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copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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However, as a minor, and the
prospective
king of that territory, he pro bably presented the site in the name of his
and
tribe, tohisownnearrelative.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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" The
Frenchman
has said
that it would be impossible for a critic to become a poet; and it is
impossible for a poet not to contain a critic.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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The two men, then,
remained
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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I thought how well Cydias understood the nature of love, when, in
speaking of a fair youth, he warns some one "not to bring the fawn
in the sight of the lion to be
devoured
by him," for I felt that I
had been overcome by a sort of wild-beast appetite.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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We call it love and pain
The passion of her strain;
And yet we little understand or know:
Why should it not be rather joy that so
Throbs in each
throbbing
vein?
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Christina Rossetti |
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For Sariputta to
meaningfully
praise Sakyamuni as being omniscient would necessitate that Saripuua also be omniscient to verify Sakya- muni's realization.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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Apologies if this happened, because human users who are making use of the eBooks or other site
features
should almost never be blocked.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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Since the third quarter of the twentieth century, I believe, that
formerly
dominating chronotope has undergone deep modifications.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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He was hemmed in on every side, and was
on the point of being made prisoner, when
two hundred Fins, who were awaiting his
return not far from there, warned of his
danger by the firing, precipitated them-
selves like
lightning
upon the assailants,
dispersed them, and saved their prince.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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How can I
separate
from the person I love the passion I should detest?
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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Further reproduction
prohibited
without permission.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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To
suffocate
with his memories -
To him who has the desires of a lofty and dainty
soul, and only seldom finds his table laid and his
food prepared, the danger will always be great-
nowadays, however, it is extraordinarily so.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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The fee is owed
to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he has
agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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de Charlus et me l'affirmant le soir même
du jour où j'avais vu le
giletier
et le baron dans la cour.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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Whatever arises in the mind is directly experienced, and
wherever
the mind decides to go, it goes.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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That, a
considerable
deficiency or embezzlement appearing in this woman's account of the young Nabob's stipend, she
voluntarily declared, by a writing under her seal,
that she had given fifteen thousand pounds to the
said Warren Hastings for an entertainment, - which
declaration corresponds with and confirms that part
of the charge produced by Rajah Nundcomar to
which it relates.
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Edmund Burke |
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This is
precisely
true of the main portal of Santa Maria del Fiore.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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It is not enough to yield outwardly to the system - even Gandhian non- violence is not
acceptable
- for the spirit of resistance and the devotion to a higher authority might then remain, and the individual would not be wholly submissive.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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That is to say, principal military
objectives
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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It does marvels for your gripins and it's fine for the
solitary
worm.
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Finnegans |
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Candraklrt i :
He who is a Madhyamlka cannot derive
inferences
from autonomous reason?
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
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Sappho |
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In the case of the novel and the drama, arts in
which the public do take an interest, the result of the exercise of
popular
authority
has been absolutely ridiculous.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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'My sister Lavinia,' said she 'being conversant with matters of this
nature, will state what we consider most
calculated
to promote the
happiness of both parties.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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which in his spirits stead
Seemes to informe a World; and bids it bee,
In spight of losse or fraile
mortalitie?
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John Donne |
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"
To which the other doll was made to reply,
"Oh yes, with
exceeding
great joy!
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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The
agreement
was to
continue until the repeal of the Townshend duties or until
1 Papers of Phila.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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There WAS the
militarist
Germany of the Kaiser, there was the Germany of Mr.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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This would have the odorous narcissus, that the corn-flag; here ‘twas the violet, there the thyme: for right many were the flowerets of the lusty
springtime
budded and bloomed upon that ground.
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Moschus |
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What role would the eyes and other senses play, if such a continually conscious person
existed?
