A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Patrick by Tirechan^^ relates that Mael had
previously
the magical i-ule on his head.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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The
Interpreter
Of The Law Is The Judge Giving Sentence Viva Voce
In Every Particular Case
The Interpretation of the Law of Nature, is the Sentence of the Judge
constituted by the Soveraign Authority, to heare and determine such
controversies, as depend thereon; and consisteth in the application of
the Law to the present case.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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So Horace had told us:
Scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons,
Rem tibi Socraticae
poterunt
ostendere chartae.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Death must be
transformed
into a means of
victory and triumph.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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The statements show a great deal of
indulgence
in what is seen as "righteous indignation" about people considered as inferior.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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The differencebe- tweenthetwosetsofdevelopmentswas hardlyperceptiblefora longtime, sinceitwasconcealedbya thirdtendencywhichseemedtosuggestthatthe
Germanuniversitysystemwas
merelybecominglike the Americanone.
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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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" Colgan thinks it to called
Inisfidhe
in the Life of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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The Spiritualitie,
however, not only remain impenitent, but impudently seek to repre-
sent their doings as in the highest degree exemplary; the abbot,
the parson and the lady prioress, each in characteristic fashion,
seeking to show that their violation of their vows, so far from
being dishonourable, is rather to their credit than not, and that
their sins of omission are really condoned by the
character
of what
are usually deemed their sins of commission.
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dpa'; Bodhisattva) or the TantricPractitione~
The goal attained by all these means, that are
appropriate
to the various dispositions of people, is perpetual liberation (thar.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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Contributed
to Southey's Joan of Aro
(1796).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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— Thou, who art Father of the Son, who has
awakened
and yet wakens us from the sleep of our sins, and warneth us that we come to thee, — to thee I pray, Lord, who art the highest soothfastness, and for thee is sooth all that sooth is.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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)
CHIEF
MINISTERS
OF Louis XVI.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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CAVE 47
We have already indicated the extent to which an inability to believe in his own self
actuated
Nietzsche's logical mechanism.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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Oliver himself, save in the one
sublime, but early and never repeated, moment of his demand for
‘more,' is totally uninteresting except from the point of view of
sheer compassion; the other good
characters
lack even that virtue
and are, therefore, uninteresting simpliciter.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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ARMSAND INFLUENCE
contrast to the 1950decade, it may be that by the 1960decade the nations which are around the Sino-Soviet perimeter can possess an
effective
defense against full-scale conventional attack and thus confront any aggressor with the choice between failing or himself initiating nuclear war against the defending country.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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The dearest room in this house costs, with board, thirty-five
roubles--more than my purse could well afford; whereas MY room costs
only twenty-four, though
formerly
I used to pay thirty, and so had to
deny myself many things (I could drink tea but seldom, and never could
indulge in tea and sugar as I do now).
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Ramose, African
Philosophy
through Ubuntu, Harare: Mond Books 1999.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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The victims of coercion, or the individuals most
sensitive
to coercive threats, may not be directly in authority; or they may be hopelessly
committed to non-compliant policies.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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Apologies
for this problem.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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" "Marriage and happy family life; ownership of something
important
such as a home, new auto, business concern, etc.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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In its German connota- tion the word of course particularly
signifies
the material aspect of dealing with the damage done by the war which was evident enough after the bombardment by allied forces.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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CVIII
But Poliphern, before whose watery eyes,
His aged father strong Clorinda slew,
When that bright shield and silver helm he spies,
The championess he thought he saw and knew;
Upon his hidden mates for aid he cries
Gainst his
supposed
foe, and forth he flew,
As he was rash, and heedless in his wrath,
Bending his lance, "Thou art but dead," he saith.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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Achilles
is the speaker.
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Greek Anthology |
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"
Yes, against the moral
judgment!
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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2 Guan Zhong lived in poverty, but Bao Shu treated him very well; and when Bao entered the service of the Count Huan of Qi, he
recommended
Guan Zhong.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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”
I could not get anything more out of Maksim Maksimych; generally
speaking, he had no liking for
metaphysical
disputations.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Therefore, when they were let go, they came to Antioch: and when they had assembled the
multitude
together, they delivered the epistle: 31.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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"
Economist
(London),
June 18, 1938, pp.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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Be wi
we know the aim of those who profess to sal
excessive educational
requirements
by mean:
an extraordinary increase in the number of edi
tional institutions and the conceited tribe of teacl
originated thereby.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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He hears other
comfortable
news.
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Dryden - Complete |
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+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for
informing
people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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These cities were for some time of importance,
although
they were
small, and their territory not fruitful.
