378
Ye Muses, say, what now avail your gifts,
The poet's fire, and the poet's
feelings?
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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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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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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You noticed it today at once in my house; but it's exactly the same with my
relations
to the people you'll meet.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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"
Whatever the rest of the world may say, think or
do about the Soviet Union, the Russians and Dutch
appear for the moment to be
pleasantly
contented
with each other's commercial policies.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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Objection
2: Further, murder is more grievous than backbiting, as
stated above ([2962]Q[73], A[3]).
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Summa Theologica |
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I venture to hint, that Sir Walter
Elliot cannot be half so jealous for his own, as John
Shepherd
will be
for him.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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In this
humorous
piece, the inhabitants
of India, Greece and Italy are said to have derived their know-
ledge from men-monkeys, the descendants of the original
Ethiopians, with whom the gods conversed.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most
brightly
mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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¿Dónde, si no, podría florecer la creencia de que quien se acer
583
ca en disposición
correcta
a un hueso disperso de un santo puede estar convencido de que se ha encontrado con ese santo en presencia real?
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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'I've prayed often,' he half soliloquised, 'for the
approach
of what is
coming; and now I begin to shrink, and fear it.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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But do you not know, that he
has distributed papers and hand-bills of a
seditious
nature among the
common people?
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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With what stiff step he
travels!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Not
mentioned
in the Vibhdsd.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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I say that I feel this impulse :--it is
therefore
I myself
who say so, and think so while I say it?
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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The gale, that o'er yon hills flings softer blue,
And wakes to life each bud that gems the glade,
I know; its
breathings
such impression made,
Wafting me fame, but wafting sorrow too:
My wearied soul to soothe, I bid adieu
To those dear Tuscan haunts I first survey'd;
And, to dispel the gloom around me spread,
I seek this day my cheering sun to view,
Whose sweet attraction is so strong, so great,
That Love again compels me to its light;
Then he so dazzles me, that vain were flight.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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man can show It to sIght
W here memory lIveth, It takes Its state
Formed lIke a diafan from lIght on shade WhIch shadow cometh of IVlars and remalneth Created, haVIng a name sensate,
Custom of the soul,
will from the heart,
Cometh from a seen form wluch being understood Taketh locus and remamIng In the Intellect possible WhereIn hath he neither weight nor stJ11-standlng, Descendeth not by qualIty but shineth out HImself hIS own effect unendIngly
Not In delight but In the beIng aware
N or can he leave hIS true
lIkeness
otherwhere
177
?
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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The two are probably one and the την αγίαν του Χριστού του
Θεού
ημών ανάστασιν,
same work (comp.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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He says : — " No species of literary men has lately been so much
multiplied
as the writers of News.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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In the same way, relating to the rest of suffering, one consecutive
Patience
and a Knowledge.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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Bright is the path, that is opening before us,
Upward and onward it mounts through the night;
Sword shall not sever the bonds that unite us
Leading the world to the
fullness
of light.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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So that, if the good and brave were set on a pinnacle of fortune, cowards were recognized as their natural slaves ; and so it befell that Cyrus never had lack of volunteers in any service of danger, whenever it was
expected
that his eye would be upon them.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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If, in
246
this life, he does not attain djnd,
death; but after the
destruction
of his body, going beyond the gods of
nor attain it at the moment of his
?
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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— Yudhisthira
Steadiness
consists in one's staying in one's own religion.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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Alfonso, on the other hand, is
supposed
to
have feared that he would burn it himself, and the ducal praises with it.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Similar to the way in which Schlie-
exhumed the true dreams of his
childhood
from the ruins of hills that had been buried for millennia, Nietzsche brought to light, in the course of his philo- logical ?
