I reached
Uglich, repair unto the holy minster,
Hear mass, and, glowing with zealous soul, I weep
Sweetly, as if the
blindness
from mine eyes
Were flowing out in tears.
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4 As soon, however, as the report of his death was confirmed, all the barbarous nations, whom he had shortly before subdued,
lamented
for him, not as an enemy, but as a father.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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Liberty, however, had been a useless gift to me, had I not, as I
awakened to reason, at the same time
awakened
to revenge.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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With all your love for
truth, you have forced
yourselves
so long, so persist-
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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_Anne Soame, now Lady Abdie_, eldest
daughter
of Sir Thomas Soame,
and second wife of Sir Thomas Abdy, Bart.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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Thus from thy
heaviest
burthen being freed,
Each other thou canst easier dispel,
And an unfreighted pilgrim seek thy sky;
Too well, thou seest, how much the soul hath need,
(Ere yet it tempt the shadowy vale) to quell
Each earthly hope, since all that lives must die.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The Buddha, in the
Rajavavadaka
Siitra, has said:
If, when his time comes, even a king should die,
His wealth, friends and relatives shall not follow him.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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As to the introduction of this pseudo-romantic style
of writing, its
votaries
could not precisely define what
they wished and where they were tending, because no
one precisely understood upon what system this Ro-
manticism was founded.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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"The best work on
Friedrich
Nietzsche in our tongue.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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Though old Ulysses
tortured
from his slumbers
The glutted Cyclops, what care?
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Keats |
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Camerium
knows how deeply
The sword of Aulus bites,
And all our city calls him
The man of seventy fights.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Je lui avais enveloppé à demi la tête avec une
mantille
en
dentelle blanche, lui disant que c'était pour qu'elle n'eût pas froid
dans l'escalier.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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XLV
And him
perfidious
she anew did name.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Jamais un rayon frais n'eclaira vos cavernes;
Par les fentes des murs des miasmes fievreux
Filent en s'enflammant ainsi que des lanternes
Et
penetrent
vos corps de leurs parfums affreux.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Your mistress, who knows by experience
the force of this passion, may very
reasonably
be brought to assist a
fellow sufferer in it, especially when, by so doing, she may probably
meet with success in her own pursuits.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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And for them the son of Oeagrus touched his lyre and sang in rhythmical song of Artemis, saviour of ships, child of a glorious sire, who hath in her keeping those peaks by the sea, and the land of Iolcos; and the fishes came darting through the deep sea, great mixed with small, and
followed
gambolling along the watery paths.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I feel a
perpetual
strife between inclination and duty.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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Dion
jealousy
arose between him and his brother-in-law
Cassius (xlviii.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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By his own oath Philip
had admitted that, if he
violated
it, no service or obedience
should be rendered to him.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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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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Tully - Offices |
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There was one odd thing, though, that I never understood: in spite of Atticus’s shortcomings as a parent, people were content to re-elect him to the state
legislature
that year, as usual, without opposition.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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It is played, imitated, it is the intention of the character which he plays in the eyes of his questioner, but this character,
precisely
because he does not exist, is a transcendent.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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The
advocates
of the latter must acknow-
ledge it to be an ignis fatuus, and abandon the pursuit.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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And the blue of the skies
In her
wonderful
eyes.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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if she
deviates
(because a war will result).
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Schwarz - Committments |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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--
So prays the loyal,
solitary
band
That guards the Apian land.
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Aeschylus |
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grikkissh
Cee; 591
he gan to shippen atte Ryuage;
wynde aroos wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Rather is it sleep beneath the leafy plane for me, and the sound hard by of a bubbling spring such as
delights
and not disturbs the rustic ear.
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Moschus |
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The
sovereignpositionof
the Ordinariushad been acceptable,giventhe rathersmall size of the German universitiesbefore the war.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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Cela lui fera
beaucoup
plus de plaisir de
causer avec vous que de s’ennuyer là-haut.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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Their little
gestures
return to remembrance in the covert of still hours,
like truants they playfully reveal things she had kept secret from me.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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He was plagued by
increasing
deafness, and weak health, and died on New Year's Day 1560.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The _notarii_
attended
these
discussions and let nothing be lost.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Probably lose their jobs if they tried, and what can be
expected
from a profession with Shaw and Wells at the top who think 24 hours a day of their incomes and of the truth at spare moments?
