But
certenly
he feared me with trampling of his feete:
And of his mouth the boystous breath upon my hairlace blew.
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"
"That
retiring
and gentle temperament," said Genji, "gives far greater
beauty to women than all beside, for to have no natural pliability
makes women utterly worthless.
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You do not know
anything
to say.
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what |
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Why does this sentence imply that the person is unable to think of a response? |
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This sentence implies that the person is unable to think of a response because compliments do not inspire them with words, and there is nothing they can say in answer to a compliment. They also mention feeling embarrassment and that "they always feel that they have not said enough." This sense of inadequacy and embarrassment likely contributes to the person's inability to think of a response. |
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Twain - Speeches |
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Have you
travelled
far to-day?
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traveled |
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Why is the speaker asking about the distance the person has travelled today? |
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The speaker is asking about the distance the person has travelled today to show empathy and concern for the old woman, who seems to be weary and without a place to stay. The old woman's situation and the hard wind outside contribute to the reason for asking about her travels. |
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Yeats |
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Or the
glistening
Eye to the poison of a smile!
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subtle |
| Question: |
Why does the phrase "poison of a smile" imply danger or deception associated with the glistening eye? |
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The phrase "poison of a smile" implies danger or deception associated with the glistening eye because it suggests that a smile, which is usually a sign of friendliness or joy, can hide malicious intent. This phrase points out that a person's outward appearance or expression, in this case a smile and glistening eye, can be deceptive and lure others into a false sense of security. |
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blake-poems |
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My Soul is free,
although
my Body's fast :
Let them repent that have this Evil laid,
And of Eternal Vengeance be afraid ; Though Racks and Gibbets can my Body kill, My God is with me, and I fear no Ill.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Sie mussten
bestimmten
Anforderungen
genu?
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Anforderungen |
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Why did they have to meet certain requirements? |
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They had to meet certain requirements to be of value and be useful, as thoughts that could not be utilized were considered as an intellectual sin for Weininger. |
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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Though Luke doth not plainly express how the mariners and
soldiers
behaved themselves, yet he doth plainly distinguish Paul from them, declaring that he stood in the midst of them that he might comfort their faint hearts; for no man is fit to exhort but he who is himself an example of constancy and fortitude.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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Apelan expresa o inexpresamente al
entendimiento
progresista.
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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On the other
hand, a deficiency, a state of degeneration, may be
of the greatest
possible
use, inasmuch as it acts
as a stimulus to other organs.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Bedenkt, Ihr habet weiches Holz zu spalten,
Und seht nur hin, fur wen Ihr
schreibt!
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schreibt |
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Why are we being advised to remember that we are splitting softwood and to consider for whom we are writing? |
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We are being advised to remember that we are splitting softwood and to consider for whom we are writing because it serves as a reminder to think about our audience and tailor our writing or creative work to engage, entertain, and meet their expectations. It also helps us keep our egos in check by reminding us not to assume that our brilliance alone will be enough to draw in the audience; instead, we need to make an effort to connect to their interests, needs, and preferences. |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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XXVIII
Oh what strange
monsters
on the battlement
In loathsome forms stood to defend the place?
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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And if anyone desires to look more carefully into the remote past, [p281] even a third foundation of Rome will be found, more ancient than these, one that
happened
before Aeneias and the Trojans came into Italy.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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Rest thee here: this place has
hospitality
for every
one--refresh thyself!
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Now Earl of
Leicester!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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i:t\oniuf AgAf mAgtiAf,
SelAiffe
l^ofeffe^ ;
SeiMTiAn triApcip tiAf^l,
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See Rev.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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174 The Life of
sinister clearness by the one fact, that the hero
who with his good sword had once proved the
futiHty of the
institutions
of the Empire had come
himself to defend these lifeless forms against the
head of the Empire.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Anothermanifestationis the revival
somewhatout
of date of
formsof suchas "Ew.
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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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Yet here may a
question
be moved, How it was lawful for the Jews to stone Stephen, who had not the government in their hands?
