This man, " far the most savage of all past or present enemies of Rome," was known to be fanatically devoted to the false deities of his heathen ancestors ; and as the tidings came that he, with his 200,000 or some said 400,000 followers, had crossed the Alps, and was vowing to satiate his fierce gods with the blood of all who bore the Roman name, a
terrible
despair seized all the fair cities of Italy.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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" This led him to make a distinction between "heavy" bodies,
which
naturally
tend to move "down," and "light" bodies, which tend to
move "up" away from the centre.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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Why even our
Kabardians
or Chechenes, robbers and
ragamuffins though they be, are regular dare-devils for all that.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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And it is
accounted
profanation for any slave to approach it.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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What it wanted, and what it received, was
experiment
and explora-
tion of the most varied and daring kind, in all its own possible
licences and transformations.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently
displaying
the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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[118]
Marcus_Argentarius →
[119]
Crinagoras →
[120]
Philodemus →
[121]
Philodemus →
[122] DIODORUS { Ph 2 } G
Son of illustrious Megistocles, I beseech you, not even though he seem to you more
precious
than your two eyes, though he be glowing from the bath of the Graces, do not hang around the lovely boy.
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Greek Anthology |
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He will
remember
all his births in every birth.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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73
Sings the
graceful
Thelegdon ?
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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To You
Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams,
I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands,
Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners,
troubles, follies, costume, crimes,
dissipate
away from you,
Your true soul and body appear before me.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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399
Leave of the Senate to deliver his Opinion, fpoke thus in the
Affembly : Whereas the People of Athens have in Times pafi:
conftantly preferved a Spirit of Bene\'olence towards the By-
zantians, and their Confederates and Kindred, the Perinthi-
ans ; and whereas they have conferred upon them many and
great Obligations, particularly in a late Conjundlure, when
Philip of Macedon invaded their Dominions, with Intention
utterly to deftroy their whole Nation ; laying wafte their
Country with Fire, and cutting down their Forefts ; the Peo-
ple of Athens then fent us Succours of an hundred and twenty
Ships with Proviiions, Arms, and SiDldiers ; relieved us
from imminent Danger, and reftored to us our ancient Form
of Government, our Laws, and the Sepulchres of our Ancef-
tors ; it therefore feemeth good to the Byzantians and Perin-
thians, to grant unto the Athenians the Rights of Intermarriage,
the Privileges of Citizens, the Poffefllon of Lands and Tene-
ments, a diftinguifhed Seat at all our public Games, a Free-
dom of entering into our Senate, and into the Affemblies of
our People, next to thofe, who have the Superintendence of
all religious Matters : furthermore, that whoever thinks proper
to inhabit our Cities fhall be
exempted
from all Taxes and
Impofts : that three Statues, fixteen Cubits high, fhall be e-
redled at the Port of Byzantium, reprefenting the Republic of
Athens crowned by the Byzantian and Perinthian Republics :
that Prizes (hall be fent to the general Meetings of Greece at
the Ifthmian, Nemean, Olympic and Pythian Games : that
the
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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Willkie: Wendell Lewis Willkie (1892-1944), Republican nominee for
President
of
the U.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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By historical I
understand
ad hoc the unity resulting from the tragedy enacted and written, as well as the unity resulting from the epic both enacted and written.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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For
sensation
itself is but
vision nascent, not the cause of intelligence, but intelligence itself
revealed as an earlier power in the process of self-construction.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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Haste all to council on the stranger held,
Who hath of late beneath Alcinous' roof
Our King arrived, a wand'rer o'er the Deep,
But, in his form,
majestic
as a God.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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In the drawing-room, there was the mother
knitting
and watching
again.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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That is actually what the critic is demanding of his victim-that he
constitute
himself as a thing, that he should entrust his freedom to his friend as a fief, in order that
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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A new and revised Edition, with Translations to the Latin Prayers,
handsomely
printed with Vignettes and red lines.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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Women's Voices
Queen of the gourd-flower, queen of the harvest,
Sweet and
omnipotent
mother, O Earth!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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At the other it would remove the ethic of noblesse oblige from the upper classes, who now would have "earned" their success and be {302} responsible to no one, rather than
inheriting
it and being obligated to help the less fortunate.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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do not neglect the
treasure
which Providence has
spread in your path.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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This they
expected to ensure by the participation in the government that Henry
had promised, and in this he
humoured
them for the time.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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She and her friend having removed their lodgings to a new house, which stood solitary, a parcel of rogues, armed,
