Move only if there is a real
advantage
to be gained.
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The-Art-of-War |
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Psalm from it are
reckoned
the second, third, fourth, and so on to
cl"
the seventh day of the week, which is the Sabbath.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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Muílu mca,
ỉiộu
trả cho xong,
Tri chi lảu lắc, (ử đồng, cbùcg ché.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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" The just and
compassionate
king offered his own flesh if the falcon let off the pigeon.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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"
Two early night-winged butterflies together
Be-chase
themselves
from halm to halm in jest,
The balk prepares from out the shrubs and weather,
The balm of evening for the soul distressed.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Thus it happensthatan
ideologycritiquewhichpresentsitselfas
science, because it is not allowed to be satire,becomes increasingly
entangledinseriousradicalsolutions.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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The advantage to a
humorist
of being able to illustrate his own
text has been shown in the case of Thackeray and Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"New political thinking," the general rubric for their views, describes a world dominated by
economic
concerns, in which there are no ideological grounds for major conflict between nations, and in which, consequently, the use of military force becomes less legitimate.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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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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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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[If the
Athenians
put him to death, they will harm them selves more than him.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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' Greater, I ask, than whom of his
predecessors?
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Roman Translations |
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and
wherefore
also these wings and archeries that we may not escape him when he oppresseth us?
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Bion |
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HYMNS
The good for his good works will He requite, the
wicked punish for his evil ways--
And unto those who His
salvation
seek, will send
Messiah at the end of days.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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" Indeed, their
novels are little more than
sketches
of what occurred around them.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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PLURAL
INCREMENTS
IN A, E, O, I, U.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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To us, it seems
half
pathetic
and half ridiculous, a gigantic monument of mis-
placed energy and zeal, a pyramid left gaunt and useless on the
sands of time.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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Poetic
composition
became a tour de force.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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The Lord
Admirall
slackned his, in order to expect the Arrivall of twenty fresh Frigates, with which he intendes to pursue the Enemie, whom we hope by the Grace of God to prevent from landinge one man on English Grounde.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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After he viewed the body of Alexander of Macedon, he ordered himself to be called "the Great" and "Alexander," having been drawn by the intrigues of
flatterers
to the point that, with fierce expression and neck turned toward his left shoulder (which he had noted in Alexander's face), he reached the point of conviction and persuaded himself that he was of very similar countenance.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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”35 Apollon spurned Envy with his foot and spake thus: “Great is the stream of the
Assyrian
river,36 but much filth of earth and much refuse it carries on its waters.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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She has
disarmed
the actions of her companion by reducing them to being only what they are; that is, to existing in the mode of the in-itself.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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Arise my
children
and let your weary
eyes seek some repose.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:31 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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Yet these men I could not but love and
admire, that they
returned
to their studies.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Do not interfere with an army that is
returning
home.
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The-Art-of-War |
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1440
But
wherefore
comes old Manoa in such hast
With youthful steps?
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Milton |
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*
to d o Evil for Evil, or treat those
unjustly
w h o are J S * * * ^ .
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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It was, therefore, not until
the light of the summer morn had dawned upon them that they could travel
in full
assurance
that they held the right path.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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His most noteworthy contribution, however, is the Preliminary Dis-
course,' prefixed as a general introduction and
explanation
of the
work.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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The establishment
of the great German Protestant Power was the
heaviest defeat which the Roman Curia had suf-
fered since the
appearance
of Martin Luther ; King
Frederick had truly, as the English Ambassador
Mitchell said, fought for the freedom of the human
race.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Having developed a remarkable and distinctive technique
in the
Heroides
and the Ars, Ovid resolved to make the first
Amores conform fully to his later rules of art.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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Information about the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation
The Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation is a non profit
501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the
state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal
Revenue Service.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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No Man Can Without Injustice Protest Against The
Institution Of The
Soveraigne
Declared By The Major Part.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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As she now sat looking at Betsey,
she could not but think
particularly
of another sister, a very pretty
little girl, whom she had left there not much younger when she went into
Northamptonshire, who had died a few years afterwards.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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The 22nd of July, 1400, is the
date of the
inauguration
of the University of
Cracow, then the capital of Roland.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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She now plainly saw that she must not
expect a manuscript of equal length with the generality of what she had
shuddered over in books, for the roll, seeming to consist
entirely
of
small disjointed sheets, was altogether but of trifling size, and much
less than she had supposed it to be at first.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Specifically, it is productive to examine how the authors'
experience
and articulation of subjectivity in their earlier works--which they later disavow and seek to reformulate-- reflect the impasses of modernity.
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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Various, on this occasion, were the reverses of fortune, while Stephen, though embarrassed by the weakness of his title, by the scantiness of his finances, and all the disorders which arose from both, supported
his tottering throne with wonderful
activity
and courage; but being at length defeated and made
prisoner under the walls of Lincoln, the
clergy openly declare for Matilda.
