Furthermore, these processes frequently occur in
substrata
of major dimensions and thus more slowly and ponderously over such long periods of time, so that the transitions of their individual stages
1 We are indebted to Lutz Kaelber for his many suggestions for rendering Simmel's prose in this chapter--ed.
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Die
Reichspolitik
Kaiser Justinians.
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Mais beaucoup de ceux qui aperçoivent le premier
article et même qui le lisent ne regardent pas la signature; moi-même
je serais bien
incapable
de dire de qui était le premier article de la
veille.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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Nearly all relief was a State measure,
dictated
much more
by policy than by benevolence; and the habit of selling young
children, the innumerable expositions, the readiness of the poor
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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How space quivers
Like an
enormous
kiss
That, wild to be born for no one, can neither
Burst out or be soothed like this.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Your
description of the pictures in the
Oresteum
was most vivid;--that
battle-scene, and the way in which the two intercepted one another's
wounds.
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Lucian |
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No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceiue
Our Bosome interest: Goe
pronounce
his present death,
And with his former Title greet Macbeth
Rosse.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Whole towns of hardy gold miners let
themselves
be
terrorized by bandits whom they lacked the public spirit to put down.
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" Carr argues that the
Internet
has rewired our brains so that "deep reading" is passe?
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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They planned, on
recommendation
of the computer
scientist, to enter the underground labyrinth at the "Avenue
of Saint-Ouen", nearly two kilometers away from the
security zone.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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He had made a good shot, and he
hated to
relinquish
his game.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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sources of
knowledge
of-, 267fT.
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Licentiousness
a prop of Slavery, 134.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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The misery there, accompanied by
a horrible odour, was as if all the hospitals in the sultry marshes of
Valdichiana had brought their
maladies
together into one infernal ditch.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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In the foot race of the Iliad, Ulysses had prayed Athena to help
him overtake Ajax Oi'leus, and Athena had
defeated
Ajax -- by causing
him to slip and fall.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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" (EB 23, 699, 1)
In Physics one cannot speak of contact anymore, except only when this
consists
of the forces of a body that act on the other, i.
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But the
relations
with Armenia were not yet settled.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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I had the name
marked at full length upon my handker-
chiefs, written on my
visiting
cards, and
engraven on my seal; but what extacy
did I experience, on first reading in our
provincial paper, ' A Sonnet to Seraphi-
na!
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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Oh, a little of the noise and folly of this place
will sweeten the pleasures of our retreat; we shall find the
charms of our
retirement
doubled when we return to it.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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+ Refrain from automated
querying
Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting research on machine translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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Julia Hardy, ''Influential Western
Interpretations
of the Tao-te-ching,'' in Kohn and LaFargue, Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching, 165-185.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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SCENE: In front of the temple of Heracles, and on the banks of Acheron in
the
Infernal
Regions.
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Aristophanes |
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But in this case I also must remark,
'T was well this bird of promise did not perch,
Because the tackle of our shatter'd bark
Was not so safe for roosting as a church;
And had it been the dove from Noah's ark,
Returning
there from her successful search,
Which in their way that moment chanced to fall,
They would have eat her, olive-branch and all.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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142
_tremuli
tolle_ codd.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Sae merrily the banes we'll byke,
And sun
oursells
about the dyke,
And at our leisure, when ye like,
We'll whistle owre the lave o't.
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org
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited
donations
from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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'
VIII
"How I held back, how love supreme
Involved
me madly in his scheme
Why should I say?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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What have the preachers of morality
not dreamt concerning the inner
“misery”
of evil
men!
