Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider
Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The anonymous
translator
saw this quite
well, and said so in his title, 'Histoire macaronique de Merlin Coccaie,
prototype of Rabelais.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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"O
pleasant
light, my confidence and hope,
Conduct us thou," he cried, "on this new way,
Where now I venture, leading to the bourn
We seek.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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A mark, resembling in shape a horse's
hoof, was
discernible
in the volcanic rock; and this mark was
believed to have been made by one of the celestial
chargers.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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No church contains Thee, for Thou fillest space --
Ocean and Earth, and Heaven Thy
dwelling
place.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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THE
PHILOSOPHER
We wouldn't dream of it!
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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A score of the splashier restaurants have become fabulously successful as a result of their patronage; their private planes, as many as two hundred at a time, fly in for the bigger Texas football games; and their
dexterity
with an expense account since pleasures and business are bard to sort out in wholly owned enterprises, gives them a spending power far above others making the same amounts in straight salary.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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On what far dawn, in what dim skies,
Shall star of my
deliverance
rise?
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Aeschylus |
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SEA GARDEN
The editors and publishers concerned have kindly given me permission to
reprint some of the poems in this book which
appeared
originally in
"Poetry" (Chicago), "The Egoist" (London), "The Little Review"
(Chicago), "Greenwich Village" (New York), the first Imagist anthology
(New York: A.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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” Then
rising immediately, he went to the oratory of the little town, and
continuing in prayer till day, forthwith divided all his substance into
three parts; one whereof he gave to his wife, another to his children, and
the third, which he kept himself, he straightway
distributed
among the
poor.
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bede |
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But thou, who, in my voice's sink and fall
When the sob took it, thy
divinest
Art's
Own instrument didst drop down at thy foot
To harken what I said between my tears, .
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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There's such a divinity doth hedge our
Shakspeare
round, that we cannot
even imitate his style.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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What does it mean to
American
persons, progresses, cities?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Not for himself he sees, or hears, or eats;
Artists must choose his pictures, music, meats:
He buys for Topham, drawings and designs,
For Pembroke, statues, dirty gods, and coins;
Rare monkish
manuscripts
for Hearne alone,
And books for Mead, and butterflies for Sloane.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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O'er Heorot he lorded,
gold-bright hall, in gloomy nights;
and ne'er could the prince {2d} approach his throne,
-- 'twas
judgment
of God, -- or have joy in his hall.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The _reem_, those great beasts with
eighteen
horns,
Who mate but once in seventy years and die
In their own tears which flow ten stadia high.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Egsode eorl,
syððan
ǣrest wearð
fēa-sceaft funden: hē þæs frōfre gebād,
wēox under wolcnum, weorð-myndum ðāh,
oð þæt him ǣghwylc þāra ymb-sittendra
10 ofer hron-rāde hȳran scolde,
gomban gyldan: þæt wæs gōd cyning!
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Beowulf |
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He had a
niece, who was the
greatest
beauty of the age.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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The processes of ploughing and
clearing the ground, of collecting and sowing seeds, are not surely for
the
assistance
of God in his creation, but are made previously
necessary to the enjoyment of the blessings of life, in order to rouse
man into action, and form his mind to reason.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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And yet how bedecked
oftentimes
!
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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The most important
production
that we have to consider is the
famous Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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an
pastoralia
Lunam
rursus in antra vocas ?
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Human history is nothing but the
expression
of this struggle and the path of its absolutization.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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The voice of
Locksley
was at length heard, "Shout, yeomen!
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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Through his
introduction
banal as he may seem at first glance ?
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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So far from there being
anything
divine in the low
and proprietary sense of, Do you love me?
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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176 For he
commendeth
a far other fruit of Paul's doctrine, when he saith that the churches were confirmed in the faith.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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Eat ting, eating a grand old man said roof and never never re soluble
burst, not a near ring not a
bewildered
neck, not really any such bay.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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What could more
delightfully
prove that the
warmth of her heart was equal to its gentleness?
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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But do you know what is going to happen
tomorrow?
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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VII--Les
métamorphoses
du Vampire.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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Seeing then our Saviour, and his Apostles, left not new Laws to oblige
us in this world, but new Doctrine to prepare us for the next; the Books
of the New Testament, which
containe
that Doctrine, untill obedience to
them was commanded, by them that God hath given power to on earth to be
Legislators, were not obligatory Canons, that is, Laws, but onely good,
and safe advice, for the direction of sinners in the way to salvation,
which every man might take, and refuse at his owne perill, without
injustice.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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I fill'd this cup to one made up
Of
loveliness
alone,
A woman, of her gentle sex
The seeming paragon--
Her health!
