Category Archive: 4. Parade of Masterpieces

03 Oct

THE PRAISE OF FOLLY http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9371/pg9371.html An oration, of feigned matter, spoken by Folly in her own person At what rate soever the world talks of me (for I …

 
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03 Oct

1548_Spiritual Exercises

1548_Spiritual Exercises

http://archive.org/stream/a588350800loyouoft/a588350800loyouoft_djvu.txt ANNOTATIONS Affording some understanding with respect to the Spi ritual Exercises which follow ; for the help as well of him who is to give, as of …

 
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03 Oct

Essay on the Theorie of Number, Dedekind (1901)

Essay on the Theorie of Number, Dedekind (1901)

Source: www.gutenberg.org/files/21016/21016-pdf.pdf   THE NATURE AND MEANING OF NUMBERS PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION In science nothing capable of proof ought to be accepted without proof. Though this demand seems …

 
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02 Oct

Lisbon Treaty, 2007

Lisbon Treaty, 2007

TITLE I COMMON PROVISIONS Article 1 (ex Article 1 TEU) ( 1 ) By this Treaty, the HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES establish among themselves a EUROPEAN UNION, hereinafter called ‘the …

 
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02 Oct

The Cantos, Ezra Pound (1917-1969)

The Cantos, Ezra Pound (1917-1969)

Source: www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/241046 Canto IV Palace in smoky light,   Troy but a heap of smouldering boundary stones, ANAXIFORMINGES!  Aurunculeia! Hear me.   Cadmus of Golden Prows! The silver mirrors catch the bright stones and …

 
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02 Oct

Faust, Goethe (1832)

Faust, Goethe (1832)

FIRST PART OF THE TRAGEDY I NIGHT (A lofty-arched, narrow, Gothic chamber. FAUST, in a chair at his desk, restless.) FAUST I’ve studied now Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine,— And even, alas! Theology,— From …

 
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02 Oct

One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8655/pg8655.html THE THREE APPLES. The Khalif Haroun er Reshid summoned his Vizier Jaafer one night and said to him, ‘I have a mind to go down …

 
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02 Oct

The Spirit of Laws, Montesquieu, 1750

The Spirit of Laws, Montesquieu, 1750

BOOK XV. IN WHAT MANNER THE LAWS OF CIVIL SLAVERY ARE RELATIVE TO THE NATURE OF THE CLIMATE. CHAP. I. Of civil Slavery. SLAVERY, properly so called, is the …

 
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02 Oct

Macbeth, Shakespeare (1606)

Macbeth, Shakespeare (1606)

Source: theshakespeareproject.com/macbeth/macbeth-1-3.html   ACT I SCENE III A HEATH NEAR FORRES. THUNDER. ENTER THE THREE WITCHES.   FIRST WITCH Where hast thou been, sister?   SECOND WITCH Killing swine.   THIRD WITCH Sister, where thou?   FIRST WITCH A sailor’s wife had …

 
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30 Sep

In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust, 1913

In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust, 1913

There is a large element of hazard in these matters, and a second hazard, that of our own death, often prevents us from awaiting for …

 
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