The enlightened
Turkish statesmen have diligently
assimilated
all
the arts of Napoleonic Press-control; they are
masters in the manipulation of correspondence
and entrefilets; the golden pills kneaded on the
Bosphorus can always find a few obliging patients
in the journalistic circles of London and Paris,
but especially among the industrious Oriental
kin who dominate the Vienna Press.
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with the phrase "Project Gutenberg"
associated
with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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The two glorious titles
which make the fascination of the " crown
of Jerusalem " --
protector
of Christians in
the Orient and defender of the Holy
Places -- have been irremediably cancelled
by time and the force of events.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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Malatestls
CapItan General
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The
purposes
of men demand their continuance
[of punishment and reward] and inasmuch as punishment and reward, blame
and praise operate most potently upon vanity, these same purposes of men
imperatively require the continuance of vanity.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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"
These variables were thought of as going together to form a single syn- drome, a more or less
enduring
structure in the person that renders him re- ceptive to antidemocratic propaganda.
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CXI cum CX
continuant
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Latin - Catullus |
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Note: The last line is quoted by Eliot, in French, in The
Wasteland
(with reference to the Fisher King) as is the second line of De Nerval's El Desdichado.
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which the more fully he reveals himself the the Quaker
movement
in this country alone
now lie, bound in two volumes, at the better we are pleased.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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Were you lifting your elbow, tell us, glazy cheeks, in Conway's Carrigacurra
canteen?
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Finnegans |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Ich bin der Geist, der stets
verneint!
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And naked to the hangman's noose
The morning clocks will ring
A neck God made for other use
Than
strangling
in a string.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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But nothing, he held, could be of worse augury
for the Christian faith than that its recognised expounders should
be seen
rallying
to the support of what the voice of reason had
demonstrated to be untrue.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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This was his first
political
effort.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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, when Henry James was being a small boy on East 23rd Street; no one whose ancestors had not been presidents or profes- sors or founders of Ha'avwd College or something of that sort, or had not heard of a time when people lived on 14th Street, or had known of some one living in Lexington or Newton "Old Place" or somewhere of that sort in New England, or had heard of the New York that
produced
"Fanny," New York the jocular and un- critical, or of people who danced with General Grant or something of that sort, would quite know Washing-
ton Square or The Europeans to be so autochthonous, so authentic to the conditions.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Eyes that told secrets, lips that would not tell them,
Fearless and shy the young unwearied eyes--
Men die by
millions
now, because God blunders,
Yet to have made this boy he must be wise.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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INFANT SORROW
My mother groaned, my father wept:
Into the
dangerous
world I leapt,
Helpless, naked, piping loud,
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Victorious Love a threatening dart did show
His right hand held; the other bore a bow,
The string of which he drew just by his ear;
No leopard could chase a frighted deer
(Free, or broke loose) with quicker speed than he
Made haste to wound; fire
sparkled
from his eye.
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Petrarch |
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Something
similar ina differenftormeveninthe"elite" of
happened
universities the
UnitedStates.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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be for democrats of pure water a scandal, although the democracy at that time only
coalesced
with two distinguished
men of the opposite party and bound these to its programme.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Resolved am I
In the woods, rather, with wild beasts to couch,
And bear my doom, and
character
my love
Upon the tender tree-trunks: they will grow,
And you, my love, grow with them.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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All the woods that used to grow beyond the pool, and grew so thick
that they were like a kind of
tropical
jungle, had been shaved flat.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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"
We geFiiow, afany rate, a first
hintj_he
wishes to
escape from, a torture.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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Thus they talked of their skill and their labour till noon
When the sober man's toil was exactly half done,
And there the plough lay--people hardly could pass
And the horses let loose
polished
up the short grass
And browsed on the bottle of flags lying there,
By the gipsey's old budget, for mending a chair.
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John Clare |
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and since modesty has
retreated
from your breast
97 .
