-- That question, if
answerable
by any other than the
Creator alone, I leave to be answered by those who are better
qualified, than I, to investigate and explain the wondrous opera-
tions of almighty wisdom and power.
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belonging
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" Lycius blush'd, and led
The old man through the inner doors broad-spread;
With reconciling words and
courteous
mien
Turning into sweet milk the sophist's spleen.
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The living Nobody, in spite of the horror of socialization, remembers the
energetic
paradises beneath the personalities.
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We have here restored two lines, marked in the manuscript as 6 and 7 (omitted from Erdman's transcription) on the grounds that the two cancelled lines
following
are rewritten as lines 2 and 3.
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Both of his
attempts
were complete
failures, and in 1844, being thoroughly dissatisfied with Tasmanian
society, he presented a memorial to the governor of the settlement, Sir
John Eardley Wilmot, praying for a ticket-of-leave.
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Compare Herrick with Marlowe, Greene, Breton, Drayton,
or other pretty pastoralists of the HELICON--his general and radical
unlikeness is what strikes us; whilst he is even more remote from the
passionate
intensity
of Sidney and Shakespeare, the Italian graces of
Spenser, the pensive beauty of PARTHENOPHIL, of DIELLA, of FIDESSA, of
the HECATOMPATHIA and the TEARS OF FANCY.
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"It came out in a 'Monthly,' or
At least my agent said it did:
Some
literary
swell, who saw
It, thought it seemed adapted for
The Magazine he edited.
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My
thoughts
tear me,
I dread their fever.
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Since all these are
strictly
philosophical questions, and they have taken society as their object, it amounts to only an extension of a structure in the manner of a previously given kind of knowledge to a wider field.
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Marie Grubbe took her
gun in her hand and went out to the heath, and shot hares and foxes,
and
whatever
birds she could hit.
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"34 Dictionaries, at
least those
published
in America, should at once under-
take to revise their definitions of "humane" and "mercy"!
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Use of gasoline was restricted first in motor transport, but in the last stages of the war huge numbers of German tanks were unable to reach the
fighting
areas, or were abandoned on the battlefields, for lack of fuel.
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, and
possibly
should be 'Loves Infiniteness'.
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After living two years in Polatd-street, he removed
into Panton-square, and the greatest harmony sub sisted between him and his wife ; nor was he guilty of any misconduct, except his
profuseness
in keep
mondeley's regiment
132 MEMOIRS OF [georgb n.
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The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought,
And hiving wisdom with each studious year,
In meditation dwelt, with learning wrought,
And shaped his weapon with an edge severe,
Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer;
The lord of irony,--that master spell,
Which stung his foes to wrath, which grew from fear,
And doomed him to the zealot's ready hell,
Which answers to all doubts so
eloquently
well.
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The lives are
translated
from the Greek text in C.
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London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down
Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina
Quando fiam ceu chelidon-- O swallow swallow
Le Prince d'Aquitaine a la tour abolie 430
These
fragments
I have shored against my ruins
Why then Ile fit you.
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My home was nowhere other than the saddle,
my refuge was none other than the sword,
My
friendship
came from faces of desires
laughing with wishes for lips, without a word.
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] -
Oxythemis
of Coroneia, stadion race
13th [728 B.
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On seeing them, he thought they had then
departed
from among the living.
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Leave us quiet in the dark of the coal-shadows,
From your
pleasures
fair and fine!
