If the passion of their partisans is any indication, translators are a
competitive
lot.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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The equally
important
Synod of Bourges (1031) decreed that no
layman should hold the land (feudum) of a priest in place of a priest, and
no layman ought to place a priest in a church, since the bishop alone
could bestow the cure of souls in every parish.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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Re-enter Caius Memmius, right;
Lucretius
and Eunomia,
left.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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How space quivers
Like an
enormous
kiss
That, wild to be born for no one, can neither
Burst out or be soothed like this.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What
immortal
hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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blake-poems |
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These
branches
of a stag, this tusky boar
(The first essay of arms untried before)
Young Micon offers, Delia, to thy shrine:
But, speed his hunting with thy power divine;
Thy statue then of Parian stone shall stand;
Thy legs in buskins with a purple band.
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Dryden - Complete |
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_25
Conquerors have
conquered
their foes alone,
Whose revenge, pride, and power they have overthrown
Ride ye, more victorious, over your own.
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Shelley copy |
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^ " How had you the boldness, my dear,
To propose to Miss Polliwog's
brother?
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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"I am Manfredi, grandson to the Queen
Costanza: whence I pray thee, when return'd,
To my fair daughter go, the parent glad
Of
Aragonia
and Sicilia's pride;
And of the truth inform her, if of me
Aught else be told.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Then halt at Mount Salˁ and ask at the curling vale of Raqmatayn:
Have the
tamarisks
grown and touched at last in the livening weep of the rain?
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Translated Poetry |
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volition of an end the
conception
of actions necessary to this end.
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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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In the emphatic essay, thought gets rid of the
traditional
idea of truth.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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This helps to keep the site as
available
as possible for visitors.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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Argument From The Points Of Their Commission
Lastly the points of their Commission, as they are expressely set down
in the Gospel, contain none of them any
authority
over the Congregation.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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For he was exceedingly covetous, and not scrupulous as to the means he
employed
for getting money, so that indeed no one was over less so.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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On
November
13th, 1895, I was brought
down here from London.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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He knows that its difficulties are not insurmount-
able, and he will
consider
them as recommendations
in its favor, rather than as arguments against itf
"Difficulty," says Dr.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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The last year has been
indecisive
in the economic field.
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NSC-68 |
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Let us now imagine the one great Cyclopean
eye of
Socrates
fixed on tragedy, that eye in which
the fine frenzy of artistic enthusiasm had never
glowed—let us think how it was denied to this
eye to gaze with pleasure into the Dionysian
abysses—what could it not but see in the " sublime
and greatly lauded" tragic art, as Plato called it?
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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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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Sallust - Catiline |
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Its
“reality”
lies in
.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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"
"You say he never
mentioned
us?
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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Then the mind can
recognize
its fundamental nature, realizing all dharmas as unborn [empty].
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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Meanwhile
the animals had chased
Jones and his men out on to the road and slammed the five-barred gate
behind them.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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May I not far behind me cast
Those things I buried in the Past,
And,
reaching
out to those before,
Serve thee with faithful heart the more ?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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_ Holyday quotes from
Brodæus
the price given to Terence
for his Eunuchus, viz.
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Satires |
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The work did not include Latin grammar, which con sequently cannot as yet have attained that formal develop ment which is implied in a
properly
scientific instruction in language; and it excluded music and the whole cycle of the mathematical and physical sciences.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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)
người
xã Dương Trạch huyện Đông Yên (nay thuộc tỉnh Hưng Yên).
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stella-03 |
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The fruitful isle of Crete, well known to fame,
Sacred of old to Jove's
imperial
name,
In the mid ocean lies, with large command,
And on its plains a hundred cities stand.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Yet the summit
of their pleasure is when this operation has been performed in the
heat and prime of manhood, and the only loss
sustained
is that the
surgeon Heliodorus cheats the barber of his fees.
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Satires |
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But however
insincere
_you_ may
choose to be, you shall not find _me_ so.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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Younger Contemporaries of Dryden:
George
Granville
(Lord Lansdowne); William Walsh.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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Aye, Poesy hath passed away,
And Fancy's visions
undeceive
us;
The night hath ta'en the place of day,
And why should passing shadows grieve us?
