But when he was now about to enter the pleasant city, then the goddess, gray-eyed Athene, met him, in the fash ion of a young maiden
carrying
a pitcher, and she stood over against him, and goodly Odysseus inquired of her : —
" My child, couldst thou not lead me to the palace of the lord Alcinous, who bears sway among this people ?
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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"One of the means by which he amused us was his songs, chiefly of the comic
kind, which were sung with some taste and humor; several, I believe, were
of his own composition, and I regret that I neither have copies, which
might have been readily
procured
from him at the time, nor do I remember
their names.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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Except for
a brief period under Baldwin II when Stephen of Chartres laid claim to
Jaffa and Jerusalem, his
successors
were content to work in harmony with
the king.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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Thus the proverb remains a mere type when we do not
recognize
ourselves as one ofthose cases, within the totality defined by that "all".
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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But, some scruples in
the wise, and some vices in the ignorant, will perhaps be forgiven upon
the
strength
of temptation to each.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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" For what is it to divide the Power of a Common-wealth, but
to Dissolve it; for Powers divided
mutually
destroy each other.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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You look down from the heights of this
morality upon that other sober morality which calls
for self-control, severity, and
obedience
; you even
go so far as to call it egoistic—and you are indeed
frank towards yourselves in saying that it displeases
you-it must displease you !
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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With speeches kinde, he gan the virgin deare
Towards his cottage gently home to guide;
His aged wife there made her homely cheare,
Yet
welcomde
her, and plast her by her side.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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But, he was
commanded
not to reveal this cure to any person, so long as Baithen lived.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In Macedonian fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that
achieving
the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur, prospering everywhere,
Might tumble down in more disastrous fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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418 References
Mann, Michael,
Giovanni
Arrighi, Jason W.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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After near an hour employed in acts of devotion, these unhappy men, having delivered to the
sheriffs
some papers, expressive of their political sentiments, then underwent the sentence of the law.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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93 (#113) #############################################
Alfred's Orosius
93
ingenious suggestion that the
translation
was dictated.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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--but in any event a dictum fraught with the most
momentous consequences, fruitful and fearful at once, and confronting
the world in the two faced way
characteristic
of all great facts.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Here also
belong an
occasional
propensity of the spirit to let
itself be deceived (perhaps with a waggish suspicion
that it is not so and so, but is only allowed to pass
as such), a delight in uncertainty and ambiguity, an
exulting enjoyment of arbitrary, out-of-the-way
narrowness and mystery, of the too-near, of the
foreground, of the magnified, the diminished, the
misshapen, the beautified—an enjoyment of the
arbitrariness of all these manifestations of power.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the
talisman
that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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4 Any four points A, B, C, D on a
straight
line can be so ordered that B lies between A and C and between A and D, and so that C lies between A and D and between B and D.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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That I might see what the old world could say
To this composed wonder of your frame;
Wh'r we are mended, or wh'r better they,
Or whether
revolution
be the same.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Many
companies
have poured cash into projects that will never generate a return above the cost of capital' (Abrahams and Harney 1999).
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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10
Merlin gli fe' veder che quasi tutti
gli altri che poi di Francia scettro avranno,
o di ferro gli eserciti distrutti,
o di fame o di peste si vedranno;
e che brevi allegrezze e lunghi lutti,
poco guadagno ed infinito danno
riporteran
d'Italia; che non lice
che 'l Giglio in quel terreno abbia radice.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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" 1 1
The j oy
produced
by action accomplished in accordance with Nature is a participation in Nature's love r the that she has produced, and in the mutual love of the parts of the Whole.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Maintain
attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Ir you say that they pop up but cannot be
identified
(as being like this or like that), then at that very moment (when a thought pops up).
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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[See Crates for a
companion
picture.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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"
the side
February
15.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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"* This is the night of February 18th; third
night after Iglau was had, and the
Magazines
in it gone to
ashes.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Do you
note the peculiar
construction
of the sentence--'This account of
you we have from all quarters received.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Was the study of
calculus a
recreation
to him?
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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But over
Dombey (the Son), or Little Nell, one
declines
to snivel.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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And as for all the lore I had been
teaching
master Love, I clean forgot it, but the love-songs master Love taught me, I learnt them every one.
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Bion |
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making a diastole in the us o/^istlus -- or
< Sanct' ad vos &m-\-md
I making the ccesura to
preserve
and lengthen the
I Jinal A in anima.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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Another group deals with the
popular beliefs of a superstitious age,- beliefs very real in Holberg's
day, and
requiring
considerable boldness to ridicule.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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By the later eenth cen- tury, the angel's
salutation
as recorded by Luke had been supplemented not only with Mary's proper name (Gabriel had said only, "Chaire, kecharitomene [?
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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182 THE LIFE OF
Baron was too valuable to be offended, and too
sensitive
to
be easily satisfied.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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Around 1900, the emergence of the
philosophies
of life marked an attempt to overcome this dichotomy - now thinkers wanted to combine spirit-philosophical epigonality with originality in terms of the vital substrate of thought: life.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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For in
bodies, union
strengtheneth
and cherisheth any natural action; and on
the other side, weakeneth and dulleth any violent impression: and even
so it is of minds.