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The Original:
هَلْ نارُ لَيلَى بَدَتْ لَيلاً بِذي سَلَمِ أمْ بارِقٌ لاحَ في ٱلزَّوراءِ فٱلعَلَمِ
أَرْواحَ نَعْمانَ, هَلَّا نَسْمَةٌ سَحَراً وَماءَ وَجْرةَ, هَلَّا نَهْلَة ٌ بِفَمِ
يا سائِقَ ٱلظَّعْنِ يَطْوي البِيدَ مُعْتَسِفاً طيَّ ٱلسِّجِلِّ، بِذاتِ ٱلشِّيحِ مِن إضَمِ
عُجْ بٱلحِمَى يا رَعاكَ اللَّهُ، مُعتَمِداً خَمِيلَةَ ٱلضَّالِ ذاتَ ٱلرَّنْدِ وٱلخُزُمِ
وَقِفْ بِسَلْعٍ وَسَلْ بٱلجِزْعِ هَلْ مُطِرَتْ بٱلرَّقْمَتَينِ أُثَيلَاتٌ بِمُنْسَجِمِ
نَاشَدْتُكَ اللَّهَ إنْ جُزْتَ ٱلعَقِيقَ ضُحًى فاقْرَ ٱلسَّلامَ عَلَيهِمْ، غَيرَ مُحْتَشِمِ
وقُلْ تَرَكْتُ صَرِيعاً، في دِيارِكُمُ، حَيّاً كَمَيِّتٍ يُعِيرُ ٱلسُّقْمَ للسَّقَمِ
فَمِنْ فُؤادي
لَهيبٌ
نابَ عنْ قَبَسٍ، وَمنْ جُفوني دَمْعٌ فاضَ كٱلدِّيَمِ
وهذهِ سنَّةُ ٱلعشَّاقِ ما عَلِقوا بِشادِنٍ، فَخَلا عُضْوٌ منَ ٱلألَمِ
يالائماً لامَني في حبِّهِمْ سَفَهاً كُفَّ ٱلمَلامَ، فلو أحبَبْتَ لمْ تَلُمِ
وحُرْمَةِ ٱلوَصْلِ، وٱلوِدِّ ٱلعتيقِ، وبٱلْـعَهْدِ ٱلوَثيقِ وما قدْ كانَ في ٱلقِدَمِ
ما حُلتُ عَنْهُمْ بِسُلْوانٍ ولابَدَلٍ ليسَ ٱلتَّبدُّلُ وٱلسُّلوانُ منْ شِيَمي
رُدُّوا ٱلرُّقادَ لِجَفْني عَلَّ طَيفَكُمُ بِمَضْجَعي زائرٌ في غَفْلَةِ ٱلحُلُمِ
آهاً لأيّامِنا بٱلخَيْفِ، لَو بَقِيَتْ عَشراً وواهاً عَلَيها كَيفَ لمْ تَدمِ
هَيهاتَ وا أسَفي لو كانَ يَنْفَعُني أوْ كانَ يُجْدِي على ما فاتَ وانَدَمي
عَنِّي إلَيكُمْ ظِباءَ ٱلمُنْحَنَى كَرَماً عَهِدْتُ طَرْفيَ لم يَنْظُرْ لِغَيرِهِمِ
طَوعاً لِقاضٍ أتى في حُكمِهِ عَجَباً، أفتى بِسَفْكِ دمي في ٱلحِلِّ وٱلحَرَمِ
أصَمُّ لَمْ يُصْغِ للشّكوَى ، وأَبْكَمُ لَم يُحِرْجواباً وَعَنْ حالِ ٱلمَشوقِ عَمِي
Ibn Khafaja: The Mountain Poem (From Medieval Arabic)
The Mountain Poem: Words Spoken in Contemplation
By Ibrahīm Ibn Khafāja
Translated by A.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Since 2013, when the great crisis had shaken the entire
globe and had driven
millions
of people into poverty,
destroying innumerable existences and finally even leading
to famines, this village had been left by its former
inhabitants.
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" I must premise that about 170 or 180
drops had been my ordinary allowance for many months; occasionally I had
run up as high as 500, and once nearly to 700; in repeated
preludes
to my
final experiment I had also gone as low as 100 drops; but had found it
impossible to stand it beyond the fourth day--which, by the way, I have
always found more difficult to get over than any of the preceding three.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE
LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL,
PUNITIVE
OR
INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Was the collapse of the old metaphysics through the attack of modern
concepts
of activity not definitive?
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She is secretly frightened, but accepts it,
puts it in her room, and
considers
what she shall do.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Quare aut hendecasyllabos
trecentos
10
Exspecta, aut mihi linteum remitte;
Quod me non movet aestimatione,
Verum est mnemosynon mei sodalis:
Nam sudaria Setaba ex Iberis
Miserunt mihi muneri Fabullus 15
Et Verannius.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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But what is true love, that it may be
separated
and distin guished from others which are called love ?
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" The audience
laughed, but next day, sure enough, the Countryman
appeared
on the
stage, and putting his head down squealed so hideously that the
spectators hissed and threw stones at him to make him stop.
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That is how someone who has
developed
certainty feels about the myriad activities of cyclic existence.
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'
accordingly,'
'
It will be sufficient that I do so,' said Adamnan, at my
him on this occasion ; and that great spoil was
restored
to him, and he came straight home to his own monastery of la.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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[300] If white Io
command, she will go to the extremity of Egypt, and bring back water
fetched from scorching Meroë, to
sprinkle
on the temple of Isis, that
rears itself hard by the ancient sheepfold.
