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Bishop Barlow, _Answer to a
Catholike
Englishman_, p.
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The servant produced the pistols, and Page seemed to like them, and desired he might have them to shew the
gentleman
for his appro bation.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain
materials
and make them widely accessible.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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He said : Some people
consider
it sycophancy to serve one's prince with all the details of the rites.
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He had in the former Trials produced no less than Eight Persons who swore positively to his being in Town at that very Time, when the Jesuits and their
Younkers
would so fain had him been out of whose Names were Mr.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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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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perspicimus
caelum; cur non et munera caeli?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"When they had all arrived,
Daddy
T\Tapped
himself in his blanket, and put
on his Tam O'Shanter, and seating himself on a
fallen log, began to talk to the eager group in
his usual kind fashion.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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While I was looking they rose hurriedly,
And after
circling
with strange cries awhile
Flew westward; and many a time since then
I've heard a rustling overhead in the wind.
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There are moreover wonderful and indescribable cisterns underground, as they pointed out to me, at a distance of five furlongs all round the site of the temple, and each of them has
countless
pipes [90] so that the different streams converge together.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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" said she to him, "you love
desperately
Miss Cunegonde of
Thunder-ten-Tronckh?
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tf~I such IJ1lllter-s as lone-for
instance
the "".
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[42]
According
to the original legend, Rustum left an amulet, or
charm, with the mother of Sohrab.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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Secondly, I would
remind them, that as long as there are men in the world to whom the
Gnothi seauton is an instinct and a command from their own nature, so
long will there be metaphysicians and
metaphysical
speculations; that
false metaphysics can be effectually counteracted by true metaphysics
alone; and that if the reasoning be clear, solid and pertinent, the
truth deduced can never be the less valuable on account of the depth
from which it may have been drawn.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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And to many people this mystery, the mystery why such force should reside in so fragile a book, why such power should
coincide
with so great a nonchalance of manner, will remain for- ever a mystery.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Not only is genius one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, as Edison once said, but according to McLuhan's law the development of media under highly technical
conditions
always requires the development of other media and thus the sweat of others as well.
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* * * * *
ROBERT GRAVES
LOST LOVE
His eyes are
quickened
so with grief,
He can watch a grass or leaf
Every instant grow; he can
Clearly through a flint wall see,
Or watch the startled spirit flee
From the throat of a dead man.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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These inspired switches of subject are so
characteristic
of his style - and so endearing.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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We must
have an
administration
distinct from congress, and in the
hands of single men under their orders.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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This is the program for practicing the
ordinary
path, which I have already explained elsewhere [in the Stages of the Path of Enlightenment] .
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The
follower
is bound to avoid violence, crime and indulgence.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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But who would attempt to express
accurately what all these masters of new modes of speech could not
express
distinctly?
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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The man was worth more than the
institutions
which had formed him.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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It is interesting to note that in the text, the word ''guo,'' which I have translated as ''produces results,'' is used to
describe
the actions of the sage.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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ments; et si l'on en excepte
Pythagore et Platon, qui tenaient de l'Orient leur
tendance
a`
l'ide?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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For
sufficient
lords are able to make these
discoveries themselves.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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When he had
recovered a little, he seized a brush and without any effort wrote a
composition of
flawless
grace.
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Li Po |
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I don't believe any estimate of
Mussolini
will be
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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Thus Ariosto says, in words
That have the stately stride and ring
Of armed knights and
clashing
swords.
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Longfellow |
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Some bright lad might present him to our glorious
fatherland
under- the title of MUSSOLINI DEBUNKER.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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the need for greater
sensitivity
to questions of hermeneutics, pertains to the problems involved in reconstructing the thought of someone like Tsongkhapa.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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Whether a book is still in
copyright
varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Nguyễn
Đình Liêu (1443-?
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stella-03 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:30 GMT / http://hdl.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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26
Ma i venti che
portavano
le vele
per l'alto mar di quel giovene infido,
portavano anco i prieghi e le querele
de l'infelice Olimpia, e 'l pianto e 'l grido;
la qual tre volte, a se stessa crudele,
per affogarsi si spiccò dal lido:
pur al fin si levò da mirar l'acque,
e ritornò dove la notte giacque.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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by, 2
Plutarch, preface to &
translation
of,
by Dryden, 44
Poem upon the Death of His Late High-
ness, Oliver, Lord Protector of Eng.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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He was perpetually
obliged to visit the Viscontis, and to be present at every feast that
they gave to honour the arrival of any
illustrious
stranger.
