No sooner had she tolde
These wordes, but Cupid opening
streight
his quiver chose therefro
One arrow (as his mother bade) among a thousand mo.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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The tale must attract the reader
for its own sake; but its object is missed unless it
attracts
him
further to study its source.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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And it is well-known and clearly
established
that the same is true of the Kings of France, who cured disorders of the lymph glands with the touch of a thumb.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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7 Strange, that they should have so far degenerated from their ancestors, that, when the valour of the
citizens
had been for many ages a wall to the city, the citizens could not now think themselves secure unless they had walls to shelter them.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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So when I'd said good-by to the creeturs,– I remember just
as plain how Ben put his great neck on my shoulder and whin-
nied like a baby; that horse knew when the season came round
and I was going in, just as well as I did, -I
tinkered
up the
barnyard fence, and locked the doors, and went in to supper.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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" "If, by the necessity of the thing,"
he says, "manufactures should once be
established
and take
root among us, they will pave the way, still more, to the
future grandeur and glory of America, and by lessening its
need of external commerce, will render it still securer
against the encroachments of tyranny.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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At the time of Sanctions, Quisling's party was for
Norwegian
neutrality.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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By means of an argument of transparent clearness, conveyed in
a style congenial to the theme, but revealing, here and there, the
author's power of giving expression to strong feeling, it demon-
strates that European progress is due to the spirit of rationalism,
the
opposite
of that of theological dogmatism, just as the tolerance
demanded by reason is adverse to the persecution engendered by
bigotry.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax
treatment
of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Petrarch |
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’ and
endless
extempore
prayers — but their behaviour passed all bounds.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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They
received
the
right of city, but not the title of colony.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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He said: Firm orderly discourse, we accept a fel- low, but is he the real thing, or is it just
gravity?
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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À côté de
ce Septuor,
certaines
phrases de la sonate que seules le public
connaissait, apparaissaient comme tellement banales qu'on ne pouvait pas
comprendre comment elles avaient pu exciter tant d'admiration.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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12 If a fateful greatness is recognized in the
empowerment
to construction, it is because with the emancipation of constructing, the compulsion to make history and suffer has also come into force at the same time.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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" In so much as God
commanded
the People by
the mouth of the Prophet Jeremiah (chap.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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Secondly, that he was an enemy to the gospel of Christ, so that he was counted among the priests one of the principal maintainers and
defenders
of the law.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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'Three roots bear up Dominion: Knowledge, Will,--
These twain are strong, but
stronger
yet the third,--
Obedience,--'tis the great tap-root that still,
Knit round the rock of Duty, is not stirred,
Though Heaven-loosed tempests spend their utmost skill.
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James Russell Lowell |
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For it may mean: "We represent something to ourselves as good, when
and because we desire (will) it"; or "We desire something because we
represent it to ourselves as good," so that either the desire
determines the notion of the object as a good, or the notion of good
determines the desire (the will); so that in the first case sub
ratione boni would mean, "We will something under the idea of the
good"; in the second, "In
consequence
of this idea," which, as
determining the volition, must precede it.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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The note to 'An Evening Walk'
dictated
to
Miss Fenwick (see p.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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gave, with some of the ill-constituted minds that are ever on the
titter, a ridiculous
direction
to a remark intended, I believe, for
the paint and wainscots, etc.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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All our money is gone and we are passing, I assure thee,
very
difficult
days.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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Inasmuch as the place of discovery was a small country town to which
new works of literature would not likely
penetrate
immediately on
publication, and since in any case an expensive book is almost sure to
be preserved longer than day-by-day business papers, we seem quite
justified in setting the date of publication back some twenty-five or
even fifty years.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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inclusum
bux-|-o ant \ oricia.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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Could we believe the statement of Dr Price that the population of
England has decreased since the Revolution, it would even appear that
the effectual funds for the
maintenance
of labour had been declining
during the progress of wealth in other respects.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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174
Sent to fetch the fleece, Jason called in the help of Argus, son of Phrixus; and Argus, by Athena's advice, built a ship of fifty oars named Argo after its builder; and at the prow Athena fitted in a
speaking
timber from the oak of Dodona.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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"
Apart from that, once beautiful
appearance
had been clearly demar- cated, one could again draw on science.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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s B unique best
response
is to send no transfers: bt = 0:
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DeO?
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Schwarz - Committments |
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Roused by his Ilia's
plaintive
woes,
He vows revenge for guiltless blood,
And, spite of Jove, his banks o'erflows,
Uxorious flood.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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'
The threefold polemic of a critique of power, a struggleagainst tradi- tion and an
attackon
prejudices belongs to the accepted understand-
ing of Enlightenment.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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De-la-Tour, conceiving them to be
officers
of the customs, with out any warning whatever, fired several shots into the boat, which killed one man, and desperately
wounded two others ; and then, without attempting to make a landing, stood out to sea.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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5
Wherever
a young man roams
The Fates in ambush lie
6 What good that young men have
Did you lack in your life?
