[91] And the unspeculative virtues derive their name from the fact of their not proceeding from any
acquiescence
reflected by intelligence; but they are derived from others, are only accessories, and are found even in worthless people, as in the case of good health, or courage.
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But he had genius,--when a
turncoat
has it,
The 'Vates irritabilis' takes care
That without notice few full moons shall pass it;
Even good men like to make the public stare:--
But to my subject--let me see--what was it?
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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long, but in the
following words it is usually short, Cita`, the compounds of modo,
ambo, duo, i mo, illico, the imperative cedo, ego, and homo: in
the
following
indeclinable words it is considered common, but is
most frequently made long, Denuo, sero?
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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To draw up serious
indictments of plagiarism in cases such as these is a sheer waste
of
ingenuity?
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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Also, it is in the
interests
of astrologers to foster the myth, just as it is no doubt in the interests of priests and witch-doctors to foster the myths about rain dances and ferrets' kidneys.
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In the case of Der rida, this involved the conclusion of the linguistic or semiological turn according to which the twen tieth century had belonged to the philosophies of language and writing; in the case of Luhmann, on the other hand, it was the completion of the aban donment of philosophy called for by Wittgenstein, achieved through a resolute withdrawal of thought from the tradition of philosophies of the spirit and language in order to
reposition
themselves in the field of metabiology, the general logic of differ ences between system and environment.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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"
Elizabeth
was born, March 6, 1806,
at Coxhoe Hall, county of Durham, the residence of her father.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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[Picture: Thus
departed
Hiawatha]
MELANCHOLETTA
WITH saddest music all day long
She soothed her secret sorrow:
At night she sighed "I fear 'twas wrong
Such cheerful words to borrow.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Burroughs (to whom I have recourse for most biographical
facts concerning
Whitman)
is careful to note, in order that no
misapprehension may arise on the subject, that, up to the time of his
publishing the _Leaves of Grass_, the author had not read either the essays
or the poems of Emerson.
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Whitman |
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None of my
ladyfriends
dare I confide in, for they would but chide me;
Nor any gentleman friend, lest he be rival to me.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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That
blow was so full of art, that blow was so full of
power, that the strings rang out like trumpets of
brass, and like trumpets blew to the skies the
famous song, the
triumphal
march: Poland hath
not perished.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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The kingdom of the
Idrisids
in Morocco had in the meantime
been split up into a number of petty principalities.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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Among the motives
which had engaged him in a war with the Emperor, not the least was the
restoration of his relation, the Elector Palatine--yet the name of that
unfortunate prince was not even mentioned in the treaty; while in one of
its articles the legitimacy of the
Bavarian
election was expressly
recognised.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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] I see before me in such a moment as
this only too much of what would enable me
victoriously
to
refute any error as to that.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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All one has to do is read the
appropriate
publications carefully with an open mind.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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His Mughul
allies turned against him and, barely escaping in his sleeping attire
from a sudden attack made on his camp, he
withdrew
first to Hisar
and then to Qunduz, and finally he again crossed to Hindu Kush and
returned to Kabul.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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It was absolutely necessary, he wrote, to
'rescue and defend the
conscience
of the Church from the present hideous
system'.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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He offered also a
large army
accustomed
to war.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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A man has it
thoroughly
brought home to him that he is in a land
of the sun.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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And now, perhaps, he's hunting sheep,
A fierce and
dreadful
hunter he!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Let us take the case of ecol- ogy: radical emancipatory politics
should aim neither at the
complete
mastery over nature nor at the hu- manity's humble acceptance of the predominance of Mother Earth.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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175
as a matter of course, it is for the most part the
advantages
of the vise that disclose themselves as motives in the enaction of laws.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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But this is a topic which I must
treat as the Highland divine treated "a great
speeritooal
diffeeculty
"--look it boldly in the
face and pass on.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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The Voluntary Fading of the Subject
Foucault, and
Heidegger
before him, discover in the writings of certain authors a way to think and be that is other to the constitutive knowledge of the modern human being that is helpful for situating Girri's and Cadenas' later poetry, and which we can identify as posthumanist.
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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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An idle voice the sabbath region fills
Of Deep that calls to Deep across the hills, 355
And with that voice accords the soothing sound [90]
Of drowsy bells, for ever tinkling round;
Faint wail of eagle melting into blue
Beneath the cliffs, and pine-woods' steady _sugh_; [W]
The
solitary
heifer's deepened low; 360
Or rumbling, heard remote, of falling snow.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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the
monuments
which are left us of past
y.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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_ Urged by my love, by hope of empire fired,
'Tis true, I have
performed
what both required:
What fate decreed; for when great souls are given,
They bear the marks of sovereignty from heaven.
