On
another
occasion
my childish courage and also my father's firm-
ness were put to a more serious test.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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let them play
Their game of lives, and barter breath for fame:
Fame that will scarce
reanimate
their clay,
Though thousands fall to deck some single name.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The origin is
Callimachus
who wrote the Origins.
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Greek Anthology |
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Her love, too, is quite
different
from
his.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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As you know, even today one makes off with secret remembrances, or gives oneself a ring with an engraved name, and wears
pictures
and locks of hair over one's heart as a talisman.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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,
as it has
operated
and is likely to operate on them,
I say, that, if a single rock in the West Indies is in
the hands of this transatlantic Morocco, we have not
an hour's safety there.
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Edmund Burke |
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Rule 42 of the Code,
"_No one shall speak to the Man at the Helm_," had been
completed
by the
Bellman himself with the words "_and the Man at the Helm shall speak to
no one_.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Not merely to be
feasting
with delight
Man's senses, I refuse; but even his heart
I will not serve.
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shorn |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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) who
preferred
fighting with cues or, like Gogol's Lieutenant
Pirogov, appealing to the police.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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But the word God combines the great ness and glory of nature with "whatever more awful forces stir within the human heart,
whatever
binds men in families and orders them in states.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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' Der Philosoph Gumbrecht spricht in
Braunschweig
u?
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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lists a ''Six Jen'' as a book of magic
regarding
the lucky stars.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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Whereas some pick an allegory out of the word kill, as if God did signify that men are
sacrificed
to him by the spiritual sword of the gospel; I do not prosecute that, but plainness pleaseth me better, that God doth take away by this voice the law concerning the choice of beasts, that he may also teach that he rejecteth no people, (Romans 15:16.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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mer--a
lifelong
friend and prote?
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free
distribution
of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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Then was added further, that besides the
matters before mentioned, was manifest,
imparting the same Letter Babington Titchborne, who did help
decypher
part
and Ballard, Dunne, and others, when he was liberty, and feared not the discovery
bring the same his desired effect, stronger proof the same Letters.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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" He extolled the services done by the chancellor,
" and advised her to comply with what could not
" be avoided, and to be perfectly reconciled to her
*' children, and to those who were nearly related to
" them, or were intrusted by them : and that he
" did - this in so powerful a style, and, with such
" powerful reasons, that her majesty's
passions
were
" totally subdued.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Bibb's Anti-slavery efforts in this State have produced
incalculable
benefit.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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"--It is also to be found long prior to
Nathaniel Gow's era, in Aird's
Selection
of Airs and Marches, the
first edition under the name of "The Highway to Edinburgh.
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Robert Forst |
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`If it be so that ye so cruel be,
That of his deeth yow liste nought to recche,
That is so trewe and worthy, as ye see,
No more than of a Iapere or a wrecche, 340
If ye be swich, your beautee may not strecche
To make amendes of so cruel a dede;
Avysement
is good bifore the nede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I
observed
that among the ranks of the women one girl watched not the
dancers but us.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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Nor is it merely that we can discern in Christ that close union of
personality with
perfection
which forms the real distinction between the
classical and romantic movement in life, but the very basis of his nature
was the same as that of the nature of the artist--an intense and
flamelike imagination.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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Will it come into the
picture?
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Lewis Carroll |
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I can still remember one late afternoon when, driving back to our house, the road was blocked by all the books and furniture that the wife of a colleague had thrown through the window after she had read the mail he would exchange on a daily basis with his two
extramarital
lovers (who were unaware of each other's existence: one an undergraduate student and one a senior woman colleague) - mail which he had accidentally addressed to his spouse and to the Provost of the University.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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As long as I am in my senses,
I can never be ashamed of such a father as this, and therefore shall not
apologize [for my birth], in the manner that numbers do, by
affirming
it
to be no fault of theirs.
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Horace - Works |
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O nosso amor nascera do nosso encontro, como a beleza se criou do
encontro
da lua com as águas.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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Thou shalt one day be full,
and in want of no external thing: not seeking
pleasure
from anything,
either living or insensible, that this world can afford; neither wanting
time for the continuation of thy pleasure, nor place and opportunity,
nor the favour either of the weather or of men.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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In addi- tion, conflict between the dynamics of power and justice in political culture is a
consequence
of writing large the tensions between volitional and rational components of the soul.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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, and
perhaps even thereby
subjugate
K.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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Almost all writers agree that the letters
attributed
to Aratus, which we mentioned above, were written by him and are genuine.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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Bernard and
descended
to
Lake Como.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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"That you may not think this is only a dream that I have told
you," he said, "you will find on your bed a
withered
leaf.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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Some
kind friend-some female friend, I presume-took the letter round to the bank
manager He brought an action-Mrs
Semprill
was ordered to pay a hundred
and fifty pounds damages I don’t suppose she paid a halfpenny, but still,
that’s the end of her career as a scandalmonger.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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“Herr Mügge has written a book
specially
for English readers.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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But I think this is to
misunderstand
the situation.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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It
therefore
rejects the concept of isolation and affirms the necessity of our positive participation in the world community.
