When a bull elephant enters this curious state (perhaps the
elephantine
equivalent of an Australian on 'walkabout') he dribbles out urine more or less continuously, apparently for scent-marking purposes.
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I twine
My hopes of being remembered in my line
With my land's language: if too fond and far
These
aspirations
in their scope incline,--
If my fame should be, as my fortunes are,
Of hasty growth and blight, and dull Oblivion bar.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I know how to summon up happiest moments,
and relive my past, there, curled,
touching
your knees.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Are you afraid,
Who were so
dauntless
till the walls gave way?
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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'
And he
answered
them and said, 'I will not talk to you about God.
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The Frankish population of Jerusalem who had not departed began to sell at very low prices all their possessions,
treasures
and whatever they could not carry with them.
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As, therefore, he considered merely the
conceptions
of objects, and not their position in intuition, in which alone objects can be given, and left quite out of sight the transcendental locale of these conceptions --whether, that their object ought to be classed among phenomena, or among things themselves, was to be expected that he should extend the application of the principle
of indiscernibles, which valid solely of conceptions of things in general, to objects of sense (mundus phenomenon), and that he should believe that he had thereby contributed in no small degree to extend our knowledge of nature.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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32
POLISH LITERATURE
Poland,
Republic
of.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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TO HIS BOOK
Make haste away, and let one be
A
friendly
patron unto thee;
Lest, rapt from hence, I see thee lie
Torn for the use of pastery;
Or see thy injured leaves serve well
To make loose gowns for mackarel;
Or see the grocers, in a trice,
Make hoods of thee to serve out spice.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Unlike a
military
cona?
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Schwarz - Committments |
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5° It is then said, that a
pleasant
fountain flowed by our saint's monastery, which was very near a river, that emptied itself into the Cessonian port, now better known as the Bay of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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The resulting international
relations
often have the character of a competition in risk taking, characterized not so much by tests of force as by tests of nerve.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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Non bene
coelestes
impia dextra colit.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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At this he went quickly backward, and so ran with intent to escape the baleful might of the God o’ Fire, with his mattock ever held before his body like a buckler and his eyes turned now this way and now that, lest the
consuming
fire should set him alight.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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But in addition my effort in bad faith must include the
ontological
comprehension that even in my usual being what I am, I am not it really and that there is no such difference between the being of "being-sad," for example-which I am in the mode of not being what I am -and the "non-being" of not-being-courageous which I wish to hide from myself.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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32$
Pastorbs
de Belen.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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As for the " School of Images/' which
may or may not have existed, its principles
were not so interesting as those of the
""
inherent dynamists or of Les Unani-
mistes, yet they were
probably
sounder than those of a certain French school
which attempted to dispense with verbs
altogether ; or of the Impressionists who
brought forth :
"
Pink pigs blossoming upon the hillside" ;
or of the Post-Impressionists who beseech their ladies to let down slate-blue hair
over their raspberry-coloured flanks.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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Title of Work & Name of Person: Thomas Moore (1779-1852) Irish
Melodies
(1834)
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Reading and writing, for
instance, are useful for the discharge of the business of life, though
their
commercial
utility is not the highest value which they have for
us.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF THE _NEIS 373
To treat the peace, a hundred senators
Shall be commission'd hence with ample pow'rs,
With olive crown'd: the presents they shall bear,
A purple robe, a royal iv'ry chair,
And all the marks of sway that Lafian
monarchs
wear, And sums of gold.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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My life eternal is all that
misfortunes
have
left me to give you.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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502 The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
Post-War
Prospect
for Liberal Education
THERE ARE THOSE who say that liberal education, as we have known it in America, is declining toward extinction.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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[The
Sautrantikas
think that] the Sutra does name duration; it names it by associating it with old age: sthityanyathatva, that is to say, "sthiti and anyathatva.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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They glided past, they glided fast,
Like travellers through a mist:
They mocked the moon in a rigadoon
Of delicate turn and twist,
And with formal pace and loathsome grace
The
phantoms
kept their tryst.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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0 der
steinerne
Hu?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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You may wonder what
his rigmarole, his amateur Paganini
performances
on one string
or on twenty, have to do with your planting, and yet prefer it to
leached ashes or plaster.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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73
good for something, as a form of being, and the naked
existence
of a god would not have been as trying and ?