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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From the small kernel's
undiscerned
repose
The oak that lords it o'er the forest grows.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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III
FEMMES DAMNEES
DELPHINE ET HIPPOLYTE
A la pâle clarté des lampes languissantes,
Sur de profonds coussins tout
imprégnés
d'odeur,
Hippolyte rêvait aux caresses puissantes
Qui levaient le rideau de sa jeune candeur.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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It is not enough for George Eliot to present an interesting char-
acter, to follow up its fate and growth, to force the reader into sym-
pathy, to make him hope for success or fear failure; nor even to
show the struggle with the surroundings, to depict interesting and
complex
situations
and centres.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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3' VenerableBedetellsus,thathereturned to Scotia, whence he sprung ; and, by this term, he could only have under-
stood
apparently
Hibernia or Ireland, the proper land of the Scots.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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For once, O Fortune, hear my prayer,
And I absolve thy future care;
All other
blessings
I resign,
Make but the dear Amanda mine.
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Golden Treasury |
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What he was himself
willing to undergo for the sake of my instruction, may be judged from
the fact, that I went through the whole process of preparing my Greek
lessons in the same room and at the same table at which he was writing:
and as in those days Greek and English
lexicons
were not, and I could
make no more use of a Greek and Latin lexicon than could be made without
having yet begun to learn Latin, I was forced to have recourse to him
for the meaning of every word which I did not know.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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" As soon as he could command his speech, he said that the Roman army could plainly be dis cerned from the higher points of the land, rapidly approach ing the city, of which we might satisfy
ourselves
by ascending the tower.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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This schoolmaster's life must have inclined a naturally haughty,
sardonic
temperament
in the direction of satire.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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For his Aunt Jobiska said, "No harm
Can come to his toes if his nose is warm;
And it's
perfectly
known that a Pobble's toes
Are safe--provided he minds his nose.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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consular Gnaeus Dolabella, and in the following year another Sullan officer Gaius Antonius; and Marcus Cicero
in 684 called to account Gaius Verres, one of the most 7G wretched of the
creatures
of Sulla, and one of the worst scourges of the provincials.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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In my observation [of
existing
communist societies], the positive of "social- ism" and the negative of "bureaucracy, authoritarianism and tyranny" interpenetrated in virtually every sphere of life.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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The door led right into a large
kitchen, which was full of smoke from one end to the other; the Duchess
was sitting on a three-legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby; the
cook was leaning over the fire,
stirring
a large caldron which seemed to
be full of soup.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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This is
questioned
by Robert Chambers, who,
however, leaves both name and date unsettled.
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Robert Burns- |
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This Subject- centered view of life and of the world, in which
recycled
experience from the past would be projected into the future, i.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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Of course, as a new father, I must worry about things that never
bothered
me
Why Are People Media?
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Next, as many things were promised in pro
phecy even to the people of Israel that came according to the flesh from the seed of Abraham, aud that people was increased that the promises of God might bo fulfilled in it; while yet God did not close the fountain of His goodness even to the Gentiles, whom He had placed under the rule of the Angels, while He reserved the people of Israel as His own portion the Apostle
expressly
mentions the Lord's mercy and truth as referring to these two parties.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Stephen Crane |
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You see this gentle stream that glides,
Shov'd on by quick-succeeding tides;
Try if this sober stream you can
Follow to th' wilder ocean;
And see if there it keeps unspent
In that
congesting
element.
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Robert Herrick |
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At least, it solaces to know
That there exists a gold,
Although I prove it just in time
Its
distance
to behold!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The leading spirit in the plot was Mary
daughter
of Manuel, with her
husband the Caesar Renier.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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The blind Will to Power in nature there-
fore stands in urgent need of
direction
by man.
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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In fact, we regard the therapeutic relationship as a means of
enhancing
the patient's reality-testing, of helping him to recognize his own distortions.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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But now I must do
somethyng
more than sighe;
And then an arrowe from the bowe drew he.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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German
philosophers
have considered the
universe.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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As for myfelf,
Who takes the fole Diredion of the State,
Nor yields him to the Counfels of the wife,
Nor fpeaks, through Fear, the
Dictates
of his Heart,
I hold him worthlefs, and fhall ever hold him.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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expressed about 650 by Lucius Marcius Philippus, a man
of moderate
democratic
views, that there were among the whole burgesses hardly 2000 families of substantial means.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Nor are we only con-
cerned with the great names: the author aims at catching the spirit
of the people, and the thoughts and feelings of soldier, artisan,
trader, and their
womenfolk
find ample voice in his pages.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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"
He was so simple, so matter-of-fact,
Charlotta
Altgelt knew not what to say
To bring him to her dream.
