The
royal
resources
were distinctly inferior to those of the English kings, for
a large part of the land was not held directly from the king and he had
no power of instituting general taxation.
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He could edit the
writings
of the earlier
Fathers and show men what Christianity was before the schoolmen
altered it.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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All three are versions of the same
manifest
idea.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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The definite article creates the impression that this phrase is meant to designate an object, or, what amounts to the same thing, that 'the concept star' is a proper name, whereas 'concept star' is surely a designation of a concept and thus could not be more
different
from a proper name.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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But
wherefore
doth man bless the Lord at all times ?
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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People in general either read poetry without any passion at
all, or else
overstep
the modesty of nature, and read not like scholars.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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He is author of John-a-
Dreams) (1878); (An Accomplished Gentleman
(1879); (Little
Comedies)
(1882); (Dick’s Wan-
derings) (1882); My Friends and (1884);
(Thraldom(1887).
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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: Publii Ovidii Metamorphoseon libros quomodo nostrates medii
aevi poetae imitati
interpretatique
sunt Paris, 1893.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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Increasing, in other words, the chance of
yielding
a statistically significant success for homeopathy.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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They complied with my advice, and soon after came over; but, I happening to continue some time longer in England, they were much
discouraged
to live in Dublin, where they were wholly strangers.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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The
currency
bill has been passed, and as these
words are written, it looks as if a group of trust
bills would be passed.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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The Jesuit Ricci, and his brethren of the Chinese mission, _very
honestly_ told their converts, that _Tien_ was the God of the
Christians, and that the label of
Confucius
was the term by which they
expressed His divine majesty.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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But as for
stopping
or vitally impairing the functioning of that machine, the effects were spread too broadly across all industries, were at best marginal, and therefore counted as nothing compared to the knocking out of a single essential industry such as oil production or transportation.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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What distinguishes totalitarianism from other kinds of authoritarian government is the dynamic role of a
collective
unconscious fantasy (essentially paranoid-schizoid) in the motivation and organization of the totalitarian system.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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See, the elder and younger move
At the garden's edge, and beside them
White carnations with long frail stems,
Stirred by the wind, in a marble urn,
Lean,
watching
them, live and motionless,
And, trembling with shade there, seem to be
Butterflies caught in flight, frozen ecstasy.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Perfect competition, complete collusion,
absolute
control: These different causes produce identical results.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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—Whoever now allows
scope to his
religious
feelings must also let them
increase, he cannot do otherwise.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Then this
consoling
Angel gave a thwack,
And ten or dozen stripes laid on his back:--
'Tis thy unruly, jealous mind, said he,
Displeases God, and dooms thee here to be.
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La Fontaine |
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Cleveland
attempted
to reconcile
her to her misfortunes by those argu-
ments which religion suggested, and rea-
son approved \ and after having in vain
endeavoured to convince her that none
r> but
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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He had written her name on the fly-leaf of the first volume, and his own
underneath
it.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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1 We are told, that the
Is
permitted
to aid the great Aedh, son of Niall.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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[890]
Es para volverme loco,
Si
insistís
en tal porfía;
Con los mudos, reina mía,
Yo hago mucho y hablo poco.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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--twenty-seven--even twenty-five if you insist,
for there is nothing
illiberal
about me when I am out on a diplomatic
debauch.
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Twain - Speeches |
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'To conjure is nothing else than to observe
anything
rightly, to know
and to understand what it is.
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John Donne |
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Put on God's armour,
faithful
knight !
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Her first book of poems was "Sonnets to Duse" (1907), [at least one poem
in the current volume, "Faults", is from this book,] but "Helen of Troy"
(1911) was the true launch of her career,
followed
by "Rivers to the Sea"
(1915), "Love Songs" (1917), "Flame and Shadow" (1920) and more.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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' 'Everything that you may have occasion to use', he said, 'shall be
prepared
(for you) in a befitting manner and for me also with you.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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The bee is
a
geometrician
of the very first order.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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A few voices here and there were heard in
opposition
or
reserve, but these have almost entirely ceased.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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" In fact, death (maranabhava) is never
absorbed
(samdhita) (iii.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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6:14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah,
and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a
memorial
in the temple of the
LORD.
