But the subsequent expedition of Alexander the
Great into India
suggested
a mythical conquest extending to the
remote and picturesque shores of the Ganges.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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Was it a
badge--an ornament--a charm--a
propitiatory
act?
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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_Whatever I Clearly and Distinctly
perceive
is certainly
True.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Juxopus" zu
schreiben
u?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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At last he got into
trouble even with them; I suppose they caught him partaking of some of
their
forbidden
meats.
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Lucian |
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And whithersoever I
go, there shall I still find Sun, Moon, and Stars; there I shall find
dreams, and omens, and
converse
with the Gods!
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Epictetus |
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What has not
cankering
Time made worse?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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A Ram's Horn orchid seedpod for a woodchuck
Sounds
something
like.
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Robert Forst |
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Every particular
colour, besides being a colour, expresses a value to
us (although we seldom admit it, or do so only
after it has affected us exclusively for a long time,
as in the case of
convicts
in gaol or lunatics).
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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An upright man’s willful force is as
straight
as iron;
And through his never-crooked mind the way is naturally true.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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HILDA: Then you will never build
anything
more?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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ήθελα το γένος της Ελένης
να 'χε χαθή, που εθέρισε πολλαίς ζωαίς ανδρείων•
ότι και αυτός εκδικητής του αδικημένου Ατρείδη 70
'ς το
εύιππον
Ίλιον ώρμησε τους Τρώαις να κτυπήση».
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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--'Twas a day of shame
For them whom precept and the pedantry
Of cold
mechanic
battle do enslave.
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William Wordsworth |
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Because when they did not
28'
think good to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a
reprobate
mind.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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All waiters, I afterwards found, talk and
think of this; it is what
reconciles
them to being waiters.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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It has come to such a pass, that a party dreads less the
attacks of its
opponents
than a letter from its candidate.
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James Russell Lowell |
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There appeared unto me, a trusty mattock, even as one hired to labour, he was digging of a ditch along the edge of a
springing
field, and was without either cloak or belted jerkin.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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Fifty-three fables were
thus strangled; but as if Ignatius had wished, by
means of a comparison; to augment our regTets for
those which he had altered, he
preserved
entire and
unchanged a single fable, the one to which we have al-
luded.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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The polemics of
historical
schools were a cross for
him to bear, and he wore his prejudices lightly.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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''*
This valuable
hagiographical
manuscript,
belonging to the I.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:32 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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Parody requires judgment,
enacting
mimicry within a structure ofvalues.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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69a (the Sibu congkan version) shows some signs that someone
attempted
to revise a more eccentric poem to t the 8-line pentasyllabic format—including removal of the xi particle in some lines and shifting characters to ve-line forms (resulting in the awkward violation of poetic caesuras in lines four and ve).
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Hanshan - 01 |
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Away with you and all your
withered
flowers,
I have a flower in my soul no one can take!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Since Buddha has the ability to know everything, he is
acknowledged
to be omniscient.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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I saw in his slander the
irritation of wounded vanity and rejected love, so I
generously
forgave
my unhappy rival.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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[_Exeunt_
ALLWORTH
_and_ MARGARET.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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But the question of Italian claims on French
territory
has a much deeper significance: it involves the fundamental problem of German-Italian relations and the actual strength of the Rome- Berlin Axis.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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On
contentious
ground, I would hurry up my rear.
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The-Art-of-War |
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Of some
we do not know even the names, the poet having
thought it
sufficient
to mention or allude to their prin-
cipal works.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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Overcoming this alienation is the object of Laoist self-cultivation, which is a reversal (''turning back'') of this cosmic
movement
away from Dao.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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It would be cynical to
underrate
the
value of ideal motives.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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Here, too, he
began to teach his
countrymen
the value of German literature.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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It is at
least certain, that the interest of the sciences
is
singularly
increased by this manner of re-
ferring them all to some leading ideas.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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"These actions considered in all their circum
stances, being somewhat uncommon, it may not be
improper
to give some account of the cause, and that it was an inveterate hatred we conceived against poverty and rags ; evils, that through a train of un lucky accidents were become inevitable; for we appeal to all that ever knew us, whether we were either idle or extravagant ; whether or no we have not taken as
much pains for our living as our neighbours, although not attended with the same success.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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Cornelius
wrote back to the Heracleians, beginning as follows: "Scipio, general and proconsul of the Romans, to the senate and people of the Heracleians, greetings".
