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The proposed
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Owing to which he appeared to some people rather fond of mythical stories, as he mingled stories of this kind with his writings, in order by the uncertainty of all the
circumstances
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----but it is far greater
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Thus too Europa trusted her fair side to the
deceitful
bull, and bold as
she was, turned pale at the sea abounding with monsters, and the cheat
now become manifest.
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I am so
exquisitely
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For in all things it is well to exalt the
dignity of Man, by freeing him as far as
possible
from the tyranny of
non-human Power.
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“sacred
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Not in the brows of yon
degenerate
slaves
Think thou the traits of their great sires to trace; -
Go, read them, hewn in stone, on doges' graves!
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hoeverwantsno
part of Enlightenmentmust have his reasons, and
probablyothers
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He is wrapped in artificial
bandages
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This room is used as a
library and study, and in it the teacher
instructs
the sons of the family.
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Supposing
other difficulties sur- mounted, and a fund created, composed partly ofcoin and partly of land, yet the beneftt contemplated could only then
' be obtained, by the bank's advancing them its notes for the whole, or part of the value of the lands they had sub- scribed to the stock.
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"
" Then Chart'js Henley is as weak as
he is wicked, and
deserves
boiling him-
self,"-said Mr.
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The Sultan collected the stolen
property
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619),
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Clinton.
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This
advantage
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The charm was broken, everything vanished like a vapor and,
looking about him, he neither saw nor heard more than the noisy
confusion with which the timid deer,
surprised
at the height of their
nocturnal gambols, were fleeing in fright from his presence, hither and
thither, one clearing the thickets with a bound, another gaining at full
speed the mountain path.
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We use
information
technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship.
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This alone is the justifica- tion of
aesthetics
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The
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the region of the Kur to that of the Phasis and thence down that river to the Black Sea, where on the
Colchian
coast the fleet under Servilius already awaited him.
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27:2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my
death: 27:3 Now
therefore
take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver
and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison; 27:4
And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I
may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
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And what speech can fitly
celebrate
their praise?
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She rightly grants
bacteria
centre stage among life forms on our planet.
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Sightless
I see my fair; though mute, I mourn;
I scorn existence, and yet court its stay;
Detest myself, and for another burn;
By grief I'm nurtured; and, though tearful, gay;
Death I despise, and life alike I hate:
Such, lady, dost thou make my wayward state!
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Burlesque, at least our
Laughter
may excite;
But a cold Writer never can delight.
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wudu
bundenne
(_pushed the vessel from the land_),
215; dracan scufun .
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"Perhaps it might not be
desirable
to employ any other hand," he
rejoined.
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He was leaning against the ledge of an open lattice, but not
looking out; his face was turned to the
interior
gloom.
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Although
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ItisnotthekindnessofDelaruethat excites the envy of the villain as you have seen,
he can also be kind, and when he cried, pitifully
wringing
his hands, he doubtless was conscious of this.
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He never
resorted
to empty speech, however, and instead produced "facts.
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But now I am beloved by all, for late in life I
recognised
how far Calliope excels Urania.
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The ten generals and ten
captains
(one for each
tribe) commanded the Infantry; the two generals of horse
and the ten captains of horse (one for each tribe) commanded
the Cavalry.
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To take the "neo-realist" theory seriously, one would have to believe that "natural"
competitive
behavior would reassert itself among the OECD states were Russia and China to disappear from the face of the earth.
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This is one of the main problems in bringing together the psychological and the sociological approaches; it is an
especially
great problem for that theory of social psychology which regards the individual adult as merely
a product or sum of his various group memberships.
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Moreover his
campaigns
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), she was the first
while his father was engaged in
restoring
Ptolemy being that sprang from Chaos, and gave birth to
Auletes to the throne of Egypt.
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And that Shrill, has it any other
Contrary
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It was arranged that there should
be a public session three times a week, and that on the other days mixed
commissions should transact
preliminaries
for the union.
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Then, onward
pressing
fast
Through the forest rude and vast,
Hunger-wasted, fever-parch'd,
Many bitter days she marched
With bleeding feet that spurned the flinty pain;
One thought always throbbing through her brain:
"They shall never say, 'He was afraid,'--
They shall never cry, 'The coward stayed!
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And while it is not a simple matter to say off-hand what
it is that is common to all these poems, there seems to be general
acknowledgment that they are clearly
separable
from other kinds of
poetry; and this although the word epic has been rather badly abused.
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"Ah, yes; I have some faint notion of what you mean; it might be made
to answer, no doubt--but in my time we employed
scarcely
any thing else
than the Bichloride of Mercury.
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For which to chaumbre
streight
the wey he took,
And Troilus tho sobreliche he grette,
And on the bed ful sone he gan him sette.
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ye win your choice--
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The irony is not difficult to miss here: the fact that Marx needed Hegel to formulate the logic of capital (the crucial breakthrough in Marx's work occurred in the mid- 1850s, when, after the failure of the 1848 revolutions, he started to read Hegel's Logic again) means that what Hegel wasn't able to see was not some post-Hegelian or postid- ealist reality of the
properly
Hege- lian aspect of capitalist economy.
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The economic success of the other newly industrializing
countries
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Could he be separated from his first, his
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The courier gave the fort a warning blast;
The drawbridge was let down by them within:
"If thou a
Christian
be," quoth he, "thou mayest
Till Phoebus shine again, here take thine inn,
The County of Cosenza, three days past,
This castle from the Turks did nobly win.
