The condition of the state of man before destination or direction is
given him by the impressions of the senses is an
unlimited
capacity
of being determined.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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And
therfore
at the kynges country brother
Eche man for himself, there is noon other.
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Donne - 2 |
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4 I should like you, therefore,
consistently
with your unfailing kindness to me, to write and tell me what your impressions and your feelings are, what you think we should wait for, and what you think we should do.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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" A better description of Baudelaire does not exist
The Hamlet-motive, particularly, is one that sounded throughout the
disordered
symphony
of the poet's life.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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In Florence, surrounded by souvenirs of Dante, he
wrote t3wo poems, "Piast Dantyszek, Herbu
Leliwa" and "Waclaw," neither of which belong
to his best works, in
contrast
to his next poem, " In
Switzerland," which is one of his chef d'ceuvres.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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Among the
questions
of T'ang to Ch'i we find the same thing.
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Chuang Tzu |
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A substantial majority of American
Christians
do not take an absolutist attitude to abortion, and are pro- choice.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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If we now keep the unsaturated part fixed, and vary the
complete
part, it may turn out that we always obtain a true thought, no matter what we choose for the complete part.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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Probably
his object was
forcements.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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It was
tormenting
to be so close to her and all for nothing.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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What is his
statement
that there is a way from the pit to the pyramid and back again based on?
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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The fifth quality of the
sambhogakaya
is manifesting something which is not really its true nature, like the wish- fulfilling gem.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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Whether in war or under conditions of peace, emigrationfrom the
territories
and economic demographic freeze in them, are the guarantees for the coming change on both banks of the river, and we ought to be active in order to accelerate this process in the nearest future.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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Why has the Federal
Government
been
reluctant to enter this field of communication?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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At non haec virtus mala parturit: immo fatemur,
Munia si peragat sua quisque fidelitcr, esset
Nil potius virtute;
redirent
aurea jam tum
Saecula : veru`m aevo non vivere contigit aureo.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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He remarks, "The English
term _eagre_ still survives in
provincial
dialect for the tide-wave or bore
on rivers.
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Beowulf |
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He was
occupied
day and night with thoughts of avenging his father's death.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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Da spruhen Funken in der Nahe
Wie
ausgestreuter
goldner Sand.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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•
Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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AUTHOR'S PREFACE xxiii
a great extent these
external
restrictions bring harm to and impose burdens not only on those whom they
directly hit, but mainly on the cause of Christianity in Russia, consequently on the Russian nation, con- sequently, again, on the Russian State.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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org
[Picture: Book cover]
SONNETS FROM THE
PORTUGUESE
* * * * *
BY
ELIZABETH
BARRETT BROWNING
* * * * *
[Picture: Decorative graphic]
THE CARADOC PRESS BEDFORD PARK
CHISWICK
LONDON MDCCCCVI
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
I I thought once how Theocritus had sung
II But only three in all God's universe
III Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Nature does not give a damn about making anybody or
anything
happy.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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]
[Footnote 13: This violent effect of weapons so
extremely
gentle is
beautifully conceived.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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save saltpetre and spices^ It was further recom-
mended to the legislative committee of correspondence
to invite the various provinces to meeJjn annual congress
for the sake of deliberating on
measures
of common con-
cern.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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In the meantime they do not observe, that although
this may be true, on the
supposition
of flame being generated, yet the
generation may be impeded by a weight of sufficient force to compress
and suffocate it, so that no such necessity exists as they assert.
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Bacon |
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Some pieces may be traced in earlier collections; some
few carry ascertainable dates; the rest lie over a period of near forty
years, during a great portion of which we have no
distinct
account where
Herrick lived, or what were his employments.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Highbury
bore me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I do think it is the hardest thing
in the world, that your estate should be entailed away from your own
children; and I am sure, if I had been you, I should have tried long ago
to do
something
or other about it.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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Calfa,
Ambroise
(käl-fä').
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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Proudie altogether;
and
therefore
he made no sign that he heard the latter remark.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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He de-
scribed it
realistically
and in some detail.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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και του
φαγιού
και του πιοτού την όρεξι αφού σβύσαν,
κ' εσήκωσ' ο Μεσαύλιος τον άρτον, χορτασμένοι 455
απ' άρτον και από κρέατα, κινούνταν να πλαγιάσουν.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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Whether this work was forged in England, or, as seems to me likely, is translated from a French forgery of the late
seventeenth
century, I have no means, here in Pisa, of discovering.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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But my courtship could be no
surprise
to them, as neither Marya
nor myself made any secret of our feelings before them, and we were sure
beforehand of their consent.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Bên cầu tơ liễu bóng chiều
thướt
tha.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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`And witeth wel, that bothe two ben vyces,
Mistrusten
alle, or elles alle leve;
But wel I woot, the mene of it no vyce is,
For to trusten sum wight is a preve 690
Of trouthe, and for-thy wolde I fayn remeve
Thy wrong conseyte, and do thee som wight triste,
Thy wo to telle; and tel me, if thee liste.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And with tears of blood he
cleansed
the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
For only blood can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal:
And the crimson stain that was of Cain
Became Christ's snow-white seal.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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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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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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12 The power of his physical vi-
lj, One is reminded here or the mention by
Rabelais
or "Mataeotechny-the Home or Usdw Knowledge.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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Past cure I am, now Reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;
My
thoughts
and my discourse as madmen's are,
At random from the truth vainly express'd;
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Another venture towards eliciting the like- minded and similarly
inclined
through a randomly sent essay?
