Therefore you will see that fire[1016] of which you yourself
supplied the sparks, raging far and wide, and
spreading
universal
destruction.
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John's College, Cambridge, in 1601 or 1602, the then general estima-
tion of
Shakespeare
is voiced through the mouth of Will Kempe,
who speaks thus of university-bred poets:-
"Why here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all downe, ay and
Ben Jonson too!
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TAFF (who, asbestas can, wiz the healps of gosh and his bluzzid maikar, has been sulphuring to himsalves all the pungataries of sin praktice in failing to furrow
theogonies
of the dommed).
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Scintharus
told us about the
other inhabitants of the whale, who were savage barbarians, and always
ready to attack them.
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[182]
Meleager →
[183]
PARMENION
{ Ph 3 } G
{As she had just loosed her maiden girdle} .
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This topic, discovered in the
seventeenth
century when writers be- gan to thematize the difficulties of communication, was later exploited by the romantics in a familiar, almost triumphant, sometimes profound,
34
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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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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Ferdinand had already created him Duke of Friedland,
apparently with the view of exalting his own general over Bavaria; but
an
ordinary
recompense would not satisfy Wallenstein’s ambition.
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To make himself the object
of his own
admiration?
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Whatever criticisms
one may have of the Soviet
socialist
system, one has to
admit that the Soviet Union has made impressive pro-
gress in the sphere of inter-ethnic relationships.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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He hastens
with other Trojans to the
assistance
of Hector when
prostrated by Ajax, and, being encouraged by Apollo,
he engages in combat with Achilles, whom he wounds.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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But when the head has to go out to them — when the
mountain
must go to Mahomet —
" Reader, try it for once, only for one short twelve month.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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» Au reste combien
de femmes intéressées, puisqu'elles sont entretenues, ne voit-on pas,
par une délicatesse qui fleurit au milieu de cette existence, poser
elles-mêmes mille petites bornes à la
générosité
de leur amant!
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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As a result, the writer could no longer consider himself as a pure con- sumer; he directed the
production
or supervised the distri- bution of goods or he was a civil-servant; he had duties towards the State; in short, a whole part of him was inte- grated into the bourgeoisie; his behaviour, his professional relationships, his obligations, and his concerns were bour-
geois; he bought, sold, ordered, and obeyed; he entered the charmed circle of courtesy and ceremony.
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Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:56 GMT / http://hdl.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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'"
"Well," said Elinor, "it is a comfort to be
prepared
against the worst.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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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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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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performing, copying or
distributing
any Project Gutenberg-tm works
unless you comply with paragraph 1.
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4001 (#371) ###########################################
JAMES
FENIMORE
COOPER
4001
"My brigantine!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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By far the most important of
these miscellaneous taxes were the duties levied on the
transport
of
goods.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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But there arises a dispute for the
possession
of the
child between Fire, Ganges, and the Pleiades.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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whether I assume a grave
appearance
I know not, but down
below in the palace stands a peddler who has such fine wares
that it vexes me that I have no money to spare.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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All
were silent for some seconds, while the
engineer attentively looked through
the
telescope
at the image of the
sup in the quicksilver.
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Childrens - Frank |
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I am fick of this ; for, as you have fhew'd, the apostles argue the
authority
of the hushand from the power given to Adam over his •wj#.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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"
" You will find out the lie without my telling you," mumbled the witch ; " your
business
is not perhaps such a bad one as it seemed to me at first.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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ische
Literatur
und lateinisches Mittelalter (Bern, 1948), p.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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The first vowel is long because it is followed
by two consonants, the second because it is long
in Felix, the third because it is
followed
by a
double letter.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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John, Johann Christian Schuchardt, Friedrich Theodor Kriiuter, Johann Peter Eckermann, Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer, or even Geist-so runs the list of the names of men who would have been able to sign Goethe's truths and fictions if the rules in operation had been those of the materiality of writ- ing rather than the
Discourse
of the Master.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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103) and is
admirably
illustrated in that poem itself.
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Alexander Pope |
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In Hong Kong and Singapore daily dealing exceeded
Tokyo’s
$55 billion, which slid 20 percent from 2013 on Abenomics’ long-term zero interest rate policy trying to topple deflation assumptions.
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Kleiman International |
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¶ After they be all set, in commeth the frowning minion againe, and once
more falleth to recken what company he hathe there: by and by retourning he
layeth euery one a trenchar, and a spone of the same siluer: and then after
that, hee setteth downe a drinkinge glasse and within a while bringes in
bread which euery manne (at
leysure)
chippeth and pareth for him selfe,
whiles the potage is a sethinge.
