Every
nationalist
is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered.
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Orwell |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
generations
on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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Another tyme
imaginen
he wolde
That every wight that wente by the weye 625
Had of him routhe, and that they seyen sholde,
`I am right sory Troilus wole deye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Bacteriolcgistsemployedbyustomakeasimilartestfailed, because of the surprising fact that "the dose as
prescribed
by Mr.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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So was in
proportion
everywhere.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Those
heavenly
features make my bosom sigh,
To think from earthly praise they mean to fly.
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La Fontaine |
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The other buffalo also
extricated itself from the slime and
lolloped
away.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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agreeably to the treaty of 475, it would have been the duty of Rome to lend her aid to the
Carthaginians
in Sicily, far rather than that of Carthage to help the Romans with her fleet to conquer Tarentum ; but on the side of neither ally was there much inclination to secure or to extend the power of the other.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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, Harvard
University
Press, 1977)
J.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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content as a Citizen to follow the Laws ; for luch Condudt
" only can fupport a democratical State,"'
In Anfwer to the weak Praetexts therefore, which they will
hereafter urge, I have
hitherto
fpoken.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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In Algeria there is already a civil war raging in the Kabile
mountains
between the two nations in the country.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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[215] Another case: Zen Master Kyogen Chikan21 was
learning
the truth
in the order of Zen Master Daii Daien.
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Shobogenzo |
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gave the final form, Jefferson's
doctrines
might be divided into.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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Why do we here follow the bare letter that
killeth?
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Erasmus |
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Ces vieillards ont toujours fait tresse avec leurs sieges,
Sentant les soleils vifs
percaliser
leur peaux,
Ou les yeux a la vitre ou se fanent les neiges,
Tremblant du tremblement douloureux des crapauds.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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A deck of cards became to my
childhood
friends a marvel-
ous thing with which to show off the patience and prowess needed to build
a house or create a design.
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Childens - Folklore |
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org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of
obtaining
a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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From no other book of his, not excepting _The Book of Hours_, can we
deduce so accurate a
conception
of Rilke's philosophy of Life and Art as
we can draw from his comparatively short monograph on Auguste Rodin.
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Rilke - Poems |
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We are now in a position to
understand
in outline the reverse journey
from matter to sense-data which is performed by physics.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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+ Maintain
attribution
The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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Sukhasiddhi said that the teachings she held were the highest in the Vajrayana, transmitted to her directly by Dorje Chang; to be worthy of receiving them, he must have an ac-
cumulation
of merit, and make offerings of precious substances such as gold.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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s from the Soviet Union have been reporting for at least the last generation now that virtually nobody in that country truly
believed
in Marxism-Leninism any longer, and that this was nowhere more true than in the Soviet elite, which continued to mouth Marxist slogans out of sheer cynicism.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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How
deep and
unfathomable
it is, as if it were the Honoured Ancestor of
all things!
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Tao Te Ching |
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In the
mountains
of Bu-'bol I stayed twenty-one days and hid three gter-kha.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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[Legamen ad paginam Latinam] 16 1 Such a host of Gordian's party fell in this campaign, it is said, that the body of the younger Gordian, although it was long
searched
for, could not be found.
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Historia Augusta |
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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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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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It stands on an open plain or
pasture, except that it adjoins another small pine wood, which has a
few little oaks in it, on the
southeast
side.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Ever Since Darwin was the first
collection
of Gould's celebrated essays from Natural History.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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If what's beneath the sky knew eternity,
The monuments, whose form I had you draw,
Not on paper but in marble, porphyry,
Would yet
preserve
their live antiquity.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Beside the horse- trough in the market-place the
carrier’s
horse is having its nose- bag.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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When and where the play was first
produced
we do not know,
for the prologue is silent as to these matters.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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They would
hesitate
to urge "public ownership
and control of the means of production,"--a phrase in hi the socialists for so long have clearly summarized their posal.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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This transcendence therefore is, and at the same time is not - and beyond that contradiction it is no doubt very difficult, and
probably
impos-
sible, for thought to gO.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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The Villicus superintended
the country estate, as the
dispensator
did the city household.
