79, though he had been returned from his province, Appius
appeared
as his
an unsuccessful candidate for the curule aedileship accuser, in hopes that his silence might be bought,
(Cic.
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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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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Some say that the ancient channel of the river was
entirely
dried up : but this I cannot assent to ; for how then could they have crossed it on their return ?
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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electrical
patents to his credit.
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Edison |
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In Ger-
many, on the other hand, his work has created great stir : of “La
Renaissance” alone there are no fewer than four different trans-
lations, and acting versions have been and still are produced with
We may hope that England-of late years not behind hand
in welcoming continental authors—will to some extent follow the
example of her
Teutonic
sister-nation.
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Nietzsche - v12 |
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Diet passes many limited civil and
economic
re-
forms.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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CHORUS
Nay, tell not that unto our loathed lord,
But speed to him, put on the mien of joy,
Say, _Come along, fear nought, the news is good:_
A bearer can tell
straight
a twisted tale.
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Aeschylus |
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'That is right, that is a fair price, but I will not speak till I have
good protection, for if the Dermotts lay their hands upon me in any
boreen after sundown, or in Cool-a-vin by day, I will be left to rot
among the nettles of a ditch, or hung on the great sycamore, where they
hung the horse-thieves last
Beltaine
four years.
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Yeats |
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The dream content appears, then, even
when coherent and intelligible, to be concerned with those indifferent
trifles of thought
undeserving
of our waking interest.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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For you must certainly know-
*
Socrates
would hereby insinuate what he elsewhere reache?
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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A vestal virgin, as if in marriage, he joined to himself, and, after self-emasculation, he
dedicated
himself to the Great Mother.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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She could
not, in whatever direction she took it, believe the last letter to be
a T; and yet that it should be anything else in that house was
a
circumstance
to raise no common degree of astonishment.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Nor let any content with her in
shooting
of stags or in archery.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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siste
longtemps
aux dispositions naturel ?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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But some complain that, former faults to shun,
The reformation to
extremes
has run.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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That phantom now
Slides with slack canvas and
unwhispering
prow
Through the dark sea that this dark room has made.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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To Simonides
desiring
him to give an unjust sentence, You would not be a good poet, said he, if you should sing out of tune; nor I a good governor, if I should give judgement contrary to law.
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Roman Translations |
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ye that from the mountain's brow
Adown enormous ravines slope amain--
Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice,
And stopped at once amid their
maddest
plunge!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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That
whistling
boy who minds his goats
So idly in the grey ravine,
"The brown-backed rower drenched with spray, 5
The lemon-seller in the street,
And the young girl who keeps her first
Wild love-tryst at the rising moon,--
"Lo, these are wiser than the wise.
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Sappho |
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This saint is thought, how- ever, by
Professor
Rees, to have been the
See "
«See Rev.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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For, whereas the Philistine remained on Strauss's
side in regard to these explosive outbursts, he
would have been against him had he been con-
fronted with a genuine and
seriously
constructed
ethical system, based upon Darwin's teaching.
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Nietzsche - v04 |
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Come now, do we say that prudence
and the
possession
of reason are parts of goodness,
and the opposites of these of badness?
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Plato - 1926 - Laws |
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Death
presses
on the rear.
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Barbarina lady Dacre - 1836 - Traduzioni dall'italiano |
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Yet that discontent with the essay is at the same time untrue because, as a constellation, the essay is not arbitrary in the way that it seems to a philosophical subjectivism which translates the exigencies of the object into those of its
conceptual
organization.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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_Scornful
Voices from the Earth_.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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So he took his wings, and fled;
Then the morn
blushed
rosy red.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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This helps to keep the site as
available
as possible for visitors.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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But I will do
something
great and bold.
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Aristophanes |
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But in the night he turned round and
disembarked
his troops.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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You couldn't have done much better in two
sentences
if you were out for a record in the falsification.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Wherewith
as with a game, refreshing the labour of philosophic exercise, thou has left many songs composed in amatory measure or rhythm, which for the suavity both of words and of tune being oft repeated, have kept thy name without ceasing on the lips of all; since even illiterates the sweetness of thy melodies did not allow to forget thee.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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[17] Be hushed, ye that hear, at the song to Apollo; yea, hushed is even the sea when the minstrels celebrate the lyre or the bow, the weapons of
Lycoreian
Phoebus.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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He shall be a not
dishonourable
little fellow if you like.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1915 - v12 - Nineteeth Century |
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gos) signifying his perfection of the path of the Hinayana or Shravakayana, and over all these he wears a dark brocade cape, signifying
complete
accomplishment in all spiritual traditions of Buddhism.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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THE OBVIOUSLY
CONFUSED
103
of vulnerability for any new authority which might seek to manipu- late his loyalties; it was, in fact, the royal road to his negative identity.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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How can we be
for ever together--sometimes in solitudes,
sometimes
amidst savage
tribes--and unwed?
