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Timotheus
ordered his army to charge immediately, although some of the men had not yet arrived; one of his officers asked, whether it would be better to wait, until the others had caught up with them.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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” Then had Cypris compassion and bade the Loves loose his bonds; and he went not to the woods, but from that day forth
followed
her, and more, went to the fire and burnt away those his tusks away.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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uiitiii=
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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But
Tristram
was not all that the book contained.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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Perhaps the theory of Perizonius cannot
be better illustrated than by showing that what he
supposes
to
have taken place in ancient times has, beyond all doubt, taken
place in modern times.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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He fears nor kris nor assegai,
He gazes at man, with no cares at all,
And smiles at the sepoy's musket-ball,
That merely
rebounds
from his hide.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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or is this the play
Of fond
illusion?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Allit-
sen, his mother, has died; and shortly
after, Robert
Allitsen
appears in the
old book-shop.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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"
The
unfortunate
publicist stiffened.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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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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We who represented political economy,
had the same objects in view as they had, and took pains to show it; and
the
principal
champion on their side was a very estimable man, with whom
I was well acquainted, Mr.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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So that by the Spirit is
meant Inclination to Gods service; and not any
supernaturall
Revelation.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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Force and
prudence
are invoked in vain;
The illness that seems cured appears again.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The latter treated my Zarathustra, for in-
stance, as "advanced
exercises
in style,"and expressed
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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I will walk in Thy
Commandments
when Thou hast set my
heart at liberty.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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I am sure you have thought a great
deal more than the
generality
of servants think.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Untrod is their home;
by wolf-cliffs haunt they and windy headlands,
fenways fearful, where flows the stream
from
mountains
gliding to gloom of the rocks,
underground flood.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Apologies if this happened, because human users who are making use of the eBooks or other site
features
should almost never be blocked.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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They get a forked stick to bear him down
And clap the dogs and take him to the town,
And bait him all the day with many dogs,
And laugh and shout and fright the
scampering
hogs.
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John Clare |
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BY THE WEIR
A scent of Esparto grass--and again I recall
That hour we spent by the weir of the paper-mill
Watching
together
the curving thunderous fall
Of frothing amber, bemused by the roar until
My mind was as blank as the speckless sheets that wound
On the hot steel ironing-rollers perpetually turning
In the humming dark rooms of the mill: all sense and discerning
By the stunning and dazzling oblivion of hill-waters drowned.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Mellish was
nervously
anxious to go straight to his Fumigatory, and
talked at random until tiffin was over and His Excellency asked him
to smoke.
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Kipling - Poems |
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49 t
having
obtained
possession of the Orkneys and also of the Isle of Man.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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Though the words classical and romantic, then, have acquired
an almost technical meaning in application to certain develop-
ments of German and French taste, yet this is but one variation
of an old opposition, which may be traced from the very begin-
ning of the formation of
European
art and literature.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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However, the
permission
was given, and was never retracted;
for when the month was out, Peggotty and I were ready to depart.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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Porter
And on her daughter 200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la
coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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When his Guardian saw that
threatening
would not do any Thing with him,
he set his Brother Guardian, who was his Tutor, to see what he could do
with him: Thus was _Erasmus_ surrounded by them and their Agents on all
Hands.
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Erasmus |
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Not that she
_wanted_
him to marry.
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Austen - Emma |
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This is impossible; all these general principles are
formed only through my own voluntary observation and re-
flection, applied to many
individual
facts; but never in
themselves express any fact whatever.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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2 This refers to a popular
Buddhist
belief that those who die owing money will be reborn as a beast of burden that will repay the debt with its labor.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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e
firmame{n}t
stont derked by wete ploungy cloudes.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Literary Allusions in
Finnegans
Wake 96
?
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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And so also the evil of punishment was
established
by God's justice for God's glory.
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Summa Theologica |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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The
evidence
suggests that both current and past difficulties are important, and that self-esteem is a crucial factor linking the two.
