We were all on the
deck; but in a short time I
observed
marks of dismay.
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)- In the first-named variety of revenge it is
just fear that strikes the counter-blow; in the second
case it is the absence of fear, which, as has been said,
wishes to
manifest
itself in the counter-blow.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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Kent and
Elizabeth
C.
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The other troops of Caesar, leaving out of account the raw divisions of recruits still in course of formation, were stationed, one half on the Saone and Loire, the other half in Belgica, while Pompeius* Italian reserves were already arriving from all sides at their rendezvous ; long before even the first of the
Transalpine
divisions of Caesar could arrive in Italy, a far superior army could not but be ready to receive it there.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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before the Sun,
Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice
Of God, as with a Mantle didst invest 10
The rising world of waters dark and deep,
Won from the void and
formless
infinite.
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Milton |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements
concerning
tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Dion was no sooner seen in Sicily
than he was joined by thousands; bat the
authority
of
Ca?
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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The public judgement has
raised a demand for harmonious periods, and, in compliance with the
taste of the age, our orators grow every day more
polished
and
adorned.
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Tacitus |
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establissed
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i;i*;i
iiiiziitit
i= iii:r
; il j ?
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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Waller, who
obtained
his traditional title 'reformer
of our numbers' from his practice in the stopped kind, wrote
some of his latest, and some of his best, work in the other.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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" All plurality and multiplicity belong to perception
in space and time; these latter are the
principium
indieiduationis.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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frenzied
Lear
Should at thy bidding wander on the heath
With the shrill fool to mock him, Romeo
For thee should lure his love, and desperate fear
Pluck Richard's recreant dagger from its sheath--
Thou trumpet set for Shakespeare's lips to blow!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Since, however, you address yourself to
me, and shew this first mark of humanity, in that you seek to obtain
what you desire, by persuasion rather than force; since the main
subject of your
discourse
relates to me alone; I am compelled to lay
aside the common reserve of my sex, and to explain myself in regard
to the proposal of marriage which you have made, even before such an
audience.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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]
its forms; as on the prognostications to be derived
POLIEUS (Ionieus)," the protector of the from the objects that met a traveller on his way;
city,” a surname of Zeus, under which he had an from what occurred at home ;
regarding
the result
altar on the acropolis at Athens.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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Endymion was loved by the Moon, and Jasion – as in the
Eleusinian
mysteries – by Demeter.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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** I met with this idea in an old English tale, which I am
now unable to obtain and quote from memory:--"The verie
essence and, as it were, springe-heade, and origine of all
musiche is the verie
pleasaunte
sounde which the trees of
the forest do make when they growe.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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These are not the conditions most favourable to
reducing the past to pure science: and we see here
too, as we saw in the case of monumental history,
that the past itself suffers when history serves life
and is
directed
by its end.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Artists speak of their souls although they have not studied philosophy or
theology
; atheists like Shelley use the ex- pression and know very well what they mean by it)-
Others have suggested that the " soul " is only a beautiful empty word, which people ascribe to others without having felt its need for themselves.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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I have seen its nest placed
under the thatched roof of a
deserted
barn, and in one instance, where
the adjacent country was nearly destitute of trees, together with two
of the phoebe, upon the end of a board in the loft of a sawmill, but
a few feet from the saw, which vibrated several inches with the motion
of the machinery.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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No, thou schalte never leave thie Birtha's syde;
Ne schall the wynde uponne us blowe alleyne;
I, lyche a nedre, wylle untoe thee byde; 290
Tyde lyfe, tyde deathe, ytte shall
behoulde
us twayne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And there-
fore, since we have been unfortunate enough to
introduce
our
heroine at so inauspicious a juncture, we would entreat for a
mood of due solemnity in the spectators of her fate.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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I will have no man addict himself to me; but if
I have
anything
right, defend it as Truth's, not mine, save as it
conduceth to a common good.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The flight and metamorphosis
of Ino inspired a
remarkable
account of Malbecco, who fled crazed by
171
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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ThebuildingswhichtheRomansleft in the country, and the tnos Romanus brought in by the Roman missionaries in the seventh century, as also the new style brought in by the Normans in the eleventh, were all
distinct
forms of Roman influence.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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The American Constitution was a product of
compromise
among diverging interests, regional, eco- nomic and social.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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* The same act fixed the stamp duty on Newspapers at threepence halfpenny, which rate was doubled if the sheet exceeded the
ordained
size.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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As the Lady mTsho-rgyallater explained: "The boy dPal-seng and I both practiced the Vajrakila Sadhanas, and in a short time, we looked upon the faces ofall the associated deities and
achieved
the siddhis.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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S he waited
for no importunity, but promised with a
readiness
which
astonished d' E rfeuil, accustomed as he was to the refusals
with which it is the fashion to precede consent.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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I yearn in winter for the flowers to blow,
And when they give me
greeting
in the spring,
I long for the while bind-weeds blossoming,
And with its blossoming a flake of snow.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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vw) ; then he drew at certain fixed distances lines parallel to these, and by this process produced a series of rectangular pieces of ground, the corners of which were marked by boundary posts (termini, in
Sicilian
inscriptions ‘répfwves, usually 5pm).
