At Ibe o;nodQt levd of this
promising
tMmc tl>c girls, like the Bl.
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young man,
watchful
among the warm sweet fumes of
Graham Lemon's, placed a throwaway in a hand of Mr Bloom.
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" This done,
And having
finished
to cement and build
In a stone tower, they set him in the midst.
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In the Felire of Marianus O'Gorman, the Exaltation of dear Christ's Cross, the great, pure
diademed
standard, is com- memorated, at the 14th of September.
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How would your spirits groan in deep vexation,
To see each
melancholy
alteration;
And, agonizing, curse the time and place
When ye begat the base, degen'rate race!
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Greek Anthology: Book 11
THE
CONVIVIAL
AND SATIRICAL EPIGRAMS
This selection from Book 11 of the Greek Anthology contains all the epigrams written before the middle of the first century A.
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One is risky the way driving a car is always risky: genuine accidents can always occur, no matter how well the car is
designed
or how carefully it is driven; risk is a fact of life.
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Lone in the light of that magical grove,
I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my
delicate
youth,
And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
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The
attraction
which sexual life had for him seems at a cer-
tain period--from the summer of 1902 to April, 1903--to
have had some neurotic coloring.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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Now would you see this aged thorn,
This pond and beauteous hill of moss,
You must take care and chuse your time
The
mountain
when to cross.
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Por lo que importa al caso, que da por identificar el terrorismo como un hijo de la Modernidad, dado que no pudo ir madurando a una definición exacta hasta que no llegó a expli-
89
citarse suficientemente el principio del ataque al medio
ambiente
y a la de fensa inmunológica de un organismo o de una forma de vida.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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And now a tale of love and woe,
A woeful tale of love I sing;
Hark, gentle
maidens!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And yet I know that this
plainness
of speech
makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am
speaking the truth?
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50
the desire realm (from the hell beings up to and including the first level ofgods), the form realm (the next seventeen levels ofgods), and the
formless
realm (the last four levels).
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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Every man, that has had any experience in military affairs, knows that we can never depend on
bringing
our whole force into action; and if the parts where these men are posted are attacked, we must be defeated.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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A
further
development
took place under the Western Han (206 B.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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6
In view of this declaration it makes little sense to maintain, along with The Jefrson Bible's editor Forrester Church, that the wise man of
Monticello
merely sought the intelligible Jesus and necessarily missed the historical one.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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Nor in this alone, which we only proposed by way of example,
but in all his life, and without hypocrisy, does a holy man fly those
things that have any
alliance
with the body and is wholly ravished with
things eternal, invisible, and spiritual.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Maurice O’Fihelly,
archbishop
of Tuam, a master of divinity, a man of the highest reputation for ecclesiastical knowledge in his own time, died, (see an account of him at p.
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Whither fled Lamia, now a lady bright,
A full-born beauty new and
exquisite?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Resistance
to being bound.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Did I e'er frown when
Belvidera
smiled,
Or, by the least unfriendly word, betray
Abating passion?
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Thomas Otway |
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From him departs the monarch of Argier,
Who is
rejected
of his lady dear.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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In the
following example _ahora_ has three syllables:
Será más tarde que ahora (8)
The rule regarding syneresis under stress is that it is allowable, with
or without
resulting
stress-shift, except when the combinations _éa_,
_éo_, _óa_, are involved.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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A few years ago, a new English edition of the Man without
Qualities
finally won Robert Musil recognition among American readers as one of the great authors of the twentieth century.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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This poem, 'The Pleasures of Hope,'
a work whose title was thenceforth to be inseparably associated with
its author's name, was published in 1799, when
Campbell
was exactly
twenty-one years and nine months old.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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If a thought, like an idea, were something private and mental, then the truth of a thought could surely only consist in a
relation
to something that was not private or mental.
