The marking of what is familiar prevents the forgetting which might indeed be expected in the leap from one operation to the next (and which functions almost completely), and simultaneously binds to
learning
processes the reimpregnating ac- tivated by events.
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The
glorious
Fourth had proclaimed itself all
day long.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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I 'll touch
No more on this--the dinner-bell hath rung,
And grace is said; the grace I should have sung--
But I 'm too late, and
therefore
must make play.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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Then I will take the
eleventh
book, and give it to
him MYSELF, as being my gift.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Who are you my dear
comrade?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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Study the lives of the heroes of old to
accustom
thee for wars that are to be.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Then pluck a reed
And bid me sing to thee,
For I would feed
Thine ears with melody,
Who art more fair
Than fairest fleur-de-lys,
More sweet and rare
Than
sweetest
ambergris.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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The sources of inspiration seem never to run dry,
the tree of Polish
literature
ever sends forth new shoots,
to make those of .
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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" To me, at least, such internal connections and line cohesion seem far more
important
in this intense, impassioned and vengeful dirge than they were in Labīd's more contemplative poem.
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Translated Poetry |
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It is uncertain whether these
averages
were adjusted,
or were used as they worked out; but the schedules, in which the
rates are given in thousandths of a rupee, show that no attempt was
made to secure round or convenient figures for the recurring calcula-
tions, and it is probable that no formal adjustments were made.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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"
THE WOMAN
The
scandalous
book.
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Yeats - Poems |
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THE POPE After all the man is the greatest
physicist
of our time, a beacon for
Italy, and not some good-for-nothing crank.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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'
Pitying, I dropped a tear:
But I saw a glow-worm near,
Who replied, 'What wailing wight
Calls the
watchman
of the night?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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When I look inwards at my own mind, I think of a
naturally
radiant butter-lamp in a bowl.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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They sacked the city, captured the men and
enslaved
the women and children.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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when, at last, my fleshly eyes
Shall shut upon the vields an' skies,
Mid zummer's zunny days be gone,
An' winter's clouds be comèn on:
Nor mid I draw upon the e'th,
O'thy sweet air my
leätest
breath;
Alassen I mid want to stay
Behine' for thee, O flow'ry May!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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--But I never allow myself
to speak ill of her, on
Frank’s
account; for I do believe her to be very
fond of him.
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Austen - Emma |
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It is as if populations did not want to
100 The
Fundamental
and the Urgent – or: The Tao of Politics
lose the overview of what their highest leaders embody.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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" Who can now be at all said to mourn, in
comparison
with
Arcite?
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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) I am a
scholar!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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SI pereo mara-\-bus homt-\-num perusse juvabit
or, according to Heyne's text,
Si perg-|-o homt-\-nmn manibus perilsse juvabit
( in the former case, manibus by ccesura -- in
the latter, the O of pereo
preserved
by the
caesura.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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The same year he
produced
a song on the duke of
Gloucester's birthday.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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" Euge`ne Susini, the professor in Vienna,
responded
affirmatively: "La traduction .
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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"
Yet Krasinski's complex
character
is a mass of
contradictions.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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This kind of claim makes nonsense out of themeaning of "about/7 Beyond
generating
a typology of the kinds of nonsense, it is not clear why this claim is not itself nonsense.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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On the other hand, the feeling of having wasted one's time with en- tertainment comes from a different world, the Puritans' world of spir- itual pastoral care and of
business
sense.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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, the solicitor of the
treasury
being pro secutor for the crown ; and the indictment was found at Westminster, by the grand inquest for the county
of Middlesex.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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I wish there were a better prospect
than now appears of the match which the
conclusion
of your letter
declares your expectations of.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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74 ARMS AND INFLUENCE
than fight- would have had the dynamic quality of "compellence" in contrast to Berlin: the
stopping
point would have been a variable, not a constant.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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For
he must go down into the depths of being, with a
string of curious
questions
on his lips—" Why am
I alive?
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;
Exploring hands
encounter
no defence; 240
His vanity requires no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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It was the joy and pride of Camilla to have provoked, by this insolence,
all the rage of hatred, and all the
persecutions
of calumny; nor was she
ever more elevated with her own superiority, than when she talked of
female anger, and female cunning.
