I charged her to write to me very often, and to remember
that if she were in any
distress
we should be always her friends.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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XCII
But of
Marphisa
what will be your thought,
And Guido late so furious?
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It alone is
sufficient
to mar a world of good effect in the
furniture subjected to its influence.
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Poe - 5 |
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At Landshut, as soon as the Swedish
army
appeared
under the walls, the garri-
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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When
Antonius
returned into Italy, every one thought that Atticus would be in great peril, on account of his close intercourse with Cicero and Brutus.
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Roman Translations |
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at the same time, however, Hegel altered the
internal
set of categori- cal principles significantly.
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The subject of allegory, it turns out, will be called a
depersonalized
grammar.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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O'er the roof of the helmet high, a ridge,
wound with wires, kept ward o'er the head,
lest the relict-of-files {15c} should fierce invade,
sharp in the strife, when that
shielded
hero
should go to grapple against his foes.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Enfin, il a dit que le jour ou il mourrait il
arriverait
un
malheur a quelqu'un.
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fourteeners,' rimed in couplets, was very
successful
;
p.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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In the second place we must
consider
its inclination to act; and in
this way it regards the powers of the soul.
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Summa Theologica |
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To prevent which inconveniency he did tell her many tragical
stories of the total ruin of several
kingdoms
by adultery; did read unto
her the legend of chaste wives; then made some lectures to her in the
praise of the choice virtue of pudicity, and did present her with a book in
commendation of conjugal fidelity; wherein the wickedness of all licentious
women was odiously detested; and withal he gave her a chain enriched with
pure oriental sapphires.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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The World without
Consciousness
of Sin.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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"With unlucky omen art thou
conveying home her, whom Greece with a numerous army shall demand back
again, having entered into a
confederacy
to dissolve your nuptials, and
the ancient kingdom of Priam.
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Horace - Works |
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"
XXXIX
The livid
lightnings
flashed in the clouds;
The leaden thunders crashed.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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,
Professor of Literature,
COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY, New York City.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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Soon they are
designated
as Mr and Mrs Porter.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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'T is nowise peace: 't is treason, stiff with doom,--
'T is gagged despair and inarticulate wrong,--
Annihilated
Poland, stifled Rome,
Dazed Naples, Hungary fainting 'neath the thong,
And Austria wearing a smooth olive-leaf
On her brute forehead, while her hoofs outpress
The life from these Italian souls, in brief.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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26
By these few and easy prescriptions (with the help of a good genius) 'tis possible you may in a short time arrive at the
accomplishments
of a poet, and shine in that character.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Canst thou expect, that should he even prove
Stronger
than ye, and bend the massy bow,
He will conduct me hence to his own home,
And make me his own bride?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Eliot, who worried that a system that sorts people by ability would disorganize civil society by breaking the bonds of class and
tradition
at both ends of the ladder.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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The
Viennese
loved it.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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It is
decisive
that the new "loose" chain begins with an uncon ditional gesture of expenditure, since the giver can only breach the circle of a savings-rationality through pure self-expenditure.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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However, what seriously concerned Tsong- khapa was the widespread misconceptions associated with Tantra which he believed to be
pervasive
at his time in Tibet.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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[91] This
characteristic
is so distinctive of the author that
it seems to differentiate him from other writers of romance by giving
his story the air of a popular tale.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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Hegel, Grundlinien der
Philosophie
des Rechts, § 189, Anexo.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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I know not why she should
choose to make herself and her family uneasy by
apprehending
an
event which no one but herself, I can affirm, would ever have thought
possible.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Would you rather be an
instance
of fallen greatness, or enjoy some
safe post in an obscure Italian town?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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In his time, two hundred million
allotments
of grain were imported annually from Egypt to the city.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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The body of this
singular
fish is broad and short, and
appears like the head of a huge fish separated from the body.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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Urban
recognised that he was again following in the footsteps of Gregory VII,
but his was the higher conception and his the
practical
ability that
realised the ideal.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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" The
doctrine
that Heaven sends calamity as a punishment for
man's sin is referred to again and again in the ancient "Book of
History" and "Book of Odes.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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I kept my head
low—useless
to ask questions; For why would I want to ask questions?