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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r die es
nicht geschaffen war, bis er
schliesslich
dem Glauben
an sich selber zum Opfer fiel.
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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the boy himself
Was worthy to be sung, and many a time
Hath
Stimichon
to me your singing praised.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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τϋς /χηΛΙλο* ^QjJh «ν ,/χ«
^
χυτώ
cqpKTOvxt to 7ϊκνχ,χΜχ Koetv«3iovo\ τ0Λ/χυ,?
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Ailianou Poikilēs historias - 1545 |
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When I first saw the
insignia
of the Metropolitan Commandant,3 the aura over Nanyang was already renewed.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The latter at
length said, hesitatingly:
"The ideas you have
suggested
are to me, I confess, utterly novel.
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Poe - v02 |
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In all animals
furnished
with bones, the spine or backbone is the point of origin for the entire osseous system.
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Aristotle copy |
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A
Midsummer
Night's Dream
(V.
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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" At that moment a Hunter
approached
and sent an arrow
whistling after him.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Or of
computation?
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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God knows if it can be found still
scattered
in England.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Die
Weiterbegebung des
Wechſels
hat aber für die Wechſelſchuldner,
und zwar ſowohl für den Bezogenen, welcher durch den Accept
Hauptſchuldner geworden iſt, als für den Regreßichuldner nicht
blos den Nachtheil, daß er hierdurch in ein neues Schuldver-
1
In der Leipziger Wechſelconferenz wurde die Richtigfeit bieſes Grund-
ſaßeß auch allgemein anerkannt, und im $.
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Zeitschrift für das gesamte Handelsrecht und Wirtschaftsrecht - 1859 |
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Or perhaps it's just the
contrary
and you are convinced that I
really think so.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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My
triumph is just the
opposite
of what Schopenhauer's
was—I say “ Non legor, non legar.
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Nietzsche - v17 |
|
When the em-
peror came to select the
officers
that were to attend
him on his march, he appointed Lucius, the brother of
?
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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For when the king was celebrating a
festival
at the beginning of the month, and had invited them as he did all the other philosophers; Menedemus said, "If the assemblage of such men as are met here to-day is good, a festival like this ought to be celebrated every day: but if it is not good, even once is too often.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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Any om- niscient person would
necessarily
know a number of repellent and disgusling things, which any sane person would avoid.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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How can I get
unblocked?
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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The dry high spirits of this
destroyer of
optimism
make most optimists look damp and depressed.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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Thiswant of definiteness in the ideas of women is the source of that "sensitiveness" which gives the widest scope to vague asso- ciations and allows the most radically
different
things to be grouped together.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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At the north of the Great Lake,
and peeping over it, I see the seven church towers of Luebec, at the
distance of twelve or
thirteen
miles, yet as distinctly as if they
were not three.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Primer, a text book for missionaries, who would be foolish enough to convert the heathen Chinese in their national
language
?
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Source: |
Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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By the alertness with which we were served and the eager zeal of the
bearded Cossack whom Pugatchef had
appointed
Commandant, I saw that,
thanks to the talk of the postillion who had driven us, I was taken for
a favourite of the master.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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* But this does not in any way efface the
distinction
between object and concept.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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Inhabiting the country from sea to sea, they commanded the great Italian free ports on the western waters, the mouths of the Po and the Venice of that time on the eastern sea, and the land route which from ancient times led from Pisa on the
Tyrrhene
Sea to Spina on the
Adriatic, while in the south of Italy they commanded the rich plains of Capua and Nola.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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[268] We had likewise the two Lentuli, men of consular dignity; one of whom, (I mean Publius) the avenger of my wrongs, and the author of my restoration, derived all his powers and accomplishments from the assistance of art, and not from the bounty of nature: but he had such a great and noble disposition, that he claimed all the honours of the most illustrious citizens, and
supported
them with the utmost dignity of character.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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That is why Foucault says, in the
citation
above, that "so many things can be changed".
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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48
Moragy-Tuzkodomb, 334 38,126,127,152,206;toBritish Morality,Goddessand,343
islands,184,206;toItaly(south¬ Morava,243
Naxos, 344
Nea Nikomedeia, 4, 14, 317, 326, 327 NearEast,2,3,4;bronzeartifacts,
369; Early Dynastic, 64;
regenera¬
tion symbols, 244, 256; Sacred Marriage, 342; Sesklo culture and, 15, 22.
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Marija Gimbutas - The Civilization of the Goddess_ The World of Old Europe-HarperCollins (1991) |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:55 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
|
One Jew
more or
less—what
did it matter?