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Samuel Johnson |
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A good example is the very persistent belief in the non-existent writing on the wall of the Knesset of the
Biblical
verse about the Nile and the Euphrates.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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A New Relationship to Classics
It is often remarked that no brilliant thinkers have emerged among the
intellectuals
of recent decades.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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'* According to the
Tripartite
Life, those two bishops were in Man, before the founda- tion of the See of Armagh.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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But our author himself
knows nothing about such matters; he deceives
himself or others when he
pretends
to be initiated.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one — the old editions will be
renamed.
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bede |
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'
We all refused, for speedy death each prayeth,
Save false Rambaldo, he became her friend,
We in a dungeon deep were
helpless
cast,
In misery and iron chained fast.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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When on the brink of disaster there is a
negation
of humanity and places in the mind are frozen.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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THEIR WOODY KIND, the wood-born
creatures
of their own kind, e.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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”—A judgment of this
kind ultimately becomes a great danger; for it is
infectious, and it soon flourishes on the polluted soil
of society with tropical luxuriance, now as a religion
(Christianity), anon as a
philosophy
(Schopenhauer-
## p.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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—The insipid and cowardly notion
“ Nature," invented by Nature-enthusiasts (without
any knowledge whatsoever of the terrible, the
implacable, and the cynical element in even “the
most
beautiful”
aspects), is only a sort of attempt
at reading the moral and Christian notion of
"humanity” into Nature ;-Rousseau's concept of
Nature, for instance, which took for granted that
“Nature" meant freedom, goodness, innocence,
equity, justice, and Idylls, was nothing more at
bottom than the cult of Christian morality.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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The first principles of any science must
therefore
be
indemonstrable.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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Elvire
How can you find the
audacity
and pride
To show yourself here, where a light has died?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The current contrast between the Western and Eastern cultures regarding the distinction between the public and the private selves and how to
establish
the boundaries between these areas was discussed and related to the problem of the German analysts in the Nazi world.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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In identifying this genealogy, I wish to
distinguish
what I am terming posthumanist poetry from other designations.
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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An urgent or
extensive need of new money was considered a
sufficient reason for the banker's
entering
a
board of directors.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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In this sense there could be time travel into
anotheri?
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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What joy when the last knife stroke
coincided
with the last chord!
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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The mansion of Brahma appears
first and then all the
mansions
until those of the Yamas.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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But from this point on we may conclude that the writer has chosen to reveal the world and
particularly
to reveal man to other men so that the latter may assume full responsibility before the object which has been thus laid bare.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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" They constitute the successive stages of dependent origination and are a central component of the Buddhist
analysis
of mind and experience.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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1 1 5
Yet, for again I come to the former story, beseems not
Linger on all done there ; how left that
daughter
a
gazing
Father, a sister's arms, her mother woefully clinging,
Mother, who o'er that child moan'd desperate, all heart-
broken ;
How not in home that maid, in Theseus only de-
lighted ; 1 20
How her ship on a shore of foaming Dia did harbour;
?
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Mais l'intensité de sa mimique ne parvint pas à
remplacer
cette lumière
qui reste absente de nos yeux tant que nous ne savons pas de quoi on
veut nous parler.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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Shall I tell you the nature
of the
difficulty?
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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HS 199
In years gone by, I once went
traveling
by the great sea;
It was to collect the man.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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12, Alcides was the original name of Heracles, the latter name having been bestowed upon him by the Pythian priestess when he
consulted
the oracle after he had gone into exile for the murder of his children.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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The Homeric hero makes a great
deal of honour; but it is honour paid to himself, living; what he wants
above
everything
is to be admired--"always to be the best"; that is what
true heroism is.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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— saintly cruelty—the saint and the
wretched
and de-
formed child, x.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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What has my
astronomy
got to do with
my daughter?
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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For in the one way
possible
thou shewest thyself to me.
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Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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Thus for
Aristotle
the distinction between the necessary and the
contingent is real and not merely apparent, and "probability is the
guide" in studies which have to do with the direction of life.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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12349
Her ivory tooth
imprinted
on his finger:
But now, alas!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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And above me—what rosy red
stillness!
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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On my verawife I never was nor can afford to be guilty of crim crig con of malfeasance trespass against parson with the person of a
youthful
gigirl frifrif friend chirped Apples, acted by Miss Dashe, and with Any of my cousines in Kissilov's Slutsgartern or Gigglotte's Hill, when I would touch to her dot and feel most greenily of her unripe ones as it should prove most anniece and far too bahad, nieceless to say, to my reputation on Babbyl Malket for daughters-in-trade being lightly clad.
