Her advice was always the best, and with the
greatest
freedom, mixed with the greatest decency.
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The young en-
sign, however, did not live long enough
to repeat the folly of his conduct ; for a
violent cold settled upon his lungs when
he had been about five months married,
which brought on a rapid decline, and
he died whilst on a visit to his asfectionate
sitter,
recommending
his wife and her
expected
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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In infinite succession light and
darkness
shift,
And years vanish like the morning dew.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Undisturbed by such predecessors,
we venture the following
exposition
of the phenomena alluded to.
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To be
published
at an early date by ALFRED A.
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1898), 499
* Bellamy's,' in Dickens’s ‘Parliamentary
Sketch,' 309
Bellingham, Northumberland, 129
Benedix, Roderich, Aschenbrödel, 272
Benkhausen, chevalier George de, 55
Benlowes, Edward, 218
Bennett, William Cox (1820–1895), 499
Benson, Thurston, in Mrs Gaskell's
Ruth, 372
Benthamism, 22
Bentinck, lord George, 353
Bentley's Miscellany, 315, 316
Beowulf, 127
Berkshire, 367
Berlin, 385
Bernard, Charles de, 283
of Clugny or Morlaix, De Con-
temptu Mundi, 172, 173
William Bayle (1807–1875), 517
Doge of Venice, The, 266
Marie Ducange, 266
Passing Cloud, The, 266
Round of Wrong, The, 266
Berners, Isopel, Borrow's, 442
Bernstein, baroness, in The Virginians,
298
Berry, Mrs, George Meredith's, 447
Berwick-on-Tweed, 372
Besant, Sir Walter (1836–1901), 438,
560; All Sorts and Conditions of Men,
458
Betsey, Miss, in David Copperfield, 327
Betteridge, Wilkie Collins's, 438
Bexley heath, 119
Bible, the, 102; Ecclesiastes, 138;
Revelation of St John, The, 139
Biffen, in Gissing's New Grub Street, 460
Bigg, John Stanyan (1828–1865), 499
Birchington, near Margate, 112
Birmingham, 119, 427
Bishop, Sir Henry Rowley (1786-1855),
264
Bismarck, Prince von, 20
Black, William (1841-1898), 431, 560;
Daughter of Heth, A, 432; Macleod
of Dare, 432; Strange
Adventures
of
a Phaeton, The, 432
Blackmore, Richard Doddridge (1825-
1900), 560; Lorna Doone, 434, 435;
Springhaven, 435
Blackwood, Helen Selina, countess of
Dufferin.
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transformed Nietzsche into a philosopher: the
Apollonian
in him sus- pected that he was at bottom only a Dionysian ?
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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Then suddenly an aged man, whose rags
Were yellow as the rainy sky, whose looks
Should have brought alms in floods upon his head,
Without the misery gleaming in his eye,
Appeared
before me; and his pupils seemed
To have been washed with gall; the bitter frost
Sharpened his glance; and from his chin a beard
Sword-stiff and ragged, Judas-like stuck forth.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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It was very touching, and even the theatre tickets,
which he would regularly send her from then on, would not be enough to
repay her, but he really did not feel, now, that it was right for him
to visit her in her lodgings and hold
conversations
with a little,
eighteen year old schoolgirl.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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Users are free to copy, use, and
redistribute
the work in part or in whole.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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It has drawn Muslims into
perilous
paths and has diverted
them from activities more useful and work more beneficial lying
before them in the domain of the arts and sciences, in the sphere of
law and politics.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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And now they
homeward
turn'd, and cry'd 1800.
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William Wordsworth |
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We see these men prosing in their ancient style before the
judges; but we see them left without an audience,
deserted
by the
people, and hardly endured by their clients.
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Tacitus |
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Aye,
and if you please, you may suppose that prophecy, which is the knowledge
of the future, will be under the control of wisdom, and that she will
deter
deceivers
and set up the true prophets in their place as the
revealers of the future.
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by that name of Eve--
Thine Eve, thy life--which suits me little now,
Seeing that I now confess myself thy death
And thine undoer, as the snake was mine,--
I do adjure thee, put me straight away,
Together
with my name!