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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"At all events, the most wholesome feature of
our modern
institutions
is to be found in the
earnestness with which the Latin and Greek
languages are studied over a long course of years.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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Here, where the mimic eagle glared in gold,
A
midnight
vigil holds the swarthy bat!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
|
IV
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o'clock
And short square fingers
stuffing
pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
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T.S. Eliot |
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This present, from the particular service to which it was applied, leads
me naturally to speak of the purpose which had allured me up to London,
and which I had been (to use a
forensic
word) soliciting from the first
day of my arrival in London to that of my final departure.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Global emerging market company debt exposure is only one-third through external bonds,
according
to the bank, and the Moscow stock market has also bounced this year as Europe’s MSCI leader.
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Kleiman International |
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*iS
Deacidified
using the Bookkeeper p
e.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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The Olympian serenity advocated in it makes us feel-and
painfully feel—the distance between the summit where gods dwell
and the lower ground
inhabited
by men.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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His lust for war was
so terrible that the
soldiers
under him always expected to be killed.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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When Leake
discovered
the waterfall in 1806 the natives did not know the name Styx for it but called it the Black Water (Mavro nero) or the Dragon Water.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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Nay I have cast out all
my trouble; it should rather be for that which
troubled
thee, whatsoever
it was, was not without anywhere that thou shouldest come out of it, but
within in thine own opinions, from whence it must be cast out, before
thou canst truly and constantly be at ease.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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cience WIU "one of the
fundamental
dogma!
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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The English
kept it with the country belonging to it; and as for Shahji no one
thought of
restoring
him to his throne.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax
treatment
of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Thou never plough'st the ocean's foam
To seek and bring rough pepper home;
Nor to the Eastern Ind dost rove
To bring from thence the
scorched
clove;
Nor, with the loss of thy lov'd rest,
Bring'st home the ingot from the West.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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"
--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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One day, she even
ventured
to smile upon her admirer,
for such he seemed to be.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Young Loves around thee fan their wings--
Behind, the maddened fir-tree springs,
As when by Orpheus fired:
The poles whirl round with swifter motion,
When in the dance, like waves o'er Ocean,
Thy
footsteps
float untired!
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Friedrich Schiller |
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Her single tight-bound braid she pushes oft--
With a hand uncared for in her lonely madness--
So rough it seems, from the cheek that is so soft:
That braid
ungarlanded
since the first day's sadness,
Which I shall loose again when troubles end in gladness.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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r ;
; i;ij; j ;;+ ; iii+si e lriEfitia ;it
i+ i ;Eriri
E:
*Eti{Esr?
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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she's an old maid and is
privileged
of course.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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After this long invocation, Aengus says the
brethren
of his order deemed all his prayers and petitions too little ; whereupon, he resolves to change his course, that no one
may have cause for complaint.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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There were
eccentric
characters in the hotel.
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Source: |
Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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The Dutch and Zealand troops, who had
disembarked
to come to
close action with the enemy, at once lost their courage when they looked
about them and saw the vessels, which were their last refuge, putting
off from the shore.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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–Raphael, who cared a
great deal for the Church (so far as she could pay
him), but, like the best men of his time, cared little
for the objects of the Church's belief, did not advance
one step to meet the exacting,
ecstatic
piety of many
of his patrons.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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John; for I am sure you are incapable of wishing any
one ill; but, as I am your kinswoman, I should desire somewhat more of
affection than that sort of general
philanthropy
you extend to mere
strangers.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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Then wisdom will not be the
producer
of health.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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For
precepts are
directed
to virtue, since lawgivers purpose to make men
virtuous (Ethic.
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Summa Theologica |
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Among his books on literary theory and literary and cultural history are Eine Geschichte der
spanischen
Literatur (1990;?
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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The
fourteenth
book contained, according to Schoenbeck's idea, the
praises of a placid and easy life.
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Satires |
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Nay những người
được
đề tên vào tấm đá này, cho dù nay đã có nửa phần tuổi tác đã cao, nhưng con người trung chính hay tà ngụy thế nào, việc làm được mất nên hư thế nào, công luận nghiêm xét, ngàn đời khó trốn.
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stella-02 |
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Yo me acordé del refrán And I
remembered
the proverb,
de que quien roba al ladrón 'who robs a thief of his ration
ha cien años de perdón, gets a hundred-year pardon',
y me arrojé a tal desmán and I carried it out with nerve
mirando a mi salvación.
