“How I pity the poor
creatures
that are going there!
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But Brighton's experiments have established the fact, that with
rabbits, whose term of utero-gestation is but thirty days, no effect
is propagated to the ovaria until nearly fifty hours after coition; we
should judge, therefore, that with the human species it must be several
days, and it is
generally
estimated by physiologists that the ovum does
not reach the uterus until the expiration of twenty days from the time
of connection.
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LXXV
So are you to my
thoughts
as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
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The
merchants
trusted in the general's honour, and supplied the army with provisions on the credit of his documents.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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To stave off counterrevolution, the Assembly voted to deport the dissident clergy and dissolve the king's Swiss Guards, and ordered the deployment of provin- cial National Guards (known
asfederes)
around Paris.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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But it had long been obvious that they would be
helpless
against any serious attack from
the outside.
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"
Ecclesiastical
of
History Ireland,"
"
" Acta Sanctorum Hi- Vita Prima S.
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In this manner their
intellect
gets baffled and for long do they wander in the rounds of 'samsara '.
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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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" In the entire word double connotations of barbaric flesh-eating practices and
ballistics
are conveyed.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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" In the entire word double connotations of barbaric flesh-eating practices and
ballistics
are conveyed.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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"
Before she was fifteen the great
struggle
of her life began.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
Before she was fifteen the great
struggle
of her life began.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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t So
Swinburne
in the poem beginning "Catulle frater ut
velim comes tibi.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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t So
Swinburne
in the poem beginning "Catulle frater ut
velim comes tibi.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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t So
Swinburne
in the poem beginning "Catulle frater ut
velim comes tibi.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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In the fence corners where we used to walk
And gather
raspberries
and fill the timothy stalk;
Her faithful dog, she called Rover,
How he ran with us in the field of clover.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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But Barnes, who, like Latimer, had come under
Bilney's
spiritual
influence, had not learnt reverence or discretion,
and in this sermon he had attacked Wolsey with violence.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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At nine in the evening of that
miserable
Friday, the no-
tary consigned me to the jailer, who conducted me to the room
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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my
granvilled
brandold Dublin lin~ub, the free, the froh the frothy freshener.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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No want of
conscience
hold it that I call
Her 'love,' for whose dear love I rise and fall.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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the
mountains
from without
In silence listen for the word said next.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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Nor leave the youths their lovely brides behind,
In wedded bands, while time glides on, conjoin'd;
Fair as
immortal
fame in smiles array'd,
In bridal smiles, attends each lovely maid.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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For men and all
created rational beings moral necessity is constraint, that is
obligation, and every action based on it is to be conceived as a duty,
not as a
proceeding
previously pleasing, or likely to be pleasing to
us of our own accord.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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For a
generation
or more the
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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But this breaking point simply tells us what has been in place all along, namely, that theory is constantly under assault because it
disables
and hinders the power of human desire and real needs.
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He
travelled
to Greece and Constantinople on his way to Jerusalem, returning through Egypt, Tunisia and Spain.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an
engagement
even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch.
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The-Art-of-War |
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Burnet's
"History of his own Times" is a truly
valuable
book.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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mr tallboys [halting] After the order of Melchizedec There is no
question
of
‘used to be’.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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]
[18] Cleobis and Biton, who enabled their mother Cydippe, the
priestess
of Hera at Argos, to sacrifice, by putting their own necks under the yoke, when the oxen delayed.
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Greek Anthology |
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Times were changed from what they were:
Such pipes kept less of power to stir
The fruited bough of the juniper
And the fragile bluets
clustered
there
Than the merest aimless breath of air.
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Robert Forst |
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And O it is delicious, when the day
In winter's loaded garment keenly blows
And turns her back on sudden falling snows,
To go where gravel
pathways
creep between
Arches of evergreen that scarce let through
A single feather of the driving storm;
And in the bitterest day that ever blew
The walk will find some places still and warm
Where dead leaves rustle sweet and give alarm
To little birds that flirt and start away.