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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But natheles, this ilke Diomede
Gan in him-self assure, and thus he seyde, 870
`If ich aright have taken of yow hede,
Me
thinketh
thus, O lady myn, Criseyde,
That sin I first hond on your brydel leyde,
Whan ye out come of Troye by the morwe,
Ne coude I never seen yow but in sorwe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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There shall be to thee the
possession
of every good, without
fear of losing it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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Poor Miss Bulstrode, whose
voice was
Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman,
has not lived to fame in an
altogether
happy fashion, as the subject
of some tortured and tasteless _Epicedes_, a coarse and brutal Epigram
by Jonson (_An Epigram on the Court Pucell_ in _Underwoods_,--Jonson
told Drummond that the person intended was Mris Boulstred), a
complimentary, not to say adulatory, _Epitaph_ from the same pen, and
a dubious _Elegy_ by Sir John Roe ('Shall I goe force an Elegie,' p.
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Donne - 2 |
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The
realization
of music was, at least until recently , the interlinear version of the score.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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If it takes more time to start a car than to stop one, you may be unable to give me the "last clear chance" to avoid collision by
vacating
the street.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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O how past
descriving
had then been my bliss,
As now my distraction nae words can express.
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burns |
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Because a theory can only be critical, no matter what critical semantics it transports, if it annuls in the worst of all possible directions its kinetic complicity with the
movement
of the world processes.
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Sloterdijk |
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As a
very distinguished flirt I have always been taught to consider her, but
it has lately fallen in my way to hear some particulars of her conduct
at Langford: which prove that she does not confine herself to that sort
of honest
flirtation
which satisfies most people, but aspires to the
more delicious gratification of making a whole family miserable.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Puis
arrivait
l'heure de partir, elle me quittait.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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He in his wonderful Providence hath made me and others concerned, Instruments, not only for what is already fallen out, but, I believe, for hastening some other great Work he hath to do in these Kingdoms ; whereby he will try and purge his People, and winnow the Chaff from the Wheat ; the Lord keep those that are his,
faithful
unto the End.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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Dein
entschlagen
will ich mich,
weil weil mich deine Antwort flieht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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By these losses Artaxerxes
understood
what was his
best method of making war.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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But beef is rare within these oxless isles;
Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton;
And, when a holiday upon them smiles,
A joint upon their
barbarous
spits they put on:
But this occurs but seldom, between whiles,
For some of these are rocks with scarce a hut on;
Others are fair and fertile, among which
This, though not large, was one of the most rich.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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g :i
gi ii
EiiltEiiEEL*e?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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Upon this consideration, and indeed very much for my own satisfaction, who had few friends or
acquaintance
in Ireland, I prevailed with her and her dear friend and companion, the other lady, to draw what money they had into Ireland, a great part of their fortune being in annuities upon funds.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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Yea, and
sullenly
down
Into its hiding town,
Even though the lightning were still in its heart,
The broken dragon, drawing in its fury,
Had croucht to mend its shatter'd malice,
Had lifted its head again and spat against God.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Wittman (2003) considers appeasement in a static setting and
argues that it should be
possible
to redraw the map so that peace becomes a self enforcing outcome.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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Penelop~
has been weavmg during the day, unravelling at night.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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But before I enter upon a
description
of the contest itself, I
think it will not be amiss to say a few words about each of the
personages taking part in my story.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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Tormented, drug-addicted, possibly involved
incestuously
with his sister, the Austrian Trakl died in 1914, an apparent suicide at age twen- ty-seven.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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the
establishment
of a phallic will of its own against the dictatorship of mothers.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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'
Notes: I have altered the position of the
reference
to Luserna in the poem for clarity.
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Troubador Verse |
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The journal gives us, day by day, the
experience
of the world as it exists round about us, ready to avouch the truth of the journalist—gives, day by day, and week by week, the experience of the whole world's doings for the amusement and the guidance of each individual living man.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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In his public speeches, he
severely
reprimanded the plotters, but promised the citizens that he would strive to secure their liberty, and to protect them in it.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The ass and the
acanthis
are enemies; for the bird
lives on thistles, and the ass browses on thistles when they are young
and tender.
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Aristotle |
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The mango tree was
shedding
its flowers upon the village road,
and the bees came humming one by one.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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When Tiamat, the old foul worm from hell,
Lay coiled and nested in the unmade world,
All the loose stuff dragg'd with her rummaging tail
And packt about her belly in a form,
Where she could hutch herself and bark at Heaven,--
The god's bright soldier, Bel,
fashioned
a wind;
And when her jaws began her whining rage
Against him, into her guts he shot the wind
And rent the membranes of her life.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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At most, he was able to give a rea sonably convincing account of a single chain of cul tural generations - not just any chain, however, but
31
Franz Borkenau and Derrida
rather the sequence in which the main protagonists of the
occidental
cultural drama are involved.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its
divisions
and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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With your old eyes
Do you hope to see
The
triumphal
march of Justice?
