9 His resolution to die continued even for several days after; 10 for to his other causes of sorrow was added the remembrance of his nurse, the sister of Cleitus, on whose account, though she was far away, he was greatly ashamed of his conduct, 11
lamenting
that so base a return should be made her for rearing him; and that, in the maturity of life and conquest, he should have requited her, in whose arms he had spent his infancy, with bloodshed instead of kindness.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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Presently I went up to her, but she cried out against me with a
great cry, so that I
trembled
for fear and turned to go away,
when there came forth a man from under the earth and followed
me, crying out and saying, "Who and whence art thou, and what
caused thee to come hither?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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Attorney General for
seditious
libel.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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It
soon, however, became evident that something besides arguments
for church discipline and pleas for Wales was being hatched in
this little nest of
puritans
in the Thames valley.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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Taoism under the T'ang:
Religion
and Empire during the Golden Age of Chinese History.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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effort to identify, do
copyright
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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2x
775 2
Seleucus
IV.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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Mémoires
historiques sur la vie de M.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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was conduct
befitting
brave men.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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ut whoever feels too chilled by the breath of
such a reflection has perhaps too little fire in him-
self; let him look around him
meanwhile
and he
will become aware of illnesses which have need of
ice-poultices, and of men who are so "kneaded
together" of heat and spirit that they can hardly
find an atmosphere that is cold and biting enough.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Contents
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Le Testament: Les Regrets De La Belle Heaulmiere
Le Testament: Ballade: 'Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere'
Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
Le Testament: Rondeau
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Ballade: Du
Concours
De Blois
Ballade: Epistre
L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
Index of First Lines
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Tell me where, or in what country
Is Flora, the lovely Roman,
Archipiades or Thais,
Who was her nearest cousin,
Echo answering, at clap of hand,
Over the river, and the meadow,
Whose beauty was more than human?
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Villon |
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A brother wit
maliciously
compared this rencounter with that mentioned in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, between Clinias and Dametas.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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His
poems have always been popular in Poland, and during the Great War
were sung by Polish
prisoners
in Siberia.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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--
Should that morn come, and show thy opened eyes
All that Life's palpitating tissues feel,
How wilt thou bear thyself in thy
surprise?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Therefore
(the ruler), making use of the wisdom of others, will put away the cunning to which that wisdom might lead him; using their courage, he will (in the same way) put away
[1.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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Now, if each citizen's sovereignty must and ought to be proportional to
his property, it follows that the small stock holders are at the mercy
of the larger ones; who will, as soon as they choose, make slaves of
the former, marry them at pleasure, take from them their wives,
castrate their sons,
prostitute
their daughters, throw the aged to the
sharks,--and finally will be forced to serve themselves in the same way,
unless they prefer to tax themselves for the support of their servants.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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Being transmuted through all The
girdling
of the sea.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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"
Oliver heaved himself into a chair--that was Doggie's
impression
of his
method of sitting down.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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e pour
toujours;
cependant
on croit sentir dans les e?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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Do you hope to see it
In one of your
withered
days?
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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what had we done
To have such a
seneschal?
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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On the ground of
intersecting
highways, join hands with your allies.
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The-Art-of-War |
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) has sent me his last appeal: shall have to sit down and write a ''review'' of your
Confucius
this evening.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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XVI
And then she arms, and will the warrior meet;
And from the hill
descends
into the plain:
She finds him not, and to Montalban's seat
Hopes he by other road his way has ta'en.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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This is not the place for a
thorough
delineation of that remarkable man and of his still more remarkable influence on his contemporaries and posterity ; but the intellectual movements of the later Greek and the Graeco-Roman epoch were to so great an extent affected by him, that it is indispensable to sketch at least the leading outlines of his character.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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] murmurs cool through apple boughs, and slumber streams from
quivering
leaves.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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And that no one
pleasure
was different from or more pleasant than another; and that pleasure was praised by all animals, but pain avoided.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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, take your mut for a first
beginning
[.
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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One
receives
him, and then
another, but detested is he of them all.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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If the opponent's compliance necessarily takes time- if it is sustained good behavior,
cessation
of an activity that he must not resume, evacuation of a place he must not reenter, payment of tribute over an extended period, or someconstructiveactivity that takes time to accomplish- the compellent threat requires some commitment, pledge, or guarantee, or some hostage, or else must be susceptible of being resumed or repeated itself.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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_ Bride and
bridegroom!
