To what remote
corner or what enormous stage, to what self-sacrificing drudgeries or
what
resounding
exploits, would the hand of God lead him now?
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"I
wonder why
grandmother
looks at the withered flower in the old book
that way?
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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One should revolve round one's self, have no
desire to be" better” or
“anything
else" at all than
one is.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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The fundamental errors of the biologists who
have lived hitherto : it is not a matter of the
species, but of rearing
stronger
individuals (the
many are only a means).
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Pardon me, I am not
speaking
about this.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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James
Laughlin
iv wrote me that he wants to have our poems for his
review of 1938.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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'"This magic mineral Radium Water has more
miraculous
and wonder- ful cures to its credit than any other known agency.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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Then why art thou silent, Kathleen
mavourneen?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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seemed to promise
something
more
vol.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Oftentimes they bear nakedness, abjectness
- 634 -
[dejectionem], hunger, for the sake of acquiring riches and honours, and they torment
themselves
with the stinting of those things, which they are in such haste to obtain; but from seeking with hearty endeavour the things that are above, they excuse themselves the more, in proportion as they imagine them to be more slowly paid back.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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[112] When he beheld me,
heartless
man!
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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"There's
certainly
too much pepper in that soup!
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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12
Augustine
writes in his Confessions:
"Butwhile he is speaking, Lord, you turned my attention back to myself.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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Lear is careful
to disclaim the credit of having created this type, for he tells us in the
preface to his third book that "the lines beginning, 'There was an old man
of Tobago,' were
suggested
to me by a valued friend, as a form of verse
leading itself to limitless variety for Rhymes and Pictures.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
His cornel javelin poised with regal port,
To the sage Greeks
convened
in Themis' court,
Forth-issuing from the dome the prince repair'd;
Two dogs of chase, a lion-hearted guard,
Behind him sourly stalked.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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bodhichitta
is the seed of all Buddha-dharmas".
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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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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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are confirmed as not protected by
copyright
in
the U.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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You must, therefore,
commence
with the philosophic idea of the thing,
the true nature of which you wish to find out and manifest.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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To
understand
Foucault's work in this way, however, also means that we have to recognize how central the question of freedom is to this project.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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The King called a third Parliament, and soon
perceived
that the
opposition was stronger and fiercer than ever.
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Macaulay |
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It is now
expedient
to give some description of Mrs.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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, that I should
as loon have
expected
to have found a
dagger there: indeed, Pekin, this con-
duct of yours has wounded my peace,
' destroyed my hopes, and sapped the very
foundation of my frieodjbip.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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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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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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for Isabey, who straightway
ing (11), and a number of good colour-studies
Collection
includes one of ‘Le Chancelier commenced a portrait of him, but the over-
for stage scenery.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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'"
(See the 'Gaelic
Topography
of Scotland', by James A.
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William Wordsworth |
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In your
patience
ye are strong, cold and heat ye take not wrong--
_Toll slowly.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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into notions of modern subjectivity, central to
poststructuralist
debates of the period.
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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Written by some of the most
Approved
Wits of the
Age, viz.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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Nepomuc was
installed
the guardian of
bridges, because he had fallen over one, and sunk out of sight; thus
too St.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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Quickly, he came walking, took the woman on his arms, carried her into
the boat, the boy ran along, and soon they all reached the hut, were
Siddhartha stood by the stove and was just
lighting
the fire.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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Colonel Forster will, I dare say, do
everything
in
his power to satisfy us on this head.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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And it was at this moment, as I
stood there with the rifle in my hands, that I first grasped the hollowness, the
futility
of
the white man’s dominion in the East.
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Orwell |
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How swift upon the
thought!
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Euripides - Electra |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Apostoli
Linformasi
S.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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The passionate tenacity of hunters,
woodmen, early risers, cultivators of gardens and orchards and fields, the
love of healthy women for the manly form, seafaring persons, drivers of
horses, the passion for light and the open air, all is an old varied sign
of the unfailing perception of beauty, and of a
residence
of the poetic, in
outdoor people.
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Whitman |
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5*6#+"#
#+#%
"" #1!