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bible-kjv |
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The last four years of his life Thiers spent in
comparative
retire-
ment.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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677-679
Published
by: American Political Science Association
Stable URL: http://www.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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199
in this respect too, the
conscientious
man will not under-
take anything which exceeds his powers.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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The gods are mindful most when men forget --
Take heed lest they, at last,
remember
diee.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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for the second lime he converled its nalives to take offtheir
BOrsalino
hats whenever they eame within .
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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When his
preparations
were (Dict.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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who calls it
Aratlius
("Anatdoc), speaks of it as dus, who wrote two treatises on the celestial bodies
the boundary of Greece on this side.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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But all afoot, the light-limbed Matadore
Stands in the centre, eager to invade
The lord of lowing herds; but not before
The ground, with cautious tread, is traversed o'er,
Lest aught unseen should lurk to thwart his speed:
His arms a dart, he fights aloof, nor more
Can Man achieve without the
friendly
steed--
Alas!
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Byron |
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Neither the fossil record nor existing zoology shows us any primates equipped with
flapping
wings, and it would be surprising indeed if they suddenly and uniquely evolved in a species sufficiently close to our own to have co- opted - as some famous fake photographs which excited the notoriously gullible Sir Arthur Conan Doyle clearly showed - 1920s-style clothes a la mode.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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The ancient Bretons recognized several stages of existence through
which the soul passed; and
Procopius
placed the Druid elysium
beyond the ocean in one of the Britannic Isles, which he does not
The Welsh traditions are more precise: they expressly desig-
nate this island under the name of Isle of Avalon, or of the Apples.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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org/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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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Muschenbröck, however, adopts the opposite opinion, and asserts
that himself, De la Hire, Villet, and Tschirnhausen had tried with
that view the
strongest
burning-glasses in vain.
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Bacon |
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"
"Surely," replied this other;
"His
grandfathers
beat them many times.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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In these there was much to
interest
and amuse me.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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3 He
soon
contrived
to get together a suflicient number
of armed ships and privateers.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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"
The
Ichneumon
is easily domesticated; and in Egypt is like the
cat in a house.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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”
It is indeed the fact that the course of human history admits of
being marked off into periods, which, from their average duration and
the impulse communicated to them by those who enter upon adol-
escence along with them, may be fitly denominated generations, espe-
cially when their opening and closing are
signalized
by great events
which serve as historical landmarks.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Even as to Bacchus and to Ceres, so
To thee the swain his yearly vows shall make;
And thou thereof, like them, shalt
quittance
claim.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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These and such-like are the
external
organs of insects.
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Aristotle copy |
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He also spoke bitingly in regard to the
influence of a
commercial
world which amasses colossal
fortunes, not by productive labour, but by the exchange
of securities and speculative transactions; and here, at
least, the movement initiated by him has been productive
of good results, as it caused legislation to be enacted.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights
may need to be
obtained
independently of anything we can address.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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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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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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2) The Cyclic poets (as we can see from the
abstract
of
Proclus) were careful not to trespass upon ground already occupied by
Homer.
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Hesiod |
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"
This may not seem a very serious matter, but it is serious in this respect, that people who have read only the traditional English version of the Letters must have formed a wholly
different
conception of the character of the lovers from theirs who have studied, however casually, the Latin text.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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He
was listening eagerly to the Count, who declared we were rush-
ing on our fate; and, coward that he was, he was revolving in
his mind a scheme for
avoiding
the perilous attempt.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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On the north it
imperceptibly
nerges into the broad hill-land of Etruria.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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H appy are
they who consecrate to heaven the
sentiments
no earthly ties
can merit.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Later structures at the site
included
an Archaic dining room and a successor temple.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired
wanderers
weep.
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blake-poems |
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XXVIII
A wound far wider and which deeper lies,
Now in her heart she feels, from viewless bow;
Which from the boy's fair hair and beauteous eyes
Had the winged archer dealt: a sudden glow
She feels, and still the flames
increasing
rise;
Yet less she heeds her own than other's woe:
-- Heeds not herself, and only to content
The author of her cruel ill is bent.
