Ferdinando Lord Fairfax, the father of the pariia- mentary general, died of a mortification in his foot, in consequence of the
unskilfulness
of an operator cutting his great toe-nail.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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On a
Professor
who had a Small Class.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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But, on the
other hand, the
magnanimity
of Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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Recalling the
challenge
of J.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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For what
difference
between them, but that the one has
more wrinkles and years upon his head than the other?
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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our lay spalatto, a three piled apostate,
a renegade more notorious than any in Sally or Algier;
adding, in conclusion :
Yet it is not fit that we should be at the mercy of a Tavern, and the
drunkenness of an
arbitrary
Pen.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-05 01:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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He speaks of our days failing, either because men fail in them from loving things that pass away, or because they are reduced to so small a number; which he asserts in the
following
lines; our years are spent in thought like a spider1 ; (ver.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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Belief in maternal
impressions
is no novelty.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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What role would the eyes and other senses play, if such a continually conscious person
existed?
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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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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And now the chief (the foremost troops repell'd)
Back to the ships his destined progress held,
Bore down half Troy in his
resistless
way,
And forced the routed ranks to stand the day.
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Iliad - Pope |
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He was a gift from God--a sign of pardon--
That child
vouchsafed
me in my eightieth year!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Brunelleschi's
perspective represented the
technological
adaptation of architectures or con- structions, just as Gutenberg's book printing did with handwriting.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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Toward the end of that month bomber at- tacks were
initiated
from recently won Saipar,, and later from Tinian and Guam.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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This last obser-
vation is
illustrated
by the following excerpt from an interview with a young
schoolgirl: "The biggest sign of love was when he hit me on the head with
the atlas.
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Childens - Folklore |
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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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)
người
xã Lạc Thổ huyện Siêu Loại (nay thuộc xã Song Hồ huyện Thuận Thành tỉnh Bắc Ninh).
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stella-04 |
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encore: Most likely, Cicero is referring to an
informal
public recitation, in which Archias, at the conclusion of his performance, was recalled by the audience for additional read- ings.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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When Great Master
Bodhi dharma first stayed at Shaolin Temple in the
Songshan
Mountains,67
and faced the wall for nine years, monks and laymen were still ignorant of
the Buddha's right Dharma, so they called [Master Bodhidharma] a brah-
man who made a religion of zazen.
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Shobogenzo |
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PLANH
Of White
Thoughts
he saw in a Forest
HEAVY with dreams,
Thou who art wiser than love,
Though I am hungry for their lips When I see them a-hiding
And a-passing out and in through the shadows
In the pine wood,
And they are white, like the clouds in the sky's forest
Ere the stars arise to their hunting ;
White Poppy, who art wiser than love, 1 am come for peace, yea from the hunting Am I come to thee for peace.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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) A Persian would naturally wish to vindicate a
distinguished Countryman; and a Sufi to enroll him in his own sect,
which already
comprises
all the chief Poets of Persia.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Can you see it
still—as
in an ocean Every sea-drop sparkles of the sea,
"Foams, and perishes—, so for a moment From each living face the dauntless, dear
Eyes of life look out at us to greet us, Shine —and hurry by into the night!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Despite the estimation of
Cardinal
de Bausset, former Bishop of Alais, that Chateaubriand was ".
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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On the contrary, a rise of wages, from the
circumstance of the labourer being more liberally rewarded, or from a
difficulty of procuring the
necessaries
on which wages are expended,
does not produce the effect of raising price, but has a great effect in
lowering profits.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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If, in
this context, I thought, amongst others, of the
aforesaid
Dr.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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He
sought truth at the price of all
pleasant
illusion.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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3
Westward
for Smelts.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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But a history of philosophy that understands the paradoxes of development and re-forma- tion understands that the history of philosophy has its
condition
of possibility in recollection.