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Satires |
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In his later years, Marx himself began to entertain doubts about the inevitability of a
victorious
workers revolution.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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"
II
--"O not at being here;
But that our future second death is drear;
When, with the living, memory of us numbs,
And blank
oblivion
comes!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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They arise from the constitution
of the Company, from the long and intimate union of the
commercial
and
imperial characters in one body.
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Macaulay |
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Vengeaunce
must fall on thee, thow filthie whore
Of Babilon, thow breaker of Christ's fold,
That from achorns, and from the water colde,
Art riche become with making many poore.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Four results--by
omitting
disconnective results--are neutral
dharmas.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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This raises the
character
of king very high indeed !
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Vassilissa
Igorofna
obliged him to tell her
all, after giving her word that she would tell no one.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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If ever, for the
confusion
of Horace, any Poet was Made, you, Sir, should
have been that fortunately manufactured article.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Kindle the
Christmas
brand, and then, II.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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The Bostonians seized this early op-
portunity to deny that rum could be profitably distilled from
molasses that bore a duty
amounting
to practically ten per
cent ad valorem, as did the one-penny duty.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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” Then had Cypris
compassion
and bade the Loves loose his bonds; and he went not to the woods, but from that day forth followed her, and more, went to the fire and burnt away those his tusks away.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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»
Gilberte, qui prenait avec une rapidité
extrême
les manières du
monde, déclara combien elle allait être fière de dire qu'elle était
l'amie d'un auteur.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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2
Modern "dynamism" has made a contribution toward preserving the
mindless
rigor among super-mobile forms.
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Sloterdijk |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:36 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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Besides, though but a moment since
Serenest was the weather of the sky,
So fiercely sudden is it foully thick
That ye might think that round about all murk
Had parted forth from Acheron and filled
The mighty vaults of sky--so grievously,
As gathers thus the storm-clouds'
gruesome
night,
Do faces of black horror hang on high--
Of which how small a part an image is
There's none to tell or reckon out in words.
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Lucretius |
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Is that queer _thing_
supposed
to burn?
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Lewis Carroll |
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Strike, thou wilt have so but have not
deserved
it.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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1go TREITSCHKE: HIS LIFE AND WORKS
carrying out this
principle
all other nations must travel on
the same barbarous road.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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'93 "What future bliss:"
the words "shall be" are to be
understood
after this phrase.
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Alexander Pope |
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I passed it on my weary way in worry,
I and my brawny mount in the morning haze,
My mount: a camel, onager-swift, strong-spined
her withers smooth as a dune on a windless day,
A nine-year tush has
replaced
her seven-year tooth,
not too young or too old, in the prime of age
Like a wild ass gone rushing through the reeds,
dark-furred with fight-scars round the neck and face.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Gloomily
looked the knight--
"As a son thou hast servèd me,
And would to none I had granted boon
Except to only thee!
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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Rinaldo,
wondering
what the quest implied,
Made answer: "I am bound in nuptial band.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Already
as Crown-Prince he had won a place among the
political
thinkers
of the age; his Anti-Machiavel-
lism remains, in spite of all the weakness of
immaturity, surely the best and deepest exposition
of the duties of the princely office in an absolute
monarchy which was ever penned.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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The pain from its sting is more severe than that caused by the others, for the instrument that causes the pain is larger, in
proportion
to its own larger size.
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Aristotle copy |
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Note: There are
references
to a visit to the Temple of Isis at Pompeii with an English girl, Octavia (who tasted a lemon), and to the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The genuine Yankee never gives the rough sound to the _r_ when he can
help it, and often displays
considerable
ingenuity in avoiding it even
before a vowel.
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James Russell Lowell |
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So,ifyourAdvicebe not back'd by the
strongest
Reasons, assure your self I will never comply, not if all the, Power of the People should arm it self against me, or,offerto frighten m e like a Child, by laying on fresh Chains; and threatning to deprive me ofthe greatest Good, andobligemetosufferthecruellestDeath.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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By which words he giveth us to understand, that they went to and fro as
occasion
was offered them to deceive men.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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DON JUAN: ¡Me
insultáis!