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Bacon |
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]
[Sub-Footnote ii: See 'Ode on the
Pleasure
arising from Vicissitude', l.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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_The True Conqueror_
He only can bow to men
Lofty as a god
To those beneath him,
Who has taken sins and sorrows
And whose
deathless
spirit leaps
Beneath them like a golden carp in the torrent.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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Granted that each species has arisen by evolution from some
other, this germ-cell which is observed in the body of the threadworm,
must be
regarded
as part of what may well be called a stream of
germ-plasm, that reaches back to the beginning of life in the world.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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Longer and more malignant than Saturn,
Digitized by VjOOQIC
140 THE POEMS
And they, though all
Platonic
years should
reign,
In the same posture would be found again ;
Their earthly projects under ground they lay,
More slow and brittle than the China clay ;
Well may they strive to leave them on their
son,
For one thing never was by one king done.
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Marvell - Poems |
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a many-sided individual development, an understand-
ing of socialism, and
preparation
for taking their places in a
collective society.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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In the
presence
of justice,
Lo, the walls of the temple
Are visible
Through thy form of sudden shadows.
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Stephen Crane |
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Ye pow'rs wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o' fare,
Auld
Scotland
wants nae stinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu' pray'r,
Gie her a Haggis!
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Robert Burns |
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His first very promising prose comedy,
(Lindow's Bairns) (1881), was
followed
by the
prose tragedy Nero) (1885).
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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I
never very well liked those _Stoicks_, who
referring
all things to their
(I can't tell what) _honestum_, thought we ought to have no regard to
our Persons and our Palates.
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Erasmus |
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Corresponding to the fact that we act as if time is a valuable commodity-a limited resource, even money--'-we
conceive
of time that way.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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^ Other writers confine
themselves
to
1 Compare pp.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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As he approached a little
nearer, he thought he saw something white hanging in the midst
of the tree: he paused, and ceased whistling; but on looking more
narrowly, perceived that it was a place where the tree had been
scathed by
lightning
and the white wood laid bare.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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LE GOUT DU NEANT
Morne esprit,
autrefois
amoureux de la lutte,
L'Espoir, dont l'eperon attisait ton ardeur,
Ne veut plus t'enfourcher!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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' I exclaimed,
concealing
my joy under an angry
countenance.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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The contour of the child-like
forehead
and of the small and
graceful head was very pleasing.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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[21] # After he had completed, in such a course of life, seventy-seven years, and had advanced, not less in dignity, than in favour and fortune (for he obtained many legacies on no other account than his
goodness
of disposition), and had also been in the enjoyment of so happy a state of health, that he had wanted no medicine for thirty years, 2 he contracted a disorder of which at first both himself and the physicians thought lightly, for they supposed it to be a dysentery, and speedy and easy remedies were proposed for it; 3 but after he had passed three months under it without any pain, except what he suffered from the means adopted for his cure, such force of the disease fell into the one intestine, that at last a putrid ulcer broke out through his loins.
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Roman Translations |
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""1#"+8'%"+**8"
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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" and others of the greater poets and gathers from various sources
examples
of the lesser romantics.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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LXXI
King
Corsablis
is come from the other part,
Barbarian, and steeped in evil art.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Talking to the people themselves, one found that they complained less about overbearing control than about the absence of
responsible
control.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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Right before me lay the very scene
which could really be
commanded
from that situation, but exalted, as was
usual, and solemnised by the power of dreams.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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» The most vivid
trayed, taken to London, and brutally imagination would fail to
conceive
the
hanged and quartered.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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To be eternal--what a brilliant
thought!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Brutus was Caesar's friend, and you were mine, but hence-forward
Let there be nothing between us save war, and
implacable
hatred!
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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There are many
openings
for water at the base of the altar which are invisible to all except to those who are engaged in the ministration, so that all the blood of the sacrifices which is collected in great quantities is washed away in the twinkling of an [91] eye.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Dear heart, make a soft cradle of old tales,
And songs, and music:
wherefore
should you sadden
For wrongs you cannot hinder?
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Yeats |
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Ambassadors
were sent into several
kingdoms
to invite to court the princes
both of Gaul and all the adjacent islands.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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I will not even consider whether I am strong enough
for such a fight, whether I can offer sufficient re-
sistance; it may even be an honourable death to
fall to the accompaniment of the mocking laughter
of such enemies, whose
seriousness
has frequently
seemed to us to be something ridiculous.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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"Were In France" (Mme de
Remusat)
"wholly Ignorant of what was then passIng outsIde"
GaudIn did not pay Interest 011 government credIt Nor dId Kang H1
Mme d'Houdetot never perceIved eVIl In anyone
"Sort ofIgnorance," said the old prIest to Yeats In a railway traIn,
"IS spreadulg every day from the schools f" Obit 1933, Tsung-Kuan, for Honour
Bears hve on acorns
and come raIding our fields
Bouflier, Elzeard has made the forest at Vergons
under Kuanon's eye there IS oak-wood Sengper ga-mu,
To !