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Nietzsche - v16 |
|
That is why Nietzsche describes Dionysus's
existence
as an "innovation" once he has invented him as a "philosopher.
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Source: |
Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
|
58
FIGHTING
THE RED TRADE MENACE
from the license system decree against Soviet prod-
ucts.
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Source: |
Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
|
They go on
blooming
for six months in this country.
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Source: |
Orwell - Burmese Days |
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Thomas Moore
followed
in
?
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
|
Wireless music,
lectures
etc.
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Source: |
Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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Thus
terribly
adorned the figures shine,
Inimitably wrought with skill divine.
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Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
In "The Romaunt of the Page," single quotation
and double quotation marks have been
preserved
as printed, in spite of
their confusing usage; no clearer edition could be found.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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I have not told my garden yet,
Lest that should conquer me;
I have not quite the
strength
now
To break it to the bee.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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) --"Two men suffering from delirium tremens and one dead is the result of a Peruna
intoxication
which took place here a few days ago.
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Source: |
Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
|
She wouldn't have
believed
those ends enough
To have given outright for them all she gave.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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Itismuchtoberegretted,however,
that his
personal
history has been so obscured, and that it has become so diffi-
cult of elucidation.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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Again, some insects have
antennae
in front of their eyes, as the butterfly and the horned beetle.
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Aristotle copy |
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She then her half-told tales will leave
To finish on to-morrow's eve;--
The
children
steal away to bed,
And up the ladder softly tread;
Scarce daring--from their fearful joys--
To look behind or make a noise;
Nor speak a word!
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Source: |
John Clare |
|
The Communists must certainly be
regarded
as pro-Hitler, and are bound to remain so
unless Russian policy changes, but they have not very much influence.
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Orwell |
|
Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights
may need to be obtained independently of
anything
we can address.
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Poe - v03 |
|
It would feel more like treacle, or jelly, or even sand, and the
bacterium
would seem to burrow or screw its way through the water rather than swim.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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For 'twas the morn: Apollo's upward fire
Made every eastern cloud a silvery pyre
Of
brightness
so unsullied, that therein
A melancholy spirit well might win
Oblivion, and melt out his essence fine
Into the winds: rain-scented eglantine 100
Gave temperate sweets to that well-wooing sun;
The lark was lost in him; cold springs had run
To warm their chilliest bubbles in the grass;
Man's voice was on the mountains; and the mass
Of nature's lives and wonders puls'd tenfold,
To feel this sun-rise and its glories old.
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Keats |
|
To the "grand" teachers, who have not realized Mind-Essence,
The midriff, the
ostentatious
but vain Mal)<;lala, is offered.
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Milarepa |
|
the “Additional Volume” of 1767,
were
prepared
by Lady Mary herself
for publication, and must therefore,
looking to the fact of her quarrel
with Pope, be considered doubtful.
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Source: |
Alexander Pope - v09 |
|
But the other day I lend it to an editor of a professional
literary
maga-
zine, because I wanted to let many more readers besides VOU read it.
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
|
That ev'n buried Ashes such a snare
Of Vintage shall fling up into the Air
As not a True-believer passing by
But shall be
overtaken
unaware.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
This combination
of criminal and
commercial
business seemed surprisingly reassuring for
K.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
|
arnais for their
deliberations
right down to 1789).
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
|
Magnoald enquired its name, and that of
:
the river running by it, and Tozzo answered " This place, often visited by
the country-people, is called Campidona ;57 but, they dare not remain here a
single night, it is so
infested
with different species of serpents.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
|
Sculptor, forever shun
Clay moulded there
By the thumb
When the mind's elsewhere;
Wrestle with Carrara,
With Parian marble rare
And hard,
Keep the outline clear;
From Syracuse borrow
Bronze which the proud
Furrow
Has charmingly endowed;
With a
delicate
hand,
The vein of agate, follow
Command
The profile of Apollo.
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We train the
appetites
for the sake of the
intelligence, and the body for the sake of the soul.
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While this procession passed before him, on its way to
war and perhaps to death,--so
wonderful
in its
vital strength and formidable courage, and so per fectly symbolic of a race that will conquer and
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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No one ever, perhaps,
seriously
believed that men learnt
the arts of life by imitating animals, but who is not charmed
with the lines-
“ Learn of the little nautilus to sail,
Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Alexander Pope - v05 |
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You'll know it by the row of stars
Around its
forehead
bound.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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He also
formulates the axiom upon which
syllogistic
inference rests, that "if A
is predicated universally of B and B of C, A is necessarily predicated
universally of C.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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Go round the
backyard
an’ ‘ave a look.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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E ora ditemi, per
piacere, l'indirizzo di quella
magnifica
signora che è
uscita di qui mezz'ora fa, quando sono entrato io.
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Bontempelli |
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