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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might'st thou bring it with thee to thy
Burgundian
land!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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) _with the court of
the Gēatas_,
referring
to the old German custom of princes entering the
service or suite of a foreign king), 1838.
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Beowulf |
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rica de percepciones (1983), Monodias (1985),
Existenciales
(1986), Tramas de conflictos (1988), and 1989/1990 (1990).
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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Louis' Crusade); later
anthologists
have drawn from it.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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What action soever of thine therefore that either
immediately or afar off, hath not reference to the common good, that is
an
exorbitant
and disorderly action; yea it is seditious; as one among
the people who from such and such a consent and unity, should factiously
divide and separate himself.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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1113 (#539) ###########################################
WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN
1113
and phases of life and feeling and
literature
which are more or less ephem-
eral.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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2
How Egypt’s moral
prosperity
was measured, Balfour did not venture to say.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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[_During the last few lines_
HERACLES
_has entered, unperceived by
the_ SERVANT.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Therefore
their joy after the resumption of the body
will not be greater than before.
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Summa Theologica |
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And if you, my countrymen, will now at length be
persuaded to
entertain
the like sentiments; if each of
you, renouncing all evasions, will be ready to approve
himself a useful citizen, to the utmost that his station
and abilities demand; if the rich will be ready to con
tribute, and the young to take the field.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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Confusion
manifests in var- ious illusory views, such as the belief that things are really existent or totally nonexistent.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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He tells me further that in Andrew
Clark's edition of the University Matriculation
Registers
it
is stated that the date of his matriculation was between Oct.
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John Donne |
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All his
behavior
seems to us a game.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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Gothic type
as well as gothic script he abhorred, and Die Blatter fiir die
Kunst contains the statement that Germany cannot expect
to become a
civilized
country whilst it retains a barbarous type
of print.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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"
Fain promise never more to disobey;
But, should my Author health again dispense,
Again I might desert fair virtue's way:
Again in folly's path might go astray;
Again exalt the brute and sink the man;
Then how should I for
heavenly
mercy pray,
Who act so counter heavenly mercy's plan?
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Robert Burns |
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9
That moral virtue is a mean, then, and in what sense it is so, and that it is a mean between two vices, the one involving excess, the other deficiency, and that it is such because its character is to aim at what is intermediate in
passions
and in actions, has been sufficiently stated.
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Aristotle copy |
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ros,
gemitusque
palum-
bes;
Desuper aerios addit alauda modos.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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The loftiest place is the seat of grace
For which all worldlings try:
But who would stand in hempen band
Upon a
scaffold
high,
And through a murderer's collar take
His last look at the sky?
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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The bold
proposal
how shall I fulfil,
Dark as I am, unconscious of thy will?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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_wrongly
puts_ there _for_ therthe; Harl.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I was in Olsen's
Restaurant
and saw your husband going
down the street--
_Nora_.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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[7] G Salvius likewise, who had besieged Morgantina, after harassing all the country, as far as the territories of Leontini, mustered his army there, consisting of above thirty thousand
fighting
men.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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He travelled widely from 1806, in Europe and the Middle East, and highly
critical
of Napoleon followed the King into exile in 1815 in Ghent during the Hundred Days.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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and
Statilius
added, that it
became no wise man to expose himself to fear and
danger on account of the faults and follies of others.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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They were a challenge, a programme,
and a
publication
of title-deeds in one.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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On the contrary, a German professor wrote that the book "demonstrates how
amateurishly
some poet translators go about their task.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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Inthisregard,as one can easily see, official Marxism has the greatest ambition, since the
major part of its theoretical energy is dedicated to outflanking and
exposing all non-Marxist
theories
as 'bourgeois ideologies.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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The idea, the
envisioned
outward appearance, characterizes Being precisely for that kind of vision which recognizes in the visible as such pure presence.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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Becaufe, an
immediate
Peace was then extremely neceffary to
Philip's Affairs, but now to confume as much Time as they
poffibly could, before they required his Oath, was of equal ad-
vantage.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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Where's your
handkerchief?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
XLIII
Their
daughters
kiss Tattiana fair.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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This is a finding to give great
encouragement
to the many therapists who for long have sought to help mothers in just this kind of way.
