Who wants to attribute clear sight to wearers of black eye patches, to allow them to define the state of
evolution?
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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In anger she sent the
Calydonian
boar to ravage his land.
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The case ol Celina, who entered Charcot's
department
in 1870: ibid.
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The
vessel on which they were returning was
frozen fast in the ice, and the child was
obliged to
continue
the journey on foot
with his father in the midst of the rigors
of a Kussian winter.
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God Willing
THE POEMS OF BION,
TRANSLATED
BY J.
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Bion |
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" The great minis ters having heard these words, their hearts were filled with joy, and they could not contain
themselves
for gladness of heart.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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Thispattern
has been suppressed by the local clergy, for many years back.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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Others shoulder the
ponderous
bier, sad service of death
Some in ancestral fashion the lighted torches beneath
Hold with averted eyes.
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She news which sorely grieve the warrior shows;
And thus begin: "My lord, your cousin dear,
To whom its safety Church and Empire owes,
Roland,
erewhile
so honoured and so sage,
Now roves the world, possest with frantic rage.
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mandata]
subject of liquire understood.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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He travelled to Greece and
Constantinople
on his way to Jerusalem, returning through Egypt, Tunisia and Spain.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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As early summer drew near, the ritual and
logistical
preparations for the Panathenaia began in earnest.
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This tomb is erected by his
sorrowing
mother to her dearly
beloved son.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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The Firbolg numbers North Britain, and setted the Hebrides, and near
In the first century, the Firbolg race revolted, and having
formed a conspiracy to wrest the monarchy from the Milesians,
they invited their princes and chiefs to a great assembly and
banquet in Connaught, where they massacred vast numbers of
them, seized upon the sovereignty, and set up as king one of their
own race named Carbry Ceancait, or Carbry Cathead, so called, afterwards acquired any authority Ireland, being reduced the
it is said, from his ears resembling those of a cat; and he reigned,
according
to the Four Masters, from A.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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" It
is probable that the acrimony of the critic's temper was
heightened
by the narrowness of his circum stances.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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Augustus sororis suæ nepotum
delegavit
curam," etc.
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Satires |
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I
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up of to
on
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in to he
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toto of
2d
in atItoto it IIin,he
to
to of of
his of in
in
his
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he to to
a
in
weof
by he toin
toto aI
go
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to
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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Has that sweet sister of the cruel Pallantides
Ever been involved in her brothers'
perfidies?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Their ears are all made of the leaves
of plane-trees,
excepting
those that come of acorns, for they only have
them made of wood.
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Lucian - True History |
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Thus it is only by starting with such a coincidence that he can apply the concept of 'contraction' to the
relationship
which is formed
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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In the fifth place, we may bring about
a dislocation of our powers by imposing upon our-
selves a particularly
difficult
and fatiguing task, or
by deliberately submitting to some new charm and
pleasure in order thus to turn our thoughts and
physical powers into other channels.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
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confirmed
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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We
hope to see it regarded as a
handmaid
of evolution, just as are the
other sciences; we hope to see it linked with the great biological
movement of the present day, for the betterment of mankind.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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Non eravam partiti già da ello,
Ch' i' vidi duo
ghiacciati
in una buca
Si, che l'un capo a l'altro era capello:
E come 'l pan per fame si manduca,
Così 'l sovran li denti a l'altro pose
Là've 'l cervel s'aggiunge con la nuca.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Impossible'’
‘Yes, I have I’ve got to make a pair of
jackboots
’
‘You’ve got to make a pair of what?
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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Ourselves, to meet her faithfulness,
Shall play a faithful part;
Her beautiful shall ne'er address
The monstrous at our heart:
Her musical shall ever touch
Something
within us also such.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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The names of trans-
lators were omitted in listing
magazine
articles.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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I pluck
chrysanthemums
under the eastern hedge,
Then gaze long at the distant summer hills.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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2806 (#378) ###########################################
2806
EDMUND BURKE
who was willing to relax his authority, to remit his prerogatives,
to call his people to a share of freedom not known, perhaps not
desired, by their ancestors: such a prince, though he should be
subjected to the common frailties attached to men and to princes,
though he should have once thought it necessary to provide
force against the desperate designs manifestly carrying on against
his person and the
remnants
of his authority, - though all this
should be taken into consideration, I shall be led with great
difficulty to think he deserves the cruel and insulting triumph of
Paris and of Dr.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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The Cooper o' Cuddy came here awa,
He ca'd the girrs out o'er us a';
An' our
gudewife
has gotten a ca',
That's anger'd the silly gudeman O.
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burns |
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Surely we were of all nations the least
liable to any
temptation
of vanity at a time when the gravest anxiety
and the keenest sorrow were never absent from our hearts.
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James Russell Lowell |
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nature,
and
incorruptible
integrity.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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If to this
tremendous appearance be added a succession at certain intervals of
similar emigrations, we shall not be much surprised that the fears of
the timid nations of the South
represented
the North as a region
absolutely swarming with human beings.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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It is
inseparable
from the success story of freedom.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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I found the phrase: Le temps present est gras d'avenir,8
apparently
current at that time (1798).
