When we are told that the classical work is a
finished
one, we should remind ourselves that Leonardo da Vinci and many others left unfin- ished works, that Balzac thought there was, in fact, no way of saying when a work of art has reached the fabled point of maturity: he even went as far as to admit that the artist's labours, which could always continue, are only ever inter- rupted in order to leave the work with a little clarity.
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Vis-a`-vis all these electronic gadgets, vis-a`-vis the hyper-communication that is their effect, and even vis-a`-vis the very trendy academic attempts at
theorizing
them both, I take a position resembling the attitude of those fifteenth century monks, scribes, and scholars who feared, criticized, and finally even actively rejected the printing press.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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He who regards it directly and intensely sees,
it is true, the star, but it is the star without a ray-while he who
surveys it less inquisitively is conscious of all for which the star is
useful to us below-its
brilliancy
and its beauty.
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Poe - 5 |
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The Belgæ
immediately
left their position to move
towards the Aisne, below the point where the Miette entered it.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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This is the meaning of his references to
cultural
generations.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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MAURTEEN (_to_ FATHER HART)
It is but right that youth should side with youth;
She
quarrels
with my wife a bit at times,
And is too deep just now in the old book!
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Yeats - Poems |
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And one of the most beautiful
lyrics follows out the slight thread of story in _Three Dates_,
representing the poet as gazing night after night up from that ancient
Toledo square, with its
glorified
rubbish-heap, to the ogive windows of
the convent where the nun who had so thrilled his imagination was
immured.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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Deflu\il sax\is
agi\tatus
| humor,
Sappho however, and after her example, Catullus, sometimes
made the second foot a trochee; as,
Sappho.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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Looking into a place that was hanging
and was visible looking into this place and seeing a chair did that mean
relief, it did, it
certainly
did not cause constipation and yet there is
a melody that has white for a tune when there is straw color.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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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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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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The various clauses which lead up to the
close are
separated
from one another by the full-stop (ll.
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John Donne |
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Every body was
glad that they were so far from the town, (for they
were still at Hampton-court,) and that there were
so few
witnesses
of all that passed.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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'° He
observed
the rule of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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The artist grows more and more
to
reverence
sudden inspirations; he believes in
gods and daemons, he spiritualises all nature,
hates science, is changeable in his moods like the
ancients, and longs for an overthrow of all exist-
ing conditions which are not favourable to art,
and does this with the impetuosity and unreason-
ableness of a child.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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During the period of more than ten
centuries
before its author's time, there were records of émigré foreign monks of Cham, Indian, and Chinese provenance coming to Vietnam to teach Buddhism.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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Eutropii breviarium
historiae
Romanae.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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;
is
;
Algernon
feftinep, (iftsq.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Regard food and clothing as a
condemned
man would his final meal and costume.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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One day, to my surprise, the laptop screen informed me that, thanks to an upgrading of the library buildings to the level of electronically sensitive spaces, it was now making available all the
messages
in my carrel that I had wanted to reserve for the computer in my other on-campus office, thus making me too available to the world - very much against my intention.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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E come quei che non sapean se l'una
o l'altra via facesse la donzella
(però che senza differenza alcuna
apparia in amendue l'orma novella),
si messero ad
arbitrio
di fortuna,
Rinaldo a questa, il Saracino a quella.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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As salaries are taxed at standard graduated rates, it is only natural for corporate officials to prefer
compensation
in some untaxed or low-taxed form.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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Such tales, which profess to be historical but are merely improvised explanations of no very ingenious character, it is the first duty of history to dismiss; but it may perhaps be allowed to go a step further, and after weighing the special relations of the locality to propose a positive conjecture not regarding the way in which the place originated, but regarding the circumstances which occasioned its rapid and surprising
prosperity
and led to its occupying its peculiar position in Latium.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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View her--too chaste to look like flesh and blood--
Primly portray'd on
emblematic
wood!
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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And hence
how
inexpressibly
sublime is Homer, who, as unit
being, bears the same relation to this Apollonian
folk-culture as the unit dream-artist does to the
dream-faculty of the people and of Nature in
general.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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*' The writer was told by a young man,
;
living near the place, that in digging a deep trench, which runs along one of the four sides, he
uncovered
a vast quantity of human skulls and other bones.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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who when far
advanced
in years was rashly put to Ann.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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And she is but a minister, as having no other power, by our principles, but the
administration
of.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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The first studies of the development of the visual system by David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel showed that the microcircuitry of monkeys is pretty much
complete
at birth.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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In studying an old author, he has no notion of any thing beyond
adjusting a point,
proposing
a different reading, or correcting, by the
collation of various copies, an error of the press.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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And impartiality of contemplation is, in the intellectual
sphere, that very same virtue of
disinterestedness
which, in the
sphere of action, appears as justice and unselfishness.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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The poem is not a puzzle, except in so far as the acrostic furnishes this element; for, unlike its predecessors, it refers to itself in
definite
terms.
