When I bring to you coloured toys, my child, I
understand
why
there is such a play of colours on clouds, on water, and why
flowers are painted in tints--when I give coloured toys to you,
my child.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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'X
ALTHOUGH our old and
venerable
churches throughout.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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Perhaps
Solon alone is an exception; he tells in his poems
how he
disdained
personal tyranny.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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El aliento del hombre de mar consigue el
primer acceso a la globalidad atmosférica real: conduce a los euro
peos al otro lado, a la edad moderna auténtica, en la que se hace va
ler la conexión entre
atmósfera
terrestre y conditio humana como
idea maestra de un corte epocal profundo, todavía no asimilado
completamente.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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Do you
approve or disapprove of the use of these
devices?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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Inasmuch as it persists, it remains in a kind of proximity, a proximity that preserves what is remote as remote by commemorating it and turning its
thoughts
toward it.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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But Zeus by pouring heavy rain from heaven flooded the greater part of Greece, so that all men were destroyed, except a few who fled to the high
mountains
in the neighborhood.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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Neither
is it in the Power of
^Efchines
to affirm, he knows them not ;
becaufe, when he was Secretary to your AiTemblies, and a
Servant
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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The silver bugle blows across the meer,
And some will hear it early, others late;
But each will lay himself upon his bier
And hold thereon a moment's solemn state:
And there will be the brief
funereal
rites Whence all shall pass into the utter drear Where sunless, moonless, days succeed to nights, And no wind stirs the surface of the meer.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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--Has the
‘Adventure’
arrived, eh?
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Notes on some English
University
Plays.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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For Comedy abroad he need to toil,
A fool and knave are plants of every soil;
Nor need he hunt as far as Rome or Greece,
To gather matter for a serious piece;
There's themes enow in
Caledonian
story,
Would shew the Tragic Muse in a' her glory.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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veil your
deathless
tree, --
Him you chasten, that is he!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And, although her
frequent
returns of sickness were very chargeable, except fees to physicians, of which she met with several so generous that she could force nothing on them, (and indeed she must otherwise have been undone) yet she ever was without a considerable sum of ready money.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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The
servants were greatly
terrified
whon they heard
?
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Childrens - Brownies |
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I find it very
peculiar
indeed!
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Chuang Tzu |
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of too long continuance: or if thou, the winged son of
gentle Maia, by changing thy figure, personate a youth upon earth,
submitting to be called the avenger of Caesar; late mayest thou return
to the skies, and long mayest thou joyously be present to the Roman
people; nor may an untimely blast
transport
thee from us, offended at
our crimes.
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Horace - Works |
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How
deep and
unfathomable
it is, as if it were the Honoured Ancestor of
all things!
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Tao Te Ching |
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For many of my years (some twelve) had now run
out with me since my nineteenth, when, upon the reading of
Cicero's 'Hortensius,' I was stirred to an earnest love of wisdom;
and still I was deferring to reject mere earthly
felicity
and to
give myself to search out that, whereof not the finding only, but
the very search, was to be preferred to the treasures and king-
doms of the world, though already found, and to the pleasures
of the body, though spread around me at my will.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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The holding of thing to be true, phenomenon in out understanding which may rest on
objective
grounds, but re quires, also, subjective causes in the mind of the person judging.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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He was a man of no private fortune, and had to earn the guineas which the
Government
compelled him to expend in defending his writings in the courts.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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I think this psychiatric appropriation of the effects of the drug within the system of mental illness raises an
important
prob lem, but to tell the truth I think it should be analyzed within a history of drugs rather than within a history of mental illness.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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For, as I pass over others, it is incredible to relate how much Pompeia Plotina increased the glory of Trajan: when his
procuratores
were disrupting the provinces with false accusations to the extent that one of them was said to have greeted a certain wealthy fellow thus, "How did you get so much?
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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It was
apparent
that she was uttering a
prayer.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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The preceding rule
must consequently be
restricted
to the diphthongs
eu, a, oi.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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“And if he is
drowned?
