"
It is by no means unlikely that there were two old Roman lays
about the defence of the bridge; and that, while the story which
Livy has transmitted to us was preferred by the multitude, the
other, which
ascribed
the whole glory to Horatius alone, may have
been the favorite with the Horatian house.
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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It
was a
perpetual
estrangement.
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Maidoc
7 The and so
people territory distinguished
derive
denomination
from Eanna Ccinnsea- lach, who was the fourth in line from Ca- thaeir Mor, Monarch of Ireland, or accord- ing to another account, third in descent.
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When I can scarce breathe beneath a
shameful
yoke!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Belzebuth
enrage racle ses violons!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The inhabitants of the city who had done evil I
reckoned
as
spoil;
To the rest who had done no wrong I spoke peace.
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LXXXVIII
Which of us does not admire what
Lycurgus
the Spartan did?
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Epictetus |
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The
final step was taken eight years
afterwards
(643), when by 111.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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" -- and watched
with bated breath as the
untamable
man, year-
out, year-in, warded off destruction.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Both were named Eberhard; but the
elder, by special favor of the Imperial Court, also
governed
the
land of the younger.
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When I sleep I dream,
When I wauk I'm eerie;
Sleep I can get nane
For
thinking
on my dearie.
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Must the physician cease to investigate the nature
of contagion, and to search for the means of
destroying
its baneful
influence?
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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Lucky for you it
wasn’t
Mr
Walker.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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The
Yidonim prophesied; the
Devotees
chanted with their cleft lips.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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It
is when the tone becomes personal, as in the _Holy Sonnets_, when he
is alone with his own soul in the prospect of death and the Judgement,
that Donne's religious poetry acquires something of the same unique
character as his love songs and elegies by a similar combination
of qualities, intensity of feeling, subtle turns of thought, and
occasional Miltonic
splendour
of phrase.
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Donne - 2 |
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at my3t ride;
[F] For of bak & of brest al were his bodi sturne,
144 [G] Bot his wombe & his wast were
worthily
smale,
& alle his fetures fol3ande, in forme ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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It was one of Boy
Beloved's
charming
ways to come, with his
open hands placed side by side in front of
41
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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After all, what ultimately looked back at him from the mirror was no longer a short-winded philologist or an intellectually
dependent
devotee of Schopenhauer and Wagner, but the image of a man who believed that he had reason to look upon himself as a genius and a philosophizing
The author of The Gay Science, the poet of ?
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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Somehow they all
resemble
the ac- cused.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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How difficult for anyone
to be circumcised from the world, to be as
indifferent
to its pleasures,
its sorrows, and its comforts as a corpse is!
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Ta peau brûlante et sans douceur,
Comme celle des vieux gendarmes,
Ne connaît pas plus la sueur
Que ton oeil ne connaît les larmes,
(Et pourtant elle a sa
douceur!
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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Email contact links and up to date contact
information can be found at the Foundation's web site and
official
page
at http://www.
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Stephen Crane |
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Bouchard, 1994;
Bouchard
et al.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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So here's your
entertainment
on the road.
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Yeats - Poems |
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The worship of Isis may be taken as a type of those Oriental faiths
before whose presence the
official
gods of Olympus were receding into the
background.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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In addition, the "barbarians" and "savages" in the eighteenth century strongly recall earlier,
religious
modes of characterizing human diversity.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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How notably he embalms a battered _beau_;
how
delightfully
an amour, that was cold forty years ago, revives in
his pages!
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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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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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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a afirmar, entre otras cosas, que la nueva y poshisto- ricista
construccio?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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May I give you another message to those same
philosophers?
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Lucian |
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He was being made ridicul-
ous, and the man was
laughing
at him.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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Supposing
every one in the whole
world were dreaming, wouldn't that be funny?
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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F-I-',x =;ia =--= -r==
yoi=a=ir
A:a i-i4- -n=ii{;=!
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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His realm
stretched
from the .
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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The
detachment
which our predecessors were so fond of practising had become impossible.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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Ma perche 'l tempo fugge che t'assonna,
qui farem punto, come buon sartore
che com' elli ha del panno fa la gonna;
e
drizzeremo
li occhi al primo amore,
si che, guardando verso lui, penetri
quant' e possibil per lo suo fulgore.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The pot of pink enamel paint gave out
and the wainscot of his bedroom
remained
with its unfinished and
ill-plastered coat.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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First
therefore
I understand that a _chief difference_ between my _Mind_
and _Body_ consists in this, That my _Body_ is of its _Nature divisible_,
but my _Mind indivisible_; for while I consider my _Mind_ or _my self_,
as I am only a _thinking Thing_, I can distinguish _no parts_ in Me,
but I perceive my self to be but _one entire_ Thing; and tho the _whole
Mind_ seems to be _united_ to the _whole Body_, yet a Foot, an Arm, or
any other part of the Body being cut off, I do not therefore conceive
any _part_ of my _Mind_ taken away; Neither can its _Faculties_ of
_desiring_, _perceiving_, _understanding_, &c.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Confucius
said: Ch'iu's lucky (i.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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[After him,
Hieronymus
the son of Gelon was ruler of Sicily.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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15671 (#629) ##########################################
GEORGE WASHINGTON
15671
vent for the
commodities
which it brings from abroad or manu-
factures at home.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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F;3 i;i;g:
* s fE E
EEiEiEEAif!
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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The jargon takes
over this task and
devaluates
thought.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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Traditionally it is understood to mean "that which is suspended, hung up" and to refer to poems which were so
illustrious
as to earn the honor of being hung on the walls of the Kaˁba at Mecca.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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She did more: she interpreted all the other
teaching
for me.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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His talents placed him at the head of
the fashion, and with those enchanting vices which
Quintilian
ascribes
to him, he was, no doubt, the person who contributed most to the
corruption of taste and eloquence.
