IN
Florence
dwelt a Doctor of Renown,
The Scourge of God, and Terror of the Town,
Who all the Cant of Physick had by heart,
And never Murder'd but by rules of Art.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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I write,
therefore
I am; I am, therefore I write.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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$ AU these great''Advantages have inspired you with so much Pride, that you have despis d all your Admirers as Ibmany Inferioursnot worthy
ofloving
you, Accordinglytheyhaveallleftyou, andyou havevery well obferv'dit^therefore.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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The fear of
ancestors and their power, the
consciousness
of
owing debts to them, necessarily increases, accord-
ing to this kind of logic, in the exact proportion
that the race itself increases, that the race itself
becomes more victorious, more independent, more
honoured, more feared.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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Yet
everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the
last resort, nothing more than a piece of
testimony
concerning man
during a very limited period of time.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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"
All this is
impossible?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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The
designation
of the "five Maitreya texts" is unknown in the earliest catalog of Tibetan Ifanslations from Sanskrit texts, which was compiled in 824.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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And might not the _Philopseudes_, that masterly analysis of
ghostly terrors, might not _Alexander the False Prophet_, have been
written
yesterday?
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Lucian - True History |
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Profound
it is, dark and obscure;
Things' essences all there endure.
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Tao Te Ching |
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I’m like a magnet that pulls nails out of a rotten old ship – I have the curious ability to attract people from the
intellectual
scene who function completely as non-drivers.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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It is a proverb almost
universally admitted, that every one is free
in all that concerns himself alone: now, as
in the moral system, founded upon interest,
self is the only question, I know not what
answer could be returned to such a speech
as the
following
:--" You give me, as the
11 motive for my actions, my own individual
"benefit--I am much obliged: but the man-
"ner of conceiving what this benefit is,
"necessarily depends upon the variety of
"character.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Both the expressions flitting over her face,
and the changes of her moods, began to alarm me terribly; and brought to
my recollection her former illness, and the doctor's
injunction
that she
should not be crossed.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Chamberlain
probably
was guided more by humanitarian instincts than by statesmanship.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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But from sheer morning
gladness
at the brim.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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The pleadings
of both the orators in this great cause have come down
to us, and they are
specially
valuable as supplying us
with materials for the history of an intricate period.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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What was
interesting
about Zyklon A was that it was a designer gas, in which a specific task of design could be exemplarily observed: the reintroduction in the perception of the user of the functions of the product that were not perceptible or had been made imperceptible.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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Falret, Des
maladies
mentales et des asiles d'alienes, p.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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Lock
consesses
the individuals could not give it.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Hoụccon mtrn inut món chi,
Mál mà đặng, mắt thỉ
klỉỏng
sao.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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He subsequently served as
ambassador
to Prussia and the United Kingdom, and was Minister of Foreign affairs from 1822 to 1824.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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In the former acceptation, it means the division of a verse
into two
portions
or members, affording a short pause or
rest for the voice, in some convenient part, where that pause
may take place without injury to the sense, or the harmony
of the line ; as,
Virg.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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Only certain ascetic practices were more closely linked to the
exercise
of a personal hberty.
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Foucault-Live |
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The pilgrims then
descended
through hell-mouth, till they came to a
place dark as pitch, that bellowed with furious cross-winds, like a sea
in a tempest.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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The
relevance
of the essay is that of anachronism.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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a
symbolic
arrangement using multiple media and synesthesia through which he wanted to place himself totally in the limelight.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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") There was
uncertainty
for a long time as to precisely which poems were muˁallaqāt.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Do not interfere with an army that is
returning
home.
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The-Art-of-War |
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The
terrible
events of which we have been
witnesses have dried up men's hearts, and
every thing that belongs to thought appeared
tarnished by the side of the omnipotence of
action.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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rkeren
Leben, sie belebt das
geliebte
Wesen, indem sie
dessen Leben mit allen Mitteln fo?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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"Then must we grow numb, be petrified, be
without heart, become as murderers among the
murderers, among the
criminals
be criminal our-
selves?
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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For whereas the former is responsible for one man only, the latter is responsible for many others besides himself, when he reports to the
magistrates
the wrong-doing of the rest.
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Roman Translations |
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And /,
and Flying-post, and
scandalous
club may answer them, vou think sit !
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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: t
z,t;i =;;:: iilli
=
*liii
iiliiii?
