THE CHILDREN'S PSALM-BOOK
One might
paraphrase
the picture of a good man's Hote on
courage in verses 7 and 8, thus :-- Ps?
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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' There was no room for poetry or
mysticism, and little room for awe in his
somewhat
arid mind;
and he grievously failed to do justice to the tractites.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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And every human heart that breaks,
In prison-cell or yard,
Is as that broken box that gave
Its treasure to the Lord,
And filled the unclean leper's house
With the scent of
costliest
nard.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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και ο μαχητής Μενέλαος κατόπι μ' ερωτούσε, 120
'ς την θείαν Λακεδαίμονα ποι'
ανάγκη
μ' έχει φέρει,
κ' εγ' όλην του φανέρωσα την καθαρήν αλήθεια.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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As
to the speech of the noble lord the Secretary for the Colonies, really
when we hear such a pitiable defence of a great institution from a
man of such eminent abilities, what
inference
can we draw but that the
institution is altogether indefensible?
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Macaulay |
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a los
diputados
de la mayori?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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" —Chicago Record-Herald
"Its poetry is admirably selected
to find any other
American
magazine verse more notable for originality and imagination.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Tower itself with the near danger shook ;
And were not Ruyter's maw with ravage cloyed,
Even
London*s
aslies had been then destroyed.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Whatever the case may be and as long as circumstances do not change, the fortunes of literature are tied up with the coming of a
socialist
Europe, that is, of a group of states with a democratic and collectivist structure, each of which, while waiting for something better, would be deprived of part of its sovereignty for the sake of the whole.
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Chamber, there are thousands of state and local chambers of commerce and trade associations also engaged in public- relations and
lobbying
activities.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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In fact, the question of'survival,' of
self-preservation and self-assertion - to which all
cynicisms
provide answers - touches on the central problem of defending the status quo
and planning for the future in modern nation states.
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Behold the ruler of the deep-bosomed Earth, the turner upside-down of the Son of Acmon,1 and have no fear that so little a person should have so
plentiful
a crop of beard to his chin.
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Pattern Poems |
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" By this means some respite was given to the fugitives; 8 and Elissa, arriving in a gulf of Africa, attached the inhabitants of the coast, who rejoiced at the arrival of foreigners, and the
opportunity
of bartering commodities with them, to her interest.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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For Oeneus73 dishonoured her altar and no pleasant
struggles
came upon his city.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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For a
detailed
examination of Tsongkhapa's u nderstanding of the illusion-like
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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It is enough that he presents
a picture of the pretended demoniac, that he makes it as sordid and
hateful as possible, that he draws for us in the person of Justice
Eitherside the portrait of the bigoted, unreasonable, and unjust judge,
and that he openly
ridicules
the series of cases which he used as the
source of his witch scenes (cf.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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gehwearf
þā in Francna fæðm feorh
cyninges, 1211; hit on ǣht gehwearf .
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Beowulf |
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"
The review shows that the patriarchal family has always
been the foundation of peoples who have been distinguished
for their joy in and power over life, and have
expressed
their
joy and power in art works which have been their peculiar
glory and the object of admiration and wonder of other
peoples.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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"
The review shows that the patriarchal family has always
been the foundation of peoples who have been distinguished
for their joy in and power over life, and have
expressed
their
joy and power in art works which have been their peculiar
glory and the object of admiration and wonder of other
peoples.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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He rising again will come even to earth Himself to judge : He will appear terrible Who
appeared
despicable.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to
preserve
a
weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might
take in the future.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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He wrote, it is true, to Rome in 1333,
ordering his palaces and gardens to be repaired; but the troubles which
continued to agitate the city were alleged by him as too
alarming
for
his safety there, and he repaired to Bologna to wait for quieter times.
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Petrarch |
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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Fanatics
of Magyardom, on the other hand, do the impos-
sible in the
adoration
of their Turkish cousins.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Les nations dont la culture intellec-
tuelle est d'origine latine, sont plus
anciennement
civilise?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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I knew only that the French
had thrown off the
absolute
monarchy of Louis XIV.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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So, again, Columella, or the
Distressed Anchoret (1776), which, like its predecessor, has a de-
tailed (this time faintly disguised) picture of Shenstone, records the
travels of a lawyer and a college don and the placid, but not always
proper, recreations of a sluggish country gentleman of small fortune
and
literary
interest.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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soul are little by little
laboriously
acquired, through great industry, self-control, and keeping one's self within narrow bounds, through
' frequent, energetic, and genuine repetition of the
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Approaching Ayuthia, he burnt some Dutch ships,
massacred
the
defenceless population regardless of sex or age, and covered the sur-
face of the rivers with their corpses.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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de Watterwille, Legislation charitable, ou Recucil des lois arretes, decrels qui rcgissenl les
etablisscments
dc bien/aisance (1790 187M) in 3 volumes (Paris: A.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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XLVII
Put on and laced the shining helmets were,
And given to either
champion
was the spear:
Quickly the trumpet's blast was heard in air,
Whose signal blanched a thousand cheeks with fear.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure
nocturnal
cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"[871]
Now listen to what consolation on the other hand he can offer, who
has neither studied the Cynics, nor the doctrines of the Stoics, that
differ from the Cynics only by a tunic,[872] and pays no veneration to
Epicurus,[873] that
delighted
in the plants of his diminutive garden.
