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M
ren,
Y PRINCIPAL endeavor was to learn the language: which my
master (for so I shall henceforth call him) and his child-
and every servant of his house, were desirous to
teach me; for they looked upon it as a prodigy that a brute
animal should discover such marks of a
rational
creature.
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As it emerged into the
moonshine
I saw what it was.
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Is't not
laughable?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Day after day, though no one sees,
The lonely place no
different
seems;
The trees, the stack, still images
Constant in who can say whose dreams?
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" And, in a postscript to the same epistle, he adds, " The strong Kentish-man, (of whom you have heard so many stories) has, as I told you above, taken up his
quarters
in Dorset-gardens, and how they'll get him out again the Lord knows, for he threatens to thrash all the Poets, if they pretend to disturb him.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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Between banks of rose and green,
the blue water stretched,
for
millions
of leagues
to the universe's edge:
there were un-heard of stones,
and magic waves: there were,
dazzled by everything shown,
enormous quivering mirrors!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Flinging
a Stone into the Cup was the signal for "To
Horse!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not the breadth of a foot; and
promised
that he would give it to him to possess, and to his seed after him, when as he had no son.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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Therefore
the sage holds in his embrace the one thing (of
humility), and manifests it to all the world.
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Tao Te Ching |
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The paynim's arm rings
senseless
with the blow,
And steel and bone, like ice, in shivers go.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Julius Vestinus, who is described in an inscription as “High-priest of Alexandria and all Egypt, Curator of the Museum, Keeper of the Libraries of both Greek and Roman at Rome, Supervisor of the Education of Hadrian, and
Secretary
to the same Emperor.
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Pattern Poems |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:55 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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Nowhere else has the poet shown equal
virtuosity
in the
handling of unusual meters.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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Aviation gasoline production
declined
from 170,000 tons per month to 52,000 tons only one month after the oil bomb- ing offensive began, and it had been eliminated completely by the following March.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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Gorgo visits Praxinoa, and
together
they go out to watch.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the changing breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks
pricking
us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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He sees the neurotic patient as basing his relationship to the world on
outdated
assumptions; for example, that he will be ignored or let down by people, or that his feelings will be dismissed or ridiculed.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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A
melancholy
Bird?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Tully - Offices |
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And next to these are they that have
gotten a foolish but pleasant
persuasion
that if they can but see a
wooden or painted Polypheme Christopher, they shall not die that day; or
do but salute a carved Barbara, in the usual set form, that he shall
return safe from battle; or make his application to Erasmus on certain
days with some small wax candles and proper prayers, that he shall
quickly be rich.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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First, that if God really did
communicate
with humans that fact would emphatically not lie outside science.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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---- (1987) Individuals, Relationships and Culture: Links between
Ethology and the Social Sciences, Cambridge:
Cambridge
University
Press.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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For aught I know, the
thinking
Spirit
within me may be substantially one with the principle of life, and of
vital operation.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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The severest torments were inflicted, says
Lucian, upon Ctesias the Cnidian, Herodotus and many others, which
the writer
beholding
"was put in great hopes that I should never have
anything to do there, for I do not know that ever I spake any untruth
in my life.
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Lucian - True History |
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es de mon [Gargantua's] eage par inspiration divine, comme a`
contrefil
l'artillerie par suggestion diabolicque.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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A man does not lie about what he is
ignorant
of; he does not lie when he spreads an error of which he himself is the dupe; he does not lie when he is mistaken.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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"Why, my
Crucifixion
jacket!
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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Against dutifulness,
obedience
law, against the compulsion hand in hand--I believe this what
against going called
Freedom.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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We rode between
The seaweed-covered pillars, and the green
And surging phosphorus alone gave light
On our dark pathway, till a
countless
flight
Of moonlit steps glimmered; and left and right
Dark statues glimmered over the pale tide
Upon dark thrones.
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Yeats - Poems |
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Vitae Sanctorum
According
Saussay's niae,"
Gallic Martyrology.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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--But some night-wandering Man, whose heart was pierc'd
With the remembrance of a grievous wrong,
Or slow distemper or
neglected
love,
(And so, poor Wretch!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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97 But whoever were to find an absolute identity of good and evil in this final, highest point of view, would show his complete ignorance in so far as good and evil absolutely do not form an
original
opposition, but least of all a duality.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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The accompanying diagram
explains
what we have in mind.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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of of
to
in a
a
of a
or
to
REMARKABLE
PERSONS.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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The Galician massacres however left
their deep traces on his
national
idea.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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This shadow play slowly surrounded the head like a
decoration
or lofty
distinction.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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84; but if
that period be split into two, the
correlation
from 1838 to 1876, when the
birth-rate was fluctuating, is _minus_ .
