To revisit the
glimpses
of the moon is not for us.
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LXVIII
HE phtlosophers say one, the few, the many T RegIs
optlmatlum
popullque
as Lycurgus In Spart~a, reges, senlores et populus both greeks and ItalIans
archons, su:ffestes or consuls
AthenIans, Spartans, Thebans, Achalans
uSIng the people as Its mere dupe, as an undcr,\\rorkcl
a purchaser In trust for some tYlant dexterous In pulhng down, not In maintainIng Turgot takes a definItIon of the commonwealth
for a definitIon of lIberty
Where ambition IS every man's trade IS no ploughIng
How shall the plow be kept In hands of owners not hIrelIngs') Lycurgus
to the end that no branch by swellIng
to say that some parts of Plato and SIr Thos More
are as wIld as the ravings of Bedlam (found MIlton a dItherIng IdIot, tho' scud thIs wIth
more cIrcumspectIon)
Lowered Interest without annullIng the debt
In thIS transactIon There IS nothIng lIke It In the orIgInal Mr Pope has conformed It to the notIons
of EnglIshmen and AmerIcans
m TaCItus and In Homer, 3 orders, In Greece as In Germany a.
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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The time-line that constitutes the jug is reduced to a unit which we
recognize
as a
jug.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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Foucault's dissatisfaction with his previous analy- sis of asylum power centers around two basic features ol the analysis in Histoire de lafolie: first, the privileged role he gave to the "perception of madness" instead of starting, as he does in Psychiatric Power, from an apparatus of power itself; second, the use of notions that now seem to him to be "rusty locks with which we cannot get very far" and that
therefore
compromise his analysis of power as it is articulated in Histoire de lafolie.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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The thing that made me more and more afraid
Was that we'd ground it sharp and hadn't known,
And now were only wasting
precious
blade.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The most tremendous
convulsions
of nature, such as volcanic
eruptions and earthquakes, if they do not happen so frequently as to
drive away the inhabitants, or to destroy their spirit of industry,
have but a trifling effect on the average population of any state.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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'Leave her awhile (Melissa said), and be
A month or twain a truant, more or less:
Then homeward wend; again the goblet fill;
And prove if you the
beverage
drink or spill.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Just so in rhetoric--which
in the spiritual world is one of the greatest, and very often one of the
noblest, of
conquering
forces--there is the iron manner and the velvet
manner.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Mē tō grunde tēah
"fāh fēond-scaða, fæste hæfde
555 "grim on grāpe: hwæðre mē gyfeðe wearð,
"þæt ic
āglǣcan
orde gerǣhte,
"hilde-bille; heaðo-rǣs fornam
"mihtig mere-dēor þurh mīne hand.
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Beowulf |
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It turns out to be the God Hypothesis that tries to get
something
for nothing.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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Therefore what he gives
(Whose praise be ever sung) to man in part
Spiritual, may of purest Spirits be found
No ingrateful food: and food alike those pure
Intelligential substances require
As doth your Rational; and both contain
Within them every lower facultie 410
Of sense, whereby they hear, see, smell, touch, taste,
Tasting concoct, digest, assimilate,
And corporeal to
incorporeal
turn.
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Milton |
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Anaxagoras meant the
chemical
atoms.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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"
This
conclusion
was quite undemonstrable, Ulrich knew that; in- deed, to most people it would appear as perverse, but that did not bother him.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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N ew doctrines
ever
displease
the old.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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When I draw back
Blossom and verdure follow my track,
And the land I leave grows proud and fair,
For the
wonderful
race of man is there;
And the winds of heaven wail and cry
While the nations rise and reign and die-
Living and dying in folly and pain,
While the laws of the universe thunder in vain.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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) came not nigh,
_Dryden_ alone escap'd this judging eye:
But still the _Great_ have
kindness
in reserve, 245
He help'd to bury whom he help'd to starve.