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Some of us have written down several of her sayings, or what the French call bons mots, wherein she
excelled
almost beyond belief.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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His love was passion's essence--as a tree
On fire by lightning; with
ethereal
flame
Kindled he was, and blasted; for to be
Thus, and enamoured, were in him the same.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And whenever the rich men of that country left the city for the country,
although
they always travelled in chariots, still they used to consume three days in a day's journey.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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_Fugitive Thoughts_
My thoughts are sparrows passing
Through one great wave that breaks
In bubbles of gold on a black
motionless
rock.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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Hiera kala: Images of animal sacrifice in archaic and
classical
Greece.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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And I have heard her say, she always met with
gratitude
from the poor; which must be owing to her skill in distinguishing proper objects, as well as her gracious manner in relieving them.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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"
In
discussing
this plan for a legislative bureau, another member told \vhgit in his estimation was needed.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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[58]
_pataku_
has apparently the same sense originally as _bataku_,
although the one forms its preterite _iptik_, and the other
_ibtuk_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The scholarship assumes (on the basis of a second, anonymous Alberti
biographer)
that the alleged instrument for the magnification and reduction of images was in reality a camera obscura.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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who have never in times
past
preferred
inglorious safety to peril in the path of
honour.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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[122] Such are the dreams, dear heart, have disquieted me all the night long; and I only pray they all may turn from any hurt of our house to make
mischief
unto Eurystheus; against him be the prophecy of my soul, and Fate ordain that, and that only, for the fulfilment of it.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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Will you never cease showing yourself hard and intractable,
and
especially
to the accused?
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Aristophanes |
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The idea of a mission had been implicit
in his poetry from the beginning; now it becomes more explicit,
\
fortified
by the message.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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Now the coast of Akashi is a very short distance from Suma, and there
lived the former
Governor
of the province, now a priest, of whom we
have spoken before.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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Inmymachine,theformal continuity between moments is built into the form in which the sensory input is
represented
(a defined set o f switches).
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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While not purporting to offer fresh
archaeological
evidence, he established a 'tourist route' through that antiquity which many other travellers would follow.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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The loss of the work, however, is the
more to be lamented, since ancient
historians
in gen-
eral neglect chronology too much.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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Therefore cock op thy face, and come answer me, for have some per- lous
questions
to put to thee.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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objects of understanding, they shall
perceive
only things Veb,
- 13.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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Whoever
remembers
the Punk phenomenon, which haunted the youth cultures of the 1970s and 1980s, can recall a second example of the relationship between the fluid omnipresence ofboredom and generalized aggression.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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Macey, in deep disgust at the farrier's crass
imcompetence to
apprehend
the conditions of ghostly phenomena.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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Through that, however, a protectiveness of that latter, an isolating in relation to the outside, is apparently achieved, that goes beyond what is won by the oath upon entry: care is taken--as was already occasionally
demonstrated
in the example of the Druids--that the one still unproven also has little to betray, while within the princi- pal secrecy that then surrounds the group as a whole the graduated secret-keeping creates as it were an elastic sphere of protection for its innermost and most essential matters.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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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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"Here we see the
philosophy
of Nietzsche put into a concentrated
form, and set forth by a clever and biting pen.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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But what, above all, struck Augustin in the
Scriptures, was the wisdom, the
practical
efficiency.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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-- When the
marriage
takes place, I fear she must hear of it all.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Metaphor has traditionally been viewed in both fields as a matter of
peripheral
interest.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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With the freedom of manners among the ancients,
