He shall spare neither the children of Meda the wedded wife, in the rage of his mind, nor the
daughter
Cleisithera, whom her father shall betroth unhappily to the serpent whom he himself has reared.
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But it is his schoolmaster's busi-
ness to teach him: why should he be teazed
with these things at home X His parents may
indulge him and spoil him as much as they
please ; it is the
business
of that devoted be-
ing, of that martyr, a schoolmaster, to do and
to suffer all that parents themselves cannot
do or suffer.
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To begin with he refused, saying that it was too much to give, but later as she continued to entreat him, he let her have it; for Arsinoe was not easily put off and old age had made
Lysimachus
more malleable.
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g :i
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EiiltEiiEEL*e?
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And sight also, my
excellent
friend, if it sees itself must see a
colour, for sight cannot see that which has no colour.
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The current epoch has
expressed
its kinetic self-conception in doctrines of progress in the fields of politics, technology, and the philosophy of history.
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The army of the consul Gaius
Norbanus was already at Capua, where the new colony had just established itself with all
democratic
pomp; the second consular army was likewise advancing along the Appian
road.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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On the day that you take up your command, block the
frontier
passes, destroy the official tallies, and stop the passage of all emissaries.
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The-Art-of-War |
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\ What nirvana is there for one
\ Who is not seen in
nirvana?
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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Your son, my dear, is
worrying
you, and he is also worrying me.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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" Its printed
appeal to the Danish public
deserves
citation.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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93
engendering
by the eyes.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Upon my bosom all day long
It smiled and
sprawled
and so grew strong.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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But he has gifts of style
which raise him above the
Elizabethan
hacks.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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One great point about work is that for its sake the
individual
has to make
light of his personal joys and sorrows; indeed, so far as may be, to
ignore them.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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I can quite
understand a man accepting laws that protect private property, and admit
of its accumulation, as long as he himself is able under those
conditions to realise some form of beautiful and
intellectual
life.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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Le Misanthrope, Tartufe, Les Femmes savantes, L'Avare, Les Précieuses ridicules sont quelques-unes des perles qui
brillent
dans son théâtre si riche et si varié.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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Far more interesting than these rhetorical exaggerations of a
later time are the
contemporary
accounts which come from the
people and show their faith,-the legends of supernatural appear-
ances which took part in the fight.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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I have other questions or need to report an error
Please email the
diagnostic
information to help2018 @ pglaf.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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Weare adopting the practice of using the most specific metaphorical concept, in this case TIME IS MONEY, to
characterize
the entire system.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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Among these disciples of our Saint, we find
enumerated
St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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Again in Richard of Saint-Laurent's words: because she is
illuminated
by the light of the Father, the grace of the Holy Spirit, and the Son of God who is the true sun of justice.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Outings with the Girl
Guides m Epping Forest-hired brake and sleek roan horses, and I on the
box m my grey flannel suit, speckled straw hat, and discreet layman’s neck-
tie Buns and ginger pop under the green elms Twenty Girl Guides pious
yet susceptible frisking in the breast-high bracken, and I a happy curate
sporting among them, in loco parentis pinching the girls’ backsides
mrs mcelligot Well, you may talk about
kippm’
down, but begod dere won’t
be much sleep for my poor ole bloody bones tonight I can’t skipper it now
de way me and Michael used to.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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They affect us just as
vulgarity
affects us.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Tes nobles jambes sons les volants qu'elles chassent,
Tourmentent les desirs obscurs et les agacent
Comme deux
sorcieres
qui font
Tourner un philtre noir dans un vase profond.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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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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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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" All that well before "sustainabil- ity" became a buzzword with a certain vague
provenance
about it.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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Chicago)
on 2014-12-22 00:48 GMT / http://hdl.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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The
relation
orthe hun.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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The automatic assumption that Russia shorn of its expansionist
communist
ideology should pick up where the czars left off just prior to the Bolshevik Revolution is therefore a curious one.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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This gentleman's mansion-house and
grounds were
formerly
occupied by the Duke of Kent, father to Queen
Victoria.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Hanc Janus pater, hanc Saturnus
condidit
ur-
bem;
Janiculum huic, illi fuerat Saturnia nomen.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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My
fear was
justified
when I saw the same cart which had passed before
coming down the road, having on it some great wooden boxes.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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Fiery impulses, even if they
were to fling me into an abyss, cost me nothing; but per-
severance in good, as in evil, is supremely
difficult
to me.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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Dear Ellen did not weep at all,
But closelier did she cling,
And turned her face and looked as if
She saw some
frightful
thing.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Morrow
Senatori
Societatis Philoso-
phiae, *BK, gratiasmaximas
agimus
Elihu Root
Mortimer L.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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Although your stature is small, 8 your mature energy
stretches
across the nine regions.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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itte vices wooden to
distroien
men by wounde of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"m
things, not "explanation " (in the majority of cases a new
interpretation
of an old interpretation which has grown incomprehensible and little more than a mere sign).