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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"Frog"
happens also to be the nickname the students give to a pupil of the
gymnasium, or school
preparatory
to the university.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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In the seventeenth century, amid the devastations of the
Thirty Years' War, it had passed so entirely from human ken that
Opitz, the literary dictator of his
threadbare
time, had no other
knowledge of it than what he had derived from Lazius; and as late
as 1752 Gottsched, the literary leader of an equally threadbare period,
seems not to have known that such a poem had ever existed.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Turkestan
in primitive times would therefore not have been easily
accessible
by this
route.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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El corregidor liberal, el apuesto y caballeroso garzon, arriesgó su
favor y su empleo por amparar al magistrado en desgracia y fué el
primero que auguró al hijo un porvenir tan
brillante
como inútil para
uno y otro.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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As far as I understand them, as far
as they allow themselves to be understood--for it is their nature to
WISH to remain something of a puzzle--these philosophers of the
future might rightly, perhaps also wrongly, claim to be
designated
as
"tempters.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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In
contrast
to the sixteenth
century, of which the chief features were variety and
originality of talent, perfection of language and indepen-
dence of style, the seventeenth century, the age in Poland
of exaggerated individuality in politics, was one of grey
uniformity of intellectual development.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future
generations.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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We will have such fun
together!
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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standing, I repair to one of the neighbouring coffee-houses, where I sit
sometimes
for a whole day, and have the News as as it comes from Court fresh and fresh.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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Supra caput imber et Eurus
Sono triste,
fractusque
agitor (enall.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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13 For the Priests sins, and Prophets, which have shed
Blood in the streets, and the just murthered:
14 Which when those men, whom they made blinde, did stray 315
Thorough the streets, defiled by the way
With blood, the which
impossible
it was
Their garments should scape touching, as they passe,
15 Would cry aloud, depart defiled men,
Depart, depart, and touch us not; and then 320
They fled, and strayd, and with the _Gentiles_ were,
Yet told their friends, they should not long dwell there;
16 For this they are scattered by Jehovahs face
Who never will regard them more; No grace
Unto their old men shall the foe afford, 325
Nor, that they are Priests, redeeme them from the sword.
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Donne - 1 |
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When Thông Thiên was about to pass away, he
instructed
La Quí: "Formerly, my teacher Ðinh Không had instructed me to preserve our Dharma and to pass it on to a man named Ðinh.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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In
Paradise
repose the soul of thee!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Edinburgh
and
London: Printed for Arch.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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From their frail nest the robins rouse,
In your pungent
darkness
stirred,
Twittering a low drowsy word--
And me you shelter, even me.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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Before, however, the
King
proceeded
to the conquest of these provinces, he delivered the town
of Augsburg from the yoke of Bavaria; exacted an oath of allegiance from
the citizens; and to secure its observance, left a garrison in the town.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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I fear that I am not like thee:
For I walk through the vales of Har, and smell the sweetest flowers:
But I feed not the little flowers: I hear the warbling birds,
But I feed not the warbling birds, they fly and seek their food:
But Thel
delights
in these no more because I fade away
And all shall say, without a use this shining women liv'd,
Or did she only live to be at death the food of worms.
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blake-poems |
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All
Professors
of
Theology are clerks in holy orders, and so utterly depen-
dent upon their superiors that only recently the arch-
bishop asked the brave old Senator Maier to produce the
books of his pupils.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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She had many visitors from Paris, among them
Sainte-Beuve, the critic, who brought with him Prosper Merimee, then
unknown, but later famous as master of revels to the third
Napoleon
and
as the author of Carmen.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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Think'st thou, could he, the blind old man, arise
Like Samuel from the grave to freeze once more
The blood of monarchs with his prophecies,
Or be alive again--again all hoar
With time and trials, and those
helpless
eyes
And heartless daughters--worn and pale and poor,
Would he adore a sultan?
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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During
this episode the
minstral
exits left with Myrson.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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Yettheutterancesby DoriotandMosley,citedbyProfessorAllardycew,erespokeninaparticular
contextand
can be easilymatchedbyotherutterancebsythesamementhat acknowledgecertainuniversalvalues.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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Brownies you know, work
when the
darkness
has put all the world to sleep.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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"
_Misfortunes
often sharpen the genius_; who could have ever
believed, that a mortal could attempt the paths of the air?
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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or rather it is reason when the latter is
coherent
with itsel rm, and constant.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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LET US NOW PRAISE
REVOLUTION
39
and public health programs.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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querying
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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The
harm is done by the serious, thoughtful, earnest journalists, who
solemnly, as they are doing at present, will drag before the eyes of the
public some incident in the private life of a great statesman, of a man
who is a leader of
political
thought as he is a creator of political
force, and invite the public to discuss the incident, to exercise
authority in the matter, to give their views, and not merely to give
their views, but to carry them into action, to dictate to the man upon
all other points, to dictate to his party, to dictate to his country; in
fact, to make themselves ridiculous, offensive, and harmful.
| Guess: |
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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You are as sweet as your father is
provoking!
