MEPHISTOPHELES:
Wie magst du deine Rednerei
Nur gleich so hitzig
ubertreiben?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Only after Fichte could the
question
of what it actually means to be an “I” become a provocation to Western thinking.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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[320] After his
appointment
to the consulship [69 B.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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The
liegemen
were lusty; my life-days never
such merry men over mead in hall
have I heard under heaven!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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After Newman's conversion, he almost
convinced
himself that his 'visions
of an ecclesiastical future' were justified by the role that he would
play as a 'healer of the breach in the Church of England'.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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For what was the quite wise and
moderate
Nerva?
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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The West and the lands of the East know of Lycoris: and many a one
is
enquiring
who my Corinna is.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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when wilt Thou execute
judgment
on
(5) them that persecute me?
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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ltnis von
Erinnern
und Vergessen aus dem Geist der Sprachtheorie.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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None the less, each would have had to attempt assimilating though not absorptive translations of the other into his own terms - which, with two such masters of scepticism towards the very concept of the own, would have
5
Luhmann and Derrida
proved a stimulating exercise, and the observers of these translations would have had the privilege of being able to observe the reciprocal observa tions of the most
conceptually
powerful observers.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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' These
are, in fact, the things which make Occleve, no matter what his
technical shortcomings, refreshing, for it is certainly, in verse
even more than in prose, better to read about good
fellowship
or
even about personal troubles than to be compelled to peruse
commonplaces on serious subjects, put without any freshness in
expression and manner.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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Soon dropsy
set in, and the heart in its oppressed state caused
the strong man
indescribable
feelings of anguish.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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There is no hope for
nations!
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Byron |
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Lay him down in the soft
coverlets
wherein he used to slumber, upon that couch of solid gold whereon he used to pass the nights in sacred sleep with thee; for the very couch longs for Adonis, Adonis all dishevelled.
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Bion |
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71 The Vajra Rosary and Revelation of the Hidden Intention use the same expressions for the first five, and for the latter five, Naga, Kurma, Krkalasa, Devadatta, and
Dhanujit
[Dragon, Tortoise, Chameleon, Devadatta, and Dhanujit]; for this last, some commentaries also call it Dhanajit (nor las rgyal).
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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Artemis' cult at Brauron, one of the oldest and most
important
in Attica, was concerned with these functions.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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Though but a lonely way, yet mystery hangs
Oer crowds of
pastoral
scenes recordless here.
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John Clare |
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The old
Sultans were mighty
warriors
and clever
106
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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It will be so
important
to manage this risk properly that the battlefield con- sequences of nuclear weapons may be of minor importance.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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But within a few days Hitler made a speech in which he vio- lently attacked certain British
statesmen
for having dared to criticize the methods which he and Mr.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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Accordingly, his new presence could be explained not so much through his (undeniable) cultural-
and philosophical competence, the illuminative power of which is still apparent, but through a
weakness
that touches us more irresistibly than any strength.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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Better the mendicant in cities seeks 20
His dole,
vouchsafe
it whosoever may,
Than in the villages.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And all of them carefully observed this rule and were anxious above everything else to excel each other in [123] its
observance
and they were all of them worthy of their leader and of his virtue.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Diomed, son of Tydeus who ate
Melanippus’
head.
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Pattern Poems |
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This Titinius fought the rebels, who (having the advantage both of place and number) routed him, and killed many of his men, and the rest threw away their arms, and with much difficulty saved
themselves
by flight.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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John Johnson, seeing their extreme dismay,
Though little versed in feelings oriental,
Suggested
some slight comfort in his way:
Don Juan, who was much more sentimental,
Swore they should see him by the dawn of day,
Or that the Russian army should repent all:
And, strange to say, they found some consolation
In this--for females like exaggeration.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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_ Our spirits have climbed high
By reason of the passion of our grief,
And, from the top of sense, looked over sense
To the
significance
and heart of things
Rather than things themselves.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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8 He shows how each element is home to a certain kind of individual of a particu- lar kind, how it constitutes the dominant theme in their dreams and forms the privileged medium of the imagination which lends direction to their life; he shows how it is the sacrament of nature which gives them
strength
and happiness.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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To the Muslim
recovery!
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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In the drawing experiment, the
phenotype
in every generation is also the genotype - it is what is passed on to the next generation.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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As he underwent the
Heidelberg
ophthalmologist's treat-
ment he spent a longer period during the holidays in
Heidelberg than hitherto.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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In his cultural
philosophy
he deals with the opposing stances of cultures towards death.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
Objection
3: Further, if "one" is not an addition to "being," "one" and
"being" must have the same meaning.