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Erasmus |
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Andattheseasonhesent
a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard : but the husband- men beat him, and sent him away empty.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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It explains at once the
occasion
of all
the mistakes of philosophers with respect to the supreme principle
of morals.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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love and hate, gratitude and revenge, goodness
and anger,
affirmative
and negative action, belong
to each other.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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Let us see how these
three
problems
arise.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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Of all things that life or perhaps my temperament
has given me I prize the gift of
laughter
as beyond price.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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And in this discourse it will be
necessary
to note those errors that are
obvious, as well as others which are seldomer observed, since there are
few so obvious or acknowledged into which most men, some time or other,
are not apt to run.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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Airlines
can now spread their welcoming presence more widely throughout the airport buildings, with those touch-screens, than they ever could while they were
Infinite Availability.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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73 See "
Monasticon
Hibernicum," p.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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The supernaturalism of epic, however
incredible it may be in the poem, must be worked up out of the material
of some generally
accepted
belief.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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--My dear Myles, he said,
flinging
his cigarette aside, you put a false
construction on my words.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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PUBLIC SPIRIT IN ROME
HE
WHO can put into the minds of the people patience in
labor, a feeling for glory and the nation's greatness, and
love of their country, can boast of having framed the polit-
ical
constitution
best fitted for the production of great men.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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26 The alleged irrelevance of school-based "theory" is sup- ported by stories like that of Los Angeles police officers who are told, upon leaving the police academy, to "now forget
everything
you learned.
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In isolating them
and attaching them to herself by
grateful
ties, she placed them
almost insensibly under her influence.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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III
You tossed a blanket from the bed,
You lay upon your back, and waited;
You dozed, and watched the night revealing
The thousand sordid images
Of which your soul was constituted;
They
flickered
against the ceiling.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Wittgenstein
concludes: 'Was ich erfinde sind neue Gleichnisse.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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We do not here complain of the shortness of life; sadder than death itself was the manner of it; a horrid disease destroyed her face, and seized upon her
delicate
mouth.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the
terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or
entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in
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This is
contemplated
bj many who speak of a national bank, but the idea seem?
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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But only after Nietzsche’s inversion of
Platonism
and Heidegger’s reorientation of philosophical reflection on the basis of “a different beginning” was it possible to recognize with greater certainty what a thinking whose generative pole had effectively stepped outside of the zone of metaphysical theories of essences would be all about.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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These sanctuaries were typically marked by a low wall (peribolos) or
inscribed
boundary stone (horos).
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The first book-length
collection
of Pound's poems in Japanese appeared in 1956, the culmination of years of dedicated effort of Ryozo Iwasaki (1908-76), then Professor of English Literature at Keio University.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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"
With these words they had reached the top, where the road no longer climbed but cut across a rolling,
treeless
plateau.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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- All loved beings
are cups of venom one drinks with eyes unseeing,
and the heart that's once transfixed, seduced by pain,
finds death, while still
blessing
the arrow, every day.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Et confrontée, par le retour incessant de mon désir, à l'ardent plaisir
que je
goûterais
dans quelques jours seulement, hélas!
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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First, it is admitted on all hands that the seminal
animalculæ
are
essential to impregnation, since "they cannot be detected when either
from age or disease the animal is rendered sterile.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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Copyright
1896, by Woodrow
Wilson.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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In this century
journalists
have nailed
their own ears to the keyhole.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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This quaintness is, in fact, a very powerful adjunct to
ideality, but in the case in question it arises
independently
of the
author's will, and is altogether apart from his intention.
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Nhu-u con thiệt dữ
tưởng
tinh,
Mẹ chong non an, dam kỉnh vửi đâu,
Châng qua tại lúc ban dần,
Ùng bâ tưng trọng, yèu dán qná chừng,
Lại thém.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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' Bennigsen indicated that, if
places were also found for two or three other prominent
National Liberals, the
proposal
might be seriously con-
sidered.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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EF
g
gi*gIiilit
giiE A'.
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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— To
dullness
Ridpath is as dear as Mist.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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" Utility " in respect of the acceleration of the speed of evolution,
different
kind of " utility " from that which understood to mean the greatest possible stability and staying power of the evolved
creature.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Also, on a certain day,
recollecting
in the evening that he had not awarded anything to anyone, he said in a laudable and lofty remark, "Friends, we have wasted a day" (because he was of great liberality).