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Satires |
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purpose, several of them
afterward
admitted that they had never tasted the "Compound," but that they were willing to sign the testimonials for the joy of appearing in print as "prominent citizens.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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Then why from me the
bursting
truth conceal?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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And not in vain did the
youths sit before the
preacher
of virtue.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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[7] The third quality of Buddhahood is that it is not
realized
through external conditions.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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5/7/30 [for 5 August 1930) Ecole Normale Rue d'Ulm45
Paris Se
Dear
Monsieur
Soupault
Here at last.
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16126 (#472) ##########################################
16126
GEORGE WITHER
THE AUTHOR'S
RESOLUTION
IN A SONNET
S"
HALL I, wasting in despair,
Die because a woman's fair ?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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Finally, there is yet another tradition of explanation which also associates the word dred with the dred mong, but which gives a slightly
different
interpretation.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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Wrangling
and jangling, Flouting and pouting,
Oh, what a plague is an obstinate daughter!
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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During the long rigours of a cruel prison,
I never called on your
immortal
person.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I have other questions or need to report an error
Please email the diagnostic
information
to help2018 @ pglaf.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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For our bodies have been reduced to a mere energy base for our minds, struggling to find
pleasures
and a dignity of their own.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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To be able to
reproduce
a pathological state is perfection, because it seems that we hold the theory when we have in our hands the means to repro duce the morbid phenomena.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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"
"I will come," she
answered
resolutely, her head still bowed.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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_The Old Love and the New_
Beware, for the dying vine can hold
The
strongest
oak.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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"
A
stronger
and more graphic eulogium is given by Dr.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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When
Lachesis
my final thread shall weave,
I crave such plants above my bones may climb.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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With heavy sighs I often hear
You mourn my hapless woe;
But sure with
patience
I can bear
A loss I ne'er can know.
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Golden Treasury |
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Gray Death saw the
wretched
house
And even he passed by--
"They have never lived," he said,
"They can wait to die.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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He had already
prepared
some river-craft, which floating down the Nile,
were drawn up near the mound: he chose ten of these, and filling them
with archers, he ordered them what to say to the Persians, and sent
them towards the city.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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Who that surveyed thee, when that day
Thou deemed that future glory ray
Would here be ever bright;
Feared that, ere long, all France thy grave
From
pettifoggers
vain would crave
Beneath that column's height?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Thus, the little
advantage of their victories, and the heavy loss of their
defeats, as in the recent instance of the carriages, was
a fresh
discouragement
to the Romans.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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Two
swimmers
wrestled on the spar
Until the morning sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Soon shalt thou reach old Ocean's utmost ends,
Where to the main the shelving shore descends;
The barren trees of Proserpine's black woods,
Poplars and willows trembling o'er the floods:
There fix thy vessel in the lonely bay,
And enter there the kingdoms void of day,
Where Phlegethon's loud torrents, rushing down,
Hiss in the flaming gulf of Acheron;
And where, slow rolling from the Stygian bed,
Cocytus' lamentable waters spread:
Where the dark rock o'erhangs the
infernal
lake,
And mingling streams eternal murmurs make.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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; relations with
Lotharof
Saxony,
164; relations with Bohemia, Hungary,
and Poland, 113, 165; last years and death,
165 sq.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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you are by far the most
barbarous
of all
the gods.
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Aristophanes |
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These different
circumstances
explain the manner in which the ability of a bank to circulate a greater .
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Henry, Fran'1')ise,
Introduction
I" TIu: 8 <>011 "/ K.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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'' Journal of Chinese
Religions
25 (1997): 57-82.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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'Animal'
is
predicated
of the species 'man', therefore of the individual man,
for if there were no individual man of whom it could be predicated, it
could not be predicated of the species 'man' at all.
