In the last decades of the old regime, some authors had taken the dis-
tinction
even further, finding a person's true greatness less in public acts than in private, intimate behavior.
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And there were no orders issued by the
regulator
of the feasts, as to who should come in or who should sit down first: but the eldest led the way to the couch, unless he himself invited any one else to do so; and he was generally seen supping with his brother or with some of his friends of his own age.
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Here after
foloweth
the boke of Phyllyp Sparowe compyled by mayster
Skelton Poete Laureate.
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Selections from
Catullus
1
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5
Wherever
a young man roams
The Fates in ambush lie
6 What good that young men have
Did you lack in your life?
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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But in the autumn Tyrian pirates
descended
on
the shore to raven.
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It "formed a barrier between the
dominions
of the Wazir
and any foreign enemy".
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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Mine are those herbs, if yet there be any
such, mine those charms, and mine that
fountain
that not only restores
departed youth but, which is more desirable, preserves it perpetual.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Night Song at Amalfi
I asked the heaven of stars
What I should give my love--
It
answered
me with silence,
Silence above.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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This is the testimony of
pleasure
(or as the church says, the evidence
of strength) of which all religions are so proud, although they should
all be ashamed of it.
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)
người
xã Tông Lỗ huyện Thạch Hà (nay thuộc huyện Thạch Hà tỉnh Hà Tĩnh).
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If he has
anything
for sale, instead of informing the buyers at what price he prepared to sell it, he will ask them what he to get for it.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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a reference to the swift-
footed Atalanta of Calydon, whose speed was like the wind but who was tricked by the golden apples to lose the race to Hippo- menes; or perhaps the
destruction
of Caly~ don by fire after the death of Maleager at the hands of his mother / sister Althea
[Meta.
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In the eternal strife between the man and
State,
Is it not
possible
the man for once
Siiould conquer?
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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He knew that
though his
strength
was good for the commencement of a hard
day's work, it would not hold out for him as it used to do.
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He hath to-day assailed Shame, 4050
And chased awey, with gret manace,
Bialacoil
out of this place,
And swereth shortly that he shal
Enclose him in a sturdy wal;
And al is for thy wikkednesse, 4055
For that thee faileth straungenesse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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A
hymn is actually sung on the stage by the
chorister
boys!
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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If I did not know positively that
MADISON'S THEFTS FROM A
STANDARD
BOOK.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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He shall put aside his wife and children and all his rich possessions and honour these first, together with his aged sire,
wrapping
them in his robes, what time the spearmen hounds, having devoured all the goods of his country together by casting of lots, to him alone shall give the choice to take and carry away what gift from his house he will.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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Are you willing to hear and be convinced, from what Caufe
thefe
Diforders
arifc ?
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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International
donations
are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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But all I hear is silence,
And
something
that may be leaves or may be sea.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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—Let us consider the contributions
which in the first half of this century the Germans
made to general culture by their
intellectual
work.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Oates addressed himself to him with his Depositions —he had taken them, and enquired
something
closely into the Design,
as his Manner was in any Thing which belong'd to his Office.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Full sixty years the world has been her trade,
The wisest fool much time has ever made
From loveless youth to unrespected age,
No passion
gratified
except her rage.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Thus even in the sequential
ordering
of the fragments the editors-surely without in-
tending to do so-have misled us.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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There was a fearful row as soon as Flory and
Elizabeth had gone, the pwe girl refusing to go on with her dance and the
audience
demanding that she should continue.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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O, men who have no
part in love, who have no part in song, who have no part in wisdom,
but dwell with the shadows of memory where the feet of angels cannot
touch you as they pass over your heads, where the hair of demons cannot
sweep about you as they pass under your feet, I lay upon you a curse,
and change you to an example for ever and ever; you shall become grey
herons and stand pondering in grey pools and flit over the world in
that hour when it is most full of sighs, having forgotten the flame of
the stars and not yet found the flame of the sun; and you shall preach
to the other herons until they also are like you, and are an example
for ever and ever; and your deaths shall come to you by chance and
unforeseen, that no fire of
certainty
may visit your hearts.
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Yeats |
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The embodiment of moral principles in
political
action?