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Once more, if nature had given a scope for things
To be forever broken more and more,
By now the bodies of matter would have been
So far reduced by
breakings
in old days
That from them nothing could, at season fixed,
Be born, and arrive its prime and top of life.
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Like a bird
that flies low,
skirting
the sea about the craggy shores of its fishery,
even thus the brood of Cyllene left his mother's father, and flew,
cutting the winds between sky and land, along the sandy Libyan shore.
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Are you governed by the free
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I haue giuen Sucke, and know
How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me,
I would, while it was smyling in my Face,
Haue pluckt my Nipple from his
Bonelesse
Gummes,
And dasht the Braines out, had I so sworne
As you haue done to this
Macb.
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The
strength
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thought carries the weight of his words.
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A wise man wolde
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Consistently carrying
out the doctrine that the object of praise and blame should be the
discouragement of wrong conduct and the encouragement of right, he
refused to let his praise or blame be
influenced
by the motive of the
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If
only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day
instead of letting her disturb him for no reason
whenever
she felt
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"No house ever yet
enclosed
such loves, no love bound lovers with such
pact, as abideth with Thetis, as is the concord of Peleus.
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Proving the Subduer's omniscience]
L7: [(1) Appropriateness of being glad about the teaching of emptiness which annihilates
suffering
and its sources]
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Giuseppe
went out the next morning, and the poor child
was not glad to see him go, for he knew that the old man was gone to
his mother, and that, perhaps, he would have to go back.
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- Francis
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Such
warnings
for the month thou canst learn from the Moon.
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All the answer can make the bills he
sends about the town and country, that have
maintained
my mother these eight years, and
this present time; and that, two years since,
concerned his affairs, for which have paid near 200l.
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Lowry here
complained
to the Court, that he was
am
afraid he is dead, indeed!
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But we know that the mother of the Bodhisattva saw in a dream a
small white
elephant
enter her side.
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Their misfortune was the too
easy victory of the
revolutionary
move-
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11 A portion of the
conquered
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Như chổrrg ỉà dửa bièn lương,
Chẳng nén hiếp dáp, ngang xương
chưởi
cảo.
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A kind in glass and a cousin, a
spectacle
and nothing strange a single
hurt color and an arrangement in a system to pointing.
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O, so unnatural Nature,
You whose
ephemeral
flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
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Because students came from different countries and different language regions, they collectively formed
distinct
nations connected only by such mail systems and an all too basic Latin.
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It is not, of course, to be supposed that all the ecclesiastical dissensions
of the period can be comprised in the
quarrels
between the great sees,
although, for our present purpose, that series of conflicts seems the best
to choose as our guiding line.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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Such fate pursues the
votaries
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G
DIONYSIUS
THE YOUNGER.
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Its
alluring
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Quite the contrary: Diirer's algorithmic linear perspective has as its counterpart only the
algorithms
that today
are run as computer graphics or computer music.
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Upon a morning fair and clear
(Binnorie, O
Binnorie!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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All your dusky
twilight
stores
To my senses give;
Take me in and lock the doors,
Show me how to live.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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That is his house; that is his
door; that is the slave that guards his chamber; that is his
darkness!
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And
it's so
depressing
in here, it's so dark.
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'Rosalind and Helen' was a
tale like others of its kind, made up of romantic elements; but the
instinct which led Shelley to tell it, as he had told still cruder sto-
ries in his first
romances
at Eton, was fundamental in him, and led
him afterward, still further refining his matter, to weave out of airy
nothing The Witch of Atlas' almost at the close of his career.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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Elizabeth
of England
learned his merits and his misfortunes, and invited him to enter
her service.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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A short time ago I read a
stanza in Voltaire, which, like many things he says to the masses,
is drawn from his deep hoard of knowledge and
contains
a pure
gem of truth:
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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Literally
"the stall outside a shop where articles are
displayed for sale.
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The house was large, and, from
the want of furniture, the noise of the rats made a prodigious echoing on
the
spacious
staircase and hall; and amidst the real fleshly ills of cold
and, I fear, hunger, the forsaken child had found leisure to suffer still
more (it appeared) from the self-created one of ghosts.
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When on the sea-coast he never ate fish, but in places most remote from the sea he regularly served all manner of sea-food, and the country-folk in the
interior
he fed with the milt of lampreys and pikes.
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Withers, Carl, and Sula Benet
1954 The
American
Riddle Book.
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Childens - Folklore |
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" They, intent on what
they were themselves engaged in, did not recognise their father,
covered as he was with beggar's weeds, but took him for some wandering
vagrant, who was
probably
beside himself.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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But if the only competition were my brother, 490
Madame, over him I have
essential
claims,
That I could salvage from the law's domains.
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General
Arguments
and their Refutation 1342
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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Et c'est depuis ce temps que Lesbos se
lamente!
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I know you are incapable of
behaving
badly.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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He said that his wife had promptly
deserted
him when
he lost his job, and he had been so long away from women that he had almost forgotten
what they were like.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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HS 297
I’ve wanted to go to East
Mountain
For countless years till now.
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Sera's
theories
has evoked much discussion in England and
on the Continent; and his work is certain to appeal to all
serious thinkers, and to students of modern moral problems.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:56 GMT / http://hdl.
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