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Summa Theologica |
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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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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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Under his tuition Goldsmith soon
became almost as great a
proficient
in fairy lore.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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There could be no local
grievance
but what could
be reached by these, except it might be the grievance affecting
a minority, which could be no more redressed by petition than
by them.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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ISSN 1479-1420 (print)/ISSN 1479-4233 (online) # 2011
National
Communication Association DOI: 10.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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XXXII
"With that I saw from Cynthia's silver face,
Like to a falling star a beam down slide,
That bright as golden line marked out the place,
And
lightened
with clear streams the forest wide;
So Latmos shone when Phoebe left the chase,
And laid her down by her Endymion's side,
Such was the light that well discern I could,
His shape, his wounds, his face, though dead, yet bold.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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Lo here a new weft of a
twittering
mother, a Dorian nightingale; receive it with a right good will, for pure was the mother whose shrilly throes did labour for it.
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Pattern Poems |
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And for them the son of Oeagrus touched his lyre and sang in rhythmical song of Artemis, saviour of ships, child of a glorious sire, who hath in her keeping those peaks by the sea, and the land of Iolcos; and the fishes came darting through the deep sea, great mixed with small, and followed
gambolling
along the watery paths.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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With this, the principle of infinite
smallness
would be put into question.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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Pero la mayor contribución al efecto «soporte de la
soportadora»
la lle va a cabo, más allá de todos los suplementos externos de fuerza y ayudas cooperativas, la «madre naturaleza», actuando a través de la madre con creta.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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The os magna sonaturum, which, if I remember right, Horace makes one qualification of a good poet, may teach you not to gag your muse, or stint
yourself
in words and epithets (which cost you nothing) contrary to the practice of some few out-of-the-way writers, who use a natural and concise expression, and affect a style like unto a Shrewsbury cake, short and sweet upon the palate; they will not afford you a word more than is necessary to make them intelligible, which is as poor and niggardly, as it would be to set down no more meat than your company will be sure to eat up.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Fumes through the
loopholes
of a wooden
square ;
Each to the temple with these altars tend.
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Marvell - Poems |
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But the troops which served under
Virginhis, and were now commanded by Flaccus in
Germany, thinking they
deserved
great things for the
battle which they fought with Vindex, and finding that
they obtained nothing, began to behave in a very re-
fractory manner, and could not be appeased by their
officers.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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Incarnation, then, is no longer switching from the spirit to the flesh (and back)*it is obliging
ourselves
to face what our spirit cannot control.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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To-day
criticisms
of Poe are vitiated by the
desire to make him an angel.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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Munro's The
Government
of the United States, Third Edition, Chaps.
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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xxii, 1):
"There is no true prudence, unless it be just,
temperate
and brave; no
perfect temperance, that is not brave, just and prudent; no sound
fortitude, that is not prudent, temperate and just; no real justice,
without prudence, fortitude and temperance.
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Summa Theologica |
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The
Grounding
of Structural Metaphors
14.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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In some
of the specimens, the wit is
exceedingly
coarse.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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There they cast away their small anchorstone by the advice of Tiphys and left it beneath a fountain, the fountain of Artaeie; and they took another meet for their purpose, a heavy one; but the first, according to the oracle of the Far-Darter, the Ionians, sons of Neleus, in after days laid to be a sacred stone, as was right, in the temple of
Jasonian
Athena.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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{Sexually intermediate forms, which are the only actually
existing
individualsy^were dealt with in a more or less schematic fashion in the first part of thisbook.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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Nor did
the Olynthians show great regard to the friendship of Philip when he
first came to the throne, and was taking all
measures
to secure the
possession of it; for they did not scruple to receive two of his brothers
by another marriage, who had fled to avoid the effects of his jealousy;
and endeavoured to conclude an alliance with Athens against him,
which he, by secret practices, found means to defeat.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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Plato:
The Symposium The
Republic
Gorgias
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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3 In order to
persuade
the mercenaries to follow him, Autophradates arranged for a report to be spread around, that his expedition was in reality no more than a general muster of his troops, with the purpose of docking the pay of all who did not appear in arms.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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At the same time there now strikes as in France
for many-stringed poetic souls the hour of
decadence; they look for inspiration in every
domain of the
external
world instead of seeking
it within their own breasts, and become, like
Antoni Lange, virtuosos of form but lacking in
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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This sort of daily
censoriousness
destroys
good-nature and integrity.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Where could there have been autochthonous
peoples It shows a very hazy
conception
of things
to talk about Greeks who never lived in Greece.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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God Neptune's
palaces!
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Keats |
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Winning a Guru
Now then, if you ask whether this can be done when you have no worldly goods or lofty
presents
for the initiating Guru, the words "BY GIVING ATTENDANCE AND PRECIOUS THINGS" indicate it cannot.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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But, instead of its being, as
was the case among the Romans, the large estate which, through
increase and usury, subordinated and
absorbed
the small one, among
the Barbarians--fonder of war than of wealth, more eager to dispose
of persons than to appropriate things--it was the warrior who, through
superiority of arms, enslaved his adversary.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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Dao * Hanh's* mother was buried at Ba Lang* Temple, Thu'o'ng* An Village, now Hoa Lang Temple, where both his parents were
worshipped
as the Holy Father and Holy Mother.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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Scipio_ is accused of
courting
the Populace.
