After a terrible hurricane, in which the fleet was separated, the Swallow sloop sprung her main-mast, and not only lost her gib-boom, but her top-masts also, and with great
difficulty
made the port of Lisbon in safety.
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Funeral
Libation
(At Gautier's Tomb)
To you, gone emblem of our happiness!
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For Xerxes drew a large
contingent of his army from the Ionian cities which he had subdued, and
many who were
unwilling
to serve against their mother-country may have
taken refuge about that time in Athens.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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Nearly all the individual works in
the
collection
are in the public domain in the United States.
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After having vied with
returned
favours squandered treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The sack of many-peopled towns
Is all their dream:
The way they take
Leaves but a ruin in the brake,
And, in the furrow that the plowmen make,
A
stampless
penny; a tale, a dream.
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HORACE
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so far as Horace aspires to be didactic,
constitute
the sum and sub-
stance of his teaching.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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Even the fine coda (which did not form part of the
original
edition
of the poem) dates itself a little too definitely; and the suicide
passage, to name no other, is somewhat rhetorical, if not even
melodramatic.
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460 Therefore, it was meet that the new kingdom of Christ should be thus furnished and beautified with this furniture, that all men might know that that promised visitation of the Lord was present; and it was also expedient that it should last but for a short time, lest the faithful should always wait for some farther thing, or lest that curious wits might have
occasion
given to seek or invent some new thing ever now and then.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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Charles II, who, in 1673, had
received
him kindly as a visitor from
Scotland, and had shown himself pleased with what he had read
in manuscript of The Memoires of the Hamiltons, he found con-
siderably cooled towards him at a second audience in the following
year.
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424: named from the chorus of young Athe-
nian cavaliers who abet the sausage-seller, Agoracritus, egged on by
the discontented family servants (the generals), Nicias and Demos-
thenes, to outbid with
shameless
flattery the rascally Paphlagonian
steward, Cleon, and supplant him in the favor of their testy bean-fed
old master, Demos (or People).
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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Supported
by Mithradates against the Romans, 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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It is clearly very difficult, however, to unify indiscursivity and absolute indifference - in which all multiplicity, considered in itself, must be dissolved - with the conception of a systematic
development
of identity.
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On the effect of the Edict, see Girard,
Manuel
élémentaire
de Droit Romain, 3rd edn, p.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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whom unarm'd
No strength of man, or fiercest wild beast could withstand;
Who tore the Lion, as the Lion tears the Kid,
Ran on embattelld Armies clad in Iron,
And
weaponless
himself, 130
Made Arms ridiculous, useless the forgery
Of brazen shield and spear, the hammer'd Cuirass,
Chalybean temper'd steel, and frock of mail
Adamantean Proof;
But safest he who stood aloof,
When insupportably his foot advanc't,
In scorn of thir proud arms and warlike tools,
Spurn'd them to death by Troops.
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Milton |
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All ye my mother's suitors, though addict
To
contumacious
wrangling fierce, suspend
Your clamour, for a course to me it seems
More decent far, when such a bard as this,
Godlike, for sweetness, sings, to hear his song.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The part "
consciousness
" plays.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Apuleius’ novel is clearly later than Lucian’s because of rich and
notable
additions
to the plot of the epitome _Lucius or Ass_.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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In the first place, Virgil has not escaped the injury which has been done to
subsequent
poets by the example of the length and the subject-matter of Homer.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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in the state prison of Nevada, in Carson City, D A Turner, had served during the war as commander of the medical corps of the US army; his contribution consisted in transferring the experiences of the military use of hydrocyanic acid to
conditions
of civil execution.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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Henry Swabey, Lindsell Vicarage, Chelmsford, Essex, England, for
proposed
Bill of Rights/ useful subject for some stewed-dent's thesis re/''on which he leans.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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But it shall
accommodate
and bend itself to you!
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Hostile the cities, friendly are the woods
To
thoughts
like mine, which, on this lofty hill,
Mingle their murmur with the moaning waves,
Through the sweet silence of the spangled night,
So that the livelong day I wait the eve,
When the sun sets and rises the fair moon.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Look here at your mind, and practice
meditation
free from discursive thought.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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This same will has at its service an
apparently opposed impulse of the spirit, a suddenly
adopted preference of ignorance, of arbitrary
shutting out, a closing of windows, an inner denial
of this or that, a prohibition to approach, a sort of
defensive attitude against much that is knowable, a
contentment with obscurity, with the shutting-in
horizon, an acceptance and approval of ignorance:
as that which is all necessary according to the degree
of its appropriating power, its“
digestive
power,” to
speak figuratively (and in fact“ the spirit” resembles
a stomach more than anything else).
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Contains (though in
different
order):
A.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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If a very large number of people fall victim to accid- ents today, in comparison to earlier times, this seems to me to indicate something
structural
in the experience of death: that to the precise extent that we are relatively autonomous beings aware of ourselves, we experience death, or even a serious illness, as a misfortune which comes upon us from outside.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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377
on the sixteenth of August, he writes, -- "I wrote you by
the last post, in which I
informed
you that I had taken com-
mand of my corps.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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Believe me, my
brethren!