Augustin
relates the
fact quite plainly.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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"7 This is the account,
contained
in the
origin.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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censure and government all men's causes, neither will submit
yourself
the queen's else they would excommunicate them from their mercy, then hear your Judgment.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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The ideology of detail nourished itself from the assumption that exchange value, this otherwise seemingly
invisible
genius malignus of the modern world, took shape in the ornamentation of wares and revealed itself in the arabesques of arcade architecture.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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His look, new
strength
to angels lending,
No creature fathom can for aye;
The lofty works, past comprehending,
Stand lordly, as on time's first day.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Behold your friend, your best, your truest friend,
A parent, whose authority, in show
When most severe, and must'ring all its force,
is but the graver counfe/iawce of love,
Whose favor, like the clouds of spring, may lour,
And utter now and then an awful voice,
But has a
blessing
m its darkest frown,
Threafning at once and nourishing the plant.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
|
"We then differ
materially
in our
opinions," said Mr.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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At length, when we had sack'd the lofty town
Of Priam, laden with abundant spoils
He safe embark'd, neither by spear or shaft
Aught hurt, or in close fight by faulchion's edge,
As oft in war befalls, where wounds are dealt
Promiscuous
at the will of fiery Mars.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The
influence
of Lope de Vega was far-reaching.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
|
It made the substance of one other confidential discourse
about Miss Crawford; and Fanny was the more affected from feeling it to
be the last time in which Miss
Crawford’s
name would ever be mentioned
between them with any remains of liberty.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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It will be so
important
to manage this risk properly that the battlefield con- sequences of nuclear weapons may be of minor importance.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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Then we will have our pockets full of chink,
And that is the way the
Republicans
think.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
|
Two later works derived from that period, Rene, and Atala,
evidencing
the new sensibility, greatly influenced the development of the Romantic Movement in France.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
|
" With a fine
humanity, new hope
inextinguishably
welling up; really
with a loyalty, a modesty, a cheery brother-manhood
unexpected by readers.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Aaion Done versus Aaion Accumulated 701 c Offerings Made to a Caitya 702 d A Gift Made to a Bad Field of Merit 703
C The Meritorious Aaions of the
Precepts
703 D.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Some have dispatch'd their cakes and cream,
Before that we have left to dream:
And some have wept, and woo'd, and
plighted
troth,
And chose their priest, ere we can cast off sloth:
Many a green-gown has been given;
Many a kiss, both odd and even:
Many a glance, too, has been sent
From out the eye, love's firmament:
Many a jest told of the keys betraying
This night, and locks pick'd:--yet we're not a Maying.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Thus, consilium from consiUo, exllium from ex&lo / and in the
old orthography, opt&mus for opttmus,
astumare
for teslXmare, &c.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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26) of the Will to Power, to wit:-“The pre-
requisite of all living things and of their lives is :
that there should be a large amount of faith, that it
should be possible to pass definite
judgments
on
things, and that there should be no doubt at all con-
1
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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Ted's
Birthday
Gift.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Childrens - Brownies |
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Mter a period of between three and four days, mental activity is revived and the various
manifestations
of the Bardo arise.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
|
XXII
Once I saw
Mountains
angry,
And ranged in battle-front.
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Source: |
Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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Quincy may have
appeared
to the British guest as a victim to
the incompetency of her cook, a representative of the great house
of Devonshire was subject to a tyranny of another kind.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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Thy flocks are scattered o'er the barren waste,
Yet do they not forget thy sheltering fold;
Unto thy garments' fringe they cling, and haste
The
branches
of thy palms to seize and hold.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
|
The
punishment
was not of the
severest kind.
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Source: |
Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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This I forgot last night:
you must not be blamed,
it is not your fault;
as a child, a flower--any flower
tore my breast--
meadow-chicory, a common grass-tip,
a leaf shadow, a flower tint
unexpected
on a winter-branch.
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Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Lucian, expanding the idea to take in all his
criticisms
of life, coun ters, in good French: " Cela" seroit bien joli.
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Source: |
Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
|
Everywhere
suspicion was rife, and terror invaded
even the privacy of the home.
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Source: |
Tacitus |
|
People must expect and as- sume that
managers
will look out for interests other than their own.
