8 Wind and clouds followed the fleetest feet,9 8 sun and moon
continued
on the high streets of Heaven.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The results of the contest in regard to the
crown and the trial in the Harpalus matter were very different; but
the verdict of neither trial, even if they were not conflicting, could
be
accepted
as decisive.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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" he would say later, taking it in both
of his own and
pressing
it to his face, to his
neck, to his breast; "other hand too!
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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The
Popillia
gens is one of the great
are called, which are extant in Greek (Fabric.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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Few men have
travelled
so far and into such remote quarters as the Count Vay de Vaya has, with this object.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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the two
nightingales
and they fate, poor hound, I weep.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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His father was
a
Jonathan
Swift, sixth of the ten sons of the Rev.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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This subject was some time after resumed, and a day
was
proposed
to consider the western limits beyond which
congress would not extend their guarantee to the particu-
lar states, to ascertain what territory belonged to the
United States, and to establish a plan for the disposal of it
in order to discharge the national debts.
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Gaming |
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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In:
Rheinische
Post [Duesseldorf], May 31, 2006.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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Me therein, an
innocent
man,
the fiendish foe was fain to thrust
with many another.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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This last text
consists
of three "pa-
triotic hymms" sung at the Temple of Reason.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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OFFERING
My body glows in every vein and blooms
To fullest flower since I first knew thee,
My walk
unconscious
pride and power assumes;
Who art thou then--thou who awaitest me?
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Rilke - Poems |
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Have you no comfort for me
Cold-colored
flowers?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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«Naturellement toi, du moment
qu’il s’agit d’être d’un autre avis que nous», répondit ma grand’tante
qui, sachant que ma grand’mère n’était jamais du même avis qu’elle, et
n’étant bien sûre que ce fût à elle-même que nous donnions toujours
raison, voulait nous arracher une
condamnation
en bloc des opinions de
ma grand’mère contre lesquelles elle tâchait de nous solidariser de
force avec les siennes.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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Long Susan lay deep lost in thought,
And many dreadful fears beset her,
Both for her
messenger
and nurse;
And as her mind grew worse and worse,
Her body it grew better.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The diet then arrived at two
important
decisions.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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In one corner the car of summer's greenery
gloriously
motionless
forever.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Occasionally I went upon the
hill,
deliberately
deeming it good to do so; then again, this
craving carried me away up there of itself.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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that my words were now
written!
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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A personality of force communicates himself, when a poet,
not merely by the written word, but also by immediate contact
with other personalities, who are in
sympathy
with him and
receptive of his ideas and conception of life.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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With all the hills ‘tis Woe for Cypris and with the vales ‘tis Woe for Adonis; the rivers weep the sorrows of Aphrodite, the wells of the mountains shed tears for Adonis; the flowerets flush red for grief, and
Cythera’s
isle over every foothill and every glen of it sings pitifully Woe for Cytherea, the beauteous Adonis is dead, and Echo ever cries her back again, The beauteous Adonis is dead.
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Bion |
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It has been shown in Chapter VIII that truly
effective
control of atomic energy would require such an opening up of the Soviet Union and such evidence in other ways of its good faith and its intent to co-exist in peace as to reflect or at least initiate a change in the Soviet system.
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NSC-68 |
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What means the
gentleman?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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second century the celebrated monarch Tuathal Teachtmar took
Ireland the
earliest
ages, some them more than years before the Christian era.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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Ông giữ các chức quan, như An phủ sứ Thái Nguyên, An phủ sứ Khoái Lộ và
được
cử đi sứ sang nhà Minh (Trung Quốc).
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stella-01 |
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--With the exception of some few
philosophers, men have placed
sympathy
very low in the rank of moral
feelings: and rightly.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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’ And then the wine would send a kind of wann feeling upwards from my
stomach, and I’d run an eye over the woman with fair hair and
mentally
take her clothes
off.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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And in this discourse it will be
necessary
to note those errors that are
obvious, as well as others which are seldomer observed, since there are
few so obvious or acknowledged into which most men, some time or other,
are not apt to run.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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In another sense it is
probably
progressive in the long term too.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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Thus perished
the noblest and the ablest of the
adherents
of the Sur dynasty
(1546).
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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of France, then
King of Navarre, left no means of negotiation untried to urge the German
princes to the vigorous
assertion
of their rights.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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Mà sao trong sổ đoạn
trường
có tên.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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ctimas
alemanas
de la guerra ae?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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To lose Lucina is such cruel pain,
That life is
loathsome
save he her regain.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-20 04:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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For the
theory that certain parts of Franconia round the Upper Main and Bamberg were
granted to
Berthold
of Bavaria, see Giesebrecht, Kaiserzeit, 1.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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And herself, the skilled in drugs, seeing the baleful wound incurable of her husband wounded by the giant-slaying arrows of his adversary, shall endure to share his doom, from the topmost towers to the new slain corpse
hurtling
herself head foremost, and pierced by sorrow for the dead shall breathe forth her soul on the quivering body.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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Eliza shall a Dardan lord obey,
And lofty
Carthage
for a dow'r convey.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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The whole
revolution
was nothing to't
jest
's
I
it
?
