The hope of better times is their eternal chimera, by which
they will ever keep on
deceiving
themselves again and yet again;
because they will never realize that not the time, but their own
inborn wretched foolishness, is the reason why it will never be
better with them.
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of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
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Why, a corkscrew ’ud look like a bloody
bradawl beside of him 1 There isn’t one of them double — sons of whores in
the Flying Squad but ’ud sell his grandmother to the knackers for two pound
ten and then sit on her
gravestone
eating potato crisps The geemg, narking
toe rag 1
charlie Perishing tough ’Ow many convictions you got?
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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Muffling his face, of greeting friends in fear,
Her fingers he press'd hard, as one came near
With curl'd gray beard, sharp eyes, and smooth bald crown,
Slow-stepp'd, and robed in
philosophic
gown:
Lycius shrank closer, as they met and past,
Into his mantle, adding wings to haste,
While hurried Lamia trembled: "Ah," said he,
"Why do you shudder, love, so ruefully?
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copyright
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money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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We recover our sense of the
true proportions only when we reflect that even the Himālayas are only
five or six miles high, and that India is two
thousand
miles long.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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See "Acta
Sanctorum
Hibemiae,"
i.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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I never
followed
her, nor lifted high
My hand to bless her; never said good-bye.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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A Swedish
officer also
pronounced
a short discourse.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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Not a sea-port, where some fine morning the
Salaminian[193] galley can appear,
bringing
a writ-server along.
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Aristophanes |
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And whereas in the planting of
Christian
Religion, the Oracles ceased
in all parts of the Roman Empire, and the number of Christians encreased
wonderfully every day, and in every place, by the preaching of the
Apostles, and Evangelists; a great part of that successe, may reasonably
be attributed, to the contempt, into which the Priests of the Gentiles
of that time, had brought themselves, by their uncleannesse, avarice,
and jugling between Princes.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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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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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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Such a metaphysic of morals, completely isolated, not mixed with any anthropology, theology, physics, or hyperphysics, and still less with occult qualities (which we might call hypophysical), is not only an indispensable substratum of all sound
theoretical
knowledge of duties, but is at the same time a desideratum of the highest impor- tance to the actual fulfilment of their precepts.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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“Battles
enough have been fought,” was his
answer to those who advised him to attack the King, “it is now time to
try another method.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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Echoes of
Titmarsh
are heard in the
passages satirising Dickens and Carlyle; the characterisation and
the creation of a locality show complete originality.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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The mere concatenation of places, the sequential juxtaposition of the two
accounts
is not nothing, if one wanted to psychoanalyze things.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep
providing
this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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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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The farm had had a fairly
successful
year, but was still short of money.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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For, although initially his capacity to adapt is limited, it is not absent altogether and, if al- lowed to grow in its own time, is soon
yielding
re- wards.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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Firfl read the
Teftimony
j then the De-
cree.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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org/6/0/9/6099/
Produced by Tonya Allen, Julie Barkley, Juliet Sutherland,
Charles Franks and the Online Distributed
Proofreading
Team.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Antevolant,
sonitumque
ferunt ad liltora venti.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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) In the six elegies of the
third book a youth apparently of
eighteen
or nineteen, yet
already famous as a poet and employing the pseudonym of
Lygdamus, seeks to w r in back the love of the fair Neaera,
who has divorced him.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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32 ^ CATULLUS
V
Come, let us live and love, my dear,
A fig for all the pratings drear
Of sour old sages,
w^orldly
w^ise.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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Darley, all
furbelows
and flounces, with her
fresh, smooth face and soft hair, and plump, round arms half
revealed by the flowing sleeves of her thin black dress.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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The following
conclusions
seem to me inescapable:
Free Marxism has its legitimate place in this university and in other uni- versities of the Western world.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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The
sum total of what is
experienced
by mankind is a selection from the
sum total of what exists, and any general character exhibited by this
selection may be due to the manner of selecting rather than to the
general character of that from which experience selects.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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Just as in ancient Greece where one and the same
alphabet
stood at once for speech elements, natural num- bers, and musical pitches,21 our binary system encompasses everything known about culture and nature, which was formerly encoded in letters, images, and sounds.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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He sent also His own Word Himself, He sent His own Son in Person : He
sent the
servants
of His Son, and in these very servants His own Son.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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'
The
_Alcestis_
is a very clear instance of this Pro-satyric class of
play.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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This makes our encoun- ters with classics more relaxed, because their power to speak to us
directly