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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stated purpose of conveying some idea
It
appeared
simultaneously in New York of novel scenes that frequently occur
and London, and won everywhere the among whaling crews in the South Pa-
highest praise.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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_, in 1872; and
_Laughable
Lyrics: A Fresh Book of Nonsense,
etc.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Who for the stranger damsel prowl about,
Of her to make an impious holocaust;
In that the more they
slaughter
from without,
They less the number of their own exhaust.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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12 Who can
understand
his errors?
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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The tranquillity of the
Mysore kingdom, which has been practically
unbroken
for a century,
was due to him, it may well be said, more than to any other man.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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Attend, Heloise, to some instructions I have to give you: you are at the head of a society, and you know there is a
difference
between those who lead a private life and those who are charged with the conduct of others: the first need only labour for their own sanctification, and in their round of duties are not obliged to practise all the virtues in such an apparent manner: but those who have the charge of others entrusted to them ought by their example to encourage their followers to do all the good of which they are capable.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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The
terrible
heresy of Tito of Yugoslavia was that he let the peasants alone.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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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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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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They should be covered or
protected
for transporting and kept in a high, clean place separate from more "ordinary" things.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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This istheCha
racterofHeJiod^Sapho, Anacreon, Simonides,andEu ripides among thePoets, and
oflfocratesamong
the Orators.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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--Many might
go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture
their
industry
the right way; but "The devil take all!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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His firm became
bankrupt
in 1929 [Sieburth, Pai, 4-2, 3, 329-332].
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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I would also like to contend that Nietzsche's "narcissism" is less pertinent a phenomenon from the point of individual psychology than the marker of a cut in the
linguistic
history of old Europe.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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Aut tondit
infirmas
oves.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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Within the vastness of
spontaneous
self-knowing, let be freely, uncontrived and free of
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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It is obvious that in general no number whatsoever is
determined
in this way.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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Leave not the blossom-dotted couch
To wander in the midday heat,
With lotus-petals on your breast,
With fevered limbs and
stumbling
feet.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Hai chữ “trung
hưng”
tiếp sau chỉ cuộc binh biến tháng 7-1460 do Nguyễn Xí, Đinh Liệt cầm đầu phế truất Lê Nghi Dân, lập Lê Tư Thành (thuộc dòng đích) lên ngôi, tức vua Lê Thánh Tông.
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stella-01 |
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King
You wish us to believe the
impossible?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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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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International
donations
are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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Weep not, sweet queen, for
trickling
tears are vain.
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Shakespeare |
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You're
strangely
proud.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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[4] By accepting the Teacher:
Mahakasyapa
and others.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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'" George
dedicated
a poem to the shore of the Rhein where Karoline von Giinderode threw herself in.
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This was his first
political
effort.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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O words of mine
foredone
and full of terror,
Whither it please ye, go forth and proclaim
Grief.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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As Burke and Robespierre had warned many years before, the revolution in France had ended in a
military
dictatorship.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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He assured Lucian that he
sincerely
trusted that he might achieve his heart's desire, and
added a word of good advice as to the inadvisability of writing too soon.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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Why be his arms to ease and peace
resigned?
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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And how long are we lost in this confusion, unable to exert our reason, to possess our souls, or to rule our
affections?
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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And crying out, “Nature alone is good, the natural
man alone is human,” he
despises
himself and
aspires beyond himself: a state wherein the soul
is ready for a fearful resolve, but calls the noble
and the rare as well from their utter depths.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Nevertheless,
the goodness of God did not forsake his people, whom he foreknew, but sent
to the
aforesaid
nation much more worthy heralds of the truth, to bring it
to the faith.
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bede |
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Nietzsche, the most outspoken polemicist imaginable when it comes to the Enlightenment notion of morality, introduces the Dionysian here in a language reminiscent of the
celebration of community with which
Schiller
ends his essay The Theater as a Moral Institution.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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--To all
which and the like I say again, that you ought not to reason from the
abuse, which may be rectified, against the
inherent
uses of the thing.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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Eternal Nymph, you're the grace
Of my
ancestral
place:
So, in this fresh, green view,
See your Poet, who brings
An un-weaned kid to you,
Whose horns, in offering,
Bud from its brow in youth.