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Tacitus |
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Several stories appeared under the same name,
some of them dealing with
characteristically
American scenes.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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Every household is selling
hairpins
and bracelets 40 waiting only to present the spring ale.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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No sound of guns or drums
Disturbs
the air.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Once it had done its work, the leader of Judaism was himself no longer able to say with
certainty
whence he truly came.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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MEPHISTOPHELES
(zu Faust):
Stoss zu!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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LIX
"Our impious
Scottish
law, severe and dread,
Wills, that a woman, whether low or high
Her state, who takes a man into her bed,
Except her husband, for the offence shall die.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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^3'|P^
^ ^-
leaves he came tramping one day to the house
of
neighbor
Bear, and with his usual cheery
"How-do-you-do?
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Childrens - Brownies |
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Indeed, even Indians, Bactrians, and
Hyrcanians
sent legations when the justness of so great an imperator became known, a justness which he adorned with a serious, handsome countenance, long of limb, suitably robust.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so
digress?
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T.S. Eliot |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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That a head in thighs under a bush at the sunface would bait a serpent to a
millrace
through the heather.
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Finnegans |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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Then the sayd Edmond Kne yeoman of the chandry with seare clothes : the vet desired that the king his benigne grace, yeomen of the scullery with a pan of fire to would pardon him his right hand, and take heat the yrons: a chafer of water to coole the the left: for (quoth he) my right hand ends of the yrons: and two fourmes for all spared, may heareafter doe such good seruice officers to set their stuffe on : the
sergeant
of grace, shall please him appoint.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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— the
lighthouse
on the sea of nonsense, xvi.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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Mais il n'en est pas de me^me des
sentiments, ni des dispositions, ni des
faculte?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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1]Of the sons of Aeolus, Athamas ruled over Boeotia and begat a son Phrixus and a
daughter
Helle by Nephele.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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GALILEO As far as I know no one has any
intention
of harming me.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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Collection
of English Proverbs.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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By the longest, extending to six lines, contains a descrip-
latter he is placed in the foremost rank among the tion of a bound couched in highly spirited and
epic bards, and
Quintilian
has pronounced that his sonorous language.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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The effect of the poems lay
somewhere
between these two readings.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Patrick became very
estimable
in their sight.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Yes,
And I daresay blood
dribbling
here and there.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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If it was
expedient
to pardon, she could calm
her resentment; if it was necessary to punish, she could impose
silence on the voice of pity.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:55 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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The struggle for
existence
is only
an exception, a temporary restriction of the will to
live; the struggle, be it great or small, turns every-
where on predominance, on increase and expansion,
on power, in conformity to the will to power, which
is just the will to live.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Those passions which owe their
existence
chiefly to the state of the
brain, or to causes acting directly upon the brain, are called the moral
passion.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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It may be asked, perhaps, What has so long kept this dis-
jointed machine from falling
entirely
to pieces?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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[Footnote 48: One
_verchok_
= 3 inches.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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But he has contrived to jumble these
several characters
together
in an unheard-of and unwarranted manner, and
the fascination is altogether irresistible.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Where should be truth if not in Arthur's hall,
In Arthur's
presence?
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Tennyson |
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In presence of such facts even the aristocratic tactics of
ignoring
and disparaging were baffled.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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The Lesser Armenia is
sufficiently
fertile.
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Strabo |
|
Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain
"Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete,
inaccurate
or
corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual
property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a
computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by
your equipment.
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Robert Forst |
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Maxime
du Camp was much to blame for the
promulgation
of these tales--witness
his Souvenirs litteraires.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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For any communication can connect to any other communication, the only
condition
being that a con- text of meaning can be established.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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"
After a just tribute to that distinguished body, of which
he says, "distinguished, whether we consider the charac-
ters of the men who composed it, the number and dignity
of their constituents, or the important ends for which they
were appointed," the writer, in the outset, meets the
question of the supremacy of parliament, and pointing out
the
distinction
between freedom and slavery, contends that
* December 15, 1774.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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But if,
ascending
this declivity
I gain the woods, and in some thicket sleep,
(If sleep indeed can find me overtoil'd
And cold-benumb'd) then I have cause to fear 570
Lest I be torn by wild beasts, and devour'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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and John Gould
Fletcher
and F.
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Imagists |
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Because a theory can only be critical, no matter what critical semantics it transports, if it annuls in the worst of all possible directions its kinetic complicity with the
movement
of the world processes.
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Sir--I insist on't--here William show this
Gentleman
out.
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Epic material is fragmentary, scattered, loosely
related, sometimes contradictory, each piece of
comparatively
small
size, with no intention beyond hearty narrative.
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Any other question about meaning is an
advertisement
for the world.
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Fame lives not in the breath of words,
In public praises' hue and cry;
The music of these summer birds
Is silent in a winter sky,
When thine shall live and
flourish
on,
Oer wrecks where crowds of fames are gone.
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ANTIGONE
Whet thou their
sternness!
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" Upon this the
Cardinal appeared satisfied, told Fra Paolo he had observed his conduct,
and wished that he and
Gabriello
were friends.
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To learn the transport by the pain,
As blind men learn the sun;
To die of thirst, suspecting
That brooks in meadows run;
To stay the homesick,
homesick
feet
Upon a foreign shore
Haunted by native lands, the while,
And blue, beloved air --
This is the sovereign anguish,
This, the signal woe!
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" s2 In "
Natalibus
Sanctorum Belgii.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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le then player B stops transferring
resources
to A forever.
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