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Pattern Poems |
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And
this induced Plato to esteem of Homer as a sacrilegious person, because
he presented the gods
sometimes
laughing.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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All in all, it was a
complicated
job.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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)
r Catullus seats himself despondently upon the couch, 1
J when suddenly Julian and Hermia run to him and [
I fall upon their knees before him,
imploring
his bless- j
L ing.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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It cannot
well cut anything; it may
possibly
serve to scrape a trencher.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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In less subtle contexts, this political suspension of morality or, more sim- ply, the duty to commit crimes,
referred
to a simple quantitative reflection: in order to save the lives of millions of human beings, one had to accept that a few thousand people would have to be sacrificed.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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The natural
susceptibility
of those who
think more than they act, may render them
unjust to persons of a different description.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Now, it is by means of this stamp that he is able
to
identify
the character of the " German culture,"
which is his own patent; and all things that do not
bear it are so many enemies and obstacles drawn
up against him.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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Atherfs,
through him, had stood forward as the
champion
of
the god of Delphi.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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At any other time he would have seen
this job as an honour but now, when he was finding it hard even to
maintain his current
position
in the bank, he accepted it only with
reluctance.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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Whether that gentleman
does or does not deserve the suspicions you express, would
be
entirely
indifferent to me, did he not possess an office of
high rank in the army of the United States; for that rea-
son solely, I wish he may answer all the expectations of
congress.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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To his astonishment he beheld the American flag flying over Monterey, the American
squadron in its harbor, and Fremont's mounted riflemen
encamped
over the town.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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"Amarillis I Did Woo"
Amarillis I did woo,
And I courted Phillis too;
Daphne, for her love, I chose;
Cloris, for that damask rose
In her cheek, I held as dear;
Yea, a
thousand
liked well near.
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William Browne |
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Only a still place
and perhaps some outer horror
some
hideousness
to stamp beauty,
a mark--no changing it now--
on our hearts.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But it turns
out; that what he has to say is of that weight, as to withdraw some
attention from the vehicle; and he is like some saint whose history
is to be rendered into all languages, into verse and prose, into songs
and pictures, and cut up into proverbs; so that the
occasions
which
gave the saint's meaning the form of a conversation, or of a prayer,
or of a code of laws, is immaterial compared with the universality of
its application.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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Paul Louis Courier would, I am sure, have been happy to have part of his
fame rest on his precious new
chapters
of the Pastorals, and to know
that his beautiful translation of their four books lives on in one new
edition after another.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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995
But
innocence
has nothing, in the end, to fear.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Its general
business
consists in receiving money for safe keeping, which if not called for within a certain time, becomes a part ofits stock, and irreclaimable: But a credit is given for it en the books of the bank, which being transferable, answers all the purposes of money.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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After the usual time of the
exercise
in meditation had passed, Govinda
rose.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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In the latter half the absence of the refrain with its lyric and romantic associations is intended to heighten the contrast between then and now, between the fulness of joy and the
emptiness
of despair.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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Tooke's mind; and with these he
baffled the Judge, dumb-founded the Counsel, and
outwitted
the Jury.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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We also ask that you:
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Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for personal, non-commercial purposes.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Broad sea and clustered isles, one terror thrills
As roll the red
inexorable
rills;
While Naples trembles in her palaces,
More helpless than the leaves when tempests shake the trees.
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Hugo - Poems |
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were
Still of her ardent love for me she raves the weary night,
And swears there's not a god in heaven, if e'er I leave her sight;
Declares that she is not my love; nay more, the frantic girl
Vents every threat that peevish maids at
heartless
lovers hurl;
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Out of clay
hast thou
fashioned
me and to thee I owe mine all.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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" [The
Knowledge
of Non-Arising arises in a similar series, but later.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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For
whatsoever Law is not written, or some way published by him that makes
it Law, can be known no way, but by the reason of him that is to obey
it; and is
therefore
also a Law not only Civill, but Naturall.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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What if it really takes an expert eye to detect whether the emperor has
clothes?