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Ronsard |
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The third and fourth
centuries
A.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Corresponding to the fact that we act as if time is a valuable commodity-a limited resource, even money--'-we
conceive
of time that way.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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The sudden unprovoked attacks, which in older chil- dren can easily be damaging, are
especially
hard to take.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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Thus Paul writes in Romans 9 concerning the revealed truth that God himself
obdurated
the mind of the Pharaoh (obdurare):
100
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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A new Attempt at a
Foundation
for Arithmetic
281
3.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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2a) arisen from the
teaching
{srutamayt) for its support, there arises the wisdom arisen from reflection (cintdmayt)\ with this for its support, there arises the wisdom arisen from meditation (bhdvand- mayt).
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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My feet kept drowsing,
drowsing
still,
My fingers were awake;
Yet why so little sound myself
Unto my seeming make?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The physicist Ernst Mach sealed a wire in a glass tube, connected the wire
electrically
to the shutter of an instant camera, and then fired on the glass tube.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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The passing of the Jordan, in the 3d chapter of the
book of Joshua, is perhaps the purest and sheerest miracle recorded in the
Bible; it seems to have been wrought for the miracle's sake, and so thereby
to show to the Jews--the descendants of those who had come out of Egypt--
that the _same_ God who had
appeared
to their fathers, and who had by
miracles, in many respects providential only, preserved them in the
wilderness, was _their_ God also.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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In the north, as distinct
from the south, Roman Law possessed a
theoretical
or juristic authority.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm
Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free
distribution
of
electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers
including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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126
For Richard of Saint-Laurent, there was seemingly nothing to which Mary, "the
tabernacle
and the triclinium of the whole Trinity," could not be compared.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Long she pries
At boots and shoes of every size--
Brown football-boots with bar and stud
For boys that scuffle in the mud,
And dancing-pumps with pointed toes
Glossy as jet, and dull black bows;
Slim ladies' shoes with two-inch heel
And
sprinkled
beads of gold and steel--
'How anyone can wear such things!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Antipathetic to the French Revolution, he
travelled
to North America in 1791.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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Morrice being in private with him,,
the chancellor told him " how much the king was
" surprised with the paper he had received from the
" general, which at least
recommended
(and which
" would have always great authority with him) some
" such persons to his trust, in whom he could not
" yet, till they were better known to him, repose
" any confidence.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Interestingly
though, Diirer's Manual of Measurement of Lines, Areas and Solids by Means of Compass and Ruler, a direct extrapolation of Alberti, ended with a thanks to "God our Lord"and with the firm resolution to protect the printed book against thiev- ing presses that might copy it.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so
digress?
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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I said, 'What
influence
me preferred,
Elect, to dreams thus beautiful?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Everything among them talketh,
everything
is
P
## p.
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:30 GMT / http://hdl.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:24 GMT / http://hdl.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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_"
His
regiment
comes.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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JEAN PAUL RICHTER
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The literary work here referred to was the series of satirical
sketches
entitled
Grönländische Processe' (Greenland Lawsuits),
published in two parts in 1783-4.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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12249 (#295) ##########################################
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
12249
The literary work here referred to was the series of satirical
sketches
entitled
Grönländische Processe' (Greenland Lawsuits),
published in two parts in 1783-4.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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“Schoenus’ bride-race” :
Hippomenes
won Atalanta the fleet-footed daughter of Schoenus by throwing an apple in the race for her hand
5.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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No
flinching
in any of the horses.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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Then
did they uncase their flagons by heaps and dozens, and with their
leaguer-provision made
excellent
good cheer.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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" Welcome, our
Instructor
!
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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"
He spread the pictures before him, and again
surveyed
them alternately.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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La planta que surgió de ella produjo el fruto de una
calabaza
tan
grande como una casa.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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The Fox and the Grapes
One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard
till he came to a bunch of Grapes just
ripening
on a vine which
had been trained over a lofty branch.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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If
there was affectation in the way he
presented
himself to the out-
ward world, it was the affectation of simplicity, not of ostenta-
tion, and the severity of line which is one of the characteristics
of his poetry was also a characteristic of his whole visible being.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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"At the Metropolitan or the Union League or the University,"
Cleveland
Amory quotes a clubman, "you might do a $10,000 deal, but you'd use the Knickerbocker or the Union or the Racquet for $100,000 and then, for $1,000,000 you move on to the Brook or the Links.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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On that one pivot
the whole success of the
experiment
turned.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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This sounds like a
nonsense
question.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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