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For a
phenomenological
study of mysticism it is a natural.
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In the rest of this chapter I shall deal with various examples of bad poetic science drawn from my own field of
evolutionary
theory.
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Then at once to unravel this mistery--I must inform you
that Love has no share whatever in the
intercourse
between Mr.
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What I most fear when I use
communication
technologies that I have not grown up with is an embarrassing lack of grace in my behavior.
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This
additional
syllable
is the first increment -- the penultima :
the final syllable being never called the increment.
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Mr Romilly Allen suggested that “two other Roman pavements
found in this country may
possibly
be Christian ";—that at Harpole
which has a circle in the middle divided into eight parts by radial lines
so as to resemble one form of the monogram of Christ, and that at
Horkstow which has 66 some small red crosses in the decoration.
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Yet some of the
difficulties
disappear as soon as the well-disposed reader picks up a few compass clues and gets his bearings.
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Their excuse for
betraying
me, was, that catching runaways was
their business, and if they had not done it somebody else would, but
since they had got the reward they were glad that I had made my
escape.
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Will there not develop naturally, then, a competition between Italy and Germany for a rapproche- ment with Britain and the United States as the only
solution
of their respective financial and economic difficulties?
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--They shall not see thee, when I display at large
The riches and the honour; I've enough
Possession, without thee, to stupify
The
assembly
of my men, my herd of kings.
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_ to the angelic intelligences which "move" the
heaven of Venus, which comes third in order
counting
outward from the
earth, that Dante addresses his famous Canzone, _Voi ch' intendendo il
terzo del movete_.
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very sharp and present wit, and an universal under-
standing ; so that few men filled a place in council
with more sufficiency, or
expressed
themselves upon
any subject that occurred with more weight and
vigour.
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And there
Redcastle
drew his sword,
That ne'er was stain'd wi' gore,
Save on a wand'rer lame and blind,
To drive him frae his door.
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Nói thi yêu
nhỉều
khoan thai.
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Noticeably, some of the most penetrating descriptions of these regimes, which provide evidence of the unconscious structures of mind that organised them, have been rendered by writers who are them- selves either antipathetic or
indifferent
to psychoanalysis.
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Hippolyte
Rightly
indignant
at such a dark deceit,
My Lord, I should allow the truth to speak.
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The tendency of recent writers on the subject has been to ascribe
too much in that
antagonism
to purely personal motives and
injured vanity, and to overlook the forces that lay behind Voltaire.
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But the greatest and best Agnostic men of science of modern days, even while with the Psalmist they would say of God that "clouds and darkness are round about Him," would nevertheless have been the first to add that "righteousness and
judgment
are the habitation of His throne.
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'Happy at conquering these treacherous fears
My crime's to have parted the
dishevelled
tangle
Of kisses that the gods kept so well mingled:
For I'd scarcely begun to hide an ardent laugh
In one girl's happy depths (holding back
With only a finger, so that her feathery candour
Might be tinted by the passion of her burning sister,
The little one, naive and not even blushing)
Than from my arms, undone by vague dying,
This prey, forever ungrateful, frees itself and is gone,
Not pitying the sob with which I was still drunk.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The sound is
sickened and the price is
purchased
and golden what is golden, a
clergyman, a single tax, a currency and an inner chamber.
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) The third, which might be called the "real" in contrast to the "conventional," is the case in which
yielding
or withdrawing yields something that the dispute is about, as in road- hogging or military probes: that is, the gains and losses are part of the immediate structure of the contest, not attached by convention nor resulting entirely from expectations established for future events.
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Whaler's great great
grandson
studyin' Greek, while the other side was goin' to college.
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That
Emperour
goes into France apace;
Under his cloke he fain would hide his face.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Now Close the Windows
NOW close the windows and hush all the fields;
If the trees must, let them
silently
toss;
No bird is singing now, and if there is,
Be it my loss.
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* * * * *
Whatever may be thought of the genuineness or
authority
of any part of the
book of Daniel, it makes no difference in my belief in Christianity; for
Christianity is within a man, even as he is a being gifted with reason; it
is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first-remembered tones
of her blessed voice.
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In the _Principles of Political Economy_, these opinions were
promulgated, less clearly and fully in the first edition, rather more so
in the second, and quite
unequivocally
in the third.