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Oracle |
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Who is the judge? |
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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" Hayfoot and Strawfoot are
antagonistic
brothers.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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Now
suddenly
comes the news that he has departed185
and his Zen retreat is closed,
Now in the courtyard of his temple the birds cry in vain
to the moon.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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Calamy and some other
ministers, deputed by the rest, came to the chancel-
lor to
redeliver
it to his hands.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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The term, 'Naumachia,'
was applied both to the
representation
of a sea-fight, and to the place
where it was given.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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Jones (1776); a few words and
spellings
have been changed.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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A wall appears to have sepa rated both, but a large pointed doorway
afforded
a communication.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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This was in reality of the highest conse-
quence : for no sooner had the deputy taken his seat but a question
was moved, whether the Locrians of Amphissa had not been guilty of
sacrilege in ploughing the fields of Cirrha,
contiguous
to the temple of
Delphos I Sentiments were divided.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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Now I say, common swearing, a produce of this country, as plentiful as our corn, thus cultivated by the playhouse, might, with management, be of wonderful advantage to the nation, as a
projector
of the swearer's bank has proved at large.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Would this same mock-love, and this
Mock-Hymen were laid up like winter bats,
Till all men grew to rate us at our worth,
Not vassals to be beat, nor pretty babes
To be dandled, no, but living wills, and sphered
Whole in
ourselves
and owed to none.
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Tennyson |
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Wordsworth’s
hackneyed praise is not very
specially
applicable to most of them;
and Johnson's contempt was contempt of the form itself, no doubt
slightly accentuated by dislike of the author.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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This was the case
too with all the cavalry horses, which in going against the enemy
seemed like a herd of
griffins
or centaurs going rather by air
than by land.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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Mate
cheerful
again, and all on good terms.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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It seemed
therefore
most proper to send
to him C.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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He was very genial
and very
appreciative
of what we had done, and took off our hands all
cares as to details.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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Mirábala
embebido
El Nazarita príncipe,
Cuando llegó á su oído
La deliciosa voz
Que oyó de la caverna
En la extensión interna
Sonar, cuando detúvose
Su palafrén veloz.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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Just as a
physician
transfers his patient
to totally strange surroundings, in order to displace
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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If Donne's sincere and intense, though
sometimes
perverse and
petulant, moods are a protest against the languid conventionality
of Petrarchian sentiment, his celebrated 'wit' is no less a cor-
rective to the lazy thinking of the sonneteers, their fashioning
and refashioning of the same outworn conceits.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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A good marriage may have been part of his
plan for restoring himself to a
reputable
place in
society.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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_They carry the_
COUNTESS
CATHLEEN _and lay her upon
the ground before_ OONA _and_ ALEEL.
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Yeats - Poems |
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Siddhartha saw him, and he
instantly
recognised him, as if a god had
pointed him out to him.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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Here, the sun of good intentions would shine day and night, the peaceful
coexistence
ofeveryone with everyone would go without saying.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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5 Behold, thou
hast>made my days as an hand-breadth ; and mine age
is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his
best state is
altogether
vanity.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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It means getting the Soviets or the Communist Chinese to identify us with, say, Pakistan in such a way that they would lose respect for our commitments
elsewhere
if we failed to support Pakistan and we know they would lose that respect, so that we would have to support Pakistan and they know we would.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
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Ronsard |
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Since the edict of Constans against these schismatics, the
inhabitants of the little city had come back to Catholicism out of fear of
the
severity
of the imperial government.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Given the pressures of
competition
and rising wages, capitalists must make technological innovations to increase their productivity and diminish their labor costs.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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Is it not a
great sygne of holynes in a man to cary aboute the
gospel boke or the newe
testament?
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Erasmus |
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To a
scientist
these are noble words, and one doesn't criticize T.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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Res gestae regumque ducumque, et tristia bella,
Quo scribi possent numero
monstravit
Humerus.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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But the several revolutions in the ancient
free state of Rome, and all her happy or
disastrous
events, are already
recorded by writers of signal renown.