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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D'autres fois, je restais couché, rêvant aussi longtemps que je le
voulais, car on avait ordre de ne jamais entrer dans ma chambre avant
que j'eusse sonné, ce qui, à cause de la façon incommode dont avait
été posée la poire électrique au-dessus de mon lit,
demandait
si
longtemps, que, souvent, las de chercher à l'atteindre et content
d'être seul, je restais quelques instants presque rendormi.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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If he is wise he will
probably
concentrate attention on a limited aspect of a limited problem.
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Manitius: Beitrage zur
Geschichte
des Ovid im Mittelalter.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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" Thus
it is obvious that, feeling the need of something
in his teaching which would replace the meta-
physics of former beliefs, he applied the doctrine
of Eternal
Recurrence
to this end.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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As two gibbering night-birds flit
From their bowers of deadly yew
Through the night to
frighten
it,
When the moon is in a fit,
And the stars are none, or few:-- _10
3.
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Shelley copy |
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"
That night destroyed me like an avalanche;
One night turned all my summer back to snow:
Next morning not a bird upon my branch,
Not a lamb woke below,--
No bird, no lamb, no living breathing thing;
No
squirrel
scampered on my breezy lawn,
No mouse lodged by his hoard: all joys took wing
And fled before that dawn.
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squirrel |
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Christina Rossetti |
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Strepsiades, discovering ceptible movements of the passion of love
the
delicate
shades and almost imper-
that the lessons of Socrates are too much
could be an inexhaustible source of in-
for him, sends his clever son to take his
terest on the stage.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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Hence the un-Sunday-like demeanor of the procession, for few towns
held it more unseemly to stand and stare at passers-by,
especially
on
the Sabbath.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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Sleep, sleep, my
worshipped
One!
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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"--Just your own,
my little dear,--
There's his picture Copley painted: we became so well acquainted,
That--in short, that's why I'm grandma, and you
children
all
are here!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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He was the most formidable of the kings of that period, and died in Phrygia after all the other rulers attacked him out of fear of him, in the fourth year of the 119th
Olympiad
[301 B.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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No single rule by which the judgment of taste must subsume its objects, not even the
totality
of these rules, has anything to say about the dignity of an artwork.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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The indescribable
innocence
and beneficence of Nature,- of
Isun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,- such health, such
cheer, they afford forever!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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As his two tragedies
show, as is shown by many passages in his comedies, and again
and again in his lyrics, the thing he could do supremely well was to
turn the lifelessness of the
classics
into terms of contemporary vitality.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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Counterintuitive
thinking, I argue, has a chance of acquiring the status and the merit of riskful thinking, because it can engage in thought experiments whose uncertain outcome has the potential for innovation.
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•
Sometimes at
nightfall
we go and sit beside that Auteuil
pond, which we have taken to loving for its silence, and its old
trees that bathe their branches in its sleeping waters.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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At first he hesitated, and was very unwilling to answer: then he said
that he thought
temperance
was doing things orderly and quietly, such
things for example as walking in the streets, and talking, or anything
else of that nature.
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The capability of the American economy to support a build-up of economic and military strength at home and to assist a build-up abroad is limited not, as in the case of the Soviet Union, so much by the ability to produce as by the decision on the proper
allocation
of resources to this and other purposes.
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The former lay near Ballin- garry, and the latter near
Limerick
city.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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10
Accusato Ruggier dal proprio scudo,
ne la città di
Novengrado
resta
prigion d'Ungiardo, il più d'ogni altro crudo,
che fa di ciò maravigliosa festa.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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In vain had Aristotle protested that all reality
is individual: the
Platonic
theory, that all knowledge is of ideas or
universals, prevailed, with the result that the highest knowledge was
held to be knowledge of that which is absolutely universal, viz.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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S he deferred
the
performance
as long as possible, and began to be uneasy
at his absence; when she came on the stage, however, she
perceived him, though he sat in a remote part of the hall,
and the pain of having waited redoubled her j oy.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Même
ne connaissais-je pas sa meilleure amie,
Andrée?