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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Let this
pernitious
houre,
Stand aye accursed in the Kalender.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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In China, little girls are
supposed
to hide their faces at the
suggestion of marriage.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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,
as anywhere, m HCE's pub and household (those famous
initials
are
never long out of the text-'Haud certo ergo', for instance; ALP is triply celebrated in 'Apis amat aram.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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The chapter on vanity and affectation contains a
character
of
a vain woman quite in the manner of La Bruyère.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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Alba
Innominata
From the Provenqal.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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If you allow us to use the chance
towards seeking Aeneas in Pallanteum town, you will soon descry us here
at hand with the spoils of the great
slaughter
we have dealt.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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49 [=
Diogenes
Laertius, Lives, VII, I05-I07 -Trans.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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6, during the first ten years
of the
twentieth
century.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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KOKUTAI AND CO-PROSPERITY
solidarity" and the
patriarchal
norms of an "autonomous co- optative bureaucracy.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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Thus, for example, revenge,
considered in itself, in
whatever
place or way it manifests itself, is
something vulgar, because it is the proof of a lack of generosity.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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,
Those who cannot brook "the lively setting forth" of the work
should
recognize
their classification as readers and for the time
being at least leave the work alone.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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They showed me, among others,
that Captain Colan, of the
Regiment
of Opo (in-
fantry), had drawn from his canton in ten years
more than fifty thousand crowns, and they made
me see that there was in general no captain who
did not derive a revenue of two thousand crowns
from the cotmtry under him.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Each lead letter was
practically
defined or situated by its right, left, top, and bottom neighbors.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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Et d'autre
part Morel ne cessait de lui dire le rôle de
bourreau
que M.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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He had come fully prepared to protect himself against hostile
designs, bringing with him four or five
thousand
loyal Rajput
soldiers, and to make even more certain of their allegiance he took
their wives and families whose honour and life would be at stake if
they failed him.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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The Compleat Gentleman, fashioning
him absolute in the most necessary and commendable
qualities
concerning
Minde or Bodie.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Tully - Offices |
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Deferment of nega- tion is a main prerequisite of the
political
system as a condition of trust in political power.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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Now there still remain as a particular species of dreams with painful
content, dreams of anxiety, the inclusion of which under dreams of
wishing will find least
acceptance
with the uninitiated.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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The
Vaibhasikas
of KaSmir do not admit this opinioa
3 Id.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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In incomparably dense and dark stud- ies, he contemplated Evil as an attractive world power; he probed the eerie power of the Base to set itself up as the Lofty as the sin- ister driving force behind the course of the world; he brooded on the unfathomable abyss of God with a
tenacity
that seemed less suited to Munich in the early nineteenth century than to Alexan- dria in the third century ce.
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Hegel, Elements of the
Philosophy
of Right, ed.
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In order for
styles and works of art to even appear,
epistemological
knowledge must first have established the field of their colors and forms.
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Toil and tempest are the toys
And games to breathe his
stalwart
boys:
They bide their time, and well can prove,
If need were, their line from Jove;
Of the same stuff, and so allayed,
As that whereof the sun is made,
And of the fibre, quick and strong,
Whose throbs are love, whose thrills are song.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Others have the contrary feeling: which like-
wise proves nothing in favour of their thoughts, nor
yet is it any
argument
against their value.
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Hands off o' the sons o' the Widow,
Hands off o' the goods in 'er shop,
For the Kings must come down an' the
Emperors
frown
When the Widow at Windsor says "Stop"!
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Kipling - Poems |
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Heathcliff
would as soon
lift a finger at you as the king would march his army against a colony of
mice.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Nor will that hand to utmost need afford
The smallest portion of a wasteful board,
Whose luxury whole patrimonies sweeps,
Yet
starving
want, amidst the riot, weeps.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Perhaps this is true, though I note three wineglassfuls in forty-five min- utes as a prescription, which might
temporarily
alter a prohibitionists's out- look on life.
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They distinguish between incurable mental diseases, the kind that with God's help will improve after a while of their own accord, and the kind that the doctor cannot cure either but that the patient could have avoided, assuming of course that the right
influences
and considerations had providentially been brought to bear on him in time.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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how
valuable
your cimeter!
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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Old and New
Architecture
in Khiva, Bokhara and Turkestan.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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To proceed,--the fecundity of a marriage in the English towns
of between 4000 and 5000
inhabitants
is stated at 3.
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And Poseidonius of Apameia, who was afterwards surnamed Rhodian, in the fourth book of his Histories [ Fr_4 ], says that Hierax of Antioch, who used formerly to accompany the singers called Lysiodi on the flute, afterwards became a terrible flatterer of Ptolemy, seventh king of Egypt of that name, who was also surnamed Euergetes; and that he had the very greatest
influence
over him, as also he had with Ptolemy Philometor, though he was afterwards put to death by him.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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In the public school,
the repulsive impress of our aesthetic
journalism
is
stamped upon the still unformed minds of youths.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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I was then (to my
mortification)
settled in Ireland; and about a year after, going to visit my friends in England I found she was a little uneasy upon the death of a person on whom she had some dependance.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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The free mind knows no limit; but the
human race at large is far from having reached that stage of
serene contemplation in which it has no need of
beholding
God
in this or that particular order of facts, for the very reason that
it sees him in everything.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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