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Dryden - Complete |
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that such bulky bribes as all might see,
Still, as of old,
encumbered
villainy!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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That wikked wivere, 1010
Thus
causelees
is cropen in-to yow;
The harm of which I wolde fayn delivere!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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That both
Augustus and his minister were warmly
attached
to him, can not be
denied; but then it was as to a plaything.
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Satires |
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It
would be a mistaken idea to think that Treitschke,
vivaciously as he lectured, wrote his works with-
out
exhaustive
preparations.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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" There are
probably
few readers of The New Republic on Guadalcanal, but if there were, such reports might take their minds from their present troubles.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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Hankerings
for foreign things will sometimes haunt you,
The good so far one often finds;
Your real German man can't bear the French, I grant you,
And yet will gladly drink their wines.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Not
translated
in the Bohn.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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Funeral-torches at your gateway
Threw a
dreadful
light within.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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15 O man of blessed age and of venerable grey hair and of law-abiding life, whom the
faithful
seal of death has perfected!
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Roman Translations |
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performed the ceremony according to the prescribed ritual by inviting two Chinese monks to
participate
in order to make up the minimal assembly of five.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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the ruthless
insipidity
of
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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Compared with the errors of our ingenious friend,
Bismarck's "
political
eye " and his infallible judgment of
values and realities can be appreciated in its true light;
under a weak Regent, Unitarian Germany would have
become a new Poland under a violent one a second
Russia.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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My
inducement
hither
Was not at present here to find my son.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Compared with the errors of our ingenious friend,
Bismarck's "
political
eye " and his infallible judgment of
values and realities can be appreciated in its true light;
under a weak Regent, Unitarian Germany would have
become a new Poland under a violent one a second
Russia.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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Frederick the Great 189
their land and serfs as an
incontestable
legal maxim
in the face of the whole country.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Meanwhile, the Romans, having acquired a smattering
of Greek learning, began to draw up a scheme of studies
suitable
for
themselves.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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He could
see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than
consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it
would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate
with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back
from their decision to move was much more to do with their total
despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune
unlike
anything
experienced by anyone else they knew or were related
to.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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Come, thou cold and stiff
companion!
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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9:8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and
glorified
God,
which had given such power unto men.
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bible-kjv |
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[292] There are nine
examples
to explain how the
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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When Leake discovered the
waterfall
in 1806 the natives did not know the name Styx for it but called it the Black Water (Mavro nero) or the Dragon Water.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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O Hymen Hymenaeus io, O Hymen
Hymenaeus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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We are a
plain
downright
sort of people, as God would have it, and call figs, figs;
plums, plums; and pears, pears.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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The
spangling
dew dredged o'er the grass shall be
Turn'd all to mell and manna there for thee.
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Robert Herrick |
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Letters of Z- Krushiski to
Stanislas
Kozmian.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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,
FORTHESEEOFCLOGHER—
DEATH OF ST.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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"48
Much as Richard of Saint-Laurent had insisted they should be, these recitations of the Ave Maria were
typically
accompanied by genu ections, usually before her images, sometimes multiplied tens or even hundreds of times.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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It is also true that those who work for others must do so on terms that are
agreeable
to their employer as well as to them" selves.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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His youthful
impulse to epic, which had shattered on the
rocks of a conventional subject, still moved
him, and though the reader of Ovid's love-
poetry might gasp at the suggestion that it
would lead easily and
naturally
into epic, such
is the case.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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Termi- nologically, inwardness becomes a value and a posses- sion behind which it
entrenches
itself; and it is surreptitiously overcome by reification .
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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The
northern
winds now curl'd the black'ning main,
Our sails unfurl'd, we plough the tide again:
Round Afric's coast our winding course we steer,
Where, bending to the east, the shores appear.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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) She has been soon
afterwards
of misery and grief.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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And as she sleep, anoon-right tho hir mette, 925
How that an egle,
fethered
whyt as boon,
Under hir brest his longe clawes sette,
And out hir herte he rente, and that a-noon,
And dide his herte in-to hir brest to goon,
Of which she nought agroos, ne no-thing smerte, 930
And forth he fleigh, with herte left for herte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The education of Emily now began to
assume the regular form of lessons, and
the habits she had imbibed, when under
no controul, were gradually yielding to
the
admonitions
of Mrs.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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Copyright (c) 2000 Bell & Howell Information and
Learning
Company Copyright (c) New School of Social Research
?
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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When your
Catullus
stays away?
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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I
have my professional position and am well known in the courts--
especially for
collusion
and the corruption-agency which I keep for
credulous litigants.
