The dog sprays a stone with himself and sniffs his excre- ment: to leave a trace in the world, to erect in the world a monument to oneself, a deed that will still be
celebrated
after hundreds of years, is the meaning of all heroism.
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This
mysticism
showed itself in many things that Balzac did.
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The narrow street was full of cries,
Of bickering and snarling lies
In many keys--
The tongues of Egypt and of Rome
And lands beyond the
shifting
foam
Of windy seas.
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at is
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All these are the cobwebs of
learning, and to let them grow in us is either
sluttish
or foolish.
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y a la muette de
Urias:
Puso Joab al animoso Urias
en el peligro que su Rey le advierte,
y
trocando
la infamia con la muerte ,
dio?
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A Captain of the Pink Hussars
watering up his charger before parade like the blasted boozing Colonel
of a Black
Regiment!
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Kipling - Poems |
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You, Count, have made
yourself
accuser--judge: 300
Your hall's my court, your heart is my tribunal.
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Tiểu Lan Châu huyện Thanh Đàm (nay thuộc xã Duyên Hà huyện Thanh Trì Tp.
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It matter of mere
experience
that change never ceases: at bottom we have not the smallest grounds for assuming that any one particular change must follow upon any other.
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And so it was that she that before was a virgin became straightway the bride of Zeus, and thereafter straightway too a mother of
children
unto the Son of Cronus.
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' The clansman T'ai, now - he lay down
peaceful
and easy; he woke up wide-eyed and blank.
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Chuang Tzu |
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The Claws bring only the right leg as far as the thigh of that Phantom that is ever On his Knees, ever crouching by the Lyre – that Phantom, unknown among the figures of the heavens, whom we often see both rise and set on the
selfsame
night.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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"A new
phenomenon!
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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What concerns him
particularly is simply the
unloading
of his emotion.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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_ Who taught thee to
articulate
that name,--
My father's?
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An essential part of this reconstructionhas to consistin an applicationor elaborationof a set of
ethicalstandardsforthe
academic profession.
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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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) —and dangerous diseases broke out; whereas on the left bank there were accumulated provisions and varied supplies, as well as troops of all sorts —reinforcements from Gaul of cavalry and archers, officers and
soldiers
from furlough, foraging parties returning—in all a mass of 6000 men, whom the Pompeians attacked with superior force and drove with great loss to the moun tains, while the Caesarians on the right bank were obliged to remain passive spectators of the unequal conflict.
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Logical-
ly, we are dealing with a paradox, for how could enlightened con-
sciousness
be false?
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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Apologies
for this problem.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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It was a bit like one of these Eastern sages
retiring
into a desert.
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--
But, O dear
Britain!
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"
I was at first touched by the expressions of his misery; yet, when I
called to mind what Frankenstein had said of his powers of eloquence
and persuasion, and when I again cast my eyes on the lifeless form of
my friend, indignation was
rekindled
within me.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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Great
Englishmen
of the 16th cent.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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What should avail me
the many-twined
bracelets?
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If he has looked at the same word thirty times, in
constantly
changing contexts, he has a clearer grasp of it than he would if he looked up all the word's meanings; meanings that are generally too narrow, considering they change depending on the context, and too vague in view of the nuances that the context establishes in every individual case.
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In the case of the little Dutch girl in the following hand-clapping song,
a pretty face is at a premium and brings
substantial
reward:
I am a pretty little Dutch girl,
As pretty, as pretty can be, be, be.
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They are seeking to
enforce the Sabbath as a day of absolute rest, not for the glory of God but
in order that tired wage-slaves may have their
strength
renewed for another
week of toil in the factories and the mills.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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But have not done that Laud's
business
for him, without answering his hook, in what told you on Wednesday, July iq, from bp.
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Yet for all that did they often gaze over the broad sea, in
grievous
fear against the Thracians' coming.
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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My considerations thus far may have created the impression that I would like to see Marxist historiography's claim to infallibility give place to that of
bourgeois
historiography and that I am developing a doctrinaire apology for my own society and state in imitation of the united front that Marxist historiography and the Marxist state present.
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The poetry
consisted
chiefly of the epics of Homer and
Hesiod, the elegiacs of Tyrtaeus, Solon, Theognis, etc.
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" With both hands she flung the jewels
-pins and rings and
earrings
and bracelets-among the break-
fast dishes, from which some of them sprang to the floor.
