At heart a deeply
religious
woman, Mme Bobrowa's
most persistent accuser had been her conscience.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Intrapsychically reconfigured, resistance in theory to the transferential setting, to the in-session
materiality
of analytic dis- course, refers to the "allegorical" tension between the transference materials and the shorthand, in-group idiom, or jargon of the theory.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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It is neither grammaticall subtilties nor
logicall quiddities, nor the wittie
contexture
of choice words or
arguments and syllogismes, that will serve my turne.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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There is nothing
whatsoever
on which to meditate.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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I was
immediately
seized by the pair, and the noise made by Thersander
drew together a number of the revellers, when he became louder than
ever in his charges, heaping upon me all manner of abuse,[4] calling
me a lecher, a cut-purse, and I know not what besides; in the end I
was dragged to the public prison, thrust in, and a charge of _Crim.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a
flattering
word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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"
College Composition and
Communication
47 (1996): 325-41.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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l o Whatever we might have done had we
understood
them, we manifestly did not understand.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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(In the meantime other)
officers
have set out a stool and mat with the necessary offerings on the left of the grave[1].
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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[Footnote 1:
In his essay, "_Der einzig mogliche Beweisgrund zu einer
Demonstration
des
Daseyns Gottes_.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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Consciousness
extends so far only as it is useful.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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They had merry times chasing one another, in and
out among the bags, and
crawling
up them and
sliding; down af!
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Childrens - Brownies |
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Inte|ger vl|ta3,
scele|rlsque
| puriis,
Non e|get Mau|ri jacu|lis, ne|que arcu.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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C'est la seule
hypothèse
absurde.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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I am
henceforth
devoted to the gods.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Then ensued a murmur and half-hushed
tumult; as if the auditors,
released
from the high spell that had
transported them into the region of another's mind, were returning
into themselves, with all their awe and wonder still heavy on them.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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16 The [robes] that individuals have established independently,
according to the idea of the moment, are not
traditional
and not legitimate.
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Shobogenzo |
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"
Seven queens shone round her ivory bed,
Like seven soft gems on a silken thread,
Like seven fair lamps in a royal tower,
Like seven bright petals of Beauty's flower
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose
"Where is my rival, O King Feroz?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Fit for his purpose, on a lower floor
He lodged, whose issue was an iron door;
From whence, by stairs
descending
to the ground,
In the blind grot a safe retreat he found.
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Dryden - Complete |
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Weston, kind-hearted and musical, was particularly interested
by the circumstance, and Emma could not help being amused at her
perseverance in dwelling on the subject; and having so much to ask and
to say as to tone, touch, and pedal, totally
unsuspicious
of that wish
of saying as little about it as possible, which she plainly read in the
fair heroine’s countenance.
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Austen - Emma |
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The condition is reached in which we can speak of expendi-
5
ture as such,
expenditure
pure and simple (sans phrase).
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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Well: the flowers are always striving to
grow
wherever
we suffer them; and the fairer, the closer.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Heracles
was bettone on three nights.
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Pattern Poems |
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He spoke truly
when he said, "I am an American, and I know no
locality
but
America; that is my country;" and he was deeply in earnest
when he gave utterance to the sentiment, "I was bred, indeed I
might almost say I was born, in admiration of our political insti-
tutions.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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He would not come back, the cunning
priest, in that case; he would not risk his
precious
skin in such
company.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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Can such an undertaking be anything but
solitary
and silent?
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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CLXXII
When you have decided that a thing ought to be done, and are doing it,
never shun being seen doing it, even though the
multitude
should be
likely to judge the matter amiss.
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Epictetus |
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The tech- nical simulation of both optical and acoustical processes presupposed analyses made possible by the speed of the
apparatuses
themselves.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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The signals made by the Tankadere had been seen by the
captain of the Yokohama steamer, who, espying the flag at half-mast,
had
directed
his course towards the little craft.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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Brigid might have warned him of danger to be apprehended on the way, especially if he undertook thr journey without
sufficient
protection, or alone; and that the sad event of death, occurring in the manner described, fully justified her pre- science, her fears and her warnings.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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The other element of quantity is less
rigidly defined; for (i) syllables strictly long, as /,
thy, so, are allowed to be short; (2) syllables made
long by the accent falling upon them are in some
cases shortened, as rulne, perished, cruel ; (3) syllables
which the absence of the accent only allows to be long
in thesi, are, in virtue of the
classical
laws of position,
permitted to rank as long elsewhere moment of his,
of this epistle.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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The reason is this--the
ancients
y.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward
in thy shadow.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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In today's electronic present, there is neither
anything
"from the past" that we need to leave behind, nor anything "from the future" that could not be made present by simulated anticipation.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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The politi- cal moralists, also called the Nouveaux Philosophes, by nature stood
typologically
closer to the Camus-pole than to the Sartre-
34
pole.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Not since the
Elizabethans
has such a
mastery of words been reached in English .