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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Heading it is anthracite coal, not of course a
manufactured article but so important to Britain
that the association's investigators were moved to
include it and to note that "Russia has always been
more or less a normal
supplier
of certain Mediter-
ranean markets, but in recent times has displaced us
in Italy and in the last year had made a determined
attack at very low prices in the American and Ca-
nadian markets and more recently sent consignments
into France, Belgium and Germany.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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[And mistakingly printed 'ic' as Midland or Northern 'ic', instead of the
Southern
'ich'.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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But the writer of the novel stands with a pen in his
hand, and can run any of them through the body,- can knock
down any one
individual
and keep the others upon their legs;
or like the last scene in the first tragedy written by a young
man of genius, can put them all to death.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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So our little menu has a little
something
from here and a little something from there.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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306 Chapter Two
are not equal and
immediately
antecedent conditions of the mind leaving the absorption, even though they are immediately contigous to it (nirantara, see p.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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It is situated in a very lofty spot, and is fortified with many towers, which have been built up to the very top of immense stones, with the object, as we were informed, of [101]
guarding
the temple precincts, so that if there were an attack, or an insurrection or an onslaught of the enemy, no one would be able to force an entrance within the walls that surround the temple.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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The minister estimated the damage done to his
character
at £10,000, a sum which was reduced in the verdict to £150.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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But thou, Maiden, even earlier, while yet but three years old, when Leto came bearing thee in her arms at the bidding of
Hephaestus
that he might give thee handsel12 and Brontes13 set thee on his stout knees – thou didst pluck the shaggy hair of his great breast and tear it out by force.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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org
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited
donations
from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Die Purpurschnecken kriechen aus zerbrochenen Schalen
Und speien Blut in
Dorngewinde
starr und grau.
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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When the coffin has been let down into the grave, the chief mourner
presents
the (ruler's) gifts (to the dead in the grave[2]), and the officer of prayer (returns beforehand) to give notice of the sacrifice of repose[3] to him who is to personate the departed.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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Without someone to give satisfactory instinctual
gratifications
the infant cannot find his body, nor can he develop an integrated personality.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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Mark the
consequence
of warming
This brood of northern vipers in your bosom.
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Shelley |
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rumble John, mount the steps with a groan,
Cry the book is with heresy cramm'd;
Then out wi' your ladle, deal
brimstone
like aidle,
And roar ev'ry note of the damn'd.
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burns |
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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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Stephen Crane |
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Kẻ sĩ và dân chúng
Trường
An đâu đâu cũng tụ tập đến xem, đều ca ngợi Thánh thượng chuộng Nho xưa nay hiếm thấy.
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stella-01 |
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but girls are
infinitely more so, especially to nervous
gentlemen
with tyran-
nical tempers, and no more talent for teaching than “Dr.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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Hillis Miller for having called my attention to the need for elabo- rating more the
distinction
between catachresis and metonymy--a distinction that, as will be seen, is crucial for my analysis.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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The Amer- ican rightist
movement
was cited as an instance of totalitarian minds not fitting within their socio-politi- cal milieu.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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Is Heaven a
physician?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Wherefore making the more haste,
we lighted upon an old man and a youth, who were very busy in making a
garden and in
conveying
water by a channel from the fountain into it:
whereupon we were surprised both with joy and fear: and they also were
brought into the same taking, and for a long time remained mute.
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Lucian - True History |
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The ayah being gone, little Rhoda soon ceased to be afraid of
Dolly; the kind, merry, helpful little playmate, who remained be-
hind, frisking along the
passages
and up and down the landing-
places of Church House.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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Now there were some
Who gathered great heaps--
Having
opportunity
and skill--
Until, behold, only chance blossoms
Remained for the feeble.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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"They pluck in their terror
handfuls
of plumes from the imperial Eagle, and with no greater credit in consequence than that they face, keeping their equipoise, the awful bloody beak that turns upon them .
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Let us except Don Quixote, however,
although the second part of that
transcendant
work is not exactly _uno
flatu_ with the original conception.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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against such an
insignificant
object as myself; but then I was
ready to die at the sight of a gendarme.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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, have been
successively
stated to
have edited this volume.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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r ;
; i;ij; j ;;+ ; iii+si e lriEfitia ;it
i+ i ;Eriri
E:
*Eti{Esr?