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Edmund Burke |
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For
anxiously
they fled the savage beasts,
And peace they sought and their abundant foods,
Obtained with never labours of their own,
Which we secure to them as fit rewards
For their good service.
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Lucretius |
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But
sensation
is not provoked by a desire to experience such a sensation, whereas sound is provoked by a desire to speak.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Your
immortality
will not serve you; that only makes things worse.
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Lucian |
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Mrs Tyke-Bowlby in the Park
with her
splendid
Alsatian, Kublai Khan, which took second prize at Cruft’s this
summer.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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xii FOREWORD
has never been able to grasp the constant
deferment
that occurs when modern individuals strive for a unified ?
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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The lover at length bought her for seven Attic talents, and agreed a certain time for the payment of the money; until this time, his father's great wealth
procured
him credit.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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on strong and enterprising souls, is, even at the present day, the most subtle and most effective of anti-democratic and anti
Christian
powers, just as was in the time of the Renaissance.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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In short, it is
impossible
to contemplate the
whole of this fair structure without emotions of delight and
admiration, accompanied with ardent longing for the period of its
accomplishment.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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Of course I am not now
referring
to my debauch (no,
indeed!
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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and how may
it least be
squandered?
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Breezily go they,
breezily
come; their dust smokes around their
career,
Till I think I am one horn out of due time, who has no calling here.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Je
voulais aussi montrer à Françoise que je ne
craignais
pas de parler de
ce départ, le montrer--comme font certains généraux qui appellent des
reculs forcés une retraite stratégique et conforme à un plan
préparé--comme voulu, comme constituant un épisode dont je cachais
momentanément la vraie signification, nullement comme la fin de mon
amitié avec Albertine.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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It was Lady
Catherine
de Bourgh.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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Its return has been
criticised
on
.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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For, the virtue being a mean with regard to
both, he will do both as he ought; since this sort of taking
accompanies proper giving, and that which is not of this sort is
contrary to it, and
accordingly
the giving and taking that accompany
each other are present together in the same man, while the contrary
kinds evidently are not.
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Aristotle |
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"
"Yes, sir, that is
undoubtedly
my hat.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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But, Jeanie, say thou wilt be mine,
Say, thou lo'es nane before me;
And a' my days o' life to come
I'll
gratefully
adore thee.
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Robert Forst |
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But
there is more of Byron and Petrus Borel--a forgotten half-mad poet--in
Baudelaire; though, for a brief period, in 1848, he became a Rousseau
reactionary, sported the workingman's blouse, cut his hair,
shouldered
a
musket, went to the barricades, wrote inflammatory editorials calling
the proletarian "Brother!
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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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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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Is not even the Form that's
contrary
to the odd?
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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Each man woke in the morning, with an
appetite that could eat the solar system like a cake; a spirit for
action and passion without bounds; he could lay his hand on the morning
star; he could try
conclusions
with gravitation or chemistry; but, on
the first motion to prove his strength--hands, feet, senses, gave way,
and would not serve him.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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Idyll 17
This idyll is
addressed
to Ptolemy Philadelphus, who was the son of Ptolemy, son of Lagus, and of Berenice.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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The order of number, however, cannot
constitute
itself without reference to the zero.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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Younger Contemporaries of Dryden:
George
Granville
(Lord Lansdowne); William Walsh.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
|
Lectures
on
Modern History.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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To him the sturdy centaur , while From relaxing brow smile
placid sweetness softly broke
Withoutdelay
his counsel spoke
The key that opes persuasion wise
Conceal mystic darkness lies
Since gods and men alike approve Phæbus that ingenuous shame
Should hide the deeds sacred flame And all secrecy love
But thee whom
Somemotive Has with feign
falsehood doubtful kind
can reach
ignorance inclined utter this ambiguous speech
For whence
The damsel Whose eye
king thy fond desire lineage inquire
all events surveys The fated end the various ways
Who what leaves the teeming earth spring prolific hour gives birth
What sands are moved when waves tempestuous swell Canst number with omniscient mind
And every future period find
Which time revolving course shall impel
But with thine must compare Mywisdom this will declare
Her husband thou who seek this vale Shalt the paths ocean sail
Thus Apollo with oracular voice declares Herod Clio xlvii
himself Οιδα εγω ψαμμου αριθμον και μετρα θαλασσης
δ'
if
o’ ' to
-
(
86
.