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I've changed my game, you see, and simply because it was for
my
interest
to change it.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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LESBIUS,
handsome
is he.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Besides that, they had not been using up all the
money that Gregor had been
bringing
home every month, keeping only a
little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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Et si j'avais été un
amateur sensible à la seule beauté j'aurais reconnu qu'Albertine le
recomposait mille fois plus beau,
maintenant
que les éléments en
étaient les statues nues de déesses comme celles que les grands
sculpteurs éparpillaient à Versailles sous les bosquets ou donnaient
dans les bassins à laver et à polir aux caresses du flot.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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to have been an ascetic operation which a god took
upon
himself!
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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wiste [æt] þǣm
āhlǣcan
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Beowulf |
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"61 The loyalty of the king was
repeatedly
questioned, and defenders of the monarchy now risked being labeled ene- mies of the revolution.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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Stephen, the
youngest
of old Duke Stephen's three sons, had a far more
remarkable career.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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It may be that those two
conditions
will be removed only when the plan will be well advanced, with consequences which can not be foreseen.
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For once a man has been put through prison thought reform, he never
completely
casts off its picture of the world and of himself.
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" *
On July 31, 1775, the
question
of renewing the sale of
teas was formally presented to Congress in the form of two
petitions, one from sundry New York merchants and the
other from sundry merchants of Philadelphia.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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Rome would pav
45,000
nomismata
(metal value about i?
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols silently rising
freshly exuding,
Scooting
obliquely
high and low.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Can you think of other examples in both ancient and recent history of iconoclasm: the intentional destruction of statues, paintings, or other graphic
representations
of previous rulers by successor regimes?
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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Weiss doch der Gartner, wenn das
Baumchen
grunt,
Das Blut und Frucht die kunft'gen Jahre zieren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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One hath done off
Adonis’
shoe, others fetch water in a golden basin, another washes the thighs of him, and again another stands behind and fans him with his wings.
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Bion |
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Should we then abandon interpretation, claim it is
senseless
to
speak about what Wakean language is about?
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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in the
parallel
clause.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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In truth, with all his
belief in the strong man, Carlyle never came entirely out into the
open; never expressed himself with the ruthless logical consistency
of the individualistic
thinkers
of our own time; the doctrine of the
Übermensch was not yet ripe.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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If the
tendency
of mankind to increase be so great as I
have represented it to be, it may appear strange that this increase
does not come when it is thus repeatedly called for.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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Indeed I am doing no more than taking note of an obvious truth: if I can get a
sufficiently
clear idea of an object or tool that I have never seen from a description of its function, at least in general terms, by con- trast, no analysis - however good - can give me even the vaguest idea of a painting I have never seen in any form.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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IV
FROM THE SEA
ALL beauty calls you to me, and you seem,
Past twice a thousand miles of
shifting
sea,
To reach me.
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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To the trumpet's blare,
And paweth the earth's
Aceldama?
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By raising the profits of the farmer's stock,
the bounty will operate as an encouragement to agriculture, and capital
will be
withdrawn
from manufactures to be employed on the land, till the
enlarged demand for the foreign market has been supplied, when the price
of corn will again fall in the home market to its natural and necessary
price, and profits will be again at their ordinary and accustomed level.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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I am to blame; carried away by pride
I have deceived God and the kings--have lied
To the world; but it is not for thee, Marina,
To judge me; I am
guiltless
before thee.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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~Tihsiswhat we mean when 'we say that the human
conceptual
system is metaphorically structured and defined.
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-- Closes
Definition
of the Meaning of the Divine Idea.
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»
Je sentis que cette
dernière
phrase n'était qu'une phrase et
qu'Albertine n'aurait pas pu garder, pour jusqu'à sa mort, un si doux
souvenir de cette promenade où elle n'avait certainement eu aucun
plaisir puisqu'elle était impatiente de me quitter.
