Until that year England's im-
ports of
softwood
from the Soviet Union amounted
to but 17 per cent of the total of her softwood timber
imports, while Sweden's share was 20 per cent, and
Finland's 27 per cent.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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And if your hand or foot offend you,
Cut it off, lad, and be whole;
But play the man, stand up and end you,
When your
sickness
is your soul.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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It is the skill in analysing all dharmas," Both these - 'prajfia' and 'upayaya' and not 'prajria' alone or 'upayaya' alone have always to be practised even by bodhisattvas who have entered the 'bhumis'i'" because a bodhisattva's proper conduct in the "paramitas ' or
perfections
in all the ten
'bhumis'f?
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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How long shall I remain while riders go,
bidding
farewell
as one more friendship ends?
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Translated Poetry |
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'Classics' and 'Canons': The Shifting Meanings of the Words
What exactly was and is the
background
against which we can identi- fy and describe a change in our relationship to the classics?
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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You can go on blackening
people’s reputations for years, and
everyone
will believe you, more or less,
even when it?
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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Four black-purple crows swooped down and perched on the
veranda rail, waiting their chance to dart in and steal the bread and butter that Ko STa had
set down beside
Flory’s
bed.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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But
what made it singularly
alarming
was, that it was a
most dangerous menace to the Athenian interests on
the north of the ]Egean.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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it
despises
what it before desired; seeks
for that which lately it neglected; is all in a ferment, and is
inconsistent in the whole tenor of life; pulls down, builds up, changes
square to round.
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Horace - Works |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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These account
themselves
the ministers of the Gods,
and the horses privy to his will.
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Tacitus |
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None of these things were to
their taste:
everything
had to be changed.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Charlemagne
had waged March.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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Quelque temps après, lorsque furent jouées
devant moi les
premières
œuvres de ce jeune homme, sans doute je
continuai à penser que s'il avait tant voulu venir chez moi, c'était
à cause d'Albertine, et tout en trouvant cela coupable, je me rappelai
que jadis si j'étais parti pour Doncières, voir Saint-Loup, c'était
en réalité parce que j'aimais Mme de Guermantes.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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Shall I never miss
Home-talk and
blessing
and the common kiss
That comes to each in turn, nor count it strange,
When I look up, to drop on a new range
Of walls and floors, another home than this?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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a
HE great French satirist La Bruyère has left a comprehensive
portrait gallery of his contemporaries, where one searches
Ga vainly for the brilliant
collector
himself.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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Although the distant mutterings were already audible
of the storm which was to sweep the French from German soil, Kleist
was
destined
never to see the glorious outcome of that struggle.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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What a
charming
little girl have I seen to-day!
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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the
gentleman
who
rode with us the other day, Mr.
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Childrens - Frank |
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Then doth no
wicked man live as he would, and
therefore
neither is he free.
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Epictetus |
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The answer to this most important of all
questions
of values would not be a very doubtful
?
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Of a
different
order is 'The Days of Bruce,' a historic romance of
the late thirteenth century, which is less historic than romantic, and
in whose mirror the rugged chieftain would hardly recognize his
angularities.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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Yet in this
close restraint she found means to advertise her fa-
ther of the condition she was in, and made it much
worse than it was, seeming to
apprehend
the safety
of her life threatened by the malice of the countess,
mother to her husband, " who," she said, " did all
" she could to alienate his affection from her ; and
" now that she found she was with child, would per-
" suade him that it was not his ; and took all this
" extreme course, either to make her miscarry and
" so endanger her life, or to put an end to mother
" and child when she should miscarry :" and there-
fore besought her father, " that he would find some
" way to procure her liberty, and to remove her
" from that place, as the only means to save her
" life.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Page was accustomed to
frequent
places of public resort in town ; his hair, which was long and flowing when he went out upon an expedition, he tucked up under a wig, and could let it fall at any time
REMARKABLE PERSONS.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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When the
women are
pregnant
they are sent away.
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Strabo |
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A false
conclusion
lies at the bottom of all
this.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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One thing, however,
Passepartout would never forget, and that was the
sacrifice
which Mr.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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It is, no doubt, the
expression
_circum se_ (VII.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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" Carr argues that the
Internet
has rewired our brains so that "deep reading" is passe?
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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Commentarius
Prsevius, sect,
garde Moniali, cap.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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--doing it in my own name as well as in
that of all the Protestant
congregations
of
Poland and Lithuania, with whom we shall all
ever pray for a long and happy reign to your
Majesty.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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But I will shield you; and supply
A
kindlier
soil on which to bloom,
A nobler bed on which to die.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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AUFILENA, the fair, if kind, is a
favourite
ever ;
Asks she a price, then yields frankly?
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Do phenom- ena usually designated as those of virtual capitalism (future trades and similar
abstract
financial specula- tions) not point toward the reign
?
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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Physiquement, elle traversait une mauvaise phase: elle épaississait;
et le charme expressif et dolent, les regards étonnés et rêveurs
qu’elle avait autrefois
semblaient
avoir disparu avec sa première
jeunesse.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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For the highest and rarest virtues unite
and are lost in it, as an
unfathomable
sea absorbs
the streams that flow from every side.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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He had some
knowledge of the mimes of Herondas and the
pastorals
of Bion.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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percentage of
consumptives
are saved by open air, diet and .
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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“Cousin,” said she,
“something
is going to happen which I do not like
at all; and though you have often persuaded me into being reconciled to
things that I disliked at first, you will not be able to do it now.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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These subjects fall under
three heads: that of utility, or safety, which it is the object of arms
to secure; that of delight, which is the end of love; that of worthi-
ness, which is
attained
by virtue.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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These silly knaves had
banished
all their cares;
And when at ease they thought to skip and prance,
Were seized and quickly taught another dance.
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La Fontaine |
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Whether or not one
believes
in the ideal gener- alizations of the (for the most part) well-cultivated and well-fed rebels is initially only a question of taste.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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"
VI
THE WRAITH OF ODIN
The guests were loud, the ale was strong,
King Olaf feasted late and long;
The hoary Scalds
together
sang;
O'erhead the smoky rafters rang.
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Longfellow |
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By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic work, you
indicate
that you have read, understand, agree to
and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property
(trademark/copyright) agreement.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Latvia takes 7 per cent of the Soviet exports for
consumption and for transit and profits greatly
thereby, suffers greatly through Soviet competition
in the flax market abroad and various enterprises at
home but enjoys a contingent
agreement
to guaran-
tee a certain amount of Latvian sales to the Soviet
Union yearly and encourages these sales by govern-
ment credit guarantees.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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We were all
round the fire, gazing with an anxious
interest
inspired by our
all having had a finger in the pie.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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Aryadeva - The
Treatise
of the Four Hundred Stanzas on the Yogic Deeds of Bodhisattvas [3.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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This kind of omniscience we may call a
figuralive
or metaphorical om- niicience, as opposed to the more common literal omniscience.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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Nature, on which as yet no
knowledge has been at work, which maintains
unbroken barriers to culture—this is what the
Greek saw in his satyr, which still was not on
this account
supposed
to coincide with the ape.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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The
Argonauts
slew many and among the rest Cyzicus; but by day, when they knew what they had done, they mourned and cut off their hair and gave Cyzicus a costly burial179; and after the burial they sailed away and touched at Mysia.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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There are cases of ghosts of the
departed
entering living bodies and speaking through a medium.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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Pray now tell me who can tell but that the Swiss, now so bold and warlike,
were formerly
Chitterlings?
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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[electors,
1)
Composition
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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