This noble man, on whom the others wait
(You see) is Pompey, justly call'd The Great:
Cornelia
followeth, weeping his hard fate,
And Ptolemy's unworthy causeless hate.
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Petrarch |
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Blessings in Disguise
Insulting Natural Defects
Put
Yourselves
in Others' Places
A Parable against Democracy : The Serpent's Tail and its Head .
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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21 The king entrusted Eratosthenes, a contemporary of Callimachus, with the
management
of this library.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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Burch's comments (1965) on "the meaning of
different
forms of forest play"
and his notion of "symbolic labor" among campers might be relevant in
analyzing children's play at camp.
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Childens - Folklore |
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Yet he gave freshness and
vividness
to the
familiar theme; and no predecessor was so delightful in the total
effect.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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l3b), mortal
transgression
(iv.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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GlaHco | et PSnb-|-_pl<< et | inoo
Melicerta?
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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what is 3992
couenable
to euery wy?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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And as for the Place, you are
confined
in a
small Compass as well as I, if you compare it to the Extent of the
whole World.
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Erasmus |
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And Hegel's Logic attempted to explicate precisely this presupposition, now applied to spirit, by means of epis-
temological
reflection, and to show how something which is effective
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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, in Classic
Preachers
of the English
Church, ed.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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"
While he was thus
lamenting
his fate, he went on eating.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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The
reference
here is to the campaign of 398 in which Eutropius succeeded in driving the Huns back behind the Caucasus.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Hartmann, Kritische Wanderung durch die
Philosophie
der Gegenwart.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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Possibly it would have been better if we had
designated
0111.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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447 (#479) ############################################
V
The Zupans in Lower Styria 447
during the 1S9 years, and, where there was formerly one, three or four
occupied the
paternal
inheritance either undivided or in divided estates.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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Even the notion of causality- the application, and consequently the signification, of which holds properly only in
relation
to phenomena, so as to connect them into experiences (as is shown by the Critique of Pure Reason)- is not so enlarged as to extend its use beyond these limits.
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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 |
|
I know the reputa-
tion which I bear
throughout
Europe, of loving
war, and I confess that it is my passion, but I
know its calamities, and I yield to the evidence.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Several writers,
including
Seneca and Martial, report that Apicius spent 100,000,000 sesterces on fancy foods and other extravagances.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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Your venerable vice dressed in silk,
and laughable virtue, with sad gaze,
gentle,
delighting
in the luxury it shows.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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THE STORY OF THE SWIMMER ISA
One of the most strange and amazing incidents of the siege was this: a Muslim swimmer called Isa used to come into the city by night with
messages
and money carried in his belt, eluding enemy surveillance.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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A blind
agitation
is manly and uttermost.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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En esa relación van incluidas, a la vez, todas las posibilidades que la tradición designa con
conceptos
so noros como amistad, amor, comprensión, consenso, concordia y communi- tas.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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Now they are left with very small forces, and it is our task to try at any cost to
exterminate
them, as a duty imposed upon us by God.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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For we have no strong evidence that the Larisa in the
plain of Caÿster was in
existence
at that time, nor even of the
existence of Ephesus.
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Strabo |
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)
người
xã Tiền Liệt huyện Bình Hà (nay thuộc xã Tân Phong huyện Thanh Hà tỉnh Hải Dương).
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stella-01 |
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Boundlesse intemperance
In Nature is a Tyranny: It hath beene
Th' vntimely
emptying
of the happy Throne,
And fall of many Kings.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Separated
from Egypt, iii.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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What
compounds
of Dico shorten the vowel i?
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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" wherein the
author endeavors to convince his readers that without
religion morality cannot have solid foundation; hence,
good and virtuous intentions of a
community
are flimsy
and uncertain unless supported by religious convic-
tions.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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He speaks of our days failing, either because men fail in them from loving things that pass away, or because they are reduced to so small a number; which he asserts in the
following
lines; our years are spent in thought like a spider1 ; (ver.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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Why is
lightning
spoken of
as the pilot of the cloud?
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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"119 This terminology remains paradoxical: not only does Dugin refrain from rejecting the idea of race, he also seems confused in his understanding of ethnicity, as he gives it an emi- nently culturalist and civilizationist meaning, while at the same time using the terminology of the ethnos, which,
following
the Soviet tradition, remains very much tied to nature and even biol- ogy.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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As he drew the moss around his crouching figure and
stilled his hard breathing, the British
foundered
past.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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Child Verse
THE SAME WITH A DIFFERENCE
\ ^ /"HEN first they wed he was a sing-er,
^ ^ And much delight his songs did
bring her;
But
nowadays
he proves a sin-ger,
And makes it hot for her as ginger.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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The necessity of
bringing
about the objectivation of the nominalistic element, which this element at the same time resists, engenders the principle of construc- tion.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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I weigh upon him, and he does not want to
be in
dishonorable
relationship with me.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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26 Education in Hegel
as impossibility, as the 'nature' of the political, and as its
potential
freedom become actual.
