He promised his hearers that they should not sit uneasily in their
chairs; and except for the unqualified
admirers
of Webster, his
promise was made good.
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A happy Warmth he every where may boast;
Nor is he in too long Digressions lost:
His Verses without Rule a method find,
And of
themselves
appear in order joyn'd:
All without trouble answers his intent;
Each Syllable is tending to th'Event.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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" Belial advises that the temptation should be
continued
by women "expert in amorous arts," but Satan rejects the
plan, and reminds Belial--
"Among the sons of men
How many have with a smile made small account
Of beauty and her lures.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Dante
Alighieri
put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer- up of strife.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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This is the innate ignorance present since the
beginning
of time samsara which covers up the true nature of the mind so one cannot recognize its true nature.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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These parts have specific and law-like
relations describing their
interactions
as a function o f their distance from each other, at a little distance they attract each other, but at a smaller distance they repel each other.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
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Milton |
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75 'Meine Familie wollte mich zum
Psychiater
bringen.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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All of them had
gathered
together
into a narrow space by the door.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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" Treitschke's
practical
demands were like-
wise those of the Liberals.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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And
how accurately he has recorded the mechanisms of the child’s mind, its visualizing
tendency, its
sensitiveness
to certain kinds of impression.
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Orwell |
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I pluck my
nutriment
from any bush,
Finding out poison as the first men did
By tasting and then suffering, if I must.
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, and trustees of the Rockefeller
Brothers
Fund.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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” In truth,
productive
powers are powers of mobilization.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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That is rather a
dissemblance
of modesty than docility.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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If that doesn't work, proceed to:
--In the Latin-1 version, "ae" is a single letter but apostrophes and
quotation
marks will be straight ("typewriter" form).
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Lewis Carroll |
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Quisling based his
position
on the belief that "an old world falls, a new is being born.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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Sung at The fFeast of Los & Enitharmon
The Mountain Ephraim calld out to the
mountain
Zion: Awake O Brother Mountain
Let us refuse the Plow & Space, the heavy Roller & spiked
Harrow.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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Let me
recommend
Mr Elliot.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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Mais tous ceux qui
l'ont vue à cette époque m'ont dit qu'à sa douleur d'avoir perdu sa
mère, s'ajoutait un air de
perpétuelle
préoccupation.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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It is only in the success story of this kinetic pantheism that the ominous “project of
modernity”
becomes possible.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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My
language
is precise; and, therefore, it would be false modesty to
charge myself with blame.
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Selection of English Letters |
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d~para I~s movimientos vanguardistas en el arte que los
proletarios
arroja tambie?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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5 In short, most of them either died without issue of their own, or had such children that it would have been better for
humanity
had they departed without offspring.
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* These victories are
recorded
in the Second Book of Samuel,
ch.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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For example, the
Law condemneth Duells; the punishment is made capitall: On the contrary
part, he that refuseth Duell, is subject to contempt and scorne, without
remedy; and sometimes by the
Soveraign
himselfe thought unworthy to
have any charge, or preferment in Warre: If thereupon he accept Duell,
considering all men lawfully endeavour to obtain the good opinion
of them that have the Soveraign Power, he ought not in reason to be
rigorously punished; seeing part of the fault may be discharged on the
punisher; which I say, not as wishing liberty of private revenges,
or any other kind of disobedience; but a care in Governours, not
to countenance any thing obliquely, which directly they forbid.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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424, during the Peloponnesian War, —
probably
with active agency of Cleon, — for failure to prevent the Spartan Brasidas from capturing Amphipolis.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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In the early days they were men of
George's own age, and many of them remained faithful to him
to the end of their lives; but as the years passed and George grew
older, they were selected from younger generations, and the
circle which surrounded the ageing George consisted largely of
talented and promising youths and young men, together with a
number of the old
stalwarts
from earlier generations.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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For once a man has been put through prison thought reform, he never
completely
casts off its picture of the world and of himself.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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Immediately
after Christ's resurrection, the time until the Day of Judgment had been expected to be very limited; then, with Pentecost and with the decades to follow, the time until the end of the world became an open time, i.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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"
Pancracy: "And all your life you have been
the
plaything
of the devil.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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That all the shot of dulness now must be
From this thy blunderbuss
discharged
on me!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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There are
reminiscences
of The Comedy of Errors in the play
>
1 As to the ascription of this play to Shakespeare see chap.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Entering
the Starstream, the Toad does not sink, 4 the Hare lives forever, pounding its herbs.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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It is a pity to doubt
this green hair legend;
presently
a man of genius will not be able to
enjoy an epileptic fit in peace--as does a banker or a beggar.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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IV
The diver at Sorrento from beneath
The vitreous indigo, who swiftly riseth,
By will and not by action as it seemeth,
Moves not more smoothly, and no thought sur-
miseth
How she takes motion from the
lustrous
sheath
Which, as the trace behind the swimmer, gleameth Yet presseth back the aether where it streameth.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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)
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so
digress?