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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"I have been in Palestine, Sir Clerk," said the knight, stop-
ping short of a sudden, "and I bethink me it is a custom there
that every host who
entertains
a guest shall assure him of the
wholesomeness of his food by partaking of it along with him.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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6 %$ % 1 78890:;;;,
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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"
"Think not so vilely of me,"
returned
Isaac, eager to improve the moment
of apparent sympathy.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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Notice of Amory and his works in
Retrospective
Review, vol.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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But soon finding that there was no end to it, he flew into a rage, cast down his rods, and sought the old ploughman who had taught him his trade; and both told him what had
happened
and showed him where young Love did sit.
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Bion |
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Hiera kala: Images of animal sacrifice in archaic and
classical
Greece.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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i|v expresses the
terminus
ox qua, place of
escape from danger; rill'rl rofi Kam?
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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In both, urbane,
intelligent
minds accumulate a worldly knowledge which moves elegantly between bare facts and conven-
tional facades.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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Adam by this from the cold sudden damp
Recovering, and his
scatterd
spirits returnd,
To Michael thus his humble words addressd.
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Milton |
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If he carried a keen sword, it was a most
peaceable and
gentlemanly
weapon ; it never left
the scabbard except on the highest provocation,
and even then, only on behalf of others.
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Marvell - Poems |
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When we keep this point in mind, although there are many kinds
of water, it seems that there is no
original
water, and no water of many kinds.
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Shobogenzo |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past,
representing
a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Tully - Offices |
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The dark defer-
ence of fear and slavery, my friend," observed the Marquis,
"will keep the dogs
obedient
to the whip, as long as this roof,"
looking up to it, "shuts out the sky.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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Both books are
printedin
typewritecrharactersand are thereforedifficulto read.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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]
[Footnote 27: a
princely
robe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And if even those who are low in the grave have any conscious-
ness at all, such was her love for you and her
tenderness
for all
around her that surely she does not wish to see this in you.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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For truly this is a wonderful neat
one, and with a
pleasing
Aspect salutes a Man at his entring in, and
bids him welcome.
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Erasmus |
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The difference is that the Marxist critic accords 'correct false consciousness' the chance to enlighten itself or to be
enlightened
- by Marxism.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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The time will not seem to you more than a hundred hours, yet
even that is a long time for
temptation
and resistance.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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It can roam here and there through the Three Realms,
8 And cannot be
anchored
to the Four Forms of Birth.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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" Aside from that, they are not clearly explained in the treatises of the five father and sons, and it does not seem that other explanations can afford
confidence
of mind.
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E E ' =
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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Dugin has often been
compared
to Alain de Benoist (b.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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For
by the Name of _God_ I
understand
a ~Substance~, that is, I understand
that _God_ Exists (not by an _Idea_, but by Reasoning) ~Infinite~ (that
is, I cannot conceive or Imagine Terms or Parts in him so Extream, but I
can Imagine others Farther) from whence it follows, that not an _Idea_ of
_Gods Infinity_ but of my Own bounds and Limits presents it self at the
Word _Infinite_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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And indeed,
Dialellick
being the Art of Reasoning, 'tis not only the Foundation of all the Sciences, but the only Guide that can conductMentotrue Happiness^
bymaking'emdistinguishTruthfromError.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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Gladstone had held firm, had
outfaced
the
House of Commons, had ignored the Press.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation
copyright
in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And he replied, 'If you always act with deliberation and never give
credence
to slanders, but prove for yourself the things that are said to you and decide by your own judgement the requests which are made to you and carry out everything in the light of your judgement, you will be free from error, O King.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:10 GMT / http://hdl.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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But how many differencecsan be discerned amongthemat
thefirstcloselook!