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Finnegans |
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For the Abhidharmikas who admit the existence of Pratyekabuddhas
147
different from those likened to a rhinoceros, nothing prevents
148 these other
Pratyekabuddhas
from changing their family.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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26 The celebration of war and
technology
evident in an issue of Der Sturm of June 1912 appears to Kraus as a further symptom of this erasure of intellectual life.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Now surely Phoebus knocketh at the door with his
beautiful
foot.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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By these means he got
acquainted
with many particulars, that remained perfect secrets to us a long while.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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A man must first appreciate the importance of what we call duty, the authority of the moral law, and the immediate dignity which the following of it gives to the person in his own eyes, in order to feel that
satisfaction
in the consciousness of his confor- mity to it and the bitter remorse that accompanies the conscious- ness of its transgression.
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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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Again unlike Balfour and Cromer, Kissinger
therefore feels obliged to aspect this pre-Newtonian perspective, since “it offers great flexibility
with respect to the
contemporary
revolutionary turmoil.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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His funeral oration on the
death of
Archbishop
Krasicki is one of the finest efforts
of the kind.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
|
]
[Footnote 23: This
description
is very obscure in the original; the
meaning seems to be, that the descent to the cavern was effected by
lifting up an oblong stone, bearing the appearance of a threshold,
but serving as a door.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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Accord-
ingly, besides raising an army of 60,000 men for the invasion
of England, he applied himself to the
destruction
of her com-
merce, the foundation of her naval power.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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"28 "Furniture" and "lan
as limits are incommensurable domains that are written together by Wakean language and, thus, by a writing that is nonsen
that
replaces the
intentional
agreement in ordinary language.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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Explique, si tu peux, mon trouble et mon effroi:
Je
frissonne
de peur quand tu me dis: «Mon ange!
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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Now therefore tell me, Man, my king, my master:
Lovest thou me, or dost thou rather love
The
pleasure
thou hast in me?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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91 Truly, when she was only a
wrongdoer
she died and
entered hell to no avail, coming out of hell and becoming a wrongdoer again.
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Shobogenzo |
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These traditions centre round an old king
named Wermund and his son Offa, of whom the latter is said to have
won great glory in a single combat, the scene of which was fixed by
Danish tradition at
Rendsburg
on the Eider.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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Wilde - Charmides |
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Stephen Crane |
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But the archaic takes
vengeance
on the jargon, whose greed for the ?
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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Lambert applied Euler's
mathematical
trick to painting.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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Je tenais à ce que celle-ci reçût
la meilleure
impression
possible de la soirée du lendemain.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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The media handled the previous "tilt" toward Pol Pot mainly by evasion, essentially blacking out the years 1979-95, or vaguely
intimating
that the US.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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[Not
translated
in Bohn or Ker]
LII.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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6 O ancient forefather, first-made man,
gardener
of Paradise and cultivator of the Tree of Life, of what malice were you victim, to have been propelled with the entire human race into the bot- tomless gulf of perdition?
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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The Occident and the Orient,
posterior and posterior,
sitting tight, holding fast
the culture dumped by them
on to primitive America,
Atlantic
to Pacific,
were monumental colophons
a disorderly country fellow,
vulgar Long Islander.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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In the midst of the conversation, he is accosted by a banker, who duns him for the
interest
of some money which Philolaches has borrowed of him for the purpose of procuring the freedom of Philematium, his mistress.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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On the contrary, it, too, fulfills a
critical
function both comprehensive and fundamental in nature.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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to youth's untutor'd eye,
What charms the
prospect
wears!
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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The Poles found no difficulty in admin-
istering, from time to time, severe blows at these adven-
titious neighbours, but always happy-go-lucky and
debonair, they could never bring
themselves
to crush or
oust them.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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As the king advanced in silence, and at a slow pace,
the good
discipline
of his troops afforded an astonish-
ing spectacle to the Greeks, who expected amongst
such a multitude nothing but disorderly shouts and
motions, and every other instance of distraction and
confusion.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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Then to the gardens all enwrapped in mist
I hurried,
dreaming
of the vanished days,
And still behind me--hieroglyph obscure
Of antique alphabet--the lonely Faun
Held to his laughter, through the falling night.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He was
cujus abbas inter
principes
imperii quatuor-
viros locum habet.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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a Roboan
sobervio
y loco,
que por consejo de un privado engan?
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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53):
"No pure
psychosexual
hermaphroditism exists; men who feel
sexual attraction to other men are in their appearance femi-
nine men, and women who have sexual desire for other women
exhibit a masculine physical appearance.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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