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Stephen Crane |
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Many on the council are affiliated with the Democratic Party, however, and their civic and service agen- das are sympathetic to the
platform
of the Democratic Leadership Council
80 John M.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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For
forensic
purposes, for all the established
professions of society, this is sufficient.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying,
performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works
unless you comply with
paragraph
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Not on its base
Monadnoc
surer stood,
Than he to common sense and common good:
No mimic; from his breast his counsel drew,
Believed the eloquent was aye the true;
He bridged the gulf from th' alway good and wise
To that within the vision of small eyes.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I wish to be
remembered
in love to my aged mother, and
friends; please tell her that if we should never meet again
in this life, my prayer shall be to God that we may meet in
Heaven, where parting shall be no more.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep
providing
this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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Oh, when the spirit is sore fretted, even
tired to sickness of the janglings and nonsense-noises of the
world, what a balm and a solace it is to go and seat yourself for
a quiet half-hour upon some
undisputed
corner of a bench among
the gentle Quakers!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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nchsberg Hl
Hohenburg 112
Kaspar Hauser Lied 113>>
DER HERBST DES EINSAMEN
Die
Verfluchten
117
Sonja 119
Entlang 120
Der Herbst des Einsamen 121
Herbstseele 122
Afra 123
Ein Winterabend 124
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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For if he had been
oppressed
with death, there could nothing have been hoped for at his hands.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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We should take comfort from the thought
that, since the appetite for wonder is fed so much more satisfyingly by real science, it ought to be a simple matter of
education
to combat superstition.
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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However, the spread was very uneven; and so, despite high capital mobility, initially the
cyclical
regimes in different sectors and countries were disjoined and out of step with one another.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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And thou, send up to us the
righteous
boon
For which we pray: thine aids be heaven and earth,
And justice guide the right to victory,
[_To the Chorus_
Thus have I prayed, and thus I shed these streams,
And follow ye the wont, and as with flowers
Crown ye with many a tear and cry the dirge,
Your lips ring out above the dead man's grave.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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onweald ge-tēah (_gave him power over,
possession
of, both_), 1044.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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This would not in other cases be
in accordance with the
systematic
process by which a science is
established, since matters which have been decided ought only to be
cited and not again discussed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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No farmer
carrying
his
corn to market doubts the sale of it at the market price.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shelley copy |
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Erskine,
afterwards
Lord Erskine.
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Once she had received these precepts from her teacher, mTsho-rgyal kept them all without even considering deviating from them, not even in the
slightest
way for the shortest period of time.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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The two great gulfs, for so they may be called, at the
north and south of the strait, which present a large
surface to every storm that blows, and receive the
whole force of the Archipelago, communicate with
each other at this narrow shallow channel; so that the
Euripus may be a sort of barometer, indicative of every
change, and of
whatever
rising and falling of the tide,
not visible in the open expanse of waters there may be
in these seas.
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Molaissi
Mac Ua Necte
Article V.
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Then had my parents taken and wept over us together, and laid us with several rites on one funeral pile, and so
gathered
all those ashes in one golden urn and buried them in the land of our birth.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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Feminism : Rousseau, the reign of feeling, evidence showing the
sovereignty
of the senses;
all lies.
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It included a club beaten out of refined gold, with a large lion skin
engraved
on it, and a quiver fashioned from the same material, filled with arrows and a bow.
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'Five minutes ago Hareton seemed a
personification
of my youth, not a
human being; I felt to him in such a variety of ways, that it would have
been impossible to have accosted him rationally.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Cuthbert and
Winifred Burbage in 1635 testify that
Shakespeare
was an active
player in 1613.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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“There are always a good many of them here,” answered
Pavel; “but they are only
troublesome
in the winter.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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We meet with an entry, at the 1 8th of May, in the published Martyrology of Tallagh,^
regarding
Midgus mac Eire, of Cill Taillten.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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The CIA clandestine army had swept through the Plain of Jars in the
preceding
months, evacuating all re- maining civilians to areas near Vientiane, where they and their harrow- ing stories were largely ignored by the well-represented media, although available elsewhere.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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"12 His language is remarkably similar to
Secretary
McNamara's.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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Alternatively
one might have a complete system of logical inference "built in.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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Seeks
admission
there in guise of a servant.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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Do you
understand
what I say?
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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” Then
he pulled such a grimace that everyone near us rocked with
laughter
at
my expense.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Argus tumbled the still
insensible
man into the boat by
the head and heels, and they ran across the harbor, landing at
the quay below the house.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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For the Anniversary of John Keats' Death
(February 23, 1821)
At midnight when the moonlit cypress trees
Have woven round his grave a magic shade,
Still weeping the
unfinished
hymn he made,
There moves fresh Maia like a morning breeze
Blown over jonquil beds when warm rains cease.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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Of what
quantity
is the penultimate of supines in ututn,
of more than two syllables?
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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