Antistrophe
Plunderer
of Armies!
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burns |
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von Schlegel, Burnouf,
Langlois, and other renowned
scholars
and
Orientalists, were his pupils.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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He it was who first
taunted Nature with being an
imitator
of art, with always being the
same.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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So the Jay could do no better
than go back to the other Jays, who had watched his
behaviour
from
a distance; but they were equally annoyed with him, and told him:
"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
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237-
The Most
Terrible
Revenge.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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FROM SEXTUS EMPIRICUS
Honors and crowns of the tempest-footed
Horses delight one;
Others live in golden chambers;
And some even are pleased traversing securely
The
swelling
of the sea in a swift ship.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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In like manner, and for the very same reasons, it may
perhaps be neither safe nor prudent to argue against the abolishing of
Christianity, at a
juncture
when all parties seem so unanimously
determined upon the point, as we cannot but allow from their actions,
their discourses, and their writings.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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And soon as ever
'Thas shoved unto the levels of the main
That laden cloud, the whirl suddenly then
Plunges its whole self into the waters there
And rouses all the sea with
monstrous
roar,
Constraining it to seethe.
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" When he got through he jumped up and cracked his
heels
together
three times, and let off a roaring "Whoo-oop!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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Then a damp gust
Bringing
rain
Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
Waited for rain, while the black clouds
Gathered far distant, over Himavant.
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"You cannot now wonder," continued my master, "that when you rose upon me
so unexpectedly last night, I had
difficulty
in believing you any other
than a mere voice and vision, something that would melt to silence and
annihilation, as the midnight whisper and mountain echo had melted
before.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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Here comes another: gentle words, my Queen,
Let him take from thee now, and swiftly follow
Contrite, and let the beauty of thy grief
Bend
pleading
against the King's furious eyes.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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202
Kotzebue, Augustus
Frederick
Ferdinand von, _Pizarro_, i.
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Byron |
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"
At this juncture there came to my help, in a way
* Needless to say,
Nietzsche
distinguishes between Bis-
marckian Germany and that other Germany — Austria,
Switzerland, and the Baltic Provinces—where the German
language is also spoken.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Even of those who have dedicated
themselves
to knowledge, the far
greater part have confined their curiosity to a few objects, and have
very little inclination to promote any fame, but that which their own
studies entitle them to partake.
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Samuel Johnson |
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The author expressly says that "Mathematica quadrivium continet"; but he
plainly does not include the
_Trivium_
under Philosophy.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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No commercial
principle
was at stake in the co-
ercive acts; and the Boston violence was a manifestation of
mob rule which every self-respecting merchant abhorred
from his very soul.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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I Would Live in Your Love
I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea,
Borne up by each wave as it passes, drawn down by each wave that recedes;
I would empty my soul of the dreams that have
gathered
in me,
I would beat with your heart as it beats, I would follow your soul
as it leads.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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I should have
something
more
to give unto you!
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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), routed Eugenius of Melitene and Olympius, duke of
Mesopotamia, while Nu'man's Arabs
plundered
the territory of Carrhae
(26 Nov.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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I have never believed that my grandfather put a bit of railway across Wisconsin
simplyor
chiefly to make money or even with the illusion that he would make money, or make more money in that way than in some.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-20 04:05 GMT / http://hdl.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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At the first we had the sight but of two or three of
them: afterwards appeared no less than six hundred, which, dividing
themselves in two parts,
prepared
for encounter, in which many of
them by meeting with their barks together were broken in pieces, many
were turned over and drowned: they that closed, fought lustily and
would not easily be parted, for the soldiers in the front showed a
great deal of valour, entering one upon another, and killed all they
could, for none were taken prisoners.
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Lucian - True History |
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s strategy is a best
response
to Ai?
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Schwarz - Committments |
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The deviation is that one may think every time a disturbing emotion arises we have to
meditate
on emptiness using emptiness as a remedy.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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The ' sea" raging,
spiritual
'flood*' still rejoice.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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She
proceeded
to other less known and less humiliating adventures.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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She is a gust of wind,
Bending in
parallel
curves the boughs of the willow-tree.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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If it should be a very
valuable
slave, sometimes a physician was sent
for and something done to save him.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Does he not recognize in him- self the peculiar, irreducible character of human
reality?