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Amy Lowell |
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The land between the Oder and the Vistula
was
therefore
in the earliest times inhabited, in the north by peoples of
the Letto-Lithuanian linguistic group, and southward by Slavs.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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Seat a knife near a cage and very near a
decision
and more nearly a
timely working cat and scissors.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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Nếu chẳng phải Thánh
thượng
làm hết trách nhiệm của người làm vua làm thầy, đích thân nắm quyền hành, thì làm sao có thể làm xong những việc mà tiên đế chưa làm xong, hoàn thiện những điều mà tiên thánh chưa làm đủ.
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stella-02 |
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About the tree, new risen e'en now to meet
The shining
presence
of that mighty one,
Three damsels stood, naked from head to feet
Save for the glory of their hair, where sun
And shadow flickered, while the wind did run
Through the gray leaves o'erhead, and shook the grass Where nigh their feet the wandering bee did pass.
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| Question: |
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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This, however, is
emphatically
not the way Hegel conceives the dif- ference between Understanding and Reason--let us read carefully a well-known passage from the fore- word to Phenomenology:
To break up an idea into its ultimate elements means re- turning upon its moments, which at least do not have the form of the given idea when found, but are the im- mediate property of the self.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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With all the hills ‘tis Woe for Cypris and with the vales ‘tis Woe for Adonis; the rivers weep the sorrows of Aphrodite, the wells of the
mountains
shed tears for Adonis; the flowerets flush red for grief, and Cythera’s isle over every foothill and every glen of it sings pitifully Woe for Cytherea, the beauteous Adonis is dead, and Echo ever cries her back again, The beauteous Adonis is dead.
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Bion |
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The attempt at rivalry was too clear the endeavour to draw the fair bond between the nobles and the proletariate still closer by their exercising jointly tyranny over the Latins
was too transparent the inquiry suggested itself too readily, In what part of the peninsula, now that the Italian domains
3«4
THE
REVOLUTION
AND BOOK IV
occupied
;
; by a
;
in
;
(p.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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This may be called the
greatest
omen of prosperity; and in this the ceremony obtains its grand completion[1].
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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"Is, then, the old faith dead,"
They say, "and in its stead
Is some new faith proclaimed,
That we are forced to remain
Naked to sun and rain,
Unsheltered
and ashamed?
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Longfellow |
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Nguyễn
Nghiêu Tư (?
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stella-02 |
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On this occasion Zeus does not choose to admit that he is not master of Fate and he promises the excited gods that he will resort to the most drastic
measures
against all atheists — after the holidays!
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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These systems are
dominated
by extreme idealization, denigration and intolerance of reality.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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Leibniz, who as a rule checked all
mathematical signs against Gutenberg's place value logic and corrected them in case of error,saw in "zero"the nothing that had
prevailed
before God's act of
creation, and in "one" the divine creation itself.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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"Aesthetics" thought of itself as a cogni-
tive possibility, as a philosophical science whose task was to demarcate and
142
to
investigate
its own terrain.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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Your IP address has been
automatically
blocked from the address you tried to visit at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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Probably
he
will be giving you one of his own works when he has had one printed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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For the new bene-
fit which he had
conferred
on our people, not one
person in the Empire thanked him.
| Guess: |
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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The mentality
is that of a slave-owning community, with a mutilated multitude of men
tied to its
commercial
and political treadmill.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tagore - Creative Unity |
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From whence he lying bolt upright with
wrathfull
mouth doth spit
Out flames of fire.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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org
American Political Science Association is
collaborating
with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The American Political Science Review.
