Morgan was quite a bon vivant, a swinger, and Rockefeller was a
teetotaler
and homebody; yet Rockefeller, among other things, maintained four palatial estates, one for each season of the year, from Maine to Florida.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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The modern Greek is the descendant of those glorious beings whom the
imagination almost refuses to figure to itself as belonging to our
kind, and he
inherits
much of their sensibility, their rapidity of
conception, their enthusiasm, and their courage.
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Shelley |
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The author's attempt to
place
Nietzsche
in the history of philosophy and to compare his
works with that of other writers, f.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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This he certainly cannot hope to achieve by
negotiation
alone.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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Let's say it openly: This is the end of aestheticism in
cultural
theory.
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Sloterdijk |
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The visible heaven was formed out of the skin of Tiamat, and became the outward symbol of An-sar and the
habitation
of Anu, Bel, and Ea, while the chaotic waters of the dragon became the law-bound sea ruled over by Ea.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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Their idea was
to prepare a fine lot of soup, place in it a drug,
the fumes of which would
overpower
him as he
leaned over to eat.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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"
" Yes,"
continued
Frank, " and he
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Childrens - Frank |
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ore
dilations
of len c"IUciou.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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The central bank has been on rate hold despite
inflation
nearing 7 percent as the fiscal outlook remains squeezed by the combination of foregone production and higher promised social spending.
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Kleiman International |
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Royalty
payments
should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"I entered a state that was both tranquil and
completely
wholesome.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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*
a
it, is
A
CLERGYMAN
PILLORIED AND FLOGGED.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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must (also) ask leave, and when he comes back, must
announce
his return.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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Conforte of hym forto haue,
her godes after hem to saue,
her londes & her ledes; 111
her eyre of hym forto make,
And her
richesse
hym bitake,
Palfreies & her stedes.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Justice is therefore
reprisal
and
exchange upon the basis of an approximate equality of power.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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From its very birth, John Wilson Croker, then a young member
of parliament, and already a friend of Sir Arthur Wellesley, gave
strenuous support to The Quarterly, and, by constant contributions,
down to the time of the Crimean war, did much to impress upon it
1 Centenary article, The
Quarterly
Review, July 1909.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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THE COLLEGIATE PRESS
GEORGE BANTA
PUBLISHING
CO.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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V
As Sir Launfal made morn through the darksome gate,
He was ware of a leper, crouched by the same,
Who begged with his hand and moaned as he sate;
And a loathing over Sir Launfal came, 150
The
sunshine
went out of his soul with a thrill,
The flesh 'neath his armor did shrink and crawl.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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For perfect strains may float
'Neath master-hands, from
instruments
defaced,--
And great souls, at one stroke, may do and doat.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any
specific
use of any specific book is allowed.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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Now my
affections
for the
delicate Lyciscus engross all my time; from them neither the unreserved
admonitions, nor the serious reprehensions of other friends can recall
me [to my former taste for poetry]; but, perhaps, either a new flame for
some fair damsel, or for some graceful youth who binds his long hair in
a knot, [may do so].
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Horace - Works |
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Meanwhile, Renée
appeared
disguised
as the village bailiff; it only remained to sign
the contract; Pierrot, taking the hand of the woman he loved,
began to tell her of all the happiness he was going to have with
her.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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It is
interesting
to note that prior to the period from 1272 to 1400, which E.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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, a complete
synthesis
of subject and object.
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Hegel_nodrm |
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Per che lo spirto tutti storse i piedi;
poi,
sospirando
e con voce di pianto,
mi disse: <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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If he hold dear our government's
pleasure
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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for I would be the boldest and
truest being of the universe,
And who
benevolent?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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How
deep and unfathomable it is, as if it were the Honoured
Ancestor
of
all things!
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Tao Te Ching |
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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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was still given in Pope's time to
unmarried
ladies as
soon as they were old enough to enter society.
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Alexander Pope |
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Ayrton, which sat through the greater part of the Session of 1866, to
take
evidence
on the subject.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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What
blessing
shall the bard entreat
The god he hallows, as he pours
The winecup?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"What
has created the
dissensions
in the Church?