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3 With savage cruelty, it is said, Penda
See Histoire d'Angleterre, representee notices in the Bollandists' Acta Sane- par figures,
accompagnees
de Discours," torum," tomus iii.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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of the Reformation by
depriving
it of all
means of living.
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The whole narrative
was given with a simplicity of accent, and with a minuteness of
detail, that
precluded
doubt as to its being a genuine contribution
to the literature of the witchcraft delusion in Europe, - to which Mas-
sachusetts furnished an American supplement.
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I will explain below the detailed reasons for that and the pro- cedure by which the two
consorts
become the means for compressing the wind-energies in the heart center.
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The question, therefore, Whether an effect, deter mined according to the laws of nature, can at the same time
be produced free agent, or whether freedom and nature mutually exclude each other And here, the common, but fallacious hypothesis of the absolute reality of phsenomena
manifests
its injurious influence in embarrassing the procedure of reason.
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But if they had had within eyes as they had without, from that which they saw without they had
understood
the Son of David; from that which they understood within they had understood the Lord of David.
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If you put a brick on a table it stays there unless
something
moves it, even if you have forgotten it is there.
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I have never known much good done by
those who
affected
to trade for the public good.
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Another item of
interest
in the temple was the "couch of Hera," a symbol of Hera's status as the bride of Zeus.
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s See " Acta
Sanctorum
Hiber- Colgan's
nise," xxix.
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Moreover, the explanation of certain structural developments de- mands further analyses that must take into account structural
couplings
between autopoietic systems.
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CXX
Does a
Philosopher
apply to people to come and hear him?
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To be free-minded and cheerfully disposed, at hours of meat, and
of sleep, and of exercise, is one of the best
precepts
of long lasting.
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The artist who
happens to be moulded according to the modern
pattern, however, regards the dreamy gropings and
hesitating speech of his nobler
colleague
with con-
tempt, and leads forth the whole brawling mob of
assembled passions on a leash in order to let them
■
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Sicutz
summarum
summa est seterna, neque extra.
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How that
precisely
Germans discovered the
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Lord Macdonald was one of those
rigid fathers who salsely imagine that to
obtain respect they must
practise
aujle-
rity, and who, self-convinced of his own
supremacy, would not suffer any part of
his samily to dispute it.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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6
XXX
Alfene immemor atque unanimis false sodalibus
iam te nil miseret, dure, tui dulcis
amiculi?
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Thither Argo pressed on, driven by the winds of Thrace, and the Fair haven
received
her as she sped.
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] To be dilatory (sloppy) in giving orders and exigent in
expecting
them carried out at the precise date is cheating.
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Settling
places for the wailers, &c.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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He walked amongst the Trial Men
In a suit of shabby grey;
A cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay;
But I never saw a man who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The relation between the higher
and lower classes becomes irritating and therefore injurious, not
from any conscious unfairness on either side, but simply from the
want of a common understanding; while at the same time every
class suffers within its own limits from the prevalence of habits
and ideas, under the authority of class convention, which could
not long maintain
themselves
if once placed in the light of gen-
eral opinion
Against this twofold oppression the novel, from its first estab-
lishment as a substantive branch of literature, has made vigorous
war.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Such, or nearly such, appears to have been the process by which
the lost ballad-poetry of Rome was
transformed
into history.
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History, secular and
churchly, laws and didactic literature, were his field; and though it
would seem that his actual period of composition did not much exceed
ten years, yet he
accomplished
a vast deal for any man, especially any
busy sovereign and soldier.
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His friends hold a deathwatch over his coffin; during the
festivities
someone splashes him with whisky, at which Finnegan comes to life again and joins in the general dance.
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I stood still at the table, beside the chair on which she had sat and
looked
aimlessly
before me.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:56 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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"The results of the
overcoming
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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org/fundraising/donate
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the
solicitation
requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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'TIS here begins the subject we've in view,
The scene that faithfully our painter drew;
Apollo, give me aid, assistance lend,
Enable me, I pray, to comprehend,
Why this mean stupid rustick sat at ease,
And left the sisters (Claudia, formed to please,
And lovely fair
Theresa)
all the care?