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about
donations
to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Institutes and
scientific
societies were founded
everywhere, and popular lectures by experts spread broadcast
general, though somewhat vague, information on natural philosophy
and astronomy.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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H e forgot E ngland, and revelled in the
I talian
heedlessness
of days to come.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Juan, who found himself, he knew not how,
A general object of attention, made
His answers with a very graceful bow,
As if born for the
ministerial
trade.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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lderlin, the French Surrealists (such as Apollinaire), the nature poetry of Loerke and Lehmann, and the
Grossstadtdichtung
of Naturalism and Expressionism, particularly that of Heym.
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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--
The rose was plucked when dusk was dim
Beside a
laughing
boy.
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Sara Teasdale |
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There is the same minute and faithful
imagery as in the former poem, in the same vivid colours, inspirited by
the same impetuous vigour of thought, and diverging and contracting with
the same activity of the assimilative and of the
modifying
faculties;
and with a yet larger display, a yet wider range of knowledge
and reflection; and lastly, with the same perfect dominion, often
domination, over the whole world of language.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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Loosen thou mine arm, yet
steadfast
stay,
Leave the park ere sunlight's parting ray,
And the mists descend o'er mount and lea,
Let's depart ere winter bids us flee.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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It must be understood relying on the
statements
from the Illumination of the Lamp Fifteenth Chapter.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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gel, wo
sterbend
die Sonne rollt,
Stu?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE
The Poles have long been
outstanding
among immi-
grant races in America.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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I climb the towers and towers
to watch out the
barbarous
land :
Desolate castle, the sky, the wide desert.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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He is said to have
originated
the title of
the celebrated tract from the pen of the latter.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Ordinary
existence
came into contact with this pull from above through the ubiquitous example of the saints, who, owing to efforts that people liked to term superhu- man, were occasionally permitted to approach the impossible.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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' in favour of the more
practical
'how?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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The notorious Madame Blavatsky is extremely
masculine
in her appearance.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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The railway unification which led to the British "Big 4" in the early twenties and the
development
of the unified rail networks of Germany and Japan were forced through on the initiative of their respective governments.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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—Saturday
Review of Literature.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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_A Night Festival_
Sparrows
and tame magpies chatter
In the porticoes
Lit with many a lantern.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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For if men judge that
learning should be referred to action, they judge well; but in this they
fall into the error
described
in the ancient fable, in which the other
parts of the body did suppose the stomach had been idle, because it
neither performed the office of motion, as the limbs do, nor of sense, as
the head doth; but yet notwithstanding it is the stomach that digesteth
and distributeth to all the rest.
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Bacon |
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A life lived to the end will have been a good one if the completed life is tantamount to the permeation of the spirit
completing
pos- session of itself.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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* * * * *
Those who have read the Confessions will have closed them with the
impression that I had wholly
renounced
the use of opium.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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, and it is
defined on the "
Ordnance
Survey Town- land Maps for the County of Mayo," Sheets 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, II, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, l%2°>23' 24' 25' 26* 27' 33' 34' 35' 36' 43, 44, 45, 55, 56, 57.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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" It seems to
me that there is a very natural explana-
tion of this
transference
of the pronouns.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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I began to worry he might be
disturbing
you when I had to
let him live in the living room next to you over the last few days.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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org/wiki/Gutenberg:Terms_of_Use">Terms of Use
prohibit
mass downloads or automated harvesting of the collection.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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So then lay targeteer
Iphicles
along; and as for me, I wept to behold the parlous plight of my children, till sleep the delectable was gone from my eyes, and lo!
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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Song Making
My heart cried like a beaten child
Ceaselessly
all night long;
I had to take my own cries
And thread them into a song.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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3 In the last days of
the year, strict orders were issued from all the custom
houses in the northern district,
requiring
masters of
vessels to conform to the old Molasses Act "in all its
parts.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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"
(3) Morality may be a preservative measure
resisting the life-poisoning
influences
of
profound sorrow and bitterness: it is
useful to the "sufferers.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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And lastly William Browne, than whom we have not a more modest and
retiring singer, here makes his bow with a slender
portfolio
of
excerpts.
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William Browne |
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To learn more about the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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He says likewise, as the size
of the earth has been
demonstrated
by other writers, we shall take for
granted that the Greeks had not different standards of length, but
always used the Olympic stadium and the foot corresponding to it.
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Strabo |
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This returning to their root is what we call the
state of stillness; and that stillness may be called a
reporting
that
they have fulfilled their appointed end.
