His
districts
were also called Tuatha Toraighe, the districts Tory Island.
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So well sene also were many Emperors: Marcus
Tullius, also Virgil, and Horace in their lusty youth
were so excellent in learninge and Eloquence, all
bycause they were
strayght
waye in their tender age
learned of their parentes & nourses the elegancy of
the tonges, and of the beste maisters the liberal
sciences: as Poetry, Rhetorique, Histories, the
knowledge of antiquities, Arithmetique, Geographye,
Philosophye, moral and political.
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He was
preaching
Christ in figure, He preached the Church openly; for He saith to Abraham, Because thou hastGeo.
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He had been
raised to the rank of
magister
utriusque militiae by Theodosius before his
death, and, as we saw, had married a niece of the Emperor.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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The change is mercenary that settles whitening the
coloring
and serving
dishes where there is metal and making yellow any yellow every color in
a shade which is expressed in a tray.
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Perhaps the Soviet Union is not considered one of the "ei- fectively planned" nations, but it is certainly the one in which planning is most complete, the one in which
political
powef and economic power have been most completely merged.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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One might address these late texts today not as relentless
pursuits
of the "linguistics of literariness," if we still have an ear for such a phrase, but as something pragmatic in the extreme.
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Before the Avars various nomadic and Germanic peoples were their
masters; and these peoples left behind warlike elements which were
sharply distinguished—even after
becoming
Slavised—from the subjected
Slav mass.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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I like him on
the whole very well; he is clever and has a good deal to say, but he
is
sometimes
impertinent and troublesome.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Cuthbert and
Winifred Burbage in 1635 testify that
Shakespeare
was an active
player in 1613.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement
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preserve
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Furi et Aureli, comites Catulli,
Sive in extremos penetrabit Indos,
Litus ut longe resonante Eoa
Tunditur unda,
Sive in Hyrcanos Arabesve molles, 5
Seu Sacas
sagittiferosve
Parthos,
Sive qua septemgeminus colorat
Aequora Nilus,
Sive trans altas gradietur Alpes,
Caesaris visens monimenta magni, 10
Gallicum Rhenum, horribile aequor ulti-
mosque Britannos,
Omnia haec, quaecumque feret voluntas
Caelitum, temptare simul parati,
Pauca nuntiate meae puellae 15
Non bona dicta.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"No, my good Jael, not this;" and he carefully put back the
volume in its place-that volume, in which he might have read,
as day after day, year after year, we Christians generally do
read such plain words as these: "Love your enemies;" "Bless
them that curse you;
«< Pray for them that
despitefully
use you
and persecute you.
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See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened ;
As if the snow should
hesitate
And murmur in the wind,
These were the
and half turn back "
Wing'd-with-Awe," Inviolable.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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One of the soldiers
struck Robin's sword from his hand, and brought him on his
knee; when the boy, who had been roused by the tumult, and
had been peeping through the inner door, leaped forward in his
shirt, picked up the sword and replaced it in Robin's hand, who
instantly springing up, disarmed and wounded one of his antag-
onists, while the other was laid prostrate under the dint of a
brass cauldron
launched
by the Amazonian dame.
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The picto-
rial
illustrations
from Assyrian, Egyptian,
or other monuments, or from photographs
of scenes, are designed not for art effect
simply, but to help the reader to under-
stand what he reads.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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Certes, I meant not so
To cross your
pastoral
mood, sir page,
With the crook of the battle-bow;
But a knight may speak of a lady's face,
I ween, in any mood or place,
If the grasses die or grow.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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154
THE COLONIAL MERCHANTS: 1763-1776
The Newport
merchants
were more refractory.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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There is a contradiction and
naturally
returning there comes to be both
sides and the centre.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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The regular soldiers in the gas fronts, as much in the East as in the West, were mobilized
combatants
confronted with the problem of having to develop routines for the design of regional atmospheres.
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The designs, which were from the hands of the most famous artists of the
time, had been
submitted
to him many months before, and he had given
orders that the artificers were to toil night and day to carry them out,
and that the whole world was to be searched for jewels that would be
worthy of their work.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Unless he supposes the passion between the
sexes to decrease faster than the
duration
of life increases, the earth
would be more encumbered than ever.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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was, according to Galen any one who was even moderately
familiar
with
(Comment.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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Above all he arouses in us the image of a window, like Keats's magic casement, opening upon perilous seas and strange vistas wherein may be
discovered
the cloudy figures of Deirdre, Dana, Cuchulain, Diarmid and Grania.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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This
were ample, without
throwing
into the scale the scholar and poet Daniel.
