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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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‘Tis said a
continual
dripping will e’en wear a hollow in a stone .
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Bion |
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3) Patience: devout perseverance in virtue as one
approaches
the Vision
Path.
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Consider
therefore how great is thine injustice, if to me who deserve more thou payest less, nay nothing at all, especially when it is a small thing that is demanded of thee, and right easy for thee to perform.
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I'm no
mistrusting
Willie Pitt,
When taxes he enlarges,
(An' Will's a true guid fallow's get,
A name not envy spairges),
That he intends to pay your debt,
An' lessen a' your charges;
But, God-sake!
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If you are interested in
contributing
scanning equipment or
software or other items, please contact Michael Hart at:
hart@pobox.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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When passion's trance is overpast,
If tenderness and truth could last,
Or live, whilst all wild
feelings
keep
Some mortal slumber, dark and deep,
I should not weep, I should not weep!
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Shelley copy |
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”—So said my
moralistic
pedant
and bonhomme.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Offitt now pays his of the hero's convictions, and his manly
addresses to Maud, who
intimates
that adoption of what seems to him the cause
she desires to see Farnham suffer for of truth, to his own personal loss and
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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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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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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Believe me, Stella, when you show
That true
contempt
for things below,
Nor prize your life for other ends
Than merely to oblige your friends,
Your former actions claim their part,
And join to fortify your heart.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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" And he said, " he
" would never recommend any person to her but
" such a one as would be very
grateful
to her.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Some will say that existentialist drama is more
realistic*or
simply more ''dramatic;'' others will find it just ''too much.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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The
Position
of Women
The vocational opportunities and special protection afforded
women in the Soviet Union are best stated in the words of
Article 122 of the Constitution of 1936: "Women in the U.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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e
welcomest
wy3e of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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LE PANNEAU
UNDER the rose-tree’s dancing shade
There stands a little ivory girl,
Pulling the leaves of pink and pearl
With pale green nails of
polished
jade.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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But it is inevitable that among passionate and ambitious men divergent views and
conceptions
of policy will arise.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to
darkness
utterly,
It might be well perhaps.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
This may be why there is so little
discussion
ofhow an all-out war might be brought to a close.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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45
"When it comes to molecules and cranial pathways, we"-that is, the brain researchers and art physiologists of the turn of the century-" auto-
matically
think of a process similar to that of Edison's phonograph.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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To and fro the Genius flies,
A light which plays and hovers
Over the maiden's head
And dips
sometimes
as low as to her eyes.
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Emerson - Poems |
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his essay Ober kulturelle
Kristallisation
(Bremen: Angelsachsen- Verlag, 1961)-trans.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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Kung-tze said: For five
generations
the revenue has not come in to the ducal house.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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PHẠM ĐỨC KHẢN 范德侃9
người
huyện Vĩnh Lại phủ Hạ Hồng.
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stella-02 |
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MYRSON
The sweet and enviable love-tale of Scyros, Lycidas, the stolen kissed of the child of Peleus and the stolen espousal of the same, how a lad donned
women’s
weeds and played the knave with his outward seeming, and how in the women’s chamber the reckless Deïdameia found out Achilles among the daughters of Lycomedes.
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Bion |
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85 #%
#!
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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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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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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¿Es acaso
Blanca silfa solitaria,
Que entre el rayo de la luna
Tal vez
misteriosa
vaga?
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Jose de Espronceda |
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_ Is't then so hard, Monimia, to forgive
A fault, when humble love, like mine,
implores
thee?
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Thomas Otway |
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Wouldst thou give pleasure at once to the
children
of earth and
the righteous?
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Friedrich Schiller |
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Hunting the buck,
I found him sitting by a fountain's side,
Of which he
borrowed
some to quench his thirst,
And paid the nymph again as much in tears.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Nor be thou
heedless
of rain, what time before him rises a thin mist, after which the Sun himself ascends with scanty beams.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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"The ablest
exposition
of Nietzscheanism that has yet appeared.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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”
“I hope, so far as
concerns
my brother, you are misinformed.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Now, these professors were,
directly
or indirecdy, the masters of the writers we are now considering.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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I am indebted to Alyssa Sepinwall for
pointing
me towards this conclusion.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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' It
is as though Nature spoke through him at all times in the mood that is
upon her when she is opening the apple-blossom or
reddening
the apple
or thickening the shadow of the boughs, and that the men and women of
his verse and of his stories are all the ministers of her mood.