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courses |
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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(Exeunt Guests: he
conducts
them to the door.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Of all the kings (the god's
distinguished
care)
To power superior none such hatred bear;
Strife and debate thy restless soul employ,
And wars and horrors are thy savage joy.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:08 GMT / http://hdl.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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The white skeletons of human beings who had perished at
sea, and had sunk down into the deep waters, skeletons of land
animals, oars, rudders, and chests of ships were lying tightly grasped
by their
clinging
arms; even a little mermaid, whom they had caught
and strangled; and this seemed the most shocking of all to the
little princess.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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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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'yam ihdbhidharmakosalaksano 'bhidharma uktah kim esa eva
sdstrdbhidharmo
jndnaprasthanddhilaksano desito'ta idam ucyate / kdsmiravaibhd- sikanitisiddha iti vistarah / kasmire bhavdh kdsmirdh / vibhdsayd divyanti vaibhdsikd iti vydkhydtam etat / santi kdsmird na vaibhdsikd ye vinayacintddayah sautrdntikd ity bhadantddayah / santi vaibhdsikd na kdsmird ye bahirdesakd ity ubhayavisesanam // tesdm nitydyah siddho 'bhidharmah sa prayeneha mayd desitah / arthdd uktam bhavati / anyanitisiddho'pi desita iti // ?
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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That breathed a death-like peace these woods around;
The
cloister
startles .
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William Wordsworth |
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"An Enigma,"
addressed
to Mrs.
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Poe - 5 |
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3 All this natural waste is not, however,
unproductive
and monoto- nous.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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For him, the existence of radical evil is
accompanied
by the experience of the radical absence of meaning.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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Living shall forfeit fair renown,
And doubly dying shall go down
To the vile earth from whence he sprung,
Unwept,
unhonoured
and unsung.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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Ronsard refers to Neo-Platonic
metaphysics
in criticising Plato's 'Idealism'.
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Data Science webinar schedule |
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Submit,question,question |
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Ronsard |
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220 A Clergyman’s Daughter
‘Go on, Rose, you lazy little cat’ Pick them ’ops up’ I’ll warm your a — for you 1 ’
etc , etc
Quite half the pickers m the set were gypsies-there were not less than two
hundred of them m the camp Diddykies, the other pickers called them They
were not a bad sort of people, friendly enough, and they flattered you grossly
when they wanted to get anything out of you, yet they were sly, with the
impenetrable slyness of savages In their oafish,
Oriental
faces there was a look
as of some wild but sluggish animal-a look of dense stupidity existing side by
side with untameable cunning Their talk consisted of about half a dozen
remarks which they repeated over and over again without ever growing tired of
them The two young gypsies at bm number 6 would ask Nobby and Dorothy
as many as a dozen times a day the same conundrum
‘What is it the cleverest man m England couldn’t do ?
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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The songs which have been
preserved
seem to be in the nature of
incantations for securing the fertility of the fields or for warding
off witchcraft, and even these are largely transformed through
Christian influence.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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Nguyễn
Công Định (?
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Greek culture, following
the
conquests
of Alexander, had spread in
a broad shallow tide over the whole of the
countries fringing the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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And, as by sense
Of new delight, the man, who perseveres
In good deeds doth perceive from day to day
His virtue growing; I e'en thus perceiv'd
Of my ascent,
together
with the heav'n
The circuit widen'd, noting the increase
Of beauty in that wonder.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Full many a one stands living here,
Whom, at death's door already laid,
Your father
snatched
from fever's rage,
When, by his skill, the plague he stayed.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Mery Talys, and the conception of the
character
is similar to
that of George Pyeboard in The Puritan (1607).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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The
characters
of the family are--the beak is shorter
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Childrens - The Creation |
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I knew the
name, the place, I knew all about it, and
instantly
saw what she had
been doing.
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Austen - Emma |
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"
"Say then, what are things
indifferent?
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Epictetus |
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The Catholic Church
rejecteth
these too, and driveth them
out from among the sheep, and from the simple and true
faith : and it hath been established, as I said, that That
Man, the Mediator, had all that is man's, except sin.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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You can just think of
it — they worship that painful and superfluous
contrast, which Richard Wagner in his latter days
undoubtedly
wished to set to music, and to place
on the stage !
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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) But I have a word more, if you will give me leave ; for reason may be confine d, and yet
prejudice
not removed.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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damned, bloody
villain!
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Thomas Otway |
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Of course, directly the mandarin took up his
position
he was anxious to recoup his expenses.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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”
“One can see the
departed
any time,” Ilyusha interposed with
conviction.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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If that were to happen, who would rule out the
possibility
that future generations will find their most important inspiration in Leibniz?
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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Its
interpretations
are not philologically hardened and sober, rather - according to the predictable verdict of that vigilant calculating reason that hires itself out to stupidity as a guard against intelligence - it overinterprets.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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His manners were
gentle, his humility unfeigned, sincere and upright, he pursued his plans
with unwearied energy, and at length eff'ected a great
apparent
reformation
at Milan.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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The Portuguese prince even visited the
Kingdoms
of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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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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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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With all my follies of youth, and I fear, a few
vices of manhood, still I congratulate myself on having had in early
days
religion
strongly impressed on my mind.