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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of Health on the Capitol,
dedicated
in 452, obtained in design and colouring the praise even of connoisseurs trained in Greek art in the Augustan age ; and the art-enthusiasts of the empire commended the frescoes of Caere, but with still greater emphasis those of Rome, Lanuvium, and Ardea, as masterpieces of painting.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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That
illustrates
what I was saying.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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And on them was laid an
unenviable
struggle:
for she, even fair, swift-footed Atalanta, ran scorning the gifts of
golden Aphrodite; but with him the race was for his life, either to find
his doom, or to escape it.
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Hesiod |
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The latter
obeys a
superior
and hence feels no responsibility.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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" He waited
for four years, when it
occurred
to him to offer three _fu_ to the
Emperor.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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and were not all who
disliked
them
merely--the many?
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Yeats |
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When you do not have the insight that the basis (namely the abiding nature of reality), the path (or meditation on that nature) and the result (the realisation of the Dharmaka:ya) are all three Void
(by nature), you might think that
Voidness
is the?
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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This helps to keep the site as available as
possible
for visitors.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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And for all they cried and cried upon their mother I could not help them, so present and
invincible
was their evil hap.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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But I have scribbled on 'till I hear the
clock has intimated the near
approach
of
That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane.
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attribution
The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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3 Leitrim,
according
to William M.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Others will lead me towards happiness
By the horns on my brow knotted with many a tress:
You know, my passion, how ripe and purple already
Every pomegranate bursts,
murmuring
with the bees:
And our blood, enamoured of what will seize it,
Flows for all the eternal swarm of desire yet.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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First time, this,
for the
gleaming
blade that its glory fell.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"The chaos of the surrounding impressions is organized into a real cosmos of
experience
by our selection,"161 which, in turn, can either be voluntary or involuntary.
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Daughter of the Commandant, by Alexksandr
Sergeevich Pushkin,
Translated
by Mrs.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Only indeed the sincerest
patriotism
could inspire a woman to
undertake and achieve so vast a literary monument.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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It is the custom in Spain always to put off
business
until
to-morrow.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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They contemn one another, and yet they seek to please one another:
and whilest they seek to surpass one another in worldly pomp and
greatness, they most debase and prostitute
themselves
in their better
part one to another.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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But the durbar was on the whole
inclined
to the
English and against the French.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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'
'David
Copperfield
all over!
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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' The Bodleian
contains
many books with Burton's
autograph.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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In its classic pedagogical form, Plato’s
teaching
sought to convey instructions for a blessed life in theory; it was in the truest sense of the word a religion of thinking, which believed in its capacity to unite investigation and edification under one roof.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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Ottoman Empire, 277
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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O
passionate
and pure!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Generated for (University of
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Punch,
concerning
a certain Mr.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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How old is
he now—nearly
nineteen?
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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From 1820 to 1843 the title was, 'To
my Sister; written at a small
distance
from my House, and sent by my
little Boy'.
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William Wordsworth |
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A celebration for Dionysus, for wine rather than corn, for Bacchus rather than Demeter, for phallic congestion rather than the nine-month's magic, for the apho- rism rather than the
historical
novel!
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His whole career was one of purely poetic work and the
personal
relations it brought him into.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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there comes me the
lightsome
dawn.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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But should anyone presume to use such an
approach
outside the limits of spe- cific professional problems, he would quickly be given to understand that the needs of life are different from the requirements of thought.
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They do not know what to make
of themselves—and so they paint the
misfortune
of
others on the wall; they always need others!
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"
Friedman's global economy has come to the Pacific
Northwest!
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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It is especially
important
to practice
on the tenth day of the month
when all the siddhis of the wrathful deities
and empowerment can be attained.
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The break portrayed by the verse's imagery is enacted
literally
with the apostrophe that begins the poem's final sentence: "Kind, dein kra?
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refusing the church that toleration they enjoy 'd under her:
And
persecuting
her from city to city.
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I therefore feel much obliged to you for
suggesting
by your practice the plan which I have adopted.
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with a heart filled with the
enthusiasm
and perfervid spirit of his
countrymen, he and his brother got up the collection of songs and
ballads" to which we have had occasion so often to refer.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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They have been laid
to the charge of Petrarch; but, without entering into the question, how
far and in what instances
conceits
may not be natural to lovers haunted,
as Petrarch was, with one idea, and seeing it in every thing they behold,
what had the great epic poet to do with the faults of the lyrical?
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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On May 24th, 1873, a
memorable
session took place, in which the
President most impressively explained the reasons that had led him
to consider it impossible and undesirable to re-establish a monarchy
in France.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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Even if you succeed in being the owner of a
trillion
worlds, unless you can curtail your plans from within with the feeling that nothing more is needed, you will never know contentment.