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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What a seat he has on
horseback!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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In fact, even after almost a hundred years, the enthusiastic images of August 1914 remain a scandal not only from a
political
but also from an anthropological point of view.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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Pistoia, weep, and all your
thankless
crew!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Wherefore we
laboured
with oars to get unto it, and over
it we went and with much ado got to the further side beyond all our
expectation.
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Lucian - True History |
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They
would see, he said, only one
gentleman
there besides himself; a
particular friend who was staying at the park, but who was neither very
young nor very gay.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Strange, above all, thy length of tress,
And this all solemn
silentness!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The character of the people was summed up
by their poet Epimenides, a
contemporary
of Solon's, in a famous line
quoted by St.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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"8+
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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A feeling akin to
rapture is
diffused
through all my veins.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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or is this the play
Of fond
illusion?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And so, almost before they knew what was happening, the
Rebellion had been
successfully
carried through: Jones was expelled,
and the Manor Farm was theirs.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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Better have borne the petulant proud disdain
Of Amaryllis, or
Menalcas
wooed,
Albeit he was so dark, and you so fair!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Calculating this effect amounts to
observing
observers, which was un- necessary when observing an artwork simply meant supplementing inde- terminacies.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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His first wife, a very
pious woman whom he seems to have loved much,
encouraged
him in this.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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The so-called pholis gives out a mucous discharge, which
envelops
the creature in a kind of nest.
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s See "
Transactions
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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A decent concept of a twentieth century world is like the decent concept of a town or a family, you don't want your
neighbour
down with cholera; you don't want your family full of sickly members all yowling for help.
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"32 As linguist George Lakoff explains, re- framing is an
important
step in creating change because reframing changes how people see the world: "It is changing what counts as common sense.
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He
promised
'a new start'.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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_ Nothing, I hope; I would not have it said
That in my
vengeance
any fault I made.
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Thomas Otway |
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Still, savage
mortality
was no greater than that of
modern times.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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HULME
MANA ABODA ABOVE THE DOCK THE
EMBANKMENT
CONVERSION
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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One can then see the
benefits
of nirvana
5.
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Instead, we should hold in our minds the
branching
tree diagram which is the only illustration in The Origin ofSpecies.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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The way to avoid this utopian re- duction of the subject to the impos- sible gaze
witnessing
an alternate reality, from which he is absent, is not to abandon the topos of alter- nate reality as such.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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He who remains has stolen a temporary lease of life;
The dead are
finished
forever.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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Comparing the cavity of the uterus to a triangle, we say the
upper side or line of this triangle is transverse with respect to the
body, and the other two lines pass downward and inward, so that they
would form an angle below, did they not before they meet take a turn
more
directly
downward to form the canal just mentioned.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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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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Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the
Universities
of the Federal Republic of Germany
Author(s): ERNST NOLTE
Source: Minerva, Vol.
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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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Some drily plain, without invention's aid,
Write dull
receipts
how poems may be made.
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Alexander Pope |
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Thanksgiving
for a former, doth invite, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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If any deviation of party B remains unpunished, party B comes to a
conclusion
that future deviations will not trigger punishments from party A.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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See Newkirk,
Performance
of Self.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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The
latter
examined
it attentively, then laid it on the card chosen.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Say, cursed dolls, that sweat, there,
toiling!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Glossary
ciple be larger, but that at that
historic
junc?
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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For
I am more than seventy years of age, and this is the first time that
I have ever
appeared
in a court of law, and I am quite a stranger
to the ways of the place; and therefore I would have you regard me
as if I were really a stranger, whom you would excuse if he spoke
in his native tongue, and after the fashion of his country; - that
I think is not an unfair request.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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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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The_satires_of_Persius |
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" Not to mention the superfluousness of the addition of the word impossible to indicate the apodeictic certainty, which ought to be self-evident from the proposition itself, the propo sition is affected by the
condition
of time, and as it were says :
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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He is fluent, rapid, vehement, full of
his subject, with
evidently
a great deal to say, and very regardless
of the manner of saying it.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Schoenus
was a village near Thebes.
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Greek Anthology |
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net),
you must, at no
additional
cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Cited in James
Thurber’s
essay “Soapland,” in Thurber, The Beast in Me and Other Animals (New York, 1968), p.