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Una conexión así
puede que
antropológica
y moralmente sea de importancia, pero
desde el punto de vista de la historia de la imagen de mundo se ca
racteriza por su ceguera.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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Some
Suggestions
for General Activities:
1.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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All the powers and great Iymphonia of physical and
spiritllal
natu~ lie imcribed within .
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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To be sure, singing the Divine O ce or saying the Ave Maria might have powerful--and, indeed, manifold--spiritual, emotional, and even
corporeal
e ects: stirring the soul to contrition for sins, melting the heart to greater devotion, ravishing devout souls and causing them to receive spiritual gi s, making the heart joyous and sweet, driving away evil spirits, and overcoming the bodily and spiritual enemies of the church.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Comparative anatomy teaches us that man
resembles
frugivorous animals in
everything, and carnivorous in nothing; he has neither claws wherewith
to seize his prey, nor distinct and pointed teeth to tear the living
fibre.
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Shelley copy |
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I do believe in
avenging
gods
Who plague us for sins we never sinned
But who avenge us.
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Imagists |
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That new suffering created within me a fortunate
diversion--to speak in
military
style.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Mine eye perus'd
With tearful vacancy the _dampy_ grass
Which wept and glitter'd in the paly ray;
And I did pause me on my lonely way,
And mused me on those
wretched
ones who pass
O'er the black heath of Sorrow.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Abolition of privileges and titles equality before the law;
trial by jury; freedom of conscience; freedom of the
press;
elective
legislature with responsible government,
power of taxation, etc.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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And then he
stretched
his arms, how wild!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The idea of going to a scary place for the proof of one's courage and
skill seems to strike an
especially
responsive chord in boys who are begin-
ning to make the transition toward adolescence.
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Childens - Folklore |
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_
[_Sits down on the steps of the temple_]
Vijaya, I have brought my evening rice;
The sun has laid his chin on the gray wood,
Weary, with all his poppies
gathered
round him.
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Yeats |
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In Phoebus' archives
registered
are ye,
And this your patent of nobility.
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Donne - 2 |
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You should not be
prompted
by worldly desires such as seeking your Guru's praise or fatherly approval.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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"
In about two years Congreve produced 'The
Mourning
Bride,' a
tragedy which was over-lauded, but stands high among the dramas
of the century.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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To this custom Pindar
frequently
alludes .
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Pindar |
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Jove rules in heaven, his thunder shows;
Henceforth Augustus earth shall own
Her present god, now Briton foes
And
Persians
bow before his throne.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But what is thus separated, and in a sense is unreal, is itself an essential moment; for just because the
concrete
fact is self-divided, and turns into unreality, it is something self-moving, self-active.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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This right, which Dugin modernizes and profoundly renews in his theories, seems therefore to suc- ceed in its strategy of entering into left-wing structures that are badly informed and looking for any and all allies in their struggle against
American
domination.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The moment of his return home was for Sulla an over
powering
one in joy and in pain : he himself relates in his memoirs that during his first night in Rome he had not been able to close an eye, and we may well believe it.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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The
wretched
hope not, though hope aid might raise.
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Petrarch |
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For such
divisions are generalities whose use historically and actually has been to press the importance of
the
distinction
between some men and some other men, usually towards not especially admirable
ands.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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The Danish
invasion
of Ireland, lasting from the ninth to the
eleventh centuries, draws a red line across the history of its litera-
ture.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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before the second
partition
of Poland.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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Thus, it
was hoped, she might be
disposed
to favour the Spar-
tan proposals, which, as a matter of course, the anti-
Theban party, then very strong, would back up to the
utmost of its power.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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Obviously
written at the time of his
ejection from his living.
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Robert Herrick |
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And to this class do they appertain that slight
everything
in comparison
of hunting and protest they take an unimaginable pleasure to hear the
yell of the horns and the yelps of the hounds, and I believe could pick
somewhat extraordinary out of their very excrement.
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"like a sow upon a pair of organs," |
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meaning: "like a sow upon a pair of organs" |
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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There is an
instinct
for rank, which more than
anything else is already the sign of a high rank;
there is a delight in the nuances of reverence which
leads one to infer noble origin and habits.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Sikandar was on the point of defeating the royal troops
when he was thrown to the ground by an elephant and
trampled
to
death by his own cavalry.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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There are two trees in the Sierra forests that are never blown
down, so long as they
continue
in sound health.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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