Some God the thought
Suggested to me, to commence a robe
Of amplest measure and of subtlest woof,
Laborious
task; which done, I thus address'd them.
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"_The play was first performed when Glaukinos was Archon, in the 2nd
year of the 85th
Olympiad_
(438 B.
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Fling
garlands
also and flowers upon him; now that he is dead let them die too, let every flower die.
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Except for explaining that the magic body is achieved from the wind-energy-mind of the mind isolation three luminances, 1215bl it is not clear from the
treatises
of the five father and sons as to at which point in forward and reverse voids the magic body is achieved.
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Construction and mortgages are 40 percent of the total for the region, but Egypt is
“subdued”
as an exception.
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"I'll answer for
success!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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" Carr argues that the
Internet
has rewired our brains so that "deep reading" is passe?
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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(F or further
examples
see Select Private
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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Unto
whatsoever
men he betook himself, in them he found
scandal, or feared it.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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In this context, Schelling identifies speculation with an a priori theory qua pure science and opposes it to the empirical (which, for Schelling, is a "mere collection of facts" and incapable of ever
becoming
science).
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But yet this also shalt thou generally
perceive, if thou dost diligently take heed, that
whatsoever
doth happen
to any one man or men.
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possessed
Holstein and Jutland, through which, in the event of a
defeat, he could always secure a retreat.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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* * * *
Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of
windows?
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T.S. Eliot |
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She now threw off her male attire, and resumed the
petticoats
; and her story, and the wounds she had received in the King's service, induced some of her friends to present a petition in her favor to his Royal
vol.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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The year of Lodge's birth is not
accurately
known.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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" My prediction is being fulfilled, sir," said Clinias, addressing
Sostratus
; and
then turning to the messenger he inquired, "Is the maiden vol.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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People who think like that don’t learn the upright gait that was so important to the
protagonists
of the Enlightenment.
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Then fell the floods of heaven
drowning
the deep.
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Tennyson |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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Conrad
seems to have
retained
the ducal title.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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Note: Ronsard's Marie was an
unidentified
country girl from Anjou.
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But it cannot be; you
have not been in the wrong, men of Athens, in doing battle for
the freedom and
salvation
of all: I swear it by your forefathers,
who bore the battle's brunt at Marathon; by those who stood
in arms at Platæa; by those who fought the sea fight at Sala-
mis; by the heroes of Artemisium, and many more whose resting-
place in our national monuments attests that, that as our country
buried, so she honored, all alike-victors and vanquished.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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Plato speaks of him as his "Father Parmenides,"
whom he "revered and
honoured
more than all the other philosophers
together.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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Therefore, without 'bhuta ' analysis, there is neither the dawn of true
knowledge
nor the removal of "klesa ' cover.
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Eumenes, being informed by Peucestes of the enemy's march,
directed
his officers, with their children, in the night to take fire with them to the highest and most exposed places, and there ride about at the distance of seventy stades.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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berg, was Professor of
Sanskrit
and Ancient
the old parish churches, the Abbey wall Thorp the bookseller.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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A difficulty with our being an
unaggressive
nation, one whose announced aim has usually been to contain rather than to roll back, is that we have not settled on any conventional terminology for the more active kind of threat.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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ter, and cannot spare enough of it to
supply his family with
suitable
food and
clothing.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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Meanwhile, the
categorical
imperative, if it is truly to be one with the principles of reason, trusts that each one who acts has reason, which if unimpaired would be philosophical reason.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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Plato was
desirous
that this
munificence might procure him popularity, and on that
account he readily gave up the honor of conducting the
affair himself.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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--still so
passionately
loved!
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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Let's after him,
Whose care is gone before, to bid vs welcome:
It is a
peerelesse
Kinsman.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Most of us dread mortification
of the body, and would spare no pains to escape
anything
of that kind.
