Has the income of municipal governments kept pace with
the increase of their
functions?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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The idea that there can be no mediation without the immediate - though also, of course, no
immediacy
without mediation - and that there is no movement which is not the movement of something which, relative to it, has a moment of fixity, later became the central proposition of
dialectical philosophy, or one of its key tenets.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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You cower shamefaced in your corner, and bewail your
hard lot, as well you may; cursing your luck that you have never a
smattering of such graceful
accomplishments
yourself.
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Lucian |
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Nor did Coleridge altogether escape this danger, although he had the good sense to acknow ledge the logical understanding as a negative canon in re ligious questions, since
absolutely
inconceivable propositions cannot be true.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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She,
and Pulcheria, sister of Theodosius, who managed apprehensive of his
displeasure
at having parted
alike him and his empire, fixed on her as a suitable with his gift, replied that she had eaten it, and
wife for him.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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Among other
things, Defects may take the form of incomplete,
inaccurate
or
corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other
intellectual property infringement, a defective or damaged
disk or other eBook medium, a computer virus, or computer
codes that damage or cannot be read by your equipment.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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:ry, matter - as the
quintessence
of everything which is robE TL, 'here', and is therefore matter, cannot be conceived as something which does not also have form.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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On the ground of what we feel within
ourselves we demand honour and humility from
men who see little or nothing of it, and because
this tribute is not immediately forthcoming we
revenge ourselves by the look, the gesture of
arrogance, and the tone of voice, which a keen ear
and eye
recognise
in every product of those years,
whether it be poetry, philosophy, or pictures and
music.
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Nietzsche - v06 |
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This is the relation
between
analytic practice and theory.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Hippolyte looks for me, wants to say
goodbye?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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least details," :
“If thou hast to do with a disputer while he is in his
Patting aside the Book of the Dead as of undeter- heat, do not treat him with contempt because thou art not
mined date, the
actually
oldest known manuscript in of the game opinion.
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Freethinker - 1890 |
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Alban Butler's " Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and other
principal
Saints," vol.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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Moreover thou of spite
Repining
at his worthy praise, his doings doste backbite: Upholding that Medusas death was but a forged lie:
So long till Persey for to shewe the truth apparantly,
Desiring such as were his friendes to turne away their eye,
Drue out Medusa's ougly head.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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Aeneas, as the report of the scouts I sent assures, hath sent
on his light-armed horse to annoy us and scour the plains; himself he
marches on the city across the lonely ridge of the
mountain
steep.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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'
The subjects of his lectures or essays on authors and their
works include almost every name worth knowing in English
literature from Chaucer to Hazlitt's own day-men of varied
literary
attainment
of the Elizabethan era, wits of the restoration,
comic writers, dramatists, poets, novelists of the eighteenth
century and almost all his contemporaries.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1915 - v12 - Nineteeth Century |
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s
tortuous
route in flight to Chengdu.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Nevertheless human greed and
imbecility
made a crisis.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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There is an expression of
despair, and
sometimes
of revenge, in your countenance that makes me
tremble.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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Kraus focuses in
particular
on the use of language, the status of art in its relation to commercial interests and the press, and attitudes to technology and war.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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His
countrymen
hang on him as on some
oracle, that denounces destruction on their vices
and misconduct, and points out the only way to se-
curity.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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William Wordsworth |
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le poison et le glaive
M'ont pris en dedain et m'ont dit:
<< Tu n'es pas digne qu'on t'enleve
A ton esclavage maudit,
Imbecile!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
Þorkell segir: "Það má vera, að svo færi mér að, ef eg væri höfðingi, að mér þætti illt að deila við Hrafnkel, en eigi sýnist mér svo, fyrir því að mér þætti við þann best að eiga, er allir hrekjast fyrir áður; og þætti mér mikið vaxa mín virðing eða þess höfðingja, er á
Hrafnkel
gæti nokkra vík róið, en minnkast ekki, þó að mér færi sem öðrum, fyrir því að má mér það, sem yfir margan gengur.