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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The educator will need to rethink his whole system of
educational
values.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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Oui, meme apres la mort, dans les squelettes pales
Il veut vivre, insultant la
premiere
beaute!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I was
compelled
to live with him, and (as was
always the case almost in my dreams) for centuries.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Here
prisoned
sleep
The ardors and the moods and all the pain
That once within a man's heart throbbed.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The
lifespan
increases by factors of twenty successively, through the other cold hells, as does the suffering.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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When he does not come, she
bitterly
suggests that he is as
afraid of the little stream as though it were the Yellow River, the
largest river in China.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But these truths are too important to be new; they have been taught to
our infancy; they have mingled with our
solitary
thoughts and familiar
conversations, and are habitually interwoven with the whole texture of
life.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Almostallimportantworksof the20th
centuryon the phenomenon of ideology do this - from Sigmund Freudto
WilhelmReichto
RonaldLaingand DavidCooper, not to
mentionJosephGabel,who hasdrawnthemostextensiveanalogybe-
tween ideology and schizophrenia.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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What was it it
whispered?
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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According to what has been said, the denial of the will to
live - which is just what is called absolute, entire resignation, or
holiness always proceeds from that quieter of the will which
the knowledge of its inner conflict and essential vanity, express-
ing themselves in the
suffering
of all living things, becomes.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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"Die
Wissenschaft
denkt nicht" (Heidegger, Was heisst Denken?
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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60, on the
complaint
of the Cyrenians, for tedious illness.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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Drp stones yet hang over the nance Survey
Townland
Maps for the upper courses of masonry, and the three
gables are still nearly perfect, with offsets,
County of Gjd way," Sheets 110.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Hymen ades o
Hymenaee!
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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And even as he gained with eager soul the prize of the new life, he
laid aside
barbaric
rage, and, changed in heart, he changed his name with
joy.
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bede |
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Or, again, in the Frag ment d'un dialogue where Boileau picks flaws in Horace's bad French, — an inverted criti cism on the bad Latin of French poetasters, —
[165]
England
LUCIAN, SATIRIST AND ARTIST
we think of Lucian's crusade in his
Lexiphanes
against the would-be Atticists of his day.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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Now, wha this tale o' truth shall read,
Ilk man and mother's son, take heed:
Whene'er to Drink you are inclin'd,
Or Cutty-sarks rin in your mind,
Think ye may buy the joys o'er dear;
Remember
Tam o' Shanter's mare.
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burns |
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"*
tions with France concerning the
abolition
of the barrier towns?
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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On account of the legends inscribed on many structures, he was
accustomed
to call Trajan "Wall Plant.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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"
While he was on trial, it is stated that Plato
ascended
the
bema and began, "Being the youngest, O men of Athens, of all
who ever came upon the bema"- but at this point the judges
cried out, «< Come down come down!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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** Demofthenes accules me of thofe Crimes, of which he was
" equally guilty ; he fays, I received Bribes, which he himfelf
" received, either alone, or in
Partnerfhip
with others.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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Twenty-seven sonnets by him had been appended
to the 1591 edition of Sidney's
Astrophel
and Stella, without, as he
declared, his authorisation, and, probably, through the action of
Nashe.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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tique, qui tole`re trop
volontiers
tout ce que la sensibilite?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION
13
the Czechs,
Karadzic
for the Jugoslavs, Glinski, Wojcicki,
Balinski, Chodzko and others among the Poles.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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Pearl thinks,
that only weak germs are killed by
moderate
treatment, and the strong
ones are uninjured.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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It is then only that
commerce
would
acquire nobility, and the noble would then perhaps
occupy themselves just as readily with commerce
as they have done hitherto with war and politics:
while on the other hand the valuation of politics
might then have entirely altered.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Humbler smiles and
lordlier
tears
Shine and fall, shine and fall,
While old voices rise and call
Yonder where the to-and-fro
Weltering of my Long-Ago
Moves about the moveless base
Far below my resting-place.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do
forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that
the Esquimaux sledges are drawn by dogs, and in the
twilight
of the
northern night the hunter does not give over to follow the seal and
walrus on the ice.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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--Il revait la prairie amoureuse, ou des houles
Lumineuses, parfums sains, pubescences d'or,
Font leur remuement calme et
prennent
leur essor!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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All the exegetists --whether liberals or conservatives-- know that Mathew uses there the circumlocution