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Indeed, it must be
confessed
that for all his clearness and subtlety
of intellect as a thinker, Calhoun is as a writer distinctly heavy.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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We indeed seem to feel our own want of
political
wisdom,
since we have been running all about in search of it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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But it is the moon that she makes one
dream of most readily; the moon, who has without doubt touched her with
her own influence; not the white moon of the idylls, who resembles a
cold bride, but the sinister and intoxicating moon
suspended
in the
depths of a stormy night, among the driven clouds; not the discreet
peaceful moon who visits the dreams of pure men, but the moon torn from
the sky, conquered and revolted, that the witches of Thessaly hardly
constrain to dance upon the terrified grass.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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4 The writer
parodies
the proclamation at the Greek games; the
words also are Greek.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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He also emphasized, however, what was for him the crucial difference between the two: "The state demands such a complete change and
turnover
of mind as we only allow God to demand.
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Thomas does, the telling
argument
that Aristotle could
never have meant to say that there really is no such thing as human
intelligence.
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37
I am not of the society for reformation of manners, but, without that
pragmatical
title, I would be glad to see some amendment in the matter before us.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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At Baile naCille, hard-by and
at a
distance
of about six feet, there is a
hugh bile of Cuileami, or a holly wood.
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3'
Thirty years earlier, when Marx was treating Ricardo's and Malthus' ideas in his Theories of Surplus Value, he
formulated
this same view in more gen- eral terms: "I call any man a 'scoundrel' who tries to accommodate scholarship
(whatever its failings) to principles not inherent in it but derived from interests external and alien to it.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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Fair Semele , of flowing tresses vain ,
By the loud blast of thunder slain , Her joyful
recompense
can boast ,
And lives among th ’ Olympic host.
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Pindar |
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4 He sent his wife Laodice, also, to Rome, to testify that her husband had three
children
born to him.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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These never
offered us any violence, nor once shunned our sight; but passed along
in our company without fear, in a peaceable manner,
wondering
at the
greatness of our ship, and beholding it on every side.
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Lucian - True History |
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w must ^
& Mr:
^ars^yvhen
theft w^e.
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Childrens - Frank |
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According to this tradition, what is
significant
about the Dremong is simply that it is a bear.
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Les nations dont la culture intellec-
tuelle est d'origine latine, sont plus
anciennement
civilise?
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Besides his denunciation of usurped Papal
claims, he showed the evil history of the
benefices
and traced the
growth of the error of Mariolatry.
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a tooth or hair or anything else to him whose it is), but the
producer
does not belong to the product, or belongs in a less degree.
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2 " All the country about
Cluainenach
for many miles, was, in the memory of men yet living, a great forest.
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Banks are among the best
expedients
for lowering the rate of interest in a country; but to have this effect, their capitals must be completely equal to all the demands of business, and sueh as will tend to remove the idea, that the 'accommodations they afford, are in any degree fa- vours; an idea very apt to accompany the parsimonious dispensation of contracted funds.
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người
làng Phúc Khê huyện Thanh Lan (nay thuộc xã Thái Phúc huyện Thái Thụy tỉnh Thái Bình).
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" Diarmaid went out, and he saw the whole village on
occasion,
great mountain ridge of steeps, * w—hich divides
Pertshire
from Argyle and ter- minating in the Grampian Hills he came to a small village, situate in a barren plain.
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Anyway, the
point’s
this.
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This will
disappoint you, who had “a passion for
reforming
it.
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But wily Prometheus answered him, smiling softly and not
forgetting
his
cunning trick:
(ll.
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HROTHGAR
TELLS OF GRENDEL.
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Beowulf |
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The paddle is made of a piece of hickory timber, about one inch thick,
three inches in width, and about
eighteen
inches in length.
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XII
As once we saw the
children
of the Earth
Pile peak on peak to scale the starry sky,
And fight against the very gods on high,
While Jove to his lightning-bolts gave birth:
Then all in thunder, suddenly reversed,
The furious squadrons earthbound lie,
Heaven glorying, while Earth must sigh,
Jove gaining all the honour and the worth:
So were once seen, in this mortal space,
Rome's Seven Hills raising a haughty face,
Against the very countenance of Heaven:
While now we see the fields, shorn of honour,
Lament their ruin, and the gods secure,
Dreading no more, on high, that fearful leaven.
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