, but after-
wards
restored
to a partial independence; hence the general
term si'rl-pe'lrta'as, 'having ordered matters at.
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This is an
inimyskilling
inglis, this is a scotcher grey, this is a davy, stooping.
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Finnegans |
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[91] And what is more, there is come to disquiet my sweet slumber a direful dream, and the adverse vision makes me exceedingly afraid lest ever it works
something
untoward upon my children.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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Therefore all things without exception honour the
Tao, and exalt its
outflowing
operation.
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Tao Te Ching |
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\ In
dependence
upon the eye and form
\ Mind arises like an illusion.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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Sum nitidus
vitreusque
magis lucidus {enall.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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A
15 year old boy
accompanies
the band sent to investigate, and his adven-
tures make the plot of this story on a richly woven historical back-
ground.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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"
"Very good humoured,
unaffected
girls, indeed," said Mrs Croft, in a
tone of calmer praise, such as made Anne suspect that her keener powers
might not consider either of them as quite worthy of her brother; "and
a very respectable family.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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The Emperor was so pleased with Po's talent that whenever he was
feasting or
drinking
he always had this poet to wait upon him.
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Li Po |
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I
The sacred armies, and the godly knight,
That the great
sepulchre
of Christ did free,
I sing; much wrought his valor and foresight,
And in that glorious war much suffered he;
In vain 'gainst him did Hell oppose her might,
In vain the Turks and Morians armed be:
His soldiers wild, to brawls and mutinies prest,
Reduced he to peace, so Heaven him blest.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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In
continually
expanding circles of production and consumption, it creates new "desires," a measureless "hunger for commodities" that is increasingly directed at artificialities.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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(5) He will win who has
military
capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.
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The-Art-of-War |
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If we
practised
this and exercised ourselves in it daily from morning to night, something indeed would be done.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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As yet he knew little
more about her than that she wore the most
fascinating
hats, that the
late Lord Lytton was her favourite author, and that she hated frogs.
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Yeats |
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"
"And bang up tulsi and feast the purohit, and take you back into
caste again and make a good khuttri of you again, you
advanced
social
Free-thinker.
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Kipling - Poems |
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--Well, on, brave boys, to your lord's hearth,
Glitt'ring with fire; where, for your mirth,
Ye shall see first the large and chief
Foundation of your feast, fat beef;
With upper stories, mutton, veal
And bacon, which makes full the meal,
With sev'ral dishes
standing
by,
As here a custard, there a pie,
And here, all tempting frumenty.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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--Well, on, brave boys, to your lord's hearth,
Glitt'ring with fire; where, for your mirth,
Ye shall see first the large and chief
Foundation of your feast, fat beef;
With upper stories, mutton, veal
And bacon, which makes full the meal,
With sev'ral dishes
standing
by,
As here a custard, there a pie,
And here, all tempting frumenty.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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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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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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However,
theories
not based on facts nave a life of their own, completely divorced from reality, and, diligently propagated, live on forever.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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In energetic minds, truth soon changes by domestication into
power; and from directing in the discrimination and appraisal of the
product, becomes
influencive
in the production.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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They
transform
in a highly selective way distant temporal relevances into present social ones.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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It therefore does not help
very much to privilege the operations of literature over those opera- tions due to which the
sciences
are not only able to codify their own methods, but also their results and thus parts of the so-called nature.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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" For it is the
same
deposing
of a King, to submit to another King, whether he be set up
by a neighbour nation, or by our selves.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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There is nothing
youthful in its pessimism, nothing even Byronic
in its want of
confidence
in men.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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Then over all spread out the
blackened
cloud,
"'Tis here!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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{149b}
Horace, his
judgment
of Choerillus defended against Joseph Scaliger.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Their warm, yet delicate and ethereal
imagination will be appreciated by all, but by none so thoroughly as by
him who has himself arisen from sweet dreams of one beloved to bathe in
the aromatic air of a southern
midsummer
night.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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When Plato and
Aristotle
assure us that philosophy begins with amazement (thaumazein), they are just managing to grasp the very end of an order in which all higher achievements were measured in relation to the unbelievable; it was only much later that half-price trivializations and imitations would be able to dictate the agenda.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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ue of this
conference!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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If this thesis can rightly be applied to philosophical history, a scandalous suggestion in itself, it would be more
accurate
- or at least more fruitful - to view Hegel's early critique of his contemporaries as having less to do with them and more to do with himself.