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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But,
plunging
into Joyce's books, we plunge into a kind of Dublin.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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Gardner, with
8 full page
illustrations
in color by Charles Folkard.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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--snatched me from a
horrible
and
excruciating death!
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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And if you did steal there is no very
great harm in it : nowadays
everybody
steals.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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And in
reciting
or singing all these,
how would his power of terse, idiomatic expression, his sense of poetic
beauty and his ear for rhythm and music be developed!
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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4] But for him Poseidon had made ready a house under the earth
constructed
by Hephaestus.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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His closest
lows the
breaking
of moral law.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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a de nosotros las posibilidades
de sacar una foto con
nuestras
ca?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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Now what force should be able to consume it thus far,
without the breath of God, which is the truest
consuming
flame, my
Philosophy cannot inform me.
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Donne - 2 |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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A
worshipper
raised his arm.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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Thus they went on living as if it had constantly
been renewed, and gradually, when oblivion cast its
* The play on
Freudenschaften
{i.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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Even
Baudelaire
had his sane moments.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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In this manner, the
vitalists
believed they could save philosophy by taking leave of it philosophically.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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As he was of
surpassing
beauty, the Moon fell in love with him, and Zeus allowed him to choose what he would, and he chose to sleep for ever, remaining deathless and ageless.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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Maginn was one of the staff, and
many
anecdotes
are current of the glorious sayings and doings of that time; but Maginn was, like greater
too irregular for the punctual duties of a daily Paper, and he gradually dropped off, leaving his post to be filled by Alaric Watts, who held it for a time.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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From the linguistic perspective this viewpoint "upholds the doctrine of in- effability, that nothing can be predicated of anything else, that any de-
scription
of emptiness is useless, all being equally distant from the ulti- mate.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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The Welsh and
Latin forms and the scriptural
quotations
point to the early part of
the tenth century, and, at the same time, attest the Celtic nationality
of the author.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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»
Et puis, Quelqu'un paraît, que tous avaient nié,
Et qui leur dit,
railleur
et fier: «Dans mon ciboire,
Vous avez, que je crois, assez communié,
A la joyeuse Messe noire?
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Through deliberations of this kind at the height of unblemished ruth- lessness, one can encounter a form of anxiety that would curdle the blood of motley rebels and local hate projects if they were capable of
envisioning
the great strategic perspectives.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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Today*one is almost tempted to say: today, all of a sudden*''incarnation'' is back, back as a signifier that points to a vague desire in our present and perhaps, altogether, to an unclear future promise, rather than to the complex history of elaborate
theological
meanings with which the word had long been related.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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The board
reported
that he ought to be considered as a
spy, and according to the laws and usages of nations, to
suffer death, which was executed two days after.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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True, every possible
care has been taken to avoid such errors; and every
nerve was
strained
by the translators to reproduce the
racy, witty.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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"
But I, grown shrewder, scan the skies
With a
suspicious
air, --
As children, swindled for the first,
All swindlers be, infer.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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There wilt thou find, if thou wilt thither post,
Whatever
thou on earth beneath hast lost.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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'A
conscious acceptance'; for it is with George, in whom all is
deliberate, not merely the question of an influence unconsciously
imbibed, but of a
decision
taken.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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Universal
obligatory
military service for young men and the universal obligation to read the classics for young people of both genders were characteristic of the classical bourgeois state, recalling a period of armed and literate humanity on which the new and old conservatives of today look back, simultaneously helpless and nostalgic and completely unable to provide a media theoretical justification for the importance of a literary canon.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and
pursued my voyage through the
wildernesses
of worlds leaving my
track on many a star and planet.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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I had a trunk of immense weight, for, besides my
clothes, it
contained
nearly all my library.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Universal
obligatory
military service for young men and the universal obligation to read the classics for young people of both genders were characteristic of the classical bourgeois state, recalling a period of armed and literate humanity on which the new and old conservatives of today look back, simultaneously helpless and nostalgic and completely unable to provide a media theoretical justification for the importance of a literary canon.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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There was no
other opening; so that the very light of day had
scarcely
admittance, or
the inmates a place to breathe at.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Schipper, ''Taoist
Ordination
Ranks in the Tunhuang Manuscripts,'' in Religion und Philosophie in Ostasien: Festschrift f u ?