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John Clare |
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Then, at a
little distance within the walls, there is the Bijai Mandal, a terraced
tower-like structure which evidently formed part of a small palace
and which is noteworthy for the presence of horse-shoe arches
copied somewhat indifferently from Khalji prototypes, as well
as of
intersecting
vaulting which was afterwards to become a
characteristic feature of Tughluq architecture.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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But
Hera was jealous of that love, and by her ill will was Io given over
to frenzy, and her body took the semblance of a heifer: and Argus, a
many-eyed herdsman, was set by Hera to watch Io
whithersoever
she
strayed.
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Aeschylus |
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"
IV
Yes, I have a
thousand
tongues,
And nine and ninety-nine lie.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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'
Ati Yoga
This is also known as the Great
Completion
(rdzogs.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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[300] If white Io
command, she will go to the extremity of Egypt, and bring back water
fetched from scorching Meroë, to
sprinkle
on the temple of Isis, that
rears itself hard by the ancient sheepfold.
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Satires |
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Vestinus, The Second Altar
THE PATTERN POEMS,
TRANSLATED
BY J.
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Pattern Poems |
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A
translator
is to
be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Jason
Greeks,
undertook
the first bold maritime expedi succeeded by a stratagem in slaying the dragon,
tion to Colchis, a far distant country on the coast and on his return he secretly carried away Medeia
of the Euxine, for the purpose of fetching the with him.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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--if only this
obstinate
little person can get her
way!
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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My reply to the
question
respecting the quality
of my slaves was, that I did not think his lumber would suit me--that
I must have the cash for my negroes, and turned on my heel and left
him!
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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He constantly (tries to) keep them without
knowledge
and without
desire, and where there are those who have knowledge, to keep them
from presuming to act (on it).
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Tao Te Ching |
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I bent
My
footsteps
to the distant road.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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This process also includes Nietzsche’s escape from fatigue into violent affirmations and walks right past the Dionysian
revivals
as if bored by them.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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Widespread famine in
European
Russia.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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For as Apollo each eve doth devise
A new appareling for western skies;
So every eve, nay every spendthrift hour
Shed balmy
consciousness
within that bower.
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Keats |
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The glow that
succeeds to the
plentiful
use of this de-
lightful element, will amply repay you
'for the first chilling sensation which it
may occasion.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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_L' aere gravato, e l'
importuna
nebbia.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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”
“Scout,” said Atticus, “nigger-lover is just one of those terms that don’t mean
anything—like
snot-nose.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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—
concerning
the criticism of big words, xiv.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
|
This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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"Where is thy master,
scornful
page,
That we may slay or bind him?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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He is a villain, but he
is a man; and there are probably lesser
villains
who are rather
poorer personages as men.
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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THREE spirits came to me And drew me apart
To where the olive boughs
Lay
stripped
upon the ground : Pale carnage beneath bright mist.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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The courtly state was about to leave behind the difference between the
nobility
and the people--which was based on social rank and was responsible for the failure of classical ideas of republican "liberty.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
|
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Source: |
America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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Bell
concluded: 'Of 43 studies carried out since 1927 on the
relationship
between religious belief and one's intelligence and/or educational level, all but four found an inverse connection.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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That word, if I am not mistaken, is put there as a sort of
salutation which the god addresses to those who enter the temple;
as much as to say that the ordinary
salutation
of "Hail!
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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He
proved, that, in all the essentials of art, no less than in the truth of
nature, the Plays of Shakespeare were incomparably more coincident
with the principles of Aristotle, than the productions of Corneille
and Racine,
notwithstanding
the boasted regularity of the latter.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Believing that my success
depended
greatly upon this bunch of hair, I
was bent on having a lock before I left that night let it cost what it
might.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Today the public, in
relation
to the writer, is in a state of passiveness: it waits for ideas or a new art form to be im- posed upon it.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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It is apparent that she takes great care of her hands,
and prides herself with some little vanity on keeping them white
and pretty, and the nails
polished
and of roseate hue.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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I was wrong, I acknowledge; for it is the fate of a woman 655
Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,
Till some
questioning
voice dissolves the spell of its silence.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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Small clouds float by in the blue sky, and
occasionally
a swallow
passes.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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_The Vasates_ or _Vocates_,
established
in the country of Bazas (the
south-east part of the department of the Gironde).
