Literature
has taught us how
to tell the quick from the dead.
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Father |
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Who is killing the learned? |
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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4] Furthermore, in the period following the
persecution
of the teaching by Langdarma, one called the "Red Master" and another called the "Blue-skirted Pa1).
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Initiation |
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Who didn’t want to listen? |
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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The gregarious instinct and the instinct of the
rulers sometimes agree in
approving
of a certain
number of qualities and conditions, but for
different reasons: the first do so out of direct
egoism, the second out of indirect egoism.
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Nietzsche - v14 |
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existence of such a sphere, which seemed to him merely the result of an optical
illusion
which made all the stars appear to be at an equal distance from the earth.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Now, I want to know, what is that which is not wisdom, and of which
wisdom is the
science?
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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A father or inother is only
worried
as to whether a child is sick.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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They had started two days before in a sudden hurry
up the river with the
manager
on board, in charge of some volunteer
skipper, and before they had been out three hours they tore the bottom
out of her on stones, and she sank near the south bank.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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Users are free to copy, use, and
redistribute
the work in part or in whole.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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Lord Car-
narvon
informs
me that the Grotto
was standing within his memory.
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Alexander Pope - v04 |
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Is it because thy doughty son be given
troubles
innumerable by a man of nought, as a lion might be given by a fawn?
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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8 The first that
conquered
the Jews was Xerxes, king of Persia.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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This was
possible
for him once he felt that the Church itself was under attack.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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With a superior man the use of ceremonies is to give proper and elegant
expression
to the feelings.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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'--Fulbert gave Abelard complete
control
as tutor over Heloise, even to the point of personal chastisement--'minis et verberibus'; and Abelard says that in order to avoid suspicion gentle blows were often given--'verbera quondoque dabat amor, non furor; gratia, non ira.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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It is possible,
indeed, that Coleridge did not, in fact, possess the precise gladiatorial
power of Johnson; yet he understood a sword-play of his own; and I have,
upon
several
occasions, seen him exhibit brilliant proofs of its
effectiveness upon disputants of considerable pretensions in their
particular lines.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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immediately
com pels our admiration by his fearlessness and lack of self-conscious ness.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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Nevertheless, vixenly as she looks, many people are
seeking, at this very moment, to
shelter
themselves under the wing of
the federal eagle; imagining, I presume, that her bosom has all the
softness and snugness of an eider-down pillow.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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;d;ffi
giEE
ff
llilgii?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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In the
twelfth century, the multitudinous Ovidians of
that period not only
wrought
out a new elegiac
comedy in Ovid's spirit, but sought fame, at
the expense of their identity, by ascribing some
of their performances to Ovid himself.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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With a deft kick he sends it
spinning
to his crown and
jauntyhatted skates in.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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Adjecisset opes, animi
irritamen
avdri.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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For it implied a logic according to which the redemption from the original sin, as a sin of the flesh, had to be
purchased
by an act of physical suffering*God needed to become flesh in order to be able to act as the savior of humankind.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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For
frequent
tears have run
The colours from my life, and left so dead
And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done
To give the same as pillow to thy head.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The images are
provided
for educational, scholarly, non-commercial purposes.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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’ he said to me,
showing
the
presents.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall,
Short lot or not, to be
content
with all.
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Robert Herrick |
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Aesop the
Phrygian
was
there, and held the office of jester.
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Lucian |
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601
On Missisippi's bank, should sleep surprise
The
wearied
peasant, close in ambush lies
The crafty alligator, gorg'd with blood:
He lorks conceal'd beneath the troubled flood,
Or ranges fierce the reedy shore around,
Climbs thX steep bank, and crouches on the ground.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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Now, one has only to read the titles of
compositions set in a large number of pul
schools to be convinced that probably the la
majority of pupils have to suffer their whole In
through no fault of their own, owing to t
premature demand for
personal
work—for 1
unripe procreation of thoughts.
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Nietzsche - v03 |
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5 # After Demetrius had taken Aegina and Salamis in Attica, he asked the inhabitants of Peiraeus for
weapons
for a thousand men, jointly with him, to attack the tyrant Lachares.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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I had
not a very large wardrobe, though it was
adequate
to my wants; and the
last day sufficed to pack my trunk,--the same I had brought with me eight
years ago from Gateshead.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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As late as 1831, Heinrich Heine had to emigrate to Paris-the principal city of the
nineteenth
century-in order to breathe liberating city air.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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,
renewed
1961 by Bertha Georgie Yeats.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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1 Developmental pathways from maternal deprivation
Maternal
deprivation
53
parent is more damaging for a same-sex child than if they are the opposite sex.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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And in what state of mind I have ever been towards thee, only thou, who hast
knowledge
of it, canst judge.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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"
"Weren't you
relieved
to find he wasn't dead?
