It is a glossy skating rink,
On which winged spirals clasp and bend each other:
And suddenly slide
backwards
towards the centre,
After a too-brief release.
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To him it is but part of
the history of the development of
Teutonic
institutions throughout
Europe.
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at ben taken al so it is
necessarie
as
who so sei?
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It is an
ingredient
and the
section the whole section is one season.
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Aslongastheuniversitiewsere small,a certainmeasureofmutualcontroloftherepresentativeosfthe
But as a resultoftheincrease
possiblethrough
faculty.
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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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And yet to these new gods their shares
Who else than I wholly
distributed?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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wudu
bundenne
(_pushed the vessel from the land_),
215; dracan scufun .
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Beowulf |
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I've given her brandy with
gunpower in it, a thing, they say, that creates a
distaste
for
liquor, but that beast, did it affect her that way?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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I
scarce
remember
more than one lady of title, and but very few lords (and
these unessential) in all your tales.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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If one wants to immerse one- self into the real socialist philistinism, one should focus on the mechanisms of subordination within the German
authoritarian
state around 1900.
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This spirit of self-reliance took hold of the Polish
youth also, and was very palpable in the Kingdom of
Poland, in Russia-Poland, and formed a powerful bond
among the Polish youths in several
prominent
points.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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It was therefore
unfitting
that Christ's body should come forth
from His Mother's closed womb: and consequently that she should remain
a virgin in giving birth to Him.
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Summa Theologica |
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I'm good at
spotting
people who don't belong.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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Seward in Stoker), 10 (Minnie Tipp + poets in Bermann), II (Mademoiselle Lust + Faust in Valery), and their
numerous
successors (Breidenbach, Bronnen, Gaupp, Heilbut, Kafka, Keun) are anything but fictive.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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But we can
recapture
that sense
of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.
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was not enough that poor Lucy was to be weaned all at once
from the joys and benefits of the friendly intercourse which habit
had made a sweet
necessity
to her But she had to wear a mask,
and act a part too cruelly at variance with her feelings.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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Masther
Hardress
made no more, only
up with the stick, and without saying this or that, or by your
leave, or how do you do, he stretched him.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Greatly, indeed, did Phoebus rejoice as the belted
warriors
of Enyo danced with the yellow-haired Libyan women, when the appointed season of the Carnean feast came round.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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It was clear, and brimful of clear thoughts; however, nothing in him was moved by cause, purpose, or physical desire, but everything went rippling out in circle after ever-renewed circle, as when an
infinite
jet falls on abasin's surface.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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Hephaestus
wedded Aphrodite and Aglaia, and was a virgin-birth of Hera who cast him from Olympus.
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Pattern Poems |
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I,
however, am the
stronger
of the two—: thou
knowest not mine abysmal thought!
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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The day is yet early, and a stroll through the city, a call upon friends, a gossip at some public office, and in a cafe, another glance through the Newspapers, an overhaul of the letters from Rome, from Naples, from Turin, from Madrid, which the post has brought, and the Correspondent is ready to prepare his more elaborate
despatch
for the five o'clock post.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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I thought we
were not
following
the road we had come, on our return to the
_Nautilus_.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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Yigal Holwitz, stated that if it were not for the withdrawal from the oil fields, Israel would have a
positive
balance of payments (9/17/80).
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11 Brecht and Sandberger argue - in 'Hegels
Begegnung
mit der Theologie im Tu?
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Hegel_nodrm |
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Why it was unconscious is quite
another
question
which would lead us far away from the answer which,
though within my knowledge, belongs elsewhere.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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Could she forget me, to rail not,
Nought were amiss ; if now scold she, or if she revile,
'Tis not alone to
remember
; a shrewder stimulus arms
her, 5
Anger ; her heart doth burn verily, thus to revile.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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What was the ultimate outcome of
this
philosophic
eroticism of Plato's?
