Of Cabanis and of
Broussais
we have expression*.
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Of Sybaris, a
Pythagorean
philosopher
he did not stay to bury those of his troops who (lamb.
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reproduction
prohibited without permission.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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' And there is Armistice again:--
"and the Siege, as turns out, has fired its last shot; and is
"painfully
expiring
in paroxysms of negotiation, which con-
"tinue a good many hours.
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But if we split the period up
according
to the actual course of events, Ptolemy Soter ruled at two different times for a total of 17 years and 6 months, and in between the younger brother, Ptolemy Alexander, ruled for 18 years.
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Yet I Plainly discover, that
this last _Acceptation_ of _Nature_ differs much from that whereof we
have been speaking all this While, for this is only a _Denomination
extrinsick_ to the Things whereof ’tis spoken, and _depending_ on my
_Thought_, while it _Compares_ a _sick_ man, and a _disorderly_ Clock
with the _Idea_ of an _healthy_ man and a
_Rectified_
Clock.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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On both horizons, on that of Kierkegaardian and
Bultmannian
existentialism, but also on that of our contemporary broad present, an ontologically heterogeneous (i.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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48
Di voce in voce e d'una in altra orecchia
il grido e 'l bando per la terra scorse,
fin che l'udì la
scelerata
vecchia
che di rabbia avanzò le tigri e l'orse;
e quindi alla ruina s'apparecchia
di Zerbino, o per l'odio che gli ha forse,
o per vantarsi pur, che sola priva
d'umanitade in uman corpo viva;
49
o fosse pur per guadagnarsi il premio:
a ritrovar n'andò quel signor mesto;
e dopo un verisimil suo proemio,
gli disse che Zerbin fatto avea questo:
e quel bel cinto si levò di gremio,
che 'l miser padre a riconoscer presto,
appresso il testimonio e tristo uffizio
de l'empia vecchia, ebbe per chiaro indizio.
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Child Verse
ARCHERY
A BOW across the sky
-^^^ Another in the river,
Whence
swallows
upward fly,
Like arrows from a quiver.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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Órfão da Fortuna, tenho, como todos os órfãos, a necessidade de ser o objeto da
afeição
de alguém.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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in such a
passion!
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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Childrens - The Creation |
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Why doe we hold our tongues,
That most may clayme this
argument
for ours?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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You Jew
journeying
in your old age through every risk, to stand once on
Syrian ground!
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Whitman |
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The blood-red sun bent over me
Your eyes are like the
sea—the
bitter sea!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Ruffini,
Giovanni
Domenico (rö-fē'ne).
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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A little town (either amidst
mountains
or beside the sea) will remain silent.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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--Until the mystery
Of all this world is solved, well may we envy
The worm, that,
underneath
a stone whose weight
Would crush the lion's paw with mortal anguish,
Doth lodge, and feed, and coil, and sleep, in safety.
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William Wordsworth |
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(16)
At the
beginning
of winter a cold spirit comes,
The North Wind blows--chill, chill.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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She was determined to make no end of fuss
to get me
appointed
skipper of a river steamboat, if such was my fancy.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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A Saudi source
divulged
that the Egyptians plan to increase their militmy budget by 100% in the next two years; Ha'aretz, 2/12/79 and Jerusalem Post, 1/14/79.
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He had the best right to be the
talker; and the delight of his
sensations
in being again in his own
house, in the centre of his family, after such a separation, made him
communicative and chatty in a very unusual degree; and he was ready to
give every information as to his voyage, and answer every question
of his two sons almost before it was put.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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f~wecouldcrediblyarrangeit so that we had to carry out the threat, whether-we wished to or not, we would not even be crazy to arrange it so if we could be sure the Soviets understood the
ineluctable
consequences of infringing the rules and would have control over themselves.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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III
HAVE WE in fact reached the end of
history?
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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Something ought to be done to that,
Marjorie
thought.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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XIX
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
All
imperfection
born beneath the skies,
All that regales our spirits and our eyes,
And all those things that devour our pleasures:
All those ills that strip our age of treasures,
All the good the centuries might devise,
Rome in ancestral times secured as prize,
Like Pandora's box, enclosed the measure.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The digital images and OCR of this work were
produced
by Google, Inc.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK
SELECTED
POEMS OF OSCAR WILDE***
******* This file should be named 1141-0.
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" His
doctrine
of immortality is simply
fame.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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” More the
confederates
could not desire.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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And just
as it is never begotten, so it never dies; for a
beginning
anni-
hilated could neither itself be brought back to life by anything
else, nor could it create anything else out of itself, since it is
necessary that all things should come from a beginning.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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We sought each other out and went on
and on together,
exploring
the Fairy Castle.