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Lucian |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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]
[Footnote 49: In spite of the unheavenly nature of invective, of
something of a lurking conceit in the making an eclipse out of a blush,
and in the positive bathos, and I fear almost indecent irrelevancy of
the introduction of Beatrice at all on such an occasion, much more under
the feeble aspect of one young lady
blushing
for another,--this scene
altogether is a very grand one; and the violence itself of the holy
invective awful.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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It was as if a chirping brook
Upon a
toilsome
way
Set bleeding feet to minuets
Without the knowing why.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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In safety range the cattle o'er the mead:
Sweet Peace, soft Plenty, swell the golden grain:
O'er unvex'd seas the sailors blithely speed:
Fair Honour shrinks from stain:
No guilty lusts the shrine of home defile:
Cleansed is the hand without, the heart within:
The father's features in his children smile:
Swift
vengeance
follows sin.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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On the other hand
they demanded the surrender of
Raghunath
Rao and the restoration
of all territory acquired since hostilities commenced.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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Jam- goo Kongtriil Rinpoche took gelong vows along with Cham- goo Situ Rinpoche and Khyabje Gyaltsap Rinpoche, and was assisted by a master of
procedure
and other monks to complete the necessary number.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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By their company he was
not only guarded against the assaults of the world, but more and more
roused to the exercises of a
heavenly
life.
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bede |
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The children are found to have strong positive feelings towards both parents,
sentiments
that they later extend to others.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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but neither of them highly approved by her; yet, Jenny
says, they are both of them
handsome
men, and admired by the
ladies.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Presumably
the child brain is something like a notebook as one buys it from the stationer's.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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There's no hope so firm life will not belie it,
no
happiness
life will not wrest away.
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| Source: |
Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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He will begin
to suspect that the English poet is imitating the Roman, and that
the
depravity
is in part a reflected depravity.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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She had a true taste of wit and good sense, both in poetry and prose, and was a perfect good critic of style; neither was it easy to find a more proper or impartial judge, whose advice an author might better rely on, if he intended to send a thing into the world,
provided
it was on a subject that came within the compass of her knowledge.
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| Source: |
Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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XIX
There is a medlar-tree
Growing in front of my lover's house,
And there all day
The wind makes a
pleasant
sound.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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And then again I feel ashamed before myself: since I have hereby stretched out my hand for the highest garlands ever awarded to
humanity
.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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ao/A seriedade nervosa de Stendhal [Portuguese
translation
of publications [5.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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"
The child
probably
overheard their voices; for, looking up to the
window, with a bright, but naughty smile of mirth and intelligence,
she threw one of the prickly burrs at the Reverend Mr.
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| Source: |
Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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This Sdstra is the Kdranaprajndptisdstra,
analyzed
in Cosmologie bouddhique, p.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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Ebb Tide
When the long day goes by
And I do not see your face,
The old wild,
restless
sorrow
Steals from its hiding place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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When he struck a rock with his vajra, the vajra
penetrated
it like clay and dissolved into it.
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Waller, in his letter to Portland, tells him of the reasons which he
could urge with
resistless
efficacy in a personal conference; but he
overrated his own oratory; his vehemence, whether of persuasion or
entreaty, was returned with contempt.
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a wild and
wondrous
tale revealing
Of the drowned wreck of love below.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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Đã không duyên
trước
chăng mà,
Thì chi chút ước gọi là duyên sau.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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Nothing - not even old gardens
mirrored
by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the abandoned light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Increased
to eight, iv.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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For
translation
purposes, however,
it is safe to count the Chinese months as always one later by our
calendar than the number given would seem to imply.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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Oh 1 why did he sing me that song,
I threw him the ring from my hand
Bitter and
treacherous
wrong
That sought me with fetters to brand.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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_The
Ultimate
Constituents of Matter_ 125
VIII.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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Monica Zobel
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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A
continuation
of the storm, with a short discourse on the subject of
making testaments at sea.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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I fretted and fumed and took to arguing with
myself whether or no I would talk openly with Kurtz; but before I could
come to any
conclusion
it occurred to me that my speech or my silence,
indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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WRITTEN IN THE
EUGANEAN
HILLS, NORTH ITALY.
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Golden Treasury |
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The fee is
owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
has agreed to donate royalties under this
paragraph
to the
Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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1585, were absorbed in speculations on the
phenomena
of nature,
in perfecting his knowledge of the transmutation of metals, and of distil-
1ation:>>i(ot that he ever supposed that he could make gold, or that any
man of sense could be induced to inquire into this subject, although the
study of alchemy was then common, but his only object was to obtain a
more intimate acquaintance with nature, in regard to which the greatest
physicians of our time can bear witness to his extensive knowledge, and
to the many discoveries which he communicated to others, who thereby
gained honor instead of him.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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How does he conquer every
element?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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When Marcus and Epictetus add that "what troubles us is our judgment about things, " they are clearly
alluding
to the discourse which it is within our power to pronounce within ourselves, in order to de ne r ourselves the meaning ofa given event.
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