attempted
the house, where there was only one boy.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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This structure meant not only the destruction of the political capabilities of isolated men, but also that of groups and
institutions
forming the tissue of man's private relations.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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He found him self obliged, for instance, to have one of the leaders of the aristocratic party in Capua, Decius Magius, who even after the entrance of the Phoenicians obstinately contended for the Roman alliance, seized and conveyed to Carthage ; thus furnishing a demonstration, very inconvenient for himself, of the small value of the liberty and
sovereignty
which had just been solemnly assured to the Campanians by the Carthaginian general.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Alaric's opportunity had arrived, now that the Empire had of its
own free will lost the
services
of its great leader.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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It
thereforetakesthematterofpresentationmoreseriouslythandothose
procedures that separate out method from material and are indifferent to the way they represent their objectified contents.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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ois Mitterrand set a goal of bringing 80 percent of the population at least through the baccalaureat, and the intolerable crowding in many universities
testifies
to the system's progress towards this goal.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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lk' [red clouds] that appears a few lines later, as well as recalling Trakl's frequent synaesthetic
association
of sound and colour.
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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When we renounce the
Christian
faith, we abandon
all right to Christian morality.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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Twelve feet, deform'd and foul, the fiend dispreads;
Six horrid necks she rears, and six
terrific
heads;
Her jaws grin dreadful with three rows of teeth;
Jaggy they stand, the gaping den of death;
Her parts obscene the raging billows hide;
Her bosom terribly o'erlooks the tide.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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His writings
include: (Christian Believing and Living
(1860); "Lectures on Human
Society)
(1860);
(Steps to a Living Faith) (1873); (Personal
Christian Life in the Ministry) (1887); (Forty
Days with the Master) (1891).
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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—On the other
hand, a vulgar turn in
northern
works, for example
in German music, offends me unutterably.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Hugo saw this, when
he strung his huge epic
sequence
together not on a connected story but
on a single idea: "la figure, c'est l'homme.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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11 For just as our father Aaron, armed with the censer, ran through the multitude of the people and conquered the fiery angel [Numbers, 16'46-48 & Book of Wisdom, 18'21-25], 12 so the descendant of Aaron, Eleazar, though being consumed by the fire,
remained
unmoved in his reason.
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Roman Translations |
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And, more impres sive than the modern caravans of visitors —
students, tourists or diplomats — there would have been, in the near background of tradition or still actually passing, the long procession of pilgrims who had journeyed by Roman roads and swift galleys on business of statecraft, learning, pleasure or profit — merchants, cap tains and proconsuls; grammarians, poets and artists: Cicero and Brutus in their eager youth;
Horace conning, in the already partially dis torted pronunciation of the " Common " Greek,
[IS]
LUCIAN, SATIRIST AND ARTIST
the measures of Alcaeus and Sappho; Virgil, dreaming of some new grace for his Aeneid; Ovid like a revelling bee storing his own fra grant honey from Hymettus though destined, in the " trist " days to come, merely to sight the
Acropolis
from the Saronic Gulf as he sailed by despairingly to his distant exile; Pliny, the meticulous imperial official of Lucian's own day, pausing perhaps, en retour from Bithynia, to secure some Greek gem for insertion in the charming setting of his epistles; or — a vivid tradition at least to the Christians — Saint Paul as interpreter of " an Unknown God "; and, finally, the successive epiphanies of the imperial masters themselves, Augustus, Nero, Hadrian, Aurelius.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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XXXI
Thy bosom is
endeared
with all hearts,
Which I by lacking have supposed dead;
And there reigns Love, and all Love's loving parts,
And all those friends which I thought buried.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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' When
the
apparition
was gone, he called his servants, who
told him they had neither heard any noise, nor had
seen any vision.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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Sarvastivadin
Agamas xliii
14.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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If that
happened
to you, please let us know so we can keep adjusting the software.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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It
is a cry of
triumphant
gladness.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Fra Paolo has for us a double value -- ab actual,
one, measurable by what he personally thought, wrought and
suffered; and a symbolic one because Tie incarnated the spirit of
a great people and government, devoted indeed to the Gospel
-of Christ, but not
subservient
to the ambition of His Vicars.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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With much good-will the motion was embrac'd,
To chat awhile on their adventures past:
Nor had the
grateful
hind so soon forgot
Her friend and fellow-suff'rer in the plot.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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The third with the
Christian
white race.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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'Egad, Uncle this is the most sudden
Recovery!