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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It was
not
determined
until a little before the meeting of
Parliament; but it was determined, and the main
lines of their own plan marked out, before that
meeting.
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be
considered
as their master.
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"
"Good
gracious!
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Kipling - Poems |
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If, on the other hand, in the midst of
difficulties
we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.
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As a system it
reproduces
its present step by step.
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Antony,
standing
at the prow, demanded of him, " Who is this that pursues Antony ?
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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Thus we find in the Museum Collection " The Marine Mercury, or a true relation of the strange appearance of a Man Fish about three miles within the river Thames, having a musket in one hand and a petition in the other,
credibly
reported by six sailors, who both saw and talked with the monster, whose names here following are inserted.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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"Do you see two
hillocks
inland ?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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Rebellious Barbary had found a
champion
and openly threw off the
Latin yoke.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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That cannot
have
happened
in the ordinary course, surely?
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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The struggle then included the weak
biological
sites of partners to the conflict.
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Farannan, Abbot of of which place he is
regarded
as the patron.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of the South,
Who had an immoderate mouth;
But in
swallowing
a dish that was quite full of Fish,
He was choked, that Old Man of the South.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Here as I lay, and swelled with tears the flood,
Before my sight a watery virgin stood:
She stood and cried, ' Oh, you that love in vain,
Fly hence, and seek the fair
Leucadian
main!
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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In
answering
the German statements, Mr.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in
paragraph
1.
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And thus, in the words
of Charles Devas, "We have of late years, with
perverse
ingenuity, been
preparing the way for the low birth-rate of irreligion and the high
death-rate of civil disorder.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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O we live, O we live--
And this life that we conceive
Is a noble thing and high,
Which we climb up loftily
To view God without a stain;
Till,
recoiling
where the shade is,
We retread our steps again,
And descend the gloomy Hades
To resume man's mortal pain.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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Instead of that, me frantick love detains,
'Mid foes, and dreadful darts, and bloody plains:
While you--and can my soul the tale believe,
Far from your country, lonely wand'ring leave
Me, me your lover, barbarous
fugitive!
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Samuel Johnson |
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Therefore, lest the ceremonies of the law hinder the Jews, Paul
teacheth
that Christ doth that which they were not able to do.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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Simaetha calls on Hecate
And hears the wild dogs at the gate;
Dost thou
remember
Sicily?
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Wilde - Poems |
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(_They seat themselves, and
the retinue
arranges
itself.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Of all the things I crave,
The
thousand
things, or all that others have,
What should I pray for?
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Euripides - Electra |
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This helps to keep the site as available as
possible
for visitors.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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Now wryteth, swete, and lat me thus not pleyne;
With hope, or deeth,
delivereth
me fro peyne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Vân rằng: Chị cũng nực cười,
Khéo dư nước mắt khóc
người
đời xưa.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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As soon as he found himself a powerful and
crowned king, his mind was wholly bent upon revenge; but he
quickly found the inconvenience of this, repented by degrees of
his indiscretion, and made sufficient reparation for his folly and
error by
regaining
those he had injured.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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If that force were in my love that once was, and that was
well, never had thine omnipotence denied me leave to withdraw Turnus
from battle and
preserve
him for his father Daunus in safety.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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221 But he conquered many
barbarians
and called the whole country under him Media,222 and marching against the Indians he met his death.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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Communications, it was true, had been interrupted between
Khartoum
and
Cairo, but no news was not necessarily bad news, and the little
information that had come through from General Gordon seemed to indicate
that he could hold out for months.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Below, Bede says that Oswy
concluded the war in the
district
of “Loidis,” by which he must mean
Leeds, as in II, 14, and most commentators adopt this view.