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Epictetus |
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Liberal
education
we must have.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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Ifone looks at this instant right now, then
discursive
thought will naturally not arise.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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" The
questionis
indispensablewhether by such instrumentalizatiotnheHolocaust is notbeingdegradedmostdeeply.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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Arnheim said: "Now, really, we can't let ourselves be
influenced
by that sort of thing.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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As William II
was childless, the Emperor hoped that the Norman kingdom might be
secured for his son,
Constance
being the legitimate heir.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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Puede que la antigua ecología europea de la escasez fuera
perdiendo
terreno, pero la creencia en el primado de la necesidad y en el carácter de carga de la existencia seguía manteniendo en pie el Viejo Mun do.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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The better to conceal his real impatience, he
declined
the
Emperor’s invitation to the court, but at the same time, to facilitate
the negociations, came to Znaim in Moravia.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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I my lady, than eyes
goodlier
easily she ?
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Harvey,
Christopher
(1597–1663).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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This was all lost when the Soviet
Government nationalized
property
and not a penny
has been recovered.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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Google requests that the images and OCR not be re-hosted,
redistributed
or used commercially.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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" It is
precisely
the
reverse.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The murmurs of
the field were stilled, the breeze of evening slept, and
darkness
was
beginning to envelop the dense growth of the wood.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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The Buddha Vajradhara means all in one- the ever present Buddha, the
timeless
Buddha.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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His health was failing rapidly at this time, and
he died a month or so after the
appearance
of this 'Epistle'.
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Alexander Pope |
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Brilliant
lllumination
ofthe Lamp
[27RaJ was taught for the Individual Vehicle person is just by way of example.
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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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So long as
physical
reality cannot altogether be ignored, so long as two and two
have to make four when you are, for example, drawing the blueprint of an aeroplane, the
scientist has his function, and can even be allowed a measure of liberty.
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Orwell |
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This sumptuous creature,
this Eve just within the gate of an untried Paradise, untutored in
the ways of the world but on tiptoe to reach the fruit of the tree
of knowledge,-alive to the moist vitality of that warm atmosphere
palpitating with voices and music, as the flower of some diœcious
plant which has grown in a lone corner, and suddenly unfold-
ing its corolla on some hot-breathing June evening, feels that the
air is
perfumed
with strange odors and loaded with golden dust
wafted from those other blossoms with which its double life is
shared, this almost over-womanized woman might well have
bewitched him, but that he had a vague sense of a counter-
charm.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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Ye taught my lips a single speech,
And a
thousand
silences.
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Emerson - Poems |
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To be
painstakingly
precise, each contributor has
been his own editor.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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In this
attitude
all
states face each other to-day.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:34 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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The 20th century will be remembered as the period whose decisive idea consisted in
targeting
not the body of the enemy, but his environment.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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These celestial virtues will link his life with the
Divine life through which all life is one-with the God who is
the supernal
fountain
of life, light, and love.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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ANS QUEL CIM RESTON DE BRANCHAS
ERE the winter recommences
And the leaf from bough is wrested, On Love's mandate will I render
A brief end to long
prolusion
:
So well have I been taught his steps and paces
That I can stop the tidal-sea's inflowing.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Lydia, I conjure thee by all the powers above, to tell me why you are so
intent to ruin Sybaris by
inspiring
him with love?
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Horace - Works |
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) Baron Walter,
farewell!
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Friedrich Schiller |
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During all Pope's lifetime they were a sect at once
feared, hated, and oppressed by the
severest
laws.