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Pindar |
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Suspect a single
buttered
flower, suspect it certainly, suspect it and
then glide, does that not alter a counting.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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T o give a full and accurate view of the subject* would be to make a treatise of a reportj but there- are eer-
> tain aspeetsin which it maybe cursorily exhibited^ which
dlpperhaps
eonduee to a just impression of its merits.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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" All that well before "sustainabil- ity" became a buzzword with a certain vague
provenance
about it.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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Some large drops of sweat fall from his
forehead
on to the toast.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:10 GMT / http://hdl.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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On the contrary, when you, or rather the Athe-
nians of that age, seemed to treat some persons not
with due moderation, it was universally
resolved
to
take up arms; even they who had no private com-
plaints espoused the cause of the injured.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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We have already shown how wholly the architecture of all the Italian lands was, even in its
earliest
period, per vaded Hellenic elements.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
|
Your IP address has been
automatically
blocked from the address you tried to visit at www.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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For another
opposing
view, see Joseph Laurence's excellent essay, "Schelling's Meta- physics of Evil," in The New Schelling, ed.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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It is also far from unlikely, despite
the silence of the texts, that the civil functions of the Grāmaņi were the
more important ; for the post is emphatically declared in several places
to represent the summit of the
ambition
of the Vaiçya.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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'
From either side, hearing then
Horses
neighing
in the gloom,
And cries of 'Help me!
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Troubador Verse |
|
My reply to the
question
respecting the quality
of my slaves was, that I did not think his lumber would suit me--that
I must have the cash for my negroes, and turned on my heel and left
him!
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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He constantly (tries to) keep them without
knowledge
and without
desire, and where there are those who have knowledge, to keep them
from presuming to act (on it).
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Tao Te Ching |
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that her
exemplary
life of public service would not suggest a concern for money.
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Source: |
A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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I bent
My
footsteps
to the distant road.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
[left alone with Octavius, stares
whimsically
at him] Tavy: do
you want to count for something in the world?
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
|
You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium
and
discontinue
all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Thus he is able to capture their cities and
overthrow
their kingdoms.
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The-Art-of-War |
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The eye of our nation is clear-
sighted, and its heart is wide enough, if rationally
instructed, to imderstand what is indispensable for
the
security
of Germany.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
|
“He can stay over
sometimes
after school, too.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
|
+ 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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Tully - Offices |
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Lloyd, the deprived Bishop of Norwich, was the only eminent
clergyman
who joined in this; and, therefore, all that party had, upon Sancro/t's death, recommended him to King James, to have his nomina tion for Canterbury.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
|
'
He still had not the courage to
approach
her.
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Orwell - 1984 |
|
He sent out his arrows and scattered them,
Shot forth his
lightnings
and appalled them.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
|
But once more must I seat myself upon the holy stone,
once more chant the hymn of the Virgin
Priestess
before
the God of my fathers !
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With one or two notable exceptions,
all Polish authors, if they wished to write anything
impressive, if they wished to create anything which
they hoped would have permanent value, anything, in
fact, except that which they considered ephemeral and
trivial personal satires, facetious tales, epigrams, and
novelettes wrote in Latin, while works of grave import
such as histories,
political
and philosophical disquisitions,
even memoirs, they continued to compose in that language
till the middle of the eighteenth century.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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Its result, on earth, could hardly fail to be insanity, and
hereafter, that eternal
alienation
from the Good and True, of which
madness is perhaps the earthly type.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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Attracted the hero
them both Æson brothers came
This Pheres from Hyperia fountain calls And Amythaon from Messene walls
These soon Admetus and Melampus join
To greet their kinsman with friendly mind
But the sixth Repeats his tale
Then follow haste he from
once more the youth words truth
the kindred band the mansion went
fame
Them the hospitable board 230 Jason with courteous speech address
And bade the cheer profusely stored Exhilarate the frequent guest
Five days and nights their courses roll
While pleasure warms each festive soul 233 235
Their steps Pelias dome they bent 240 On rushing with tumultuous stand
Soon the sound assail his ear
Camebright
hair Tyro offspring near
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d
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Pindar |
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Eine derartige Verwertung von Gedanken ist
eine
intellektuelle
Su?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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”
Tom
Robinson
had come to a dead stop.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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The
invention
of bucolic poetry
They say that bucolic poetry was invented at Sparta, and was held in great esteem, for the following reason.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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This woman I am said to have
embraced
in a marine fishpond; I don't know; I think I embraced the fishpond itself.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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Some they placed in their bosoms, and others they wove into
chaplets
and carried them as offerings to the Nymphs.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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Homer's singularity in this
respect is overwhelming; but it is
frequently
forgotten, and especially
by those who think to help in the Homeric question by comparing him with
other "authentic" epics.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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When
Phrynichus
was commander in Samos, he plotted to betray the city.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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L'anima gloriosa onde si parla,
tornata ne la carne, in che fu poco,
credette in lui che potea aiutarla;
e
credendo
s'accese in tanto foco
di vero amor, ch'a la morte seconda
fu degna di venire a questo gioco.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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