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La Fontaine |
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The interpreter no longer approaches the classical texts like a believer going to mass; the philological sciences have long since grown tired of their
cryptotheological
service to pedantic literalism.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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As always, Chateaubriand enriches his narrative with
extensive
quotations and vivid moral and philosophical perceptions, to create a colourful and resonant self-portrait of the intelligent wealthy European traveller, in touch with the ancient world through Christian and Classical writers, and dismayed by the present but stimulated and inspired by the past.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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Well--well--if she does take some pains to repair the
ravages of Time--you must allow she effects it with great ingenuity--and
surely that's better than the
careless
manner in which the widow Ocre
chaulks her wrinkles.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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l~ Still, we lack a satisfactory theory that would be able to
correlate
variations in social structure and variations in temporal structure.
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Giovan battista Gyraldi Cinthio
nobile
ferrarese
parte prima, etc.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Philip, fourth earl of Chesterfield, was one of the foremost
English statesmen of his age ; but he was so unlike an ordinary
Englishman that his character has been much
misunderstood
by
his countrymen.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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It has intensified the mutual
feelings
of envy
among Western races themselves, as they fight over their spoils and
display a carnivorous pride in their snarling rows of teeth.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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^Fritz Haber (1868-1934) fue también durante la guerra director de una
ponencia
dedi cada a «Asuntos de la lucha con gas» en el Ministerio de la Guerra.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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The events that
constitute
run-of-the-mill evolution, as distinct from its singular origin (and perhaps a few special cases), cannot have been very improbable.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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That early return is what I call the
repeated
accumulation
of the attributes (of the Tao).
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Tao Te Ching |
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Thomas Carlyle, who enjoys the inestimable
good fortune of having his
literary
labours guided by your
advice, furthered by your co-operation, and quickened and
elevated by your friendship, and who so well deserves
this favour of fate, we have unanimously chosen him a
Foreign Member of our Society, believing that thereby we
could best prove our high esteem for him and our desire
for a closer relation with him.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Marks,
notations
and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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would
probably
be Narbal, or rather, Naarbaal.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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Happy, happy, happy they
Whose living love,
untroubled
by all strife,
Binds them till the last sad day,
Nor parts asunder but with parting life!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Patrick, at that period, when the grace of conversion was vouchsafed to one of its emigrants, who visited Rome, the centre of Christianity, and who received from the Sovereign Pontiff his commission to gain numbers of
converts
in France to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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Megalomania, then, or poetry, or something for which there is yet no name: what follows is advisably approached with a
provision
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expressions, to avoid getting stuck with a designa tion reflex that is first best.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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The one
had quitted college to become a cog-wheel in the
machinery
of the great
Indian Government; the other more blessed with goods, had been whirled
into a similar position in the English scheme.
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Kipling - Poems |
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For when the consul {Opimius} by proclamation promised to reward anyone that should bring him the head {of Gracchus}, with its weight in gold,
Vitellius
bored a hole in the neck, and drawing out the brain, poured in molten lead in its place.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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-- 30
Ah,
towering
pine and stately Kentish spire,[4]
Ye have one tale[5] to tell!
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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If we want to show the world in its motion as pregnant with catastrophies, we have to assume that today's world process has
received
its dynamics from the initiatives accumulated over the past centuries.
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=--The fact that one has or has
not had certain profoundly moving impressions and insights into
things--for example, an
unjustly
executed, slain or martyred father, a
faithless wife, a shattering, serious accident,--is the factor upon
which the excitation of our passions to white heat principally depends,
as well as the course of our whole lives.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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As a mother
she is unexceptionable; her solid affection for her child is shown by
placing her in hands where her education will be
properly
attended to;
but because she has not the blind and weak partiality of most mothers,
she is accused of wanting maternal tenderness.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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In this place, it is thought, that he laboured
usefully
among his kinsfolk.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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"
The Young Thief and His Mother
A young Man had been caught in a daring act of theft and had
been
condemned
to be executed for it.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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If you are willing to pledge me your heart, lover,
I'll offer mine: and so we will grasp entire
All the pleasures of life, and no strange desire
Will make my spirit
prisoner
to another.
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Ronsard |
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It may be
recognized
because it gives life; because the
work to which it prompts is lasting.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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1191: and as he does not men
tion these representations as novelties to the people (for he is
describing
the common diver sions use that time), we can hardly fix them lower than the Conquest".
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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"
"Nay, he was
bringing
home the goose as a peace-offering to his
wife.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Which
of them are true and which are
imaginary
hardly matters: the point is that this is the kind
of thing that Dali would have LIKED to do.
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Orwell |
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Clement of Alexandria used at one time or another nineteen of the
twenty-one stories, and he
referred
to an Alexandrian version of a
twentieth.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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