Don’t run on an empty stomach,
Don’t sleep with a
comfortable
pillow.
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16 AN OUTLINE OF THE
and the great
Protestant
writers of the epoch too
quickly dropped into oblivion, to be rediscovered
and appreciated according to their great merits
in a much later time.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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While they were sitting at table, Arnold
received
a note,
stating the arrest of Major Andre.
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As the Ecclesiastical History was
finished in 731, this passage must be
regarded
as a later insertion.
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As will appear later,
Italian military and naval circles are obviously in
favor of developing closer relations with the Soviet
Union, scarcely with the hope of any sort of active
alliance, but with the intention of insuring, in the
event of war with France, secure sources of petro-
leum and wheat from Russia through the Black Sea,
and this development may be observed
actually
tak-
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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Sau khi Hiến Tông mất, ông cùng
Nguyễn
Quang Bật nhận di chiếu lập Túc Tông.
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In summary, then, we find certain conceptual
differences
and certain
mechanical differences between "authentic" and "literary" epic.
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Iconfess,thatIalsopleas'dmy
felf&v*qtlfaS
the otherDay with looking upon him ; he seem'd toTM*>>WSo-
m e to be very fine and comely, tho' he be already a fa?
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had finished the staking of the vines, he saw that the
vineyard
was full of weeds.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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He had, it seems, added to
his bills which he gave out in the streets, this
advertisement
in
capital letters; viz.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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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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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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Borkenau
referred
to these bipolar options as the antinomy of death.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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For Example, Tho it do not so easily
appear, that in a
Rightangled
Triangle, the square of the Base is equal
to the squares of the sides, as it appears, that the Base is suspended
under its Largest Angle, yet the _first Proposition_ is _no less
certainly_ believed when once ’tis perceived, then this _Last_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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No
sentiment
of shame gave a damp to her
triumph.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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As one gets
accustomed
little by little to his
ease, and as one learns more and more how to live
well, I had generals who were not too anxious to
seek glory in the heat of the fray.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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[45] Nor was
Iphiclus
long left behind in Phylace, the uncle of Aeson's son; for Aeson had wedded his sister Alcimede, daughter of Phylacus: his kinship with her bade him be numbered in the host.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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ID WARD the Sixth became king when still a
child, and had already the
qualities
of a great
king.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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Il far che sia squartato vivo, e muora
publicamente
con obbrobrio e scorno,
poca pena le pare, e studia e pensa
altra trovarne inusitata e immensa.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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23
Anthrenae and wasps
construct
combs for their young.
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Aristotle |
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64
I spent my day on the
scorching
hot dust of the road.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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We
both acquainted with public schools; do you th
for instance, that in respect of these institutions a
thing may be done by means of honesty and g<
and new ideas to abolish the
tenacious
and ai
quated customs now extant?
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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With conquest and a noble wife doth Persey home repaire
And in revengement of the right against the
wrongfull
heyre,
As in his Graundsires just defence, he falles in hand with Prete .
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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But that
is not the most
important
thing, as there's really not a lot that can be
learned in this way, although in this, as with anything else, a
competent man will learn more than another.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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And of Aristotle, _Nullum magnum
ingenium
sine mixtura
dementiae fuit_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Because he
conceived
of this, Nabokov rises above his romantic predecessors.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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When a boy of sixteen in 1828
Krasinski
had
been present at this wedding: and even before the
events of 1830 had placed a great chasm between the
Pole and Russian, such an alliance, entailing, moreover,
the passing into Russian hands of the heiress's immense
estates, was one that every patriotic Pole would regard
with abhorrence.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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In such cases the principal role of the
volunteer
is to mother the mother and so, by example, to en- courage her to mother her own child.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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Wherever a dualism emerges, we thus, as a rule, come up against an enmity, a demarcation between Us and Them, and up against the
establishing
of the predominance of one principle over the opposing principle: Above --Below, Good --Evil, Ego- Id.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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What Orpheus sing his
Triumphs
o'er the Main,
And make the Hills and Forests move again;
Show his bold Fleet on the Batavian shore,
And Holland trembling as his Canons roar;
Paint Europe's Balance in his steady hand,
Whilst the two Worlds in expectation stand
Of Peace or War, that wait on his Command?