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Education in Hegel |
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She
was on the point of crying and was struggling to
restrain
herself.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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In the diocese and city of Covington, there is a church,
dedicated
to St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Let it be admitted
that many more
Americans
lose than gain by Soviet
trade.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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In a niche
opposite the cabinet gleamed a complete suit of sixteenth-century
armor; and so dry was the atmosphere of the apartment that
scarce a spot of rust
appeared
upon the polished surface, which
however, like every other object in the room, was overlaid with
fine dust.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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The true answer to the
question
is not, and
never will be, Because the people have become acquainted with certain
facts in physiology; it is because there are so many unmarried men and
women,--men of dissipation and profligacy, owing to their not having
married in their younger days and settled down in life.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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How pure, how tender that song it
pealeth!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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It was not so prescribed by the institutes of
Romulus, and the
unshaven
Cato, and ancient custom.
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Horace - Works |
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It is to be remembered that these
speeches
were to be spoken by the father.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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Full many a flower, too, wishing to be seen,
Perks up its head the hiding grass between,--
In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be;
Where all the noises, that on peace intrude,
Come from the
chittering
cricket, bird, and bee,
Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.
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John Clare |
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A
law is a compact reciprocally made by the
legislative
powers, and,
therefore, not to be abrogated but by all the parties.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Some Polish churches were com-
posed almost
entirely
of nobles who neglected
the evangelization of their peasantry.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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The whole army was soon afterwards seized with madness, and
exhibited
the same marks of wildness and frenzy the bull had done.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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[17] G Ptolemy the king of Egypt had reached the height of prosperity, and decided to favour the cities with
magnificent
gifts.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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My kindness of the past is not to be my duty of the future; a voluntary
favour is not to be turned into an
obligation
to take unwelcome orders;
the principle is not to be established that he who once cures a man is
bound to cure any number of others at his bidding ever after.
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Lucian |
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]
Enchiridion Ethicum, praecipua Moralis
Philosophiae
Rudimenta com-
plectens, illustrata ut plurimum Veterum Monumentis, et ad Probitatem
Vitae perpetuo accommodata.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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have thought advisable to lay before the reader at first merely sketch of the solution of this
transcendental
problem, in order to enable him to form with greater ease clear con ception of the course which reason must adopt in the solution,
shall now proceed to exhibit the several momenta of this so lution, and to consider them in their order.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Lorrain (Claude),
musically
expressed by Mozart, vii.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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These unrevised poems are not
necessarily
exponents of Mr.
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Sidney Lanier |
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No marvel, therefore, if Satan have long
bewitched
the world so freely with his subtilty, since that the truth of the gospel hath been wickedly contemned, which was made most manifest.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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The digital images and OCR of this work were
produced
by Google, Inc.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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It is not merely
there, just as the Occident itself is not just there either: We must take seriously Vico’s great
observation
13
that men make their own history, that what they can know is what they have made, and extend it
to geography: as both geographical and
cultural
entities-to say nothing of historical entities -such
locales, regions geographical sectors as “Orient” and “Occident” are man-made.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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That which
would send more
delicate
natures to the dogs,
belongs to the stimulating means of great health.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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48) Labienas tok
Caesar repaired, according to his usual cristom, to an active part as one of Pompey's legates in the
Cisalpine Gaul; and finding that Commius, the
campaign
in Greece.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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How
surprising
is it to
observe, among the least culpable men, some whose minds are attracted by
heaven and earth, with a seeming equal force; some who are proud of
humility; others who are censorious and uncharitable, yet self-denying
and devout; some who join contempt of the world with sordid avarice; and
others who preserve a great degree of piety, with ill-nature and
ungoverned passions!
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Samuel Johnson |
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Enclosing
some poetic trifles
CXIX.
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Robert Burns |
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Otro dia
hablaremos
de esto: no manchemos
hoy con tan repugnantes memorias la purísima de mi madre y la alegre y
caballeresca del apuesto _garçon_ corregidor de Lerma, Paco Vallejo.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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Nguyễn
Bá Dung (?
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stella-04 |
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not innate in man; and that we know no-
thing of justice or injustice, except from ex-
perience, as we learn to
distinguish
red from
blue.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Rome, hated the more for its
honoring
thee!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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This
was the fevereft
Circumftance
in your War againft Philip, that
you were unable to hurt him, whenever you pleafed, but you
were perfedlly void of all Apprehenfion of being injured by him.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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However, users may print, download, or email
articles
for individual use.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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Both sides are under similar
pressure
to settle the game or at least to get the white knight out of mis- chief.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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] G [262] When Democritus had made this speech, and had asked for some drink in a narrow-necked sabrias, Ulpianus said, And what is this
sabrias?
