Never was there such a state for
magnanimity
as Rome.
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I hope to be forgiven for discovering that all
moral philosophy hitherto has been tedious and has
belonged to the
soporific
appliances — and that
## p.
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I have gone in Ribeyrac and in Sarlat,
I have climbed rickety stairs, heard talk of Croy, Walked over En Bertran's old layout,
Have seen Narbonne, and Cahors and Chalus, Have seen Excideuil,
carefully
fashioned.
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The quiet floating away of a boat on the stream seems to add to the pathos
of a separation--it is so like death--the departing one lost to sight,
those left behind
returning
to their daily life, wiping their eyes.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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The growing
mania for crests and connections, for heraldry and
genealogy, which grew in importance as great charac-
ters became more rare, for baroque panegyrics, which
became more voluminous in
proportion
as there was
less to extol, all pointed to intellectual deterioration.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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HE was a Grecian lad, who coming home
With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily
Stood at his galley's prow, and let the foam
Blow through his crisp brown curls unconsciously,
And holding wave and wind in boy's despite
Peered from his
dripping
seat across the wet and stormy night.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And on one, that's Earth, a yellow dot, Paris,
Where hangs, a light, a poor ageing fool:
In the frail
universal
order, unique miracle.
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The view of Mahatma
Gandhi was that India also would meet the same fate if the British
did not
withdraw
from India.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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He is called
Evilmerodach
in the Hebrew histories.
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This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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During prayer he called to
mind his parents, their care for him, the grief which his sud-
den
disappearance
would cause them.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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--
She hath an eye that sinks into all hearts,
And if I have in aught
offended
you,
Soon would her gentle voice make peace between us.
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Bedell, the Engbsh delegates,
considered
him as holding pure
Catholic doctrines, free from Roman errors, like those of their
own Engbsh Church.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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For, in short, adds he, nothing but the length
of the serpent's tail could have seduced Eve; and,
^ So that more
countries
than one have a swinish multitude.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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" He meant his son Hercules ; but Juno had a crafty trick in her mind to lay a heavy curse on that son, whom
naturally
she hated for his being such.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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She
deprecated
the connexion in every light.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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Therefore a wise prince,
marching
the whole day, does not go far
from his baggage waggons.
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Tao Te Ching |
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It is scarcely neces-
sary to insist upon his extraordinary influence on
the
literature
of the world.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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) was in
Paris, he secured an
introduction
and called on him.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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Male Bodies:
Psychoanalyzing the White Terror
Klaus Theweleit Male Fantasies, Women, Floods, Bodies,
History
Alloula The Colonial Harem
Lyotard and Jean-Loup Just Gaming Jay Caplan Framed Narratives: Diderot's
Genealogy
of the
Beholder
Thomas G.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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Mon cher ami, si vous aviez besoin de moi pourquoi ne
pas m'avoir écrit directement, j'aurais été trop heureuse de revenir,
ne recommencez plus ces
démarches
absurdes.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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, Lord Buckhurst, was related to
Queen
Elizabeth
by her mother Ann Boleyn.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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Men overnice in the ways of benevolence and
righteousness
try to put these into practice, even to line them up with the five vital organs!
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Chuang Tzu |
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For me, a reverie of this kind
involuntarily
calls up memories of Sigmund Freud's late works.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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Our fancies shall their plumage catch
From fairest island-birds,
Whose eggs let young ones out at hatch,
Born
singing!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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crivains ont
beaucoup
de?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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But when it follows that judgment, as
through being
commanded
by reason, it helps towards the execution of
reason's command.
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Summa Theologica |
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Egyptian, celestial observations by Figulus, and his writings concerning animals, winds, and
generative
organs.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Of the many types of psychological
disturbance
that are traceable, at least in part, to one or an- other pattern of maternal deprivation, the effects on parental behaviour and thereby on the next generation are potentially the most serious.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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Mother of Jove [Zeus], whose mighty arm can wield th'
avenging
bolt, and shake the dreadful shield.
