge of her
situation
myself.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Austen - Lady Susan |
|
Thus, as was said, at the end of the twentieth century, Machiavelli would prob- ably recommend a general
declaration
that the systems are bankrupt.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
|
Haven't you noticed the
detachment
of the rushing river, as it
runs splashing from its mountain cave?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Tagore - Creative Unity |
|
Contrary to a rather loose hypothesis, which I have myself maintained, that the asylum was constituted through the extension of the family model, I have tried to show you that the
nineteenth
century asylum functioned in fact on a model of micro power close to what we can call disciplinary power that functions in a way that is completely heterogeneous to the family.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
|
Therefore
we will make no long delay in our sailing for these things' sake, when the breezes but blow fair.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
|
high dignity of the first-born, when that
appellation
is used to express Gocss favour to David, and to Christ
umphant in heaven, as if an higher appellation could not have been given.
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Source: |
Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
|
The Phoenico-national civilization of North Africa, which still retained life and vigour
even in the
levelling
times of the Empire, was far more the work of Massinissa than of the Carthaginians.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
|
Các khoa thi Tiến sĩ đời Đường sau khi truyền loa gọi tên
người
thi đỗ thì khắc tên ở Nhạn tháp chùa Từ Ân.
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Source: |
stella-01 |
|
In a minute or two, the Caterpillar got down off the
mushroom
and
crawled away into the grass, merely remarking, as it went, "One side
will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow
shorter.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
|
come from the depth of the
speaking
subject; it is removed from the curse of surface communication.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
|
Thus, the
plaintiff
accused his former companions of heresy, by making the sign of the cross on their spoons, when eating, and by asking a blessing, on leaving or enteringamonasticbuilding.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
|
Improvements but rarely appear such to
those who, after long intervals of time, revisit places they have had
much
pleasure
in.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
''
That may not be so, but it is an
interesting
opinion.
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|
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|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
|
Dead though he may be, you still see Theseus:
Your soul is forever
inflamed
with love of him.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Not
exultation
; for I hate no more,
As then ere misery made me wise.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Universal Anthology - v03 |
|
and stroke of eloquence passes away, as the
mind subsides to calm, we
question
whether
the danger be real or imaginary.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Childrens - Frank |
|
He also wrote at length
on elliptic functions, but treated it from Jacobi's point of view;
and, in
consequence
of Weierstrass's work, much of this is out
of date.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Thus talked
Zarathustra
in the city he loved,
which is surnamed “The Pied Cow.
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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Proud of her spouse, the imperial fair
Must thank the gods that shield from death;
His sister too:--let matrons wear
The suppliant wreath
For daughters and for sons restored:
Ye youths and damsels newly wed,
Let decent awe
restrain
each word
Best left unsaid.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Your
violence
and scorn, ye suitors, cease,
Lest arms avenge the violated peace.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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[Colophon]
This completes the Lamp for the Enlightenment Path
composed
by the great Acarya, glorious Di:pamkarajniina.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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My
frightened heart, faintly quivering with expectation, was groping
timidly and joyfully towards some
conjecture
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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