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hrafnkels_saga_freysgoda.is |
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Ah, Christ, that it would come,
And heal the world of all their
wickedness!
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problems |
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Tennyson |
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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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In Gaul Antony was joined by
(he had been previously married to Fadia [Fadia]), Lepidus with a
powerful
army, and was soon in a
and lived with an actress named Cytheris, with condition to prosecute the war with greater vigour
whom he appeared in public.
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large |
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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Le Misanthrope, Tartufe, Les Femmes savantes, L'Avare, Les Précieuses ridicules sont quelques-unes des perles qui brillent dans son
théâtre
si riche et si varié.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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The tactical errors of Hitler and Mussolini prevented the Munich Conference from being the
starting
point for further peace negotiations.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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For present purposes, the significant fact is that the organizational structure, spun after much trial and error under the Fascist regime, is a straight-line development from that which had been evolved out of these employer circles in the past, and that the system which fol- lowed the March on Rome was coherent not only with former growth trends, but also with the attitudes and ideologies which had become
dominant
in organized Italian business.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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She
drew back lightly; he was favored with the most
delicious
low laugh he
had ever heard.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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And on oat and acorn and the sweet grape browsed the whales and the
dolphins
and the seals that are fain of the beds of mortal men.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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Changing minds and
creating
new energy are hard tasks in any country at any time.
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Foreign Affairs - Ukraine - 1994 to 2018 |
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Chimene
Is it to your
boasting
I must listen?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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This was
confidently
reported to be done by Mr.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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On the other hand,
the father of Antony was, indeed, a man of character,
but not of a military character; yet though he had no
public influence or reputation to
bequeath
to his son,
that son did not hesitate to aspire to the empire of Cae-
sar; and, without any title either from consanguinity
or alliance, he effectually invested himself with all that
he had acquired: at least, by his own peculiar weight,
after he had divided the world into two parts, he took
the better for himself.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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62 Hermlin's
theoretical
stance on the rela- tionship between poet and tradition is clearly evident in a speech given later in 1964: 'Er [der Schriftsteller] arbeitet unweigerlich in einem Universum, das von den Ausstrahlungen und Spuren all seiner Vorga?
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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3 Lamp sparks were
believed
to be auspicious signs.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Mitsuko cried
violently
for a long time.
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Mikiso Hane - Reflections on the Way to the Gallows_ Rebel Women in Prewar Japan-Pantheon Books_ University of California Press (1988) |
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ber fremde
Stiegen
begegnete
er einem Judenma?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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In any case this theological school has as much historical justification as any other, and it is undeniable that its representatives in the first half of our century presented Christianity to the great majority of the German people in the form most intelligible to them, and did better work in the cause of quiet,
practical
Christi anity than many of those who from the proud position of a reactionary theology, artificially conformed to the creeds, assumed the right to condemn these men.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:10 GMT / http://hdl.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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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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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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Learning Machines
The reader will have anticipated that I have no very
convincing
arguments of a positive nature to support my views.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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His friends were so much displeased with his former
behaviour
at Waltham, that they would not admit him into any of their houses, nor even see him, so that he was destitute of almost every neces sary of life.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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You, who lived under my roof, whom I
cherished
and loved as a brother;
You, who have fed at my board, and drunk at my cup, to whose keeping
I have intrusted my honor, my thoughts the most sacred
and secret,-- 420
You, too, Brutus!
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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This message
did not please Madame
Queen very well, for
she was always
happiest
when having her own
way.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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As in the
differential
system, the sine of 0 and 2 x p are one and the same.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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I know what secret flame the marrow fries,
How in the veins a dormant fever lies;
Till, fann'd to fury by contagious breath,
It gains
tremendous
head, and ends in death.