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Petrarch |
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Of Dryden's works it was said by Pope, that he "could select from them
better
specimens
of every mode of poetry than any other English writer
could supply.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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”
muttered
Léon, tearing his hair.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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n de la
conexio?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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29 We have made amistake ifwe believe that seeing through another's eyes, that dis
covering ourselves looking for ourselves in
Finnegans
Wake, will pro
vide us with new
knowledge
about what we are.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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24, 1863]
_After the
surrender
of Major Anderson, the Confederates
strengthened the fort; but, in the spring of 1863, the U.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And down some swart abysm he had gone,
Had not a heavenly guide benignant led
To where thick myrtle branches, 'gainst his head
Brushing, awakened: then the sounds again 380
Went noiseless as a passing
noontide
rain
Over a bower, where little space he stood;
For as the sunset peeps into a wood
So saw he panting light, and towards it went
Through winding alleys; and lo, wonderment!
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Keats |
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By the
distinction
between the "id" and the "ego," Freud has cut the psychic whole into two.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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'5 In the
Appendix
to the Third Book of
Thistookplaceintheyear565.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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" It will be noticed that the
instruction
takes up 10 digits and so forms one packet of information, very conveniently.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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The British public must
realize once and for always that a State of
Russia's size and
resources
cannot be
indefinitely held away from the ice-free
sea.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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Mine, by the grave's repeal
Titled, confirmed, -- delirious
charter!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
"A confidential
servant?
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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As far as proofs go, let us say the following: it is useless that scientists show with emphasis an empirically perceived fact; they do not confirm or demonstrate thereby the
preposition
they are defining since we do not know what it means.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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blake-poems |
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What delight it is, a wonder rather,
When her hair, caught above her ear,
Imitates the style that Venus
employed!
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Ronsard |
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Similarly, study of walking and running brings to our pictures the appearance of the truth in the
movements
of life which are depicted.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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" In the case
,\ of Nashe, his reading "seems to have been limited to Ovid, a play
of Plautus, the
Epistles
of Horace, and perhaps some plays of
Terence.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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I shall give you a full account of the
workmanship
after I have set before you copies of the letters.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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"New political thinking," the general rubric for their views, describes a world dominated by
economic
concerns, in which there are no ideological grounds for major conflict between nations, and in which, consequently, the use of military force becomes less legitimate.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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The worst feature
about it is certainly the
coquettish
adoption of male
attributes by this female, after the manner of ill-
bred schoolboys.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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Robinson from this year's
_Miscellany_ is a source of regret not only to all the
contributors
but
to the poet himself.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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5 Charles
Prentice
had sent SB his copy of D.
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Samuel Beckett |
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Albeit musical tragedy likewise
avails itself of the word, it is at the same time able
to place
alongside
thereof its basis and source, and
can make the unfolding of the word, from within
outwards, obvious to us.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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The IMF in its latest World Economic Outlook
forecast
GDP growth around 3.
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Kleiman International |
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Meantime, a
compilation
upon this history had appeared in England,
but the English author, Mr.
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Selection of English Letters |
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Vouloir donner aux autres cette idée agréable d'eux-mêmes
existe à vrai dire quelquefois même dans la
bourgeoisie
elle-même.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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In: Humanities / Koinonia 2 [Bulletin of Karazin Kharkov
National
University 950 [2011], pp.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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The right arm was extended, as if
pointing
onward.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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A rigidly chronological
sequence, however, rather fits a collection aiming at instruction than
at pleasure, and the Wisdom which comes through Pleasure:--within each
book the pieces have therefore been
arranged
in gradations of feeling or
subject.
