The fresh present-
ment of Pistol and the addition of Fluellen
demonstrate
the in-
exhaustibleness of the poet's comic prosopopoeia, and, besides the
fine tirades which figure in all the extract books, there are in-
numerable passages of literary excellence.
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There was a general
clapping
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THE
MONUMENTS
OF ANCIENT INDIA
(CR.
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What is there of this man, reputed to have an unconscious, capable of becoming
conscious
of this unconscious, of assuming its burden and making a history of his fate!
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Foucault-Live |
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" This mental tendency to
solidify
finds its fullest expression in physical rebirth-the conjunction of consciousness and the physical element brought about by fundamental ignorance.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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And then the rollers groaned under the sturdy keel as they were chafed, and round them rose up a dark smoke owing to the weight, and she glided into the sea; but the heroes stood there and kept
dragging
her back as she sped onward.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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The poem is
mentioned
by Lucian (Lexiph.
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Pattern Poems |
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Withers, Carl, and Sula Benet
1954 The
American
Riddle Book.
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Childens - Folklore |
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In summa, todo era
material
robado o tomado en préstamo [.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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A tribune, a tribune does not mean paper, it means nothing more than
cake, it means more sugar, it shows the state of
lengthening
any nose.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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This can he measured in any number of ways: in the declining
membership
and electoral pull of the major European communist parties, and their overtly revisionist programs; in the corresponding electoral success of conservative parties from Britain and Germany to the United States and Japan, which are unabashedly pro-market and anti-statist; and in an intellectual climate whose most "advanced" members no longer believe that bourgeois society is something that ultimately needs to be overcome.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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46
MISSION WORK AMONG THE POLES
the power to distribute domains called staros-
ties among the nobles, who held them for life;
and these were
bestowed
by this king upon
converts to Rome.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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3), says these wars Munster, “The
them are infinite whose blood the earth drank up, and whose carcasses the heasts the field, and the
ravening
fowls the air, did consume and devour.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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The Celts and
Germans, the
Sanskrit
and Zendish peoples, the Latins and Greeks,
all belong to one family of speech; but even a ten-centuries main-
tained speech is less permanent, and a less certain synthetic measure
of man, than human nature and human imagination.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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“Well, well,”
said his Excellency, “let him copy out the
document
a second time.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Brigid, as
published
by Colgan, in his "Trias Thaumaturga.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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But we know that the mother of the Bodhisattva saw in a dream a
small white
elephant
enter her side.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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{29e} In hand he took
a golden goblet, nor gave he it back,
stole with it away, while the watcher slept,
by
thievish
wiles: for the warden's wrath
prince and people must pay betimes!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Massam, a
merchant
in London; but in 1610 he appears
to have returned into the country and to have settled in a small farm.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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Diodorus long ago remarked this in
relation
to the ancient Egyptians.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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Language gives itself over either to the market, to balderdash, or to the
predominating
vulgarity.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:24 GMT / http://hdl.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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Thomas Cottle, a frequent contributor here, gives us a compelling case study of a
marginal
client of his caught up in the downward spiral of poverty and unemployment, only to be rescued in the "American Idol" style.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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Just as the gold
underneath
the earth has the same essence whether covered by earth or not, whether taken out or cleaned, it still retains the same essence, meaning it is the same material.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with
libraries
to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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Belief in the one and only God carries with it the belief
that every human soul is directly
responsible
to the
Creator, with no human or superhuman intermediary
between the spirit of God and the soul of man.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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With this ceased also the influence of Judaistic agitation upon the Gentile Christian Churches ; and hence forth, in place of the Pauline- Judaistic controversies, we have the new
struggle
with the heathen political power and heathen heresy (Gnosticism), to which the Johannine Apocalypse already bears witness.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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For fortunate individuals who, through the conjunction of their perfectly pure previous aspirations and karmic propensities, have heartfelt confidence in the teachings of the profound, secret Great Completion and the Guru who
introduces
it and who wish to pursue the practice to its final conclusion, here is an entranceway.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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On this day, we find en- tered in the
Martyrology
of Donegal,^ Aedh, bishop, of the now deserted Lis-
on Loch Eirne.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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Consciousness begins with the awareness of objects through the senses, objects that, as such, are
immediately
present.
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Education in Hegel |
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Evening falls and in the garden
Women tell their histories
to Night that not without disdain
spills their dark hair's mysteries
Little children little children
Your wings have flown away
But you rose that defend yourself
Throw your
unrivalled
scents away
For now's the hour of petty theft
Of plumes of flowers and of tresses
Gather the fountain jets so free
Of whom the roses are mistresses
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Appoloinaire |
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What can an Author after this
produce?