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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Joylessness
when crushed by Holiness is
restored by Pagan Philosophy.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Haec duo praeterea disjectis oppida muris,
Relliquias veterumq: vides
monumenta
virorum.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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He must be rare if even / have not And lost mid-page
Such age
As his pardons the habit,
He
analyzes
form and thought to see
How I 'scaped immortality.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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For while the original has no such
images, it has a tone, flavor, or
whatever
you may
call it, that suggests them, and the translation must
meet this in some way.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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"
"Yes," returned Passepartout, who had
formerly
been wont to sing in the
streets.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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novercoz]
'a daughter-in-law wid-
owed by the death of her husband.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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And directly seeing this is not like perceiving something, or like understanding something; they say it is like seeing luminous space: a negation that is
affirming
nothing, not even nothingness.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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This science, like most
others, was
baptised
long before it was born; and thus we find writers
before the nineteenth century alluding to what they called pure
mathematics.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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His manner showed her that he neither suspected nor anticipated anything out of the common, but his first
question
paved the way for her explanation.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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Sticks,
little sticks, were flying about--thick: they were whizzing before my
nose,
dropping
below me, striking behind me against my pilot-house.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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must be the work of Nature alone: it is not in my
power to create them; and, if it were, I might be
accused of doing more harm than good, in tempting
any of my young readers to quit a gainful calling
for the
gainless
trade*.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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Likewise, Cadenas
confesses
in Los cuadernos del destierro, a book- length poem in prose and his first major work, "Una sola certidumbre ansio.
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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subjecttothegeneral
supervision and control of the Executive Committee.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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When such a figure
appears on the tragic stage one asks at once what
relation
he bears to
Hades, the great Olympian king of the unseen.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Celui-ci, tout en trouvant de grands
défauts
à
sa tante, l'aimait beaucoup.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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One morning, as Whitney stood on Ludgate-hill,
at a mercer's door, waiting for a friend whom he expected to come by, two ladies of the town came along ; these • ladies took our
gentleman
for the master of the shop, and supposing him to biecome an easy
dupe, asked him if he had any fine silks bf the newest fashion ; Whitney teadWyr&pWedi that he had none by him at present he could recommend, but in a day or two's time he should have choicei several weavers being to bring him in pieces, made from the
last fashions brought up, and beggeld to know whire
WILLIAM III.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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And was he confident until
Ill
fluttered
out in everlasting well?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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For to cure the body when
diseased
is not an easy matter
to every one; but to cure a sick soul is easy to all: and the
sickness of the body requires medicines, as well as money, for
its healing; but the healing of the soul is a thing easy to procure,
and devoid of expense.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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Therefore the propaganda spirit of
Communism
had to destroy the peasants first of all.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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-
Kynewulf
der Bischof und Dichter.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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the real meaning of the anger of God--not like
human anger, which is a wrathful desire for revenge,
but the Spirit of Divine Justice calling on man to
obey the law that teaches him the
difference
between
right and wrong, and to fear God lest in disregarding
God's laws he should do evil.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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Aufilena, viro contentam vivere solo,
Nuptarum laus e
laudibus
eximiis:
Sed cuivis quamvis potius succumbere par est,
Quam matrem fratres _efficere_ ex patruo.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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" How is that
possible?
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Satires |
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This
was
afforded
to me soon after his return to the city of
New-York.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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There he wrote his "Sancho
Saldaña
o
el Castellano de Cuéllar," a historical novel in the manner of Walter
Scott, describing the quarrels of Sancho el Bravo with his father
Alfonso X.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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How can we believe by bad faith in the concepts which we forge ex- pressly to persuade
ourselves?
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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And there were cuttings about old
political
shindies 1878 Grover Cleveland etc The swindle over demonitization of silver.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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In conclusion one cannot help but revert to the
objective fact that as far as could be ascertained
during a very short time in Denmark there is no
trace of a movement to
discourage
trade with the
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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Our forefathers,
unpolished
as
(
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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The pompous
scientificobjections
to over-sophistication actually do not aim at the impertinently unreli- able method but at the irritating aspects of the object which the essay reveals.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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For this reason we have not only grown more cautious in our
criticisms
of what
old, but also more patient with its adherents, than was the habit of the Rationalism of the Kantian school.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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(I hope it is not necessary, by the way, to plod through the usual disclaimer: No, no, the birds aren't consciously working it out with calculator and
probability
tables.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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'Twas this the morning omens did foretell,
Thrice from my trembling hand the
patchbox
fell;
The tott'ring china shook without a wind, 80
Nay, Poll sat mute, and Shock was most unkind!