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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^79 By comparing the foregoing, with the collected and
published
edition of his works, it is evident, many of the latter have not yet
seen the light.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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)
[This is a
criticism
of the interpretation of the entire material constituting the
legend as given by Friedrich.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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{and} yif it
to{ur}ni?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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--
Who love-warms Zeus's heart, and now is lashed
By Here's hate along the
unending
ways?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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HE LIVES
DESTITUTE
OF ALL HOPE SAVE THAT OF RENDERING HER IMMORTAL.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But for singing, you, Thyrsis, used to sing The Affliction of Daphnis as well as any man; you are no
‘prentice
in the art of country music.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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rard Professor in Literature in the Division of Literatures,
Cultures
and Languages at Stanford University.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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But I felt it quite an affront to
be
supposed
proud, and said I only wanted to be asked.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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Further-
more, very largely the same identical
schemata
are predomi-
nant in all these elegies as we find preferred in the Sulpicia
elegies (iv, 2-6) and in the imitation of Tibullus (iv, 13).
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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but I shall use the words and arguments which occur to
me at the moment; for I am certain that this is right, and that at
my time of life I ought not to be appearing before you, O men of Athens,
in the character of a
juvenile
orator - let no one expect this of
me.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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In one year he had seen an
ill wind strike his mother, his sisters, and his wife; but he had
consoled himself for their deaths by
inheriting
their property.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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He's given her time to think of
something
else.
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Robert Burns- |
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Knowing also that the army was not a favourite of con-
gress, he could not but survey, for the last time, with pain,
the war-worn faces of those faithful men, who, while win-
ning the
liberties
of their country, had won for her such im-
perishable renown, requited, as he felt they were to be, by
the grossest ingratitude.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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What an
utterance
is about, its intentional targets, are formulated
through language, so that the way language
by an agreement between language and a thing in the world but by an agreement within language between two related statements.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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Lord of the rainbow, lord of the harvest,
Great and
beneficent
lord of the main!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Diversionary
attacks in other areas.
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NSC-68 |
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[Footnote V: In the long
vacation
of 1790, with his friend Jones.
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William Wordsworth |
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It
deserves
as many readings as we can give it.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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in some ways the last visitor to the Turkish Empire in its
previous
form" before the progressive revolutions of the Eastern Question gradually weakened Ottoman control.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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The hour went by, we rose and turned to go,
The somber street received us from the glare,
And once more on your
shoulders
fell the snow.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Thus, though he care-
harangues
to the people.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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king: Benton: "I wish to pro- vide against all risk, and every hazard; for, if this risk and hazard were too great to be
encountered
by King, Lords, and Com- mons .
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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He was quite indefatigable as he brought
up question after question during our
frequent
small parties,
which lasted late into the night or into the early morning.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm
We had crossed each other’s way:
But we made no sign, we said no word,
We had no word to say;
For we did not meet in the holy night,
But in the
shameful
day.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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My
respects
to Mrs.
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Selection of English Letters |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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TheSibyl'spredicament demonstrates the absurdity ofthis picture (this does not mean we can dismiss it, however;
Reproduced with permission of the
copyright
owner.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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There is a great difference in the
credibility
to be attached to stories of
dreams and stories of ghosts.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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Regardless, I suspect that poets like Heaney or Pinsky, in preferring
consonance
as a formal feature, are composing less for the ear than for the eye.
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Translated Poetry |
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We again and again have
occasion to observe how a symphony of Beethoven
compels the individual hearers to use figurative
speech, though the appearance presented by a
collocation of the different
pictorial
world generated
by a piece of music may be never so fantastically
diversified and even contradictory.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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Yit can it make a ful gret wounde, 965
But he may hope his sores sounde,
That hurt is with that arowe, y-wis;
His wo the bet
bistowed
is.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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30
VII
The Cyprian came to thy cradle,
When thou wast little and small,
And said to the nurse who rocked thee
"Fear not thou for the child:
"She shall be kindly favoured, 5
And fair and
fashioned
well,
As befits the Lesbian maidens
And those who are fated to love.
