When he came closer he
saw it was a Serpent to all
appearance
dead.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Thomas Topham was born in London, about the
His father was a carpenter, and brought his son up to the same business, which he
followed
until he was about twenty-four years of age ; when, having saved a little money, he took a public-house, the sign of the Red Lion, at the corner of the City- road, opposite St.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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t
certeyne
welle of alle
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Phan Hoan (1418-1472)
người
xã Lật Sài huyện Ninh Sơn (nay thuộc huyện Quốc Oai tỉnh Hà Tây).
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stella-02 |
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Pray is it not a tough affair
Thus to
assassinate
the eve?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I could hide my
mortification
under it.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Thorpe, who had
descried
them from above, in the passage.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Let's trythen, my dear Simmias, ifyour
Thoughts
andmineagree.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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Some of his friends
thought that he had asked De
Morville
to come back and speak
quietly with him, but it was not so.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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Three yards of cord and a sliding board
Are all the
gallows’
need:
So with rope of shame the Herald came
To do the secret deed.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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On his
proceeding
to revile the _faquir_ for his
misfortunes, they said: "But, Sire, you have only just dipped your head
in, and raised it out of the water!
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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Be-
yond the known, which they
describe
minutely, they accord a
secret study to the unknown, which they suspect.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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Pattern Poem 4
DOSIDAS, THE FIRST ALTAR
This puzzle is written in the Iambic metre and
composed
of two pairs of complete lines, five pairs of half-lines, and two pairs of three-quarter lines, arranged in the form of an altar.
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Pattern Poems |
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If you
would stick to the concrete, and put your
discoveries
in the form
of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your
conversation would be easier to follow.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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But owre my left
shouther
I gae him a blink,
Lest neebors might say I was saucy;
My wooer he caper'd as he'd been in drink,
And vow'd I was his dear lassie, dear lassie,
And vow'd I was his dear lassie.
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Robert Forst |
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That same tusk, all flecked with
glistening
foam, when he had fallen took vengeance on his slayer, smiting with unescapable blow the dancer’s ankle-bone.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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"Give me understanding of the
everlasting
righte-
ousness of Thy testimonies*--and I shall live.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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And amid the brilliant
distinctions
of office, and
even in mature age, he will restlessly strive and labour to
master the Idea, never resigning the hope of becoming
greater than he now is, so long as strength permits him to
indulge it.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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nyon mong) Also called the "disturbing emotions," these are the emotional afflictions or obscurations (in contrast to
intellectual
obscurations) that disturb the clarity of perception.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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Ipsa suum
Zephyritis
eo famulum legarat,
Grata Canopaeis incola litoribus.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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The
beautiful
warm rain.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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Of al thy state thou shalt him sey,
And aske him
counseil
how thou may
Do any thing that may hir plese;
For it to thee shal do gret ese, 2870
That he may wite thou trust him so,
Bothe of thy wele and of thy wo.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Her body was a thing grown thin,
Hungry for love that never came;
Her soul was frozen in the dark
Unwarmed
forever by love's flame.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Now Earl of
Leicester!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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On the whole, all things considered, perhaps the most
satisfying
an thology of English poetry.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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The reference to the
disciples
of the former in Section ii, 19, must be a note by the final compiler.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the
copyright
holder's express written permission.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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(To the first
secretary)
Please repeat.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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My
consciousness
is not restricted to envisioning a negatite.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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But one may reply to this: when in danger of
inundations
we may be reassured by seeing a rainbow.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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During that time many great changes took place in the social and
political life of the Greeks,
demanding
corresponding changes in
education.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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The poem is
mentioned
by Lucian (Lexiph.
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Pattern Poems |
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H e resolved on going thither; not to
remain, and thus violate the
affection
he owed to L ucy, but
to tell Corinne how ignorant he had been of her residence
in S cotland.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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I had to spend
many years losing my spirit, to unlearn
thinking
again, to forget the
oneness.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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Exaggeration I abhor, with whims I have
nothing to do, and of
quotation
I am guiltless.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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E E ' =
EE{ I
gg
afE
rEgi*iFEi?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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Or the Holy Father's Swiss
Have shot his
Perugians
in vain for us.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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Generated for
Christian
Pecaut (University of Chicago) on 2014-12-26 11:49 GMT / http://hdl.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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“Ulster, the Annals of,” editorial
references
to, 225 n.
