Let there be an end to crime and outrage; of which, however, Sulla is so far from
repenting
that he counts them among his titles to glory, and, if he were allowed, would more eagerly do them again.
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Nevertheless
sattvasabhdgatd is said to be general because it is not differenciated.
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In this it will be seen that the clause 'Since
separation
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He was pre-
ferred when
Jeffreys
was made Lord Chief Justice.
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Marvell - Poems |
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ALABASTER
Like this alabaster box whose art
Is frail as a cassia-flower, is my heart,
Carven with delicate dreams and wrought
With many a subtle and
exquisite
thought.
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Instead, the same sorts of summary and superficial
criticisms
are made over and over again, and the same sorts of errors are repeated.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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Song breathed from all the forest,
The total air was fame;
It seemed the world was all torches
That
suddenly
caught the flame.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And I
only
expected
to see a German !
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Miss Notable and Mr Neverout
were
described
with special care; for they were intended to be
patterns for all young bachelors and single ladies.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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The star grew pale and hid her face
In a bit of
floating
cloud like lace.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Parr, for their unsparing attacks
on him; but woe to any poor devil who had the
hardihood
to defend him
against them!
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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The pencil in the woman's hands, which do not use it at all, signals something quite simple to Brigge the observer: he, the writer, is one of those whom his notebooks so exhaustively record-"refuse" or "husks of
humanity
that fate has spewed out.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic work, you
indicate
that you have read, understand, agree to
and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property
(trademark/copyright) agreement.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The treatise on heraldry is expressly said to have been translated
and compiled at St Albans, and is probably derived, in great part,
from a work on the same subject written, in 1441, by Nicholas
Upton and
dedicated
to Humphrey, duke of Gloucester.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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Probably in dogs it exceeds
anything
to be found in human beings.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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^The motheristhesoleadvocateandpriestessoftherace^ The will of the race to live is embodied in her, whilst the exist- ence of the prostitute shows that Schopenhauer was pushing a generalisation too far when he declared that all
sexuality
hadrelationonlytothefuturegeneration.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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199
Yet real life is more simple; we there fre-
quently see virtues opposed to
interests
- but
perhaps it is true, that no honest man could
ever doubt, on any occasion, what his duty
enjoined.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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"Under what form known to us," he would seem to have asked, "may we
assume an
identity
in all known things, so as best to cover or render
explicable the things as we know them?
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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Furthermore, God would not be sovereign with regard to
auxiliary
causes, since these cooperate in the production of the effect through their own efficacy.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Meldan that
appeared
in vision to his disciple and spiritual son, the future Abbot of Lagny, and whose relics the latter brought over to France when there established.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Lite vacent aures, insanaque
protinus
absint
Jurgia: differ opus, li?
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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Additional
terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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This book of which I make mencioun,
Entitled
was al thus, as I shal telle, 30
Tullius of the dreme of Scipioun';
Chapitres seven hit hadde, of hevene and helle,
And erthe, and soules that therinne dwelle,
Of whiche, as shortly as I can hit trete,
Of his sentence I wol you seyn the grete.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me; and to me,
High
mountains
are a feeling, but the hum
Of human cities torture: I can see
Nothing to loathe in Nature, save to be
A link reluctant in a fleshly chain,
Classed among creatures, when the soul can flee,
And with the sky, the peak, the heaving plain
Of ocean, or the stars, mingle, and not in vain.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The purity of
commitments
(Skt.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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This man, whom he had
just
followed
around the world, was permitted now to separate himself
from him!
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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But as soon as he observes a man overwhelmed with moral doubts he at once becomes a
philosopher
and even a fatalist.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Nil nostrl
miserVe?
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Toujours est-il que son nom seul excitait chez le baron les plus
violentes colères, les
philippiques
les plus éloquentes mais les plus
terribles.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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GALILEO Will you stop standing there like a
stockfish
whenwe've discovered the truth?
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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Had the Germans accomplished what Heidegger's fantasizing expected of then'l, then they would have made friends and enemies
understand
that they are the ones whom the light of necessity illuminates as if for the last time.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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SB uses words from an untitled ode on the public lavatory that he wrote as a student
at Trinity College:
There is an expert there who can
Encircle twice the glittering pan
In flawless
symmetry
to extend
Neatly pointed at each end.