| Guess: |
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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In _TCD_ these, with the
exception
of that
by Beaumont, are carefully initialled, and therefore not ascribed to
Donne.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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III Now the flock of
chickens
squawks in confusion, when visitors come, the chickens raise a ruckus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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In Him always, in each
moment and deed and word of His we see the union of both
natures, the continual inflow of one into the other--in a word,
we see the
transition
of which we are speaking, the transition
from the flesh to the fulness of the spirit, or from the human
nature to the Divine.
| Guess: |
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Goetz, the hero himself, is a
champion
of a good cause--the cause
of freedom and self-reliance.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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There are always new
attitudes
for the
mind, and new points of view.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde |
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180 THE COMMONWEALTH BOOK Iv
not well be
represented
in silver.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Though correct in saying that Hegel was unwilling to stop at faith,
Kierkegaard
is mistaken in thinking that Hegel hoped to "suck worldly wisdom out of the paradox" and turn wine back into water.
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Hegel_nodrm |
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It would seem that among the technical^military determinants of World War II was that fact that Hitler introduced, as a result of his own experiences, an idiosyncratic
understanding
of gas into his personal conception of war, on the one hand, and of the praxis of genocide, on the other.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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They say that Heracles left the ship because of his love for Hylas, and
wandered
amongst the Cappadocians.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eusebius - Chronicles |
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Nay, even when moving in the bounds of life,
Often the soul, now
tottering
from some cause,
Craves to go out, and from the frame entire
Loosened to be; the countenance becomes
Flaccid, as if the supreme hour were there;
And flabbily collapse the members all
Against the bloodless trunk--the kind of case
We see when we remark in common phrase,
"That man's quite gone," or "fainted dead away";
And where there's now a bustle of alarm,
And all are eager to get some hold upon
The man's last link of life.
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He says, indeed, that such is the
distance
from Thapsacus to
Babylon, but not that there is this distance between their parallels,
nor yet that Thapsacus and Babylon are under the same meridian.
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Strabo |
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<< Non, je ne me suis point
compare?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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Though the rank of a Cardinal-Archbishop is
officially unknown in England, his name
appeared
in public documents--as
a token, it must be supposed, of personal consideration--above the names
of peers and bishops, and immediately below that of the Prince of Wales.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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From Indian Buddhism, from Greek
polytheism, from the monotheism of the Mussulman, and generally
from the particular content of the symbolism, rites, and dogma of all
the religions, when we have
eliminated
whatever they include that is
"local," dependent on time or circumstance,-when we have, as it
were, purified them above all of whatever they include that is ethni-
cal, what remains?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Phlebas, le Phenicien, pendant quinze jours noye,
Oubliait les cris des
mouettes
et la houle de Cornouaille,
Et les profits et les pertes, et la cargaison d'etain:
Un courant de sous-mer l'emporta tres loin,
Le repassant aux etapes de sa vie anterieure.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Do you have a
teaching?
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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Even
the good old Prussian fashion, according to which
the troops that garrisoned the
fortresses
usually
came from the provinces in which they were
situated, may be applied here cautiously after a
time.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Next are three desert islands, abounding with olive trees, not like
those in our own country, but an indigenous kind, which we call Ethiopic
olives, the tears (or gum) of which have a
medicinal
virtue.
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Strabo |
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My first prediction is but a trifle, yet I will mention it, to show how
ignorant those sottish
pretenders
to astrology are in their own concerns.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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South Korea had developed into a modern, urbanized society with an increasingly large and well-educated middle class that could not possibly be
isolated
from the larger democratic trends around them.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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Its
inhabitants
are the occasion of infinite jesting, and again and
again does Lucian satirize the philosophers, his dearest foes.
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Lucian - True History |
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Of course I shall not expect
that this will instantly appeal to tastes peppered and salted
by [certain of our contemporary writers]; but one cannot forget Beethoven,
and somehow all my inspiration came in these large and artless forms,
in simple Saxon words, in
unpretentious
and purely intellectual conceptions,
while nevertheless I felt, all through, the necessity of making
a genuine song -- and not a rhymed set of good adages -- out of it.
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Sidney Lanier |
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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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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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Could we suppose the period arrived, when there was not further
hope of future discoveries, and the only employment of mind was to
acquire pre-existing knowledge, without any efforts to form new and
original combinations, though the mass of human knowledge were a
thousand times greater than it is at present, yet it is evident that
one of the noblest
stimulants
to mental exertion would have ceased; the
finest feature of intellect would be lost; everything allied to genius
would be at an end; and it appears to be impossible, that, under such
circumstances, any individuals could possess the same intellectual
energies as were possessed by a Locke, a Newton, or a Shakespeare, or
even by a Socrates, a Plato, an Aristotle or a Homer.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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" I would sing a wondrous legend, Sing in
miracles
of sweetness,
If within some hall or chamber,
I were seated at the table.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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