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Orphic Hymns |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Stephen Crane |
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In fact, though a country may not be able with absolute
credibility
to threaten general war, it may be equally unable with absolute credibility to forestall a major war.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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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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2 It is not a possibility o f
movement
that is denied in the sentence "It's not possible to move this desk without removing a good number o f the books on top o f it.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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They also come forward by precedency on the list; and
have, besides a handsome income, a life of
complete
leisure.
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Robert Burns |
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Hic, matura dies cu`m mortis venerit, aevum
Suspicit immortale; hie, spe meliore trinmphans,
Caelicolu^m jam nunc
prselibat
gaudia votis.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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147 (#211) ############################################
THE
RELIGIOUS
LIFE.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Harriet was a little distressed--did look a little foolish at first:
but having once owned that she had been presumptuous and silly, and
self-deceived, before, her pain and confusion seemed to die away with
the words, and leave her without a care for the past, and with the
fullest exultation in the present and future; for, as to her friend’s
approbation, Emma had instantly removed every fear of that nature, by
meeting her with the most
unqualified
congratulations.
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Austen - Emma |
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The
treasure
is ours, make we fast land with it.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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Exiles shall ye be from all
fatherlands
and forefather-lands!
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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of Christ, (1
Corinthians
1:26,) so that no man can be fit to learn the principles of the gospel unless he first abandon the same.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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3, Lectures 7 and 8, "Two cases of
hysterical
contracture of traumatic origin" pp.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Without leaving emptiness an object of knowledge, gather
everything
into awareness itself.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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And by the garget¹
hentè²
Chanticleer,
And on his back toward the wood him bare.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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Make any young man more
American
if he sticks to seein' American history FIRST before swallowin' exotic perversions.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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Yet they
actually
point to a significant difference between French and English vari- eties of patriotic and national sentiment.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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So shall I pass into the feast
Not touched by King,
Merchant
or Priest;
Know the red spirit of the beast,
Be the green grain;
Escape from prison.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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This iterability forms the trans-subjective frame
providing
the continuity between moments.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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A mild penetration, for a hundred years they have bootlicked your nobility and now where is your
nobility?
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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FROM THE WOOLWORTH TOWER
VIVID with love, eager for greater beauty
Out of the night we come
Into the corridor,
brilliant
and warm.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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-
[Seeing
Falstaff
on the ground.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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So do thou come with seed, for we shall
accomplish
the plow
when the day dawned
ing.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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" Pope, who was behind the scenes,
meeting him as he left the stage, attacked him, as he says, with all the
virulence of a "wit out of his senses;" to which he replied, "that he
would take no other notice of what was said by so
particular
a man, than
to declare, that, as often as he played that part, he would repeat the
same provocation.
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Samuel Johnson |
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7 All things are murderous
When you come to your Time
8 Long did your every gain
Come at hardship's price
9 Disaster deafens you
To questions that I cry
10 I must steel myself for you
Will never again reply
11 Would that my heart could face