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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Las uni dades simbióticas son conformadoras de mundo siempre en sí y para sí, junto a grupos-modeladores-de-mundo que hacen lo mismo a su manera y con los que
aquéllas
están constreñidas bajo el principio del co-aislamien- to, formando un ensamblaje interactivo.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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Another major question is the restoration of
international
trade, for Burma is the world's leading rice exporter.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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" When the dolphin is brought
on deck, every body is around to watch it change its colours; and
though poets may have rather heightened the description, yet the
scene must be
witnessed
to appreciate it.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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This has
happened
with Amazon Kindle, where Amazon funnels Kindles through their cloud servers.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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In the library I found, to my great delight, a vast number of English
books, whole shelves full of them, and bound volumes of
magazines
and
newspapers.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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She rose to his requirement, dropped
The playthings of her life
To take the
honorable
work
Of woman and of wife.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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An example of a more
worrisome
adoption of this type of ego-ideal in a high-scoring man is the following:
Mp: (Worries?
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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After the death of Alexander, his empire was divided between many different rulers, and the
Ptolemaei
became kings of Egypt and Alexandria.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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Fulvius,
the proconsul, in his petition for a triumph, but with-
drew his opposition chiefly through the influence of
his
colleague
Ti.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:08 GMT / http://hdl.
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Thereupon
all the gods turned away their eyes from the sight, and next moment Justice handed him over to the Avengers who hurled him into Tartarus.
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Roman Translations |
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"
XIX
WHAT
HAPPENED
TO THEM AT SURINAM AND HOW CANDIDE GOT ACQUAINTED WITH
MARTIN.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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Tu
proverai
sì come sa di sale
Lo pane altrui, e com'è duro calle
Lo scendere e 'l salir per l'altrui scale.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Everybody
suffers that little
bit sooner or later, and it grows sharper the longer it is put off.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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Et dans le vieux logis tout est tiede et vermeil:
Des sombres
vetements
ne jonchent plus la terre,
La bise sous le seuil a fini par se taire.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But Britain,
changeful
as a child at play,
Now calls in princes, and now turns away.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Aristippus
means say, that differs much
disposition
from Cari
sophus, Jack the arrowsmith varies quality from bolt arrow his own making.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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These were the first who wore the gallant bow and arrow-holding quivers on their shoulders; their right
shoulders
bore the quiver strap,48 and always the right breast showed bare.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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'Tis not a Cloud from whence swift Lightnings fly;
But Iupiter, that
thunders
from the Sky:
Nor a rough Storm, that gives the Sailor pain;
But angry Neptune, plowing up the Main:
Echo's no more an empty Airy Sound;
But a fair Nymph that weeps, her Lover drown'd.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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In clean hay, a Polish
Christmas
story.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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There are a few
things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works
even without
complying
with the full terms of this agreement.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Imagists |
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Peerdom or the field marshal's baton has thus been
conferred
on writers
who, in normal times, would still have a long time to wait for such honors.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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inventor of the art of
soldering
metals.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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I watched and waited with a
steadfast
will:
And though the object seemed to flee away
That I so longed for, ever day by day
I watched and waited still.
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Christina Rossetti |
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10, 12] And they often indeed admire the judgments of heaven, love the announcements of their
heavenly
country, when they hear them, are astounded at the wondrous operations of His inward ordaining, but yet neglect to attain to these words by their love and their lives.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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The three stood in the
lamplight
round the table
With lowered eyes a moment till he said,
"I'll just see how the horses are.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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Sun so
generous
it shall be you!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Still in their lair the cubs and she-bear,[Q] who
Rough pasturage and sour in May have met,
With mad rage gnash their teeth and talons whet,
And vengeance of past loss on us pursue:
While this new grief disheartens and appalls,
Replace not in its sheath your honour'd sword,
But, boldly following where your fortune calls,
E'en to its goal be glory's path explored,
Which fame and honour to the world may give
That e'en for
centuries
after death will live.
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Petrarch |
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Above the altar, to Saint Sevrin endowed,
Stands the olifant, with golden pieces bound;
All the
pilgrims
may see it, who thither crowd.
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Chanson de Roland |
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According to these authorities, Ajātaçatru was succeeded by
his son Udāyin, a prince, who may have reigned for a considerable time, and
who was a firm
upholder
of the Jain religion.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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Proceed
further in them, and learn the
remainder
if thou canst.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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Dans tous
les salons on ne parle que du
portrait
de Machard, on n’est pas chic,
on n’est pas pur, on n’est pas dans le train, si on ne donne pas son
opinion sur le portrait de Machard.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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Tomorrow the high
mountains
part us, Lost again in the world.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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Still they
moved on--something better was yet in view; and by a continued exertion
of strength and ingenuity they found
themselves
at last in the passage
behind the highest bench.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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We call a man "honest"; we ask, why
has he acted so
honestly
to-day?
