"It's of
no
consequence!
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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Literary
Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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In Italy the peril fortunately passed over ; the Romans were glad to accept the bulletin of the
ambiguous
victory of Baecula, and, when fresh tidings of victory arrived from Spain, thought no more of the circumstance that they had had to combat the ablest general and the flower of the Hispano- Phoenician army in Italy.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Love's madness he had known:
Often with more than
tortured
lion's groan
Moanings had burst from him; but now that rage
Had pass'd away: no longer did he wage
A rough-voic'd war against the dooming stars.
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Leaving grain entirely out of account, official Bel-
gium statistics show that in the first two months of
this year, after two months of
operation
of the license
system, Belgian imports of Soviet petroleum, lumber
and flax have averaged a little over a million dollars
a month, almost precisely as much as last year, while
Soviet imports of Belgian goods had fallen off from
a monthly average in 1930 of $300,000 to a monthly
average in 1931 of $100,000.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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They
immediately
voted to release the prisoners from Heracleia.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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Yet dearely'I love you,'and would be loved faine,
But am betroth'd unto your enemie: 10
Divorce mee,'untie, or breake that knot againe,
Take mee to you,
imprison
mee, for I
Except you'enthrall mee, never shall be free,
Nor ever chast, except you ravish mee.
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Donne - 1 |
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Even though there are no recent
additions
or repairs, they still assign an officer to guard it.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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wotfio-aH-(o), ' w ich he would make,' if the
Olynthians
listened
to his advances.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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[Dublin]
Dear Seumas
May I propose these samples ofembarrassed respiration to you
in the first instance and to your
magazine
in the second instance?
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Samuel Beckett |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Tully - Offices |
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It is not so with the sinner, says the same Father; he fears, and with reason, he trembles at the
approach
of the least sickness; death is terrible to him because he dreads the presence of the offended Judge; and having so often abused the means of grace he sees no way to avoid the punishment of his sins.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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But even as a bird that waileth upon her young ones’ perishing when her babes be devoured one by one of a dire serpent in the thicket, and flies to and fro, the poor raving mother, screaming above her children, and cannot go near to aid them for her own great terror of that
remorseless
monster; even so this unhappiest of mothers that’s before thee did speed back and forth through all that house in a frenzy, crying woe upon her pretty brood.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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Animality no longer
awakens terror now; a very
intellectual
and happy
wanton spirit in favour of the animal in man, is, in
such periods, the most triumphant form of spirit-
uality.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Love Christ, and despise
yourself
for His sake; He will possess your heart
[p.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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A little while afterwards, having often repeated to his wife
that his subjects could not endure this daughter born of her, he
instructed one of his servants and sent him to her, to whom
with sorrowful face he said, "My lady, if I do not wish to die,
I am obliged to do what my lord
commands
me; he has com-
manded that I should take your daughter and that I—” and
here he stopped.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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You had to find
out the _inevitable_ error[1] in every Yes and in every No, error as
inseparable from life, life itself as
conditioned
by the perspective and
its inaccuracy.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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A systems theory of international politics is needed, but can one be con-
structed?
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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Such, father, is not (now) my theme--
I will not madly deem that power
Of Earth may shrive me of the sin
Unearthly
pride hath revell'd in--
I have no time to dote or dream:
You call it hope--that fire of fire!
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Poe - 5 |
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Some said this, and some said that; but at last a young mouse got
up and said he had a
proposal
to make, which he thought would meet
the case.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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He knows the human world is subject to time, and
therefore
to loss, regret, irretrievable error.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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Every
institution
of our society is an instrument which it is sought to stultify and turn against our purposes.
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NSC-68 |
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net/
The Epic of Gilgamish
by
Stephen Langdon
University of Pennsylvania
The University Museum
Publications of the
Babylonian
Section
Vol.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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" is its usual form in
Finnegans
Wake.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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Both the
Congress and the Muslim League interpreted the
provisions
differ-
ently.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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252_; Lloyd's
parodies
on, i.
