Thou wilt not rid
thee of thy ancient faith, that he only can cut
through his chains who is
anointed
with the sign
of virtue, that to be a Pole upon this earth is to
live nobly and to God.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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"[2]
[Footnote 1:
_Florilegio
de Poesias Castellanas del Siglo XIX_, con
introduccion y notas, por Juan Valera.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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" He took my arm, and
we went into the next room, where I found an
excellent
supper ready
on the table.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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Whoever is electronically available must break all
democratic
rules of politeness to avoid e-mail addiction and e-mail victimhood.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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It will
retain a vague reverence for the
Christian
moral code, and from time to time will refer to
England as “a Christian country”.
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Orwell |
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" In reality it appears to serve as a compact coordinating body of a limited number of na- tional business organizations, dominated in turn by a few of the giant concerns, and devoted primarily to the
formulation
of eco- nomic policies for the Japanese business community as a whole: *^
Members of this economic organization include 30 organizations, 216 judicial persons, and 427 individual businessmen.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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A fig for those by law
protected!
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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If, on the other hand, she gets into an
original relation with life, she will, perhaps, make no money, and she
will
certainly
have her class against her.
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Yeats |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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His lan-
guage about the
Christian
martyrs is the most repulsive portion of
his work; and his comparison of the sufferings caused by pagan and
Christian persecutions is greatly vitiated by the fact that he only
takes account of the number of deaths, and lays no stress on the pro-
fuse employment of atrocious tortures, which was one of the most
distinct features of the pagan persecutions.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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Hearts refreshed
By discharge of
emotion!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I was first on the list--
They may forget you tried to shield me
as the
horsemen
passed.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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It is indeed questionable to what extent Diogenesian protest gestures could be more effective politically than traditional ideology
critique
combined with organized mass protests and group politics.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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But with the increasing use of coal industry passed to the North, and there
grew up a new type of man, the self-made
Northern
business man — the Mr Rouncewell
and Mr Bounderby of Dickens.
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Orwell |
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1898), 499
* Bellamy's,' in Dickens’s ‘Parliamentary
Sketch,' 309
Bellingham, Northumberland, 129
Benedix, Roderich, Aschenbrödel, 272
Benkhausen, chevalier George de, 55
Benlowes, Edward, 218
Bennett, William Cox (1820–1895), 499
Benson, Thurston, in Mrs Gaskell's
Ruth, 372
Benthamism, 22
Bentinck, lord George, 353
Bentley's Miscellany, 315, 316
Beowulf, 127
Berkshire, 367
Berlin, 385
Bernard, Charles de, 283
of Clugny or Morlaix, De Con-
temptu Mundi, 172, 173
William Bayle (1807–1875), 517
Doge of Venice, The, 266
Marie Ducange, 266
Passing Cloud, The, 266
Round of Wrong, The, 266
Berners, Isopel, Borrow's, 442
Bernstein, baroness, in The Virginians,
298
Berry, Mrs, George Meredith's, 447
Berwick-on-Tweed, 372
Besant, Sir Walter (1836–1901), 438,
560; All Sorts and Conditions of Men,
458
Betsey, Miss, in David Copperfield, 327
Betteridge, Wilkie Collins's, 438
Bexley heath, 119
Bible, the, 102; Ecclesiastes, 138;
Revelation of St John, The, 139
Biffen, in Gissing's New Grub Street, 460
Bigg, John Stanyan (1828–1865), 499
Birchington, near Margate, 112
Birmingham, 119, 427
Bishop, Sir Henry Rowley (1786-1855),
264
Bismarck, Prince von, 20
Black, William (1841-1898), 431, 560;
Daughter of Heth, A, 432; Macleod
of Dare, 432; Strange
Adventures
of
a Phaeton, The, 432
Blackmore, Richard Doddridge (1825-
1900), 560; Lorna Doone, 434, 435;
Springhaven, 435
Blackwood, Helen Selina, countess of
Dufferin.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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For in such ways did Heracles nurture him from his first childhood when he had carried him off from the house of his father, goodly Theiodamas, whom the hero pitilessly slew among the Dryopians because he
withstood
him about an ox for the plough.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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Convinced
that this great
object was secured, no motive existed to depart from the
policy she had adopted.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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It is the society-creating effect of competition that educates people to be good
competitors
and thereby to be the producers of valuable services for society through artfully multiplied opportunities to make connections and gain approval.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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But we have the intellectual resources to go be- yond the boring controversies of Marxist versus- bourgeois or
utopian versus technocratic theory, and the starting positions are
available
for working out a systems theory of society which recog- nizes the fact that the future cannot begin and which compensates by the higher complexity of its conception of time for what might appear as a loss of future.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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2) "In democracy, Liberty is to be
supposed: for 'tis
commonly
held, that no man is Free in any other
Government.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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201
she was at school, she had always felt
an unconquerable aversion to her, which
had been greatly
increased
by having
heard that she had made a jest of her
.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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Italian friend- liness meant much to Germany in March and
September
1938; but after all, the support given was only moral.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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But soon there
breathed
a wind on me,
Nor sound nor motion made:
Its path was not upon the sea,
In ripple or in shade.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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At length the citizen
addressing
him,
'Friend,' says he, 'what delight have you to live laboriously on the
ridge of a rugged thicket?