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Jose Zorrilla |
|
Oh no no, worthie shepherd, worth can never enter a title ;
are too alien from ordinary
pronunciation
to please
either an average reader or a classically trained
?
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
|
Through the next
seventeen
pages (?
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
|
" And with him his wife, bearing Peleus' son
Achilles
on her arm, showed the child to his dear father.
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Source: |
Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
|
Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Đó là vì vua muốn được người chân Nho giúp việc trị nước,
truyền
lại cơ đồ tốt đẹp cho con cháu đời sau.
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stella-03 |
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thus
compensating
the one-sidedness of his theoretical existence.
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Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
|
He will demonstrate the stability,
direction
and meaning your life can be given by going for protection from all your suffering and confusion to the Triple Gem of the Buddhas, their teachings of Dharma and the Sangha community of those who realise them.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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But in his heart all the while is another knowledge,
The sorrow of the
bleakness
of the long wet winter night.
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Source: |
John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
|
Thus governments have willingly allowed
religion
to be abundantly pro- vided with the latter accompaniments, and seeking thereby to relieve their subjects of trouble, they have also sought to deprive them of the faculty of extending their spiritual powers beyond the limits that are arbitrarily assigned to them and by means of which they can be tbe more easily treated as mere passive beings.
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Source: |
Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
|
It would be difficult to grasp even the titles, but they included all the transmitted precepts of the Ancient Translation School for which there exists a continuous lineage nowadays, such as the Sutra which Gathers All Intentions, the Magical Net, the Three Traditions ofthe Mental Class (sems-sde lugs-gsum), the Buddhasamayoga and the cycles of Yangdak Heruka, Vajrakfla and Yamantaka; most of the well-known treasures, as exemplified by the varied transmitted precepts of the class of means for attainment, the Trio of the Guru, Great Perfection, and Great Com- passionate One, in general and in particular; the general transmitted precepts of the new translation schools, such as the Vajra Garland and the Hundred
Meansfor
Attainment, as well as such particular transmitted precepts as those of Cakrasarrzvara, Hevajra, Kalacakra, Guhyasamaja,
Yamantaka, and the Kriya and Yoga empowerments, guidance, and exegetical transmissions, along with many works of the sutra tradi- tion; and the transmission of the entire Kangyur, which is the root of them all.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:32 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Brownies |
|
Impatient
Issachar kicks at the load!
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Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Source: |
Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
|
The Perfection of Moral
Discipline
(tsul.
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Source: |
Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
|
Un Dios que castiga y
perdona!
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Source: |
Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
|
Nominally people envy me for my ' bouquet ' but in reality they admire
you and your meadow for putting forth bloom so varied and of such
multiform
colours.
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Source: |
Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
|
Henceforth, the old Dionysian forces are permitted to
overflow
with a new licentiousness ?
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Source: |
Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
|
Of all the numerous
attempts to English in verse the famous epic duel of Cuchullain
and Ferdia, De Vere's, if the most elegant, is the flattest, the most
devoid of local colour and
temporal
spirit ; and his lyrics, though
sometimes pretty, are never anything more.
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
|
DYNAMIC
EVOLUTION
421
" C.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
|
In the last
years of the reign of Elizabeth, Camden revived the use of the old
name Anglosaxones, and, probably for the first time, used lingua
Anglosaxonica for the
language
of England before the Norman
conquest.
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Half of Iran's
population
is comprised of a Persian speaking group and the other half of an ethnically Turkish group.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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An attempt to
disprove
James I's authorship.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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How pure, how tender that song it
pealeth!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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Mount Sumeru is held to be the central axis of the world of Patient
Endurance
(mi-mjed 'jig-rten-gyi khams, Skt.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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There
is
something
ticklish in "the truth, and in the
search for the truth; and if man goes about it too
## p.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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In order to perpetuate the memory of his
visit, they multiplied his
features
on cloth
and in bronze.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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Thus in perlego, relego, the middle
syllable
is short, be-
cause it is short in the simple lego.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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Heroines too were of
interest
to the collectors of relics.
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_Enter_
CHARMION
_and_ IRAS.
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Dryden - Complete |
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Not a whit, we defy augury; there's a special
providence
in
the fall of a sparrow.
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Shakespeare |
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