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Hanshan - 01 |
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Thus do
many
thinkers
bring themselves to views which are far from likely to
increase or improve their fame.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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She fears all things and she hopes for nothing: thus
anxious, as she is
returning
with food, is the bird, Who
has left her young in a lowly shrub, And thus, while absent
from them, is she apprehensive of many evils; She fears
lest the wind should have torn her nest from the tree,
Lest her young should be exposed as a plunder to man, or
a prey to serpents.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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My worthy friend here
volunteered
for the service; so we
made a race of it, and caught the runaway just as he got to Taenarum!
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Lucian |
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Christ
ascended
in order to send down love, v.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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Come, Bacchanalian, blessed power draw near, fanatic Pan, thy humble suppliant hear,
Propitious to these holy rites attend, and grant my life may meet a prosp'rous end;
Drive panic Fury too, wherever found, from human kind, to earth's
remotest
bound.
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Orphic Hymns |
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In 1691, when he was twenty-seven
years of age, he was clapt up in the Bastille as a suspected spy,
meditated a comedy within its comfortable walls, and, as Voltaire
owns with surprise, was never guilty of 'a single satirical stroke
against the country, in which he had been so
injuriously
treated.
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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Nor
should we complain that his
speeches
lack eloquence.
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| Question: |
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Jose de Espronceda |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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The editors are confid ent that the magazine's year will be regarded as notable in
American
literature.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Very early in April, and
tolerably
early in the day, the two parties
from Hanover Square and Berkeley Street set out from their respective
homes, to meet, by appointment, on the road.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Thus at the age of forty Lucian found him self
possessed
of no little fame.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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And may I think the dear
conversion
true?
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Thomas Otway |
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An older and younger approach than
metaphysics
, however, would be thought of as asking after the meaning of being.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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" answered the minister,
listening
as if he were called
upon to realize a dream.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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What gave He here, what
received
He?
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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Pilkington
had each played an ace of spades
simultaneously.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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may be now defined as an immediate and direct
knowledge
of all the objects of the universe, past, present and future, subtle and remote, far and near, by a single ever-lasting act of knowledge requir- inl no assistance from the senses and even mind.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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This is not to examine the
development
of epic poetry by looking at that
which is not _poetry_.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with
libraries
to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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The last of these may be regarded as marking a transition to a second
series, which are
concerned
with the trial and death of Socrates.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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The
conditions
which dictated exploitation-the penury of the gov- ernment, the size of the armies, the scale of the war-applied with roughly equal force to all other parts of French-occupied Europe.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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par eux,
<< trouve
pourtant
des acque?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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tummo) An
advanced
Vajrayana practice for combining
bliss and emptiness producing heat as a by product.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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If the latter, it would take a very lona time to know
everything
in the universe, during which such a person would most likdy grow old and die.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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*'< A
lithograph
of this is given in Rev.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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The time is now propitious, as he guesses,
The meal is ended, she is bored and tired,
Endeavours
to engage her in caresses
Which still are unreproved, if undesired.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Obviamente
esta frase es fal
sa, pero tiene la ventaja de ser explícita.
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| Answer: |
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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The
Asmodean
feat is mine,
To spin my sand-heap into twine.
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Emerson - Poems |
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lti- mos siglos, la Tierra
constituye
el confi?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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Hearing this, Paulus took
assurance
of a victory over Perses.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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Chimene
It is just, great King, that a
murderer
perish.
| Guess: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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That they give to bankrupt and fraudulent' traders a
fictitious credit, which enables them to
maintain
false ap- pearances, and to extend their impositions: And lastly,
That they have a tendency to banish gold and silver from the country.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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At any event, these so-called "evolutionary achievements" are
inevitably
piling up, and this cumulative effect produces the impression of a trajectory that we can then interpret, in a Hegelian mood, as "historically necessary.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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[The
posthumous
works were edited by S.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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The
archetypal
replicator is a gene, a stretch of DNA that is duplicated, nearly always with extreme accuracy, through an indefinite number of generations.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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Wouldst thou long be able to talk,
to think and reason with
thyself?