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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I
recognised
Venus and her fearsome fires.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The reasons for this, as
Lawrence
K.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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I was the Attic shepherd’s trysting place,
Beneath my shadow Amaryllis lay,
And round my trunk would laughing Daphnis chase
The timorous girl, till tired out with play
She felt his hot breath stir her tangled hair,
And turned, and looked, and fled no more from such
delightful
snare.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no more
To thee, God's daughter,
powerful
as God,
It is that thou hast made my life too sweet
To hold the added sweetness of a song.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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lo el
iniciado
puede asimilar.
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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Dark was the jail, but as if light
Had met t'engender with the night;
Or so as
darkness
made a stay
To show at once both night and day.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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To speak of the world
poetically
is almost to remain silent, if speech is under- stood in everyday terms, and Mallarme?
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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Otherwise, my dear Trevor, you're in
splendid
health.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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3
Archbishop Ussher had seen a copy of our saint's Acts, different, perhaps, from the muti- lated one, which fell into Colgan's hands, as that learned British Church historian cites
passages
from it, which are not found in his copy.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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20 In the case of Girri and Cadenas, both authors engage with Taoist and Zen texts, as well as the
writings
of J.
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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She had had many offers of marriage since, and had refused them all—the memory of the handsome Hussar still lived in her sentimental heart, and her most
cherished
possession was the cross which he had won and had not lived to receive.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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Perhaps this text marks the birthplace of the Hegel we seem to appreciate most, the womb from which the so-called ideal of Hegel's youth was decisively
transformed
into a philosophical system, where he himself first "expresses at least the formal aspect of philosophy.
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Hegel_nodrm |
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She was nearly thirty, and looked it, and he was nearly thirty, and
looked more; and it
mattered
nothing.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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Now, whithersoever they fly, they carry with them the same courage 2 still; whereby it appeareth that they were not only
furnished
for one combat, but even for continual warfare; which Luke doth now prosecute.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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And the King came out with his
bodyguard
at the day's departing gleam--
And the moon rode up behind the smoke and showed the King his dream.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a handbag, whether it had handles or
not, seems to me to display a
contempt
for the ordinary decencies of
family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French
Revolution.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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How to do it: I won't give the German
Communist
Party, etc.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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They logically connect the
critical
activity
of the first and the second Caroline periods; and
Dryden begins his work at the point where D'Avenant and Cowley
leave off.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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More than one critic has noted, for example, how the assonance effected by "Meeres," "Galeeren," and "teeren," with their echo of short "e"s in the second syllable, produces a trumpet-like call of
attention
to the emerging Venice; the assonance announces a summoning forth (Blume 348).
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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They both maintain that, if the king
were to refuse to allow any one of his vassals to bring a claim
against him in the feudal Court, or were to refuse to carry
out the decision of the Court, or if he were to seize and im-
prison his vassal without the judgment of the Court, then
the vassals were to declare to the lord that they were bound
by their
obligations
to each other and by their duty to main-
tain the honour of the Court, and that therefore they would
renounce all service to him until he had submitted the matter
in dispute to the judgment of the Court, and had carried out
its decisions.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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4^ There, too, were to be seen the remains of a huge massive granite block,
hollowed
in the centre, to serve probably the purpose of a holy water font.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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In the
struggle
with each other, the first and second parties consume their powers -- when they are approximately the equal of the other-so that an additional third party could subjugate both with little trouble.