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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"
Then she turned to the seat where her sons wereplaced,
Hrethric and Hrothmund, with heroes' bairns,
young men together: the Geat, too, sat there,
Beowulf brave, the
brothers
between.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I therefore prefer the overview and insight he gives us in his
book to a possibly greater
accuracy
of detail, as I am more concerned to throw light on the problems and history of metaphysics through Aristotle than to give you an irreproachably punctilious account of that philosopher's work.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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He travelled six hundred miles across the endless Numidian
plain and the mountainous regions of the Atlas, preaching in the churches,
halting in the towns and the hamlets to decide questions of private
interest, ever pursued by a thousand
business
worries and by the squabbles
of litigants and the discontented.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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"
The
creditors
were of two kinds : the first, and
who had first petitioned the king, as was said be-
fore, had an assignment made to them by the execu-
tors and trustees of the earl of Carlisle upon his will,
and who at his death owed them the full sum of
fifty thousand pounds or thereabouts.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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certainly," was his daughter's; but Sir
Walter's remark was, soon afterwards--
"The profession has its utility, but I should be sorry to see any
friend of mine
belonging
to it.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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Whoever takes seriously the
commandment
'Thou shall not kill', will only see in the above mentioned fact a conclusive argument which supports the Hegelian thesis that the being of man consists in tearing out the naturality in us.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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Humāyān retires and is compelled to
recognize
Sher Khān as
Sovereign of Bengal
Sher Shāh remodels the administration
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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For, to-day, a new man is
beginning
to
rule over them; and so--as has been the custom of mankind ever since a
nation was first gathered--they make merry and rejoice; as if a good
and golden year were at length to pass over the poor old world!
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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Cho soạn bài ký khắc vào đá tốt đặt tại cửa hiền để
khuyến
khích kẻ sĩ.
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stella-02 |
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The simulation software is
using the same
modelling
techniques as it uses ordinarily when it presents its continuously updated edition of reality.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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From thence he sent to Antony, desiring he would meet
him with his forces, that no time might be lost; offer-
ing at the same time to leave the ports and harbors free
for his landing, and to
withdraw
his army a day's journey
on horseback, that he might make good his encamp-
ment.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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Second, Hegel could not yet imagine the way abstraction rules in developed capitalism: when Karl Marx
describes
the mad self-en- hancing circulation of capital, whose solipsistic path of self-fecundation reaches its apogee in today's metare- flexive speculations on futures, it is far too simplistic to claim that the specter of this self-engendering monster that pursues its path dis- regarding any human or environ- mental concern is an ideological abstraction, and that one should never forget that, behind this ab- straction, are real people and natural objects on whose productive capaci- ties and resources capital's circula- tion is based and on which it feeds like a gigantic parasite.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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Since in the action of mahamudra
There is no reference point for any action, Be free from the
intention
to act or not.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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Or are they tales, of woman's terror born,
That fly in the void air, and die
disproved?
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Aeschylus |
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We have learned many
things since then, and if caution is only one of these
things, at least it will prevent us from judging a book
such as this one, with all its apparent pontifical pride
and surging self-reliance, with undue haste, or with
that arrogant assurance with which the ignorance
of " the humble " and " the modest " has always con-
fronted
everything
truly great.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women
breathed
by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Upon the other hand,
the terrible truth that pain is a mode through which man may realise
himself
exercises
a wonderful fascination over the world.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Whatsoever
it is that thou goest about, consider of it by thyself,
and ask thyself, What?
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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The
mediocre
alone have a pro-
spect of continuing and propagating themselves-
they will be the men of the future, the sole sur-
vivors; "be like them!
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like harmonious
thunderings
the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The
mediocre
alone have a pro-
spect of continuing and propagating themselves-
they will be the men of the future, the sole sur-
vivors; "be like them!
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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But I have three
precious
things which I prize and hold fast.
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Tao Te Ching |
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Wickliff greeted him, assuming his
ordinary
manner.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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And so I gathered mightiness and grew
With this one dream kindling in me, that I
Should never cease from conquering light and dew
Till my white splendour touched the
trembling
sky.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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CUPIDO
The solid, solid universe
Is pervious to Love;
With
bandaged
eyes he never errs,
Around, below, above.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The Count of
Provence
is Raymond Berenger.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
I smile, of course,
And go on
drinking
tea.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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At some recognized part of the town the boys stroll up and down in pairs,
watching the girls, and the girls stroll up and down in pairs, pretending not to notice the
boys, and
presently
some kind of contact is established and instead of twos they’re
trailing along in fours, all four utterly speechless.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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No despot can survive when a whole
multimedia
system of psycho- analysis and textual technologies goes after him.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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When the manner of this defence was being discussed - in what way and according to what plan the
argument
for Milo should be conducted - M.
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Roman Translations |
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A plant growing in the Taoist
Paradise
and much admired by the
Immortals, who are the only beings able to see its purple blossoms.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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37
cityraibie
^ length the rabble of clients assumed a position, formally of
equality
and often even, practically, of superi ority, alongside of the class of independent burgesses.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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He does not wake at dawn to see
Dread figures throng his room,
The shivering Chaplain robed in white,
The Sheriff stern with gloom,
And the
Governor
all in shiny black,
With the yellow face of Doom.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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the
majority
of the Commission has been unable to secure .
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NSC-68 |
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given to us as a firm ground on which we may commence
our course; the future life is its continuation, for which we
must ourselves create a starting-period in the present; and
should the aim of this second life prove as
unattainable
to
finite power as the end of the first is to us now, then the
fresh strength, the firmer purpose, the clearer sight which
shall be its immediate growth, will open to us another and
a higher sphere of activity.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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"
She waited for some time without hearing
anything
more.
