Lydia’s
intention
of walking to Meryton was not forgotten; every sister
except Mary agreed to go with her; and Mr.
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This infamous principle was set aside by Caesar
but could not be overlooked that
multitude
of wholly destitute burgesses had been protected solely by these largesses of food from starvation.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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It has been universally assumed that
these two plays are either wholly or in part identical with
that which has come down to us under the title The Famous
History of Sir Thomas Wyat (published 1607); and there is no
reason for questioning this
assumption!
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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Models of the other that are
grounded
in an equality of pluralism only suppress the
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Education in Hegel |
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O dangerous woman, o
seductive
glow,
will I someday adore your frost and snow,
and learn to draw, from implacable winter
sharp-edged as steel or ice, new pleasure?
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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SAGREDO How can you mistake their
contemptible
cunning for reason?
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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Powerful
ever the goddess, but nevertheless to her fellows
Overbearing and rude, quite unendurable.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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De
petits enfants
etouffent
des maledictions le long des rivieres.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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”
Villon turned out his hands with a gesture of
inimitable
im-
pudence.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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I just did not want to have
to repeat the same thing again and again, namely, that
machines
are taking over
(according to Turing'sprophecy of 1948) and how they are doing it.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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von (Robert), p39 1887, Internet Book Archive Images
Medusas,
miserable
heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
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Appoloinaire |
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"SENTO L' AURA MIA ANTICA, E I DOLCI COLLI»
HE
REVISITS
VAUCLUSE
NCE more, ye balmy gales, I feel you blow;
Again, sweet hills, I mark the morning beams
Gild your green summits; while your silver streams
Through vales of fragrance undulating flow.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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We do not know half enough
about Lord Bacon—the first realist in all the highest
acceptation of this
word—to
be sure of everything
he did, everything he willed, and everything he ex-
perienced in his inmost soul.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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However, had you frankly told me from the beginning that Christian faith does not
concern you, that the subject of it is only mythology for you, then I should
naturally
have refrained from
that animosity to your ideas which I have been un-
"
able to conceal from you.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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They
commonly
had the date of their
erection on them.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Girls, lovers, youngsters, fresh to hand,
Dancers,
tumblers
that leap like lambs,
Agile as arrows, like shots from a cannon,
Throats tinkling, clear as bells on rams,
Will you leave him here, your poor old Villon?
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Villon |
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To
whatever
was asked, Thông Thiên sealed it with the mindseal.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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[633] _Cum voce
trementia
membra.
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Satires |
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UnscharfeÍMgik
verándert
die Welt, Munich 2001.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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It seems to me that this statement shows us more than simply a person in his fortu itously
contradictory
nature.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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The climate of Bulgaria
(the name which Lower Mcesia has had since its inva-
sion by the Bulgarians in the seventh
century)
bears
little resemblance to that which Ovid describes.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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That auld,
capricious
carlin, Nature,
To mak amends for scrimpit stature,
She's turn'd you off, a human creature
On her first plan,
And in her freaks, on ev'ry feature
She's wrote the Man.
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burns |
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We sought each other out and went on
and on together,
exploring
the Fairy Castle.
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Li Po |
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what avails it, that the face of day
Wears the bright verdure tif
returning
spring ?
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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After a mare has foaled she does not get impregnated at once again, but only after a
considerable
interval; in fact, the foals will be all the better if the interval extend over four or five years.
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Aristotle copy |
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The
spelling
is, of course, early 17th century.
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John Donne |
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"18
3 And he
repeated
again and again the words, "Madly I seized my arms".
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Historia Augusta |
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If an idealistic individual finds herself living in a society whose norms she cannot respect, the proper response has two aspects, one
personal
and one social.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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If we inquire of those who have
gone before us, we receive small satisfaction; some have
travelled
life
without observation, and some willingly mislead us.
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Samuel Johnson |
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He advanced through
Paphlagonia
Timonitis into Galatia, and nine days later arrived in Bithynia 4 Lucullus ordered Cotta to sail to the harbour of Chalcedon with all his ships.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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She appeared about 50 years old; her face, full and
high-coloured, expressed repose and gravity, softened by the sweetness
of her blue eyes and
charming
smile.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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''The Soviet government would like to draw
attention
to the fact that one cannot now attack Cuba and expect that the aggressor will be free from punishment for this attack.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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And Lycon, the demagogue, prepared
everything
necessary to support the impeachment; but Antisthenes in his Successions of the Philosophers, and Plato in his Apology, say that these men brought the accusation: Anytus, and Lycon, and Melitus; Anytus, acting against him on behalf of the magistrates, and because of his political principles; Lycon, on behalf of the orators; and Melitus on behalf of the poets, all of whom Socrates used to pull to pieces.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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The
confederacy
of the
Hernici, called by the Romans to account for their country
men found among the Samnite captives, now declared war against Rome (in 448)-more doubtless from despair than 306.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Terrible women would invent unclean
variants of the men's belief for the
elevation
of their sisters.