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Yeats |
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When, thumbed by the hands of the vulgar, you begin to
grow dirty; either you shall in silence feed the
grovelling
book-worms,
or you shall make your escape to Utica, or shall be sent bound to
Ilerda.
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Horace - Works |
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In represents the
renegacy
and the re-
turn to the faith of his sires of Prince Menclog.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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A letter borne
upon an apple [778]
deceived
Cydippe; and by her own words the fair was
unconsciously caught.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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Fortunatus of Grado
393
traders from the
Pentapolis
(784) and took Istria (787), thus enclosing
the lagoons in an iron circle.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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I particularly regret not taking more account of the great scientific prestige that accrued to
German scholarship by the middle of the nineteenth century, whose neglect was made into a
denunciation of insular British
scholars
by George Eliot.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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In
thickness
it is three feet.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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No glass renders a man's form
or
likeness
so true as his speech.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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A high god's lust
Constrained
this mortal maid to roam the world!
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Aeschylus |
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That dark,
mysterious
name of horrid sound?
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John Clare |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-22 00:49 GMT / http://hdl.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Returning home by a
circuitous
route, I find the streets even more thronged than in the morning.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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These sceptred
strangers
shun the common salt,
And, therefore, when the general board's in view
And they stand up to carve for blind and halt,
The wise suspect the viands which ensue.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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wudu
bundenne
(_pushed the vessel from the land_),
215; dracan scufun .
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Beowulf |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Approached in this way, fear of being
separated
unwillingly from an attachment figure at any phase of the life-cycle ceases to be a puzzle and, instead, becomes classifiable as an instinctive response to one of the naturally occurring clues to an increased risk of danger.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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Here
error is made a duty—a virtue, misapprehension
has become a knack, the
destructive
instinct is
systematised under the name of "redemption ";
here every operation becomes a wound, an amputa-
tion of those very organs whose energy would be
the prerequisite to a return of health.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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208) speaks of the "de-
serted
dwellings
of the destroyed Nasamones" (//)//-
\iu6ivra /ic7.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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He loved as he indeed was able to love, with all the
impetuosity
of his
nature and all the fire of his temperament, with all his heart and all his
senses.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:33 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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We say that a person possesses the second--the good dharmas
produced
through effort, through hearing, reflection, and medita- tion--when, these dharmas having arisen, his capacity to produce them [anew] is not damaged.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Though never completed, the monument exists in frag-
ments of imposing
magnitude
the first book of The Recluse,
properly so called, written in 1800; The Prelude, written between
1798 and 1805, an autobiography meant as the ante-chapel to
the huge gothic cathedral; and The Excursion, which, though it
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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Obviously fascist ideologies cannot be universalistic in the sense of Marxism or liberalism, but the structure of the doctrine can be
transferred
from country to country.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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The irreconcilable opposition of
the two leading powers of Germany decided for
a long time ahead the drift of
European
politics,
and drew from the Holy (Roman) Empire the last
spurt.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Couldn't they understand that they were
ruining themselves, that they were
destroying
their prestige, by
such a choice?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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She never
interrupted
any person who spoke; she laughed at no mistakes they made, but helped them out with modesty; and if a good thing were spoken, but neglected, she would not let it fall, but set it in the best light to those who were present.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:50 GMT / http://hdl.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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(fays Eutyphron) I don't ve rywellknow him (faysSocrates)heisayoungMan :
AndnotcontenttotellhimhisNameandthePlace
(C)f his Birth, he draws, his Picture ; which is that
of
3'9
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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Objection
1: It would seem that it is not a sin to tempt God.