employed
in later Judaism in order to avoid pronouncing the name of God, which was a poorly respect towards the divinity and a merely legalist interpretation of the prohibition of using the name of God in vain.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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Experience is the chief philosopher,
But saddest when his science is well known:
And
persecuted
sages teach the schools
Their folly in forgetting there are fools.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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But not in such silence or quasi-silence, nor
with the slight notice
accorded
to others in the last two pages, can
we pass Edwin Guest, master of Gonville and Caius college, and
first historian of English rhythms in any sense worthy of the title.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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In
expectation
of which I remain your sweetheart,
B.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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But as ye travel thither, did ye know
What
wretches
walk the streets through which you go.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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It has changed since that day ;
In it now are kept the reaper and
implements
to
make hay.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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thy
questions
shall from me receive
True answer.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The Psalmist numbered out the years of man:
They are enough: and if thy tale be TRUE,
Thou, who didst grudge him e'en that
fleeting
span,
More than enough, thou fatal Waterloo!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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His servants killed the snakes, but
Melampus
gathered wood and burnt the reptiles, and reared the young ones.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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What, should you sweep Mosaic
pavements
with a dirty
broom made of palm, and throw Tyrian carpets over the unwashed furniture
of your couch!
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Horace - Works |
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The The book
discusses
various theories for the
story follows the fate of the unfortu- regeneration of society.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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And now I watch, from the window,
the rain, the
wandering
busses.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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Although the cowardly
creature always inwardly said No, he always said Yes with his lips, even
upon the scaffold, where he died for the tenets of his party: for beside
him stood one of his old
associates
who so domineered him with look and
word that he actually went to his death with the utmost fortitude and
has ever since been celebrated as a martyr and exalted character.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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At other times, remaining
in Athens, he
disputed
in argumentative fashion with those who
conversed with him, not so as to deprive them of their belief,
but to strive for the ascertainment of truth.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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News
travelled
slowly in those days, and when Kra-
sinski penned these words he was ignorant of what had
happened in his country.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:31 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Frank |
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Like Hippocrene it scatters light,
Its
ebullition
foaming white
(Like other things I could relate)
My heart of old would captivate.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The concept of freedom is the stone of stumbling for all
empiricists, but at the same time the key to the loftiest practical
principles for
critical
moralists, who perceive by its means that they
must necessarily proceed by a rational method.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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IN A SUBWAY STATION
AFTER a year I came again to the place;
The tireless lights and the reverberation,
The angry thunder of trains that burrow the ground,
The hunted,
hurrying
people were still the same--
But oh, another man beside me and not you!
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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We are making such material
available
in our efforts to advance understanding of issues of environmental and humanitarian significance.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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How can I, as a Catholic priest, be fully
sincere?
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Source: |
Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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If pride and
disobedience
are unpunished
Who will obey?
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Yeats |
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in the barony of Upper Moyfenrath, in the County of
Meath, had been that specially
dedicated
to St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Jean de Meun
borrowed
the account of the sea gods carved on the
doors.
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Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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For even though man may propose, it is still the gods who dispose,
whatever
the case may be.
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Source: |
Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a
pleasant
fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the livelong day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
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blake-poems |
|
She cared not a rap for all the big planets,
For Betelgeuse or Aldebaran,
And all the big planets cared nothing for her,
That small
impertinent
charlatan;
But she climbed on a Kentish stile in the moonlight,
And laughed at the sky through the sticks of her fan.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
The churches of Sevan, of Digor, of Keghard near Erivan,
even the Armenian church of Paris in the Rue Jean-Goujon', still
symbolise the desperate battle the Armenians had to fight against the
foreigner, and still suggest that the only way of maintaining the unequal
struggle was to turn the encroaching elements to the service of the
Armenian Church, dearest and most
inviolable
stronghold of Armenian
nationality.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
|
A Villon- These that we loved shall God love less
fadoftfie Gibbet
^nc* sm*te alwav at their
feebleness?