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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According to
differences
(of which of these situations your mind) is stable in and which it is not, there are three (types of people) : gre1t.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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The manner in which they took up our
proceedings
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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A force de lui demander si elle ne
désirait
pas être coiffée, Françoise
finit par se persuader que la demande venait de ma grand'mère.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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He hates
whatever
succeeds,
as the eunuchs hate those who enjoy; he is one of the serpents of
literature who nourish themselves on dirt and spite; he is a
_folliculaire_.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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the olIves grey over grey holdIng walls and theIr leaves turn under SClrocco
la scalza 10 son' la luna
and they have broken my house
the huntress m broken plaster keeps watch no longer
tempora, tempora and as to mores
by BabylonIan wall (memorat Cheever) out of hIs bas relIef, for that line
we recall hIm
and who's dead, and who Isn't
and wIll the world ever take up Its course agaIn")
very
confidentIally
I ask you WIl11t) wIth Dleudonne dead and burled
not even a wall, or Mouquln, or VOISIn or the cake shops In the Nevsky
The GreIf, yes, I suppose, and Schoners and perhaps the Taverna and Robert's
but La Rupe no longer la Rupe, finlto Pre Catalan, Armenonville, Builier extInct as WIlly and there are I suppose
no reprInts
Teofile's brlcabrac Cocteau's brlcabrac seadrift snOWln' 'em under
every man to his Junk-shop
houses shd/have been bUllt In the '80'S (or'60'S) for a' that
but EIleen's trIck sunlIght softens London's November progress, b h yrjprogress
453
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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And the first proposition that the
commissioners
made after their meeting together, and before they
entered upon debate of the public, was, " that his
" majesty would add to the council of Scotland,
" which should reside near his person, the chancellor
" atid treasurer of England, the general, the marquis
" of Ormond, and secretary Nicholas, who should
" be always present when any thing should be de-
" bated and resolved concerning that kingdom :"
which desire, so different from any that had been in
times past, persuaded the king that their intentions
430 CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF
IOC I.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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In man, the
memory is a kind of looking-glass, which, having received the images
of surrounding objects, is touched with life, and
disposes
them in a
new order.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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Sherlock Holmes is an amateur, solving his
problems without the help and even, in the earlier stories, against the
opposition
of the
police.
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Orwell |
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At the
beginning
it solemnly avers that it would willingly believe everything, if only it could find someone to con- vince it.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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A mandatory 3 percent of
salaries
went into the schemes and then into the stock market, but with the controversial reform only workers choosing that option will contribute as the overwhelming majority are now covered by the traditional state social security regime.
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Kleiman International |
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They are built ^vith stones of
considerable
size.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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For the heart of man must seek and wander, 5
Ask and question and
discover
knowledge;
Yet above all goodly things is wisdom,
And love greater than all understanding.
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Não sei se foi num quadro ou se foi no campo real, ao pé de árvores e ervas
contemporâneas
do corpo; foi num quadro talvez, tão idílica e legível é a memória que de ti conservo.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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He bribed Myrtilus, son of
Mercury, the
charioteer
of CEnomatis, to leave out the
linchpins of the wheels of his chariot, or, as others
say, to put in waxen ones instead of iron.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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Thought acquires its depth from
penetrating
deeply into a matter, not from referring it back to something else.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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When I awoke, I lay mid friends and foes,
And earnest
countenances
on me shed _1825
The light of questioning looks, whilst one did close
My wound with balmiest herbs, and soothed me to repose;
13.
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Shelley copy |
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All things being thus adjusted, and the place of
the treaty being on all hands agreed to be Breda,
and notice being sent from Paris, " that their am-
" bassadors were
departed
from thence ;" the king
thought himself as much concerned in the expedition
in respect of the cessation, which the French pro-
mised to obtain in the very entrance into the treaty ;
and it was now the month of May.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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At length, when his army was sufficiently restored and had been adequately
exercised
in the use of the new arms, he broke up and marched slowly along the coast into southern Italy.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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And who can wonder that the Poles should see in the ca-
lamities which have successively
overwhelmed
the House
of Hapsburg since the date of the wrongs of 1846 the
just punishment of one of the greatest crimes ever regis-
tered in history?
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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Those who were unmounted jumped upon the
leiter-waggon and shouted to the
horsemen
not to desert them.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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Consequently, there can be no interchange of feelings
and
thoughts
between us; each of us knows all he cares to know about
the other, and that knowledge is all he wants.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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De veteribus
collectionibus
canonum.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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He certainly was not a manufacturer; nor was he
a merchant or a
gentleman
farmer.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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He
appeared
faithful toward his friends, the most eminent of whom were Maecenas on account of his taciturnity, Agrippa on account of his endurance and the self-effacedness of his labor.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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If he had really meant that the eucharist should he a mere
commemorative celebration of his death, is it conceivable that he would let
these disciples go away from him upon such a gross
misunderstanding?
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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Her
Fanscombe Barn, with its jolly beggars, is a tolerable parody of
the Miltonic (written a few years after The Splendid Shilling);
but her 'Pindaricks,
including
The Spleen, issued separately
in a miscellany of 1701, as well as in the volume of 1713, are
unbearable.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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Old War-Dreams
In midnight sleep of many a face of anguish,
Of the look at first of the mortally wounded, (of that indescribable look,)
Of the dead on their backs with arms
extended
wide,
I dream, I dream, I dream.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But this is an event which may take place very slowly, as
it should be remarked that a rise in the price of labour had preceded
the rise of provisions, and would, therefore, impede the good effects
upon agriculture, which the
increased
value of the produce of the land
might otherwise have occasioned.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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In order to exempt it from
the stamp-tax, and likewise to
contribute
as little as possible to the
supposed guilt of a war against freedom, it was to be published on every
eighth day, thirty-two pages, large octavo, closely printed, and price
only four-pence.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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He was quite
considerably
learned in literature and was called by many "Greekling.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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