A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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" ^^ This is a consistent
following
out of the original intentions of its founders, as is shown by the speech of President Van Cleave one year after the founding of the new body:
I called a meeting of representatives of a number of various organiza- tions here at the Waldorf-Astoria, and after several meetings we finally succeeded in getting a simple working-plan.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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Thus is the thirst
for
sympathy
a thirst for self enjoyment and at the expense of one's
fellow creatures: it shows man in the whole ruthlessness of his own dear
self: not in his mere "dullness" as La Rochefoucauld thinks.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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If you speak
slightly
of my husband, I shall turn you out of the
house.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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They further identify their program with that of the socialists by joining with thetn in their
acceptance
of monop- oly.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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_ Indeed you seem to have read that
Sentence
of _Cato, Saluta
libenter_, to good Purpose; was it not enough to have saluted Christ in
the Morning, without saluting him again presently?
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Erasmus |
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' Miss Ferrier's life grew more and more
retired as she advanced in years, and a failing eyesight which pres-
ently became nearly
complete
blindness secluded her from all except
an intimate group of friends.
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Yet
these men were the chief friends, the only
literary
associates of the
poet, during those early years, in which, with some exceptions, his
finest works were written.
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Robert Forst |
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Then it disappeared, or was
replaced
by an f sound.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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Let me
congratulate
you, my dearest Mother!
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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The Buddhist
practices
ofthese siddhas were a living tradition passed down from guru to disciple with the disciple not receiving the teachings until the master had completely accomplished the practice and the pupil had shown that he or she was ready to
receive them.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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Perhaps some dungeon hears thee groan
Maim'd, mangled by inhuman men;
Or thou upon a desert thrown
Inheritest the lion's den;
Or hast been summoned to the deep,
Thou, thou, and all thy mates, to keep
An
incommunicable
sleep.
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Golden Treasury |
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If the shoes and clothing of the labourer, could, by improvements in
machinery, be
produced
by one fourth of the labour now necessary to
their production, they would probably fall 75 per cent.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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American Political Science
Association
is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The American Political Science Review.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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Countless
people faced immense debt.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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"I thought I wasn't
mistaken
in Mr.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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Carried forward 6,000
Then I take 13I acres of beech and of white wood,
because I have divided the 400 into thirty parts, and I
make a Hme-kiln, provided I find in the forest itself the
right kind of
material
for this purpose.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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He held at this time the post of assistant
secretary
to the Princes'
tutor.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The documentary evidence for the
donation
of
Charles needs separate treatment; but the king is said to have
included in his magnificent gift nil Tt«ly south of^the Po _which the
Lombards occupied.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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Sometimes
he had as many as seven hundred.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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Knopf 1920
To Jean Verdenal 1889-1915
Certain of these poems first
appeared
in Poetry, Blast, Others, The
Little Review, and Art and Letters.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Of course I cannot break through the wall
by battering my head against it if I really have not the strength to
knock it down, but I am not going to be
reconciled
to it simply because
it is a stone wall and I have not the strength.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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Ground
mahamudra
is the view, understanding things as they are.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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There, to silence the Foe,
Moving grimly and slow,
They loomed in that deadly wreath,
Where the darkest
batteries
frowned
Death in the air all round,
And the black torpedoes beneath!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Thus
Augustin
never
wavered in his dislike for Greek: he was a poor Greek scholar.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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But at the same time the mission brought with it a larger life
and a broader outlook: it is
significant
that Aethelberht of Kent, the
first to accept the new faith, is also the first in the list of kings who put
forth laws.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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While minds of
the lower order acquire from novel-reading a
cultivation
which
they previously lacked, the higher seem proportionately to sink.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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You are like Balm,
enclosed
well
In amber, or some crystal shell;
Yet lost ere you transfuse your smell.
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Robert Herrick |
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Thus linear
perspective
began as architectural painting, as the projection of a three-dimensional octagon in its cor- related two-dimensional representation.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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Nách
tường
bông liễu bay ngang trước mành.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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7
$$!