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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255
a Crown by the People, to be
proclaimed
out of their own
Aflemblies.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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If we leave Homer out, and consider poetic greatness only (the
only
important
thing to consider), there is no "authentic" epic which
can stand against _Paradise Lost_ or the _Aeneid_.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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And the period which preceded it, the period
after the failure of Roman civilization, was sufficiently "dark" and
devoid of individuality, to make the sudden plenty of potent and
splendid individuals seem a phenomenon of the same sort as that which
has been roughly described; it can scarcely be doubted that the age
which is exhibited in the _Poem of the Cid_, the _Song of Roland_, and
the lays of the Crusaders (_la Chanson d'Antioche_, for instance), was
similar in all
essentials
to the age we find in Homer and the
_Nibelungenlied_.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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And then he flew as far as eye could see,
And then on
tremulous
wing came back to me.
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Robert Burns- |
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But Catulus conquered ;v and Lepidus Lepidus was compelled
toretrggt
to ‘Etruria, while another division, defeated.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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It is best that the river and its bank be
separate
but equal.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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mously, " that the whole charge
contained
nothing
~ " of treason though it were all true.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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She feared lest Hippolytus,
learning
of my ardour,
Might reveal a passion that filled him with horror.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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In
brooding
on the inequalities
of the mortal lot, he finds comfort in the reflection: "God, though
invisible, yet holds a hand outreached to lift a little the burden that
presses on the poor.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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I undertake to say that this assertion is totally groimd less, and I
challenge
the author to bring any sort of proof of it.
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Edmund Burke |
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Both
sides in the
terrible
civil conflict fully bore out an old
Russian saying, "One life, one kopek.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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Their fires are of Trust, mixed with thoughts of Love,
that glitter in depths,
voluptuous
or chaste.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Even this
formulation
does not go far enough: Nietzsche cannot be content to sit as a kind of tragic gynecologist before the birth canal of the intellect and wait for whatever might appear.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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How more rightly
shouldst
thou excite me now towards God, whom thou excitedst then to desire.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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But
Bismarck
thought otherwise.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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His army shared in his anger, not only because they had been robbed of the glory of victory, but also because all the wealth of the city had already been
plundered
by the other soldiers.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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Her "Notes on Hospitals" (1859)
revolutionised
the
theory of hospital construction and hospital management.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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I must here contradict, in the most positive fashion, a dogma that is
authoritatively
and widely maintained at the present time, the idea that all women are alike, that no individuals exist amongst women.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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I35
He bids us make no distinction between A foreigners and fellow-countrymen,
strangers
and familiars;
He bids us show anger to no one, and treat no one with contempt;--give alms secretly; not to desire to become rich;--not to swear;--not to
stand in judgment;--become reconciled with our
enemies and forgive offences;--not to in public.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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But it is also not a question of follow- ing in Fichte's
footsteps
and affirming that objective real- ity--the noumenon, which has now become the not-I-- is summoned into being by the primal act of the I, which "posits" it (now using the term in a metaphysical sense).
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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This is all the more the case if - as the Arab
commentators
did - one ignores the possibility that the meter is a somewhat loose form of rajaz, or at least related to it.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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THE WOMAN ON THE THIRD FLOOR:
‘VACHE!
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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SHCHELKALOV, Russian
Minister
of State.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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In
headings
the Polish name forms have been used;
in titles and quotations the author's usage is of course
followed; in notes the form most familiar to the English
reader seemed the natural one to use.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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That is one of the reasons why, in later chapters, a disproportionate amount of "cynical material" from the Weimar Republic is cited-in
addition
to older documents that are also given attention.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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We profess to be at war with Philip; but, as
for your
official
commanders, apart from a single general
of cavalry, the rest of them stay at home and merely
march in festal array through the market-place.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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Then I cried in despair,
"I see
nothing!
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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19
From a gully of the jaded city
Drunken laughter
filtered
through the night
Where I knelt, and toward the open window Reached my hands before me as in prayer.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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It cannot be simply a restoration ot the so-called liberal
education
of pre-war times, too often merely the con- tinuance of traditional ideas, traditional methods.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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What qualifies political Islam as a potential successor to
communism
are three advantages, which can be analogously identified with historical com- munism.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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154
The
Successors
of Spenser
griefs, by his personal difficulties in finding an answer to great
problems; he was not at all a reformer; he had no passionate wish
to alleviate the sorrow of humanity.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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Will all great
Neptunes
Ocean wash this blood
Cleane from my Hand?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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for if the mass of the
property
should belong to the public, and if the.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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(with some
elevation) I was
thinking
of a much more precious circumstance--of Mr.