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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The spirit of
propaganda
is in- transigeance.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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1 He seems, however, to have
continued
to write for the paper till June 1741.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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Great Compassionate One, the
Innermost
of Padma.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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The possession of a grey garment was a third point
which,
granting
the son's statement to be correct, was a
certainty.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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III
"And what," I said, "though Blasphemy's loud scream
With that sweet music of
deliverance
strove!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The faculty of
DESIRE is the being's faculty of
becoming
by means of its ideas the
cause of the actual existence of the objects of these ideas.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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I could hear his
voice in the hall, asking the way to the nearest
telegraph
office.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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is infused with a
powerful
hatred of hierarchy and special privi- leges and with a passionate resentment of caste distinc- tions and inherited cultural superiority.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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The Bath Tub
As a bathtub lined with white porcelain,
When the hot water gives out or goes tepid,
So is the slow cooling of our
chivalrous
passion,
O my much praised but-not-altogether-satis- factory lady.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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Among his works are :
(The
Founding
of Lima) (1718); "History of
Spain Vindicated (1730).
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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It
demonstrates
not only that it is false that we should cast our eyes to fantasy in order to understand: it also demon- strates that we have to do without fantasy if we want to understand.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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Non ego falsa loquar : ter acutum
sustulit
ensem,
Ter male sublato recidit ense manus.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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And he came back hour after
hour, silently, he looked into the chamber, saw him
standing
in the same
place, filled his heart with anger, filled his heart with unrest, filled
his heart with anguish, filled it with sadness.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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"38 If God saw t to address her in this way through his angel, how much more ought human beings to
congratulate
her, being as they are in her debt for so many blessings?
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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"
XXIX
This said, the hermit Peter rose and spake,
Who sate in counsel those great Lords among:
"At my request this war was undertake,
In private cell, who erst lived closed long,
What Godfrey wills, of that no
question
make,
There cast no doubts where truth is plain and strong,
Your acts, I trust, will correspond his speech,
Yet one thing more I would you gladly teach.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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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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Sallust - Catiline |
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I know they are as lively, and as
vigorously
productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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Whatever may be the
criticism
of
the workings of Soviet State Capitalism as a sys-
tem of production and of domestic distribution its
virtues as an instrument of foreign trade have at
least impressed its competitors.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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I am thinking in particular of the text Moses and Monotheism, which was written by the psychologist on the threshold of death and has remained a
constant
bone of con- tention since the publication of the first version in 1937 and the revised book form in 1939 - irksome to Jews, foolish to Europeans.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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For he aroused the hatred of the troops against himself when he neglected the army and preferred to the venerable Roman soldier a few from the Alans whom he had arrogated to himself by an immense payment of gold, and with the retinue of barbarians he had almost even begun to have
friendship
* to the degree that he sometimes made a journey in the same attire.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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The courtly state was about to leave behind the difference between the
nobility
and the people--which was based on social rank and was responsible for the failure of classical ideas of republican "liberty.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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Plead you for peace to the
lifeless
bodies that the battle-lot hath
slain?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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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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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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1ng create a new custom
In the fine print
tempora non regum by a hawk, a paIr of gIlt spurs or slmlha
Cope IS a hIll
dene a valley, arundtnetum drus IS a thicket
51 nomIna neSClS perit rerum
COgnitlO
nemo arttfex nascltur
Ten famIlies In pledge and a chief pledge Though the bIshoprIc be dIssolved
a City remalneth
tit
Tuan
et consuetudo
772.
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Yet I have known her very angry with some, whom she much esteemed, for
sometimes
falling into that infirmity.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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"(t)he worship of the gods and thanksgiving is prosaically attached to partly to singular
166 bart labuschagne
determinate situations (salvation in cases of need) and actual events" the Roman deity above all others, the deity par excellence is the goddess fortuna; not necessity, nor chance, nor providence, but instead
universal
prosperity (Glu?
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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The un-
matchable
contribution of Hegel has two initial steps that define everything.