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Kipling - Poems |
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now clear I understand
What oft my steddiest
thoughts
have searcht in vain,
Why our great expectation should be call'd
The seed of Woman: Virgin Mother, Haile,
High in the love of Heav'n, yet from my Loynes
Thou shalt proceed, and from thy Womb the Son 380
Of God most High; So God with man unites.
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Milton |
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In the parish church are some old holy-water fonts ; one, some- what
resembling
an ancient classic tragic mask, is very interesting.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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[Though
satisfied
with the severe satire of these lines, the poet made
a second attempt.
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Robert Forst |
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Like white water are you who fill the cup of my mouth,
Like a brook of water
thronged
with lilies.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The alarm caused by his arrival was
so great, the numbers of his army
probably
so exaggerated, that Man-
jūtakin burned his tents and equipment and made off in panic, without
risking a battle (end of April 995).
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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The idea was to receive the Kingdom as children receive things, that is to say, as the children from the villages received Jesus when he went there to
announce
the Kingdom: recep- tive, without prejudiced nor preformed ideas, capable of hearing some- thing truly new, with time availability, ready to follow up, leaving all other tasks aside.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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Here’s our ragged bairns and
callets!
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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The step was an
unfamiliar
one, and he heard the
shuffling sound of loose slippers.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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, Ovida Nasonis
Fastorum
Liber III.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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Now death, it is not only a work of nature, but also
conducing
to
nature.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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On the
following
day Beowulf bids
farewell to the king.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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The displacement of a single electron by a
billionth
of a centimetre at one moment might make the difference between a man being killed by an avalanche a year later, or escaping.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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TO
MISTRESS
MARY WILLAND.
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Robert Herrick |
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+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for
informing
people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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The wonder of the book is its
superior
intelligence.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Before pre-
1 See Manuscript Materials
ofAncient
Irish History.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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Hayden-Roy, "A Foretaste of Heaven":
Friedrich
Ho?
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Hegel_nodrm |
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it
universalized
Judaism by denationaliz- ing and so universalizing the law.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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s precisa, esmerada y
adecuadamente
se expresa, ma?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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Poetae 65
Desinite: en fati certus, sibi voce canora
Inferias
praemisit olor, cum Carolus Alba
(Vltima volventem et Cycnaea voce loquentem)
Nuper eum, turba & magnatum audiret in Aula.
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John Donne |
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Freud
receives
what Schreber sends; Schreber sends what Freud receives.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Vedanaskandha is the
threefold
mode of feeling or experiencing sensation which is painful, pleasant, neither-painful-nor-pleasant.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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This contrasts with non-Buddhist Indian philosophies where it is
believed
that these consciousnesses are a single consciousness called the "self" or atman.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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Her
examination
and confession, taken on oath, Fe
bruary before Sir Richard Brocas, Knt.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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Whoever speaks in the
conditions
permitted-whether from a bour geois, political, academic, legal, or psychological perspective-will always be in the minus and run around in vain seeking the means by which to pay off and shift overdrawn assertions.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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Village rituals, subduing demons and so forth are for
gathering
food.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
|
Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
| Guess: |
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Tully - Offices |
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The integrity of our system will not be jeopardized by any measures, covert or overt, violent or non-violent, which serve the purposes of frustrating the Kremlin design, nor does the necessity for conducting ourselves so as to affirm our values in actions as well as words forbid such measures, provided only they are
appropriately
calculated to that end and are not so excessive or misdirected as to make us enemies of the people instead of the evil men who have enslaved them.
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NSC-68 |
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_
deuenies:
_deueniens_
(?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The hoard that way
he never could hope
unharmed
to near,
or endure those deeps, {33d} for the dragon's flame.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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O, if you raise this house against this house,
It will the woefullest
division
prove
That ever fell upon this cursed earth.
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Shakespeare |
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When oxen lick with their tongue around the hooves of their fore-feet or in their stalls stretch
themselves
on their right side, the old ploughman expects the sowing to be delayed.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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OF GRACE
(BALLATA, FRAGMENT) ii
FPULL well thou knowest, song, what grace I mean,
E'en as thou know'st the
sunlight
I have lost.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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_
HE
DESCRIBES
THE APPARITION OF LAURA.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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“ Thou who with cleaving fiery lances
The stream of my soul from its ice dost free,
Till with a rush and a roar it advances
To enter with glorious hoping the sea :
Brighter to see and purer ever,
Free in the bonds of thy sweet constraint, -
So it praises thy
wondrous
endeavour,
January, thou beauteous saint !