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bede |
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Frequently
a single syllable — a hoarse, deep, and frantic in tonation — would be repeated for several minutes by the entire people.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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The companions of Alexander did not, so far as we know, attempt
to give any precise statement of the
dimensions
of India.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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But side by side with the slow growth of
his knowledge of all she was for him, was the slow growth of his
conviction that attacks of giddiness and deafness, which first came when
he was twenty, and recurred at times throughout his life, were signs to
be
associated
with that which he regarded as the curse upon his life.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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1:6), "The spirit goeth forward,
surveying
all places round about.
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Summa Theologica |
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That the English-
speaking public may gain at any rate some faint idea
of his genius, it has been my joyous task to translate
the
following
small selection of his works.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Users are free to copy, use, and
redistribute
the work in part or in whole.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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" Corinne," he cried, throwing himself at her feet, " till
to-day I have censured mine own bliss beside thee; but
now I feel as if the prayers of mine
offended
parent had
won me all this favour; the chaste repose I here enj oy
tells me that I am pardoned.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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I touched her cradle mute;
She
recognized
the foot,
Put on her carmine suit, --
And see!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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A girl who, before his eyes,
is
violating
an engagement voluntarily entered into with another man!
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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The writings in which this quality has been
observed, were not the work of one mind, but of the fusion of two, one
of them as pre-eminently practical in its judgments and
perceptions
of
things present, as it was high and bold in its anticipations for a
remote futurity.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Και ο συνετός Τηλέμαχος απάντησέ του κ' είπε•
«Πείραιε, δεν γνωρίζουμεν
αυτά
πώς θα τελειώσουν•
αν δολερά 'ς το σπίτι μου με σφάξουν οι μνηστήρες,
και όλην κατόπι μοιρασθούν την πατρική μ' ουσία, 80
προτιμώ συ να τα χαρής παρ' απ' αυτούς κανένας.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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The
disguise
theme enfolds the dog, which seems to turn into a
hare a buck a horse a wolf, a calf, a fox, a panther (the waves, und~r the d~g's influ~nce, turTI for an instant into 'herds of sea- morse', Proteus's own flock).
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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Your IP address has been
automatically
blocked from the address you tried to visit at www.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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ben), es decir, con la
adquisicio?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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19
The weakness of the circulating ad hoc explanations for the unexpected eruptions of violence in France is revealed primarily by the fact that most of them attempted to
identify
the riots as mere momentous symbolic actions, though the interpretations of the symbolized affects varied significantly: depending on the inclination of the interpreter, they ranged from help- less anger through a subsequent need to revenge chronic humiliation up to manifestations of pure "pleasure in evil.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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Switzerland
also has
abolished it, but a few cantons, under the influence of a few
atrocious and recurrent crimes, revived it in their codes, but did
not carry it out.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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[24] Caesar
embraced
him as a son and welcomed him, for he had left him at home, ill, and he now unexpectedly saw him safe from both enemies and brigands.
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Roman Translations |
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"
And here the Poet raised his hand,
With such entreaty and command,
It stopped discussion at its birth,
And said: "The story I shall tell
Has meaning in it, if not mirth;
Listen, and hear what once befell
The merry birds of
Killingworth!
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Longfellow |
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criture est si
tremble?
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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Riches, like insects, when
concealed
they lie,
Wait but for wings, and in their season fly.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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What kind of
literary
style would you culti- vate?
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Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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What could develop under the heading of ‘Egypt’, however, is an active remembrance of a lighter religious climate in which the poison of declarations of enmity towards alternative cults, in particular the image-worshipping religions, had not yet
filtered
through to the rest of society.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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We understand
by it a certain standpoint in the historian, who sees
the procession of motive and
consequence
too clearly
for it to have an effect on his own personality.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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But to leave such trifling, it is most certain that
all the parts of
vegetables
and animals, as well the homogeneous as
organic, first of all attract those juices contained in their food,
which are nearly common, or at least not very different, and then
assimilate and convert them into their own nature.
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Bacon |
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Him to bestow a town, -- a realm -- I see,
Upon a
faithful
friend, rejoicing more,
And on all such as have good service done,
Than in new kingdom and new empire won.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Poor, poor girl, is she the
accused?