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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About horsing time the mares huddle closer together, are continually switching their tails, their neigh is abnormal in sound, and from the sexual organ there flows a liquid
resembling
genital sperm, but much thinner than the sperm of the male.
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Aristotle copy |
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What
opponent
can there be in pacifying the border?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Among other things, this office, unlike my other office on campus, where I see students and colleagues, was meant to protect me or, rather, to
distance
me from the invasiveness of electronic communication (and any other type of communication that I do not actively choose to engage in), like the private space of my home where I don't do e-mail either.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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The k ind of gaiety that shines through their harleq uinades
is often found in the most uneducated men; and during
this festival, while ex aggeration and
caricature
are fair
play, the most comic scenes perpetually recur.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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21 Die
Rezeption
lateinischer und franzo?
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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), and more
complete
by which the orator Callimedon also was a member.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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He seems to be fully aware that to encourage the birth
of children, without providing properly for their support, is to
obtain a very small accession to the
population
of a country, at the
expense of a very great accession of misery.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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Die
neue
Einsicht
hat auch eine neue Heilmethode
ermo?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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That is the reason why
Nietzsche
initially says so little concerning his insight into the "eternal return of the same.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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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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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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Caesar was not one of those over-wise people who refuse to embank the sea, be cause
forsooth
no dike can defy some sudden influx of the tide.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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The proportion for various
offences
was approximately the same as
in the previous year.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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Ulrich looked up; it really didn't interest him, but he had the feeling
that this was
something
new.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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Here all rebellion is
sanctify
d, and made the inspira tion of God!
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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ni plus
inattendu
que le sien, ni un acteur qui se risque a`
rendre les de?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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And there came also the " True man " of Shi-yo
to meet me,
Playing on a
jewelled
mouth-organ.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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See Omont,
Bibliothèque
de
ľ École des Chartes, 1892, p.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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Court, vii, 38,
courteous
attention.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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In the first half of the
seventeenth
century, we
meet with various devices to enrich literary style, exemplified by
the 'conceits' of Donne, Crashaw and other metaphysical poets,
and, in prose, by the antitheses and tropes of Bacon, the quaintness
of Burton and Fuller, the ornate splendour of Taylor, Milton and
Browne.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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He gave outstanding aid to Antigonus the ruler of Asia when he was
besieging
(?
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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" Between being and conscious- ness is something in the middle that is both and in which the illusory antithesis of spirit and matter disappears; Marx
transposed
this vision to his theory of capital.
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Give aid in any land you find
yourself
in,
and say not to yourself "I am a stranger.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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seh
appropriate
for, oay1 Gmnme, they are ofttn con-
nec.
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It is as though the
beholder
of these things began
to wake, and it had only been the clouds of a
ast dishat he "hiloso
passing dream that had been weaving about him.
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The literary reflec- tions of Dostoyevsky's visit to London are found in his travel feature Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (1863), a text in which the author makes fun, among other things, of the "ser- geant-majors of civilization," the hothouse
character
of the "orangery progressivists," and articulates his fear of the Baalish triumphalism of the World Exhibition palace.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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But bad faith is conscious of its structure, and it has taken
precautions
by deciding that the metastable structure is the struc- ture of being and that non-persuasion is the structure of all convictions.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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The role professorial again -
of chance when creatingor fillingC-4 professorialposts as the former Ordinariiarecalledtoday- hasbecomesoobvious,and"participation"has
become so mucha basic
tendencyin
contemporarydemocracies,thatall "habilitated"teachersand not only the fullprofessorsare bound to be involvedin governingbodies in thefuture.
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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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But the clerk “professed himself to be a doctor
of letters, and
promised
the priest that, if he would commend the children
to him, he would make them perfect in letters.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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But to me it
seems that the Britons are a colony of the Egyptians, or the
Egyptians
a
colony of the Britons.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Senecal replied:
"He's a man who makes money by
political
skulduggery.