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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My
November
Guest
He is in love with being misunderstood.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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Ut trucis
intentet
mihi vulnera Cauda Draconis ;
Vipereo levet ut vulnere more caput.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The grain and oil of all countries lay in her docks--the
storehouses of the state provisions, which were in charge of a special
prefect who had under his orders a whole corporation of
overseers
and
clerks.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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For I hope that men generally will come to understand how much all the world hates cruelty, and how much it loves integrity and clemency, and that the blessings most eagerly sought and coveted by the bad
ultimately
find their way to the good.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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" said Brutus; "and who was the Caius Rusius you are
speaking
of?
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Cicero - Brutus |
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But in the perusal of works of
literary art, we prepare ourselves for such language; and the business
of the writer, like that of a painter whose subject requires unusual
splendour and prominence, is so to raise the lower and neutral tints,
that what in a
different
style would be the commanding colours, are
here used as the means of that gentle degradation requisite in order to
produce the effect of a whole.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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228 ORATIONOF
myfelf even in a Body of Troops feledled from the reft of our
Army for their Courage, that I was crowned by our
Generals
in
the Field, and a fecond Time by the People, when I returned
to Athens.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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I
In the relations of states, with competition unregulated, war
occasionally
occurs.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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One could meditate
directly
on Mahamudra right from the beginning with diligence and attain Buddhahood.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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Further,--certain
functions
demand greater intelligence
and powers; then there are people of superior mind and talent.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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Massinger
and Field,
_Fatal Dowry_ 4.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But from
this depression of spirits he was much relieved by the encouragement of
John of Florence, one of the
secretaries
of the Pope, a man of learning
and probity.
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Petrarch |
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358
Soon landed on the Gallic shore,
and tin parole allow'd to roam,
Hopeftll'd my faithful breast once more
With thoughts of thee and
peaceful
home.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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looked out between the man and the young
woman who were
standing
in front of him but was unable to find the
usher.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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the
commander
of the Paeonians in the Trojan | 123.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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Child Verse
ARCHERY
A BOW across the sky
-^^^ Another in the river,
Whence
swallows
upward fly,
Like arrows from a quiver.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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that she was never over-fond of the match, and entered
into the necessary
arrangements
with great coldness.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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He also revealed the resent- ment which he felt toward his parents for their role in
influencing
his decision.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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OF COURSE,
ANTIQUITY
ALREADY KNEW GREAT ACTS OF REVENGE.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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Therefore
honesty is not the same as virtue.
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Summa Theologica |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up,
nonproprietary
or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Keats - Lamia |
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university
scientifiacnd scholarlyanalysismustin
thefirstinstancebe
a critiqueofthe contemporarysociety.
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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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BY THE METHODOLOGY of pure practical reason we are not to under- stand the mode of proceeding with pure practical
principles
(whether in study or in exposition), with a view to a scientific knowledge of them, which alone is what is properly called method elsewhere in theoretical philosophy (for popular knowledge requires a manner, sci- ence a method, i.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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"
-Thomas Paine, 1791
What were the
international
effects of the American, Mexican, Turkish, and Chinese revolutions?
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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Gentlemen
never think what buttons and tape are made for.
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Kipling - Poems |
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suhrllekha"), ''There are many things that can harm our life, for it is
impermanent
like a bubble on water that can be burst by the wind.
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Whereupon
a million strove to answer him.
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Especially important in its consequences was the change in virtue of which neither the consul, nor even the otherwise
absolute
dictator, was permitted to touch the public treasure except with the consent and by the will of the senate.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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but of revising central
assumptions
in the Western philo- sophical tradition.
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In
thieving
thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high, surmounted by a cross-beam.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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There was, by chance, a fire
blazing on
Monadnock
that night, which lighted up the whole western
horizon, and, by making us aware of a community of mountains, made our
position seem less solitary.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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We may, if we like,
think that poetry would be more "natural" if it were
composed
by the
folk as the folk, and not by persons peculiarly endowed; and to think so
is doubtless agreeable to the notion that the folk is more important
than the individual.
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Michael Comerford's " Collec- tions relating to the
Dioceses
of Kildare and
48 The
"William F.
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Undying
evermore
is thy fire, nor ever doth the ash feed about the coals of yester-even.
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