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Alexander Pope |
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How infinitely is thy
puddle-headed, rattle-headed, wrong-headed, round-headed slave
indebted to thy supereminent goodness, that from the luminous path of
thy own right-lined rectitude, thou lookest benignly down on an erring
wretch, of whom the zig-zag
wanderings
defy all the powers of
calculation, from the simple copulation of units, up to the hidden
mysteries of fluxions!
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Robert Burns |
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All the boldest spirits of the
unconquerable
colony had
repaired to William's camp.
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Macaulay |
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Child Verse
OUT OF BOUNDS
A LITTLE Boy, of
heavenly
birth,
^^^ But far from home to-day,
Comes down to find His ball, the Earth,
That Sin has cast away.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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418 References
Mann, Michael,
Giovanni
Arrighi, Jason W.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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For reason itself
contains
the standard for
the critical examination of every use of it.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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TO THE EARTH [GAIA]
The
Fumigation
from every kind of Seed, except Beans and Aromatics.
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Orphic Hymns |
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You might say, "Well, by
meditating
the heart indestructible and the vajra recitation etc.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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Help
came rather from another quarter, and primarily, it must be owned,
with a
different
purpose in view.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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This should be done with a strong feeling of
repentance
and remorse, and an intention to turn away from committing such actions again.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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And once, when walking with some of his acquaintances, when he came near the house where the girls are kept, and where, having been there the day before, he had left some money owing, as he
happened
to have some with him then, he put out his hand and paid it in the presence of all of them.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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He was not a playgoer, being
of such
fastidious
taste that he was easily disgusted by the bad
filling-up of the inferior parts.
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Shelley |
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Walter Ong's study of the "adversative" spirit in human thought and culture emphasizes the "highly agonistic" sources of
rhetoric
as a formal art for the world of public debate, and in her study of rhetoric and athletics in ancient Greece, Debra Hawhee notes the multiple ways that the language of athletics (boxing and chariot racing, in particular) became the language of sophistic rhetoric; she claims that an "athletic notion of agonism" informed early Greek rhetorical practice and pedagogy.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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In fact, he was far too free in
introducing
conjectures.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Interest in the common good is at present so weak a motive in the
generality not because it can never be otherwise, but because the mind
is not
accustomed
to dwell on it as it dwells from morning till night on
things which tend only to personal advantage.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Love, look thus again,--
That your look may light a waste of years, _10
Darting the beam that
conquers
cares
Through the cold shower of tears.
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Shelley |
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The promi- nent
position
of apocalyptic threat speeches in the collection of authentic words of Jesus inevitably leads to a conflict.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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"
"You, madam, are the eternal humorist
The eternal enemy of the absolute,
Giving our vagrant moods the
slightest
twist
With your air indifferent and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute--"
And--"Are we then so serious?
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T.S. Eliot |
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ntimo motivo: que junto con la
limitacio?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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com 5
garden walls sagging in all
directions?
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Orwell - 1984 |
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We do not know half enough
about Lord Bacon—the first realist in all the highest
acceptation of this
word—to
be sure of everything
he did, everything he willed, and everything he ex-
perienced in his inmost soul.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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let who may
Against thy faults be railing,
(Though far, I pray, from us be they
That never had a
failing!
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| Question: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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"
"O highly-flavour'd
delegate
of Jove!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Under
numerous
shrubs as large as trees on land were massed
bushes of living flowers--animals rather than plants--of various colors
and glowing softly in the obscurity of the ocean depth.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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Nowadays, a kind of Janus
position
is pos- sible: we can look forward and backward at the same time and know that we are a disappearing person or an arriving person, depending on the direction.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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The only event which is recorded is that the Trojans received
assistance
from the Assyrians, led by Memnon the son of Tithonus.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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die de Goethe n'est point en
harmonie
avec
l'ensemble; le comte d'Egmont s'endort quelques instants avant
demarcher a` l'e?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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But it is
difficult
to say how much of this is true, for the Koreans come, not from a Chinese, but from a really different Tartar stock and consequently Ki-Tsze could only have been a later conqueror.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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' In the
great bulk of Acts and Scenes, and especially in the long and
important one which comes next (in his Works, though not in time)
to Count Julian, Andrea of Hungary, as well as, though to a
slightly less degree, in its sequels, which
complete
the trilogy on
Giovanna of Naples, he has provided himself liberally with all
these things.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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And above, on both sides, reversing the oars, they
fastened
them round the thole- pins, so as to project a cubit's space.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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'The blasts of Autumn drive the winged seeds
Over the earth,--next come the snows, and rain, _3650
And frosts, and storms, which dreary Winter leads
Out of his
Scythian
cave, a savage train;
Behold!