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Samuel Beckett |
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The Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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JEsop of Eton, a rhyming Cobler
Biek, James, a Mimic
Trumpeter
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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Scottish
Poetry: Drummond of Hawthornden
to Fergusson.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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Because these oppositions form part of the speaker's own thoughts and experience and determine him, this concession at once leads us to an observation about the philosopher: that he
experienced
him self as a place in which the non-unifying encounter between mutually incompatible evi dences occurred.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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“You want to
prepossess
him in your favour?
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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If one has found the right label for a system, the rest falls into place of itself, and one is spared the effort of
examining
what is characteristic about it more meticulously.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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" 70
For kyndly, by your
heritage
right,
Ye been annexed ever unto Bountee;
And verrayly ye oughte do your might
To helpe Trouthe in his adversitee.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Muffling his face, of greeting friends in fear,
Her fingers he press'd hard, as one came near
With curl'd gray beard, sharp eyes, and smooth bald crown,
Slow-stepp'd, and robed in philosophic gown:
Lycius shrank closer, as they met and past,
Into his mantle, adding wings to haste,
While hurried Lamia trembled: "Ah," said he,
"Why do you shudder, love, so
ruefully?
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Keats |
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Those who study the situation of the peasant popula- tions in the nineteenth century, or even more, that of the growing industrial proletariat and the development of
pauperism
in the age of bourgeois rule (and in addition, the situation of women, servants, minorities, etc.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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HE
ENCOURAGES
HIS SOUL TO LIFT ITSELF TO GOD, AND TO ABANDON THE
VANITIES OF EARTH.
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Petrarch |
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Transpose such sense of plasticity or transpose your
criteria
to ten years of fascismo in Italy.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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There is nothing in the book that
suggests
a premeditated satire
upon faith and enthusiasm in general.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying,
performing, copying or
distributing
any Project Gutenberg-tm works
unless you comply with paragraph 1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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He wou'd not own the sovereign authority of the people which was the highest treason, the principles of forty- vie be true and he deserv'd to die, like
criminal
that stands mute, whether he was guilty of the particular facts eharg'd upon him, or not.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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which I have
examined
with care--of errors which exist in all previously
printed copies of these Notes, including my own.
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William Wordsworth |
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British patriot was
offering
them in the midst of the world's most prosperous empire, a patriot was offering them FOUR points of sanity.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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BURGER:
Nein, er gefallt mir nicht, der neue
Burgemeister!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The
Counselor Bachaumont one day ridiculed
insurrectionists
as re-
sembling the boys who played with slings (frondes) about the
streets of Paris, but scattered at the first glimpse of a policeman.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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"
Aunt Helen
Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt,
And lived in a small house near a
fashionable
square
Cared for by servants to the number of four.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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Thoreau can give us a hint about what it means to be
confused
enough to ask another version o f this question.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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'
Happily, one collection of private letters of this period has
been preserved, which reveals
a‘native
tenderness and innocent
gaiety of mind' equal to Cowley's.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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Such motifs have been extirpated from the dignity of the Heideggerian tone:
In what other way, however, could a
humanity
ever find the way to the primal form of thanking, if the favor of Being did not grant man the nobility of poverty by means of the open pOSSibility of relating to Being?
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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At foot
Of a magnificent castle we arriv'd,
Seven times with lofty walls begirt, and round
Defended by a
pleasant
stream.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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4
Tannisho: Passages Deploring Deviations of Faith
Rennyo Shonin Ofumi: The Letters of Rennyo
The Sutra on the Profundity of Filial Love
Shobogenzo: The True Dharma-Eye
Treasury
vol.
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Shobogenzo |
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It is not surprising
that on the day before his death he made to Lucka remarks
that implied a
connection
between his abandonment of his
ideas of individuality and his opinion of suicide (Lucka, p.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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The radically inaccessible in
question
in radical formalization cannot be "seen" in any conceivable sense.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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I don't
suppose he is any more
unassailable
than other husbands.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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Transported
to the city it
becomes a permanent part of Roman Satire.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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mark elliott 91
greatest Austrian poet],53 and whom he located in a constellation of 'great'
Modernist
poets with George and Rilke (W iv, 219).
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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'
To that Criseyde
answerde
thus anoon,
`Ne hadde I er now, my swete herte dere, 1210
Ben yolde, y-wis, I were now not here!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Meanwhile the certain news of peace arrives
At court, and so
reprieves
their guilty lives.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The country of the ^ neid is around;
The fables genius
consecrated
here
A re memories whose traces still we seek .