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—The cheapest and mcst in-
nocent mode of life is that of the tnr^krr: for, to
mention at once its most important feature, he has
the
greatest
need of those very things which others
neglect and look upon with contempt.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Their most faithful
disciples
were the two cart-horses, Boxer and
Clover.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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rzliche Fahrt
Entschwand
am Kanal.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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Had
chastisement
for perjured truth,
Barine, mark'd you with a curse--
Did one wry nail, or one black tooth,
But make you worse--
I'd trust you; but, when plighted lies
Have pledged you deepest, lovelier far
You sparkle forth, of all young eyes
The ruling star.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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They
excavated
more.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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The construction of a fleet by the Romans was in very truth a noble national work—a work through which, by their clear perception of what was needful and possible, by ingenuity in invention, and by energy in resolution and in execution, they rescued their country from a
position
which was worse than at first it seemed.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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For the fiction course we have a vir- ginal story by Askold Melnyczuk, a tale about the Second World War, a literary thriller about a mythic Icelandic author by Mika Seifert who lives in Germany, a post-college story set in a Costco or Walmart, a
translation
of a superb Argen- tinean writer, Hebe Uhart, who has been compared to Carson McCullers and Flan- nery O'Connor, and finally a story set in
And if you "have room for a des- sert" (as the waiter usually says) we have one of our traditional essays--this one by John Dewey from our 1944 summer menu, which featured articles on what the post-war future would look like, par- ticularly with regard to food production.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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But I find,
on reflection, that at the time when certain persons
drove out the Olynthians from this assembly, when
desirous of conferring with you, he began with abus-
ing our
simplicity
by his promise of surrendering
Amphipolis, and executing the secret article1 of his
1 The secret article, Sec.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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' It was the Paper of business, filled with miscellaneous advertisements,
conducted
at little expense, very profitable, and taken in by all public-houses, coffee-houses, &c.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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When summer days are o'er,
And the
snowfalls
come,
Rabbits count the hours no more,
For the bells are dumb.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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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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Tully - Offices |
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But thou (if ought this gracious turne our honor may promote,
Or ought our Empire
beautifie
which joyntly we doe holde,)
This Damsell to hir uncle joyne.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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The Necessity for Dharma
All
sentient
beings are alike in their desire for happiness and they wish to avoid experiencing the slightest suffering.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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That leads to a very heavy
political
blockage.
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Foucault-Live |
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[Sir Edwin Arnold : An English poet and
journalist
; born at Rochester, England, June 10, 1832.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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The initially absolutely
implausible
construct of the homo oeconomicus thus reaches its goal in the form of the postmodern con- sumer.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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The rectangular pulse discov- ered through radar thus became fundamental for modern telephone networks,
computer
circuits, and even television standards.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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On donne toutes ses forces, parce
qu'on croit toujours que ce sont les
dernières
dont on aura besoin.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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[quite
touched]
Oh, that's poetry, Tavy, real poetry.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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stand forth more
defenceless
and forlorn than was the
Roman senate in 645 : had there been in Rome a real 109.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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When the flesh that
nourished
us well
Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God absolves us all.
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Villon |
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Rosinger of the staff of the Foreign Policy
Association
points out, are not far to seek.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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The Delian palm1 nods
pleasantly
of a sudden and the swan2 in the air sings sweetly.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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Mariners
require skillful captains; Spartans know nothing of the sea.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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He very formally translates the Latin Grammar into English (as so many
had done before him) and fancies he has written an English Grammar; and
divines applaud, and schoolmasters usher him into the polite world, and
English
scholars
carry on the jest, while Horne Tooke's genuine
anatomy of our native tongue is laid on the shelf.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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” The strongest reason for doubting the self-contained ascription of this remarkable tour-de-force to Theocritus is that the
shepherd’s
pipe of Theocritus’ time would seem to have been rectangular, the tubes being of equal apparent length, and the difference of tone secured by wax fillings.
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Pattern Poems |
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There
is the true love, there is the only thing in the world worth
striving
for; there is the thing
beside which all your arts and ideals, all your philosophies and creeds, all your fine
words and high attitudes, are as pale and profitless as ashes.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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) Although it is
possible
to see through this illusion and represent it, it cannot be removed in a way that would mean it no longer occurred.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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Os insultos no Twitter
marcarao
a Olimpiada de Londres - e nada se pode fazer contra essa incontinencia de comunicac?
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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Poniatowski
will be
"King of Poland in the course of events.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Toward God a mighty hymn,
A song of collisions and cries,
Rumbling wheels, hoof-beats, bells,
Welcomes, farewells, love-calls, final moans,
Voices of joy, idiocy, warning, despair,
The unknown appeals of brutes,
The chanting of flowers,
The screams of cut trees,
The
senseless
babble of hens and wise men--
A cluttered incoherency that says at the
stars;
"O God, save us!
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Stephen Crane |
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To reconcile these, a book of this sort is in the nature of a supplemental memory; or a record of what occurs
remarkable
in every day's reading or conversation.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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The un-
matchable
contribution of Hegel has two initial steps that define everything.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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Blaise Pascal
The last great attack of
critique
against illusion aims at the position of the ego be- tween nature and society.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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He carried his fat paunch with ostentation
on his short legs, and during the time his gang
infested
the station
spoke to no one but his nephew.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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He said, and at his word, forth went a son
Of Dolius; at the gate he stood, and thence
Beholding
all that multitude at hand,
In accents wing'd thus to Ulysses spake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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On his return to France in 1792 he married, fought for the Bourbon army, was wounded at Thionville, and
subsequently
lived in exile in England.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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If when the clockticks counted sixty,
when the heartbeats of the Republic
came to a stop for a minute,
if the Boy had
happened
to sit up,
happening to sit up as Lazarus sat up, in the story,
then the first shivering language to drip off his mouth
might have come as, "Thank God," or "Am I dreaming?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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One of the
episodes
of his life was an interview
with Napoleon after the latter's return from Elba in 1815.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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