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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Then when a startling
mindfulness
returns, they will think, "I have been distracted" and will feel regret.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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The
propaganda
State is doomed.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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"
VIII
"Farewell to barn and stack and tree,
Farewell
to Severn shore.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The Man-made Mountain
brought us to this phase, redeeming the
rumoured
shame of her
dead husband with the plurability of the gift of his gathered sub- stance, to be used and misused by the 'twins of his bosom'.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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Within a
hundred
spirits and more there sat.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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His mother lay in her chair with
her legs stretched out and
pressed
against each other, her eyes
nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father
with her arms around his neck.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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For neither facing God as an individual human (according to Kierkegaard) nor facing God as the totality of that which happens to us (according to
Bultmann)
is compatible with a purely spiritual self-reference.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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There lies a ridge of slate across the ford;
His horse
thereon
stumbled--ay, for I saw it.
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Tennyson |
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68, 69, and, also,
Appendix
T, p.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Additional terms will be linked
to the
Project
Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no
account
be neglected.
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The-Art-of-War |
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was simply "_Songe toe AElle_," with a
small mark of reference to a note below,
containing
the following
words--"_Lorde of the castelle of Brystowe ynne daies of yore_.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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But Androcydes the physician said that
flattery
had its name (?
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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I
suppose
that might happen.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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He had
threshed
out
the difficulties both in the Villa Eugenie at Biarritz, and
at St.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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A Sweet Lullaby
Come, little babe, come, silly soul,
Thy father's shame, thy mother's grief,
Born as I doubt to all our dole,
And to thyself unhappy chief:
Sing
lullaby
and lap it warm,
Poor soul that thinks no creature harm.
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William Browne |
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"When was I ever
anything
but kind to him?
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anything |
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what fault do you bear? |
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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--The
ejaculation
in Emma’s ear expressed, “Ah!
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Austen - Emma |
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One of the spirits, of a noble aspect,
but with a gaping wound in his forehead, stepped forth, and asked Dante
if he
remembered
him.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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There is no sign of leaf or bud,
A hush is over everything--
Silent as women wait for love,
The world is
waiting
for the spring.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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Sweet smiles, mother's smile,
All the
livelong
night beguile.
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blake-poems |
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ever
abandoned
by admmlstratlon of England
and outrage of the soldIery the bonds of affectIon be broken
ttl!
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Tottering on the verge
freely
GEOftGE
ii.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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Many were immediately
stopped
; whilst several of the survivors were united into one publication.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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To keep this slavedom
in
subordination
and to shield the best he calls his own,
i.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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The new place of America in the world as a whole, the awakened
interest
in other peoples, other cultures must inevitably draw the minds of men away from the mere practicalities of living.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for
informing
people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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I sat, and mused; the fire burned low,
And, o'er my senses stealing, 10
Crept
something
of the ruddy glow
That bloomed on wall and ceiling;
My pictures (they are very few,
The heads of ancient wise men)
Smoothed down their knotted fronts, and grew
As rosy as excisemen.
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James Russell Lowell |
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In animals that live confined to one spot there is no
duality
of sex; nor is there such, in fact, in any testaceans.
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Aristotle copy |
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_("Tu
domines
notre age; ange ou demon, qu'importe!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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From those bright eyes was aim'd the mortal blow,
'Gainst which nor time nor place avail'd me aught;
From thee alone--nor let it
strange
be thought--
The sun, the fire, the wind whence I am so.