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NSC-68 |
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Again, if the distributor gave his judgement in ignorance, he does
not act
unjustly
in respect of legal justice, and his judgement is not
unjust in this sense, but in a sense it is unjust (for legal justice
and primordial justice are different); but if with knowledge he judged
unjustly, he is himself aiming at an excessive share either of
gratitude or of revenge.
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Aristotle |
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It was with some irony that Brandeis, writing in
Harpers Weekly the articles gathered together in
this hook, and showing how the captains of industry
combine
themselves
into vast wealth and power, com-
ing to the case of George F.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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His works contain almost a
complete
series of the
rarest and most beautiful examples of fidelity:
that of brother to sister, of friend to friend, of
servant to master; of Elizabeth to Tannhauser,
of Senta to the Dutchman, of Elsa to Lohengrin, ,
of Isolde, Kurvenal, and Marke to Tristan, of
Brunhilda to the most secret vows of Woden—and
many others.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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8--10 THIRD 0L YNTHIAC' 195
met the
expenses
of the Sacred War (355--46 13.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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) If one misses the retroactivity of such positing of presuppositions, one finds oneself in the ideological universe of evo- lutionary teleology: an ideological narrative thus emerges in which previous epochs are
conceived
as progressive stages/steps toward the present "civilized" epoch.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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this time in a state of quiescence; he lounged from one place to another, faintly
interested
and lazily amused.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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I have lived and fulfilled
Fortune's
allotted
course; and now shall I go a queenly phantom under
the earth.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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That truth, from which, through fear, thou twice didst start,
Fear haply told thee, was a learned strife,
Or not so vital as to claim thy life:
And myriads had reached Heaven, who never knew
Where lay the
difference
'twixt the false and true!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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McBain's The Living
Constitution
(1927), Chaps.
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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THE casket, with the diamonds proved a source,
To which 'twas requisite to have recourse;
Some Hispal sold, and others put in pawn,
And purchased, near the coast, a house and lawn;
With woods, extensive park, and
pleasure
ground;
And many bow'rs and shady walks around,
Where charming hours they passed, and this 'twas plain,
Without the casket they could n'er obtain.
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La Fontaine |
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[26] G Mithridates having conquered the Roman
generals
in Asia, and taken many prisoners, sent them all home with clothing and provisions for the journey.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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When we had finished Hartley, we suspended our meetings; but my
father's
_Analysis
of the Mind_ being published soon after, we
reassembled for the purpose of reading it.
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| Source: |
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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How do
Christians
regard the Moslem view that women have no souls?
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| Source: |
Turing - Can Machines Think |
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Look on my state, amid temptations new,
Which, interrupting my life's tranquil course,
Have made me denizen of darkling wood;
If good, restore me,
fetterless
and free,
My wand'ring consort, and be thine the prize
If yet with thee I find her in blest part.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Mas prefiro não me dar nome, ser o que sou com uma certa obscuridade e ter comigo a
malícia
de me não saber prever.
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| Source: |
Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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He always doted on the youth, and now
His love grew desperate; and defying death,
He made that cunning
entrance
I described:
And the young man escaped.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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_alad_,
protecting
genius, 154, 18.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"13 That Jarratt finds evidence of a "contemporary sophistic" in
liberatory
educa- tors such as Paulo Freire and bell hooks suggests some precedent for what will follow here.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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We may safely surmise that this type of narcissism
was one point of departure for the development of the ascetic-
masochistic attitude that was
ultimately
fatal to him.
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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The moment of
repentance
is
the moment of initiation.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - De Profundis |
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My
consciousness
is not restricted to envisioning a negatite.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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The a in eadem is short, unless it should be
the
ablative
case.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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that which is thought in the fullest sense must be
occupied
with that which is best in the fullest sense.
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| Source: |
Adorno-Metaphysics |
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_ Nay, I will have
justice!
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| Source: |
Thomas Otway |
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This is one of those lighter foibles [I was speaking
of]: to which if you do not grant your indulgence, a
numerous
band of
poets shall come, which will take my part (for we are many more in
number), and, like the Jews, we will force you to come over to our
numerous party.
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Horace - Works |
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wudu
bundenne
(_pushed the vessel from the land_),
215; dracan scufun .