is no longer threatened--nor is this power peculiarly theirs.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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These fews things will
probably
not help you very much, but I
have answered your questions as well as I could.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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Beneath the
sheltering
oak tree's shade
He with his little maiden played,
Whilst the fond parents, friends thro' life,
Dreamed in the future man and wife.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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n, The Mirror of the Times), of which two versions have come down to us, is
particularly
important
1 Three volumes, edited by M.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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Reeds in a trice are
sprouting
and rustling in murmuring breezes:
"Midas, o Midas the King--bears the ears of an ass!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The problem of the
" Turkish
heritage
" is one which can be
settled only by war.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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Long the fortune of battle wavered on the right wing, and the consul Livius who commanded there was hard pressed, till Nero, repeating his strategical operation as tactical
from the Romans by
a
it,
a
;
a
a
it,
chap, vi FROM CANNAE TO ZAMA
349
manoeuvre, allowed the
motionless
enemy opposite to him to remain as they stood, and marching round his own army fell upon the flank of the Spaniards.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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in light dreams, thy airy finger
The inborn angel's
features
drew!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Give way, ye lofty billows, low subside,
Smooth as the level plain, your
swelling
pride,
Lo, Venus comes!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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" But the Mouse only shook
its head
impatiently
and walked a little quicker.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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) the
touching
seene.
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Finnegans |
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"
'207 Cato':
an
unmistakable
allusion to Addison's tragedy in which the famous Roman
appears laying down the law to the remnants of the Senate.
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Alexander Pope |
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No man, I suppose, employs much of his time
on the phenomena of his own body without some regard for it; whereas the
reader sees that, so far from looking upon mine with any complacency or
regard, I hate it, and make it the object of my bitter
ridicule
and
contempt; and I should not be displeased to know that the last
indignities which the law inflicts upon the bodies of the worst
malefactors might hereafter fall upon it.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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"Oti gar ouk estin
anthropo
kata
phusin to sarkophagein, proton men apo ton somaton deloutai tes
kataskeues.
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Shelley |
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Smith to York, who
immediately
selected Turpin from all the other prisoners in the castle; and, with another gentleman, afterwards proved his identity on his trial.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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I want to suggest another way of approaching this question that re- fuses the reduction of
linguistic
construction to linguistic monism, and which calls into question the figure of language acting unilaterally and unequivocally on the object of construction.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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)
What has this bugbear death to
frighten
man,
If souls can die, as well as bodies can ?
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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My bowmen have been utterly
defeated!
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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At last, after what seemed a long time--it
might have been five seconds, I dare say--he sagged
flabbily
to his knees.
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Orwell |
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And the hills, which stood fast
Ere the first axe was cast
And have seen so much history,
May have
fathomed
the mystery.
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Tennyson |
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31] For just consider a little; and for a moment think of the
business
like a sober man.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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The
chroniclers
of High Society-that is, the circles of wealth--recognize this need and, in order to show hereditary status and family position, they allude to males in the line of descent by number, as in the case of royal dynasties.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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Thereasonsareobvious,itis true,butwe mustagainagreewithKingwhenshemaintainsthatfurtheresearch
inthisfieldis
a desideratum.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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His trip was ostensibly to provide background material for his work Les Martyrs, a
Christian
epic in prose, but may also have helped to resolve certain problems in his private life.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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So they row'd, and there we landed--" 0 venusta Sirmio /"
There to me thro' all the groves of olive in the summer
glow,
* Popular Edition,
Macmillan
& Co.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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When saying mind is unobstructed we are talking about the essence of mind, not that the mind is a
permanent
thing.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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Seeking o'er the new-laid rast-way
Tothegardensofthesun
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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From thee, from thee the hallow'd
transport
flows
That sever'd rages, and for union glows:
Heav'n owns the claim.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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—The perfect woman is
a higher type of
humanity
than the perfect man,
and also something much rarer.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by
commercial
parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Tarde has ably demonstrated
the persistent influence of these
conditions
on the actions of
men.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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But when she gorged again, Drunk with abysmal gurglings, one might note
The dark sands of the
immeasurable
main
Gleam iron-blue.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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When my teacher's mother herself died, her teacher, a great Lama named Garchen Tulku, performed the ritual of
transference
for her.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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Emerson would call this making
history subjective,-"doing away with this wild, savage, and prepos-
terous Then or There, and introducing in its place the Here and the
Now;"
banishing
the not-me and supplying the me.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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The 'labours' of _1633_
represents
a
common dropping of the 't' for ease of pronunciation.