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Alexander Pope |
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os, que
intentan
evocar la atmo?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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Count Alexis Tolstoy's
didacticism
was directed
against the materialistic tendencies of his time, especially against the
habit of measuring works of art by the standard of practical useful-
ness.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Surely, the thoughts and feelings which
passed through the minds of these great revivers of learning,
these
Cadmuses
who sowed the teeth of letters, must have
stamped an expression on their features as different from the
moderns as their books, and well worth the perusal!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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I have found that it
required
a different
intention of the eye, in the same locality, to see different plants,
even when they were closely allied, as _Juncaceae_ and _Gramineae_:
when I was looking for the former, I did not see the latter in the
midst of them.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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What had thus evolved within a few centuries was a diversity of forms which in retrospect could no longer be under- stood as nature or perfection and which today cannot even be
considered
progress.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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But of all
power, that of the mind is, on every account, the grand
desideratum
of
human ambition.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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If I know myself to be guilty, I'll go with the loose cannon of a jury, the more ignorant, prejudiced and
capricious
the better.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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Now place a table as far from the nee-
dle as you wish and place a vertical frame on it,
parallel
to the wall to which the needle is attached, but as high or low as you wish, and on whatever side you wish.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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Nếu chẳng phải Thánh
thượng
làm hết trách nhiệm của người làm vua làm thầy, đích thân nắm quyền hành, thì làm sao có thể làm xong những việc mà tiên đế chưa làm xong, hoàn thiện những điều mà tiên thánh chưa làm đủ.
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stella-02 |
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So it was that ''Daoism'' at this time, and in keeping with a tra- dition canonized by the great Scottish missionary
translator
James Legge in the 1890s, was primarily a matter of what was alluded to in the Daode jing, along with some parabolic adumbration from the other early texts attributed to the shadowy sages known as Zhuangzi and Liezi.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Entwurf einer Kosmologie,
Frankfurt
1984, pág.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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But, as he walk'd, King Arthur panted hard,
Like one that feels a
nightmare
on his bed
When all the house is mute.
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Tennyson |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain
materials
and make them widely accessible.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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He uttered such
appalling
threats, that he provoked the allies, to the ruin and destruction both of himself and others.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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If so, I would like to make
arrangements
for your coming'' (Letter 4).
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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On the other hand the unanimity of the people of Rome and of all Italy is
something
wonderful.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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You don’t want
to judge them by the same
standards
as men like you and me.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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Eux revenus, je n'aurais peut-être osé le faire; ma mère,
dans les
scrupules
de son respect pour le souvenir de ma grand'mère,
voulait que les marques de regret qui lui étaient données le fussent
librement, sincèrement; elle ne m'aurait pas défendu cette sortie, elle
l'eût désapprouvée.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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"
* Cornwallis was, it is believed, at this time
Constable
of the Tower,
t October 16th.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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Pedro of Brazil, on death of John, resigns his rights to the
Portuguese crown in favor of his infant daughter, first
granting the moderately liberal
constitution
of 1826.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne,
Which on it had conceited characters,
Laund'ring the silken figures in the brine
That
seasoned
woe had pelleted in tears,
And often reading what contents it bears;
As often shrieking undistinguished woe,
In clamours of all size, both high and low.
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English in Finnegans Wake.
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This charge against
Gongylus
is aimed at me.
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His own wife was closely related to him; she had been mar- ried first of all to Hipponicus, to whom she bore Callias, who was nicknamed "the rich," and her
children
by Pericles were Xanthippus and Paralus.
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In fact, there is much
similarity
between the methods of the Span-
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She
listened
intently for a
moment, and made up her mind.
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Where the plump barley-grain so oft we sowed,
There but wild oats and barren darnel spring;
For tender violet and
narcissus
bright
Thistle and prickly thorn uprear their heads.
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The " Sala di
-Marmo " was conspicuous to one whose practical eye was
sensible
of the
antique statues that it contained.
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Who
told them to
exercise
authority?
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VII
The face of all the world is changed, I think,
Since first I heard the
footsteps
of thy soul
Move still, oh, still, beside me, as they stole
Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brink
Of obvious death, where I, who thought to sink,
Was caught up into love, and taught the whole
Of life in a new rhythm.
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Somtyme hir ladies will not on hem rewe,
Somtyme, yif that Ielosye hit knewe,
They mighten lightly leye hir heed to borowe; 205
Somtyme envyous folke with tunges horowe
Depraven
hem; alas!
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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