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Shuddering
the body stood
One instant in an agony of blood,
And gasped and fell.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Way for the
government
cannon!
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Whitman |
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" "I used
to think myself," said Edward Atkinson, "only an average man
in size, height, and weight at home; but when I made my first
visit to England (in 1877), I was rather
surprised
to find myself
a tall and large man by comparison with those whom I passed
in the streets.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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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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De su
hidalguía es prueba
irrechazable
el hecho siguiente:
El francés Arnaud andaba siempre á caza de ingleses con quienes
empeñarnos en apuestas de tiro, y dió una vez con unos que nos
invitaron al del encargado de negocios de Dinamarca, que le tenia
precioso en su jardin de la casa de la calle del Barquillo, residencia
de su embajada.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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And the fourth division of power consists in the being well or ill treated, and treating others well or ill; as, for instance, we may be sick, or we may be taught, or we may be in
vigorous
health, and many more cases of that sort.
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| Source: |
Diogenes Laertius |
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The latter is printed on the left with the original pagination, with the
corresponding
passages of the piec~ from the NachlajJ on the right (ed.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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The Renaissance in its chief ruler
and the ideas and
character
of the time is made alive.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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The whole style of the house
and furniture is such as becomes the ambassador from one of the
first
monarchies
in Europe.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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Always
thinking
of my own country,
My heart sad within.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
"Ye higher men,"--so
blinketh
the populace--"there are no higher men, we
are all equal; man is man, before God--we are all equal!
| Guess: |
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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ille terrarum mihi praeter omnis
angulus ridet, ubi non Hymetto
mella decedunt
uiridique
certat
baca Venafro.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain
"Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or
corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual
property infringement, a
defective
or damaged disk or other medium, a
computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by
your equipment.
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| Question: |
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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" But he is also not
interested
in the verbal signi- fier or the word ribbon.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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His main thesis is the essential simplicity, the healthy
primitiveness
of Browning's temperament.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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They are so frequently capable of
masterly
dis-
simulation that they very often assume the airs and
forms of great virtues.
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| Question: |
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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In other words,
typography
and linear perspective, since Leibniz, not only rule
so-called nature, but also so-called thinking.
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| Question: |
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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/
London:/
_Printed
by T.
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Byron |
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Before investigating the nature of this bond, it will be advantageous to
turn our attention to the more readily intelligible dreams of the first
class where, the
manifest
and latent content being identical, the dream
work seems to be omitted.
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| Source: |
Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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Just as we have always been indebted to men for really trustworthy expositions of the psychical side of women, so also it is to men that we owe
descriptions
of the sensations of pregnant women.
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
|
O beware then of
hardihood
; a lover's
Plea for charity, dear my friend, reject not :
What if Nemesis haply claim repayment?
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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292
Without strict discipfitie, the fav'rite child,
Like a
neglected
forester, runs wild.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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"
"They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy
bell-ropes, and
ventilators
which do not ventilate.
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| Source: |
Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Whether or not
differences
of these kinds occur in fact can be determined only by further research.
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| Source: |
Bowlby - Separation |
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APRIL SONG
WILLOW in your April gown
Delicate
and gleaming,
Do you mind in years gone by
All my dreaming?
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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He was angrily demanding
his fees from one of these; they were long overdue, he said; the day
stated in the
agreement
was the first of the month, and it was now the
fifteenth.
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| Source: |
Lucian |
|
25
We might state our first conclusion as follows: Correctness or, as the modish term has it, "factology" is not the be-all and end-all of scholarship, but whether bourgeois or Marxist, scholarship cannot do without
correctness
or at least the effort to be correct.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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They gain more from love who pay
Court by deceiving, in their pride,
Than he who humbly makes his way,
And ever the
suppliant
does abide,
For Amor has no love for the man
Who is honest and noble as I am.
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Troubador Verse |
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Even more to the point: "The self
delimits
itself and decides on the material for its self-making, but the delimitation that the self performs takes place through norms which are, indisputably, already in place" (ibid.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
|
(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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The noble
youth knows not how to keep his seat on
horseback
and is afraid to go a
hunting, more skilled to play (if you choose it) with the Grecian
trochus, or dice, prohibited by law; while the father's perjured faith
can deceive his partner and friend, and he hastens to get money for an
unworthy heir.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Works |
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I have tried to show that this illusion of clarity only lasts as long as you raise none of the questions which those accounts naturally give rise to and so fail to notice that no
satisfactory
answer is to be found for them.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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Nonetheless these strands differ clearly enough, as we wish to show, for their
differentiation
to act as the most impor- tant internal structure of the system of the mass media.