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Li Po |
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So also is it with the means of production
concentrated
in buildings, furnaces, means of transport, &c.
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Hannibal would probably have anticipated the order, Hannibal had not the last negotiations with Philip presented to him ^^d t0 a renewed prospect of rendering better service to his
358
THE WAR UNDER HANNIBAL ' book in
country in Italy than in Libya ; when he received it at Croton, where he latterly had his head-quarters, he lost no time in complying with it He caused his horses to be put to death as well as the Italian soldiers who refused to follow him over the sea, and embarked in the transports that had been long in readiness in the
roadstead
of Croton.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Among these were the late Primate Lindsay, Bishop Lloyd, Bishop Ashe, Bishop Brown, Bishop Stearne, Bishop Pulleyn, with some others of later date; and indeed the
greatest
number of her acquaintance was among the clergy.
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1 and 2
Fort St George, foundations of laid,
306
Forts, Rohtas built by Sher Shah, 52;
of Salim Shah at Delhi, 531; of
Akbar at Agra and Lahore, 535-8;
at Gwalior, 537-8; at Allahabad,
538; in Rajputana, 548;
buildings
in
Agra, 554; in Lahore, 555; of Shah
Jahan at Delhi, 555-8
Foster, W.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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And when he spoke of humanity as a deposed king, who would not have thought about the large sociopolitical projects of our age, and of the end to the demiurgic
excesses?
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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" He made no
motion of
stepping
to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his
gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
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holder), the work can be copied
and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
or charges.
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report: "By March 1945, prior to heavy direct air attack on the
Japanese
home islands, the Japanese air forces had been reduced to Kamikaze forces, her fleet had been sunk or immobilized, her merchant marine decimated, large por- tions of her ground forces isolated, and the strangulation of her economy well begun.
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There is clearly no basis at all for assum- ingthat
conclusions
about German urban bombing in World
War II would apply to war in the atomic age.
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Second is the
deviation
ofgetting lost in emptiness as the path.
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This poem of fin'amor, perfect or true love, is one of the more comprehensive
statements
of the troubadour ideal.
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Troubador Verse |
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Not a
firelock
flashed against them!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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He put many of his subjects to death, with most cruel torments, after falsely charging them with plots against his life; he banished others and
confiscated
their estates, for pretended crimes invented by himself.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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STIMME (von innen, verhallend):
Heinrich!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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PREFACE
IT is thought that a selection from Oscar Wilde's early verses may be of
interest to a large public at present familiar only with the always
popular _Ballad of Reading Gaol_, also
included
in this volume.
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Wilde - Poems |
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XXV
The knight was wroth to see his stroke beguyld,
And smote againe with more
outrageous
might;
But backe againe the sparckling steele recoyld,
And left not any marke, where it did light, 220
As if in Adamant rocke it had bene pight.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I n an overlapping campaign they also effectively knocked out the German
transportation
services, upon which everything else depended.
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TO PERlLLA
Ah, my
Perilla!
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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The
Carrousel
is a bridge over the Seine in Paris, recent at the time of the poem.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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I cannot in my rhymes the names contain
Of blessed maids that did make up her train;
Calliope
nor Clio could suffice,
Nor all the other seven, for th' enterprise;
Yet some I will insert may justly claim
Precedency of others.
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Petrarch |
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"
But the love and the
laughter
die away.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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Of a poet and
fool—the
blessedness!
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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Ingenious Love,
inventive
in new Arts,
Mingled in Playes, and quickly touch'd our Hearts:
This Passion never could resistance find,
But knows the shortest passage to the mind.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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When health is all used up, when money goes,
When courage cracks and leaves a
shattered
will,
Then Christianity begins.
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impotent |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The physician must
reserve for himself the right to penetrate, by a process of deduction,
from the effect on
consciousness
to the unconscious psychic process; he
learns in this way that the effect on consciousness is only a remote
psychic product of the unconscious process and that the latter has not
become conscious as such; that it has been in existence and operative
without betraying itself in any way to consciousness.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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I could hear his
voice in the hall, asking the way to the nearest
telegraph
office.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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' And was it then for this that thou wert born, that thou
mightest enjoy
pleasure?