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Byron |
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Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last
night, as I lay awake, thinking over her
terrible
fate, I
suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which
had been the herald of her own death.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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For this reason, many
things had become
superfluous
which, although they could not be
sold, the family did not wish to discard.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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, speculation: but then comes
MacCulloch
and makes out, that to buy in order to sell, is to speculate, and thus the difference between Speculation and Trade vanishes.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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This learned man is said to have
received
a present of the Feilire, which had been first shown to him, from our saint's hands.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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(To be quite
accurate
Aristotle should, of
course, have observed that this dialectical method of defending a
principle becomes useless in the case of a logical axiom which is
presupposed by all deduction.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-05 01:02 GMT / http://hdl.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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CHORUS
He will not swear nor
challenge
us to oath.
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Aeschylus |
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This shows that, even though consciously unattended, this message is being subjected to
continuous
and fairly advanced processing during which its meaning is being monitored and its content ap- praised as more or less relevant; and all this
230/362
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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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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Hunchbacked
and broken, crooked though they be,
Let us still love them, for they still have souls.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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'
_Essay of
Dramatic
Poesy_.
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John Donne |
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Following Watson and Crick and the
revolution
that they sparked, a gene can be isolated.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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It is
dreadful
when people will not even have the
decency to quarrel.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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From pride, from pride, our very
reasoning
springs;
Account for moral as for natural things:
Why charge we Heaven in those, in these acquit?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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[Footnote 50: Torture of the "_batogs_," little rods, the
thickness
of a
finger, with which a criminal is struck on the bare back.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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,Jewish and
Christian
Se -De nition, p.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Again, the sun has one appearance at his rise, and quite a
different
one at midday.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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Powell has
unfortunately
lost.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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) frightened)
¿Y qué haces tú ahí,
bergante?
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Jose Zorrilla |
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And then the spreading, that was not accomplishing that needed
standing and yet the time was not so
difficult
as they were not all in
place.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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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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'
"I came upon a boiler
wallowing
in the grass, then found a path
leading up the hill.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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CHORUS
And all our
strength
is minished and sundered from our side!
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Aeschylus |
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Depart into
everlasting
fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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And she hath watch'd
Many a
Nightingale
perch giddily
On blosmy twig still swinging from the breeze,
And to that motion tune his wanton song,
Like tipsy Joy that reels with tossing head.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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will become ever more superfluous; and the
whole gains enormous energy, while the individual
factors which compose it
represent
but small
modicums of strength and of value.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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William Browne |
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He was young, and vain of his manhood in the
usual
innocent
way that led him to carry the chip on his
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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and as many women skilled in
blameless
arts, each holding
a golden bowl in her hands.
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Hesiod |
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The next long hour slowly strikes at last,
The whole house stirs again, the feast is past,
And sadly passes by the
afternoon
.
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Rilke - Poems |
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' We know not how many years he lived ; but probably this saint had not attained a very
advanced
age, when his death occurred.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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Since no man can see life whole, the question of the moral
value of Tom Jones—which has been considered a great moral
work and a great immoral work-resolves itself into the question
how much of human life
Fielding
could see.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-05 01:02 GMT / http://hdl.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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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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Arkady turned back,
snatched
up from the table an
open penknife, looked at the poor fellow for the last time, and ran out
of the flat.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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It began with Felix Klein, Hilbert's
colleague
in Go ?
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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Under what
constitutional
authority has Congress at-
tempted to legislate in the interest of public morals?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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And if I with my bow shall slay some wild creature or monstrous beast, that shall the
Cyclopes
eat.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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En las menciones más
tempranas
de la espuma, tanto en las tradiciones europeas antiguas como en las indias y próximo-orien- tales, aparece una estrecha conexión entre los complejos representativos de lo espumoso-marítimo y de la vida cambiante-indestructible.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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’ What I am
interested
in doing now is suggesting how the general liberal consensus
that “true” knowledge is fundamentally non political (and conversely, that overtly political
knowledge is not “true” knowledge) obscures the highly if obscurely organized political
circumstances obtaining when knowledge is produced.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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It is an eternal phenomenon: the avidious will
can always, by means of an
illusion
spread over
things, detain its creatures in life and compel them
to live on.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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Secondly, the jury find whether he is
freeborn
and legitimate.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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The same escape,
the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the
inn,
drinking
a few bowls of rice-wine or fermented coconut-milk.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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Thence Beowulf fled
through strength of himself and his
swimming
power,
though alone, and his arms were laden with thirty
coats of mail, when he came to the sea!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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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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