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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said: "The King is only fond of words, and cannot
translate
them into deeds.
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The-Art-of-War |
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Be it that we learn to confront it with our
pride, our scorn, our strength of will, doing like the
Indian who, however sorely tortured, revenges him-
self on his tormentor with his bitter tongue; be it
that we withdraw from the pain into the oriental
nothingness—it is called Nirvana,—into mute,
benumbed, deaf self-surrender, self-forgetfulness,
and self-effacement: one emerges from such long,
dangerous exercises in self-mastery as another being,
with several additional notes of interrogation, and
above all, with the will to
question
more than ever,
more profoundly, more strictly, more sternly, more
wickedly, more quietly than has ever been ques-
tioned hitherto.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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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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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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Aim,
superiority
and high, x.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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A sufficiently diverse portfolio - which M obviously is -
eliminates
all unique volatility.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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Both books
establishso
close a relationshipof nationalsocialism withso manyimportanpthenomenathattheexcessiveuseoftheterm"Nazism" appears likeanunnecessaryrelicoftheepochofcontemporarypolemicsandespecially of warpropaganda.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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"
"You have not an
umbrella
that I can use as a stick?
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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The Fountain
All through the deep blue night
The
fountain
sang alone;
It sang to the drowsy heart
Of the satyr carved in stone.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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More recently,
Christianity has spread in the Balkans, Mahom-
etanism has somewhat
decreased
there, and the
Porte has been brought into the circle of nations
subject to international law.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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I would speak with him, and ask
If he has seen Ulysses, or have heard
Tidings, perchance, of the
afflicted
Chief,
For much a wand'rer by his garb he seems.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
Most
unwilling
was she to awaken from such a dream of felicity to
comprehend all the unhappy truths which attended the affair; and for
some time she refused to submit to them.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Curtius proposes a concept of a 'timeless present' that is clearly
influenced
by Eliot, a poet he worked extensively on from the late 1920s onwards,28 while Walter Jens declares Hofmannsthal's concepts of 'plurality' and 'contemporaneity' to be the 'magic words of the Modern period'.
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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To whom Telemachus
discrete
replied.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Of philosophy and Greek
literature
he was a student .
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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Watt, dit
Monsieur
Nixon.
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Samuel Beckett |
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As soon as it was dark, the
man sliding gently forward, let himself below the steep, and held up
his cloak and hat a few feet, gently moving them
backward
and
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Childrens - The Creation |
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Notes: The Lord of
Excideuil
is Richard Coeur-de-Lion.
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Troubador Verse |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to
digitize
public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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* This and other epigrams (we have a large Latin
collection
of them) refer to statues of the garden god Priapus, who was represented with an erect penis to avert the evil eye.
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Greek Anthology |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Willing at once to escape the jealous Hera’s wrath and beguile the
maiden’s
gentle heart, he put off the god and put on the bull, not such as feedeth in the stall, nor yet such as cleaveth the furrow with his train of the bended plough, neither one that draweth in harness the laden wagon.
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Moschus |
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" A
rance and E ngland must at present prevent his
nd when peace is concluded," said L ady E d-
garmond, " I should hope, my L ord, that you would not
think of
returning
to I taly.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Her eyes were fixed on the
glass of the shop-window, as if some
alarming
object were
painted upon it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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I am the pool of blue
That
worships
the vivid sky;
My hopes were heaven-high,
They are all fulfilled in you.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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"Amazement" is explained by the Clear Meaning as
wondering
about various stories "Is it?
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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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It is more or
less dimly known to common-sense that the
universe
in which we
live has some sort of deep unity about it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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It follows that the self is also not permanent because first it does not remember but later newly
develops
memory of past lives.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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It was beautiful to
see the bright
procession
glide along like a living creature.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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This
incompleteness
will become abundantly evident as we turn to Taylor's Principles.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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" The 'Maxims' are faultless in style and form: brief
complete sayings, forming doorways neither too strait nor too broad
into the House of Life, whose many chambers La
Rochefoucauld
had
explored.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Because I gave
Honour to mortals, I have yoked my soul
To this
compelling
fate.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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For what is more foolish, say they, than for a
suppliant suitor to flatter the people, to buy their favor with gifts, to
court the applauses of so many fools, to please himself with their
acclamations, to be carried on the people's
shoulders
as in triumph, and
have a brazen statue in the marketplace?
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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