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| Source: |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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The old Polonaise,
something
like a minuet.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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flexions sur la
violence
(Paris: E?
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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Since Reinhart Koselleck,
scholars
in Germany have tended to associate important changes in the decades before and after 1800 with the metaphor of the 'saddle period.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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On a certain day, while the venerable man was at Iona, a brother, named Berach,97
approached
to ask his blessing, for he wished to sail to the Island
Berach steered out for an open arm of the sea, to Ethica; when suddenly, he and the sailors in his bark saw a whale of extraordinary size rising upwards like a mountain.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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Although, reader, you may well be tired of so long a book, you still want a few more
distichs
from me.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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But they are also very
valuable
on account of the
young philosopher's daring and able handling of
difficult and abstruse subjects.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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From first to last Home*
it is
extremely
valuable as an autobiographical note.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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These, and the glorious Promontory, her Chin
Ore past; and the streight
_Hellespont_
betweene 60
The _Sestos_ and _Abydos_ of her breasts,
(Not of two Lovers, but two Loves the neasts)
Succeeds a boundless sea, but yet thine eye
Some Island moles may scattered there descry;
And Sailing towards her _India_, in that way 65
Shall at her fair Atlantick Navell stay;
Though thence the Current be thy Pilot made,
Yet ere thou be where thou wouldst be embay'd,
Thou shalt upon another Forest set,
Where many Shipwrack, and no further get.
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| Source: |
Donne - 1 |
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Liberal
education
we must have.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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How grandly he rounds his
pregnant
paragraphs with phrases
which for stately and compulsive rhythm, sonorous harmony, and
sweetly solemn cadences, are almost matchless in English prose, and
lack only the mechanism of metre to give them the highest rank as
verse.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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Thanks to their very efforts in con-
tending against the
dictates
of their own con-
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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But now Philip hath
conquered
your supineness and
inactivity; the state he hath not conquered.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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This is a Mediaeval scribal
abbreviation
for 'que' (indicating
'and') at the ends of certain words.
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John Donne |
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But do you have to be
always
thinking
about your trial?
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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Antiphanes of Athens, the son of Stephanus, began to produce plays after the 98th
Olympiad
[388-385 B.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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This is because the further
processing
of communications takes a quite different route in the political system, especially where con- ditions of democracy and of an opposition in the form of parties exist, from the route it takes in the media, where it becomes a kind of story in instalments.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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I
didn’t
even know what
it was, except that it was something that proved I’d been off with a woman.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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Sumner's impetuous
advocacy
of the
most advanced ideal measures.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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Homing at dawn, I thought to see
One of the Messengers
standing
by.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Connecticut, trade of, 26; non-con-
sumption movement in, (1767-
1768), 112; non-importation move-
ment in, (1769-1770), 150-152,
196; meetings in, boycott New
York, 228-229; Assembly disap-
proves of Solemn League and
Covenant, 325; towns of, endorse
Boston
circular
letter, 326; com-
mittee of correspondence elects
delegates to First Continental
Congress, 327: ratification of
Continental Association and estab-
lishment of committees in, 444-
447; workings of Continental
Association in, 486-488; adoption
of defense association in, 542;
Assembly lays embargo, 559-560;
resolutions 1n, against exporta-
tion of flaxseed, 571-572; regula-
tion of prices in, 486-487, 588.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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Instead
of sails the wood growing in the island did serve their turns, for
the wind blowing against it drave forward the island like a ship,
and carried it which way the
governor
would have it, for they had
pilots to direct them, and were as nimble to be stirred with oars as
any long-boat.
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Lucian - True History |
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He did not even seem to know
I watched him gliding through the
vitreous
deep.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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He continued: "These people are the dependents of dependents of dependents; and nobody is independent but a few foreign
financiers
working from the other side of the Atlantic.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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No
mightier
birth may He beget;
No like, no second has He known;
Yet nearest to her sire's is set
Minerva's throne.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Mặc dầu hiệu quả trị nước hay dở khác nhau, song các đời chưa từng không coi sự thu dụng nhân tài làm việc
trước
tiên vậy.
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stella-04 |
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As soone as that the showre was past and heaven was voyded cleare Of all the Cloudes which late before did every where appeare,
Until that Boreas had subdude the rainie
Southerne
winde,
We woulde have by and by bene gone.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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He could
not prove his
fidelity
to his country without sinning
against his father.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the
collection
of Project
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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{172}
CHAPTER XVIII
ARISTOTLE
_An unruly pupil--The philosopher's library--The predominance of
Aristotle--Relation to Plato--The highest philosophy--Ideas and
things--The true realism_
Plato before his death
bequeathed
his Academy to his nephew Speusippus,
who continued its president for eight years; and on his death the
office passed to Xenocrates, who held it for twenty-five years.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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