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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It seemed to me that I could see the whole of England, and all the people in it, and all
the things
that’ll
happen to all of them.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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So we had a commitment that we might have
preferred
not to have.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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in which being an animal is separate from
remaining
an animal.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Was it
lack of
statecraft
?
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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COMMUNISM IN WONDERLAND 73
argued for privatization also expected the government to continue providing them with
collective
benefits and subsidies.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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First is
presented the King of Magadha, recommended in four stanzas, one of
which runs:
Though other kings by thousands numbered be,
He seems the one, sole
governor
of earth;
Stars, constellations, planets, fade and flee
When to the moon the night has given birth.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Because rich people have to endure
diseases
"that, God be praised, the poor man does not know of," this doctor thought up a particular form of ther- apy: "Wait, I soon will have cured you.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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And on the first occasion of my sitting up in the evening I
asked
Catherine
to read to me, because my eyes were weak.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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The far more diversified idea ofsatisfying a drive would indeed be capable of offering a more colorful picture, but the old habit is so strong that one can sometimes even read that the drives strive for satisfaction because this
fulfillment
is pleasure, which is about the same as con- sidering the exhaust pipe the operative part of a motor!
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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It is also freedom from the
insecurity
of thinking that one will not attain this fruition.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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Depending on the nature of
subsequent
use that is made, additional rights
may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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Aristotle
uses the term in Meta- physics K 10, 1066 a 35 (d.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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He observed how the response to a stranger is
influenced
(a) by the infant's being held by mother and (b) by the infant's being able to see her.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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“smit i' the
heart”
: or perhaps ‘and my heart pierced with fire (metaph.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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The masterpiece of Ger-
man prose
is therefore with good reason the master-
piece of its
greatest
preacher: the Bible has hitherto
been the best German book.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Excess of grief forbade her tears to flow :
She stood a living
monument
of woe.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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Kreuzer-Haustein considered this
splitting
as involving a powerful rejection of becoming aware of the his- torical responsibility of many members of the DPG, who, yielding to the Nazi racial laws, had first ousted their president, Max Eitingon, in 1933 and in 1935 had asked all the Jewish members to leave the DPG.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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What is certain is that Islam has
awakened
from its dogmatic slumber.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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In this event, the
United States would find itself at war, having previously disarmed itself in its most important weapon, and would be engaged in a race to
redevelop
atomic weapons.
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NSC-68 |
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One should do honour to the
fatality
which
says to the feeble: “perish!
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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He was
succeeded
in the office as pre- sident over the college, by the subsequently distinguished Bishop of Kerry, the Right Rev.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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igiiiiiiE
ii;iiiu:lii
:EEiigE t Ei{g$;?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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What, in a few short years, will remain of thy race but the
footprints?
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Longfellow |
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"
A
nondescript
appeared in their midst, he panted the glad tidings.
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Samuel Beckett |
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"
"Possibly: yet why should I, if I can get sweet, fresh
pleasure?
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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A cockerel crows from the top of the
mulberry
tree.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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He
consulted
me with
a feverish “Hey?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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There was also an element in his mind that element which had
terrified him in his childhood with Apocalyptic visions, and urged him
in his youth to Bible
readings
after breakfast--which now brought him
under the spell of the Oxford theories of sacramental mysticism.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or
appearing
on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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His testimony is this, in the Eleventh Book:
Stetlmus tela aspera eontra, Contulimusquemanus- experto credite, quantus
In elypeum
assurgat
quo turbine torqueat hastam.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Hearest thou not sounds i' the air which speak the love _35
Of all
articulate
beings?
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Shelley copy |
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I was already a dying and
a
desperate
man.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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O shell-borne King
sublime!
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Keats |
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chaucer
Ah Rustick, ruder than
Gothick!