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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Its
pastures
never dried up, even
under the scorching suns of an Italian summer.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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And if you are to under-
stand
everything
you must not go away just yet;
we want to ask you about so many things that lie
heavily on our hearts.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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How me cast down her lovely eyes,
Deep in my soul
imprinted
lies;
How she spoke up, so curt and tart,
Ah, that went right to my ravished heart!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Around the corner up on worsted strung
Pooties in wreaths above the
cupboard
hung.
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Source: |
John Clare |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 03:28 GMT / http://hdl.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
|
John, 45 Bonaparte, Louis-Napoleon, see Louis-
Napoleon
Bonaparte, Napoleon, see
Napoleon
Bonnet, Jean-Claude, 107, 116, 120, 122,
259-60
Bossuet, Jacques-Be?
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Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
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_ In my Opinion the _Jews_
themselves
did not labour under such a
Burden.
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Source: |
Erasmus |
|
Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Tennyson |
|
The Martyrology of Tallagh records a
festival
at this date, to honour Satanal martir.
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Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
|
Copyright 1889, by Harper & Brothers
O
CHILDREN's eyes
unchildlike!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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Next morning, friendly Christian
pilgrims
came from Jerusalem and told what had
been going on in Sion.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Anon the book is closed,
With "It is
finished!
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Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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It bears three
pictures
in inlaid metal – Io crossing the sea to Egypt in the shape of a heifer, Zeus restoring her there by a touch to human form, and the birth of the peacock from the blood of Argus slain.
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Moschus |
|
Simply stated and
incorporating
only a few elements, it claims to explain the most important of international-political events-not merely imperialism but also most, if not all, modern wars-and even to indicate the conditions that would permit peace to prevail.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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Girls the
_kashourka_
much prefer.
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Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
La Transmutation des Métaux: l'or alchimique, l'argentaurum;
divers
procédés
de fabrication avec lettres et documents à l'appui.
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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When thou
hastenedst
to God, I followed thee in the habit, nay preceded thee.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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the desire) becomes 'nispanna" or staid and is
designated
as 'mahakaruna ' as has been described in Aksayamati-sutra.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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And thinks there can be no favor nor fame,
But one may
straightway
pluck the same.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The
trochaic
Csesura is sometimes neglected in the
foot preceding the final syllable of a pentameter, and the
verse is concluded by a word of four or more syllables; asy
Ovid.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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After repeatedly
declining
to no avail, Gio'i Không finally came.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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When one understands the sound which
constitute
vocal action (vdgvijnapti, iv.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
|
30
The humorist Dave Barry comments on the experts' advice to parents of adolescents:
In addition to watching for warning signs, you must "keep the lines of
communication
open" between yourself and your child.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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On enquiry I found that she was terri- fied lest her son die and was therefore
pestering
him to eat.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
|
What a
forceful
argument!
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Source: |
Sovoliev - End of History |
|
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of
the Project
Gutenberg
License included with this eBook or online at
www.
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Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The waver, the
jostle, and the hum
increased
in a tenfold degree.
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Poe - 5 |
|
But that is perhaps not surprising, given that Heidegger was himself a
contemporary
of Trakl who could recall, when writing to Hannah Arendt in the 1950s, the vivid effect of first encountering his poems in issues of Der Brenner in 1912.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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When tech- nique is made
absolute
in the art-work; when construction becomes total, eliminating what motivates it and what resists it, expression; when art claims to be science and makes scientific criteria its standard, it sanctions a crude preartistic manipulation of raw material as devoid of meaning as all the talk about "Being" (Seyn) in philosophical seminars.
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41 Stieg has been questioned on philological and
biographical
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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The small frontispiece prefixed to the "Orations" does not
serve to convey an adequate idea of the
magnitude
of the man, nor of
the ease and freedom of his motions in the pulpit.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Thus, where
there exists no demonstrable supremacy and a struggle leads but to
mutual, useless damage, the reflection arises that an understanding
would best be arrived at and some
compromise
entered into.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Antipathetic to the French Revolution, he
travelled
to North America in 1791.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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Thus the monstrous
combination
of the Rock
Island and the St.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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IN THOSE OLD DAYS
In those old days you were called beautiful,
But I have worn the beauty from your face;
The flowerlike bloom has withered on your cheek
With the harsh years, and the fire in your eyes
Burns darker now and deeper, feeding on
Beauty and the
remembrance
of things gone.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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