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Beowulf |
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Since human con- sciousness is always capable of second-order observation, which we would call 'self-reflection,' we must specify that by circa 1800 se- cond-order observation had become prevalent in a
particular
social group.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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There, she
deposited
her candle on his tomb, and prostrated in tears before it, she prayed to both holy brothers for restoration of her sight.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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SEX AND CHARACTER
to a man, but even repulsive to him when he is aware of it : while the male
characteristics
in themselves are sufficient to please the female, man has to denude woman of hers before he can love her.
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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It is teeming with chosen peoples,
including
more than a few who contest the declared chosen people's prerogative.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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Thou shalt not be happy so long as thou catch him not, but so sure as thou shalt come to the stature of a man, he that hoppeth and scapeth thee now will come
suddenly
of himself and light upon thy head.
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Bion |
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Another and
scarcely less important purpose is the interpretation of this literature
in essays by scholars and authors
competent
to speak with authority.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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,
authorised
English
edition.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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==
: ii iE= r
zEiiijlti
y=,zi=:rr= je;i : I::;Z:i-=-1i,ji1 ; :
p
= -'.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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Google requests that the images and OCR not be re-hosted,
redistributed
or used commercially.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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All her lovers have passed, her
beautiful
lovers have passed,
The young and eager men that fought for her arrogant hand,
And the only voice which endures to mourn for her at the last
Is the voice of the lonely land.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The Sixth Great
Oriental
Monarchy: Parthia.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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His book they
directed
to be burnt by the common hangman.
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| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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Thoughts are thus probably
generated
by the soul; but the thought generated is an inde- pendent power, continuing to act on its own, indeed, growing within the human soul in such a way that it restrains and subjugates its own mother.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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Must we
renounce
the creed, because
K they
a 3
; :
?
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| Source: |
Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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* The cosmological ideas alone possess the peculiarity, that wc can presuppose the object of then and the empirical synthesis
requisite for the
conception
of that object to be given; and the question, which arises from these ideas, relates merely to the progress of this synthesis, in so far as it must contain absolute totality, -- which, however, is not empirical, as it cannot be given in any experience.
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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What is meant by
mahamudra?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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The rector did not ask for a
catechism
to hear the lesson from.
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| Source: |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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From the improvement of medicine, from the use of more wholesome food
and habitations, from a manner of living which will improve the
strength of the body by
exercise
without impairing it by excess, from
the destruction of the two great causes of the degradation of man,
misery, and too great riches, from the gradual removal of transmissible
and contagious disorders by the improvement of physical knowledge,
rendered more efficacious by the progress of reason and of social
order, he infers that though man will not absolutely become immortal,
yet that the duration between his birth and natural death will increase
without ceasing, will have no assignable term, and may properly be
expressed by the word 'indefinite'.
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| Source: |
Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:07 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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10
The son's comments are revealing: "the class
struggle
is dying out.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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e halme grype3,
&
sturnely
sture3 hit aboute, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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March 2 2018: There are some problems with the automated
software
used to prevent abuse of the Web site (mainly to prevent mass downloads from hurting site performance for everyone else).
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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But let flee her fires who will, no
flinching
for me, son of Kais!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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There's a justice that appals
In its doom;
For this blasted spot of earth
Where
Rebellion
had its birth
Is its tomb!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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[832] Scan closely, if his beams allow thee, the Sun himself, for
scanning
him is best, to see if either some blush run over him, as often he shows a blush or here or there, when he fares through trailing clouds, or if haply he is darkened.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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, moved forward, took hold of her, kissed her on the
mouth and then over her whole face like a thirsty animal lapping with
its tongue when it
eventually
finds water.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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rtester Ausdruck is wohl der: das ein-
zelne Wesen sei die
Substanz
selbst, in einer ihrer Modifikationen, d.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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Calmness
pertains
merely to yogic method?
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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",
remarked
Alf, who
wanted to go to bed.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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Il me semble, berce par ce choc monotone,
Qu'on cloue en grande hate un
cercueil
quelque part.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Empty, unless for a huge bed of state
Shrouded with rusty curtains drooped awry
(A puppet theatre where
malignant
fancy
Peoples the wings with fear).
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Chatillion hyt the erlie on the hede,
Thatt splytte eftsoons his cristed helm in twayne;
Whiche he
perforce
withe target covered,
And to the battel went with myghte ameine.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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His
urgent pressure induced the reluctant Newton to prepare the
second and
improved
edition of the Principia, in 1713; and he
himself defrayed the cost of the publication.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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Oil experts, how-
ever, know that the fields are rich enough
probably
to
supply France with all the oil she needs, if it could
only be moved.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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Stephane
Mallarme
(1844-1896)
Stephane Mallarme
'Stephane Mallarme'
Paul Gauguin, 1891, The Rijksmuseum
Sigh
My soul towards your brow, where, O calm sister,
An autumn dreams blotched by reddish smudges,
And towards the errant sky of your angelic eye
Climbs: as in a melancholy garden the true sigh
Of a white jet of water towards the Azure!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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