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I
dare pawn my credit on it, that no Jacobin, Cordelier, Carmelite, Capuchin,
Theatin, or Minim will bestow any personal
presence
at his interment.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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The owner was set
free from the burden and offence, that sad
condition
of things where he
was in so many instances a master and owner of slaves when he did not
want to be.
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Twain - Speeches |
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Then he changed to the rival studio,
that of his father's brother, who was sufficiently impressed by the
lad's
literary
promise to have him taught a little Latin.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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this
delicious
air is ours!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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A living sun was what my vision caught,
A spirit pure; and though not such still found,
Unbending
of the bow ne'er heals the wound.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Where are the teams of last
December?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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All this time, Philo, my
thoughts
were busy enough with the old
commonplace, that after all it is no use having all theory at your
finger's ends, if you do not conform your conduct to the right.
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Lucian |
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And take a life
immortal
from my verse.
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Robert Herrick |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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I will
conclude
by pointing out, very briefly, that the
Fleet has begun to assume a far more important posi-
tion--not, in the first place, as an essential factor in a
European war, for no one believes now that a war between
great Powers could be decided by a naval battle--but
as a protection for the merchant navy and the colonies.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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He has
Hydaspes’
officers tell him that the
mind creates for itself fantasies which seem to foretell future events.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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) They
the division into two books is an arrangement are
described
(Scut.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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He is
both a realist and an optimist in extreme measure: he
contemplates
evil as
in some sense not existing, or, if existing, then as being of as much
importance as anything else.
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Whitman |
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He
recommends
for pious meditation to the faithful, and indicates spiritual benefits to be gained by reading or reciting it.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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Achilles
sees us, to the feast invites;
Social we sit, and share the genial rites.
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Iliad - Pope |
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at bere
blusschande
beme3 as ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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though
Brignall
banks be fair,
And Greta woods be gay,
Yet mickle must the maiden dare,
Would reign my Queen of May!
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Golden Treasury |
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Like
some poor labourer, whose night's sleep has but imperfectly
refreshed
his
overwearied frame, I have sate in drowsy uneasiness, and doing nothing have
thought what a deal I have to do.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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There has already been, amongst the same prison experts, a
certain
retrogressive
movement in regard to isolation.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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Ernst Bendz, whose
comprehensive
treatment of
the subject renders any elucidation of mine superfluous; while nothing
can be added to Mr.
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Oscar Wilde |
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[145] Later he
bemoans Leucippe’s fate when she has been
kidnapped
by the blacks.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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" Leopold
Weininger
disguised
his inner life.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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I fear, I fear
What they may be
That secretly bind her:
What hand holds the reins
Of those
sightless
forces
That govern her courses.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The pain from its sting is more severe than that caused by the others, for the instrument that causes the pain is larger, in
proportion
to its own larger size.
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Aristotle copy |
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She
clutched
the child so fiercely to her breast,
that it sent forth a cry; she turned her eyes downward at the scarlet
letter, and even touched it with her finger, to assure herself that
the infant and the shame were real.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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Its origin is uncertain: a By-
zantine writer
ascribes
its foundation and name to
Callias, an Athenian general (Jo.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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Fleshier
delivered his Oraison funebre de
Turenne.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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page 11, paragraph 4, line 5
The term "complete liberation" is an
honorific
way to refer to the life stories or biographies of accomplished masters.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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We will pass on to that part of his life wich specially con-
-cerns his influence for civil and
religious
liberty.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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The Day of Judgement leads into
everyday
work; the revelation becomes an environmental report and an assessment of the state of human rights.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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In:
Koinonia
904 [2010], pp.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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Such scenes as
this were transacted through an extent of three hundred leagues--and yet
they never missed the five prayers a day
ordained
by Mahomet.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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Besides the baleful effects of incantations, which were
sources of terror even in Horace's days, the mere
possession
by another
of the nativity of a person whose death might be an object of desire to
the bearer, was supposed, at the time of which we are now speaking, to
be a sufficient ground of serious alarm.
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Satires |
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The
following
note is on p.
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Byron |
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