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"Virtue is knowledge," thus he
formulated
his new vision of things.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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Stood Venus smiling, and her boy
With
unstrung
bow.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Following Hume and Hartley, James Mill, in his Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind (1829), had traced all our intellectual and moral judgments to the associa tion of ideas, which consequence of
frequent
occurrence together become constantly connected.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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' It is a poem on the passing of human endeavour, a motif
which had served the purpose of scores of
fifteenth
century laments.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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Skandha is a
Sanskrit
word meaning heap or pile.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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The noise of the hall was sud- denly in a
different
world.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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eEit;EiEi
Egigiig?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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Whate'er thou'lt be, O guide our gentle course;
And with thy smiles our bold attempts enforce;
With me th' unknowing _rustics_' wants relieve,
And, though on earth, our sacred vows
receive!
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Ride you this
afternoone?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Thrice
fortunate
he on whom thou hast looked with very favour.
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Pattern Poems |
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Christian
Ideals -
113
132
179
32860
## p.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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Should the enemy forestall you in
occupying
a pass, do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned, but only if it is weakly garrisoned.
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The-Art-of-War |
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The Remaining Course of Action - A Rapid Build-up of Political, Economic, and Military Strength in the Free World
A more rapid build-up of political, economic, and military strength and thereby of confidence in the free world than is now contemplated is the only course which is consistent with progress toward
achieving
our fundamental purpose.
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NSC-68 |
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Pennus) successfully opposed the tribune Gracchus, who was
something
younger than himself.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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But there are
others of them, that have
_superadded
Forms_ to them, as when I Will,
when I Fear, when I Affirm, when I Deny.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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If the quantity of labour realized in commodities,
regulate
their
exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must
augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every
diminution must lower it.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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8oole's logical
Calculus
and the Concept-script
( ~~ ~)b)1and* for every positive non-zero n there is** a number with the property X greater than A - n
" b A-n
Tfi;~)o
qA ;:;::;b
X (b)
Here the b in('L~(b) n < b)has nothing to do with the bin ( 1~(;)b)
so that you could replace the second b by a different gothic letter.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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One of my university teachers once told of an inventor of a
perpetuum
mobile who exclaimed 'Now I have,it; the only thing I lack is a little device which keeps doing this', illustrating the movement with his index finger.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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was like that of other women, to
obtain a husband of rank and fortune superior to my own; and in this I
had the
concurrence
of all those that had assumed the province of
directing me.
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Samuel Johnson |
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The merits of his style are confined to
his prose, though estimates have
differed
as to the work or works
in which it attained to its highest excellence.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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On Astur's throat Horatius
Right firmly pressed his heel,
And thrice and four times tugged amain,
Ere he
wrenched
out the steel.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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Ho ebbing tide thy
kindness
knows :
Like some perpe-|-raa/ stream, | it flows.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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From this faint world, how full of
bitterness
Love takes his way and holds his joy deceitful, Sith no thing is but turneth unto anguish
And each to-day 'vails less than yestere'en,
Let each man visage this young English King That was most valiant 'mid all worthiest men !
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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The
impressions
produced by the spectacle were various in kind.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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'*"' Among those mortally wounded was their brave leader Prince Mur- chadh, who, after the battle, made a confession of his sins, and
received
the
Holy Sacrament.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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I remembered a
darkened
doorway
Where we stood while the storm swept by,
Thunder gripping the earth
And lightning scrawled on the sky.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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Juice in language is
somewhat
less than blood; for if the
words be but becoming and signifying, and the sense gentle, there is
juice; but where that wanteth, the language is thin, flagging, poor,
starved, scarce covering the bone, and shows like stones in a sack.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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'tis a very
pleasant
land,
Fill'd with joys on either hand,
Sweeter than aught beneath the sky,
Dear islands of the dragon-fly!
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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"Princess Elizabeth had a Surgeon called L'Estoc; aMarquis
"de la Chetardie, a highflown French
Excellency
(who used
"to be at Berlin, to our young Friedrich's delight), was her --
"What shall I say?
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Would ye know that he is
speaking
of this?
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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ASOUL curls back,
Their souls like petals,
Thin, long, spiral,
Like those of a
chrysanthemum
curl
Smoke-like up and back from the Vavicel, the calyx,
Pale green, pale gold, transparent, Green of plasma, rose-white, Spirate like smoke,
Curled,
Vibrating,
Slowly, waving slowly.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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It was painful to her to
disappoint and
displease
them, particularly to displease her brother;
but she could not repent her resistance.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Paradiso
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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As the work of the school advanced, the gloss became
more and more
elaborate
and lost its original signification.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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