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Austen - Emma |
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Because reading runs more quickly and thus
unconsciously
than writing, experiments in automatic reading were included at the outset.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Geve place, the
prisoner
come by; give place.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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They might be good for garden things
To curl a little finger round,
The same as you seize cat's-cradle strings,
And lift
themselves
up off the ground.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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They are held
together
by the central image of the secure base or 'inter-assurance' of lover and beloved.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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13 Some time afterwards, he went to war with Mezentius, king of the Etruscans, and when he was killed in it, Ascanius his son
succeeded
him.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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the lesser thing for the thing of major importance, indifference to mechanism as weighed against the main purpose, fitting of the means to that purpose
without regard to abstract ideas, even if the idea was
proclaimed
the week before last.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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What is the usual basis for the apportionment of repre-
sentatives in the
legislature?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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Now it is to be assumed, even if not from his definition, yet on other grounds, that where we have the equation of a curve of the third degree
y=x3
the author would speak of a variable x and a variable y, and would give the
totality
of real numbers as the range of each.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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The digital images and OCR of this work were
produced
by Google, Inc.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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utet
Lange eine dunkle Glocke im Dorf;
friedlich
Geleit.
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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Hence- forth, actuality has to be thought of as
instantaneous
change.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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We may let the curtain fall once
more on the mystery, finding the
ultimate
cause
of the poet's ruin in the words of his confession
"ingenio perii.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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But, partly that she dreaded the secret or
undisguised interference of old Roger Chillingworth, and partly that
her conscious heart imputed suspicion where none could have been felt,
and partly that both the
minister
and she would need the whole wide
world to breathe in, while they talked together,--for all these
reasons, Hester never thought of meeting him in any narrower privacy
than beneath the open sky.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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Rilke - Poems |
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What Lands and Seas the
Goddesse
sought it were too long to saine.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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Lou von Salome was only one of many students of philosophy in Zurich who con- tacted him: aside from her, there were the forgotten names Resa von Schirnhofer, Meta von Salis, and especially Helene Druskowitz, who suc- ceeded (and competed with)
Nietzsche
all the way to her death in an in- sane asylum.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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The broch'd keene javlyn hurld from honde so stronge 335
As thine came
thundrynge
on his crysted beave;
Ah!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Since the time of Plato, and especially since that of Aristotle,
philosophers
had been paying the most care l attention to questions
THE INNER CITADEL
concerning the di erent types of knowledge, and the various methods which characterize them.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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For it is precisely by virtue of this feeling that he
shows the most powerful manifestation of life in
1 Wagner—the very kernel of his strength—that
demoniacal magnetism and gift of
imparting
one-
self to others, which is peculiar to his nature, and
by which it not only conveys itself to other beings,
but also absorbs other beings into itself; thus
attaining to its greatness by giving and by taking.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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Index to the
contents
of the Cole MSS.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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" 10 Philippus, mocked by this message, broke up the siege of Byzantium, and entered upon a war with the Scythians, first sending
ambassadors
to lull them into security, by telling Atheas that "while he was besieging Byzantium, he had vowed a statue to Hercules, 11 which he was going to erect at the mouth of the Ister, requesting an unobstructed passage to pay his vow to the god, since he was coming as a friend to the Scythians.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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After the Restoration he was
made
Governor
of Dover and Chief Comptroller of the Navy.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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Suddenly
everything
became hurry and
bad temper.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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How happy'is hee, which hath due place assign'd
To'his beasts, and
disaforested
his minde!
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And checks his song to execrate Godoy,
The royal wittol Charles, and curse the day
When first Spain's queen beheld the black-eyed boy,
And gore-faced Treason sprung from her
adulterate
joy.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The former was probably somewhat dirty whereas the latter will be as
clean as a
bathroom
on a Swiss highway service area.
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Sloterdijk |
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The young finds that he has exchanged the humble
prince, overhearing the command, in- events of the little border vale by Mel-
vites him in; and for amusement, rose for
thrilling
and romantic adventures
changes clothes with him.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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The rats," continued he, " in this part of the world, are a cunning, covet ous, and proud generation ; they heap money as much as the misers of our own species ; and when one of them is
possessed
of a considerable sum, he becomes a prince among them, and has his set of comrades, who would die to serve him, as they live by him ; for he disburses money for their purchases of food, etc.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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As far as the piano is concerned
sentiment
is my
forte.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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If
Athenian
husbands had
all been like Ischomachus, it is clear that the lives of wives might
have been very happy and useful, and that harmony might have reigned in
the family.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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AlthoughdisarmamentbybothEast
andWestwascalledfor,theemphasislayentirelyon
thecampaignagainst
thefulfilmenotfthe"doubletrackdecision"of1979.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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