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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I looked at the dragon-pond, with its willow- coloured water
Just reflecting the sky's tinge,
And heard the five-score
nightingales
aimlessly
singing.
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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Indeed, the poet's deliberate
attitude
of
artificiality is dropped.
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Source: |
Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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For mixing this sand with chalk-stones they
construct
moles in the sea,
thus forming bays along the open coast, in which the largest transport
ships may safely ride.
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Strabo |
|
VI
Oh, if I had done nothing simply from
laziness!
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Source: |
Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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" More deep each dread ravine
And hideous hollow yawned, and sadly thus
Answered that hoar
associate
of the clouds:
"Spectre, I know not, I am always here.
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Hugo - Poems |
|
]
Sir William
Blackstone
(1723-1780)
An Analysis of the Laws of England.
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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YOU AGREE THAT THE
FOUNDATION, THE
TRADEMARK
OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT
WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL,
PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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Source: |
bede |
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A comparison of this work with the Lay of
Demodocus
("Odyssey"
viii, 266 ff.
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Source: |
Hesiod |
|
Ethics, which takes only the motive into account, rates both
cases alike: people generally estimate the first case as the worst
(because of the
consequences
which the deed of vengeance may entail).
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Source: |
Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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2:6 The husbandman that laboureth must be first
partaker
of the
fruits.
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Source: |
bible-kjv |
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She felt that her domicile was in a state of tremulous movement; all the things that had had to abandon their
customary
places because of the great event returned piece by piece, like a big wave ebbing from the sand in countless little hollowS and runnels.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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Under the rules of the Exchange, no
security
can
be so listed unless the corporation has a transfer
agent and registrar in New York City.
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Source: |
Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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Her studies with Irving were now
interwoven
with her
admiration for Carlyle.
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Source: |
Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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Aimé alla loger à côté de la villa de Mme
Bontemps; il fit la connaissance d'une femme de chambre, d'un loueur de
voitures chez qui
Albertine
allait souvent en prendre une pour la
journée.
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Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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Meanwhile
it seems likely that, at least during the early years of an individual's life, the model of self interacting with mother is the more influen- tial of the two.
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Source: |
A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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Or perhaps he had observed His
Majesty himself in some delicate
predicament!
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Source: |
Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
|
XV
The Main Front
We hear only too often that iaymen should
not interfere with
problems
of strategy.
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Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
|
His
catechism
at Embden
in Friesland was partly the basis for the
Heidelberg Catechism.
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Source: |
Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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Since all the
sentient
being among the six classes in the three realms have without exception been your own parents, unless you make pure aspirations with ceaseless compassion and bodhichitta, you cannot open the jewel mine of altruistic actions.
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Source: |
Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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I found, ten years ago, that there were a
number of writers doing work which appeared to me extremely good, but
which was narrowly known; and I thought that anyone, however
unprofessional and
meagrely
gifted, who presented a conspectus of it in
a challenging and manageable form might be doing a good turn both to the
poets and to the reading public.
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Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
In the text in question, prayoga signifies principal course of aaion: [at least when one envisions the moment which
immediately
follows the death of the animal; when one envisions the moments which follow this moment,
prayoga signifies, as the Vibhasa says, the consecutive aaion]
But how could the vijnapti of the moment when the animal is
already dead be the principal course of aaion?
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Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
|
Tiberia is waiting on you,
arrestocrank!
Guess: |
Empress |
Question: |
Pardon me? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
|
_On the Banks of the Sumida_
Windy evening of autumn,
By the grey-green swirling river,
People are resting like still boats
Tugging
uneasily
at their cramped chains.
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Source: |
John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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El fracaso, en el que se im- pone lo general, le parece al individuo un estado en el que se halla
excluido
de lo general; el que perdio?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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—Nowadays we do not
even need this
compromise
any longer.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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So
fragrant
'tis, you'll cry, I know:
"Gods, make me nose from top to toe.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, 80
Irrecoverably
dark, total Eclipse
Without all hope of day!
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Milton |
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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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Sallust - Catiline |
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The Year-Book of daily recreation and information
concerning
remark-
able men and manners, times and seasons.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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And they describe friendship itself as a certain
communion
of the things which concern life, since we use our friends as ourselves.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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)
BY THE AUTHOR OF
"EARLY ENGLISH
ALLITERATIVE
POEMS.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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