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Horace - Works |
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Qu'importe ta betise ou ton
indifference?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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While the contents of the first
letter remained in her mind, she was all surprise--all
astonishment
that
Wickham should marry a girl whom it was impossible he could marry
for money; and how Lydia could ever have attached him had appeared
incomprehensible.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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"Here, this is the boy," he said,
pointing
to the red-haired boy, "for
whom I had the honour to solicit your influence.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
|
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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Is there any one, to whom
you would give an Entertainment in the Prytan^um, or any
other Prefent, with which you
generally
honour your Bene-
factors?
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
|
back
Greek Anthology: Book 12
STRATO'S 'MUSA PUERILIS'
This
selection
from Book 12 of the Greek Anthology contains all the epigrams written before the middle of the first century A.
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Greek Anthology |
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Though I
interpret
it willingly of Paul, because it seemeth to me a likely thing that he did this for because of the Jews, unto whom he was about to come.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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Most promi-
nent among such lesser
potentates
are Kuhn,
Loeb & Co.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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Do you need
anything?
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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”
“You will have a storm to do it in, I'm afraid,” said he, look-
ing at the clouds, just as I was
whipping
up.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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Further, this E VAM of the signs, which are the vital points of the body, [along with] the
liberative
art that develops the path - EVAM through penetrating those vital points within one's own body, is also pro- claimed in the Sampufa [Tantra]:
The E syllable truly abides
In the wheels at the crown and navel; Likewise, one wants the VAM syllable Truly staying at heart and throat.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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And, as on the sacred missal
He
recorded
their dismissal,
Death relaxed his iron features,
And the monk replied, "Amen!
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Longfellow |
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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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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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So they (the Harpies) sped over the sea and through
the
fruitless
air.
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Hesiod |
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table for A to choose at = W: For A; not triggering a war while B
transfers
at rate b is clearly the best response.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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What a bitter
thought!
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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How does one determine the relation between any particular and any whole when the
ontological
status o f the particular is always at stake?
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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But, though in haste thy voyage to pursue, 390
Yet stay, that in the bath
refreshing
first
Thy limbs now weary, thou may'st sprightlier seek
Thy gallant bark, charged with some noble gift
Of finish'd workmanship, which thou shalt keep
As my memorial ever; such a boon
As men confer on guests whom much they love.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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7 From there
Triarius
took his army to the city of Prusias by the sea.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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It
is subject to many moods--a close
sympathy
with nature
and a keen relish for life.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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Bede omits the story of his shipwreck on the coast of Sussex, and
says nothing of the three years spent as Abbot of Ripon, whither he
retired on finding Ceadda
installed
in his place.
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bede |
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An
Austrian
poet;
born at St.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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Eretria,[575] formerly, had the names of
Melaneïs
and Arotria.
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Strabo |
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It means exploiting the danger that some- body may
inadvertently
go over the brink, dragging the other with him.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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Harris and Bifulco (1991) distinguish between a general sense of
hopelessness
and lack of mastery and what they call 'vulnerable attachment styles' - that is, difficulty in interpersonal relationships.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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33
I would be very loth to give the least umbrage of offence by what I have here said, as I may do, if I should be thought to insinuate that these circumstances of good writing have been unknown to, or not
observed
by, the poets of this kingdom.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Two
seasoned
Pynetrees at the mount of Aetna did she light
And bare them restlesse in hir handes through all the dankish night.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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Where the syllable remains long,
both vowels are supposed to be
preserved
unelidt d.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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He returned to Ireland,
where he was ordained a clergyman, and
received
a small parish at
Kilroot, near Belfast.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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I have no pride to live for; and why else
Should one stay living, if not
joyfully
proud?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Carthage saw, that the holy old men and many of his monks had much trouble in ascending and
descending
the steeps, leading to that valley, where he dwelt, and when com- ing to visit him.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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First I come forward, and will put in words
The start and
ordering
of mortals' life.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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A fifth
prolongation
leaped from the hole.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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_ 147 Apocrisiarius_,
official
representative of the see of Rome at the
Imperial Court of Constantinople (Latin: _responsalis_).