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Petrarch |
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The night it was thickening and
closing
around us.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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But I only ask here whether the nature of science does not require that we should always carefully separate the em- pirical from the rational part, and prefix to Physics proper (or em- pirical physics) a metaphysic of nature, and to
practical
anthropol- ogy a metaphysic of morals, which must be carefully cleared of ev- erything empirical, so that we may know how much can be accom- plished by pure reason in both cases, and from what sources it draws this its a priori teaching, and that whether the latter inquiry is con-
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ducted by all moralists (whose name is legion), or only by some who feel a calling thereto.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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1] L Agathocles, tyrant of Sicily, who
attained
greatness equal to that of the elder Dionysius, rose to royal dignity from the lowest and meanest origin.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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History had shown all free governments, either convulsed
by intestine feuds and foreign influence, or prostrated be-
fore the mob and surrendered to arbitrary hands; exhibit-
ing in every stage of their
progress
deeper shades of
misery and humiliation.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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To you--who despise and detest
the groupings and combinations of fashion, as an idiot painter that
seems industrious to place staring fools and unprincipled knaves in
the
foreground
of his picture, while men of sense and honesty are too
often thrown in the dimmest shades.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Two swimmers wrestled on the spar
Until the
morning
sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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In the Jogmin-gyi Shing11 Buddha Field beyond the three realms, the Perfect
Manifestation
Body arises before all the tenth level Bodhisattvas.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Source: |
Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Thus Adorno throughout repeatedly restates major motifs: that the
artwork
is a monad, that it is a social microcosm, that society is most intensely active in an artwork where it is most remote from society.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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SANCTUS JANUARIUS 239
virtues whose very essence is
negation
and self-
renunciation.
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Nietzsche - v10 |
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'
By such words the soldiers' counsel was kindled yet higher and higher,
and a murmur crept through their columns; the very Laurentines, the very
Latins are changed; and they who but now hoped for rest from battle and
rescue of
fortune
now desire arms and pray the treaty were undone, and
pity Turnus' cruel lot.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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) But their presence serves to produce
the air of guarded aloofness which invests his poetry: an air
which is heightened by yet other methods,
calculated
to keep
the domain of poetry within an enclosure which is separated
from actual life.
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Source: |
Stefan George - Studies |
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Whilst others round us sleep,
Unpitied languish, and
unheeded
die.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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what a screaming of
beasts!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Poe - v04 |
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It was as if
the honest fellow had been commanded to
unchain
a tiger.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
|
Wszczęta
w polskich równinach dwóch ryce-
„rzy bitwa trwogą nas napełnia.
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Trembecki - Poezye |
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Previously, because this was
obscured
by igno- rance or the mind's grasping (for true existence) you could not see it.
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Source: |
Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
|
Ultimately
however
Napoleon's actions led to Chateaubriand's resignation in 1804, after the execution of the Duc d'Enghien.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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So I got me a bone for a certain girl, whom I knew to be under the
influence of
another
young man.
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Source: |
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Distress
I don't come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast
In whom are the sins of the race, nor to stir
In your foul tresses a mournful tempest
Beneath the fatal boredom my kisses pour:
A heavy sleep
without
those dreams that creep
Under curtains alien to remorse, I ask of your bed,
Sleep you can savour after your dark deceits,
You who know more of Nothingness than the dead.
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Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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How else should we sort the
grains?
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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For indeed, on the example of the military legions, he had
mustered
into cohorts workmen, stone-masons, architects, and, of men for the building and beautifying of walls, every sort.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
|
The
psychological
factor should also be taken into considera- tion.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
|
"Mark you," whispered the Prussian, "the
first thing which those scoundrels will notice--(for they will begin by
instantly
noticing
the statue in parts, without one moment's pause of
admiration impressed by the whole)--will be the horns and the beard.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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"
The
cobbles
see this all along the street
Coming--coming--on countless feet.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The abolition of the chorus, and the debasement of this
sensibly powerful organ into the characterless substitute of a confidant,
is by no means such an improvement in the
tragedy
as the French, and
their imitators, would have it supposed to be.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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Inebriate of air am I,
And debauchee of dew,
Reeling,
through
endless summer days,
From inns of molten blue.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The ox rolls over, and
quivering
and
[482-516]lifeless lies along the ground.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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They have something
whereof
they are proud.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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And the child grew like some
immortal
being,
not fed with food nor nourished at the breast: for by day rich-crowned
Demeter would anoint him with ambrosia as if he were the offspring of
a god and breathe sweetly upon him as she held him in her bosom.
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Hesiod |
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He had brought down two rafts
of lumber for market, and I thought if I could get him to buy me with
my family, and take us to Tennessee, from there, I would stand a
better opportunity to run away again and get to Canada, than I would
from the
extreme
South.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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First, I shall give some, as already stated,
diffuse
examples that tell of a new relationship to classics in our present.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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