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by
commercial
parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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Tully - Offices |
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Return to Heav'n your thanks for bounteous care,
And then to us a tithe of surplus spare,
Which costs you nothing worth a moment's thought;
And marks the zeal with which our faith is taught,
A claim legitimate our order opes,
Bestowed, for holy offices, by popes,
No charitable gift, but lawful right:
Priests well
supported
are a glorious sight.
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La Fontaine |
|
If the value
per text is nominally
estimated
at one dollar then we produce $2
million dollars per hour in 2002 as we release over 100 new text
files per month: 1240 more eBooks in 2001 for a total of 4000+
We are already on our way to trying for 2000 more eBooks in 2002
If they reach just 1-2% of the world's population then the total
will reach over half a trillion eBooks given away by year's end.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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They were
determined
that we should not
have a Sabbath School in operation.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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At first, Gregor
went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived
as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks
without his sister doing
anything
about it; she could see the dirt
as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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Why, to
maintain
this theory of the regeneration of
mankind by means of the pursuit of his own advantage is to my mind
almost the same thing .
| Guess: |
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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Frederick's moral training was too deeply
rooted in the German Protestant life not to per-
ceive the secret
weakness
of the French philosophy.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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For the present this problem is obviously the most burning one with regard to the aristocracy, whose nature and
strength
rest above all on the hereditary principle but which, perhaps, throughout the greatest part of history, militated against the principle of a higher centralization of the state.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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I see in my mind a herd of wild
creatures
swarming
over the earth, and to each the herdsman has affixed some barbarous
sound in his own dialect.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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My heart that sometimes at night tries to know itself,
Or with which last word to name you the most tender
Exults in that which merely
whispered
sister
Were it not, such short tresses so great a treasure,
That you teach me quite another sweetness,
Soft through the kiss murmured only in your hair.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The territorial mode of election is certainly more mechanical, but the exclusively territorial election does not also need to mean a
representation
of the exclusively territorial interest; rather it is precisely the technique for the organic composition of the whole, in that the single Member of Parliament in principle represents the whole country.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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The territorial mode of election is certainly more mechanical, but the exclusively territorial election does not also need to mean a
representation
of the exclusively territorial interest; rather it is precisely the technique for the organic composition of the whole, in that the single Member of Parliament in principle represents the whole country.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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Is
execution
done on Cawdor?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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For such a person must necessarily o en reproach universal Nature, r Nature attributes a particular lot to the bad and to the good,
contrary
to their merit; r the bad often live in pleasures and possess that by which they may procure them, while good people encounter only pain and that which is its cause.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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I hear the rustle of wings,
Ye
meditate
what to say
Ere ye go to quit me for ever and aye.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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I hear the rustle of wings,
Ye
meditate
what to say
Ere ye go to quit me for ever and aye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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I hear the rustle of wings,
Ye
meditate
what to say
Ere ye go to quit me for ever and aye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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But never let us
sanction
the saying: it would ruin the seed of
Abraham, keep back the kingdom of God, and "destroy our use-
fulness.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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that presented itself as an
accompanying
symptom of the severe ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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Syd-
ney smiled, but
commanded
silence, and:
continued :--
't Be a good chiid; follow implicitly
the directions of Mrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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_Gerard_ took Care to
have his Son
_Erasmus_
liberally educated, and put him to School when he
was scarce four Years old.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Erasmus |
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CONTEST IN COMMERCIAL PROVINCES
345
The radical leaders backed the petition for calling the
Assembly in apparent good faith, in order " to convince the
pacific [Thomson confessed afterward] that it was not the
intention of the warm spirits to involve the
province
in the
dispute without the consent of the representatives of the
people.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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" I thought of
Elizabeth, of my father, and of Clerval--all left behind, on whom the
monster might satisfy his
sanguinary
and merciless passions.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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We need not think that it is at all possible
to obviate this
disfigurement
by any educational
artifice whatever.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Is it so with thee, that
hitherto
thou hast
neither by word or deed wronged any of them?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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While 1950 in a survey in
Allensbach
15% of Germans claimed to be able to 'read' a text written in French, in 1997 it was 16% according to a survey in the Spiegel.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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If
Portugal
had no commercial connexion with other countries, instead of
employing a great part of her capital and industry in the production of
wines, with which she purchases for her own use the cloth and hardware
of other countries, she would be obliged to devote a part of that
capital to the manufacture of those commodities, which she would thus
obtain probably inferior in quality as well as quantity.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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