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Petrarch |
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The author submits it to
the reader in his closet; and hopes that too much
refinement
will not
banish humour and character from ours, as it has already done from the
French theatre.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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Like many a so-called " bibliophile " today, his love for books extends only to their external and marketable assets, such as : Copies by So and So; or their
physical
format, e.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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"I must be
shutting
up like a
telescope!
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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56 The
Archeology
of Knowledge
?
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Foucault-Live |
|
Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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a) Talleyrand's opportunity;
doctrine
of "Legiti-
macy;" Talleyrand's brilliant victory.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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)
And so to-day--they lay him away--
the boy nobody knows the name of--
the buck private--the unknown soldier--
the
doughboy
who dug under and died
when they told him to--that's him.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The object seems to be to make man
amputate
those
instincts which enable him to be an enemy, to be harmful, to be angry, and to insist upon revenge.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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The
reference
to Weltpolitik and Weltmacht is un-
mistakable.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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I
have accepted
Professor
Norton as the sole author of the
commentary.
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Donne - 2 |
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Wie wenig das dem echten
Kunstler
zieme!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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First voyaging to Pylus, there enquire
Of noble Nestor; thence to Sparta tend,
To
question
Menelaus amber-hair'd, 360
Latest arrived of all the host of Greece.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and
inclined
to return.
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The-Art-of-War |
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'
a, as eminent a man as himself, he said,' S end away all these
now my fever is contagious: no one but
yourself
ouyht to be
H appy the friend who ever heard such words!
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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At the first
glance one sees that his theory is built out of
Cartesian
notions, crudely apprehended, and rendered ridiculous
by the effort to yoke them with thoroughly materialistic
ideas.
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Poe - v09 |
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207 It must be recollected, that the war at Troy was not a settled
siege, and that many of the
chieftains
busied themselves in
piratical expeditions about its neighborhood.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Both sides, however,
displayed
wisdom enough not to push matters too far.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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I, for instance,
genuinely
despised my official work and did not openly
abuse it simply because I was in it myself and got a salary for it.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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Whence otherwise would come the generosity of love, which can never be
satisfied
by giving ?
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Source: |
Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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A
coolness
of twilight takes
Its way to you at each beat
Whose imprisoned flutter makes
The horizon gently retreat.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
The_satires_of_Persius |
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I have tried to obviate a difficulty, without officiously
exercising the ungrateful prerogatives of a literary executor, by falling
back on a text which represents the author’s first scheme for a
poem—never
intended
of course for recitation.
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Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
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Magnes of Athens won 11
victories
at Athens.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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A poor
honourable
is no catch, and I cannot imagine any liking in the
case, for take away his rants, and the poor baron has nothing.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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In the struggle for control over
business
power, small business is everywhere losing out.
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Source: |
Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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DEAR SIR,—I
deferred
my returning an answer to your
most kind letter till I came to this place, which I thought
would have been before this time, but my companion, Dr.
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Alexander Pope - v06 |
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But like
this, I've had a few good days, I've learned, had joy, I've neither
harmed myself nor others by
annoyance
and hastiness.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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The
distracted
mother ran to St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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The author expressed himself differ- ently on this subject in his earlier writings,
asserting
that reason was abso- lutely not light but rather no more than the eye.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened ;
As if the snow should
hesitate
And murmur in the wind,
These were the
and half turn back "
Wing'd-with-Awe," Inviolable.
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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He has no doubt that
any knowledge of the Oriental will confirm his views, which, to judge from his description of the
Egyptian
breaking
under crossexamination, find the Oriental to be guilty.
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Source: |
Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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All success attend you, for if hard
thinking
and
hard reading are merits, you have deserved it.
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Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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" Historicalunder- standingrequiresus to
identifycertaincommonfeaturesor
qualitiesofnew forceswithina givenperiod,ifonlyto recognizeand clarifytheirdifferences and uniqueness.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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But this denoted a
foregone
conclusion.
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Shakespeare |
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org/access_use#pd-google
We have
determined
this work to be in the public domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright.