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Aristophanes |
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239-40), 811, 812, 813; Map 8,J18
Pangshong Lharika spang-gshong lha-ri-kha, 789
Pangtro spang-khrod:
hermitage
at Katok, 695
Pare ba-red, 525 Paranirmitavasavartin (Mastery over
Transformation) lha'i gzhan-'phrul dbang-byed: highest of the desire realms inhabited by Kama divinities,
14,60
Parlttabha (Little Radiance) 'od-chung: the
lowest realm of form attainable
Namgyel Cangcup Ling (dpal-yul) rnam- rgyal byang-chub gling-gi (chos-sde): founded in 1665 by Kiinzang
Sherap, PI.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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Let these not
disconcert
or trammel thee;
But when untruth is spoken, meekly yield.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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Molaisi was shown as a small square
enclosure
of walls, but now broken, at the time of our visit to Devenish, in July, 1869.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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of Germany
Realistic Literature and the Russian Novel
VOLTAIRE
1694-1778 15449
BY ADOLPHE COHN
The
Irrepressible
King (History of Charles XII.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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My Mercy and my Refuge, my
Upholder
and myver.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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The first star pricks as sharp as steel--
Why am I
suddenly
so cold?
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Sara Teasdale |
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By undue precision,
the
appearance
of many a fine apartment is utterly spoiled.
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Poe - 5 |
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This attention, and the poetry that results, should not be confused with the
dominant
Latin American poetic trend identified by Ca?
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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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That is how a
child’s
mind works.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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In brief I tell thee, that all these were clerks,
Men of great
learning
and no less renown,
By one same sin polluted in the world.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Disdain, good-will, woe, wrath the champion led
To take revenge; shame, grief, for
vengeance
call;
But as he went, Adrastus with his blade
Forestalled the way, and show of combat made.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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' It is clear there are a good many
mistakes
in
Philo's account as it has come to us.
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John Donne |
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Munsterberg, inventor in word and deed of psychotechnology, provided in 1916the first historical theory of film in his demonstration that film techniques like projection and cutting, close- up and flashback, technically implement psychic
processes
such as hallu- cination and association, recollection and attention, rather than, like plays or novels, stimulating these processes descriptively with words.
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Second, because the
individual
would be defined through the negation of the universal, the process would be circular and nothing would have been defined.
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Come now to my castle, and we shall
enjoy
together
the festivities of the New Year" (ll.
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But should ye hear my sad heart's lamentation Then would a
trembling
reach your heart's midmost.
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"' As
translated
by Dr.
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The great state only wishes to unite men
together
and nourish them;
a small state only wishes to be received by, and to serve, the other.
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refinement introduced by the bluestocking interest in literature
can be better appreciated by a glimpse at the glaring foil made
by
ordinary
society.
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In a markedlychangedatmos-
phere-changed by diminishedfinancialresourcesand the prospectsof
constrictedopportunitiesforthe employmentof graduates- generalcriti- cismof modernWesterncivilisationremainedat the
forefronotf
student
agitation.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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His feet will turn to desert places
Shadowless, reft of rain and dew,
Where stars stare down with
sharpened
faces
From heavens pitilessly blue.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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THE PHILOLOGY OF EXISTENCE, THE
DRAMATURGY
OF FORCE ?
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In the proceedings in the senate regarding the organization of the African expedition and the appointment of a general for
the new consul, wherever usage or the constitution came into conflict with his private views, showed no great reluc tance to set such
obstacles
aside, and very clearly indicated that in case of need he was disposed to rely for support
it,
chap, vi FROM CANNAE TO ZAMA
353
against the governing board on his fame and his popularity with the people.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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He cannot abolish the condition because he would oth- erwise have to abolish himself; he can come to terms with the condi- tion only through love and
subordinate
it to himself for his glorification.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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How much of this
true cannot be determined; but the story, over which the naive misrepresentations of the Roman
annalists
have shed patriotic glory, affords glimpse of the deep moral and
political disgrace of these conflicts between the orders.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a powerful one, and neglects to place picked
soldiers
in the front rank, the result must be a rout.
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The-Art-of-War |
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We sang no glad songs nor played; we went not to the village for
barter; we spoke not a word nor smiled; we
lingered
not on the
way.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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Similarly the
percentage of dactylic
beginnings
in the whole of Am.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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What is this
severance?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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To me, who know
nothing of the business before congress, nor of the arca-
num, it appears that such a measure would tend to pro-
mote the public weal; for it is clearly my opinion, unless
congress have powers competent to all general purposes,
that the distresses we have
encountered
and the blood we
have spilt in the course of an eight years' war, will avail
us nothing.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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There is,
however,
something
dramatic in the fact that this heavy punishment was
inflicted on him for what, if we remember his fatal influence on the
prose of modern journalism, was certainly not the worst of all his sins.
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