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| Source: |
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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To meet Ovid's
peer in
narrative
irony and burlesque, one has
only to turn to Cervantes.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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Italy and the Soviet Union
signed a trade agreement in July, 1930, and by the
irony of events on May 1, 1931, premier Red holi-
day, international celebration day for the Com-
munist Party, there was
announced
the renewal of
this trade agreement on terms extremely satisfac-
tory to Moscow, guaranteeing a sure outlet for con-
siderable quantities of Soviet exports, no matter
14
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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Thir breeks o' mine, my only pair,
That ance were plush o' guid blue hair,
I wad hae gien them off my hurdies,
For ae blink o' the bonie
burdies!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The Schopenhauer of the fourth book of the World as Will and Idea did not miss this fact :
In him, too, as in the unthinking animal, there prevails a sense of security as a
permanent
state, a security which springs from the innermost conscious-that man is nature, that he himself is the world.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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To begin with, Ann says things
that are not
strictly
true.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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) on a single ship; and having shown himself to the enemy, returned to port, as if
avoiding
battle.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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I carried on a feud with him for
eighteen
months over
that sword.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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Then we are not touched with the sufferings of any sort of men
so much as of lovers; and this was almost unknown to the ancients; so
that they neither
administered
poetical justice, of which Mr.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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The theatres and
temples of the Greek and the Roman were
degraded
into the
quarries of the Turk and the Goth.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I end not far from my going forth
By picking the faded blue
Of the last
remaining
aster flower
To carry again to you.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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Happier that they
Slipped off their pack of duties, leagues behind,
At the first
mounting
of the giant stairs.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Happier that they
Slipped off their pack of duties, leagues behind,
At the first
mounting
of the giant stairs.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Of greatest fulness, deemed a void,
Exhaustion
ne'er shall stem the tide.
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Tao Te Ching |
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+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is
essential
for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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While the
Gaullist
departure into semi-imperial affirmation succeeded in getting by with stand- ard emotions and basic processes of accentuation of a national identity, i.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Soon, too,
he was
followed
to Paris by other English emigrants of the royalist
party, among whom was the marquis of Newcastle, a member of the
Cavendish family, to whom the unpublished Elements of Law had
been dedicated.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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What is left therefore, is the
indirect
option.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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What makes him equal to it, however, is the
perfection
of his ndamental goodness, and the nobility ofhis moral e rt.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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What
difference
does today introduce with respect to yesterday?
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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Then
Catholic
Encyclopædia, Vol.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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Captain Harris has had a careful transcript of
the poems made, and he allowed me after collating the
original
with
the transcript to keep the latter by me for a long time.
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Donne - 2 |
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Marcel, the narrator, dawdles in his pursuit of The
Remembrance
of Things Past as long as he fails to realize that the goal of his search lies simply in the "storehouse" of his own brain and is stored only there.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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The view of the
Hebrides
from a
point, the name of which I forget.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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And all the
Persians
knew him, and with shouts
Hail'd; but the Tartars knew not who he was.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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Instead
of the usual array in a single line, he
disposed
his forces in two
lines, that the second might advance in the event of the first giving
way.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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Thou art--a person of discretion; always
I am glad to commune with thee; and if aught
At any time
disturbs
me, I endure not
To keep it from thee; and, truth to tell, thy mead
And velvet ale today have so untied
My tongue.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Yet one day, haply, she--so
heavenly
fair!
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Petrarch |
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The great and fundamental article of the system (of the Persian
theology)
was the celebrated doctrine of the two principles; a bold and injudicious attempt of Eastern philosophy to reconcile the existence of moral and physical evil with the attributes of a beneficent Creator and governor of the world.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And once I marked his flight go round and round,
As where some flower lay
withering
on the ground.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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And blessed was her presence there:
Each heart, expanding, grew more gay;
Yet
something
loftier still than fair
Kept man's familiar looks away.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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