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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^| C
I '
We have followed the
transformation
of the outward General relations of Rome and the Romano-Hellenic world generally result- in its leading outlines, from the battle of Pydna to the period
of the Gracchi, from the Tagus and the Bagradas to the
Nile and the Euphrates.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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They themselves, in younger days, were
protagonists
of the great life-roles which they can now only regard and review.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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August, one thousand seven hundred and three, did nature and the midwife give our
matchless
hero to the world ; the sun and his mother being in labour at the same time, he travelling through an eclipse, and
she in travail of the illustrious doctor, who, at one instant with the sun, began to break out from dark ness, and, as the parish-records testify, came rushing into light with him.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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matronale decus
possedit
filia, cuius
egregia et nuptae laus erat et uiduae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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231
In
pilerynage
now wil I go,
And half ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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War's parent, mighty, of majestic frame,
deceitful
saviour, liberating dame.
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Orphic Hymns |
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I will even go so far as to add, that I have often commended the speeches which he has
inserted
into his history in great numbers; though I must frankly own, that I neither could imitate them, if I would, nor indeed would, if I could; like a man who would neither choose his wine so new as to have been turned off in the preceding vintage, nor so excessively old as to date its age from the consulship of Opimius [121 B.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of the North,
Who fell into a basin of broth;
But a
laudable
cook fished him out with a hook,
Which saved that Old Man of the North.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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A
Sycophant
will every thing admire;
Each Verse, each Sentence sets his Soul on Fire:
All is Divine!
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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Child Verse
THE DRAGON-FLY
" TS skimming o'er a
stagnant
pool
-?
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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Where are his
puppies?
| Guess: |
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Aristophanes |
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And there you see the
distinction
between our feelings:
had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred
that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against
him.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Even during the oil offensive, over 27 per cent of the million-and-a-half tons dropped were aimed at cities and only 22 per cent at specific industries, the latter
including
the 16 per cent assigned to oil targets.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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ndern der
Gesellschaft
[Feridun Zaimoglu: Hinterland].
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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He travelled to Greece and Constantinople on his way to Jerusalem,
returning
through Egypt, Tunisia and Spain.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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But he declined, stating that he had
important
work
to do for his master.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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And before the
holiness
Of the shadow of thy handmaid
Have I hidden mine eyes, O God of waters.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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This
do we call the
eternally
feminine in us.
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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The ever-increasing
expenses of his warlike government
compelled
him as steadily to augment
his resources.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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In his own time he was very popular; and his
work
survives
with little loss of interest to-day.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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Fascistas wellas Communistpartiesbearwitnesstothisfundamentaflact
despitetheirdeep
differences.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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Que
même certains protecteurs plus ou moins
désintéressés
de votre client
puissent avoir de bonnes intentions, je ne prétends pas le contraire,
mais vous savez que l'enfer en est pavé, ajouta-t-il avec un regard fin.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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I offer the
hypothesis
that: When a single mind is sufficiendy ahead of the mass a one-party system is bound to occur aJ actuality w:Qatever the details of form in administration.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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He will strike the blow, but will be on his guard against
being vain or boastful or arrogant in
consequence
of it.
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Tao Te Ching |
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Slavonic and East European Review
A survey of the peoples of eastern Europe, their history,
economics,
philology
and literature.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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And this I have
accounted
an unpardonable defect in our constitution, ever since I had any opinions I could call my own.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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And again:
They hand us now in Shrewsbury jail And
whistles
blow forlorn.
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Orwell |
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Schwere
Hindrung
ist's, die nun
deine Antwort mir entzieht.
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| Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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Oh, ye kind
heavens!
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Friedrich Schiller |
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I will not cast any
aspersions
on
your hearts, but your heads certainly do you no
credit.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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o a
1 +4 ;i, i I j :i++Z,= t'
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i+
;t=-e * i +:;i
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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What myriad
righteous
errands high
Thy flames MIGHT run on!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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For, if I ask whether the soul is not really of a
spiritual
nature, --it is a question which has no meaning.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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According to an authoritative
statement
given out in private circulation a few years ago by its proprietors, Peruna is a compound of seven drugs with cologne spirits.
| Guess: |
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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There sets of gladiators made their
appearance
even during banquets; and their number was proportioned to the rank of the guests invited.
| Guess: |
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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The British troops, for the greater display of their numbers, and more
formidable
appearance, were ranged upon the rising grounds, so that the first line stood upon the plain, the rest, as if linked together, rose above one another upon the ascent.