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Erasmus |
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Hogarth makes the remarkable assumption that the principles of producing
beautiful works (for Hogarth, forms of drawing a line) are not applicable to ugly objects, so that a representation of such objects (although it is admissible) re- quires a
deviation
from these principles.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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It
is rather sorrow and
dejection
than anger.
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Selection of English Letters |
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Christ gave both swords to Peter ;
Pope
entrusts
the one to em-
peror, 365.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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Muse, sing the deeds of golden Aphrodite,
Who wakens with her smile the lulled delight
Of sweet desire, taming the eternal kings
Of Heaven, and men, and all the living things
That fleet along the air, or whom the sea, _5
Or earth, with her
maternal
ministry,
Nourish innumerable, thy delight
All seek .
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Shelley |
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35^
THEOLOGY
IN GREAT BRITAIN SINCE 1825.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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Revive, dear youth, or I shall faint and die;
Revive, or these soft hours will hurry by
In tranced dulness; speak, and let that spell 770
Affright
this lethargy!
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Keats |
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Et sans doute ce serait de là
qu'un jour
viendrait
la guérison que je ne souhaiterais pas.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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flits my
labouring
breath.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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It is only a
small part, and assuredly not the highest, of Hugo's
magnificent
pro-
duction.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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Thomas Cottle, a frequent contributor here, gives us a
compelling
case study of a marginal client of his caught up in the downward spiral of poverty and unemployment, only to be rescued in the "American Idol" style.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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She emerged more a
communist
liberal than a true con-
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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Their power was too
considerable
to be contested, for the new
citizens furnished them with a contingent of thirty legions, or about
150,000 men.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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”
And on
studying
the painting Longus says:
“I had a mighty instigation to write something as to answer that
picture.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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Do not interfere with an army that is
returning
home.
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The-Art-of-War |
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Fliesse Blut von den
mondenen
Fu?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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O to be a
Carolinian!
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scoundrel |
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Whitman |
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As
the portion of the treatise dealing directly with public education is
brief, we can hardly do better than
transcribe
it in a translation.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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Secondly the pay-
ment of the tribute was a recognised mark of fealty, exacted by all
suzerains, including the Moghul emperor, whose place we had taken,
while it was also a fair return for the obligations we had assumed in
protecting the states from aggression : the amount, moreover, was
henceforth fixed in perpetuity and this, together with the financial
advantages of peace, rendered these
payments
in no way burdensome.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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[1094] Nor on the mainland does the
husbandman
rejoice at the coming of summer to see trooping flocks of birds, when from the islands they alight upon his fields, but exceeding dread is his for the harvest, lest vexed by drought it come with empty ears and chaff.
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The tone of his speech and
action stands out in utter
contrast
with the tone of his time.
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Crowds came
every morning to view the king in his bed before he arose; the same
crowds watched him as he was dressed by the gentlemen of the bedchamber,
and as he breakfasted and went through all the
functions
which are
usually private.
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aire fully operational since 1964) utterly embod- ies the form of
expression
which has come to a head of a post- stressor strategy of affirmation, or to use clinical terminology a contraphobic compensation.
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To have contemplated these points
seriously
will make us re- alize that it is exceedingly rare and difficult to obtain this precious human rebirth.
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uk
71 Carl Dallago, 'In
Gesellschaft
von Bu ?
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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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And yet we hesitate to follow John of Salisbury of the twelfth century, for whom contempo- rary thinkers, though they be mere "dwarfs on the shoulders of gi- ants," could inevitably see further than their more eminent predeces- sors--perhaps because classics are now so immediately
accessible
to us.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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Gitman,
Lawrence
J.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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The
multitude
of men look satisfied and pleased; as if enjoying a
full banquet, as if mounted on a tower in spring.
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Or, like a
starving
mountebank, expose
Thy beauty and thy tear-drowned smile to those
Who wait thy jeste to drive away thy spleen.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Breakfast was an hour later than usual,
and after breakfast there was a
ceremony
which was observed every
week without fail.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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Another Fan
(Of
Mademoiselle
Mallarme's)
O dreamer, that I may dive
In pure pathless joy, understand,
How by subtle deceits connive
To keep my wing in your hand.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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What horror
spreading
through this place
Makes my distraught family flee my face?
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of
Valerius
Maximus extending
form or in substance to the Memorabilia, and from i.
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Mobilis, iEsonide, cemque
incertior
aura,
Cur tuus verbum pollicitus pondus careo f
22.
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