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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Innumerable
multitudes
of men, women and children fell into most grievous calamities; and the whole island was now upon the point of falling into the hands of the slaves, who set no other bounds to their exorbitant power, than the absolute destruction of their masters.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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However, I consider our
misfortunes
as a secret design of Providence to punish our sins; and only look upon Fulbert as the instrument of divine vengeance.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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The
greatest
masters of propaganda of our time were Lenin and Hitler.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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The age-long teaching of Hippocrates that the
healing art was based on the _Vis Medicatrix
Naturae_
is overthrown by
Lord Dawson of Penn, in a single sentence; and in place of the Father of
Medicine as a guide to health of body and mind, there comes the King's
Physician:
"To pestle a poison'd poison behind his crimson lights.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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Detente, says the Christian psychologist,
inevitably
results in releasing evil in the human being.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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Oh whence, I asked, and
whither?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Three
Excellent
Tragedies (the plays mentioned above).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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ness, their attribute is luminosity, and their
manifestation
is unobstructedness.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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nner [kein] Make-Up
brauchen
[October 2, 2011].
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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Of which building He is the corner-stone, Whom the Power and Wisdom of God
coeternal
with the Father assumed.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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I met the other, whose love was given
With never a kiss and scarcely a word--
Oh, it was then the terror took me
Of words
unuttered
that breathed and stirred.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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We are so far from that naturall Balsamum, as
that we have a naturall poyson in us,
Originall
sin:' &c.
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Donne - 2 |
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Are you
laughing
in your sleeve?
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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The joint European guarantee was from the start an
empty form, and the
position
of the little neutral country
has been rendered completely untenable by the mighty
revolutionary events of recent weeks.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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Generated for
anonymous
on 2015-01-02 09:06 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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) For this purpose we must have
racks and
torturers
of the soul.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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Scared at thy frown terrific, fly
Self-pleasing Folly's idle brood,
Wild Laughter, Noise, and
thoughtless
Joy,
And leave us leisure to be good.
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Golden Treasury |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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But shortly afterwards, when it was understood among the veterans that Gordian was ruling alone, a peace was confirmed between the
populace
and the soldiers and veterans, and an end of the civil strife was made when the boy was given the consulship.
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Historia Augusta |
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I know of no piece of broad, sustained humor in
English or in American literature which is the equal of the narrative
of the capture of Fort Casimir,-- an episode in the
description
of
which the Homeric manner is adopted with grandiloquent effect.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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The fact that we in part conceptualize arguments in terms of battle
systematically
influences the shape arguments take and the way we talk about what we do in arguing.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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Sigh
My soul, towards your brow where O calm sister,
An autumn dreams,
blotched
by reddish smudges,
And towards the errant sky of your angelic eye
Climbs: as in a melancholy garden the true sigh
Of a white jet of water towards the Azure!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The star that rules my
luckless
lot,
Has fated me the russet coat,
An' damn'd my fortune to the groat;
But, in requit,
Has blest me with a random-shot
O'countra wit.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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161
NEWSPAPERS AND
JOURNALISTS
FROM 1788 TO 1800.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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, 14, "Omne cuminum pallorem bibentibus gignit")
says that the
imitators
of Porcius Latro used to take it in order to
resemble him even in his natural peculiarities.