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| Question: |
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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The skilful
traveller
leaves no traces of his wheels or
footsteps; the skilful speaker says nothing that can be found fault
with or blamed; the skilful reckoner uses no tallies; the skilful
closer needs no bolts or bars, while to open what he has shut will be
impossible; the skilful binder uses no strings or knots, while to
unloose what he has bound will be impossible.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tao Te Ching |
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Imagine Wagner's filling an official posi-
tion, as for instance that of bandmaster at public
and court theatres, both of which positions he has
held: think how he, a serious artist, must have
struggled in order to enforce
seriousness
in those
very places which, to meet the demands of modern
conventions, are designed with almost systematic
frivolity to appeal only to the frivolous.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
|
PATRIC
Where the flesh of the
footsole
clingeth on the burning stones
is their place;
Where the demons whip them with wires on the burning stones of wide hell,
Watching the blessed ones move far off, and the smile on God's face,
Between them a gateway of brass, and the howl of the angels who fell.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats - Poems |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Her aspect was flooded with
gladness
from the spirits around her;
while the angel who had descended to her on earth now hailed her above
with "Ave, Maria!
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| Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
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" Johnson recognizes, however, that "Anthropomorphism and Trope in the Lyric" in its
concluding
sen- tences anticipates, in speaking of "the materiality of actual history," de Man's thought of materiality in the Aesthetic Ideology essays and at the same time uses an anthropomorphism of its own, as though an- thropomorphism were the one trope that cannot, at least by de Man, be expunged.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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METHFESSEL/RAMTHUN: Are you
advocating
a new Calvinism?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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As a boy and a youth Nietzsche had
shown such a
remarkable
gift for music that it had been a question at
one time whether he should not perhaps give up everything else in order
to develop this gift, but he became a scholar notwithstanding, although
he never entirely gave up composing, and playing the piano.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
|
For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
231 (#273) ############################################
Early Greco-Bulgarian Wars
231
בל
The Bulgarians established their first capital in an
entrenched
camp
at Pliska, the modern Turkish village of Aboba to the north-east of
Shumla.
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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One could spend
paragraphs
trying to describe how the Arabic text's evocative proper names, grammatical oddities and allusions to the Qur'an and the classical tradition create in the reader's mind a single impression of countless blended subtleties.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Translated Poetry |
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THU female quickly to her mistress went;
Our
charming
little dog to represent:
The various pow'rs displayed, and wonders done;
Yet scarcely had she on the knight begun,
And mentioned what he wished her to unfold,
But Argia could her rage no longer hold;
A fellow!
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La Fontaine |
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What does
Coemghen?
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Finnegans |
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How well I remember his giving
breakfast
to me and Sir Humphry
Davy, at that time an unknown young man, and our having a very spirited
talk about Locke and Newton, and so forth!
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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Who bade you arise from your
darkness?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Do not forget these asters that remain,
The scarlet leafage round the
tendrils
twining,
And all the rests of verdant life combining,
Resolve them in the soft autumnal vein.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-11-14 09:29 GMT / http://hdl.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Krogstad
must ask for his letter back unread, he must find
some pretence--
_Nora_.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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143
making the
exemption
general was a breach of the
Company's privileges, and that the Nabob should be
positively required to recall it, and collect duties as
before from the country merchants, and all other
persons who had not the protection of the Company's dustuck.
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Edmund Burke |
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Yo
dormí mal, y esta cuestion me tuvo insomne é
inquieto
toda la noche.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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The impressive close of this dramatic poem
cries that not the
fratricidal
struggle, but love
alone, will lead humanity to true liberty and
happiness.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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For the disturbance has
benefited
some,
but disappointed the expectation of others.
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Strabo |
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No upstart hero may usurp
That honoured
swinging
seat;
His seasons pass with pipe and glass
Until the tale's complete.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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In
fine, I see no reason whatever for taking back my
hope of a
Dionysian
future for music.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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"
With a violent effort he held up his head, mused for a
moment with a
formidably
sombre frown, and then giving me
his hand, I'll finish it,” he cried, in a month!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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Here
Geoffrey
Chaucer in his ripe old age
Wrote the unrivalled Tales, which soon or late
The venturous hand that strives to imitate
Vanquished must fall on the unfinished page.
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Longfellow |
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They are very
ingenious, but, of all poetical qualities,
ingenuity
is least in
accordance with pathos.
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Golden Treasury |
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