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Source: |
Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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txt[3/29/23, 1:19:16 AM]
Uniformity, 309, 314
Universal polemics, 373-75 Universities, 117, 120
Untimely Observations, ix Urfragen, 460
Urinating, 103-7, 104
van der Vring, Georg, 414, 416
van Eestern, C, 435
Vanity, 16
Verratene Revolution 1918/1919, Die, 429
Verschwbrer, 424-29 passim
Virgin
Disciplines
the Christ Child, The, 279 Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet de, xiv
Wahrhaftigkeit, 461
Walpurgis Night on Henkel's Field, 505 Walser, Martin, 320-21
War: and moral consciousness, 301; and muti-
lation, 443-46, 444; and pre-Fascist litera- ture, 121; and psychic mechanisms, 120, 121; senselessness of, 415-16; and sur- vival, 128-29, 323, 419, 420, 434, 443; ultimate, 130
War volunteers, 121
Watt, James, 11
Weaponry, 128, 130, 349-55, 353, 435 Weber, Max, 425
Weill, Kurt, 306
Weimar Republic, xxii-xxiii, 10, 124,
384-86, 387-90, 414-15, 422, 424-25; and Anyone, 199; and catastrophile com- plex, 122; and cynicism, xxiii, 7-8, 10; and disillusionment, 8, 410, 416; double decisions of, 521-28; elements of, 425, 435; as historical mirror, 89; and Hitler's rise, 521; as miscarried enlightenment, 10; and Nietzsche's philosophy, 10; social character of, 500-501
Wilde, Oscar, xxxii, 307
Wilhelminianism, 411-12, 425 Wintermdrchen, 33
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 398
World War I, 121, 121, 122, 128, 202, 386,
392, 410, 419, 434, 461 World War II, 123, 128, 202 Wulffen, Erich, 485-86 Wunde Heine, Die, xxxvi
Yesbody, xix, 73
You Will Not Find Him, 166
Zauberberg, Der, 529 Zeitgeist, 139
Zen masters, 130, 157 Zichy, Michael von, 344 Zille, Heinrich, 156, 219 Zola, Emile, xiv
Zur geistigen Situation der Zeit (Man in the modern age), 417
558 D INDEX
Peter Sloterdijk holds a doctorate in German literature from the University of Hamburg with a concentration in the autobiographical literature of the Weimar Republic.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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"The best work on Friedrich
Nietzsche
in our tongue.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Thus the War was
necessary
to make his calling pay
and the smoke of the sacrifice offered to Peace must therefore be
unpleasant to him.
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Aristophanes |
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That Battus , when he left the sacred isle , (The colonist of Libya's
fruitful
land ,)
Should rear th ' equestrian city ' s towering pile , Secure upon its chalky rock to stand .
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Pindar |
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is infused with a
powerful
hatred of hierarchy and special privi- leges and with a passionate resentment of caste distinc- tions and inherited cultural superiority.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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If he had left Ireland before the
fifth of November 1688, he must
surrender
himself by the first of
October.
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Macaulay |
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Then we walked home with some, or rather many, stoppages to
rest, and with our hearts full of a
constant
dread of wild bulls.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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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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L3: [The
summarizing
stanza:]
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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Unlike those fearful Poets, whose cold Rhyme
In all their
Raptures
keep exactest time,
That sing th' Illustrious Hero's mighty praise
(Lean Writers!
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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AndtodeterminetheTimemorenicely,it may befix'dtheverynext Year, during
theTruce
between the Athenians and Lacedemonians.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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What
an
increase
of production!
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" On comparison of
the ideas of the author of a method of
Indivisibility
with that of the
" Pensieri, " the same argument occurs as to the effect of mirrors whose
concavity is generated by a parabolical line; there is also similarity between
the " Pensieri " and the Lunar Astronomy of Kepler, as also Gregory in his
Comparative Astronomy.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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Non illi quisquam bello se
conferet
heros,
Cum Phrygii Teucro manabunt sanguine rivi; 345.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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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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The festival was to last seven
days, and the King defrayed the
expenses
of every one of his
guests.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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Young
soldiers
of the noble Latin blood,
How many are ye--Boys?
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Hugo - Poems |
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