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Shelley copy |
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Also her sons
With lives of Victims
sacrificed
upon an altar of brass
On the East side.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The room
shakes, the
servitor
quakes.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Amy Lowell |
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Let the left shoulder of Andromeda be thy guide to the
northern
Fish, for it is very near.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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Only a few months later, it became evident that the atmotechnical form of the extermination of
organisms
would have to discover applications to environments with human dwellers.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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The same man [however],
when he had reduced to smoke and ashes whatever more
considerable
booty
he had gotten; 'Faith, said he, I do not wonder if some persons eat up
their estates; since nothing is better than a fat thrush, nothing finer
than a lage sow's paunch.
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Horace - Works |
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, Rome, the capital the Christians; the person who then departed
was powerful mighty lord, subtle, acute, and profound intellect and mind, warlike, valiant, predatory and enterprising lord, defence his
religion
and patrimony, against his enemies; pious, charitable lord, meekness and mildness towards his friends, but fierce and stern his enemies, until brought them under controul and subjection his authority; lord who did not covet possess the lands property any others, but was content with what his ancestors inherited originally; lord possessing the power and praise-worthy fame prince, who did not suffer robbery, insubordination, plunder vi olence, animosity treachery, prevail during his government, but kept within the bounds
the law, was becoming prince.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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She neither accepted nor refused the offers of
reconciliation
which I
made to her.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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* 58 "
Silet
In Exitum
Cuiusdam
.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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E E ' =
EE{ I
gg
afE
rEgi*iFEi?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:16 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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Are not the cults of science and aesthetics the
prototypical
?
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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The bee is
a
geometrician
of the very first order.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
1.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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though this is a mighty politick invention, yet, methinks,
they might have done without it: for, since the advice that Syphax gave
to Sempronius was,
'To hurry her away by manly force,'
in my opinion, the
shortest
and likeliest way of coming at the lady
was by demolishing, instead of putting on an impertinent disguise to
circumvent two or three slaves.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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He was knighted with the sword of his hero, Marlborough; and
was made physician in
ordinary
to the king, and physician general to the
army.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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V
Yet faithful still 'mid woe and doubt
One woman's loyal heart--whose pain
Filled it with pure celestial light--
Shone starry-constant like the North,
Or that still
radiance
beaming forth
From sacred lights in some lone fane.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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They cannot be properly managed without
benevolence
and straightforwardness.
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| Source: |
The-Art-of-War |
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Pauperis
et tiigu-l-r?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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And it would be most unbecoming for a proud man to fly from
danger,
swinging
his arms by his sides, or to wrong another; for to
what end should he do disgraceful acts, he to whom nothing is great?
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Aristotle |
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--Do you
disbelieve
then?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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In a condition near blind-
ness, Krasinski made the journey by slow stages, halting
at Venice for an unsuccessful
treatment
on his eyes.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Son of
Cleombrotus
II.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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Those who, completely
indifferent
towards the world, without
'rnahakaruna ', continue to practise the perfection of giving
?
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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was
doubtless a further part of the imperial policy of giving this dangerous
family honourable
employment
at a distance from the court.
| Guess: |
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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The
Cardinal was fond of his conversation, but sometimes rallied the poet on
his
enthusiasm
for his native Italy.
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Petrarch |
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Now you are to understand, that time
had worked a very material change in Mr Elliot's
opinions
as to the
value of a baronetcy.