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Source: |
Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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Whether the leaders of last year after engendering new leaders are killed by the new brood, and whether this occurs invariably or whether they can live for a longer time, has not been ascertained by actual observation; neither can we speak with certainty, as from observation, as to the age
attained
by the mother-wasp or by the wild wasps, or as to any other similar phenomenon.
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Aristotle copy |
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I remain agnostic about whether Solon himself ever quantified anything beyond the ten pe- riods of life, though the
maneuvers
attributed to Solon--quantifying, valuing, and setting ratios--look a lot like those of early law collections (Whitman 1995).
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Source: |
A History of Trust in Ancient Greece_nodrm |
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Either her
judgment
or fortune was extraordinary, in the choice of those on whom she bestowed her charity; for it went further in doing good than double the sum from any other hand.
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Source: |
Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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Radford [1920
of the Amores and of the consequent recovery of the youthful
or '
spondaic
' Ovid cannot easily be overestimated.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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of Nemæa, a town of
tecture, invented by the people of Argolis, one of the
districts
of
Ionia
Peloponnesus, in Greece
Isth'-me-an (ist), a.
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Exploró palmo a palmo la región, inclusive el fondo del río, arrastrando los dos
lingotes
de hierro y recitando en voz alta el conjuro de Melquíades.
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Gabriel García Márquez - Cien Anos de Soledad |
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Saxo, Seno, and some other gentile nouns,
increase
short.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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Paul's
companions
declare, that when they went about to call back Paul from danger, they did rather care for the common safety of the Church, than every man for his own life.
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To have been so long In returnIng the
pedIgree of yr caIrn puppy
but when I wrote to the man you bought hun from I receIved a reply from hIs wIfe (or
daughter)
sayIng he had Just gone on a holIday
and that he wd wrIte me when he returned
I find Dhu Achl1 (sire) has been regIstered
at the Kennel Club, but the dam IS unregIstered
Dhu AchI1 has won a faIr number of prIzes at ScottIsh Shows and there are some other good dogs In the pedIgree
(three senators, four bottles of whIskey) so the puppy seems qUIte well bred (and at)
For the sake of convenIence I wIll wrIte partIculars
(four o'clock In the mornIng Mr Rhumby) on a separate sheet of paper
(waz Sekkerta:ry) The lIttle dog 18 domg
(Ov State) very well at Mr McLocherty's and 18 qUite happy They are very fond of hIm and he IS a most affectIonate dog
Yours respectfully GalIleo, pronounced C Garry Yeo'
err' un' ImbecIlle, ed ha unbecIIIIto (VOIce under my WIndow) tl mondo
No trustee of the Salem Museum, who had not doubled both Good Hope and The Horn
Sea as 1?
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With yawning mouth the horrid hole
Gaped for a living thing;
The very mud cried out for blood
To the thirsty
asphalte
ring:
And we knew that ere one dawn grew fair
The fellow had to swing.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Long she stood and gazed, and twice she tried at the name,
But two great crystal tears were all that
faltered
and came.
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Its light
movement, comfortable arrangement, and elegant
appearance
gave it a kind
of foreign stamp.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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"First, dire Chimera's
conquest
was enjoin'd,
A mingled monster of no mortal kind;
Behind, a dragon's fiery tail was spread,
A goat's rough body bore a lion's head;
Her pitchy nostrils flaky flames expire,
Her gaping throat emits infernal fire.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Long live the all-powerful
merchants
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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Only one thing counts:
philosophy
(II, 17, 3), which consists of the three disciplines.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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A belt of straw and ivy-buds
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these
pleasures
may thee move,
Come live with me and be my Love.
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Golden Treasury |
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Now the real point in Aristotle's philosophy which bears on the concept of motion is as follows: he teaches not only that form and matter are in themselves
something
eternal, but that the relationship in which form and matter stand to each other is also eternal.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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