To the honour he shows me, add another,
Let's join our houses, one to the other:
You have one daughter, I a single son;
Their
marriage
will make us more than one.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Of them would he learn the end of their voyage and the injunctions of Pelias; while they
enquired
about the cities of the people round and all the gulf of the wide Propontis; but further he could not tell them for all their desire to learn.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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However,
theories
not based on facts nave a life of their own, completely divorced from reality, and, diligently propagated, live on forever.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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Burgher knows
not
He the prosperous man what some per- form
Where
wandering
them widest draweth.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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Tell us the sum, the
circumstance
defer.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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When he
somewhat
older grows,
We call him Doze.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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Like the earlier work, the 'Essay
on Man' is a
didactic
poem, written primarily to diffuse and popularize
certain ideas of the poet.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
Where will you find a more vivid impression of elegance and
serenity?
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Lucian - True History |
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An old man at
seventy-two, he died broken with many griefs, to be remembered by
a later age as "the great
Commoner
of Mankind.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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ort level (though it might be that in equilibrium
penalties
are never imposed).
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Schwarz - Committments |
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WELLS
HARLES AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE, who was born at Boulogne-
sur-Mer, December 23d, 1804, and died at Paris, October
13th, 1869, was one of the most
brilliant
French essayists and
one of the finest critical minds of the world's literature.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Stephen Crane |
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It cannot be simply a restoration ot the so-called liberal
education
of pre-war times, too often merely the con- tinuance of traditional ideas, traditional methods.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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The horrid
spectacle
is seen of the mad collector
raking over all the dust-heaps of the past.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Tucker Gray saw them and he felt jealous,
for he had a great
fondness
for little Patty and
did all in his power to coax her from Billy, but
she would not come.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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No fear,
Monsieur
le Chauffeur.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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No fear,
Monsieur
le Chauffeur.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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And this
accounts
for the fact that the sponge is at its best when found in deep water close to shore; for owing to the depth of the water they enjoy shelter alike from stormy winds and from excessive heat.
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Aristotle copy |
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Le plus grave pour moi fut qu'Andrée qui n'avait
pourtant plus rien à me cacher sur les mœurs d'Albertine, me jura
qu'il n'y avait pourtant rien eu de ce genre entre Albertine d'une part,
Mlle
Vinteuil
et son amie d'autre part (Albertine ignorait elle-même
ses propres goûts quand elle les avait connues, et celles-ci, par cette
peur de se tromper dans le sens qu'on désire, qui engendre autant
d'erreurs que le désir lui-même, la considéraient comme très hostile
à ces choses.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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No fear,
Monsieur
le Chauffeur.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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He returned to the
unquestioning
Lutheran faith of his
ancestors.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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Who never wanted, -- maddest joy
Remains to him unknown:
The banquet of abstemiousness
Surpasses
that of wine.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Only we must maintain that all the ancient authorities give the statements of which we are now
speaking
with reference not to the citadel-wall, but to the city-wall on the landward side, of which the wall along the south side of the citadel-hill was an integral part (Oros.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Nobody believes that the
Russians
can take Hawaii from us, or New York, or Chicago, but nobody doubts that they might destroy people and buildings in Hawaii, Chicago, or New York.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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both
separately
and by Bil’basov (see below
under 11).
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
|
1,=;I=: ;z';:;: tL:f
E: zi:i=;+;*;t-::rU::
=j=*i+=i
E !
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
|
There are four anantas: dkdso ananto, cakkavdldni anantdni,
sattakdyo
ananto, buddhandnam
anantam (Atthasdlint, 160).
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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This Subject- centered view of life and of the world, in which
recycled
experience from the past would be projected into the future, i.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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To be sure, people have not
hitherto
been so modest.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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To do so, was
of course a necessity to Heraclitus, for if everything
is to be fire, then, however many possibilities of its
transformation might be assumed, nothing can exist
that would be the absolute antithesis to fire; he has,
therefore, probably interpreted only as a degree of
the " Warm" that which is called the "Cold," and he
could justify this
interpretation
without difficulty.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too,
The world's heart breaks beneath its wars,
All things are changed, save in the east
The
faithful
beauty of the stars.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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05
Slides, large assortment, showing various aspects of life in the Soviet
Union; may be
borrowed
for a small fee; set of 50 1.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
|
This
antagonism
of the Dionysian and of the
Apollonian in the Greek soul, is one of the great
riddles which made me feel drawn to the essence
of Hellenism.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
|
The children's Psalm-book, a selection of Psalms with
explanatory
comments, together with a prayer-book for home use in Jewish families, by Mrs.
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| Answer: |
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
|
The spacing is meant to highlight thematic and syntactic patterns rather than aural, and to make the salience of aural
features
more a function of oral recitation than of ocular ratiocination.
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| Question: |
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Translated Poetry |
|
[The infusion of Highland airs and north country subjects into the
music and songs of Scotland, has invigorated both: Burns, who had a
fine ear as well as a fine taste, was
familiar
with all, either
Highland or Lowland.
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Robert Burns- |
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" said she to him, "you love
desperately
Miss Cunegonde of
Thunder-ten-Tronckh?