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Wolfgang-Schivelbusch-Three-New-Deals_-Reflections-on-Roosevelt’s-America_-Mussolini’s-Italy_-and-Hi |
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that this condescension of yours
is an even coarser disparagement of science than
any of that open scorn which a
presumptuous
priest
or artist might allow himself to indulge in towards
science?
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Jonathan
Swift graduated as B.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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For the explanation
of tragic myth the very first requirement is that
the
pleasure
which characterises it must be sought
in the purely aesthetic sphere, without encroaching
on the domain of pity, fear, or the morally-subjime.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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137 (#171) ############################################
THE JOYFUL WISDOM, II 137
to ourselves in that which is true and
original
in us.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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to creating; in creating, however, de
struction
included).
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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That identification meant that the middle classes were also subject to the ups and downs suffered by the
ideology
itself.
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market |
| Question: |
Why does the identification with the ideology cause the middle classes to experience its ups and downs? |
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The identification with the ideology of nationalism causes the middle classes to experience its ups and downs because they define themselves in terms of the nation and are willing to risk all for it. This means that they are subject to the fluctuations and changes in the popularity and manifestations of the nationalist ideology, as it rises and falls in cycles, in response to its relationship with cosmopolitanism and other historical events. |
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Wolfgang-Schivelbusch-Three-New-Deals_-Reflections-on-Roosevelt’s-America_-Mussolini’s-Italy_-and-Hi |
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To extend this image, we might say that before the 1930s Europe and America were each in
possession
of only half of what was needed to create a modern mass society.
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possession |
| Question: |
Why were Europe and America each considered to possess only half of what was needed to create a modern mass society before the 1930s? |
| Answer: |
Europe and America were each considered to possess only half of what was needed to create a modern mass society before the 1930s because Europe had a social welfare state but remained mired in class struggle, whereas America had a middle-class peace of mind but lacked a system of social support. The crisis of the Great Depression revealed that neither ideology was sufficient to hold society together. In Europe, the persistence of class struggle produced significant social friction, while in the United States, the absence of a welfare state had a similar effect. |
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Wolfgang-Schivelbusch-Three-New-Deals_-Reflections-on-Roosevelt’s-America_-Mussolini’s-Italy_-and-Hi |
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Scholars gradually recognized neoclassical monumentalism—whether of the 1930s, the Renaissance, the French Revolution, or the Napoleonic empire—for what it is: the architectural style in which the state visually
manifests
power and authority.
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asserts |
| Question: |
Why is neoclassical monumentalism considered the architectural style that visually manifests state power and authority? |
| Answer: |
Neoclassical monumentalism is considered the architectural style that visually manifests state power and authority because it is associated with various state solutions during times of crisis, such as revolutions, wars, or economic depressions. The style is used when states need to project a powerful and authoritative image that inspires trust, respect, and a sense of deeper meaning and community. It serves to show the rest of the world who they are dealing with and sets the state apart as powerful and influential. |
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Wolfgang-Schivelbusch-Three-New-Deals_-Reflections-on-Roosevelt’s-America_-Mussolini’s-Italy_-and-Hi |
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“Would
not France today be immeasurably richer and more respected if it had pursued a determined colonial policy in the past two centuries?
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Would |
| Question: |
Why would France be considered richer and more respected if it had pursued a determined colonial policy in the past two centuries? |
| Answer: |
France would be considered richer and more respected if it had pursued a determined colonial policy in the past two centuries because it could have acquired valuable territories such as Canada, Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Pacific Coast. These territories would contribute to France’s prestige and increase its material and spiritual power, improving its global position. The colonial policy could have also prevented France from focusing on the less effective continental policy. |
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Wolfgang-Schivelbusch-The-culture-of-defeat_-on-national-trauma_-mourning_-and-recovery-Henry-Holt-a |
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On the extinction of German culture, see
Friedrich
Nietzsche, Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen, Werke in drei Bänden, ed.
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Wolfgang-Schivelbusch-The-culture-of-defeat_-on-national-trauma_-mourning_-and-recovery-Henry-Holt-a |
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Taylor describes the villainous Legree as an “anti-planter” and his mansion, which perverts the
principles
of the “good” plantation, as an “anti-home”: “What we are given in a few pages is an evocative vision of the home become a factory, where everything, finally, is weighed in the balance scale of Legree’s cotton house.