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Satires |
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Cuopron d'i manti loro i palafreni,
si che due bestie van sott' una pelle:
oh
pazienza
che tanto sostieni!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The applicationofmodernizationtheorycan, indeed, lead to variegatedresults,and it is
certainlytruethatthe
fasclstideologyis notan ideologyin thesame sensethatthegreatdoctrinesofthenineteenth centurywere.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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As a kindred vapour or exhalation he
recognised the Soul or Breath for a
manifestation
of the essential
element.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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Elle a d’ailleurs pour ces
reconstitutions, des données plus précises que n’en ont généralement
les restaurateurs: quelques images conservées par ma mémoire, les
dernières peut-être qui existent encore actuellement, et destinées à
être bientôt anéanties, de ce qu’était le Combray du temps de mon
enfance; et parce que c’est lui-même qui les a tracées en moi avant de
disparaître, émouvantes,--si on peut comparer un obscur portrait à ces
effigies glorieuses dont ma grand’mère aimait à me donner des
reproductions--comme ces gravures anciennes de la Cène ou ce tableau de
Gentile Bellini dans
lesquels
l’on voit en un état qui n’existe plus
aujourd’hui le chef-d’œuvre de Vinci et le portail de Saint-Marc.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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He may be the author of an attack on Bentley called An account
of the state of
learning
in the Empire of Lilliput, and of Critical
Remarks on Capt.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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history of the world have always been priests, who
are also the cleverest haters — in comparison with
the cleverness of priestly revenge, every other piece
of cleverness is practically negligiblej Human
history would be too fatuous for
anything
were
it not for the cleverness imported into it by the
## p.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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Though
yet I think it somewhat more modest than the general practice of our
nobles and wise men who, throwing away all shame, hire some flattering
orator or lying poet from whose mouth they may hear their praises, that
is to say, mere lies; and yet, composing themselves with a seeming
modesty, spread out their peacock's plumes and erect their crests, while
this impudent flatterer equals a man of nothing to the gods and proposes
him as an
absolute
pattern of all virtue that's wholly a stranger to it,
sets out a pitiful jay in other's feathers, washes the blackamoor white,
and lastly swells a gnat to an elephant.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Pujoulx, Jean
Baptiste
(pü-zhö').
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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DOCTOR MARIANUS
[In the highest, purest cell]
Free is the view at last,
The spirit lifted:
There women, floating past,
Are upward drifted:
The Glorious One therein,
With star-crown tender,-
The pure, the
Heavenly
Queen,
I know her splendor.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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history of the world have always been priests, who
are also the cleverest haters — in comparison with
the cleverness of priestly revenge, every other piece
of cleverness is practically negligiblej Human
history would be too fatuous for
anything
were
it not for the cleverness imported into it by the
## p.
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) người xã Bồ Điền huyện Bạch Hạc (nay thuộc xã
Thượng
Trưng huyện Vĩnh Tường tỉnh Vĩnh Phúc).
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stella-02 |
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"
"To speak before three eyes," said the old pope
cheerfully
(he was blind
of one eye), "in divine matters I am more enlightened than Zarathustra
himself--and may well be so.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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For regardless of all limit, it rises
to the
thousandth
page; and grows in bulk, expensive from the mass
of paper used.
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Satires |
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Respect for their scruples and the
obligation
of
duty to the public induced the formation of the present
Committee.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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I sing but as vouchsafed me; yet even this
If, if but one with ravished eyes should read,
Of thee, O Varus, shall our tamarisks
And all the woodland ring; nor can there be
A page more dear to Phoebus, than the page
Where,
foremost
writ, the name of Varus stands.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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At length Abel thought it of little importance what he sold, so that he gained by it ; or whether it was
subversive
of religion, morals.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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For nineteen years, 1932-1951, the illustrated month-
ly Soviet Russia Today, the only American magazine
that has concentrated
entirely
on the U.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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Pujoulx, Jean
Baptiste
(pü-zhö').
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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" Tinh Không said: "The Truth Body is
originally
without form.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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209; the
possessors
of a con-
sciousness of the conscience, the triers of the reins,
241.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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Ah, state
surcharged
with woes!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Thấy du
tiiìiều
dứa cũ gan, ôog kìa, há nọ.
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The result, for a tramp, is that he is condemned to
perpetual
celibacy.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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Et quand tu le verras sonder tout l'horizon,
Contempteur
des vieux jougs, libre de toute crainte,
Tu viendras lui donner la Redemption sainte!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Additional terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
permission of the
copyright
holder found at the beginning of this work.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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That this is
particularly
true of its poetry will
be gauged from the present volume.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But the harder he blew the more closely did the
traveller
wrap his
cloak round him, till at last the Wind had to give up in despair.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Quotation:
IAGO: O, beware, my lord, of
jealousy!
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Studying
in a missionary-established "castle of reaction," she was in this respect by no means alone.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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Though
yet I think it somewhat more modest than the general practice of our
nobles and wise men who, throwing away all shame, hire some flattering
orator or lying poet from whose mouth they may hear their praises, that
is to say, mere lies; and yet, composing themselves with a seeming
modesty, spread out their peacock's plumes and erect their crests, while
this impudent flatterer equals a man of nothing to the gods and proposes
him as an
absolute
pattern of all virtue that's wholly a stranger to it,
sets out a pitiful jay in other's feathers, washes the blackamoor white,
and lastly swells a gnat to an elephant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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I recognised Venus and her
fearsome
fires.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Her
garments
all tattered and torn.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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O how did desire possess my heart for her, and how gladly
likewise
did she take me to her arms and look upon me as I had been her child!
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Moschus |
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And though thine in the centre sit,
Yet when my other far does roam,
Thine leans and
hearkens
after it,
And rows erect as mine comes home.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Only do bring
with you sincere
repentance
and trust in God, who orders all things for
the best.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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How that tree does stink,
doesn’t
it?
