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As Edgar Wallace tells it in his short novel, in the early years of the last century, this fearsome foursome -- George Manfred, Leon Gonsalez, Raymond Poiccart, and a man known simply as Thery -- assassinated the leader of the Servian Regicides, shot a "poet-philosopher" whose sick thinking corrupted a generation of young people, and hanged a leader of the French Army in the Place de la Concorde.
Jesse Kornbluth: They're Not Cops. But They Kill For Justice. They're 'The Four Just Men' Jesse Kornbluth 2011
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The poet-philosopher even chides a pilgrim upon his return when he admits he does not understand the real value of the ritual he undertook.
Zahra N. Jamal, Ph.D.: Hajj Diaries: The Multiple Dimensions Of Muslim Pilgrimage Ph.D. Zahra N. Jamal 2011
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The poet-philosopher even chides a pilgrim upon his return when he admits he does not understand the real value of the ritual he undertook.
Zahra N. Jamal, Ph.D.: Hajj Diaries: The Multiple Dimensions Of Muslim Pilgrimage Ph.D. Zahra N. Jamal 2011
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Novalis's Hymns to the Night were published in Prussia in 1800, when the poet-philosopher was 28; the moment of German romanticism is central to May's argument because he believes the cult of love was born out of "reactions to the irretrievable loss of a divine world-order and the firm moorings it afforded".
Love in literature 2011
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In this spirit, while living in Spain, the widely read poet-philosopher Yehuda Halevi c. 1075–1141 lamented: My heart is in the east, and I am at the edge of the west. . .
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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In this spirit, while living in Spain, the widely read poet-philosopher Yehuda Halevi c. 1075–1141 lamented: My heart is in the east, and I am at the edge of the west. . .
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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At least if we go by the words of that great poet-philosopher Walter Sobchak.
Dan Sweeney: Why the Shock Over Newt Gingrich's Nazi-Muslim Comparison? 2010
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In this spirit, while living in Spain, the widely read poet-philosopher Yehuda Halevi c. 1075–1141 lamented: My heart is in the east, and I am at the edge of the west. . .
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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The ancient Roman poet-philosopher Lucretius felt that birds taught people not language, but music.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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An example is Shanti Niketan in India, founded by Nobel winning poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore, that has helped to mold the likes of Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and generations of artists.
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