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Aristotle |
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Even if you achieve the
Liberation
of a Hmayana practitioner, which is a state beyond this (sarils'll:ra), you have still not attained the state of ultimate happiness.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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He it was, men say, that brought down from lofty Helicon the bright water of
bounteous
Hippocrene.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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And when the Guru is won, with
guileless
heart he touches his feet with his head and says:
"Holy Man, have a kindly heart toward me.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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How swift upon the
thought!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Raising his
voice as the seer, George warns against the degeneracy of
modern times, castigates the weaknesses and falseness of de-
mocracy, refutes the belief in a fallacious prosperity, pours
scorn upon materialism and the falsely optimistic idea of prog-
ress based upon it,
deplores
the absence of heroism, and fore-
sees still greater evils to come.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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Raising his
voice as the seer, George warns against the degeneracy of
modern times, castigates the weaknesses and falseness of de-
mocracy, refutes the belief in a fallacious prosperity, pours
scorn upon materialism and the falsely optimistic idea of prog-
ress based upon it,
deplores
the absence of heroism, and fore-
sees still greater evils to come.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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But one thing is most ad-
mirable (wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship),
which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects; for it
redoubleth
joys, and cutteth
griefs in halves.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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We cannot adequately acknowledge all of the
traditions
and people to whom we are indebted.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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LXXIII
" 'Tis now ten days," to him the Tartar said,
"That thee I still have followed; so the fame
Had stung me, and in me such longing bred,
Which of thee to our camp of Paris came:
When, amid
thousands
by thy hand laid dead,
Scarce one alive fled thither, to proclaim
The mighty havoc made by thy good hand,
'Mid Tremisena's and Noritia's band.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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'Quae
autem sunt a Deo ordinate sunt,' a
bono quippe
ordinatore
nihil inordina-
tum relinquitur.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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He made no sign, but again
that muffled wail broke forth, like the
lamentation
of a damned
spirit.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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This parting now makes me rue
The
Seigneury
of Poitou!
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Troubador Verse |
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2 It is for you three to clear away all these difficulties, and not to imagine that you have already satisfied the claims the
Republic
has upon you.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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, proved, in a flickering ambivalence of
feelings
in which existential fears and desire for catastrophe were indistinguisha- bly entwined.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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, successors, had been
frequently
defeated; and the Thebans were
continually gaining advantages over them.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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He
celebrated
the crusade in
his Antiocheis, now represented by a solitary fragment on the
Flos Regum Arthurus.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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—The man who really owns himself,
that is to say, he who has finally conquered him-
self, regards it as his own right to punish, to
pardon, or to pity himself: he need not concede this
privilege to any one, though he may freely bestow
it upon some one
else—a
friend, for example—but
he knows that in doing this he is conferring a right,
and that rights can only be conferred by one who
is in full possession of power.
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This term will keep alive the memory of the violent core of the major scientific, military, and industrial processes, especially at a time when they are entering a smart phase where
violence
is becoming informational, cool, procedural, and analgesic.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is
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for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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striueden
& chid ?
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I have
recommended
it to many of our bishops and
others.
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HOOVER
DURING THE DEPRESSION, the socialist program was pre- sented to us in the
attractive
guise of "economic planning" and many converts were made among those who had neither the time nor the stomach for dialectical materialism and would have associated the patronymic "Marx" with the Christian, name of Harpo.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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Upon leaving Cambridge he undertook the
editorship of the
Athenæum
in London, and while engaged upon
this work became a member of the Church of England.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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hoc mihi
Ianiculo
positis Etruria castris
quaesiit et tantum fluvio Porsenna remotus ?
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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_ I sought not
A place within the sanctuary; but being
Chosen, however
reluctantly
so chosen,
I shall fulfil my office.
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Byron |
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You also do not love--how else could you
practise
love as a craft?
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Shall we pronounce him the rival of Lysias, who was the most finished
character
of the kind?
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So let the Egyptians boast of their antiquity, in the ancient times which
preceded
the flood.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of
mist, and
everything
looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine
drizzle which was beating against the window-panes, and streaking their
dull, dark surfaces with runlets of cold, dirty moisture.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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It is
strollers
like yourselves should be for
frolic and for fun.
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Yeats |
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2 # For it was found written in the Sibylline oracles that the Romans should build a temple in honour of the great mother of the gods {Magna Mater}, and should bring her sacred images from
Pessinus
in Asia; and that all the people should go out of the city to meet them; and that the best man should lead the men, and the best woman be at the head of the women, when they received the images of the goddess.
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Strike on, my lords, with
burnished
swords and keen;
Contest each inch your life and death between,
That neer by us Douce France in shame be steeped.
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Chanson de Roland |
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(1852);
(
Episodes
of French History, during the Con-
sulate,' etc.
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