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bede |
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Analysis
of the Bengal Regulations.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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This is, incidentally, completely different from the positive circle of narcissistic reflec-
within which a seemingly material spirit loses itself and then rediscovers that identical self in order to perform, in the happy end, dances of jubilation around the golden idol of
I call this remarkably negative
structure
of self-knowledge the psychonautical Nietzsche's theatrical adventure into the theory of knowledge is intrinsi- cally implicated in it.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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]
necessarily
arrives at Orthodoxy.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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(1991) 'A history of psychodynamic psychiatry in Britain', in
A Textbook of Psychotherapy in
Psychiatric
Practice, J.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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Instructed that true knowledge leads to love,
True dignity abides with him alone
Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,
Can still suspect, and still revere himself,
In
lowliness
of heart.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The Muscovites sought an alliance
with Poland and elected his son "Vladislav
their czar; but
Sigismund
sought this crown
for himself.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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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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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works
possessed
in a physical medium
and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Milton |
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80
Civilitie we see refin'd: the kiss
Which at the face began, transplanted is,
Since to the hand, since to the Imperial knee,
Now at the Papal foot delights to be:
If Kings think that the nearer way, and do 85
Rise from the foot, Lovers may do so too;
For as free Spheres move faster far then can
Birds, whom the air resists, so may that man
Which goes this empty and Ætherial way,
Then if at
beauties
elements he stay.
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Donne - 1 |
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Were this true, it would not only be against
public decorum, but his own interest; although I did not
entertain
any
suspicion before.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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Susanna
Shakespeare
marries John Hall.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Besides
numerous
translations
of philosophical maxims,
moral anecdotes, etc.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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The Quinet
Sentence
4
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Lord
Macaulay
confirms, or perhaps am-
plifies, this judgment, when he says that Ovid "had
two insupportable faults: the one is, that he will al-
ways be clever; the other, that he never knows when
to have done.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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United Empire, at the same time coo- desc<1tding '" inform him ,hat
direcliom
foe his Patent had
been given.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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Nationalism has been a threat to liberalism historically in Germany, and continues to be one in isolated parts of "post-historical" Europe like
Northern
Ireland.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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THE MARATHAS INVADE BENGAL
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Murshid Quli's more
impetuous
son-in-law, Mirza Muhammad
Baqar Khan, descended of the royal house of Persia, lost patience
and on 16 February, 1741, crossed the river to attack, compelling
Murshid Quli Qhan to follow him.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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Faith Sir, we were carowsing till the second Cock:
And Drinke, Sir, is a great
prouoker
of three things
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The
animosity
of both
parties rose to the greatest height.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
He aimed to put himself into a book, not after the manner of the
gossiping essayist like Montaigne, but after the manner of poetic
revelation; and sought to make his pages give an
impression
analo-
gous to that made by the living, breathing man.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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In the temporal refraction of enlightenment, we distinguish a biographical and a
sociological
dimension.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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Different styles of theology and different epistemological frame conditions may be more or may be less generous in terms of allowing for the physical articulation (''incarnation'') of that which is
considered
to be primarily spiritual.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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As for the " School of Images/' which
may or may not have existed, its principles
were not so interesting as those of the
""
inherent dynamists or of Les Unani-
mistes, yet they were probably sounder than those of a certain French school
which attempted to dispense with verbs
altogether ; or of the Impressionists who
brought forth :
"
Pink pigs
blossoming
upon the hillside" ;
or of the Post-Impressionists who beseech their ladies to let down slate-blue hair
over their raspberry-coloured flanks.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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The measure and mean must be found in striving
to attain to something beyond mankind : the highest
and strongest kind of man must be
discovered!
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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If the speed is open, if the color is careless, if the
selection
of a
strong scent is not awkward, if the button holder is held by all the
waving color and there is no color, not any color.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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There on a shabby
building
was a sign
"The India Wharf " .
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Sara Teasdale |
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MAIDEN SPEECH OF THE AEOLIAN HARP
Soft and softlier hold me,
friends!
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Emerson - Poems |
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How welcome is its
delicate
overture
At evening, when the moist and glowing west
Seals all things with cool promise of night's rest.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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, that the short present with its clear association to Cartesian Subjectivity and its agency function does no longer exist, obliges us to ask whether we have not moved on to a new type of human self- reference that is less purely Cartesian*and all those desperate (and often not very intellectually elegant) attempts within the academic Humanities to ''recuperate the body'' are indeed clear
symptoms
for a similar change having occurred.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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