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Poe - 5 |
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anxiety appears as a
reaction
to the felt loss of the object (pp.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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The thunderbolts of permanence and annihilation which strike and destroy the relationship of cause and effect between
composite
things are
driven off to a distance by the wise with the mantra of dependent arising.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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What were Boursault
and Le Boulanger, and Thomas
Corneille
and De Visé, what were they all
compared to your enemy, Boileau?
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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" On one occasion he was asked in what respect a wise man is
superior
to one who is not wise; and his answer was, "Send them both naked among strangers, and you will find out.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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Wilt thou not beware
Lest thy mood now press our minds to
venturous
despair?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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But he needed more
vigilance
than of old.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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'
THE SNOW-STORM
Announced by all the
trumpets
of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
And veils the farm-house at the garden's end.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Lucifer, we are told, was a son of the
morning, a radiant and mighty angel; yet he fell: he fell and there
fell with him a third part of the host of heaven: he fell and was
hurled with his
rebellious
angels into hell.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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Suddenly
a female figure stood on the end of
the beam, holding something in her hand towards him, and speaking in a
loving voice.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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230
A
thousand
roads ever open lead us on,
And my true grief will choose the shortest one.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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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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I trusted the brook barrier, but feared
The road would fail; and on that side the fire
Died not without a noise of crackling wood--
Of
something
more than tinder-grass and weed--
That brought me to my feet to hold it back
By leaning back myself, as if the reins
Were round my neck and I was at the plough.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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I had just finished my tea when he returned,
evidently
in
excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his
hand.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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The traditional view, which he demolished, is to be turned on its head: Truth exists
exclusively
as that which has become.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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But this was an
unworthy
feeling.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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Like I said, they would not let me through to see him at
the bank because he was
negotiating
with some gentleman just then.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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The blanks of meditating flags
Stand high along our avenue:
But I've your naked tresses too
To bury there my
contented
eyes.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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i=aFi:;j5;r'-t==
oE oo F -co)
i- ;
+t+lz=izl
1i;: :
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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Mad, that I see
Thy
brother?
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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(Or are you
studying
the odes?
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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This is all the more the case if - as the Arab commentators did - one ignores the possibility that the meter is a
somewhat
loose form of rajaz, or at least related to it.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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He then brought out a lot of documents for me to peruse, all of w^hich were bona fide affairs, from the various institutions, signed by the various physicians or
resident
physicians, setting forth the merits or use of 'Duffy's Malt Whis- key, He asked if I had ever used it.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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XXV
He shook his head, and smiling thus gan say,
"The hardiness have I that wood to fell,
And those proud trees low in the dust to lay
Wherein such grisly fiends and
monsters
dwell;
No roaring ghost my courage can dismay,
No shriek of birds, beast's roar, or dragon's yell;
But through and through that forest will I wend,
Although to deepest hell the paths descend.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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139
Forging a letter that his father was dead, and that he had arrived in England to take possession of a large
estate, he prevailed on a
merchant
at Whitehaven to let him have seventy pounds, giving him a draught
method of relief.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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A far more
remarkable and
permanent
superstition was the appeal to Heaven
in judicial controversies, whether through the means of combat
or of ordeal.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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For
weeks
Krasinski
watched by his bedside in an agony
where there was small room for hope: and on Easter
Sunday Danielewicz died in the poet's arms, the only
one of his friends who did not outlive him.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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116
E di marmore un tempio ti prometto
edificar
de l'alta regia mia,
che tutte d'oro abbia le porte e 'l tetto,
e dentro e fuor di gemme ornato sia;
e dal tuo santo nome sarà detto,
e del miracol tuo scolpito fia.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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* _But there are Other (~Thoughts~) That have Superadded Forms to them,
as when I Will, when I Fear, when I Affirm, when I Deny; I know I have
alwayes (whenever I think) some certain thing as the Subject or Object
of my Thought, but in this last sort of
Thoughts
there is something
More which I think upon then Barely the Likeness of the Thing; and of
these Thoughts some are called Wills and Affections, and others of them
Judgements.
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| Source: |
Descartes - Meditations |
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" "Korea is one of the most
interesting
parts of the world (7) and it would be hard to imagine a more beautiful place on Earth.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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He goes
elsewhere
to
find, if he may, a real picture of the time, and perhaps finds one
that is wholly fictitious.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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But the nation had
placed in his hands something far more important--ITSELF--with the
office of defender or
protector
of the faith.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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S"tillmorestrikinwgerethe"pro-Naziviews"oftheNewApostolic
Churchwhichhad
prayersof thankssaid on theoccasion of theAnschlussand afterthe"invasionofCzechoslovakia"(p.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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The displacement of a single electron by a
billionth
of a centimetre at one moment might make the difference between a man being killed by an avalanche a year later, or escaping.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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Now it is just your leavings that are
worrying
me, me indeed more than anybody else; it is true that we have admirable consuls, but the consulars are beneath contempt; we have a courageous Senate too, but it is those of the lowest rank who are most so.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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To help our bleaker parts
Salubrious
hours are given,
Which if they do not fit for earth
Drill silently for heaven.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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In addition, the
divine hierarchies offer
considerable
scope for ranks beyond human
comprehension, which is why humans always have a motive to look
upwards.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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Summer camps and
boarding schools are more likely to have some form of self-government than
therapy groups, while hospitals and
custodial
institutions may well have
both.