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Tao Te Ching |
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That consciousness is inauthentic that consciously does not go "into itself because it still banks strategically on the
advantage
gained through lying.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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Among some states at some times, the actual or expected occurrence of
violence
is low.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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s perfectly obvious that you’re lying But once you’ve been
proved a liar in open cour%
ymi’se
disqualified* so to speak, Mrs SemprUlts
done for, so far aaKnyffe Hill goes.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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A few years later
his own
cemetery
was invaded and the world was put into possession of
the Baudelaire legend; that legend of the atrabilious, irritable poet,
dandy, maniac, his hair dyed green, spouting blasphemies; that grim,
despairing image of a diabolic, a libertine, saint, and drunkard.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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And
different
copies express it differently, according to the possible renderings of the Greek words, iyai
1 dor- Is ixoift.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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IV
BY THE late summer the news of what had
happened
on Animal Farm
had spread across half the county.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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By last April Quirino
Capaccioli
1 had already got to a vision of the day when the state could sit back and do nothing.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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19 Eagles of heaven are not so swift as they
Which follow us, o'r
mountaine
tops they flye 335
At us, and for us in the desart lye.
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John Donne |
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They accordingly did so; and in a
numerous
body they poured down from the mountain, their faces covered by wreaths, and brandishing their thyrsi instead of spears.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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Lermontov
FOREWORD
THIS novel, known as one of the masterpieces of Russian Literature,
under the title “A Hero of our Time,” and already translated into at
least nine
European
languages, is now for the first time placed before
the general English Reader.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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God knows I am innocent in
" every particular as I ought to be ; and I hope
" your majesty knows enough of me to believe that
" I had never a violent
appetite
for money, that
" could corrupt me.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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It was impossible to learn the identity of these
corporations, owing to the unwillingness of the
members of the inner group to disclose the names
of their underwriters, but
sufficient
appears to
justify the statement that there are at least
hundreds of them and that they extend into
many of the cities throughout this and foreign
countries.
| Guess: |
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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BELIEVING
ev'ry artifice in love
Was tolerated by the pow'rs above,
One eve he turned a heifer from the rest;
Conducted by the girl his thoughts possessed;
The others left, not counted by the fair,
(Youth seldom shows the necessary care,)
With easy, loit'ring steps the cottage sought,
Where ev'ry night they usually were brought.
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La Fontaine |
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Has it
returned
to life and flapped off
through the kitchen window?
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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)
1281 let lyk
oppeared
pleased.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I mused on the chase with the Fenians, and Bran, Sgeolan, Lomair,
And never a song sang Niam, and over my finger-tips
Came now the sliding of tears and
sweeping
of mist-cold hair,
And now the warmth of sighs, and after the quiver of lips.
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Yeats - Poems |
|
Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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1:34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and
sware, saying, 1:35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this
evil
generation
see that good land, which I sware to give unto your
fathers.
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"
He felt his very
whiskers
glow,
And frankly owned "I do not know.
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Stealthily, swiftly, the
measureless
sea flood was
rising.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Compare _An
Anatomie
of the World_, l.
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It does not
criticize
[Sanzo] as he should be crit-
icized, for not seeing the first two times as well.
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The public opinion of the agitators
compelled
the
sick Emperor to declare war against his will; it
arrogantly controlled and disturbed every move-
ment of the enemy; it compelled the fatal march
to Sedan.
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Non, il n'y avait pour ainsi dire rien que Watt pût oublier, dont il ne pût se passer, pendant les
quatorze
ou quinze heures que durait sa journée, pendant les neuf ou dix heures que durait sa nuit.
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Many
intellectuals
said that their initial enthusiasm for Com- munism had given way to disillusionment.
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Candide was so shocked and bewildered by what he saw and heard, that he
would not set foot on shore, and he made a bargain with the Dutch
skipper (were he even to rob him like the Surinam
captain)
to conduct
him without delay to Venice.
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Sometimes yet
I see the hapless bird--strange, fatal myth--
Like him that Ovid writes of, lifting up
Unto the cruelly blue, ironic heavens,
With stretched, convulsive neck a thirsty face,
As though he sent
reproaches
up to God!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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A human named Chungawo is
thinking
about tak- ing ordination.
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The Latins
originally
had
no ablative, but, like the Greeks, made use of the dative to supply its place.
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For this infamous transaction, Lovat was tried, as an accessary to the rape, and was capitally
convicted
; but received a pardon from the lenity of King William the Third.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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Sur ta chair le parfum rode
Comme autour d'un encensoir;
Tu charmes comme le soir,
Nymphe
tenebreuse
et chaude.
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1 endeavour to fly far from the gaze of the public,
And
communicatt
my sorrows to the winds alone,
While, in my eye and cheek,
The fire, that consumes my inmost heart, appears.
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232 Lesser
Jacobean
and Caroline Dramatists
proud,' he tells us; ‘you know, Sir, I am old and cannot cringe.
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It
followed
throughout the right bank
of the Platte River.
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