Is it in this way that you imitate the glories
of your ancestor, that
illustrious
Peter whom you have sworn to take
as your model?
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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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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Meredith - Poems |
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are we on the contrary to take every
opportunity
of hold-
ing up their resolutions and requests in a contemptible and
insignificant light, and tell the world their calls, their re-
quests are nothing to us; that we are bound by none of
their measures?
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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Some thought he had been bitten by a dog,
Because his violence took on the form
Of
carrying
his pillow in his teeth;
But it's more likely he was crossed in love,
Or so the story goes.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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Be friends, you English fools, be friends; we have
French
quarrels
enow, if you could tell how to reckon.
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Shakespeare |
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samudanTtagotra, 196, 198,202 intermediaries, male and female pho-
nya-dang pho-nya-mo: according to Kriyatantra, 271
which
naturally
abides: see enlightened
family, (twofold) which naturally
abides
of precious gems rin-chen rigs, Skt.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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this day, it must never be forgotten that their scurrility
was a convention and that they were no more meant to be
taken
literally
than is the fiery language of a modern
navvy.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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The burgesses alone could depose the consul or praetor from his oflice ; the proconsul and propraetor were nominated and dismissed by the senate, so that by this enactment the whole military power, on which withal everything ultimately depended, became formally at least
dependent
on the senate.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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This self-initiating subject is the miller of the "mill of modern times that is grinding itself"--as the poet Novalis, in his 1799 essay on Europe,3
referred
to the principal course of the human-nature factory that started its operations at the time, and which gained impetus through prosaic self-motivating entrepreneur types, Protestants, Brits, Prussians, and pro- fessors.
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Sloterdijk |
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Herman watched the proceedings with a
curiosity
not unmingled with
superstitious fear.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
We ask; is there
anything
more?
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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This means that, in the ordinary course of events, the parent of a baby
experiences
a strong urge to behave in certain typical sorts of way, for example, to cradle the in- fant, to soothe him when he cries, to keep him warm, protected, and fed.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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Silly rich peasants stamp the carpets of men,
Dead men who dreamed fragrance and light
Into their woof, their lives;
The rug of an honest bear
Under the feet of a cryptic slave
Who speaks always of baubles,
Forgetting state, multitude, work, and state,
Champing
and mouthing of hats,
Making ratful squeak of hats,
Hats.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Yet even at the height of the war,
officials
never lost sight of the internal politi- cal stakes, and seized on the potent language of patriotism to discredit parlementaire and philosophique opponents alike.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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They are able to
dedicate
themselves to the view of an exquisite enforcement of sentences:
But what a spectacle is already at hand--the return of the lord, now no object of doubt, now exalted, now triumphant!
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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But all this patient and laborious
practice
did not
procure immediate success.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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He had
lately passed his
examination
with honor, as mate, and the next
morning he was to sail in his ship to a distant coast.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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This should have been
delivered
to you a month ago.
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Robert Forst |
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The chief jdifference seems to be that in the case of the
attraction
between the inorganic substances, strains are set up in the media between the two poles, whilst in the living matter the forces seem confined to the organisms themselves.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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She said
good-bye and then
suddenly
turned to him and laid her hand on his arm.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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Whoever is driving an
automobile
is approaching the divine; he feels how his diminutive I is expanding into a higher self that offers us the whole world of highways as a home and that makes us realize that we are predestined to a life beyond the animal-like life
of pedestrians.
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Sloterdijk |
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Of what is she
dreaming?
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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Husbands were not much
in
evidence
in the bluestocking circle—by a curious coincidence,
1 See, also, ante, vol.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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The museological turn in philosophy must not be mistaken for a change to a different genre; nor does it have any
characteristics
of a flight to less demanding areas.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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She
sometimes
played tunes upon them with her
fingers--minuets and marches I should think--but never moved them.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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Benjamin
Hewling, who died when he was about 22 Years of Age, and Mr.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Give praise in change for
brightness!
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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As a
rewriting
his will; and the document is
boy guest in the house of Prince Zaba- stolen.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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How another contrarywise before his death saw a book
containing
his sins, which was shown him by devils.
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bede |
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With regard to his
marriage
in A.
