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Leftfield nobodies rise through the obscurest websites into positions of serious influence; minor reality television stars become the president of the United States.
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As his senses are literally dulled, his imagination helps him sense the spirit's supernatural presence. Instead of perceiving the vision through the senses, the Poet imaginatively observes her in the dying images of the passing objects of nature. The boat flows onward to an "immeasurable void" and the Poet finds himself ready to sink into the supernatural world and break through the threshold into death. When the Poet reaches the "obscurest chasm," his last sight is of the moon.
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The decadents, Barnitz wrote, though they "do not lecture at Harvard", "seem to me the most delightful of contemporary French writers." "All these slaves of the opal," Barnitz goes on, "as one of their obscurest members proclaims them, with their one great man (Verlaine) and their hundred pathetic poets, it is surely a fitting thing to admire. "How nice of them,' one feels like saying, 'to be so dear!' They have not produced a new art, but they have amused.
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Owing to the very imperfect notation of sound in the writing, the highly important subject of the verbal roots and verbal forms was perhaps the obscurest branch of Egyptian grammar when Sethe first attacked it in 1895. The subject has been reviewed by Erman, Die Flexion des Aegyptischen Verbums in the Sitzungsberichte of the Berlin Academy, 1900. The Berlin school, having settled the main lines of the grammar, next turned its attention to lexicography. It devised a scheme, founded on that for the Latin Thesaurus of the Berlin Academy, which almost mechanically sorts the whole number of occurrences of every word in any text examined.
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' So great, they say, > was the folly with which this emperor was possessed." > —Procopius, The Vandalic War (III.2.25–26) Summarising his account of Honorius's reign, the historian J.B. Bury wrote: > "His name would be forgotten among the obscurest occupants of the Imperial > throne were it not that his reign coincided with the fatal period in which > it was decided that western Europe was to pass from the Roman to the > Teuton." After listing the disasters of those 28 years, Bury concluded: > "[Honorius] himself did nothing of note against the enemies who infested his > realm, but personally he was extraordinarily fortunate in occupying the > throne till he died a natural death and witnessing the destruction of the > multitude of tyrants who rose up against him.
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To the furtherance of this policy he brought an unrivalled knowledge of all the under-currents of Oriental intrigue, which his mastery of languages enabled him to derive not only from the newspapers, of which he was an assiduous reader, but from the obscurest sources. His bluff and straightforward manner, and the knowledge that with him the deed was ready to follow the word, enabled him at once to inspire confidence and to overawe less masterful rivals. The official honors bestowed on him culminated in 1888 when he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and was given a seat on the Privy Council. He was still ambassador at Constantinople when he was attacked by influenza during a visit to Berlin, where he died at the Hotel Kaiserhof on 28 December 1891.
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