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| Question: |
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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He first became a member of
Parliament in 1843, and illustrates a most
valuable
feature of English
political practice.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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" So
conclusive
is the explanation, that you only would
have wondered had the stream been of water.
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Lucian - True History |
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Another undesirable manifestation in pedagogy lay in the dog- matic attempt to stuff the students with various theories, without taking pains to solve the ideological
problems
of the students.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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His ego was pene-
trated by the world, and the world was
penetrated
by his ego.
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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Wallace
makes use of an
identical
phrase in describing an occasion
when he was frostbitten whilst sledging in Russia.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
Sped a shepherd from the height
Headlong
down to look,
(White lambs followed, lured by love
Of their shepherd's crook):
He turned neither east nor west,
Neither north nor south,
But knelt right down to May, for love
Of her sweet-singing mouth;
Forgot his flocks, his panting flocks
In parching hillside drouth;
Forgot himself for weal or woe.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's
information
and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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I hope, sir, no gentleman will find fault with any
reflections
that could be thrown out against such
I
tleman will pretend to draw any parallels betwixt their
conduct and ours.
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| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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Fierce was the pain of my wound,
But I saw it was death to stir,
For fifty paces away
Their
trenches
were.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Why must those obviously
important
be omitted1 They must be omitted so that we can distinquish between variables at the level of the units and variables at the level of the system.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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et genus
assaraci
M.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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The combined pro-
gramme included a Parisian
ignorance
of real
Turkey and a childish belief in the miracu-
lous almightiness of The Constitution/'
95
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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Books were the
objects most
frequently
described, but other items appear, as in the
Advertisement of a Sale of choice Goods, which dates from about
1670.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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of these re-animations was not their exotic decor, but rather the prospect of an old-new paradigm of wisdom that would destroy the
foundations
for religious fanaticism of an exclusive monotheistic variety.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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52 Indeed, Ficker
suggests
that it is too early to offer an interpretation of Trakl's poetry.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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However, I will leave you, and report your behaviour: and
whatever
visit I make, I shall first enquire at the door whether you are in the house, that I may be sure to avoid you.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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Esferas I, capítulo 1:
«Operaciones
de corazón o: Sobre el exceso eucarístico»,
págs.
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| Question: |
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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Still I find comfort in his Book, who saith,
Though
jealousy
be cruel as the grave,
And death be strong, yet love is strong as death.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
But we, poor
trembling
shipwrecked men, like storks Whose wings the double-pinioned thunderbolt
Hath scorched, fell prone in terror on the ground.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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I have put behind me Love and Greed; I have done with Profit and
Fame;
I am still short of illness and decay and far from
decrepit
age.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I
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It will occur to you often to ask, why did I not release myself from
the horrors of opium by leaving it off or
diminishing
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As for
primitive
people, they were either looked to for a model of a more attractive form of civilisation, or else, as in Voltaire's Essay on Morals, their customs and beliefs were seen as no more than a series of inexplicable absurdities.
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Thereafter
I sat me against a tree.
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Nachtlang
wohnte er
n 161
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Espronceda
violates the rule in this instance:
Veame en vuestros brazos y máteme luego (12)
This is a peculiarly violent and harsh syneresis.
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Each of these is merely an
appearance
to and of the mind.
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Can you tell me any- thing about this
Feuermaul
who's here this evening?
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One could possibly make this thesis more specific by
replacing
the word ‘generation’ with the phrase ‘learning phase of an average individual life-span’ – this would, in the retrospective dimension, demand a co-operation with the knowledge of ancestors one did not have the chance to know (this normally means one's great-grandparents and earlier), and prospectively also a co-operation with the descendants one will not live to know (starting with one's great-grandchildren).
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But raise your
eyes, and behold a second flight of stairs still higher, on which again
Piranesi is perceived, but this time
standing
on the very brink of the
abyss.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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"
"I remember," replied Atticus, "that Brutus sent you a letter from Asia, which I read with
infinite
pleasure: for he advised you in it like a man of sense, and gave you every consolation which the warmest friendship could suggest.
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Father, my prayer is said; 'tis thine to hear--
Grant that some fair fate bring Orestes home,
And unto me grant these--a purer soul
Than is my mother's, a more
stainless
hand.
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