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Summa Theologica |
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But in the
majority
of people the germ
of it withers away.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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I never remember being so wrapt up in any book, as
I was in Joyce's _Scientific Dialogues_; and I was rather recalcitrant
to my father's criticisms of the bad reasoning
respecting
the first
principles of physics, which abounds in the early part of that work.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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The word Fate, or Destiny,
expresses
the sense of mankind, in all
ages,--that the laws of the world do not always befriend, but often
hurt and crush us.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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Laelius, who was
esteemed
the wisest of men?
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Cicero - Brutus |
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It is no strange thing for foreign
scholars
to visit London and
the English universities, but it is not easy for them to become domes-
ticated there.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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" The belief that Espronceda
studied at the
Artillery
School of Segovia in 1821 appears to rest upon
the statement of Solís alone.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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He behaved himself there the second Time in the same cour
teous,
obliging
Manner as he did at the first, tho' now he seemed more thoughtful and in Earnest than before, as knowing nothing was to be expected but speedy Death : though his
Courage never droopt, but was still the same, if it did not increase with his Danger.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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“I am
married!
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Probably it was very
little that she could do She was so inexperienced and unfitted for her job that
she must educate herself before she could even begin to educate anybody else
Still, she would do her best, she would do whatever willingness and energy
could do to rescue these children from the
horrible
darkness in which they bad
been kept.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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He let the mime-writers
criticize
him openly.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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To name just one: they are closely connected to crucial
readings
of narrative culture suggested by critics like Hayden White.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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After the death of Stephen Bathori there
was another interregnum, followed by the
election of
Sigismund
Vaza, the son of King
John of Sweden, and Catharine Jagellon,
sister of Sigismund Augustus.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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Decadence, on the
other hand, belongs to all periods of human history: everywhere there is refuse and decaying
matter, such things are in
themselves
vital pro cesses; for withering and decaying elements must be eliminated.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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Planh for the Young English
King
That is, Prince Henry
Plantagenet^
elder brother to Richard " Coeur de Lion.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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I can best
illustrate
this by a passage from Par-
menides:
\pT) to \iy(iv T( votlv T ibv Ififuvac «m yap uvai,
pufiiv 8* ovk (OTiv to pd£to&ai avorya.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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" A
supposititious
son (hupoleimaios) of somebody once said to him, that he had gold in his cloak; "No doubt,' said he, "that is the very reason why I sleep with it under my head (hupobeblemenos).
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Diogenes Laertius |
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The freer political state of
Italy, and genius which would not be daunted were but
clearing
the way
to investigation over which the sable curtain of the dark ages had cast
its ample folds.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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Will you never cease showing yourself hard and intractable,
and
especially
to the accused?
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Aristophanes |
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Artemis Hegemone as leader of
colonists
(Paus.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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OF THE
FINISHED
SCHOLAR
203
which we now approach on every side!
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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the maternal type without meeting the
necessary
man, and also cases where a woman, even although she meets the man,
as being opposed to all experience and so rejecting it.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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' Fell told him later that the great and notorious Wilkes
'affirmed that his
writings
could not be the work of a youth and
expressed a desire to know the author.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Copyright
(C) 2001, 2002 by
Michael S.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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the hour of mercy
striketh!
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone,
Or the pure bosom of its nursing lake,
Which feeds it as a mother who doth make
A fair but froward infant her own care,
Kissing its cries away as these awake;--
Is it not better thus our lives to wear,
Than join the
crushing
crowd, doomed to inflict or bear?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Myself in broad
daylight
I saw the deity passing
within the walls, and these ears drank his utterance.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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We
understand
that discipline, undertaken with the intention of universal benevolence, would be acquired with regard to all beings.
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or how deem thee wise,
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for treasure in the
jewelled
skies
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
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And answered Guenes: "So be it, as you
command!
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26:7 He
stretcheth
out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the
earth upon nothing.
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What interest, then, what party
did he
represent?
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He systematically constructs an
opposition
between race and geopolitics, between national- ism and loyalty to the state, and systematically takes a stand in favor of the latter.
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Flory was to return to
Kyauktada
in ten days, when the padre’s
six-weekly visit fell due.
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