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John Clare |
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Kind one, please utterly exhaust my
conceptual
mind.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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Yet some, not wise, go to the
other side of the globe, to
barbarous
and unhealthy regions, and
devote themselves to trade for ten or twenty years, in order that
they may live-that is, keep comfortably warm-and die in New
England at last.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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Of
Guenelun
the King for news is fain,
And for tribute from the great land of Spain.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"43 Prior to the ontology of the subject, and prior to any conceptual and totalitarian onto-theology of god, the ethical relation, the primary experience of the encounter with the face
installs
in us an infinite responsibility.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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supra, capítulo 3: «Arcas,
murallas
de ciudad, fronteras del mundo, siste
mas de inmunidad.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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These notes were used
in the
preparation
of James Mill's Elements of Political Economy';
a work which was intended to present, in the form of a school-book,
the principles of his friend Ricardo.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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To the
one, men looked up with a painful and
hopeless
sense of
inferiority; they crowded around the other to participate
* Now Professor of Philosophy in the University of Tubingen.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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To the
one, men looked up with a painful and
hopeless
sense of
inferiority; they crowded around the other to participate
* Now Professor of Philosophy in the University of Tubingen.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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It is now pretty common to have experts on Eastern religions in departments of religious studies, or to even have
positions
for teaching Asian religions.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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The
Almighty does not forbid us to tread the flowery path, if it
serves to lead the
wanderer
once more to him; nor is it always
by the steep and rugged mountain that the lost sheep finds its
way back to the fold.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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ROMAN
CATHOLIC
EMANCIPATION.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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ROMAN
CATHOLIC
EMANCIPATION.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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How has my reason
strayed?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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White's advantage is that he can back out more quickly, as we have set up the game in this example; even he cannot retreat, though, until Black has made his next move, and for the moment both have the same
incentive
to come to terms.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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After Nicon, a pirate from Pherae in the Peloponnese, had by
frequent
raids done great damage to the property of the Messenians, Agemachus, the Messenian general, at last surprised and captured him.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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As the red star now shows his sanguine fires
Through the dark clouds, and now in night retires,
Thus through the ranks appear'd the godlike man,
Plunged in the rear, or blazing in the van;
While streamy sparkles, restless as he flies,
Flash from his arms, as
lightning
from the skies.
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Iliad - Pope |
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" This practice is the combining of the lama's mind with one's own mind
believing
completely that one's mind is completely inseparable so that whatever qualities, realizations and experiences the lama's mind has are now one's own realization and experience.
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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Things are so topsy-turvy that the preachers of God's word lead the
prostitutes
into sin.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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Celui-ci ne me
plaisait
plus guère, mais surtout
je n'étais plus malheureux, je n'aurais pas pu concevoir, si j'y eusse
repensé, que j'eusse pu l'être autant de rencontrer Gilberte marchant
à petits pas à côté d'un jeune homme, et de me dire: «C'est fini, je
renonce à jamais la voir.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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and how your efforts and donations can help, see
Sections
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and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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Keats - Lamia |
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HARDCASTLE: Blessings on my pretty
innocence!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Can you believe that
the people whose conceptions of society and conduct, whose power of
attention and scope of interest, are
measured
by the British theatre as
you know it to-day, can either handle this colossal task themselves, or
understand and support the sort of mind and character that is (at least
comparatively) capable of handling it?
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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Publicists and statesmen were nobly
represented
in the person of Alexis de Tocqueville, whose learning and talent one cannot but admire in the Systtme pénitentiaire aux Etats-Unis, and in the Démocratie en Amérique.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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THIS ETEXT IS OTHERWISE
PROVIDED
TO YOU "AS-IS".
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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Only
you had not sufficient
knowledge
to judge of the means you used.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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The closing, fourth strophe of the poem then draws on an
explicitly
religious vocabulary to describe how human beings can lay their guilt and 'rote Pein' in God's hands.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Can you believe that
the people whose conceptions of society and conduct, whose power of
attention and scope of interest, are
measured
by the British theatre as
you know it to-day, can either handle this colossal task themselves, or
understand and support the sort of mind and character that is (at least
comparatively) capable of handling it?
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| Question: |
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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Publicists and statesmen were nobly
represented
in the person of Alexis de Tocqueville, whose learning and talent one cannot but admire in the Systtme pénitentiaire aux Etats-Unis, and in the Démocratie en Amérique.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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Brogan Cloen states,74 that
Maccalleus
placed the veil over St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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The sentinel replied that it was late; the
governor
had retired,
and he must wait till daybreak.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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_ Can
Belvidera
want a resting-place,
When these poor arms are open to receive her?
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Thomas Otway |
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What kinds of poetry did
Lucilius
write?
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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Thus, in the introductory
compliments
on Chapman's poems, "J.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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As a result, the nature of beauty is
indefinite
and quite inde- scribable, and the same is true of the nature of goodness and cheerfulness.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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However, it seems quite probable the Sale,
mentioned
in the text, was this Shiel.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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Philological
studies did not become more vital; rather, what was vital became more informed by philology.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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It countered these with the claim that the Hun- dred Flowers incident left no doubt that more, rather than less, thought reform was needed, and
promised
the intellectuals that they would in the future be given refresher courses of thought reform every year or even every six months.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a
compilation
copyright in the collection of Project
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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your way of looking and bodily posture as before, focus your eyes and
attention
single-pointedly on a
specific object, such as a vase, your image in a mirror, Mount Meru or any suitable visual form in the space (before you).
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It had been a placid week: I had minded Aunty; Jem had outgrown the treehouse, but helped Dill and me construct a new rope ladder for it; Dill had hit upon a
foolproof
plan to make Boo Radley come out at no cost to ourselves (place a trail of lemon drops from the back door to the front yard and he’d follow it, like an ant).
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Senilis and
Insanity
V%/here is the
borderline
between the normal and the
T abnormal mind?