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Was ist schön an einem Mann,
welches Gott nicht dir
beschied!
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| Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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"_
God now
commands
the multi-colored bands
Of angels to intrude and slay the beast
That His good sons may have a feast of food.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
"
CCXL
Clear is the day, and the sun radiant;
The hosts are fair, the
companies
are grand.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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—The Restora tion
shackles
the Press.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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With her small tablets in her hand, and her satchel on her arm, Home she went
bounding
from the school, nor dreamed of shame or
harm ;
And past those dreaded axes she innocently ran,
With bright, frank brow that had not learned to blush at gaze of man ; And up the Sacred Street she turned, and, as she danced along,
She warbled gayly to herself lines of the good old song,
How for a sport the princes came spurring from the camp,
And found Lucrece, combing the fleece, under the midnight lamp.
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v02 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 15:06 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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"
But by coolly giving the reins a better direction herself they happily
passed the danger; and by once afterwards
judiciously
putting out her
hand they neither fell into a rut, nor ran foul of a dung-cart; and
Anne, with some amusement at their style of driving, which she imagined
no bad representation of the general guidance of their affairs, found
herself safely deposited by them at the Cottage.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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the press, and the jury
affirmed
this view of the state
of things in 1680, by finding Carr guilty.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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They of the Wake will be
tussling
forever to the discord of the ollave's harp.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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123
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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Where the sapphire girdle of the sea Encinctureth the maiden
Persephone,
released
for the spring,
Look !
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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-- IF
respect the
religious
sentiment, in all the forms in which it may
clothe itself, in the conscience and upon the altar.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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You have not
exchanged
a syllable
with one of them?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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So many
hurrying
home--
And thou still away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Hereupon as he brandished his bare sword in his hand he met Heracles himself on the path, and well he knew him as he
hastened
to the ship through the darkness.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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without
reproach
or blot
Who do thy work, and know it not:
Oh!
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The women seldom travel abroad ; the well-to-do-men, when they go away to Copenhagen, to get their
degrees—for
they are devoted to learning—always yearn to return.
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& she mulled over her plan, she rem~mbered two things Ulrich had said when they were talking·about the mur- derer: namely, that everyone had a second soul, which was always innocent; and that a responsible persqn could always choose to do otherwise, but an
irresponsible
person had no such choice.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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He was happy in the so-
ciety of the pious and learned Spanish
Canonist
Novarro, who at upwards
of ninety had left his country to plead the cause of the injured Carranga
Archbishop of Toledo.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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Each in her turn extracts the ring
from the basin whilst the
remainder
sing in chorus the "podbliudni
pessni," or "dish songs" before mentioned.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Since ancient times, no saint has ever been born [here],
nor anyone wise by nature: it is
needless
to say, then, that real men of learn-
ing the truth are very rare.
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Shobogenzo |
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This is the land the sunset washes,
These are the banks of the Yellow Sea;
Where it rose, or whither it rushes,
These are the western
mystery!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Fat Pierre with the hook gauche-main,
Thomas Larron " Ear-the-less," Tybalde and that armouress
Who gave this poignard its premier stain Pinning the Guise that had been fain
To make him a mate of the " Haulte
Noblesse
" And bade her be out with ill address
As a fool that mocketh his drue's disdeign.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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And Echemus his Tegea 's name
ring Doryclus bade the manly cæstus crown
61
Is view '
d
with hatred
Raised in the
wrestler
'
s
to fame.
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Pindar |
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Caesar does not seem any more than the earlier government to have contemplated the regulation with a view to unity of the
monetary
system of the east, where great masses of coarse silver money — much of which too easily admitted of being debased or worn away —and to some extent even, as in Egypt, a copper coinage akin to our paper money
1 It appears, namely, that in earlier times the claims of the state- creditors payable in silver could not be paid against their will in gold according to its legal ratio to silver ; whereas it admits of no doubt, that from Caesar's time the gold piece had to be taken as a valid tender for 100 silver sesterces.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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The warders stripped him of his clothes,
And gave him to the flies:
They mocked the swollen purple throat,
And the stark and staring eyes:
And with
laughter
loud they heaped the shroud
In which the convict lies.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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"
She would have spoken further in her grief had not Jove begun from his lofty throne—Atropos wrote down his words in adamant and
Lachesis
spun them in with her thread—" Neither thou, Rome, nor yet thou, Africa, will we suffer to go long un avenged.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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The vanity of the allies allowed them not to
see that he
purposely
saved them a defeat, because a victory at that
time would not have served his own ends.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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It comes naturally and
inevitably
out
of man.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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NGÔ THẾ DỤ 吳世裕35
người
huyện Kim Hoa phủ Bắc Giang.
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stella-01 |
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But what gave me
most
disquiet
was, the slow, but sure and constant,
march of the people of the law, that spirit of
liberty inseparable from their principles, and that
dextrous management of theirs of preserving their
advantages, and of crushing their enemies, with all
the appearances of the most austere equity.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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For the expropriation of the agricultural
population
creates, directly, none but the greatest landed proprietors.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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If
you cannot bear an
uncle’s
admiration, what is to become of you?
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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