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Satires |
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And in order not to make you too proud I must tell you that
they are models, each in his way, and in a very rich world, while you
are only the first in the
decrepitude
of your art.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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To go for refuge with great faith and to dear away obscurations and to gather
accumulations
are extremely important.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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On our part, Sir, by no single injurious act have we provoked you, and we never believed that it would cause you surprise if we praetors, or indeed any men holding our position, should have
appealed
in a public manifesto for some concession from the consul.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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In the ^ The Festilogy of ^ngus, the Com- published copy we find, Colman Mac Each-
at that date ; but an
additional
St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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And just now, after our good nature has striven all
too long not to be forced into the
humiliating
confession,
we are at last obliged to admit that the German emi-
grants in North America are completely lost to our State
and our nationality.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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The taking of an oath is often an
important
feature of Greek Romances.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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And yet an
enlightened
and
dispassionate observer would have found in the character and manners of
this rude people something which might well excite admiration and a good
hope.
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Macaulay |
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Not thou, but customary thought is here
Molested and annoyed; the only nerve
Can carry anguish from this to thy soul,
Is that credulity which ties the mind
Firmly to notional
creature
as to real.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Otherwise, if God is
generally
indifferent to good
and evil, you then utterly refute your own argument.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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SIR
CHRISTOPHER
HATTON.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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Foreign
visitors
in England and what they
have thought of us.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Those dread tribes whose wont it was ever to set their price on peace and let us purchase repose by
shameful
tribute, offered their children
as hostages and begged for peace with such sup pliant looks that one would have thought them
379
prayers
CLAUDIAN
eaptivoque rogant, quam si post terga revincti Tarpeias pressis subeant cervicibus arces.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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If ever I write again, in the sense of producing artistic work, there are
just two subjects on which and through which I desire to express myself:
one is 'Christ as the precursor of the
romantic
movement in life': the
other is 'The artistic life considered in its relation to conduct.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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On
land the Finnish army
believes
that it is good enough
to hold back the Red army.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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Alterations
in "Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled"
CCLXXV.
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Robert Burns- |
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If thou
shouldest
say, that It is Light only, it would be said to thee, Then without cause am I told to hunger and thirst, for who is there that eateth
light?
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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* In his
“Apology
for Actors,” 1612.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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Likeliest
explanation, because he’s scared.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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Blest spirit, that with beams so sweetly clear
Those eyes didst bend on me, than stars more bright,
And sighs didst breathe, and words which could delight
Despair; and which in fancy still I hear;--
I see thee now, radiant from thy pure sphere
O'er the soft grass, and violet's purple light,
Move, as an angel to my
wondering
sight;
More present than earth gave thee to appear.
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Petrarch |
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_Eighth and Cheaper
Edition_
(_1s.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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From the
does not seem to be
applicable
to the Saint of this name we have placed first
in order, it would seem to be, that Lugair was the name of the present holy * man's father.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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To be sure, these phenomena are frequent and we shall see that there is in fact an "evanescence" of bad faith, which, it is evident, vacillates con- tinually between good faith and cynicism: Even though the existence of bad faith is very precarious, and though it belongs to the kind of psychic
structures
which we might call "metastablc,"2 it presents nonetheless an autonomous and durable form.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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Spellbound
by what is fixed and admittedly deduced, by artifacts, the essay honors nature by confirm- ing that it no longer exists for human beings.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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Districts, which had recently been
as wild as those where the first white
settlers
of Connecticut were
contending with the red men, were in a few years transformed into the
likeness of Kent and Norfolk.
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Macaulay |
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77
=Honor
Transferred
from Persons to Things.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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War, goare-faced war, bie envie burld, arist,
Hys feerie heaulme noddynge to the ayre,
Tenne bloddie arrowes ynne hys
streynynge
fyste.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly
down with the tide, her sail hanging uselessly against the mast;
and as the
reflection
of the sky gleamed along the still water, it
seemed as if the vessel was suspended in the air.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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AUGUSTINE
OF HIPPO
Fourchambault-He's fast, a gambler, worn out by dissipa-
tion.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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And he had a narrower view, also, of the
functions
of the
state.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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The un-
matchable
contribution of Hegel has two initial steps that define everything.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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Blocks
automatically
expire.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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For the froward minds of heretics, whilst they proudly
attribute
understanding to themselves, as it were presume to deliver fixed decisions even touching what is unknown.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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Life is
fleeting
as the day.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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DEAR SIR,
I never spent an
afternoon
among great folks with half that pleasure
as when, in company with you, I had the honour of paying my devoirs to
the plain, honest, worthy man, the professor.
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There was a tent-like pall, made of plain silk of a
carnation
colour, with clusters of ants at the four corners, (as if he had been) an officer of Yin[2].
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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