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James Russell Lowell |
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If a man's in love with a young wench, none of the least humors in
this comedy, they are wholly
addicted
to fools and are afraid of a wise
man and fly him as they would a scorpion.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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While I could hint a tale--
(But then I am her child)--
Would make her quail; 400
Would set her in the dust,
Lorn with no comforter,
Her
glorious
hair defiled
And ashes on her cheek:
The decent world would thrust
Its finger out at her,
Not much displeased I think
To make a nine days' stir;
The decent world would sink
Its voice to speak of her.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Of
continental
European countries, Germany is represented by the greatest number of articles, though of small importance and size, like nails, stove pipes, needles, chemicals, and aniline dyes.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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Without making this break, you might enter the door of the Teachings with an
unresolved
mind, still attached to your homeland, wealth, relatives, friends and so forth.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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It is possible that heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as illustrations, assert
copyrights
over these portions.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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But if that was true, then not only would no emotion ever attain its total specificity, but in all probability it would not attain perfect non- specificity either, and there was neither an entirely specific nor an entirely
nonspecific
emotion.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a
flattering
word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Those who lose their health in an irregular and impetuous pursuit of
literary
accomplishments
are yet less to be excused; for they ought to
know that the body is not forced beyond its strength, but with the loss
of more vigour than is proportionate to the effect produced.
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Samuel Johnson |
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But, I thought in my mind,
Hindley, with apparently the
stronger
head, has shown himself sadly the
worse and the weaker man.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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The greatest common
measure of a man and a woman is not
necessarily
greater than the man's
single measure.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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Mais ce
perfectionnement
moral, sur la
réalité duquel son art oratoire était du reste capable de tromper
quelque peu ses auditeurs attendris, ce perfectionnement disparut avec
la maladie qui avait travaillé pour lui.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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--A gentle Maid, whose heart is lowly bred,
Whose
pleasures
are in wild fields gathered,
With joyousness, and with a thoughtful cheer, 30
Will come [3] to you; to you herself will wed;
And love the blessed life that [4] we lead here.
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This is servitude,
To serve th' unwise, or him who hath rebelld
Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, 180
Thy self not free, but to thy self enthrall'd;
Yet leudly dar'st our
ministring
upbraid.
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Milton |
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In certain
respects
it bears a
built by Henry II.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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"
"But didn't you
yesterday
wear a beard, and long hair, and dust in your
hair?
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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The
greatness
of Henry Ward Beecher consisted not so much in
a predominance of any one quality as in a remarkable combina-
tion of many.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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III THE CULTURAL CONCERNS OF DER BRENNER
The number of Der Brenner which initiated the
uninterrupted
sequence of issues containing poems by Trakl captures the journal at a moment of transition.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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TO MISS
MARGARET
CHALMERS.
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Robert Burns |
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Demdividuahzation goes hand in hand with these three other
operations
I have mentioned.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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He
conducted
the war of
Africa with skill; but he was robbed of part of his glory by his
questor, P.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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"
Iroldo assenting, clasped his wife in distraction; and for a long time
they
remained
in the same posture, half stifled with grief, and bathing
one another's cheeks with their tears.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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;
A youth is sent those
trophies
to demand,
And bears his father's thunder in his hand:
Doubt not th' imperial boy in wars unseen;
In childhood all of Csesar's race are men.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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The first conquests of this
doctrine
were astonishingly rapid.
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And thinks there can be no favor nor fame,
But one may
straightway
pluck the same.
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Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
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and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Sara Teasdale |
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But, I thought in my mind,
Hindley, with apparently the
stronger
head, has shown himself sadly the
worse and the weaker man.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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GD}
They listend to the Elemental Harps & Sphery Song
They view'd the dancing Hours, quick
sporting
thro' the sky
With winged radiance scattering joys thro the ever changing light
[The shades of]But Luvah & Vala standing in the bloody sky
On high remaind alone forsaken in fierce jealousy
They stood above the heavens forsaken desolate suspended in blood
Descend they could not.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Unless he supposes the passion between the
sexes to decrease faster than the
duration
of life increases, the earth
would be more encumbered than ever.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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_
_Wars and justice, love and death,
These are but his wasted breath;
Chews a planet for his cud--
Behemot
sweating
blood.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Inasmuch as when, called by Constantine and Licinius to the celebrations of a wedding which he was by no means well enough to attend, he had excused himself, after threatening replies were received in which it was being proclaimed that he had favored Maxentius and was favoring Maximian, he,
regarding
assassination as dishonorable, is said to have drunk poison.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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He returned to France in 1800, and it was a substantial literary defence of Christianity which attracted Napoleon's notice and led to his
employment
by the Emperor at Rome and in Switzerland.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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e
serieauntz
of ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The Kreps view, which seems to have shared in the
thinking
of Mr.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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, owned 35 per-
cent of all invested capital and
employed
over one-third of all employees.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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"Three times shall a young foot-page
Swim the stream and climb the mountain
And kneel down beside my feet--
'Lo, my master sends this gage,
Lady, for thy pity's
counting!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Ông làm quan
Thượng
thư Bộ Lại.