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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_Charles
Hamilton
Sorley_
_June 12, 1915_
"HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE"
Nay, nay, sweet England, do not grieve!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I forgive your blunt Laconic way;
It shall be seen, it shall this very day,
Who would
preserve
your life, and who betray.
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Dryden - Complete |
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The
relations
between Author and Publisher
in the Seventeenth Century.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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She turned her
despairing
eyes
around upon the circle of strangers.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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Islamic fund managers controlled $60 billion as of 2014 on annual double-digit expansion and have
attracted
socially-responsible mandates.
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Kleiman International |
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If I had
addressed
myself direct to thee, I
"' should have escaped much trouble, and thou too.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Christianity cannot be sufficiently condemned
for having depreciated the value of a great cleansing
Nihilistic movement (like the one which was pro bably in the process of formation), by its teaching
of the
immortality
of the private individual, as
also by the hopes of resurrection which it held out: that is to say, by dissuading people from perform
ing the deed of Nihilism which is suicide.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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With thilk a force he hyt hym to the grounde; 275
And was demasing howe to take his life,
When he behynde received a ghastlie wounde
Gyven by de Torcie, with a stabbyng knyfe;
Base
trecherous
Normannes, if such actes you doe,
The conquer'd maie clame victorie of you.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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He chose a new and
a tough spear, lest the wood of the former might have been
strained in the
previous
encounters he had sustained.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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All moods may be safely
tried, and their weight allowed to all objections: the moral sentiment
as easily
outweighs
them all, as any one.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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* 1975 The Great
American
Book of Sidewalk, Stoop, Dirt, Curb, and Alley Games.
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Childens - Folklore |
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For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Vincent or Father Luca, and others among my
subjects
who knew him told me that they felt he had weathered the experience much better than they had.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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The
German State must, of course, speak German only;
but it will always practise the mild regulations it
has adopted in the mixed
districts
of Posen and
Schleswig-Holstein.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Aristotle maintains, like the adherents of the second
theory, that a corporeal object cannot be
produced
without a cor-
poreal substance.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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All join the chase, but few the triumph share:
The Grave shall bear the
chiefest
prize away,
And Havoc scarce for joy can cumber their array.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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This is the only correct
statement
of his opinion; for
dogmatic atheism he looked upon as absurd; as most of those, whom the
world has considered Atheists, have always done.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:20 GMT / http://hdl.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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Self-reflection as a
spiritual
exercise in Philo's sense of
askesis, however, cannot help but be transformed, in Luther's under
standing of God's making humans just through grace, by the sense that we do not discover theWord of God but that theWord discovers
us.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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jla^s, u^t | juva^t |
pa^sta^s
| ove?
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of North of Boston, by Robert Frost
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Robert Burns- |
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Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:30 GMT / http://hdl.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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She is a past
president
of the American Academy of Religion and is a founding coeditor of the journal Teaching Theology and Religion.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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204)
suggests
that the printer took ''twas
not' with 'this soule'.
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Donne - 2 |
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In the
presence
of my friends I sobbed and cried.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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It looked like nothing but a hog, which lay
wallowing
in the marble basin, and filled it from brim to brim.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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But, while dwelling in this life, they cannot remain long in divine contemplation, but, as if like locusts, they catch
themselves
on their feet from the leap they have given, when, after the sublimities of contemplation, they return to the necessary doings of active life; but yet are not content to remain in the same active life.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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,Jewish and
Christian
Se -De nition, p.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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There is also an extensive
literature
dealing with the
relations of Voltaire's tragedies (Brutus, La Mort de César, Zaire, etc.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Taurina is in Thebes,
When
Swellfoot
wishes that she were in hell!
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Shelley |
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as Hamlet, it is almost
impossible
to 'cut' without loss—to the
intelligent and unhasting reader, at any rate, if not to the eager
or restless spectator.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Miss Nancy
Ellicott
smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Note: The
Scythians
at the extreme end of the Empire in Roman times were regarded as living barbaric lives (See Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto).
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Ronsard |
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After which, by the addition of a few years, and a superior understanding, she became, and continued all her life, a most prudent economist; yet still with a strong bent to the liberal side, wherein she gratified herself by avoiding all expense in clothes (which she never
despised)
beyond what was merely decent.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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