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| Obvious
typographical
errors have been corrected in |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The fact that Ben Jonson was, also, for
a short time a fellow prisoner in the Tower, and was known to
have been connected with Ralegh, led some to believe his boasts,
made some years later over his cups, that he had contributed
considerable
portions
of the History.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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"
In the first place, it is
noteworthy
that the birth-rate varies with
practical Catholicism in France, being much higher in those Departments
where the Church is more flourishing.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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The
practice
of barring-out was a savage license, practised in many
schools to the end of the last century, by which the boys, when the
periodical vacation drew near, growing petulant at the approach of
liberty, some days before the time of regular recess, took possession
of the school, of which they barred the doors, and bade their master
defiance from the windows.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Artemis Pheraia is Artemis as Hecate from Pherae in
Thessaly
(Paus.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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That he'd weep o'er the
withering
leaf (C)f a rose>
And smile at the thorn, though it wounded his nose.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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"
Said the Shovel, "I'll
certainly
hit you a bang!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The rest, allow the luxurious fair to do; and any
man that
perchance
disgracefully seeks to attract another.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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A girl, Mrs
Lackersteen
said, should
NEVER make herself too cheap with a man; she should make herself — but the opposite
of ‘cheap’ seemed to be ‘expensive’, and that did not sound at all right, so Mrs
Lackersteen changed her tack.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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Life (with
portrait)
by Stodart, A.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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Its verve to a large degree results from the excess of vitality of an
unstoppable
giant wave of unem- ployed and, socially speaking, hopeless male adolescents between the ages of fifteen and thirty--in their majority second, third, and fourth sons, who can enact their futile rage only by participating in the next best aggression programs.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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Marianus
O'Gorman has his festival, at this same date.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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The truth
was that he
was
interested
in thought rather than in deeds, in
human nature rather than in its concrete pity and terror.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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Lo, the brother orbs around, all the
clustering
suns and planets,
All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams,
Pioneers!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But wherever there is a romantic
movement
in art there somehow, and under
some form, is Christ, or the soul of Christ.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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the hoard
consisting
of prey or plunder.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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There was no village, but far below a dark
green river wound, with what seemed quite like a large town
scattered
along its edge and
a grey bridge crossing it.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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Mathewes of Wales who |
were
descended
of Flewellyns |
and Herberts.
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John Donne |
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Only by
straining
the noblest
qualities you have to their highest power will you
find out what is greatest in the past, most worth
knowing and preserving.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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that the chief man who had the care of that day's proceed ings was bishop Fox, a grave
counsellor
for war or
clxiv A DIALOGUE, &c.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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Elsewhere there is undoubtedly much pomp and glitter, for the luxury and lavishness of Russian
officialism
is too well known to need mention here.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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It crosses
Andromeda’s
right arm above the elbow.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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The
versification
which he had learned from Dryden, he debased rather
than refined.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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They
consider
the work in itself, as though cut off from its author.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Both have long been outspoken
advocates
of nonviolence.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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2 Praise the Lord with
harp: sing unto Him with the
psaltery
and an
instrument of ten strings.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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Fletcher, Andrew, a turbulent
Republican
- Defoe, Daniel, a Political Writer and Novelist Granny, a drunken half-blind Woman Hardman, John, a singular Corn-cutter
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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In proclaiming the perfect
equality
of men and
women, and an entirely new order of things in regard to their relations
with one another, the St.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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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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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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After what has been said it will not be a
surprise
that this earliest trace took the form of a discourse over shepherding and breeding man.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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The
translations
that live, the transla-
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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These may all be reduced to one short word,
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arbitrary
power.
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Edmund Burke |
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You are to be envied, Sir;
for you have founded the most
attractive
of all re-
ligions—one whose followers do honour to its founder
by laughing at him.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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I was
the faithful witness of the closing scene, which he
sustained
with that calm
fortitude which characterized him through life.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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A
shepherd
or a cowherd, who is happy ifhe can squeeze lots ofmilk om his herd.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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LII
So am I as the rich, whose blessed key,
Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure,
The which he will not every hour survey,
For
blunting
the fine point of seldom pleasure.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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There are two types of obscuration that cover one's Buddha nature; the obscuration ofthe afflictive or disturbing emotions and the obscuration of
dualistic
perception, sometimes called the intellectual obscurations or cognitive obscurations.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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‘Density’ means that the
probabilities
of encounters and clashes have become almost infinite.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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