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Sappho |
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He rose early, either to ride or, preferably, to take an hour's walk, which not only
preserves
the body's elasticity but also represents the kind of pedantic, simple routine that, strictly adhered to, consorts perfectly with an image of responsible achievement.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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Their offspring were the miraculous horse Areion and a daughter, the Arkadian equivalent of Kore, whose true name was
revealed
only to initiates.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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-
Sermon: Problem of Joy and
Suffering
in Life.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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The high spirit and strong
passions
of Mrs.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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Resolve to become liberated from (the additional) force of meditation and the
blessings
of the Guru.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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Ahi anime
ingannate
e fatture empie,
che da si fatto ben torcete i cuori,
drizzando in vanita le vostre tempie!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The capital of every public bank will of course be re- stricted within a certain defined limit It is the province of legislative prudence so to adjust this limit, that while it will not be tod contracted for the demand, which the course of business may create, and for the security which the pub- lic ought to have for the solidity of the paper which may be issued bytinebank, it will still be within the compass of the pecuniary resources of the community j so that there may be an easy practicability of completing the subscrip- tionstoi t When this is once done, the
supposed
effect of ne- cessity eeases.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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They lived always in lodgings, their domestics
consisted
of two maids and one man.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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or her father, all
included
in a word.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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On this day, we find en- tered in the
Martyrology
of Donegal,^ Aedh, bishop, of the now deserted Lis-
on Loch Eirne.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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One who believed no form of
church government to be worth a breach of
Christian
charity, and who
recommended comprehension and toleration, was in their phrase, halting
between Jehovah and Baal.
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Macaulay |
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117); and from this there has been further concocted the war of
Pompeius
with the Medes (Vell.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Leaving only kisses
To be
remembered
by.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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These horses with their fiery eyes, their slight untiring feet,
That flew along the fields of corn like
grasshoppers
so fleet--
What!
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Hugo - Poems |
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quad floret languetque
superbia
Maii,
Floret idem forme?
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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My last owner was in a declining state of health when he bought me;
and not long after he bought me he went off forty or fifty miles from
home to be doctored by an Indian doctor,
accompanied
by his wife.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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chetana - that
consciousness
which understands 'samyaka hetu'
and 'mithya hetu' characteristics.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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=--Coarse men, who feel a sense of injury, are in the
habit of rating the extent of their injury as high as
possible
and of
stating the occasion of it in greatly exaggerated language, in order to
be able to feast themselves on the sentiments of hatred and revenge thus
aroused.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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The royal bed or
whatever
they called it was toppled over and T.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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In 391, the people arrogated the right of appointing a part of the
legionary tribunes,
previously
chosen by the consuls.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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He tried to make us act plays and to enter into
masquerades, in which the characters were drawn from the heroes of
Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous
train who shed their blood to redeem the holy
sepulchre
from the hands
of the infidels.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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The eye
here
contradicts
science: how can it truly rejoice in
the contradiction?
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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CXVIII
"Neither my love nor length of servitude,
Though by a thousand proofs to you made clear,
Had power even so to fix your
faithless
mood,
That you at least so lightly should not veer:
Nor am I quitted, because less endued
With worth than Mandricardo I appear;
Nor for your conduct cause can I declare,
Save this alone, that you a woman are.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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There are many
different
kinds of proofs.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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Here again not only is there amnesia, partial or complete, for the sequence of events but also exclusion from consciousness of the thoughts, feelings, and
impulses
to action that are the natural responses to such events.
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But if every one will sit seeking his pleasure, and studying to
be idle himself, never will he find others to do his work; and
more than this, I fear we shall be under the
necessity
of doing
all that we like not at one time.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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All things spring up, and there is not one which
declines
to show
itself; they grow, and there is no claim made for their ownership;
they go through their processes, and there is no expectation (of a
reward for the results).
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Sorrise alquanto, ma d'un riso acerbo
che fece d'ira, più che d'altro, segno,
la donna, né rispose a quel superbo;
ma tornò in capo al
ponticel
di legno,
spronò il cavallo, e con la lancia d'oro
venne a trovar quell'orgoglioso Moro.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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One sees what happens to them: in the end, the
punishment
of hell.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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But Fafnir was by far the
greatest
and grimmest, and would have all things about called his.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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Previous
to
that there had been some desultory discussion, a few essays in the
magazines, and in 1875 a sympathetic paper by Professor James Albert
Harrison of the University of Virginia.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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"Censorship in the Saorstat" was augmented with a
paragraph
about the "618 books and 11 periodicals" listed as banned by the Register "as on 30th September 1935"; SB closes the essay by writing: "My own registered number is 465, number four hundred and sixty-five, ifl may presume to say so.
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The thrust of the radical science movement was to moralize the scientific study of the mind and to engage the
mentality
of taboo.
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