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Hegel_nodrm |
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That, then, is the reason that
Hallam will remain a source of profit and
inspiration
to his readers.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Once the lawyer
thought he had
humiliated
K.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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And if Mademoiselle Adèle forgets that
she is the
Princess
Lisa, and herself feels the pathos of the scene,
she is not an actress, that is all.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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Your slaying, ye judges, shall be pity, and not revenge; and in that ye
slay, see to it that ye
yourselves
justify life!
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Only under the counter-command "Hear the sacred
vibrations!
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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— Those moral teachers who first
and foremost order man to get himself into his
own power, induce thereby a curious infirmity in
him,—namely, a constant
sensitiveness
with refer-
ence to all natural strivings and inclinations, and
as it were, a sort of itching.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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The Indian princes may there-
fore have been
ignorant
of the fact that the Persian king at the other end of
his realm had come into contact with a singular people settled in a
quantity of little republics over the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula,
along the coasts of Asia Minor, and in the intermediate islands, the people
whom the Persians called collectively Yavanas (Ionians).
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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You may convert to and
distribute
this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And it may chance that love may turn,
And, like to mine, make your heart burn
And weep to see't; yet this thing do,
That my last vow
commends
to you;
When you shall see that I am dead,
For pity let a tear be shed;
And, with your mantle o'er me cast,
Give my cold lips a kiss at last;
If twice you kiss, you need not fear
That I shall stir or live more here.
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Robert Herrick |
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So this Stranger and his interlocutor, Socrates Junior, set themselves the task of
imposing
transparently rational rules on the politics (or city-shepherding) of their day.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Wharton, in whose altogether admirable little
volume we find all that is known and the most
apposite
of all that has been
said up to the present day about
"Love's priestess, mad with pain and joy of song,
Song's priestess, mad with joy and pain of love.
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Sappho |
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" To those, who from ignorance of the serious injury
I have received from this rumour of having dreamed away my life to no
purpose, injuries which I unwillingly remember at all, much less am
disposed to record in a sketch of my
literary
life; or to those, who
from their own feelings, or the gratification they derive from thinking
contemptuously of others, would like job's comforters attribute these
complaints, extorted from me by the sense of wrong, to self conceit or
presumptuous vanity, I have already furnished such ample materials, that
I shall gain nothing by withholding the remainder.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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49 According to
Tsongkhapa
and Candra- kirti, the Carvaka's assertion constitutes nihilism, while the Prasangika's does not.
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_
_In the wine-shops of Wu, women are
pressing
the wine.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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--D'abord la veille il y eut une espèce de
répétition
qui était une bien
belle chose!
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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The
Importance
of being Earnest.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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I am not yours: I cannot braid the lilies
In your wet hair, nor on your argent bosoms
Close my drowsed eyes to hear your
rippling
voices.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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For instance, according to the
priestly
narrative, God made the animals before man (Genesis 1, 24-25).
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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It flashed like rapiers in the night
Lit by
uncertain
candle-light,
When on some moon-forsaken sward
A quarrel dies upon a sword.
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Amy Lowell |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The moralism of thought in the
concepts
of embodiment is only the appendix of latent necrological metaphysics that drives life towards the point of a deadly realization.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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The heroic defence of the Knights of Malta against the
Turks, and of the revolted Provinces of the
Netherlands
against Spain,
excited in me an intense and lasting interest.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Harriet
Martineau
and President Madison a general feeling that the majority should rule.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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But this state of matters so favourable to the govern- Quarrel ment was altered, when the differences became more dis- zigzag,“ tinctly
developed
which subsisted between it and those of mental-id its partisans, whose hopes aspired to higher objects than the
seat of honour in the senate and the aristocratic villa.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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But it is not improbable that among
the secondary causes that produce even sickly seasons and epidemics
ought to be ranked a crowded
population
and unwholesome and
insufficient food.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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At
midnight
he performed a ceremony in the temple and made offerings of flowers.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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Considerado bajo este punto de vista, el neoplatonismo se mues
tra como la ontología
política
velada de la cultura imperial tanto
antigua como antiguo-europea.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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The
preaching
of chastity remains an incitement
to unnaturalness: I despise anybody who does not
regard “Parsifal' as an outrage upon morality.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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After
WorldWar
II thatunityquicklybrokeapartundertheimpactofthediffer- ences and conflictsbetween nations and states.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep
providing
this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Centauric
Literature
Letter from ?