Your death for a moment's time
12 Would that the Fates had spared
Your life instead of mine
The original:
طافَ يَبغي نَجْوَةً مَن هَلَاكٍ فهَلَك
لَيتَ شِعْري ضَلَّةً أيّ شيءٍ قَتَلَك
أَمريضٌ لم تُعَدْ أَم عدوٌّ خَتَلَك
أم تَوَلّى بِكَ ما غالَ في الدهْرِ السُّلَك
والمنايا رَصَدٌ للفَتىً حيثُ سَلَك
طالَ ما قد نِلتَ في غَيرِ كَدٍّ أمَلَك
كلُّ شَيءٍ قاتلٌ حينَ تلقَى أجَلَك
أيّ شيء حَسَنٍ لفتىً لم يَكُ لَك
إِنَّ أمراً فادِحاً عَنْ جوابي شَغَلَك
سأُعَزِّي النفْسَ إذ لم تُجِبْ مَن سأَلَك
ليتَ قلبي ساعةً صَبْرَهُ
عَنكَ
مَلَك
ليتَ نَفْسي قُدِّمَت للمَنايا بَدَلَك
Romanization:
Ṭāfa yabɣī najwatan
min halākin fahalak
Layta šiˁrī ḍallatan
ayyu šay'in qatalak
Amarīḍun lam tuˁad
am ˁaduwwun xatalak
Am tawallâ bika mā
ɣāla fī al-dahri al-sulak
Wal-manāyā raṣadun
lil-fatâ ḥayθu salak
Ṭāla mā qad nilta fī
ɣayri kaddin amalak
Kullu šay'in qātilun
ħīna talqâ ajalak
Ayyu šay'in ħasanin
lifatân lam yaku lak
Inna amran fādiħan
ˁan jawābī šaɣalak
Sa'uˁazzī al-nafsa ið
lam tujib man sa'alak
Layta qalbī sāˁatan
ṣabrahū ˁanka malak
Layta nafsī quddimat
lil-manāyā badalak
Die Mutter des Ta'abbata Scharran
Rettung suchend schweift' er um
vor dem Tod, dem nichts entflieht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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As Highland craigs by thunder cleft,
When lightnings fire the stormy lift,
Hurl down with crashing rattle;
As flames among a hundred woods,
As
headlong
foam from a hundred floods,
Such is the rage of Battle.
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burns |
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’
‘Let me go at once'’ repeated Dorothy, beginning to struggle again
‘But I don’t particularly want to let you go,’ objected Mr
Warburton
* Please don’t stroke my arm like that' I don’t like it' 5
‘What a curious child you are' Why don’t you like it?
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Such, then, is the man who
observes
the mean, whether he be called
tactful or ready-witted.
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But when I had arrived at the age of eighteen, which was in the year
of 1853, it was my lot to be introduced to the favor of a mulatto
slave girl named Malinda, who lived in Oldham County, Kentucky, about
four miles from the
residence
of my owner.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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He was a man of strong
convictions
on one side or the other of a
question.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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Interleaved and successive and a sample of smell all this makes
a
certainty
a shade.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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But all will go to the
prettiest
woman and beseech her to go
with him.
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Aristophanes |
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Wilt thou compare all these with a favour
ite or two (whom you generally hate) disgraced or ruin'd
by a ; or whatever you cou'd call a grievance to the people, in all the
arhitrary
and illegal acts of our iing?
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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For then it is clear that he who transgresses
the rights of men, intends to use the person of others merely as
means, without considering that as rational beings they ought always
to be esteemed also as ends, that is, as beings who must be capable
of containing in
themselves
the end of the very same action.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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Finally, the
emphasis
here is that the use of nuclear weapons would create exceptional danger.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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On one of these
essays, the Peleus and Thetis, very
different
judgments
have been passed.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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There are
instances
on record in
which poor men were nominal owners of immense estates.
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Yeats - Poems |
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In both,
deception
is a rival of suspicion.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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Milton has described this species of music in one of his
juvenile
poems.
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Edmund Burke |
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As with genes in a gene pool, the memes that prevail will be the ones that are good at getting
themselves
copied.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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The Original:
قال ابو نواس
ياسُلَيْمانُ غَنّني ، ومِنَ الرّاحِ فاسْـقِـني
فإذا دَارَتِ الزّجـا جَـة ُ خُـذْها ، وعاطِني
ما تَرَى الصّبْحَ
قَدْ
بَدا في إزارٍ متَبَّنِ
عاطِـني كأسَ سَـلْوَة ٍ عَنْ أذانِ المؤذِّنِ
اسْقِـني الخمْرَ جهْرَةً وألْـِطني ، وأزْنني
Romanization:
Yā sulaymānu ɣanninī, wa mina l-rāħi fa-sqinī
Fa-iðā dārati l-zujājatu xuðhā, wa-ˁāṭinī
Mā tarā l-ṣubħa qad badā fī izārin mutabbani
Aˁṭinī ka'sa salwatin ˁan aðāni l-mu'aððini
Isqinī l-xamra jahratan wa-aliṭnī wa-'azninī
Al-Muhalhil: Vengeance at Dawn (From Arabic)
This post's guest of honor is ˁAdī bin Rabīˁa of Taghlib, commonly known as Al-Muhalhil "The (Verse-)Weaver.