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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" Little wonder if, as the
Benedictine
poet Gautier de Coincy (d.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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She faced similar problems as a Westerner: biologically she belonged, but she was separated by the most
profound
differences of background experience.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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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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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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355
XLI
And said, Arise thou cursed Miscreaunt,
That hast with knightlesse guile and trecherous train
Faire
knighthood
fowly shamed, and doest vaunt
That good knight of the Redcrosse to have slain:
Arise, and with like treason now maintain 360
Thy guilty wrong, or els thee guilty yield.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Then Coemgen was only seven years of age, and he
remained
with that master for five years.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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From York to London town we come,
To talk of Popish ire,
To
reconcile
you all to Rome,
And prevent Smithfield fire.
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Dryden - Complete |
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" Diderot, one of the most powerful intellects of his age, conceived, and successfully executed, the immense task of the Encyclopédie, with the
collabora
tion of the philosophers Condillac, Helvétius, and d'Hollach.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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Sinologists, without exception I believe, have called Shang a 'nephew' of Teh, overlooking the way in which the
relationship
between them is expressed in Chinese.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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But what type of self-
consciousness
can the censor have?
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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I hope to undertake, as part of a futme project, a critical study of this letter together with some of the main responses from
subsequent
Tibetan thinkers.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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If we
separate
them, we have intuitions without
or conceptions without intuitions ; in both cases, representations, which we cannot apply to any determinate object.
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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There was sorrow on the sea and sorrow on the land
When Love ship went down by the
bottomless
quicksand
To its grave in the bitter wave.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"When a few gentlemen
followed
me in my
vision of the possibilities of the business, the
banks and older business men (who in the main
were the banks) said, 'fools and their money soon
to be parted'--etc.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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There are even
Frenchmen
who
think this uniformity too exaggerated.
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| Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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The
tendency
of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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In the first place, it is simply true that an
experience
with cultures that are not Western--albeit contemporaneous with ours--can give more profile to our own perceptions of our own cultures.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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5458 (#640) ###########################################
5458
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Still floats upon the morning wind,
Still
whispers
to the willing mind.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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There he lived on terms of
intimacy
with
some of the most distinguished literary and political
characters of the day.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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Darcy who took
her so much by
surprise
in his application for her hand, that,
without knowing what she did, she accepted him.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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124
Alfred to the Conquest
From
in a
fragmentary
state in the Beowulf MS; but Assmann has
shown that an Old English version of the story contained in two
MSS has all the characteristics of Aelfric's style.
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—But that the “works,"
the habit of particular works may
engender
a certain
set of values or thoughts, is just as natural as it
would be unnatural for “works" to proceed from
mere valuations.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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Soon after he
changed his lodgings he had copied out on to clean sheets the
completed
portions of
London Pleasures — not quite four hundred lines, he discovered.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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Finally, after the usual interval of intrigue and finesse, during
which the advice of Sir Robert Barker just availed to prevent the
nawab from joining the Marathas, a treaty of alliance was made, 17
June, 1772, between the
Rohillas
and Shuja-ud-daula.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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Without the concept of a hu- manly suffering God, one which is common to all mysteries and spir- itual religions of earliest time, all of history would be incomprehen- sible; scripture also |
distinguishes
periods of revelation and posits as a distant future the time when God will be all in all things, that is, when he will be fully realized.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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"The Nationalization of Literature" describes how texts become
pretexts
for judgment.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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Nobody can write without phrases, and who is true to the matter who is not also a
literate
person?
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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Chambers
points out that
'The closing lines of King's _The Farewell_ are curiously similar to
those of this poem.
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John Donne |
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Or rather
the Sutras are of non-explicit sense (anttatha), the
Treatises
are of explicit meaning.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Pompeius, my contemporary, a man who was born to excel in every thing, would have acquired a more distinguished
reputation
for his eloquence, if he had not been diverted from the pursuit of it by the more dazzling charms of military fame.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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Marks, notations and other
marginalia
present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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But independently of this consideration, it is by no means certain, that
political utility would gain any thing by the sacrifice of political
integrity; it does by no means follow, that the party
exonerated
from
the payment of the interest of the national debt would employ it more
productively than those to whom indisputably it is due.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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Works by
scholars
such as Fischer (1986) on ethnicity have even shown that
although some differences often deny inclusiveness, they can be fundamen-
tal in identity formation for the group itself.
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Childens - Folklore |
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They brought a bier, and hung it with many a cypress crown,
And gently they
uplifted
her, and gently laid her down.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The Stoical scheme of
supplying
our wants by lopping off our desires, is
like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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