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Strabo |
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stride proecipiendo mandantes, quatenus ex nunc in antea perpetuis futuris
temporibus
dies dicti sancti martyris Jeronis ad instar diei sancti Laurentii martyris, singulis annis in octava sancti Laurentii in singulis paro- chiis dictarum terrarum Noirt-Hollandia?
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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I could not
understand
it.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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You may glance around the
furniture
of the palaces in
Europe, and you may gather all these utensils of art or use; and
when you have fixed the shape and forms in your mind, I will
take you into the museum of Naples, which gathers all the re-
mains of the domestic life of the Romans, and you shall not find
a single one of these modern forms of art or beauty or use that
was not anticipated there.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Ah, that I were dark and
nightly!
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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But despite all the obvious reasons for penitence and contrition here, this embarrassment--which has made the humanities a laughing stock for every cultivated nonhumanist--should not lead to the radical
exclusion
of any interdisciplinary opening within our work.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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She possessed a fair library, which was put at the disposal of the
boy; and here he
gratified
his love for reading, and perfected his
literary taste.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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As the requirements for other states are met, additions to this list
will be made and fund raising will begin in the
additional
states.
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Whitman |
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Foreman
Click to hear me recite the
original
Arabic
We perish and rot
but the rising stars do not.
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Translated Poetry |
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@E':
: i ,; iiiis ; i,
uiitiii=
,A+i;i;
:.
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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Hale
played marbles, flew kites, rolled hoops, and played an elaborate game in-
volving the
delivery
and hiding of imaginary mail.
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Childens - Folklore |
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"'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his
room, leaving me
palpitating
with horror.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Milichus was
liberally
rewarded by the SCAEVOLA, MU'CIUS.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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wherefore with infection should he live,
And with his presence grace impiety,
That sin by him advantage should achieve,
And lace itself with his
society?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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In another unplaced fragment of the Assyrian text [11] Enkidu rejects
his
mistress
also, apparently on his own initiative and for ascetic
reasons.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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_ per annum, he
would not lock it up in a chest, but would either
increase
his expenses
by 10,000_l.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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Professor Park talks[1] about its being very
_doubtful_
whether the
constitution described by Blackstone ever in fact existed.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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But his chief
philosophical
work, his 'Guide of the Perplexed'
(Dalalat al Hāïrīn), carried him still further; and for centuries fairly
divided the Jewish camp into two parties.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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Upon advancing farther, I
discovered
that the other
head, that, namely, of Perseus, had succeeded no less admirably;
and this astonished me far more, because it is at a considerably
lower level than that of the Medusa.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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It is a
perfectly
overpowering impulse, and I have
more than once taken advantage of it.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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That was the only sound in this eerie vault and
Kohlhaas
was happy to hear it after a while.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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And as to the liberty of the Gallican Church, the Father passed it over
in general terms, saying that the Parliament of France and the Sor-
bonne had
maintained
these liberties as the natural right of all Chur-
ches, but that in France they had been better defended than elsewhere.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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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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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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The loves that meet in
Paradise
shall cast out fear,
And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Into the sky,
the red earthenware and the
galvanised
iron chimneys
thrust their cowls.
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Imagists |
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Ulic
Tarquinius
mandata latentia nati
Accipit, et virga^ lilia summa metit.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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The a in eadem is short, unless it should be
the
ablative
case.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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Barkis, who generally
qualified
his speech, and
rarely committed himself.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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general terms,
attachment
behaviour results in one individual, usually the one who is less able to cope, maintaining proximity to, and/or commu- nication with, another individual, seen as better able to cope.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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The central issue
involves
the wisdom of Millard Fillmore, a vastly and unjustly underrated American statesman.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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Thus needy Wits a vile revenue made,
And Verse became a
mercenary
Trade.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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109
Di nuovo Mandricardo era risorto,
dicendo: — Vada pur come ti pare: —
sì che prima che 'l legno entrasse in porto,
v'era a solcare un gran spazio di mare:
se non che 'l re
Agramante
diede torto
a Rodomonte, che non può chiamare
più Mandricardo per quella querela;
e fe' cadere a quel furor la vela.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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And many
struggled
in the ink.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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Chapter V (page 48) - "logos" - lambda, omicron, gamma, omicron, final
sigma; "hule" - upsilon with rough
breathing
mark, lambda, eta.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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In a society which is trying to organize itself, inequality
of faculties calls up the idea of merit; equite suggests the plan of
proportioning not only esteem, but also material comforts, to personal
merit; and since the highest and almost the only merit then recognized
is physical strength, the strongest, {GREEK ' eg }, and consequently
the best, {GREEK ' eg }, is
entitled
to the largest share; and if it
is refused him, he very naturally takes it by force.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And sight also, my
excellent
friend, if it sees itself must see a
colour, for sight cannot see that which has no colour.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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We've found out in one hour more about him
Than we had seeing him pass by in the road
A
thousand
times.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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" "Uses of Violence," Journal of
Conflict
Resolution, 7 (1963), 44.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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54
Wishing to finish, I cannot; having
exhausted
my
- - - - - ------------
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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Nor , having gain ' ample
d an share
Of all that Greece esteems as fair ,
May envious blasts from heaven assail The victims of a
backward
gale .