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Li Po |
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The
famished
mares are driven across
this river, while the foals are kept on the hither side.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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They inform him that they are
distressed
by Ravana, the giant king of
Lanka (Ceylon), whom they cannot conquer.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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For my ownT^ttaiu
part I would gladly shake off the Cares and Anxiety socrateso* that keep my
Eyesfrom
closing.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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Nothing's sweeter to my heart, full of sorrows,
on which the hoar-frost fell in some past time,
O pallid seasons, queens of our clime,
than the changeless look of your pale shadows,
- except, two by two, to lay our grief to rest
in some
moonless
night, on a perilous bed.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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[100] Then out he spake; “O Cypris cruel, Cypris
vengeful
yet,
“Cypris hated of all flesh!
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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When the
animals had assembled in the big barn, Snowball stood up and, though
occasionally
interrupted
by bleating from the sheep, set forth his
reasons for advocating the building of the windmill.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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The
Education
Commission and Society of the Friends
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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When we have to study a particular faculty of the human mind in
its sources, its content, and its limits; then from the nature of
human knowledge we must begin with its parts, with an accurate and
complete
exposition
of them; complete, namely, so far as is possible
in the present state of our knowledge of its elements.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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For
the
judgment
of the latter is this: “We are the
noble!
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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"
"And are you the
renowned
Geraint?
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Tennyson |
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By which
comparison
Christ teacheth that the wicked conspiracy of his enemies was an heap of all iniquities.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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The Game of Chess
DOGMATIC STATEMENT
CONCERNING
THE GAME OF CHESS : THEME FOR A SERIES OF PICTURES
RED knights, brown bishops, bright queens,
Striking colour,
the in "L"s of board, falling strong
Beaching and striking in angles,
holding lines in one colour.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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tonnement,
a` l'aspect dela Vierge rayonnante, ne
ressemble
point a` la sur-
prise que les hommes pourraient e?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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There remains, therefore, only one single process
possible for reason to attain this knowledge, namely, to start from
the supreme principle of its pure
practical
use (which in every case
is directed simply to the existence of something as a consequence of
reason) and thus determine its object.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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In his case
we should not speak of the clear and rounded but
of "the endless melody"—if by this phrase we arrive
at a name for an artistic style in which the definite
form is
continually
broken, thrust aside and trans-
ferred to the realm of the indefinite, so that it
signifies one and the other at the same time.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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"--
Elinor tried to make a civil answer, though
doubting
her own success.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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de France, as appeared by the answers he received from these French corres
pondents
; to which he pleaded not guilty.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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So everything is concentrated and he fills the margins like correspondents who have too much to say for the space
available
to them.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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Columkille, when the latter left our island to propagate
Christianity
among the people of North Britain.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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How can the earth with its
mountains
and forests and
oceans--a cold body--give light?
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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Mas ¿por qué estáis
cabizbaja?
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Jose Zorrilla |
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The thoughts of God attain
realisation in the world of things which change and pass, through the
infusion {166} of themselves in, or the superimposing of themselves
upon, that which is Nothing apart from them,--the mere negation of what
is, and yet
necessary
as the 'Other' or correlative of what is.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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But they
probably
dis cerned only the immediate object of Hamilcar's plans, viz.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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I did not
see the face, but I knew the man by the neck and the
movement
of his
back and arms.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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n Europea o a otras
federaciones
poli?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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On an
elevation
of rock, which.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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For they are not based upon experience and its known laws ; and with out experience, they are a merely arbitrary conjunction of thoughts, which, though containing no internal contradiction, has no claim to objective reality, neither, consequently, to the
possibility
of such an object as is thought in these concep tions.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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]
[Footnote 18: Filippo Argenti (Philip _Silver_,--so called from his
shoeing his horse with the precious metal) was a Florentine remarkable
for bodily
strength
and extreme irascibility.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Great black ravens I saw flutt'ring,
Caddows black and sombre gray,
In the
enchanted
coppice strutting
'Mid the adders on the way.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
"Well, lead on," said Charicles, not unwilling to put off
for a time his
intended
visit to Phorion ; " lead on, I follow
you.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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" It is
precisely
the
reverse.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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Vengeance
for them my son had mind to take,
And drew on his own head these whelming woes.
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Aeschylus |
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My literary agent John Brockman, with his wife and partner Katinka Matson,
conceived
the idea of editing a book of essays as a rite-of-passage gift for their son Max.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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20
THE
ACCOUNTE
OF W.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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" As she took up
the candle to leave the room, Joyce, who had
spent a
delicious
day in the garden with her
dolls, said meditatively, "I s'all have to leave
my dollie's pram behind when Jesus comes to
take me tc heaven?