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| Source: |
Austen - Persuasion |
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291
The Ten Commandments 292
Hymns for
Sabbaths
and Festivals :--
CbW TnN 299
English Metrical Version, by Jacob VValey .
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| Source: |
Childrens - Psalm-Book |
|
Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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slain Curatii
Camilla-
ORATIUS -Lo, sister, the arm that hath brothers
avenged!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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For example, it is clear that our present weakness would prevent us from offering
effective
resistance at any of several vital pressure points.
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NSC-68 |
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2
Lanterna
Magica and the Age of the World Picture 70
2.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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The Germans are
equally convinced that if France really reaches an
understanding with the Soviet Union,
negotiates
a
trade treaty and establishes perhaps its own Gov-
ernment guarantees for Soviet credits, the Bank for
International Settlements will change its mind and
accept Soviet notes for rediscount.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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During this time I suppose it was, that Thomas Wedge wood settled upon him, by deed, £75 per annum, and that Josiah
Wedgewood
agreed to allow him the same sum, to enable him to go to Germany.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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To you indeed it is moft convenient, as to all
Liars, to alter the
Situation
and Circumftances of Time, but
I fhall regularly purfue my Difcourfe, beginning with our De-
parture on our fecond Embafly.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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This waiting for justice comes to
characterize
the meaning of time.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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A few days later I did
receive exactly two hundred francs due to me for a
newspaper
article, and, though it hurt
to do it, I at once paid every penny of it in rent.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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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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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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Caesar Augustus
Germanicus
IV.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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At any given
moment there was some
necessary
article which the Par-
ty shops were unable to supply.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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To
paraphrase
the old joke, If it looks
like a folk group, acts like a folk group, smells like a folk group, and tastes
8 INTRODUCTION
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Childens - Folklore |
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When thou goest in to any of the great,
remember
that Another from above
sees what is passing, and that thou shouldst please Him rather than man.
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Epictetus |
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His piteous legs scarce propped him up:
His arms mere sickles seemed to be:
But most o'erflowed our sorrow's cup
When that we saw -- or did not see --
His belly: we
remembered
how
It shook like a bowl of jelly fine:
An earthquake could not shake it now;
He HAD no belly -- not a sign.
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Sidney Lanier |
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But one had the clothing of the flesh, the other bore no
infirmity
derived from the flesh.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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The play hangs loosely together, and the
satire is so acid and unrelieved throughout that it goes beyond the
limits of
dramatic
plausibility.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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The
appeal of all these writers now depends partly on period-flavour and though Marryat is
still
officially
a ‘boy’s writer’ and Surtees has a sort of legendary fame among hunting
men, it is probable that they are read mostly by bookish people.
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Orwell |
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The fourteenth- even more
remarkable in its truth to nature-is, with all its poetical charm,
almost a literal transcript of a piece of that dull life of the Greek
peasant-proprietary which kept driving its young men into drink or
into the army; while the speech and manners of the same social class
in the great towns are drawn with as light and sure a touch in the
fifteenth idyl, the celebrated 'Adoniazusæ,'- the
brilliant
sketch of
the "bank holiday" spent by two Syracusan women settled in Alex-
andria.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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A sort of curse against its guzzling
And its age-lasting wallow for red greed
And yet, full speed
Though it should run for its own getting, Will turn aside to sneer at
'Cause he hath
No coin, no will to snatch the
aftermath
Of Mammon.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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No man, however great a genius, is entirely outside the pre-
vailing taste of the period in which he lives, and George reveals
the fact that he belongs to the nineties of the last century both
in his acceptance of the idea of the autonomy of art and in his
particular
conception
of beauty itself.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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The human sciences that have appeared since the end of the 19th century are caught as it were in a double obligation, a double and simultaneous postu- lation: that of hermeneutics, interpretation, or exegesis: one must understand a hidden meaning; and the other: one must formalize,
discover
the system, the structural invariant, the network of simultaneities.
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Foucault-Live |
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ino, que es Dios t
por la fe no
conociera
,
vos le pintais de manera,
que le adorara por vos.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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