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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She was busy winding thread,
which a little, old, one-eyed man in an officer's uniform was holding on
his
outstretched
hands.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Castor and Polydeuces, call to thee,
God's
Horsemen
and thy mother's brethren twain.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The propagation of
Hellenism
in Italy had certainly a revolutionary and a denationalizing tendency, but it was indispensable for the necessary intellectual equalization of the nations ; and this primarily forms the historical and even the poetical justification of the Romano-Hellenistic literature.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Therewith a second Tiphys shall there be,
Her hero-freight a second Argo bear;
New wars too shall arise, and once again
Some great
Achilles
to some Troy be sent.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Fulvius took the town of Bo-
vianus, by the
treachery
of L.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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99
There is a great deal of
caricature
even about the
Greeks: for example, the careful attention devoted
by the Cynics to their own happiness.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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’ Gordon
laughed a laugh of
gratified
conceit, and managed to pass it off as a laugh of sardonic
amusement.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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Where is your
Husband?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Vishvamitra sought to achieve power
and was proud of it;
Vashishtha
was rudely smitten by that power.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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have not I suffi-
ciently well
exercised
myself?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Non \n-\-sueta gra-\-xes
tentabunt
pabiila fetas
( insueta--syn&resis--though (N.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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She caught and kept his first vague
flickering
smile,
The faint upleaping of his spirit's fire;
And for a long sweet while
In her was all he asked of earth or heaven--
But in the end how far,
Past every shaken star,
Should leap at last that arrow-like desire,
His full-grown manhood's keen
Ardor toward the unseen
Dark mystery beyond the Pleiads seven.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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10 The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood;
yea, the Lord sitteth as King for ever, n The
Lord will give
strength
unto His people; the Lord
will bless His people with peace.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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Crows and hawks peck for human guts,
Carry them in their beaks and hang them on the
branches
of withered
trees.
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Li Po |
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So passed they on with even pace:
Yet
gradually
one might trace
A shadow growing on his face.
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Lewis Carroll |
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have failed to learn that occasional steps
backward in Soviet Russia do not necessarily spell failure,
but usually indicate a willingness on the part of a radical
government with all the responsibilities of political power
to face the facts and to
exercise
intelligent flexibility in
the conduct of affairs.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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Both regimes dipped heavily into the public
treasury
to refloat or subsi- dize heavy industry.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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On loan and on land, I believe not
That any earth-weal eternal standeth Save there be
somewhat
calamitous That, ere a man's tide go, turn it to twain.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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FAUST:
Wenn aus dem schrecklichen Gewuhle
Ein suss
bekannter
Ton mich zog,
Den Rest von kindlichem Gefuhle
Mit Anklang froher Zeit betrog,
So fluch ich allem, was die Seele
Mit Lock- und Gaukelwerk umspannt,
Und sie in diese Trauerhohle
Mit Blend- und Schmeichelkraften bannt!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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There was in general no
difference
in the religious and spiritual life of the two kingdoms, save that religious movements generally first originated in Israel.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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He sits down with his holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears;
Then
Humility
takes its root
Underneath his foot.
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blake-poems |
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Especially on the employees' side the representatives are chosen as a rule at meetings of a wholly unchecked,
fluctuating
crowd; there is hardly any discussion about all of the people affected by the wage agreement sharing in the authority, and it lacks what would make this superfluous: the social unity, a totality outside of its members, of those who are by chance present or absent.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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Translations
of the Classics.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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"
CXXX
"As it hath ever," thus the Duke begun,
"Thy counsel shows thy wisdom and thy love,
And what you left in doubt shall thus be done,
We will their force in pitched battle prove;
Closed in this wall and trench, the fight to shun,
Doth ill this camp beseem, and worse behove,
But we their
strength
and manhood will assay,
And try, in open field and open day.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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Royalty
payments
should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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ing
be
232
ba
walking ten paces, he came face-up against a wall lying
angles to the
direction
in which he had been moving.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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As goddess of mariners she is called Euporia,
Limenitis
etc.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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When a law had been
recently
proposed and sanctioned, a citizen wrote in jest at the bottom of his vote: "This law applies to all citizens, with the exception of two Drusi.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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373
prologue
to, ib.
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Dryden - Complete |
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Elvire
All my thoughts are still
enchanted
by them:
He esteems Rodrigue, as you love him,
Reading his soul, if I am free from error,
He'll wish you to take him as your lover.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The Buddha has not "escaped" the retribution of his former actions, Divya, 416: "Have you not learned these words of the Muni that the Jinas
themselves
are not freed from their actions?
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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The appearances alluded to, are, greater prevaleney of direct barter, in the more interior districts of the country, whieh, however, has been for some time past, gradually lessening; and greater difficulty generally in the advan- tageous alienation of
improved
real estate$ which also has of late diminished, but is still seriously felt in differ- ent parts of the Union.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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"
I am the
politest
man in the world.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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That means that each woman who
demonstrates
ability to bear offspring
must bear 3.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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But what new trouble
disturbs
dear Oenone?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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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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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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[348] And I, unhappy, who refused wedlock, within the building of my stony maiden chamber without ceiling, hiding my body in the
unroofed
tenement of my dark prison: I who spurned from my maiden bed the god Thoraios, Lord of Ptoön, Ruler of the Seasons, as one who had taken eternal maidenhood for my portion to uttermost old age, in imitation of her who abhors marriage, even Pallas, Driver of the Spoil, the Wardress of the Gates – in that day, as a dove, to the eyrie of the vulture, in frenzy shall be haled violently in crooked talons, I who often invoked the Maiden, Yoker of Oxen, the Sea-gull, to help and defend me from marriage.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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' The two assertions
of Mandeville which Law is chiefly concerned to refute are that
man is only an animal, and
morality
only an imposture.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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599 (#637) ############################################
LUCIUS APULEIUS
599
was contested on the ground that this handsome and accomplished
young literary man had
exercised
magic in winning his elderly bride!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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Upon the perfecting of
virtue and on its reign depend our
salvation
in this world
and in the next.