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ideal |
| Question: |
How does Taylor's description of Legree's mansion as an "anti-home" emphasize the perversion of traditional plantation values? |
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Taylor's description of Legree's mansion as an "anti-home" emphasizes the perversion of traditional plantation values by contrasting it with the idealized image of a "good" plantation in the Arcadian paradigm, where agrarian-patriarchal society is intact. He argues that the mansion is a perversion because it is a place where everything is driven by profit and industrialism, like a factory, rather than fostering the paternalistic values traditionally associated with Southern plantations. In doing so, the "anti-home" becomes a symbol of the corruption and distortion brought about by the slavery system. |
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Wolfgang-Schivelbusch-The-culture-of-defeat_-on-national-trauma_-mourning_-and-recovery-Henry-Holt-a |
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Nye, Crime, Madness, and Politics in Modern France: The Medical Concept of
National
Decline (Princeton, 1984), pp.
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Wolfgang-Schivelbusch-The-culture-of-defeat_-on-national-trauma_-mourning_-and-recovery-Henry-Holt-a |
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Largely unconstrained by the military leadership, which was interested solely in receiving armament shipments in full and on time, the technocrats enjoyed the sort of
organizational
independence from capital they could only have dreamt of before the war.
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autonomy |
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Why did the technocrats enjoy organizational independence from capital during the war? |
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The technocrats enjoyed organizational independence from capital during the war because they held senior positions in the newly created ministries, offices, departments, and staffs of the war economy, where they were free to do as they pleased. They were also largely unconstrained by the military leadership, which focused solely on receiving armament shipments in full and on time, allowing the technocrats a greater degree of autonomy and control. |
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Wolfgang-Schivelbusch-The-culture-of-defeat_-on-national-trauma_-mourning_-and-recovery-Henry-Holt-a |
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But that's only a prosaic description of their
geographic
origin.
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mythical |
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Why is the description of their geographic origin considered prosaic? |
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The description of spices' geographic origin is considered prosaic because it simply states that Venice was the chief transfer point in Europe for the spice trade without the sense of wonder, mysticism, and vivid imagination associated with the Middle Ages' people belief about spices, such as pepper growing near Paradise or spices being carried from Paradise. The prosaic description lacks the magical and fabled qualities that the people of the Middle Ages attributed to these products. |
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch_ David Jacobson - Tastes of Paradise_ A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants-Vintage (1993) |
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The counter, already visible at the Ramponneau, where it still plays a rather minor role, now assumes a central place in the activity, as a sort of traffic island or nodal point at which
business
is transacted.
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business |
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Why does the counter assume a central place in the activity and become a nodal point for business transactions? |
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The counter assumes a central place in the activity and becomes a nodal point for business transactions because it responds to the increased volume in patronage. As business expands, the counter serves as a sort of traffic island, centralizing and streamlining transactions in the busy drinking place. |
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch_ David Jacobson - Tastes of Paradise_ A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants-Vintage (1993) |
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The French bar is halfway between these two
extremes—the
lesson being that one of the ways to gauge the extent to which commercialism has saturated a given culture is by the length of its bars.
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points |
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Why does the length of bars serve as an indicator of the level of commercialism in a culture? |
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The length of bars serves as an indicator of the level of commercialism in a culture because it reflects the focus on consumption and efficiency in serving customers. In the passage, it explains that longer bars, like the ones in England and the United States, are designed to serve a lot of customers quickly and facilitate public drinking, which highlights the commercial aspect of these establishments. On the other hand, shorter bars, like in Germany, focus more on creating a cozy atmosphere for people to drink at tables, demonstrating that commercialism is less pervasive in their culture. |
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch_ David Jacobson - Tastes of Paradise_ A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants-Vintage (1993) |
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DRINKING COFFEE "A LA TURQUE"
During the Rococo period, people loved to dress up and
surround
themselves with objects in the oriental style.