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stella-01 |
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These activities are
planned to include some "Things To Do" for
students
with
varying degrees of ability.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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Preciselythose
posturesare
sus- pectedofbeingsickwhichloudlyproclaimthemselvestobethemost
healthy,normal and natural.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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Some fishes are
entirely
without the part, as the majority of the selachians.
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Aristotle copy |
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Charles Baudelaire a voulu caractériser l'état actuel de la
littérature, et que les _crapauds
imprévus_
et les _froids limaçons_
sont les écrivains qui ne sont pas de son école.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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how far do the
other parts of my body follow this
impulsion?
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Friedrich Schiller |
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four terms and three contracting parties, one of whom
intervenes
twice?
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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It will be seen by this description of cellular imprisonment that
the
classical
criminal and prison experts have logically arrived
at the conclusion that perpetual punishment should be abolished;
and this renders recidivism possible even in murder.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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On this,
Theuropides
wishes to examine this new purchase, and sends Tranio to request Simo to allow him to do so, if not inconvenient.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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In
addition
to "casuists," vinayadharas, they had "philosophers," dbhidhdrmikas.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Such an abominable wickedness would have
possibly
brought down
fire from heaven, wherewith to have burnt the whole nunnery, and sent us
all headlong to the bottomless pit, to bear company with Korah, Dathan, and
Abiram.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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of them, who seized the
opportunity
of
all it is quite a mistake to suppose that people
can hardly amount to less than fifteen must necessarily look glum on these occasions.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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The real quarrel of
the Fascist powers with British
imperialism
is that they know that it is disintegrating.
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Orwell |
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Rumania will annex
all the Rumanian districts which lie outside of
its present borders, and Italy, if she joins the
Powers of the Triple Entente, will not only get
back the Italian provinces which still remain under
the rule of Austria, but will have a footing on the
Balkan Peninsula, lower down, which will enable
her to fulfil her natural mission of being the channel
of commerce and
civilization
for all the Balkan
nations.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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The Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Purification
Upon a full moon in your heart
Is the letter HUI'yt
encircled
by the mantra.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering
lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Int J
Psychoanal
(2013) 94 Copyright (C) 2013 Institute of Psychoanalysis
Panel Reports 1185
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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Nor are our other
novelists
much better.
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Recognising
the greater danger to
be feared from the last he had spared no pains to weaken him.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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They likewise
contained instructions, how to write with greater safety
and dispatch, by means of directing all the
important
letters to his brother, who served in the double capacity
ofchaplain, and under-secretary to the Spanish minister at the Hague.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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He cunningly
utilized
the approach of one of his French admirers to transform his political ambiguity into high mystical insight.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:55 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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In the last decades of the old regime, some authors had taken the dis-
tinction
even further, finding a person's true greatness less in public acts than in private, intimate behavior.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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See, I have left the
jars sealed,
Lest thou
shouldst
wake and whimper
for thy wine.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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The
underwritten
Lines were composed by JOHN LADGATE, a Priest in
London, and sent to ROWLIE, as an Answer to the preceding _Songe of
AElla_.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The gods forbid, say;
the copy 1590, this and the three preceding lines are transposed make
nonsense
the passage.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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Yet little more than a century was
sufficient
to obliterate
all effective memory of these events.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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He stared at the
metallic
ground of the
van's back area with blank look.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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Since the death of Nero the
charioteer
of the Green Faction has often won the palm, and carried off many prizes.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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The Tortoise
plodded on and plodded on, and when the Hare awoke from his nap,
he saw the
Tortoise
just near the winning-post and could not run
up in time to save the race.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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structed many of the soldiers to suggest it to the pre-
torian cohorts, that they should send a message to
Galba, demanding that
Nymphidius
should be always
their captain, and without a colleague.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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"
The king well knew that his
subjects
were an idle set of rep robates, and very fond of sight-seeing, as idle persons usually are.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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* * * * *
His presence was a peace to all,
He bade the
sorrowful
rejoice.
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John Clare |
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O fangeuse grandeur, sublime
ignominie!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"He had
before advised them," replied the prince, "and must now do so again, to
accede to the
Confession
of Augsburg; then they might rely upon aid from
Germany.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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That all seems to have changed in a split second and be- come a cultural moment
associated
with artisan foods, anti-mall food court cui- sine, and a certain louche style practiced by drunken students in Oxford after a night of carousing.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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We are like you, ye victorious Romans, in this: for we offer
Gods of all peoples and tribes, over the whole world, a home--
May the Egyptian, black and austere out of primeval basalt,
Or from the marble a Greek, form them charming and white--
Yet the eternal ones do not object to particularism
(Incense of most
precious
sort, strewn for just one of their host).
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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