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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They had hardly lowered the stretchers to the ground^when
suddenly
\\ the spirit of life could be seen re-entering the deceased bodies.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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)
người
xã Kim Hoa huyện Kim Hoa (nay thuộc xã Kim Hoa huyện Mê Linh tỉnh Vĩnh Phúc).
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stella-04 |
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This cherubim
One may
distinguish
among the angelic hierarchies, vowed to the service and glory of the divine, beings with unknown forms and the most amazing beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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Perhaps you may
persuade
_her_.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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inficeto]
commonly
written infaceto.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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"
THYRSIS
"Now may I seem more bitter to your taste
Than herb Sardinian, rougher than the broom,
More
worthless
than strewn sea-weed, if to-day
Hath not a year out-lasted!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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More dangerous have I found it among men
than among animals :'-That was
forsakenness!
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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the
merchant
wolves who carried off from Lerne the ox-eyed girl, the bull-maiden, to bring to the lord of Memphis a fatal bride, and raised the beacon of hatred for the two continents.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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It has the form of an attempted attack against the
environmental
conditions of the enemy's life, beginning with the toxic attack on the most immediate resources of the surrounding of a human organism, the air that it breathes.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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As it is agreeable to general experience that, at a certain stage
in the
progress
of society, ballad-poetry should flourish, so is
it also agreeable to general experience that, at a subsequent
stage in the progress of society, ballad-poetry should be
undervalued and neglected.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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; i' ii:g
Eiiiljiii
ii;11i1;i?
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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works in your possession.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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This doctrine,
which was afterwards taken up and applied by Skeat, rests
the whole
prosodic
matter on, and practically confines it to,
a physiological basis—speech being regarded as only possible in
jets governed by the glottis.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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We rolled up our coats
and put them against the hot-water pipe, and made ourselves as
comfortable
as we could.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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Surely, none of the few travelers in the new textual lands still believe that they can shed a direct light on the conditions of the advanced
financial
and media society.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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Then all thy Saints assembl'd, thou shalt judge 330
Bad men and Angels, they arraignd shall sink
Beneath thy Sentence; Hell, her numbers full,
Thenceforth
shall be for ever shut.
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Milton |
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Car dans les livres qui
suivirent, s’il avait rencontré quelque grande vérité, ou le nom d’une
célèbre cathédrale, il interrompait son récit et dans une invocation,
une apostrophe, une longue prière, il donnait un libre cours à ces
effluves qui dans ses premiers ouvrages restaient intérieurs à sa
prose,
décelés
seulement alors par les ondulations de la surface, plus
douces peut-être encore, plus harmonieuses quand elles étaient ainsi
voilées et qu’on n’aurait pu indiquer d’une manière précise où
naissait, où expirait leur murmure.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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Her voice is like the ev'ning thrush
That sings on Cessnock banks unseen,
While his mate sits nestling in the bush;
An' she has twa
sparkling
roguish een.
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Robert Burns |
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The women thought me proud, the men were kind,
And bowed right
gallantly
to kiss my hand,
And watched me as I passed them calmly by,
Along the halls I shall not tread again.
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Sara Teasdale |
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iste paterni
principium motus, uis fulminis iste corusci,
uita elementorum, mundi calor, aetheris ignis
astrorumque uigor, perpes
substantia
lucis
et numerus celsi modulaminis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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'
`By god,' quod he, `I hoppe alwey
bihinde!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The
downfall
of Napoleon ended Wincenty Kra-
sinski's career in the Polish legions.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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--"But what if she mistook thy mind
And followed thee to strife,
Then
kneeling
did entreat thy love
As Paynims ask for life?
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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I'll fire at the
breakwater
out there.
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Kipling - Poems |
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4 G Those that were condemned by the judges, he delivered over to the persons injured, to be carried away by them to prison; so that they who before, through their
insolence
and greed, committed all manner of injustice, were unexpectedly hurried away to jail by those whom they had injured.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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This did not prevent Islam from developing a surrealism of its own kind – unlike Augustinian Christianity, however, it never managed to
formulate
a doctrine of the two kingdoms.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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