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Candide by Voltaire |
|
It also offers a starting point for an independence, however Utopian, from the desires of the audi- ence or of particular
interest
groups.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
|
A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels,
Upon their very top there sits an eagle,
And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels,
Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven,
And its hot blood he
sprinkles
on the dry ground;
And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels,
Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;
All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Why did you not deceive me for a while rather than
immediately
abandon me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
|
It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Tully - Offices |
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"
Answers him Guenes: "That will I soon make clear
The King will cross by the good pass of Size,
A guard he'll set behind him, in the rear;
His nephew there, count Rollant, that rich peer,
And Oliver, in whom he well believes;
Twenty
thousand
Franks in their company
Five score thousand pagans upon them lead,
Franks unawares in battle you shall meet,
Bruised and bled white the race of Franks shall be;
I do not say, but yours shall also bleed.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Upon
emerging
from such a trance, he would lose his omniscience.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
|
The
President
did not say that we had a problem with Cuba and hoped the Soviets would keep out of it; he said we had an altercation with the Soviet Union and hoped Cubans would not be hurt.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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He does not wake at dawn to see
Dread figures throng his room,
The
shivering
Chaplain robed in white,
The Sheriff stern with gloom,
And the Governor all in shiny black,
With the yellow face of Doom.
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| Question: |
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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Yet all is well; he has but passed
To Life’s
appointed
bourne:
And alien tears will fill for him
Pity’s long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn
V
I KNOW not whether Laws be right,
Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who lie in gaol
Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year,
A year whose days are long.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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The angels keep out of the
way;
And Dora, the child, observes nothing,
although
you should please me
and stay.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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A este
respecto
Osear Wilde hablaba de la esfinge sin enigma.
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
|
The
book appeared, under the
auspices
of Hickes's son, in 1634, four years
after the translator's death.
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Lucian - True History |
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) These toxic clouds were never composed practically of gas in a physical sense, but instead of very fine
particles
of dust that were released with explosive charges.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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Sure I am,
that concerning the same I have assaied all that might be, having
had the best and most
indulgent
father that ever was, even to his
extremest age, and who from father to sonne was descended of a
famous house, and touching this rare-seene vertue of brotherly
concord very exemplare:
----et ipse
Notus in fratres animi paterni.
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| Question: |
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
|
If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation
permitted
by
the applicable state law.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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"Papa," said Frank, "what you
told me about the duke of Orleans,
and what the
gardener
said, about the
poor French prisoners and emigrants,
and about basket making, and nick-
nack making, and particularly about
the different value of hand work and
head work, makes me consider, that I
have not thought enough about what
things will or will not be really useful
to me to learn, before I grow up to be
a man and a gentleman; and I am
determined to do it directly.
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Childrens - Frank |
|
Its scope is deliberately encyclopaedic and its
subtleties
and puzzles require a sort of retired leisure for their working-out.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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He had loose red-brown hair and
tender shapely strong
freckled
hands.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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They were all
fatigued
with work and excite-
ment, and yet none of them cared to go to bed.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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Heiner Mühlmann, «La
ecología
de las culturas», en: Bazon Brock/Gerlinde Koschik (eds.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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In a
revolt he was
forcibly
tonsured, 731, but restored.
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bede |
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The author,
starting
from ery; the Shigri glaciers, the most vast,
Constantinople, visits the Troad, Cyprus, desolate, and beautiful in the world; Zan-
the Holy Land, Cairo, the Pyramids, and skar, with its primitive Tartar manners
the Sphinx; thence by the way of Suez and customs, its sculptured tumuli, its
he proceeds to Gaza, and returns by the Lama monuments and prayer-mills, its se-
way of Nablous and Damascus, He clusion and unchangeableness; and finally,
apologizes for his frankness of style, and his stay in the remote, inaccessible, and
gives his impressions with refreshing di- most enchanting vale of Kashmir, after a
rectness, modified as little as possible by journey of incredible hardship and danger.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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— and would God that I
Such as thou sayst I am, were verily,
Then what a sea of troubles
shouldst
thou feel
Rise up against thy life, how shouldst thou steel
Thy heart to bear all, failing at the last,
Then wouldst thou raise thine head, o'erwhelmed, downcast, And round about once more shouldst look for me,
Who led thee o'er strange land and unknown sea.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v02 |
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A Prayer
Until I lose my soul and lie
Blind to the beauty of the earth,
Deaf though shouting wind goes by,
Dumb in a storm of mirth;
Until my heart is
quenched
at length
And I have left the land of men,
Oh, let me love with all my strength
Careless if I am loved again.