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Then let him
stop or pass on to
something
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Patrick, by Jocelyn, in his Life of that saint, chapter 193, as also in the
Tripartite
Life, part iii.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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By April 1, 1931, these
guarantees
on Soviet busi-
ness totaled coverage of $125,000,000.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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We have indeed two poets who wrote as
one, near the age of Shakespeare, to whom, (as the worst characteristic
of their writings), the
Coryphaeus
of the present drama may challenge
the honour of being a poor relation, or impoverished descendant.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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You don’t
want to go
encouraging
of them.
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Orwell |
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Crescentius, A rnault de
B rescia, and N icolas R ienzi (6 ), those friends of R oman
liberty, who so oft mistook her
memories
for her hopes,
long defied their foes from this imperial tomb.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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) et
strictos
deponere cogimur enses.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Like Wagner, Baudelaire painted in his sultry music
the profundities of abysms, the
vastness
of space.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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It’s
impossible
to achieve this with the tired old vocabularies of class struggle that wore out a long time ago.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Có
tiẽtì
mua ngộ mua khùng,
Mua nham kbcai sượng, khoai súng, nín canh.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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JANVIER
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of a tramway in the city of Tarazona.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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across, of red
sandstone within and of grey
quartzite
relieved by red sandstone
without.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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The two became
intimate
friends, and Froude,
eagerly seizing upon the doctrines of the elder man, saw to it that they
had as full a measure of controversial notoriety as an Oxford common
room could afford.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Now it is evident that whatever is moved must be proportionate to its
mover: and the
perfection
of the mobile as such, consists in a
disposition whereby it is disposed to be well moved by its mover.
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Summa Theologica |
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Jadis il suffisait
de la nature pour
instruire
l'homme, et de?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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You bid me write you a religious letter;
I am not a man who would attempt to insult the
greatness
of your
anguish by any other consolation.
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Selection of English Letters |
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It would of course
be absurd to suggest that these devices were intended to make
his poems more
difficult
to understand.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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[287] L But what can be more insipid, more frivolous, or more puerile, than that studied elegance of
expression
which he actually acquired?
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Cicero - Brutus |
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Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying,
performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works
unless you comply with
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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'
3 Lectures
delivered
in America in 1874 (1875).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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By-and-by it
lighted up, and the
audience
began to arrive.
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Twain - Speeches |
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The
Evidence
in
the Case
In the Supreme Court of
Civilization
The Case of The Dual Alliance vs, The Triple Entente
By
James M.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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Vũ Hữu (1444-1530) hiệuƯớc Trai, người xã Mộ Trạch huyện
Đường
An (nay là thuộc xã Tân Hồng huyện Bình Giang tỉnh Hải Dương).
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stella-03 |
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"The great artist," wrote Blanc, "is he who guides us into the
region of his own thoughts, into the palaces and fields of his own
imagination, and while there, speaks to us the language of the gods;"
and to none are these words more
applicable
than to himself.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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An
overture was then made* by his successors through Lord
Cholmondelly; and a letter was written by Franklin to
Lord Shelburne,
conveying
his wishes for a general peace.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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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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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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So long as we do not make an effort to establish internal order in Nietzsche's doctrine of art, in spite of the matter's fragmentary character, his
utterances
remain a tangle of accidental insights into and arbitrary observations about art and the beautiful.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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Only we Germans
who dwell in the upper country, which our ances-
tors were so fond of calling "the Empire" {das
Reich) , can thoroughly realize the terrible extent of
the
criminal
excesses of the Hunlike fury which was
directed against us by the French.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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of the
religious
life of Israel.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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I suppose the Spectators here present may expect I should speak something before I leave this sanguinary Stage and Pas sage through my Bloody Sufferings, by which my immortal Spirit will be speedily transported into an invisible and eternal World, and I conclude that they have
different
Resentments hereof.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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IV - VIII
Of the
remaining
poems the first three are quoted by Stobaeus.
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Moschus |
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Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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The undoubted coarseness of the work is in part due to
the gross license of the times in speech and writing, and more
particularly to the influence of Swift, at this time
predominant
over
Pope.
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Alexander Pope |
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1554),
Historye
of Pretie epigram of a scholer, 187
Italye, A, 105.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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It is only in its relation to this, as to a disaster, that neoclassicism can be
adequately
understood.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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I crept and touched the foam with fevered hands
And cried to Love, from whom the sea is sweet,
From whom the sea is
bitterer
than death.
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Sara Teasdale |
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