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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It is a
sensitive
shivering from the cold breath of a reality where knowledge is power and power is knowl- edge.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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It also happens sometimes with TOR, with classrooms/schools, and other
situations
where the same IP address is being shared.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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60 On the " Ordnance Survey
Townland
Map of Londonderry," St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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Copies are provided as a
preservation
service.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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I don't mean this as general, but particular
Examples may be found of such pursuits:
Though several also keep their perpendicular
Like poplars, with good
principles
for roots;
Yet many have a method more reticular--
'Fishers for men,' like sirens with soft lutes:
For talk six times with the same single lady,
And you may get the wedding dresses ready.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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This thing ran along until some of us, the really very best boys in the
organization, decided that these corrupt practices must stop, and for
the purpose of stopping them we
organized
a third party.
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Twain - Speeches |
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With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner
streaming
o'er us!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And its whole body is spotted all over, the general colour being black, studded in every part with thick white spots
something
larger than lentil seeds.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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I clearly understand it now, and I will strictly fulfil
my engagement by such acts of assistance and
kindness
to them as you
have described.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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But when the days of the festival were passed (and it lasted three days), then he expired, without any pain, as
Hipparchus
assures us, having lived a hundred and nine years.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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As travel has always been very popular, every conceivable form of
water-borne craft has sprung up, and these the poets
constantly
used as
they went from the capital to take up their official posts, or from the
house of one patron to another, the ancient custom being for the rich to
entertain and support men of letters with whom they "drank wine and
recited verses," the pastime most dear to their hearts.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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The
forgotten
ghost.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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Thee, far as Argos, pleased I could convey;
Guard of thy life, and partner of thy way:
On thee attend, thy safety to maintain,
O'er
pathless
forests, or the roaring main.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Not long ago Boris sent two boyars
To
execution
merely because in secret
They drank thy health.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Well, he answered; I mean to say, that he who does evil, and not good,
is not temperate; and that he is
temperate
who does good, and not
evil: for temperance I define in plain words to be the doing of good
actions.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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This is not the place to examine thoroughly the
hypothesis
upon which
this experiment rests, or the deductions which follow from its
invariable success.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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He
did not wish to run any more chances of getting
lato the
clutches
of the wily old fox.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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Eugenics, on the
other hand, is likewise
inadequate
unless accompanied by constant
improvement in the surroundings; and its advocates must demand euthenics
as an accompaniment of selection, in order that the opportunity for
getting a fair selection may be as free as possible.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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9 If one recalls the
pinnacle
of Europe’s culture of higher secondary schools between 1789 and 1945, it becomes clear that all European nation-states pursued a
plato 5
humanistic education system to prepare their youth to take on tasks within the framework of their national-imperial programs.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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Many men to whom this negative
experience is
familiar
do not pass beyond it, but for the mystic it is
merely the gateway to an ampler world.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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The dying lamps, which
sparkled
in the
hollow aisles and transepts like lost stars in the dark, wavered before
his vision, the statues of the sepulchres wavered and the images of the
altar, all the cathedral wavered, with its granite arcades and
buttresses of solid stone.
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| Source: |
Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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Men who had only known the quiet thinker and
logician
of
Baker Street would have failed to recognise him.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Especially
she is seldom
tolerant of emotion, when she does not fully comprehend the
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Taking it a
considerable
time in medicinal doses,
^ \
<<^ 1^31
J:^""^ ^^J t3
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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On The Death Of John M'Leod, Esq,
Brother to a young Lady, a
particular
friend of the Author's.