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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For this, great Bacchus, tigers drew
Thy glorious car, untaught to slave
In harness: thus
Quirinus
flew
On Mars' wing'd steeds from Acheron's wave,
When Juno spoke with Heaven's assent:
"O Ilium, Ilium, wretched town!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Poetry naturally utilizes the most
marked and
definite
characteristics of the language in which it is
written.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I saw something only a lawyer’s child could be
expected
to see, could be expected to watch for, and it was like watching Atticus walk into the street, raise a rifle to his shoulder and pull the trigger, but watching all the time knowing that the gun was empty.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Among the
rest there was one for Colonel Brandon;--he took it, looked at the
direction, changed colour, and
immediately
left the room.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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They’re the ones that pay cash on the nail and no jibbing at an
extra half-guinea or so now and again You’re not to smack any of that lot, not
on any account This lot over here are the medium payers Their parents do pay
up sooner or later, but you don’t get the money out of them without you worry
them for it night and day You can smack that lot if they get saucy, but don’t go
and leave a mark their parents can see If you’ll take my advice, the best thing
with
children
is to twist their ears Have you ever tried that?
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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Yo de mi
se decir, que
conservo
un pedazo de su jubon como una reliquia, y lo
merece.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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--He took her hand;--whether she had not
herself made the first motion, she could not say--she might, perhaps,
have rather offered it--but he took her hand, pressed it, and certainly
was on the point of carrying it to his lips--when, from some fancy or
other, he
suddenly
let it go.
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Our
beauties
are at play, and she is chaste
Whom none has asked.
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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It
was not, however, so
saturnine
a pride!
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The
gentlemen
did approach, and when Mr.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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Morality
as the work of error.
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1075
[_Fyghte al
anenste_
Celmonde, _meynte Danes he fleath,
and faleth to_ Hurra.
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- , The Royal Song of Saraha (Seattle:
University
of Washington,
1969).
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A most natural, pious, and
reverend
custom it is,
shewing that nation to be compounded of all goodness.
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Bacon |
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The meadows mine, the mountains mine, --
All forests,
stintless
stars,
As much of noon as I could take
Between my finite eyes.
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213
Incarnation, Now: Five Brief
Thoughts
and a Non-Conclusive Ending
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
This article problematizes the renewed appeal of incarnation, a signifier that points to a vague desire in our present and perhaps, altogether, to an unclear future promise, rather than to the complex history of elaborate theological meanings with which the word had long been related.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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His death is
mentioned
in Swift's Journal.
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She never mistook the
understanding
of others; nor ever said a severe word, but where a much severer was deserved.
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-there are just ninety-three of
them-remember that number, girls-nmety-three,’ until Dorothy (she had to
stay in the schoolroom during the
chemistry
lectures, because Mrs Creevy
considered that it didn't do to leave the girls alone with a man) was miserable
with vicarious shame All the lectures* started with the ninety-three elements,
396 A Clergyman’s Daughter
and never got very much further There was also talk of ‘a very interesting
little experiment that I’m going to perform for you next week, girls- very
interesting you’ll find it- we’ll have it next week without fail-a very interesting
little experiment’, which, needless to say, was never performed Mr Booth
possessed no chemical apparatus, and his hands were far too shaky to have
used it even if he had had any The girls sat through his lectures m a suety
stupor of boredom, but even he was a welcome change from handwriting
lessons
The children were never quite the same with Dorothy after the parents’
visit They did not change all m a day, of course They had grown to be fond of
‘old Millie’, and they expected that after a day or two of tormenting them with
handwriting and ‘commercial arithmetic’ she would go back to something
interesting But the handwriting and arithmetic went on, and the popularity
Dorothy had enjoyed, as a teacher whose lessons weren’t boring and who
didn’t slap you, pinch you, or twist your ears, gradually vanished Moreover,
the story of the row there had been over Macbeth was not long m leaking out
The children grasped that old Millie had done something wrong-they didn’t
exactly know what-and had been given a ‘talking to’ It lowered her in their
eyes There is no dealing with children, even with children who are fond of
you, unless you can keep your prestige as an adult, let that prestige be once
damaged, and even the best-hearted children will despise you
So they began to be naughty in the normal, traditional way Before, Dorothy
had only had to deal with occasional laziness, outbursts of noise and silly
giggling fits, now there were spite and deceitfulness as well The children
revolted ceaselessly against the horrible routine They forgot the short weeks
when old Millie had seemed quite a good sort and school itself had seemed
rather fun Now, school was simply what it had always been, and what indeed
you expected it to be-a place where you slacked and yawned and whiled the
time away by pinching your neighbour and trying to make the teacher lose her
temper, and from which you burst with a yell of relief the instant the last lesson
was over Sometimes they sulked and had fits of crying, sometimes they argued
m the maddening persistent way that children have, f Why should we do this?
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6 Odaenathus, besides, besieged an army of
Parthians
at Ctesiphon and devastated all the country round about, killing men without number.
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