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
XT THAT's that in thy hand, thou Yt looking V V upon so
earnestly
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Kepler, one of the most excellent of modern mathematicians, recognized a species of imperfection in matter, even when there is no regular motion: he calls it its 'natural inertia', which gives it a re- sistance to motion, whereby a greater mass
receives
less speed from one and the same force.
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If he be hungry, one huge fin
Drives seven
thousand
fishes in;
And when he drinks what he may need,
The rivers of the earth recede.
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On his part certainly
good
judgment
is essential; for in Golding's view the poems are **
flowers, from which bees will extract honey and spiders poison.
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19 On the
question
of the substantiality of the odTEpm ouaLm d.
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Yet, for a man with Gods shall never
lawfully
match
him
150
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For others, Spinoza represented the finest fruits of political liberalism: he defended as well as demonstrated religious tolerance, he promoted freedom of speech if not democracy, and he
insisted
on the separatism of church and state.
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They
represent paths which are
passable
whenever a sum of excitement makes
use of them.
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Miss ’
Dorothy dispatched a messenger, but it was too late Mavis remained in
latebra pudenda till twelve o’clock Afterwards, Mrs Creevy explained
privately to Dorothy that Mavis was a congenital idiot- or, as she put it, ‘not
right m the head’ It was totally impossible to teach her anything Of course,
Mrs Creevy didn’t ‘let on’ to Mavis’s parents, who believed that their child
was only ‘backward’ and paid their fees regularly Mavis was quite easy to deal
with You just had to give her a book and a pencil and tell her to draw pictures
and be quiet But Mavis, a child of habit, drew nothing but pothooks
-remaining quiet and apparently happy for hours together, with her tongue
hanging out, amid festoons of pothooks
But in spite of these minor difficulties, how well everything went during
those first few weeks 1 How ominously well, indeed 1 About the tenth of
November, after much grumbling about the price of coal, Mrs Creevy started
to allow a fire m the schoolroom The children’s wits brightened noticeably
when the room was decently warm And there were happy hours, sometimes,
when the fire
crackled
in the grate, and Mrs Creevy was out of the house, and
the children were working quietly and absorbedly at one of the lessons that
were their favourites Best of all was when the two top classes were reading
Macbeth , the girls squeaking breathlessly through the scenes, and Dorothy
pulling them up to make them pronounce the words properly and to tell them
who Bellona’s bridegroom was and how witches rode on broomsticks, and the
girls wanting to know, almost as excitedly as though it had been a detective
story, how Birnam Wood could possible come to Dunsinane and Macbeth be
killed by a man who was not of woman born Those are the times that make
teaching worth while-the times when the children’s enthusiasm leaps up, like
an answering flame, to meet your own, and sudden unlooked-for gleams of
intelligence reward your earlier drudgery No job is more fascinating than
teaching if you have a free hand at it Nor did Dorothy know, as yet, that that
‘if’ is one of the biggest ‘ifs’ m the world
Her job suited her, and she was happy in it She knew the minds of the
children intimately by this time, knew their individual peculiarities and the
special stimulants that were needed before you could get them to think She
was more fond of them, more interested in their development, more anxious to
do her best for them, than she would have conceived possible a short while ago
The complex, never-ended labour of teaching filled her life just as the round of
parish jobs had filled it at home She thought and dreamed of teaching, she
took books out of the public library and studied theories of education.
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The village has only one street, -two rows of
hovels, one row on each side of the road: but there at the corner
the fields spread out wide; great trees, following the course of the
Morelle, cover the depths of the valley with a
magnificent
shade.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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I was disgusted with Saveliitch, never
doubting
that it was he who had
made known my duel to my parents.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Déroulède now devoted himself to
literature
and politics.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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