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decorate |
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Why did people prefer surrounding themselves with objects in the oriental style during the Rococo period? |
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During the Rococo period, people preferred surrounding themselves with objects in the oriental style because they loved to dress up and masquerading in exotic styles, which extended from Chinese porcelain rooms to little blackamoors serving the fashionable beverages. This fascination with the oriental aesthetic also led to some people dressing up in native costumes while enjoying their coffee. |
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch_ David Jacobson - Tastes of Paradise_ A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants-Vintage (1993) |
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Accum, A Practical Treatise on Gas-Light, London, 1815)
Within a few years, London became the first metropolis to be
largely
supplied
with gas.
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illuminated |
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How did London become the first metropolis to be largely supplied with gas within a few years? |
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London became the first metropolis to be largely supplied with gas within a few years due to the rapid growth and expansion of gas companies and infrastructure. In 1814, there was one company with a single gasometer, and by 1822 there were four companies with forty-seven gasometers and a total volume of almost one million cubic feet. |
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Angela Davies - Disenchanted Night_ The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century-University of California Press (1995) |
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Its design clearly
foreshadowed
modern forms of lighting.
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reflects |
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How does its design foreshadow modern forms of lighting? |
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The design of the Argand burner foreshadows modern forms of lighting as it possessed primitive equivalents of elements found in an electric light bulb. The glass cylinder in the Argand burner corresponded to the glass outer casing of an electric bulb, the wick mechanism to the light switch, and the flame, intensified by the increased oxygen supply, to the filament. |
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Angela Davies - Disenchanted Night_ The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century-University of California Press (1995) |
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We can see clearly how the inherent qualities of gas technology
influenced
later developments.
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influenced |
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How did the inherent qualities of gas technology influence later developments? |
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The inherent qualities of gas technology influenced later developments by progressing from an experimental to an industrial stage. This can be seen in Murdoch's experiments, where he began by heating coal in small glass retorts before switching to larger iron containers. Additionally, there was no fully developed system from the start that separated the production, storage, distribution, and consumption of gas, which led to future improvements in these areas as the technology evolved. |
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Angela Davies - Disenchanted Night_ The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century-University of California Press (1995) |
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One should do honour to the
fatality
which
says to the feeble: “perish!
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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138-39), most particularly in Grandville's Variete des
priseurs
(pp.
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch_ David Jacobson - Tastes of Paradise_ A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants-Vintage (1993) |
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“ Being," as the
generalisation
of the concept
“ Life" (breath), “to be animate," “ to will,” “ to act
i upon," " become.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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ASSIGNING
PRESTIGE
TO ONE'S COUNTRY.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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209; as
unsatisfying
in the end, 342.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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What I have experienced, however, continues to live "in the memory"; I have noth ing to do with it when memory "comes," my will is
inactive
in regard to as in the case of the coming and going of a thought.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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It
was believed that Homer's poem was passed from
one generation to another viva voce, and faults
were
attributed
to the improvising and at times
forgetful bards.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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Hear the iron and brass
Ringing above their voices, as they snatch
The arms that seem to fight among themselves,
Seized by their masters' anguish; dost thou hear
The clumsy terror in the camp, the men
Hasting to arm
themselves
against our God,
Ozias?
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themselves |
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Why do the iron and brass appear to be "fighting among themselves" in this sentence? |
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The iron and brass appear to be "fighting among themselves" in this sentence because the enemy soldiers are hastily and desperately grabbing weapons in a state of fear and chaos, as if the weapons were fighting each other in the confusion. |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Anti-
quarian history degenerates from the moment that
it no longer gives a soul and
inspiration
to the
fresh life of the present.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Figure 1 is a figure from our field notes of April 2004, and in reproducing this figure here, I mean to signify a number of things: it is one of many such maps that we created (though a rela- tively stable one); it is an artifact of our research and not "true" in any other sense; and in publishing this map (now twice), we have given the public space of Harbor a type of rhetorical
stability
with respect to our work there that is both useful and also only one type of connection possible in that same geographi- cal, cultural, political, and social space at that time--or at any given time.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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We
therefore
put the question,
whether Strauss really possesses the artistic strength
necessary for the purpose of presenting us with a
thing that is a whole, totum ponere?
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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