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Donne - 2 |
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change
the worm back into his canine form, as he was often pleased in the night
to trot before me, to roll before the feet of the
harmless
wanderer, and,
when he fell, to hang on his shoulders.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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" The Tinia
discharges
itself
into the Tiber near Perusia.
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Satires |
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The dazzling splendour of his private life
bespoke high soaring projects; and, lavish as a king, he seemed already
to reckon among his certain possessions those which he
contemplated
with
hope.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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180
>>
Par grant hideur fu soutilliee,
Et si estoit
entortillee
150
Hideusement d'une toaille.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The closeness of this relationship is borne by the remarkable fact that the
perceptive
glance directed at the other is itself full of expression, and in fact precisely by the way one looks at the other.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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"_)
CATHLEEN
(_entering_)
And so you trade once more?
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Yeats - Poems |
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Buckner; so that the whole Book, with the Index, was bound up about
Christmas
following, which was
Christmas was a twelve-month.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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The knowledge of destruction is, with respect to the Truths, the
certitude
that they are known, abandoned, etc.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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Aquí aparece por primera vez el
concepto
de «ayuda para autoa- yuda».
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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That movement, in turn, is the
climactic
stage of being in a dream and suggests that one never truly leaves the dream-like improbability of Venice, but instead finds oneself uncannily returning to the place from which one intended to depart.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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"
This army, fifty
thousand
strong, after
having conquered and dispersed the troops
of Mansfeld, the most valuable auxiliary
of the King of Denmark, soon brought
under subjection Silesia, Lower Saxony,
,and Holstein.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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Or than him, through whom [1065] the father is
deceived
by the tricks
of the crafty Geta?
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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This fact will do to
demonstrate
that the notion itself of being at two different places does not mean two different bodies.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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A youth in every sense noble had
commenced
the revolution; it was concluded by pert intriguers and demagogues of the lowest type.
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Ma perche l'occhio cupido e vagante
a me rivolse, quel feroce drudo
la
flagello
dal capo infin le piante;
poi, di sospetto pieno e d'ira crudo,
disciolse il mostro, e trassel per la selva,
tanto che sol di lei mi fece scudo
a la puttana e a la nova belva.
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Eliot constructs an aesthetic, a language game, a poem in which the Sibyl's predicament, her soul
embodied
as a kind of eternity, can seem true or real: The Waste Land in all of its voices constructs the Sibyl's form of life, her condition, a community in which she can be understood and which she would recognize as her own; The Waste Land is the Mind of the Sibyl.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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Crawford’s
assistance; and Mr.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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The slim bronze men beat the hour again,
But only the
gargoyles
up in the hard blue air heed them.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Chatterton
would never have had time to write so much.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Hard by the Lake Regillus
Our camp was pitched at night:
Eastward
a mile the Latines lay,
Under the Porcian height.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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In
sacrifice
to the gods.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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Perhaps the worst consequence of the
continual
courting of the favour of the multitude by the ruling aris tocracy was the incompatibility of such a begging and fawning part with the position which the government should right fully occupy in relation to the governed.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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But it is hard to
understand
how we could know some- thing without knowing what its absence entails: and it may well be, as Colin McGinn argues, that consciousness is one of those philosophical problems which human be- ings are structurally unfit to solve; and that in that sense Kant's was the right posi- tion to take: that, although its existence is as certain as the Cartesian cogito, con- sciousness must also remain perpetually unknowable as a thing-in-itself.
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Antiquity has said not
to him,
consequently
he has nothing to say al
antiquity.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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As a last scene, a "human pyramid" had been announced, in which fifty
Long Noses were to
represent
the Car of Juggernaut.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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”
O could you but hear it, at
midnight
my laugh:
My hour is striking; come step in my trap;
Now into my net stream the fishes.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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My fancies have not
deceived
me--I
love you ecstatically, diabolically, as a madman might!
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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He was, it was said, a very mild ruler and earned the epithet "the Good" from his character; his subjects were deeply
saddened
by his death.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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