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Seize and day
I. 11, Tu ne quaesieris, a short rebuke to a woman worrying about the future ; it closes with the famous line carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero ( Seize the day, trusting tomorrow as little as possible ).
In Seize the Day Wilhelm experiences a day of reckoning as he is forced to examine his life and to finally accept the " burden of self ".
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On his bookshelves were some of the latest American novels, including Bellow's Seize The Day, but he hadn't read them ( they were sent by American publishers ) and wasn't especially interested in what the American writers were up to.
Other adherents to the teachings of Epicurus included the poet Horace, whose famous statement Carpe Diem (" Seize the Day ") illustrates the philosophy, as well as Lucretius, as he showed in his De Rerum Natura.
In 1877, after the Seize Mai crisis, he was one of the republican majority who denounced the de Broglie ministry.
He led resistance to the anti-republican policy of which the Seize Mai incident was a manifestation.
This version of Rollins Band had some of the most overt jazz leanings of the band's history: Gibbs had begun his career with the jazz fusion group of drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson, and worked with Sonny Sharrock on albums like 1987's Seize The Rainbow, which along with Rollins ' obsession with the late ' 60s / early ' 70s era of iconic trumpeter Miles Davis, shaped this version of the band's music.
An earlier phase of the style was called the Adam style in Great Britain and " Louis Seize " or Louis XVI, in France.
Elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1876 by Montélimar, he was one of the famous 363 who on 16 May 1877 ( Seize Mai ) passed the vote of no confidence in the ministry of the duc de Broglie.
Some time after the performance, noting he still had a fanbase, Strange decided to launch a " Mark II " of Visage with people from several electronic bands and projects: Steven Young, Sandrine Gouriou and Rosie Harris from Seize and Ross Tregenza from Jetstream Lovers / Goteki.
* Yue Shi San Shou ( aka Yī Bǎi Ling Bā Qín Ná 一百零八擒拿 – “ 108 Seize Grab " techniques ) is considered the " heart " of the Eagle Claw system.
Something of this was due to the way in which the buried beauty of Pompeii had been slowly rising from its ashes, and something to the splendor of the Louis Seize revival of that beauty — an effort rather helped than hindered, too, by the classical assumptions of the First Empire.
In Horace, the phrase is part of the longer Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero – " Seize the Day, putting as little trust as possible in the future ", and the ode says that the future is unforeseen, and that instead one should scale back one's hopes to a brief future, and drink one's wine.
Contrary to popular belief of Carpe Diem meaning " Seize the Day ," the direct translation was originally discovered as " what will be, will be "; however, centuries of varied use of this phrase has evolved its meaning to what we believe it to be now.
It gained its greatest popularity in the U. S. after 1810 and is considered the second, more robust phase of the Neoclassical style, which earlier had been expressed in the Adam style in Britain and Louis Seize, or Louis XVI, in France.
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He stopped every few minutes and leaned on his shovel as he studied the horizon, but nothing happened, each day dragging out with monotonous calm.
When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.
The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.
That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.
But the day of the deadline came and passed, and the men who had scoffed at the warnings laughed with satisfaction.
This time Lewis had his own rifle in his hands, and he threw some answering fire back at the mysterious far-off shot, then spent most of the day searching out the area.
For Tom Horn, it turned out, had a number of rancher and cowboy witnesses ready and willing to swear with straight faces that he had been in Bates Hole the day of the killing.
While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.
As we expected, on the following day my Uncle was completely recovered and opened the store as usual at 10 in the morning.
`` You know what they say about two deep dives in one day '', Artie went on, still twirling the snorkle and studying it intently.
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