| Guess: |
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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Finally, beside
hegemonic powers and traditions, people's heads - already too full -
constitute
a third instance which does not like to listen to the spirit of
Enlightenment innovation.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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Why an Ear, a whirlpool fierce to draw
creations
in?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion:
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
An' ev'n
devotion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But I observe that Siddartha, the Prince, is not so bedizened with jewels about his person, there is no love of false appearances in his presence, I do not think that he is of the effeminate
disposition
that these are — my heart is well affected to him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v03 |
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Our
nocturnal
states expose our existing, but not our existing as ourselves, as or in relation to substance, but within fantasies and nothings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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But that
distemper
is too
beneficial to them not to expose to all their resentment the hardy
wight that should undertake to put an end to it.
| Guess: |
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», et
que le fond de son cœur semblait venir à moi sans la réserve d'aucun
des griefs qu'elle avait maintenant et qu'elle taisait parce qu'elle les
jugeait sans doute irréparables, impossibles à oublier, inavoués,
mais qui n'en
mettaient
pas moins entre elle et moi la prudence
significative de ses paroles ou l'intervalle d'un infranchissable
silence.
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Read, sweet, how others strove,
Till we are stouter;
What they renounced,
Till we are less afraid;
How many times they bore
The
faithful
witness,
Till we are helped,
As if a kingdom cared!
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Even though you
practice
in such a way that there is not even as much as a hair tip of a concrete reference point to cultivate by meditating, do not stray into ordinary deluded diffusion, even for a single moment.
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We are made to turn the wheel for water
To carry the heavy basket on our
scorched
shoulders, to sift
The sand & ashes, & to mix the clay with tears & repentance
I see not Luvah as of old
I only see his feet Like pillars
of fire travelling thro darkness
& non entity {These four lines are placed to the right of the main body of text.
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While he
continued
at the University, being as he says seriously stirred up by the illustrious the Lord Wentworth, he renounced the
tenets of the church of Rome; and, that he might never more serve so execrable a beast, I took, says he,
to wife the faithful Dorothy, in obedience to that divine command, “Let him that cannot contain, “marry.
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The really great poet challenges
it, like Homer, with some tremendous, irresistible opening; and in this
respect the
magnificent
prelude to _Beowulf_ may almost be put beside
Homer.
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Faith, oh my faith, what
fragrant
breath,
What sweet odour from her mouth's excess,
What rubies and what diamonds were there.
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It might have been an hour or thereabout after my
quitting the smack, when, having descended to a vast distance
beneath me, it made three or four wild
gyrations
in rapid suc-
cession, and bearing my loved brother with it, plunged head-
long, at once and forever, into the chaos of foam below.
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Solid work of Councils
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With this evidence before us, it is hard to deny that the history of
the generations which first experienced the “fatal gift” of Constantine
supplied only too good ground for St Gregory's
complaint
of contentions
and strivings for dominion among Christian bishops.
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The six hundred pages, with the of thought or feeling, it
expressed
an
man
had vogue.
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I had thought it right
That the young
stranger
should not lie alone,
And, as the quietest of all, she might
With you, Dudu, a good night's rest have known;
But now I must transfer her to the charge
Of Lolah--though her couch is not so large.
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Their grins--
an
orchestra
of plucked skin and a million strings.
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Sara Teasdale
Sara
Teasdale
was born in St.
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He commented on various
positions
that were
favorable or unfavorable, on moves that were not safe to make.
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His will grow a
towering
stalk,
Hers, a cowering flower under it.
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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"
It is to be hoped that the coming
dictatorship
will not forget to declare open season on the Jews.
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"
Whether Pollux, as a
charlatan
Commis sioner of Education," or the whole breed of pretenders was the subject of this attack, Lu- cian, the expert Atticist, had a well-earned right to his contemptuous satire.
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A moment so it stayed,
Then was extinguished, and Sir Everard made
One leap, and landed just a
fraction
short.
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"Great
heavens!
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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