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Alexander Pope |
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The speech is continued with a
farewell
to the wild creatures, and to the wells and rivers of Syracuse.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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» Les
promenades
ensemble de deux fidèles qui
n'avaient pas préalablement demandé son autorisation à la patronne
avaient pour conséquence des commentaires infinis, si innocentes que
fussent ces promenades.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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XIII
But God hath introduced Man to be a spectator of Himself and of His
works; and not a spectator only, but also an
interpreter
of them.
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Epictetus |
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For where hir looke might late before appeere
Sad even to Dis, hir countnance now is full of mirth and grace
Even like as Phebus having put the watrie cloudes to chace,
Doth shew himself a
Conqueror
with bright and shining face.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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Thereon each manufac- turer looks up the list of papers in the threatened state with which he has the contracts
described
above.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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While it is true that it is difficult to imagine Christianity without that gospel, it is also true that Christian beliefs and practices can hardly be understood by reading that text alone: centuries of practitioners
reinterpreted
the Christian message to fit their own age and their own lives and developed different ways of un- derstanding and living the Christian life.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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"All other orbs have kept in touch;
Their voicings reach me speedily:
Thy people took upon them overmuch
In
sundering
them from me!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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THE
CONTENTS
OF THIS VOLUME.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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DON JUAN: Pues bien:
cenaréis
conmigo Very well, you'll dine with me
y en mi casa.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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A
question
worth asking !
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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It
is made up of sixteen
different
Union or Soviet Socialist
Republics, organized on the basis of nationality and each
possessing a large degree of autonomy and "its own Con-
stitution, which takes account of the specific features of
the Republic and is drawn up in full conformity with
the Constitution of the U.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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On the morning of Sunday 23 safar the Franks appeared before
Damietta
and found it deserted, with the gates wide open.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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Even given the divergence between first-order and second-order observation, this
distinction
does not remove the basic premise of constructivism but rather confirms it by referring back to itself, that is, 'autologically'.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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must have this sense
interpreted
by what follows.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But because we need not stand any longer to refute them, let this one thing suffice us, that Paul bound himself with a vow that he might bring those which were weak to Christ, at least that he might not offend them, which vow he knew was of no
importance
before God.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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But I am not
satisfied
yet.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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Well, an exceptionally good swimmer MIGHT
conceivably
be cast into the sea with a stone tied round his neck.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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While all
lamented
and made moan,
With many a sympathetic word
As if the loss had been their own,
Deeming the tones they might have heard
Sweeter than they had heard before,
They saw the Landlord at the door,
The missing man, the portly Squire!
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Longfellow |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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That Philip, from a mean and inconsiderable Ori-
gin, hath
advanced
to greatness; that suspicion and
faction divide all the Greeks; that it is more to be
admired that he should become so powerful from
what he was, than that now, after such accessions
of strength, he should accomplish all his ambitious
schemes : these, and other like points which might
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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It is too
intentional
and
well-ordered.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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Farewell, O Queen, a long farewell, till age
Arrive, and death, the
appointed
lot of all!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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WIth two ells of red cloth per person
I wdl make you ",
COSlffiO
speakmg, ?
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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For who can believe, that he
that doth
ordinarily
such actions, as proceed from any of these
rootes, believeth there is any such Invisible Power to be feared, as he
affrighteth other men withall, for lesser faults?
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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III
IN Debtors' Yard the stones are hard,
And the
dripping
wall is high,
So it was there he took the air
Beneath the leaden sky,
And by each side a Warder walked,
For fear the man might die.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The
Egyptians
seldom meant to imitate life in action.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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Time is
required
to produce
that union of minds which alone can produce all the
good we aim at.
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again
supported
the Chancellor.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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[July
of this ancient Irish
monastic
order were chiefly clerical recluses,
a distinctive habit of living from other monks.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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—We know
whence the German
originated
which for several
centuries has been the universal, literary language
of Germany.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Aux Belles de Londres
AM aweary with the utter and
beautiful
weariness I And with the ultimate wisdom and with things
terrene,
I am aweary with your smiles and your laughter, And the sun and the winds again
Reclaim their booty and the heart o' me.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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It is no
accident
that seven dramas of Eschylus, seven of
Sophocles, nineteen of Euripides, have been preserved for us.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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