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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And though the Greeks for
these so many ages have
accounted
upon seven only, yet so help me
Hercules, do but examine them narrowly, and I'll be hanged if you find
one half-witted fellow, nay or so much as one-quarter of a wise man,
among them all.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Lange Zeit
genoßest
du
deinen Wunsch durch nichts bemüht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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We commented adversely upon the
imbecility
of that telegraphic
style.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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As the
punishment
of your folly
and blindness you shall love me as I truly am.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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what are you, after all, my written and painted
thoughts!
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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"
It
pleaseth
not.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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From this
perspective
it becomes understandable why moder- nity is dominated by a postmetaphysical disinhibition.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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A PILGRIM from the
northern
seas—
What joy for me to seek alone
The wondrous temple and the throne
Of him who holds the awful keys!
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Wilde - Charmides |
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What
delight will be yours in seeing him again; in seeing him still worthy
your esteem, still capable of forming your
happiness!
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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These two had great difficulty in thinking
anything
out for
themselves, but having once accepted the pigs as their teachers, they
absorbed everything that they were told, and passed it on to the other
animals by simple arguments.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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It was Ida, the
first king of Bernicia, who founded
Bamborough
(Sax.
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bede |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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He was especially versed in that historic lore
contained
in what he calls enthusi
" The Host of the Books of Erinn".
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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Authors, for Him your great
indeavours
raise;
The loftiest Numbers will but reach his praise.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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I mean, isn't
he the kind of a man that is very anxious to make himself
agreeable?
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Source: |
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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Textually the
appendices
are much
the worst part of Mr.
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Donne - 2 |
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“Is not all weeping
complaining?
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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Harris got his
information
either from Toland, or from some one who took it from him.
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Source: |
Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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Emily
Dickinson
appears to have written her first poems in the
winter of 1862.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Opinions, attitudes, and values, as we
conceive
of them, are expressed more or less openly in words.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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Hideous to
behold is he on whom
injustice
presseth alone.
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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Thus God appears undeniably to share responsibility for evil in so far as per- mitting an entirely
dependent
being to do evil is surely not much bet- ter than to cause it to do so.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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What is meant by
mahamudra?
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
|
SEA VIOLET
The white violet
is scented on its stalk,
the sea-violet
fragile as agate,
lies
fronting
all the wind
among the torn shells
on the sand-bank.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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We are
striving
after the very reverse of what strong races and strong | natures will have--understanding is an end.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-05 01:02 GMT / http://hdl.
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Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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To William of Wykeham is due a fresh extension of the
educational conception of both
university
and college.
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
|
8
The
Scriptures
then being generally both the fountain and subject of modern wit, I could do no less than give them the preference in your reading.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
|
A las once
anunció
su necesidad de recogerse: le ayudé
á desnudarse, le acosté.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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In
addition
to that, and according to his very personal model, he had
2 The letter from Goethe to Friedrich Naumann dates from January 24th, 1826, in Briefeund Tagebiichervol2.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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Er steht
einen
Augenblick
in Gedanken, dann folgt er ihr.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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" Immediately upon
the appearance of
corruption
anywhere, a motley
superstition gets the upper hand, and the hitherto
universal belief of a people becomes colourless and
impotent in comparison with it; for superstition is
freethinking of the second rank,—he who gives
himself over to it selects certain forms and formulae
which appeal to him, and permits himself a right
of choice.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Behind a familiar tongue we see the spectre:
Our Pylades
stretches
his arms towards our face.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Sloterdijk refers to Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)8 and postulates: Anybody wishing to get to the bottom of ex- tremism gone global cannot avoid combining the
mimetological
analysis with the mediological.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Had it done so, it might have spread
among all the
Slavonic
nations.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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Silently we went round and round,
And through each hollow mind
The Memory of
dreadful
things
Rushed like a dreadful wind,
And Horror stalked before each man,
And Terror crept behind.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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