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bede |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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His acuteness of per ception and his graceful versatility enabled him to excel in irony and in the vein of tale-telling which we find in Horace and Boccaccio, in the humorous
pleasantries
of love and song which are presented in Catullus and in the good popular songs of Naples, above all in the lower comedy and in farce.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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But, in 1634, Comus was
produced
at Ludlow castle.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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3 The
accession
of the twenty-third king, Gautamīputra, çītakarni, must be dated
106 A.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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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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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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Los ras
tros olorosos permiten reconocer a un dueño de un
territorio
[.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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_ A
reminiscence
of
Horace, III.
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Robert Herrick |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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(4) And as for those particular seducements or indispositions of the mind
for policy and government, which learning is pretended to insinuate; if
it be granted that any such thing be, it must be remembered withal that
learning ministereth in every of them greater strength of medicine or
remedy than it offereth cause of
indisposition
or infirmity.
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| Source: |
Bacon |
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The
following
verses were written on the pink paper:--
"OH WERE I RICH!
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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D,
Vestiges
of old Madras.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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Gaze no more in the bitter glass
The demons, with their subtle guile,
Lift up before us when they pass,
Or only gaze a little while;
For there a fatal image grows,
With broken boughs, and
blackened
leaves,
And roots half hidden under snows
Driven by a storm that ever grieves.
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Yeats |
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And heard this voice of sorrow
breathed
from the hollow pit.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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'
It was noticed that in the spring of 1842 such thoughts seemed to be
even more
frequently
in his mind than usual.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Diegue
And yet to be denied seems
scarcely
best.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The
conviction
of Pixley took place in 1740 ; and, in 1749, Benjamin Tapner, John Cobby, John Hammond, William Jackson, William Carter, Richard Mills the elder, and Richard Mills the younger, were tried and convicted for the murder of William Gulley, breaking open the Custom-house at Poole, in Dorsetshire, and whipping Richard Hawkins
to death ; the six former were executed at Chichester, January 18, 1749, the younger Mills dying in prison the day before.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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He established
Ariobarzanes
as king of Cappadocia, and founded the city of Licinia by the border of Mithridates' kingdom.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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The relevance of this to the
experience
which we call "seeing the sun"
is obvious.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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this
wonderful
little book.
| Guess: |
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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Hell is no other but a
soundless
pit,
Where no one beam of comfort peeps in it.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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The rich will feast on
Christmas
Day;
The poor will fast on Christmas Day.
| Guess: |
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The present Chaldæi were
anciently
called Chalybes.
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Strabo |
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fEgE6Ei
igE
iEiliiiiiliirifi
iiigl
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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My
features
do not arouse attention,
4 And my body is wrapped only in a hempen robe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hanshan - 01 |
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306
The springs of Helicon; a study in the
progress
of
English poetry from Chaucer to Milton.
| Guess: |
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"'What's the meaning of this, Osip
Mihalitch?
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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The kynics have little philosophical
training
and they did not manage to construct a system, a science.
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There is reason to regard the invective exchanged in the late
seventies
and early eighties between intellectuals who suddenly
206 Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
sought to be 'postmodern' and their opponents who remained commit- ted to the modernist project as symptomatic of the rapidly shifting chronotope.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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"Surely," said I, "surely that is
something
at my window lattice;
Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore--
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;--
'Tis the wind and nothing more!
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org/wiki/Gutenberg:Terms_of_Use">Terms of Use prohibit mass
downloads
or automated harvesting of the collection.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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For comic weaknesses he had an eye
Keen as an acid for an alkali,
Yet you could feel, through his
sardonic
tone,
He loved them all, unless they were his own.
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He sent his
faculties
out upon discovery,
into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form
new modes of existence, and furnish sentiment and action to superiour
beings, to trace the counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of
heaven.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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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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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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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Mais elle ne faisait pas partie du monde de la
«marquise», car celle-ci, avec une
férocité
de snob, lui dit sèchement:
--Il n'y a rien de libre, Madame.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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Chu Ch'ueh-tzu said to Chang Wu-tzu, "I have heard Confucius say that the sage does not work at anything, does not pursue profit, does not dodge harm, does not enjoy being sought after, does not follow the Way, says nothing yet says something, says
something
yet says nothing, and wanders beyond the dust and grime.
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Chuang Tzu |
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The
beast's
footprints
were perfectly plain in the dust, and he had lumbered
along up the path until near the middle of the hillside, where the
ground broke away and there were hollows and boulders.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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[240] The king praised him and asked the next How he could avoid doing anything
contrary
to law?
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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But time flies and she doth forget
They long at home have her expected--
Whither two
neighbouring
dames have walked
And a long time about her talked.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The
reality of the central subject is, of course, to be
understood
broadly.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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