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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The adult cannot be
entirely
passive, even though
he or she alters the behavior of the group.
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Childens - Folklore |
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The present and the bygone upon
earth—ah!
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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To be rich, is to have
more than is desired, and more than is wanted, to have
something
which
may be spent without reluctance, and scattered without care, with which
the sudden demands of desire may be gratified, the casual freaks of
fancy indulged, or the unexpected opportunities of benevolence improved.
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Samuel Johnson |
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rr;i'::;:
:::,i
i=
==
E;:
rilliiili
i;I;it= :
i:1 z ;.
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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| Source: |
Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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I had a perfectly
unnecessary notion that everything must be done
decently
and in order,
and that Saumarez's first care was to wipe the happy look out of Maud
Copleigh's face.
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Kipling - Poems |
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looked out between the man and the young
woman who were
standing
in front of him but was unable to find the
usher.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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The acolyte
Amid the chanted joy and
thankful
rite
May so fall flat, with pale insensate brow,
On the altar-stair.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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At the start of the 15th book he describes how Prusias, the vigorous and very active king of the Bithynians, by making war brought Cierus (which belonged to the
Heracleians)
under his control, along with some other cities.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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" cried Hester
Prynne, who, however inured to such behavior on the elf-child's
part at other seasons, was
naturally
anxious for a more seemly
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Vos ego nunc moneo : felix,
quicunque
dolore
Alterius disces posse carere tuo.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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Though with those streams he no
resemblance
hold,
Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold;
His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore,
Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Did not you know that people hide their love,
Like a flower that seems too
precious
to be picked?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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116 But Zeus turned them into birds; her he made a
kingfisher
(alcyon) and him a gannet (ceyx).
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| Question: |
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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A man has seen
thousands
of machines in his lifetime.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Turing - Can Machines Think |
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The
Epicurean
has the
same point of view as the cynic; there is usually
only a difference of temperament between them.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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In which
year there came to pass a most grievous famine in Syria, which is recorded
in the Acts of the Apostles to have been
foretold
by the prophet Agabus.
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bede |
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'
Then Bacchus,--'I must say good-by,
Although
my peace it jeopards;
I meet a man at four, to try
A well-broke pair of leopards.
| Guess: |
Cum |
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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I had
committed
myself to doing it when I sent for the rifle.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Orwell |
|
4 These
concerns
with too much abstraction, with a globalized Big Rhetoric, or with the seemingly irrec- oncilable differences between speech and writing, rhetoric and literacy--these are just a few of the twists and turns in our collective story of disciplinary achievement and anxiety, as many have said before us.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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[12]
Anonymous
{ F 73 } G
Come and rest your limbs awhile, travellers, here under the juniper by Hermes, the guardian of the road - not a mixed crowd, but those of you whose knees ache from heavy toil and who thirst after accomphshing a long day's journey.
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Greek Anthology |
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)
6 --This is a remarkably peculiar
property
of productive labour.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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money,if a
depositor}
or if .
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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' I
wondered
at the words he spake, but I knew that his were
no idle words.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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20 Such arguments, while
cannot help but take the form of special pleading or even of an apolo
getics for away of interpreting, sanctioned by the radical
indetermi
nacy of the text.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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Cultures as such are consistently based on the fundamental contradic- tion between the acquired neophilic attitude of Homo sapiens and the - at first -
inevitably
neophobic constitution of their rule apparatuses.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days
following
each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Indeed, if the only threat the blackmailer has is to launch a war, he could not do better than extracting the
expected
gain from the war, which is zero if x < 0.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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He
something
absolute, and all his actions are quite his own.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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When
anyone, during a long period, and persistently, wishes to appear
something, it will at last prove difficult for him to be
anything
else.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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What are the
arguments
for and against government
operation of railways?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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300
BISMARCK
Crown were allotted to the Federal Council, which was a
syndicate of the
federated
governments.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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Thosepersonswerediviners, soothsayers, magicians, enchanters, and such
satellites
of Anti-Christ, who dwelt there ; while through their spells and magic arts, many unhappy souls had become slaves to the devils, who mocked at their blindness and folly.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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