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| Source: |
burns |
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Snow, Schelling and the End of Idealism (Albany: State
University
of New York Press, 1996).
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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Liberalism in Asia was a very weak reed in the period after World War I; it is easy today to forget how gloomy Asia's political future looked as
recently
as ten or fifteen years ago.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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‘A welcome
relief from the Sitwell
school’
— Scrutiny.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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FAYRE VENUS, the
daughter
of Jupiter, or Zeus, and the sea-nymph
Dione.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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III
ISAT on the Dogana's steps
For the
gondolas
cost too much, that year,
And there were not" those girls ", there was one face, And the Buccentoro twenty Y'lrds off, howhng .
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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{BOOK_1|CHAPTER_3 ^paragraph 40}
If now we
consider
also the contents of the knowledge that we can
have of a pure practical reason, and by means of it, as shown by the
Analytic, we find, along with a remarkable analogy between it and
the theoretical, no less remarkable differences.
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The reform doubled Chinese grain output in only five years, and in the process created for Deng Xiaoping a solid
political
base from which he was able to extend the reform to other parts of the economy.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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distinguidos
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teles.
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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, to that kind of knowledge, only in case an
intuition (which is always
sensible)
is taken as a basis, and
therefore merely in order to conceive by means of- them an object of
possible experience.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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He certainly
did not regret his desire for fear of
venereal
disease; his re-
morse came only from the curse of the moral law--that is, be-
cause of his own strongly moral attitude.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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The process of the physis
becoming
illuminated and lingual is much older than the descent of logos into the body -- both older and more historically powerful.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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All the happy songs he wrought
From remembrance soon must fade,
As the wash of silver
moonlight
15
From a purple-dark ravine.
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Sappho |
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What will the
Grecians
think, or what will he,
Or what will Troy, or what wilt thou thyself,
When once this ague fit of fear is o'er,
If I should lose my honour for a dream?
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Dryden - Complete |
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Even when the other Cynics stood about the pyre in silent grief, Lucian
felt no sympathy, but taunted them brutally, and actually got into a
broil with them before he departed to
meditate
on how strange the love
of fame is.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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It was a picture of the lovely ---, which
hung over the mantelpiece, the eyes and mouth of which were so beautiful,
and the whole countenance so radiant with benignity and divine
tranquillity, that I had a thousand times laid down my pen or my book to
gather
consolation
from it, as a devotee from his patron saint.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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How was such
jealousy to be
quieted?
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Austen - Persuasion |
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During the lecture the train had been making good progress, and towards
half-past twelve it reached the
northwest
border of the Great Salt
Lake.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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Now
consider
what you have done, in faying the king
ordered that book to be wrote.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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After the war is over there will be powerful forces drawing young people away from the liberal studies- But there will be other powerful forces operating in the opposite direction-
The vindication of democracy by victory will raise a vast number ot questions as to the meaning of democracy, of the
conditions
economic and psychological and spiritual under which democracy can thrive.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the
couch as if she had given up
everything
and stayed there immobile.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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able by courts and hence parties are
constraint
to follow self enforcing strategies.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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We have seen
an album
containing
sketches by the poet.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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Ascribe the whole to God above , And more than all
Carrhotus
' love ;
Who not to Battus ' royal court, Where Justice and her train resort ,
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gain He '
wreath , thy brow
, glozing tongue, d Excuse with
Convey
From laggard Epimetheus sprung .
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Pindar |
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Or touch, if
tremblingly
alive all o'er,
To smart and agonize at every pore?
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Alexander Pope |
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565,"° and
according
to the Acts of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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In a markedlychangedatmos-
phere-changed by diminishedfinancialresourcesand the prospectsof
constrictedopportunitiesforthe
employmentof
graduates- generalcriti- cismof modernWesterncivilisationremainedat the forefronotf student
agitation.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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For here is naught more beautiful
Than bright and
lithesome
spring?
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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HS 146
When you have music, take your joy for now; You
mustn’t
lose this chance!
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Hanshan - 01 |
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21 is is the way that the Benedictine abbess
Hildegard
of Bingen hailed her:
O how great
in its strength is the side of man,
from which God produced the form of woman.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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