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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To Jack a merry, merry
Christmas
week ;
Of you we so kindly speak.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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The new government was anti-
German and
inclined
towards paganism, while the new king, Obo, was
chosen from among the Magyar chiefs.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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'Twas sunset: when the sun will part
There comes a
sullenness
of heart
To him who still would look upon
The glory of the summer sun.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
We should grant state Marxism and its
adherents
a voice and guest status
42.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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8" #
*%+!
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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" It may be, that the present saint was that Giolla, or Gille, changed to Gille- bert, who presided over the see of Limerick," and who became distinguished for his zeal, while endeavouring to effect reforms, in the Irish
ecclesiastical
offices and usages of his period.
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| Question: |
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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So the world will become
relatively
more full of selfish bacteria.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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Not even the
_Dialogues
of the Gods_ are out of date, for if we
no longer reverence Olympus, we still blink our eyes at the flash of
ridicule.
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Lucian - True History |
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"A
glorious
devil, large in heart
and brain, that did love beauty only.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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At the end of The Downfall,
a second play is
promised
us, which is to describe the funeral of
Richard Cour de Lion; and this was written in 1598, but is no
longer extant.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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The
bargaining
power of di?
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Schwarz - Committments |
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Yet some could see him cringe,
As in a place of danger,
Throwing
frightened glances into the air,
A-start at threatening faces of the past.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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He
has more
cleverness
than ten thousand men, and he found means to
compass his end.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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Universal Reason wishes this world to be as it is: that is to say, arising om the
original
re, and returning to this original re, and there re having a beginning and an end.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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How much
less
equivocal
would life among men then be !
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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There are some masters who say that the
vdyukrtsndyatana
(feng wu-pien ju ?
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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_Necessity
makes dastards valiant men.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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The animal is fond of water in every way, whether for drinking or for bathing purposes; and this
explains
the peculiar constitution of the hippopotamus or river-horse.
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Aristotle copy |
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The self-that in nitesimal point within the immensity-is thereby trans rmed, and made equal to
universal
Reason.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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At last they slowed their
impetuous
flight.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Reality though absolute, is
ineffable
and indeterminate, for it is beyond language and thought.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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Whatever may become of these conjec-
tures, it is certain that the spirituality of the
soul, and all the thoughts derived from it,
have been easily naturalized among the peo-
ple of the North; and of all these nations,
the Germans have ever showed themselves
the most inclined to
contemplative
philo-
sophy.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Why then are you reading
yourself?
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Shobogenzo |
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Tell me frankly; I assure you
beforehand
that I
am not quick to take offence?
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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"
The unfolding of the fresh,
unsullied
bud of
a child's mind is one of the redeeming graces
of our time-worn old world.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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Despite the same exile that will
separate
them, 1255
They swear a thousand times nothing will part them.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The commentators,
apparently
unable to accept that so illustrious a poem should have such a low-prestige meter, took it to be in a form of basīṭ instead.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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The site relies on donated servers and bandwidth, so has automated
mechanisms
in place to detect when too many downloads are occurring from a single location (IP address).
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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«Para mí los amores acabaron;
Todo en el mundo para mí acabó;
Los lazos que a la tierra me ligaron [905]
El cielo para siempre desató,»
Dijo su acento misterioso y tierno,
Que de otros mundos la
ilusión
traía,
Eco de los que ya reposo eterno
Gozan en paz bajo la tumba fría.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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His
place was on the debatable ground between the hostile
divisions
of the
community, and he never wandered far beyond the frontier of either.
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Macaulay |
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ADAM
MICKIEWICZ
53
heard the shriek of my mother.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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There has been in truth no fighting, it has been the murder rather of
unprepared
and defenseless men.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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SAPPHO
ONE HUNDRED LYRICS
BY
BLISS CARMAN
1907
"SAPPHO WHO BROKE OFF A
FRAGMENT
OF HER SOUL
FOR US TO GUESS AT.
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Sappho |
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390
Then roll'd the raft at random in the flood,
Wallowing
unwieldy, toss'd from wave to wave.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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How tame the sessions of the Myrtle
must have seemed by
comparison!
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Jose de Espronceda |
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He bends to the habit
of
dragging
his feet
up under him,
like a measuring-worm:
some of his forefathers,
stooped over books,
ruled short straight lines
under two rows of figures
to keep their thin savings
from sifting to the floor.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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