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| Source: |
Childens - Folklore |
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Or cormorants
plunging
one by one, cutting
The flood, pearls flying from their wings?
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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This same remark will hold good for fishes in general; for they are
suffocated
if they be long confined in a short supply of water, with the water kept unchanged-just as animals that respire are suffocated if they be shut up with a scanty supply of air.
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| Source: |
Aristotle copy |
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For the last patent stove that is saving of fuel; 1550
So I'll just let Apollo go on, for his phiz
Shows I've kept him
awaiting
too long as it is.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Even so, another ingredient was necessary
-- Hitler's
prodigious
luck, and his unlimited faith in it.
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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Last night I wasted hateful hours
Below the city's eastern towers:
I
thirsted
for the brooks, the showers:
I roll'd among the tender flowers:
I crush'd them on my breast, my mouth:
I look'd athwart the burning drouth
Of that long desert to the south.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical
restrictions
on automated querying.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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Invocation and Invitation
This seven line prayer of invocation of the Mind of Guru Rinpoche originated from Guru Rinpoche himself, and was
revealed
consist- ently, again and again by earlier and later revealers of the spiritual treasures.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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He shadows lay along
Broadway
-
'Twas near the twilight-tide —
And slowly there a lady fair
Was walking in her pride.
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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'tis the first, 'tis
flattery
in my seeing,
And my great mind most kingly drinks it up:
Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing,
And to his palate doth prepare the cup:
If it be poison'd, 'tis the lesser sin
That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Attendants bring out the bodies of_
CLYTEMNESTRA
_and_
AEGISTHUS.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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There is a
fatality
about all physical and intellectual distinction: the
sort of fatality that seems to dog, through history, the faltering steps
of kings.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they
are intelligent may be well worth
listening
to.
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| Source: |
Austen - Persuasion |
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Apologies
if this happened, because human users who are making use of the eBooks or other site features should almost never be blocked.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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"
"I don't know, but it is likely that they are
expecting
some one who
ought to arrive to-night.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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He drewe his bowe, nor was of dethe astarte, 485
Then fell down brethlesse to encrease the corse;
But as he drewe hys bowe devoid of arte,
So it came down upon Troyvillains horse;
Deep thro hys
hatchments
wente the pointed floe;
Now here, now there, with rage bleedyng he rounde doth goe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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So valiant a warrior
snatched
from you,
Un-avenged, kills the wish to serve you.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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a
Just at this time Felix, f^pmsoroff
fancy, the cause of wWictf TteasTntat
perceived by Frank,
suddenly
gathered
himself up, and leaped over a f&unk
fence, which there was in the lawn,
near the place where they ' were
standing.
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Childrens - Frank |
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They would leave the others in
possession
of their existing territory, and content themselves with their original allotment, thereby ridding Asia of many evils.
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Roman Translations |
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Without uncertainty,
deterrent
threats of war would take the form of trip-wires.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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of of of asofbe of
to
fofofofin
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by of
init of of a asof of
in to to it bewe of
to of all isto of it
in dous
to
of of
as
by
755] STATE TRIALS, 1 MARY, 1553.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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4
OF SUNS AND HUMANS
If, today, one hundred years after Nietzsche's death, we look back at this author for authors and non-authors and grasp his place in his time, we become aware that Nietzsche-for all his claims to originality and despite his pride at being the first in essential things-was in many respects actually only a privileged medium for the
execution
of tendencies that in one way or another would have forged ahead without him.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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ber dem Steg,
Geduld und
Schweigen
der Kindheit.
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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Therefore
the Tao is
great; Heaven is great; Earth is great; and the (sage) king is also
great.
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Tao Te Ching |
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Possibly
the old soldier preferred the freedom of barrack life, where his
authority was unquestioned, to the henpecked
existence
he led at home.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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The German, not less
than the Greek, is a
polysyllable
language.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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" His mission was to destroy the
communicative
competences of the venomous.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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And it is thou alone that owest me this great debt, and for this reason above all that I have at once performed all things that you didst order, till that when I could not offend thee in
anything
I had the strength to lose myself at thy behest.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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