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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Pentheus would flee to his mother, Orpheus to the priestesses of Bacchus, were they to bear but a sound from the
barbarous
weapon of Antiochus.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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Negotiating a self-enforcing peace accord at the time when active military actions are taking place is often
impossible
due to the nature of warfare technology.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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In 1992, for exam- ple, the
patriotic
newspaper Den' published the transcript of a round table discussion with Dugin, Aleksandr Prokhanov, Sergei Baburin and Alain de Benoist.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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* In Madison's very imperfect report of this speech, the
authority
of
Neckar is alone adduced.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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The effect of these publications stirred up his enemies to re
newed
attempts
upon his life and reputations; but, in spite of
them, he outlived Paul V and died peacefully Jan.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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The real
question
for the future, however, is the degree to which Soviet elites have assimilated the consciousness of the universal homogenous state that is post-Hitler Europe.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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According
to the figures of the U.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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Analysis
cannot define it.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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The decree of the king ran as follows:
'All who served in the army of our father in the campaign against Syria and Phoenicia and in the attack upon the country of the Jews and became possessed of Jewish captives and brought them back to the city of
Alexandria
and the land of Egypt or sold them to others - and in the same way any captives who were in our land before that time or were brought hither afterwards- all who possess such captives are required to set them at liberty at once, receiving twenty drachmae per head as ransom money.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Especially
when I have said things analogous before said author had broken into print.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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that they would have us look upon existence itself
as a
punishment—from
which it would appear that
the education of mankind had hitherto been con-
fided to cranky gaolers and hangmen.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Taking hold of the mountain watershed from Beersheba to the Upper Galilee is the national aim generated by the major strategic consideration which is
settling
the mountainous part of the country that is empty of Jews
today.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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ai ne
suffreden
neuer de?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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When Caesar was pacifying the tribes of Gaul he sometimes had to fight his way through their armed men in order to subdue them with a display of punitive violence, but sometimes he was virtually
unopposed
and could proceed straight to the punitive display.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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Oh, never this
whelming
east wind swells
But it seems like the sea's return
To the ancient lands where it left the shells
Before the age of the fern;
And it seems like the time when after doubt
Our love came back amain.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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A sensation is a
sentient
action of a nerve and the brain; a thought or
idea (both the same thing) is a sentient action of the brain alone.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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For this reason, the surrender of one's
preconceptions
is considered bearable.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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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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The total number of books at present known to have been
issued by Wynkyn de Worde in the
sixteenth
century is about
six hundred and forty.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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67
=Sancta
simplicitas
of Virtue.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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A
COMPLEINT
TO HIS LADY.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And
oftentimes
my skin waxed wan as the color of boxwood, and all my hair was falling from my head, and what was left of me was but skin and bones.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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The Indo-Tibetan lineage as seen by the
Esoteric
Community prac- titioners after Tsong Khapa runs as follows: Lord Vajradhara himself, of course; LodrO Rinchen (*Ratnamati), a tenth stage bodhisattva on the exo- teric level who attained communion on the esoteric; the Savior Naga.
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Sehnsucht
nach dem su?
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The more recent Critical Theory has also renounced the sensitivistic quasi-amoralism of Adorno's "aesthetic theory" and steers with direct
argumentation
toward a positive ethics.
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This poem contains, too, a great number of
popular fables, which were credited, however, at the
lime that
Nicander
wrote; as, for example, that wasps
are produced from horse-flesh in a putrid state, and
bees from that of an ox.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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Interference
of France; and the "crowned conspirators
of Verona;" Canning "calls the New World into exist-
ence to redress the balance of the Old.
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And here begins the new Image
of man—the man
according
to Goethe.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Had she been using any
thing in
particular?
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To practice a spiritual path for merely a short while will not result in much difference to our basic condi- tion other than to
accumulate
some merit.
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During the Vietnam era,
explanations
as to why people sided with
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The fertile ground for
cynicism
in modernity is to be found not only
in urban culture but also in the courtly sphere.
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The clang of the spears upon the shields struck them with terror; and the
splendour
of the bronze shields so terrified the horses, that they could not be brought to charge.
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Routledge
and
Childe Harold's, etc.
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In many guises didst thou come to me;
I saw thee by the maidens while they danced,
Phaon allured me with a look of thine,
In Anactoria I knew thy grace,
I looked at
Cercolas
and saw thine eyes;
But never wholly, soul and body mine,
Didst thou bid any love me as I loved.
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Description is a sentence which, in a figurative manner, brings one to a knowledge of the subject, or it may be called a simpler kind of definition, expressing the power of a
definition
in plainer language.
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