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Tacitus |
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"
{28a} Beowulf gives his uncle the king not mere gossip of his
journey, but a statesmanlike
forecast
of the outcome of certain
policies at the Danish court.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Polish
political
memoirs.
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Source: |
Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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The joy of the
Brazilian
Slave on finding a Diamond of sufficient weight to ensure his freedom, illustrative
of the state of soul of the Man who finds the Pearl of great price--The Breast-plate of Aaron, glittering
with twelve precious stones, considered in its typical character, Exod.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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In the seventh, we have another contest between an
old man and a young about love; the eighth
describes
the pastoral
golden age; and the ninth and last is another lament from Rowland,
this time for unrequited love.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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When you announced your
departure
so soon, 16 a hundred cares again beset me.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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It is through the
information
brought by the converted spy that we are able to acquire and employ local and inward spies.
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The-Art-of-War |
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--We praise the things we hear with much more
willingness
than
those we see, because we envy the present and reverence the past;
thinking ourselves instructed by the one, and overlaid by the other.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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the name of Amos Judd he is brought
Echo of Passion, An, by George Par- up in
ignorance
of his origin.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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When
Edward saw all these forlorn
wretches
thrust out at
the gates, he had compassion on them, gave them food
and money, and let them pass through his army in
safety.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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These
hopes were
destined
to be disappointed.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Remember
the Moscow trials.
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Source: |
Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Profound
enfeeblement
of spontaneity :—the his-
torian, the critic, the analyst, the interpreter, the
observer, the collector, the reader, all reactive
talents all science!
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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5" This is apparently inadmissible ; but, while it might be reconcilable with the existence of supposed contemporaries, mentioned in his Acts, both
chronology
and genealogyss are too conflicting to render pronouncement very certain, in many of their details.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Now, by what signs are Nature's
lucky strokes
recognised
among men?
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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This
consisted
in piecing together, from an essentially practical point of view, the different school systems which met their approval.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
|
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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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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However, given Tsong- khapa's such close
identification
with Candrakirti's works it does seem to be the case that if Candrakirti's reading of Nagarjuna is flawed, serious doubts can also be raised about Tsongkhapa's interpretation of Madhya- maka philosophy.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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HE COMPARES HER TO A LAUREL, WHICH HE
SUPPLICATES
APOLLO TO DEFEND.
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Petrarch |
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At first all were astounded with amazement at so heinous a
proceeding
; then silence prevailed for some time.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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1] Now Zeus wedded Hera and begat Hebe, Ilithyia, and Ares,32 but he had
intercourse
with many women, both mortals and immortals.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties,
including
placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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Chicago)
on 2014-12-16 02:37 GMT / http://hdl.
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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He
belonged
to the very
few who could control even a bad mood and conceal
it from others.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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Could not you
take a run here
_alone_?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Selection of English Letters |
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Corinna and Sappho, famous for their lore,
Shine two
illustrious
light, to set no more.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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204,
FIGHTING
THE RED TRADE MENACE
Here, too, the battlefield is limited.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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3
WILL HITLER SAVE
DEMOCRACY?
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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Pain or pleasure transported her, and the whole of pain or
pleasure might be held in a flower's cup or the
imagined
frown of
a friend.
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Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Nor was it merely from books and
treatises
that they acquired their
knowledge.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Oscar Wilde |
|
To
attempt to argue any great question upon facts only, is absurd; you cannot
state any fact before a mixed audience, which an
opponent
as clever as
yourself cannot with ease twist towards another bearing, or at least meet
by a contrary fact, as it is called.
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2:15 We who
are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 2:16 Knowing that
a man is not
justified
by the works of the law, but by the faith of
Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be
justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for
by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
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Whitehall
Evening Post, ii.
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_Leaves_
The splaying silhouette of horse-chestnut leaves
Against the tall and delicate, patrician-tinged sky
Like a
princess
in blue robes behind a grille of bronze.
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In a corner three ancient
amphorae
leaned
Against the wall, like ships careened.
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Amy Lowell |
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