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Robert Forst |
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I wish still more that the dissensions and
animosities
which had slept for a century had not been just
now most unseasonably revived.
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Edmund Burke |
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'
She looks into me
The
unknowing
heart
To see if I love
She has confidence she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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64, 65, 75, 76, 77, 78, 89,
the
Ordnance
Survey Townland Maps for
Article XV.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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From Germany, the centre of contemplation, Heidegger, as the
dramaturge
of Being which is supposed to occur anew, articulates the postulate of escaping the posthistorical dullness in order, as if at the last moment, to admit history once again; "history," let it be understood, is according to this logic not made, but rather medially suffered.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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if you wish, distribute this etext in machine readable
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including
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does *not* contain characters other than those
intended by the author of the work, although tilde
(~), asterisk (*) and underline (_) characters may
be used to convey punctuation intended by the
author, and additional characters may be used to
indicate hypertext links; OR
[*] The etext may be readily converted by the reader at
no expense into plain ASCII, EBCDIC or equivalent
form by the program that displays the etext (as is
the case, for instance, with most word processors);
OR
[*] You provide, or agree to also provide on request at
no additional cost, fee or expense, a copy of the
etext in its original plain ASCII form (or in EBCDIC
or other equivalent proprietary form).
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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What have I still of
wreathing
for the head
Stored in my chambers?
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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At bottom
past
partakes very much of the beast of prey, ar
practises
It is the century of
strength
of will, as also that strong passion.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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" If something like progress
does exist as a matter of fact it is because
movements
originating
from subjectivity do
undeniably take place.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk |
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As yet, unbid they never graced our feast,
The solemn sacrifice call'd down the guest;
Then manifest of Heaven the vision stood,
And to our eyes
familiar
was the god.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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His own rendering is, kaum wird es als zu bitter Idingen, u'eun man sagt:
sic werdcn mit
einjallen
(Comm.
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| Source: |
Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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The former conferred
on him at once his father's titles of Ghazi-ud-din Khan Bahadur
and Firuz Jang, and the latter obtained for him the high title of
Amir-ul-Umara, but both were
destined
to disappointment.
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cheer and encourage youth, by his gracious and agreeable manners ; he was playful and bland among his pupils, so that he was loved for his
amiability
and accessibility at all times.
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The matter itself
I could not deny, and vain was every
endeavour
to soften it.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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The
Humorous
Courtier.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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Syrlm ue
stantially
conducted the government and, although much ^Jrpt
While in the peninsula of Asia Minor Rome thus sub-
282 THE SUBJECT COUNTRIES book it
was done without or in opposition to her wishes, yet deter mined on the whole the state of possession, the wide tracts on the other hand beyond the Taurus and the Upper Euphrates as far down as the valley of the Nile continued to be mainly left to themselves.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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And thus we rust Life's iron chain
Degraded
and alone:
And some men curse, and some men weep,
And some men make no moan:
But God's eternal Laws are kind
And break the heart of stone.
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Wilde - Poems |
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[[And]] Enion blind & age bent wept upon the
desolate
wind
Why does the Raven cry aloud and no eye pities her?
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Blake - Zoas |
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A demon wishing to
interrupt
her prayers extinguished the light she carried, but divine power rekindled it.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But the
followers were
intimately
connected with the leader and the
relationship was a personal one; a mass following was repugnant
to him.
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At the head of the
magnates
stood Hugh of Tuscany, who for some
years had ruled Spoleto as well, thus once more forming a mid-Italian
buffer-fief, like that of his father Hubert, or of Paldolf Ironhead.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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'TWAS thus the lover whiled his hours away;
His heart-felt torments nothing could allay;
Blessed if with fortune love he'd also lost,
Which constantly his earthly
comforts
crossed;
But this lorn passion preyed upon his mind:--
Where'er he rode, BLACK CARE would mount behind.
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La Fontaine |
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Jonathan
Harker's Journal 15
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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A Honshu
prhiripe
notus erat.
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_145_
BANDUSIA,
stainless
mirror of the sky!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Des lors il fut
semblable
aux betes de la rue,
Et, quand il s'en allait sans rien voir, a travers
Les champs, sans distinguer les etes des hivers,
Sale, inutile et laid comme une chose usee,
Il faisait des enfants la joie et la risee.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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This omission resulted from the belief that the major fuel-
producing
plants lay beyond our range capabilities, from our consistent overestimation of the reserves of fuel which the Germans had in storage, and from our anxiety to get quick results.
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Lothar's brother, the Emperor Louis II,
appealed to by the deposed prelates to intervene, determined to vindicate
the honour of kings, and marched
straight
upon Rome at the head of his
army.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the
expected
guest.
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my heart already
compaflionates its
unfortunate
situation!
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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She had lived humble and retired, and had devoted herself to the good of
her family; virtuous amidst the prevalence of corrupted manners, and,
though a beautiful woman,
untainted
by the breath of calumny.
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Petrarch |
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