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Translated Poetry |
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But
even this
democratic
and individual age may profit by turning back for a
time to consider some of the general truths, as valid to-day as ever, to
which Pope gave such inimitable expression, or to study the outlines of
that noble picture of the true critic which St.
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Alexander Pope |
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" I hated the way in which he used to talk of his future
conquests of women (he did not venture to begin his attack upon women
until he had the epaulettes of an officer, and was looking forward to
them with impatience), and boasted of the duels he would
constantly
be
fighting.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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The positive sketching of this
philosophical
ethos is what con- cerns us here, for it is in this sketch that Foucault refers to the devel- opment of a "historical ontology of ourselves".
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Generated for (University of
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on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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Raised to the peerage at the Restoration, he entered into a complex relationship with the monarchy which led to him
supporting
the future Charles X.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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JOHN TYNDALL
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And here I am reminded of one amongst us, hoary but still
strong, whose prophet-voice some thirty years ago, far more than
any other of his age,
unlocked
whatever of life and nobleness lay
latent in its most gifted minds; one fit to stand beside Socrates
or the Maccabean Eleazar, and to dare and suffer all that they
suffered and dared, — fit, as he once said of Fichte, “to have
been the teacher of the Stoa, and to have discoursed of beauty
and virtue in the grove of Academe.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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* This
Aristotelian
view was completely assented to by Speusippus and Xen- ocrates of the Older Academy.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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Grampupus
is fallen down but grinny sprids the boord.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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A certain
rabbin, upon the text, Your young men shall see visions, and your old
men shall dream dreams,
inferreth
that young men, are admitted nearer to
God than old, because vision, is a clearer revelation, than a dream.
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Bacon |
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,Jewish and
Christian
Se -De nition, p.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Tell me something
reasonable
that you would
particularly like to have.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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Have I not seen two
dynasties
of gods
Already flung therefrom?
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Aeschylus |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:22 GMT / http://hdl.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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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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Sallust - Catiline |
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[Later on,] thanks to the
petition
of Princess Thiên Cu'c, he was released.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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2 This composition consists of three
distinct
parts.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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Et
longtemps
après mon rêve fini,
je restais tourmenté de ce baiser qu'Albertine m'avait dit avoir donné
en des paroles que je croyais entendre encore.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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They fill my soul with Beauty (which is Hope),
And are far up in Heaven--the stars I kneel to
In the sad, silent watches of my night;
While even in the
meridian
glare of day
I see them still--two sweetly scintillant
Venuses, unextinguished by the sun!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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''
This poem,
entitled
"Language Studies," may be an exact description- except that Surkamp would be a more appropriate name than Ollendorff.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Nature well known, no
prodigies
remain,
Comets are regular, and Wharton plain.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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It is no longer enough to bypass all the maledicent apocalypses and prophetic com minations, the pronouncing of which will unmask
absolutely
anyone speaking before a secular or humanist-influenced public.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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in
Scotland
on their way thence to Ireland.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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In regard to most of the personal
instructions
of
Mentor Marpa, they are present in various short Indian texts, but there do not appear to be any extra short texts on the personal instruction in the five stages, and so this one seems to be taken as the authoritative treatise.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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Monika Zobel
The True Fate of the Bremen Town
Musicians
as Told by Georg Trakl
They haul the donkey, the largest, to the mill first.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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In the impassioned reproaches of the Greek are
those of the Pole, speaking in the person of his Iridion
the
complaints
of another conquered people against
another empire in the only language free to him to utter
--the language of symbolism.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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In forcing the
question
"is reading Finnegans Wake a human activi ty?
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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