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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essential
for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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Guislain, this was one ol the advantages of "isolation in the
treatment
oi insanity": "Based on a leeling of dependence that he makes the insane person feel ( .
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“I,”
said he, “would prefer being the author of that poem to the
glory of beating the French to-morrow; and, while the oars
struck the river as it rippled in the silence of the night air under
the flowing tide, he
repeated
:-
« The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Await alike the inevitable hour -
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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Copyright (c) 2000 Bell & Howell Information and Learning Company
Copyright
(c) New School of Social Research
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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Beck
Late
Assistant
Attorney-General of the U.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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The Secretary
of State was to be
assisted
in future by an advisory body consisting
of not less than 3 and not more than 6 Advisers.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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<
194
And now, at thy side, immortal,
The
beauteous
captur'd bride still blooms.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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'i ittterttts is
permitted
to appear in the readin?
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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"I am sure, to judge from
rational
observation-
and I think most Athenians will agree with me--that
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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Throughout the earlier middle ages, we have occasional
historic
allusions
Bishop of Cill Usaille, in Lif—fe (died) on the 228, 229.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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Ogg and Ray's
Introduction
to American Government, Fourth Edition,
pp.
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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Charles has been accused of having entangled the
Pope by means of
offerings
and grants.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:07 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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The task of controlling
hundreds of millions of natives with a few thou-
sand Europeans is immeasurably difficult; the
most important interests imposed it upon the
English Government fearlessly to seek good re-
lations with its
inconvenient
Northern neighbour.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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'
'Let me go to bed, then,'
answered
the boy, shrinking from Catherine's
salute; and he put his fingers to remove incipient tears.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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There can be no doubt, but this catalogue could be
extended
very considera- bly, by obtaining access to various sources and depositories of information, which must have multiplied in Holland, Belgium, France, and Germany, within the last two hundred years.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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A
Skeleton
Key to Finnegans Wake Introduction to a Strange Subject ?
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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530
Then strait commands that at the warlike sound
Of Trumpets loud and Clarions be upreard
His mighty Standard; that proud honour claim'd
Azazel as his right, a Cherube tall:
Who forthwith from the glittering Staff unfurld
Th' Imperial Ensign, which full high advanc't
Shon like a Meteor
streaming
to the Wind
With Gemms and Golden lustre rich imblaz'd,
Seraphic arms and Trophies: all the while
Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: 540
At which the universal Host upsent
A shout that tore Hells Concave, and beyond
Frighted the Reign of Chaos and old Night.
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"All too often, it
hindersthe
conversationinsteadof openingit to newpaths.
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Their grins--
an
orchestra
of plucked skin and a million strings.
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(1) It
bestowed
an intrinsic value upon men,
which contrasted with their apparent insignifi-
cance and subordination to chance in the eternal
flux of becoming and perishing.
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then swift be heart and brain, to see
God's
chances!
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Whether or not arts and treasures of bygone
cultures
can be saved from private digital rights does not seem of primary concern.
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“It is impossible to say how
many
generations
it has been here.
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Further reproduction
prohibited
without permission.
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" After much dis cussion the question with respect to the first printer upon the list was carried by a great
majority
; " upon
which those gentlemen who were averse to the whole of these proceedings, finding themselves unable to restrain the present ferment, and being uncertain to what pitch it might be carried, dexterously availed themselves of Parliamentary forms " to procure that delay which, they imagined, might give it time to subside.
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That world insists on one event following another and on keeping
identities
distinct, so that A cannot occupy the same bit of time-space as B; nor can A ever become B.
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Tragedy would thus be prevented from losing itself
in the imaginative incoherence of the revenge' plays which Kyd's
genius,
catching
fire from Seneca, had brought into vogue.
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6, which alludes to Caius and Lucius, the grand-
before alluded to, as written during his courtship, sons of
Augustus
(1.
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That is hard to learn, because in the English
tradition
we continually overstate--with a quite humble emotion, we overstate it in grandiloquent language and meter till it seems quite huge--Trakl does the opposite.
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Suppose the computer is allowed 100 sheets of paper each
containing
50 lines each with room for 30 digits.
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In the busy moments of the
noontide
work I am with the crowd, but
on this dark lonely day it is only for thee that I hope.
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Yes, and you saw in the
gymnasium
a
bronze disk like a small buckler, but without handle or straps; you
tried it as it lay there, and found it heavy and, owing to its
smooth surface, hard to handle.
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If we close our eyes the brain
immediately
conjures up a
medley of impressions of light and color, apparently a sort of imitation
and echo of the impressions forced in upon the brain during its waking
moments.
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Nun zieht die Pfropfen und
geniesst!
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The young clergyman, after a few hours of privacy, was
sensible
that
the disorder of his nerves had hurried him into an unseemly outbreak
of temper, which there had been nothing in the physician's words to
excuse or palliate.
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