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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Tremendous is the power of a
novelist!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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"
Again the wild-flower wine she drank:
Her fair large eyes 'gan glitter bright,
And from the floor whereon she sank,
The lofty lady stood upright:
She was most
beautiful
to see,
Like a lady of a far countree.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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[Transcriber's note: between
brackets
[ ] some fragments are included,
which are not present in all editions, mostly commentaries concerning
Mr.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Let us now examine if Deal satisfies the
requirements
of
the Latin text.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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If these were in no Danger, and not violated, they we Rebels :
'em could be
expected
any other Way but by the Sword, they were no better.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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In 1819, Christopher Harris, for libel, to be im prisoned in the House of Correction for seven weeks, and to give
security
for good behaviour for three years more ; William Watling, for libel, to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for six weeks, and to give security for good behaviour for three years more; Thomas Whithorn, John Cahuac, and Philip Francis, for libel, each to be imprisoned in the House of Cor rection one month, and to give security for good behaviour for three years more ; Robert Shorter, for libel, (having been in custody ten weeks,) to be impri soned in the House of Correction three weeks ; Robert Shorter, for libel, to be further imprisoned in the House of Correction three weeks, and to give security for good behaviour for three years more ; Sir Francis Burdett, Bart.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any
specific
use of any specific book is allowed.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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CHU LỘC 周祿28 người huyện
Đường
An phủ Thượng Hồng.
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stella-03 |
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In another room someone with a comb and a piece of
toilet paper was trying to keep tune with the
military
music
which was still issuing from the telescreen.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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44, Donne enumerates this among
the curses that will overwhelm the sinner: 'There shall fall upon him
those sinnes which he hath done after
anothers
dehortation, and those,
which others have done after his provocation.
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John Donne |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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ee, but rather--it goes without saying-- the
noblesse
de robe.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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Custom demanded that, on the point of departure, she should appear
before the Son of Heaven in order to thank her Imperial Master for his
kind
thoughtfulness
in thus providing for her future, and then be
formally handed over to the envoys.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:56 GMT / http://hdl.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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One then sees theface
ofordinary
mind.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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-- Sir, what befel the lady of Catay,
Who scaped, in time, from him of wit unsound,
And afterwards, upon her
homeward
way,
Was with good bark and better weather bound;
And how she made Medoro, India's king;
Perchance some voice in happier verse may sing.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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tive ;n view ofthe
prosodic
conttm.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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Hence, all you vain delights,
As short as are the nights
Wherein you spend your folly
There's naught in this life sweet
If men were wise to see't,
But only melancholy,
O
sweetest
Melancholy!
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Golden Treasury |
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95 (#117) #############################################
Riddles and Broadsides
95
gave
counties
and even towns the isolation of a separate country.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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Evidently such a secret
would be death to the sophists,--that cursed brood, who, under different
names, excite the curiosity of nations, and, owing to the difficulty
of
separating
the truth from the error in their artistically woven
theories, lead them into fatal ventures, disturb their peace, and fill
them with such extraordinary prejudice.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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Hegel notices that the Romans
worshiped
their
21 idem.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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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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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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" —And the man
entertained the same
feelings
towards the woman,
and in his inmost heart he felt the very same
thought.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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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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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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The following were made extempore to it; and
though on further study I might give you
something
more profound, yet
it might not suit the light-horse gallop of the air so well as this
random clink:--
My wife's a winsome wee thing, &c.
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Robert Burns |
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So was Myronides one of the best-bearded of men o' this side;
his
backside
was all black, and he terrified his enemies as much as
Phormio.
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Aristophanes |
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And, that no day of life may lack romance,
The spiritual stars rise nightly,
shedding
down
A private beam into each several heart.
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Emerson - Poems |
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We all regard the past as
determined simply by the fact that it has happened; but for the
accident that memory works
backward
and not forward, we should regard
the future as equally determined by the fact that it will happen.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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[Not
translated
in either Bohn or Ker]
LXII.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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There
must be force to
overcome
force if need be; the Slovak is strong and
rough, and he carries rude arms.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts,
In
fearless
youth we tempt the heights of Arts, 220
While from the bounded level of our mind
Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind;
But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise
New distant scenes of endless science rise!
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Alexander Pope |
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" Even those who have never heard of the term postmodernity are already
familiar
with the thing itself on such afternoons in a traffic jam.
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Sloterdijk |
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Shakuntala
appears in hermit garb, a
dress of bark (Act I).
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Some
held their hands behind them, some had them folded across their bosom,
and others had thrust them into their
breeches
pockets.
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Selection of English Letters |
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