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Jose Zorrilla |
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I've kept Brown
standing
in the cold
While I invested him with reasons;
But now he snapped his eyes three times;
Then shook his lantern, saying, "Ile's
'Bout out!
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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Sometimes she might have been seen squatting upon
her
haunches
in front of a huge wooden basin, and kneading
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Sweet friend, for me now go to the window
And gaze on the stars from earth below
And see how I am your true
messenger!
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Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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"The
commandment
of the
Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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In this sense Nietzsche's
statement
that "Dionysus speaks the language of Apollo; and Apollo finally, the language of Dionysus" is the poetic veiling of a culture-rev-
olutionary dream.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Source: |
Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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The
adventures
are supposed to occur to Henry VIII.
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Thomas Otway |
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¡Mísero
amigo mío!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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Harm-
less while
faithful
to Rome, the Teutons, as soon as
their vitality had been regenerated by the Reformation,
?
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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But if you say "I
reverence
you and will be like a brother," shame will close your road to accomplishment.
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Source: |
Greek Anthology |
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His quaint opinions to inspect,
His knowledge to unfold
On what concerns our mutual mind,
The literature of old;
What
interested
scholars most,
What competitions ran
When Plato was a certainty.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Social democracy strove for participation in an
idealism
that to that point had car- ried the promise of power within itself.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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Betty's private
meditations than
specially
reported to me.
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Source: |
De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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UPON THE
TRANSLATION
OF THE PSALMES, &c.
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Donne - 2 |
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For without
intellect
and mind there's not
One part of soul can rest within our frame
Least part of time; companioning, it goes
With mind into the winds away, and leaves
The icy members in the cold of death.
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Source: |
Lucretius |
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Thou
believest
all I say?
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Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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But all the virtues are means and
uses; and, if we hinder their
tendency
to growth and expansion, we
both destroy them as virtues, and degrade them to that rankest
species of corruption reserved for the most noble organizations.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
|
The
passengers
granted the request
with alacrity, and straightway disappeared on the platform.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
|
Monica Zobel
| 85
Copyright of West Branch is the property of West Branch and its content may not be copied or emailed to
multiple
sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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Throw yourself rather, my dear sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock,
slap-dash
headlong
upon iron spikes.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Selection of English Letters |
|
Change of taste has done its worst with
them; but it is unfair to construct an idea of the
essential
from the
accidents of bis art.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
|
“L’amour—and
with this
principle one carries one's point against Gods and
men—est de tous les sentiments le plus égoiste, et
par consequent, lorsqu'il est blessé, le moins géné-
reur” (B.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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When we are gone,
mountain and
stronghold
stay.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Translated Poetry |
|
The tailor will not be
restrained
when his customer
—
being described
Thomas.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
|
The New Republic, 8/16/80, Der Spiegel as cited by Ha'aretz, 3/21/80, and 4/30-5/5/80; The Economist, 3/22/80; Robert Fisk, Times, London, 3/26/80;
Ellsworth
Jones, Sunday Times, 3/30/80.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
|
Then,
thankless
for a life redeem'd by shame, With sense of honor stung, and forfeit fame, Fearful besides of what in fight had pass'd,
His hands and haggard eyes to heav'n he cast; "0 Jove I" he cried, "for what offense have I
?
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Source: |
Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
|
It is now a war of nuclear
bargaining
and
demonstration.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
|
One of these, A Woman will have her Will,
was entered on the Stationers'
register
in August 1601, but the
first extant edition was printed in 1616 as English-Men For my
Money.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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In either case sexual
relations
are likely to be sparse or absent.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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They pre- ferred to remain loyal to
Confucius
or Lao Tse.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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Cheer louder, you dupes of the ambush of hell;
What’s left of life-essence, you
squander
its spells
And only on doomsday feel paupered.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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Flitcroft, on account of his size,
occupied
two
steps and a portion of a third.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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Here is the substantial fact behind Max Muller's often ridiculed
theory of the
renaissance
of Sanskrit literature.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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) Once
more let it be said that Wagner is really only ,
worthy of
admiration
and love by virtue of his in-
ventiveness in small things, in his elaboration of .
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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culty of
settling
a war i^in the middle of the cona?
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Schwarz - Committments |
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