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Tacitus |
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342-
5i '• This is the Ibar Bishop
5* See "Trias Colgan's
Ivor) who made the great
opposition
to Patrick and left the flige-OA lariAand the cuiLeDA p^lAa at Armagh.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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Any English-speaker who has, by virtue of not living under an Everest-sized rock, been exposed to
contemporary
popular music has heard it.
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Translated Poetry |
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Shee sayd; mie manner of appereynge here
Mie name and sleyghted
myndbruch
maie thee telle;
I'm Trouthe, that dyd descende fromm heavenwere, 75
Goulers and courtiers doe not kenne mee welle;
Thie inmoste thoughtes, thie labrynge brayne I sawe,
And from thie gentle dreeme will thee adawe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I
imagine they only wanted to
establish
the truth of those few points which
you thought so easy and intelligible.
| Guess: |
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Lucian |
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The
Nightingale
that in the Branches sang,
Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Il vous parlera de
l'affaire Dreyfus, de tout ce que vous voudrez, dit-elle d'un ton
boudeur à Bloch, il n'approuve pas
beaucoup
ce qui se passe.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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Generated for
anonymous
on 2015-01-02 09:06 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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Of sun and worlds I've nought to tell worth mention,
How men torment
themselves
takes my attention.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
187 To make
184 These
quotations
are from Biro, German Policy, 1:263, 335, 427-38, 2:513; and Blanning, French Revolu tion in Germany, 74?
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
|
If the puns of Finnegans Wake should be
read through either
something
like Augustine's self-reflection by way of language towards God or through something like Luther's writing
bone by an ineluctable phantom.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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"
This
hexameter
is rather heavily accented.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
|
Dibdin's
excellent
songs, and the air to which it is sung
by the Boors is remarkably sweet and lively.
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el americanwayofware1hostigamientodelenemigoentrañasucastigo,da do que ya sólo pueden imaginarse criminales
manifiestos
como responsa bles de groserías armadas contra Estados Unidos.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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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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Here we see
into the
internal
process of development of this
thoroughly modern variety of art, the opera: a
powerful need here acquires an art, but it is a
need of an unaesthetic kind: the yearning for the
idyll, the belief in the prehistoric existence of the
artistic, good man.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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But now with snow the tree is grey,
Ah, sadly now the
throstle
sings!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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In a later chapter on what might be called
"Applied Politics, " the King tells the nephew that
he "will not trouble him with" a demonstration of
the validity of the pretensions under which Silesia
had been seized, but that he had "taken care to
have these duly
estabHshed
by his orators.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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Now
laverocks
wake the merry morn
Aloft on dewy wing;
The merle, in his noontide bow'r,
Makes woodland echoes ring;
The mavis wild wi' mony a note,
Sings drowsy day to rest:
In love and freedom they rejoice,
Wi' care nor thrall opprest.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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When the
inspector
and a
constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with
his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge
him with theft.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Or if you are reading in a library you can dash out and get a terrific
souvlaki
sandwich on the corner.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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We’ll see ’
That afternoon the map was removed from the schoolroom, and Mrs Creevy
scraped the plasticine off the board and threw it away It was the same with all
A Clergyman's
Daughter
395
the other subjects, one after another All the changes that Dorothy had made
were undone They went back to the routine of interminable ‘copies’ and
interminable ‘practice’ sums, to the learmng parrot-fashion of c Passez-moi le
beurre 3 and c Le fils du jar dimer a perdu son chapeau' , to the Hundred Page
History and the insufferable little ‘reader’ (Mrs Creevy had impounded the
Shakespeares, ostensibly to burn them The probability was that she had sold
them ) Two hours a day were set apart for handwriting lessons The two
depressing pieces of black paper, which Dorothy had taken down from the
wall, were replaced, and their proverbs written upon them afresh m neat
copperplate As for the historical chart, Mrs Creevy took it away and burnt it
When the children saw the hated lessons, from which they had thought to
have escaped for ever, coming back upon them one by one, they were first
astonished, then miserable, then sulky But it was far worse for Dorothy than
for the children After only a couple of days the rigmarole through which she
was obliged to drive them so nauseated her that she began to doubt whether
she could go on with it any longer Again and again she toyed with the idea of
disobeying Mrs Creevy Why not, she would think, as the children whined and
groaned and sweated under their miserable bondage-why not stop it and go
back to proper lessons, even if it was only for an hour or two a day?
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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The
preponderance
of the great Powers
in Europe has lately become very marked, and it
is to this that we owe a certain security now ob-
servable in our international relations.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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But this interruption of all feedback loops between a body and its doubles - whether in the mirror, in one's own
internally
stored body image, or in the approving eye of the other - precisely defines technical media.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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We compromised away the Canadian boundary question, though
superheated
throngs throughout America were shouting Fifty-Four Forty or Fight.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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