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| Question: |
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Sara Teasdale |
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From head to foot I was
powdered
almost as white with chalk
and dust, as if I had come out of a lime-kiln.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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What is interesting, perhaps most, to the
historian
is their definite campaign against history altogether, their declared intention to blot out the classics, to blot out the record, and to dazzle men with talk of tomorrow.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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These calumnies, for there never existed a particle of
evidence on which to sustain them, were cherished by the
faction; apprehensions for the national liberties were feign-
ed; the
necessity
of keeping a check on the army, and ex-
pelling from it individuals whom the faction both feared
and hated, became with them a popular topic, and a resolu-
tion was pompously introduced and adopted by congress,*
in which the friends of Washington were compelled from
policy to concur, requiring oaths of allegiance to the United
States, and of abjuration of Great Britain, to be taken by
all the officers in service of government, and certificates
* February 3d, 1778.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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A Strange
Metamorphosis
of Man, transformed into a Wildernesse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
|
If you do not agree to abide by all
the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy
all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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| Question: |
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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Như
chổrrg
ỉà dửa bièn lương,
Chẳng nén hiếp dáp, ngang xương chưởi cảo.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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Yet this fatal sacrifice to the cult (still happy in getting out of so
discreetly)
had obliged her in order to get rid of her initiator, to undertake a step (grave perhaps), perhaps homicide; finally to assure silence, cool water to contingent people, --elixir of an hundred nights' distillation.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Then alone should the single- duo path of 'samatha ' and 'vipasyana ' be
considered
as perfected.
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| Question: |
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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5
Wherever
a young man roams
The Fates in ambush lie
6 What good that young men have
Did you lack in your life?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
|
" The points S huk speare
intended to impress were, that" the wierd women," " j uggling fiends, who palter
with us in a double sense," had promised their victim success and lite till events
which he naturally
conceived
impossible, but which they k new wnUd occur.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
|
The Brethren are known for their simple evangelical
faith, their humble fraternal lives, their
interest
in education, and
particularly their devotion to the cause of missions.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
|
"
He heard the little
hysterical
gulp and took it for tribute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Kipling - Poems |
|
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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| Source: |
Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Helen commits no sin; this
paramour
of hers does no wrong; he does
what thou, what any one, would do.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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THE QUAILS
(In the south of Italy the peasants put out the eyes of a captured quail
so that its cries may attract the flocks of spring
migrants
into their
nets.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
_45
CHORUS:
In the great morning of the world,
The Spirit of God with might unfurled
The flag of Freedom over Chaos,
And all its banded anarchs fled,
Like
vultures
frighted from Imaus, _50
Before an earthquake's tread.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
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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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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A few have assured me
that by night there has been heard, more than once, the weeping of
Marta, whose spirit lives
imprisoned
in the fountain.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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LUCIAN, SATIRIST AND
younger contemporary of Cervantes, cuts many a sharp
Lucianic
silhouette, reminiscent of the Dialogues of the Dead, in his Visions (Suenos), published in 1627 — e.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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Amongst his most respectable and intelligent judges, there
will be many who have devoted their attention exclusively to the
concerns and interests of human life, and who bring with them to
the perusal of a philosophic system an habitual aversion to all
speculations, the utility and
application
of which are not evident
and immediate.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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were the most
distinguished
orna-
ments.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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HE MEGARA,
TRANSLATED
BY J.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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26 See " Acta
Sanctorum
Hiberniae," xv.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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'105-106'
In Shakespeare's play Othello
fiercely
demands to see a handkerchief
which he has given his wife, and takes her inability to show it to him
as a proof of her infidelity.
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Alexander Pope |
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And as to
charging
him with harshness, it is
not the fact.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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Lucius,
delighted with this news, returns to Hipparchus’ house and in the
absence of his host and hostess makes love to Palaestra with the purpose
of
persuading
the maid to acquaint him with her mistress’ magic powers.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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_Grass_
Grass moves in the wind,
My soul is
backwards
blown.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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The psychopolitical
consequences
of this are reflected in the complex of events referred to as the "age of extremes.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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We should cultivate that
slowness
of a life in real presence instead of just further speeding up the flow of information.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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175 (#233) ############################################
DIONYSUS-DITHYRAMBS
OF THE POVERTY OF THE RICHEST
TEN years passed by,
Not a drop reached me,
No rain-fraught wind, no dew of love
-A
rainless
land.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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He therefore left Pamiat' the
following
year, condemning its nos- talgic monarchism and vulgar anti-Semitism.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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And who has not been pleased or put off, at some point, by the polite language and the
efficiency
of those airline screens helping us to to get ready for our next flight?
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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He seemed to be kind of non-plussed, and sat there
fingering
the
etchings in the case until I told him he needn't bother, because we had
those.
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Twain - Speeches |
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Has this 'I' been translated from its vanishing metaphysical limit to a more localized limit surrounding or determining the application of particular language games (or sentences) with an expression oftheir origin into a
Reproduced with
permission
of the copyright owner.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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Fine times these four-footed little fellows enjoyed
scam[)eri ng around
wherever
they pleased in this
their garret home.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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Goethe's "Theoryof Colors,"which Du Bois-Reymond claimed to be a failure in the field of physics, did not retard
scientific
process in Germany any less than Faust's intuition of nature did, bereft as this intuition was of all mathematics.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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As he never
wandered without a book and without
implements
of writing, I find many
such, in his manuscript books, that scarcely bear record; while some of
them, broken and vague as they are, will appear valuable to those who
love Shelley's mind, and desire to trace its workings.
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Shelley copy |
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What need would they have of a cook or servant
on an American steamer, and what
confidence
would they put in him,
dressed as he was?
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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