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Pindar |
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Published from the
original
MS by Captain
Ayloffe.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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The leaders who spearheaded the peace movement had been
convinced
for more than a year before the end that Japan had lost.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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The obscure bard, when any of the great
condescend
to take
notice of him, should heap the altar with the incense of flattery.
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Robert Burns |
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Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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Easy to have fine, large, liberal views about
the working classes, or the
emancipation
of the negroes, and yet
never have done a loving act to one.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Between 1789 and 1794, the successive assemblies devoted enormous amounts of time to proposals for
reforming
the educational system.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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charmingly; ses maniCres etaient douces et
persuasives
!
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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I was poor when young and
therefore
can do many things, humble jobs.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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A fisher folk
Live there in houses stilted over the water,
And the stars walk like
spectres
of white fire
Upon the misty waters of the mere.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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52
Tra noi tenere un uom che sia sì forte,
contrario
è in tutto al principal disegno.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
Whereat one witling cries, "'tis monstrous fit,
In sooth, a shaven-pated priest should have
A shaven-eared audience;" and another,
"Give thanks, thou Jacques, to this most gracious Duke
That rids thee of the life-long dread of loss
Of thy two ears, by cropping them at once;
And now
henceforth
full safely thou may'st dare
The powerfullest Lord in France to touch
An ear of thine;" and now the knave o' the knife
Seizes the handle to commence again, and saws
And .
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Sidney Lanier |
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How public, like a frog
To tell your name the
livelong
day
To an admiring bog!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For pain is neither an evil nor a good, if
pleasure
is not; why then should he avoid it?
| Guess: |
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Los was the fourth immortal starry one, & in the Earth
Of a bright Universe Empery attended day & night
Days & nights of revolving joy, Urthona was his name
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In Eden; in the Auricular Nerves of Human life* {The centered text block of this page appears to be written over erased text, with four
clusters
of added lines in various orientations in the margin.
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The greatest masters of
propaganda
of our time were Lenin and Hitler.
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Thus, only the second part, published without authority in 1691
and
republished
by Swift in 1692, and the third part, published by
him on his own motion, remain to us.
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'63
Heidegger's account of Trakl in the two essays he published on the poet in the 1950s can be understood as
directed
precisely against this sort of reading.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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"All Christians are
servants
of the same master.
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system that exploded the frag- ile Hegelian synthesis, a renewed Hegelian approach that remains
faithful
to the idea of concrete uni- versality, of universal rights for all, "calls in its very structure for the subsequent enlargements of later history" (115) and for a new project of reconciliation?
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Generated for Christian Pecaut (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:49 GMT / http://hdl.
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I have visions of living for half a year or so
in all sorts of
inaccessible
places, and of opening a new book therein.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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But its significance is not that of an inconsequential passage; it is a time with its own dignity insofar as it already stands in the light of
salvation
by virtue of its message.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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Duty required that the senate, which now of course understood its task better than when it recalled half the army of Regulus from Africa, should take into its hands the management of affairs, and should oppose such mis chievous
proceedings
; but when the first of those two defeats had for the moment placed the rudder in its hands, it too had hardly acted in a manner unbiassed by the interests of party.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Are we agreed that Life is a
force which has made innumerable experiments in organizing itself; that
the mammoth and the man, the mouse and the megatherium, the flies and
the fleas and the Fathers of the Church, are all more or less successful
attempts to build up that raw force into higher and higher individuals,
the ideal
individual
being omnipotent, omniscient, infallible, and
withal completely, unilludedly self-conscious: in short, a god?
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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should haughty Hector boast
I fled
inglorious
to the guarded coast.
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Tarrion wound up:--"And I fancy that special knowledge of this kind is
at least as
valuable
for, let us say, a berth in the Foreign Office, as
the fact of being the nephew of a distinguished officer's wife.
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