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Golden Treasury |
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This present saint may be
identified
with St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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Whatever the personal and metaphysical values both the conscience and
autonomous
morality may represent--their social ones, which alone are in question here, lie in their immense prophylactic func- tion.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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Nevertheless, in what they yield these
examples
are not complete ei- ther.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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The sun went down on many a brow
Which, full of bloom and
freshness
then,
Is rankling in the pest-house now,
And ne'er will feel that sun again.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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'
(
It is the
historical
drama for which Schiller showed a strong pre-
dilection and peculiar talent, and in which he stands pre-eminent.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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a
publication
as the St.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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Though high ABOVE the sun of glory glow,
And far BENEATH the earth and ocean spread,
ROUND him are icy rocks, and loudly blow
Contending
tempests on his naked head,
And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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While contrasting the
controversial
and enterprising character of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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And this is proved to be false especially from the
fact that if a man be wanting in a sense, he cannot have any knowledge
of the sensibles
corresponding
to that sense.
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Summa Theologica |
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One might speak of failure when an
observer
loses control over a work's play of forms, when he can no longer understand how a particular formal choice relates to others on the basis of what this choice demands of the work as a whole.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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And they are not free in relation to the powers which make their
consciousness
speakjust so and in no other
way.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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And heeste certeyn, in no wyse, 4475
Withoute
yift, is not to pryse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Nothing in this license impairs or
restricts
the author's moral rights.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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Porter
And on her daughter 200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants,
chantant
dans la coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The fame of Hercules and Bacchus has
immortalized
Thebes ; when Latona gave birth to Apollo in Delos that island stayed its errant course ; it is Crete's boast that over its fields the infant Thunderer crawled.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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The establishment of banks in this country, seems to be
recommended
by reasons of a peculiar nature.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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For, far from reproaching him for not "really" giving full license to the
Dionysian
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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I love
ignorance
of the future, and do not
want to come to grief by impatience and antici-
patory tasting of promised things.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Nguyễn
Hữu Phu (1413-?
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stella-01 |
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Promenading
round the garden, in
old days, with her doll, W.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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En tous cas on n'a plus pu jamais parler de seringa devant elle sans
qu'elle devînt
écarlate
et passât la main sur sa figure en pensant
cacher sa rougeur.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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Quinta
Appendix
ad Acta S.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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Es wird ihr
hoffentlich
nicht schaden!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Although
they breached the wall in many places they failed to storm it.
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Within the firms Degesch (Frankfurt), Tesch & Stabenow (Hamburg), and Heerdt-Linger (Frankfurt), which had provided their product to the camps knowing their anticipated use, it was understood that business
documents
had to be destroyed.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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Le Testament: Ballade: 'Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere'
Item
This I give to my poor mother
As a prayer now, to our Mistress
- She who bore bitter pain for me,
God knows, and also much sadness -
I've no other castle or fortress,
That my body and soul can summon,
When I'm faced with life's distress,
Nor has my mother, poor woman:
Ballade
'Lady of Heaven, earthly queen,
Empress of the
infernal
regions,
Receive me, a humble Christian,
To live among the chosen ones,
Though I'm worth less than anyone.
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Villon |
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“If you were never
particularly
struck by her manners before,” said she,
“I think you will to-day.
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Austen - Emma |
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Now, it is Polyphemus's brute strength
succumbing
to intellectual cunning and, inlaid upon the mimicry of Homer's ram; now, the cool bubbling fountain, worthy of Horace; now, the statuesque beauty of the
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SATIRIST AND AKTIST
it,
OTHER DRAMATIC DIALOGUES
girl with her water jar; now, the rescue of An dromeda, with the inimitable detail of the sea- monster's bi-focal death — some of him slain outright by the falchion of Perseus, and " as much of him as had seen the Medusa " petri fying independently!
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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I
ardently
desired to
understand them, and bent every faculty towards that purpose, but found
it utterly impossible.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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Why despair
and go into such frenzies, Makar
Alexievitch?
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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In many cases, heroes and heroines were simply "little gods,"
concerned
for the most part with the daily comings and goings in their own neighborhoods.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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For when she was in flight, a myrtle branch became entangled in the maiden’s robes;
wherefore
she was greatly angered against the myrtle.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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For the next three
years he struggled with enormous difficulties--with the confused and
horrible country, the appalling climate, the
maddening
insects and the
loathsome diseases, the indifference of subordinates and superiors, the
savagery of the slave-traders, and the hatred of the inhabitants.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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