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Education in Hegel |
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Only the
friendship
and the sympathy
Of one about to reach her journey's end.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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Francis's
objections
to the want of a fund for defraying the extra expenses of Colonel Camac's detachment.
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Edmund Burke |
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16:23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them
into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: 16:24 Who,
having
received
such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and
made their feet fast in the stocks.
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bible-kjv |
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XCII
The rugged steel oppressed and offended
Her dainty neck, and locks of shining gold;
Her tender arm so feeble was, it bended
When that huge target it presumed to hold,
The burnished steel bright rays far off extended,
She feigned courage, and
appeared
bold;
Fast by her side unseen smiled Venus' son,
As erst he laughed when Alcides spun.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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The Daode jing on Lifestyle
The techniques of
cultivating
the mind and body should be accompanied by a lifestyle that complements them.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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Little,
nevertheless, did they imagine, after the base
endeavours
he had but
lately made against them, that he had immediately plotted a new
and greater one, and that his object in bringing Charles into the
neighbourhood of Roncesvalles was to deliver him more speedily into the
hands of Marsilius, in the event of the latter's destruction of Orlando.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Fair
Proserpina
(quoth she)
Shall not have thee yet from me;
Nor my soul to fly begin
While my lips can keep it in.
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William Browne |
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And here are dress-lengths and handkerchiefs for the maids; old
Anne ought really to have
something
better.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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What characterizes it instead is the extremely broad range of different views and approaches that maintain a running
dialogue
with one another and that collectively assume both affinity to and distance from the political and social realities in which they are rooted.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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By chaunce she spied nere at hand a pelting
thatched
Cote
Wyth peevish doores: she knockt thereat, and out there commes a trot.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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What's to be done for those suffering,
All those for your good service meant,
Who waited on you, life's
ornament?
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Troubador Verse |
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And
dreadful
the blast of the trumpet.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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and not one
of them has left a family, or even a
monument
to pre-
serve his memory with honor.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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He continued to work on his Memoirs, and viewed as a member of the
political
opposition, a great literary figure, and a champion of freedom, was celebrated at the Revolution of 1848, during which period of turmoil he died.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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If again He takes one
bringing
naught, he's twice slave For then there's two to feed instead of one.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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We would never be able to see them
directly
contrary to what the Abhidharma say the Yogis can do.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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Hear me, O Goddess, with
propitious
mind, and end these holy rites, with aspect kind.
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Orphic Hymns |
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He was but a few
years in his grave when two of these were
teaching
regularly in the two
old gymnasia of Athens.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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It is not Corneille's public that Wagner has to con-
sider, it is merely the
nineteenth
century.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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A beau tiful woman will be more
beautiful
naked than drest in purple.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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And fear not lest Existence closing your
Account, and mine, should know the like no more;
The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has pour'd
Millions
of Bubbles like us, and will pour.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Man is
something
that hath to be
surpassed.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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In Tibetan medicine madness is
considered
to be caused by an influx of subtle airs into the heart.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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Que peut-on affirmer, puisque ce qu'on avait cru probable d'abord s'est
montré faux ensuite, et se trouve en
troisième
lieu être vrai?
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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There is
something
so very apparent in this order of
vegetation, that the hymn of praise spontaneously bursts from the
new man,--" The Lord is good to all, and his tender mercies are over
all his works.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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But still, even at Athens, the
scandals and
breaches
of good taste and manners, which
one would fear are all but inseparable from democracy,
now and then made their appearance.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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Find
_Latinisms_
in xxv; xxvi; xxviii; xxxi; and xxxvii.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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We
also hear of his going forth into the woods to hunt a thought as a
boy might hunt a butterfly, except that the thought had flown with
him from home, and that his business was not so much to capture it
as to
materialize
it and make it tangible.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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Trung trinh đại phu Hàn lâm viện Thị độc kiêm Đông các Đại học sĩ Đỗ
Nhuậnvâng
sắc soạn.
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stella-02 |
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6z JEFFERSON
selves on the grounds that they hadn't the power or " weren't authorized " or hadn't
received
instruc- tions.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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His impressions of his sojourn were embodied in 'Venetian
Life,' a book which revealed the
qualities
of his literary talent: his
powers of minute and kindly observation; his sense of the pictur-
esque; his close adhesion to delicate particulars, to expressive details,
to significant facts.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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Chimene
Is it to your
boasting
I must listen?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Nine [plays] are
attributed
to him.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Cảo thơm lần giở
trước
đèn,
Phong tình có lục còn truyền sử xanh.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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”
"That was part of the
arrangement!
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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—What I
now do, or neglect to do, is as
important
for all
that is to come, as the greatest event of the past:
in this immense perspective of effects all actions
are equally great and small.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Credit is the capital of a younger son, and he can live
charmingly
on
it.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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She did so, but 'tis
doubtful
how and whence
Came, and who were her subtle servitors.
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Keats - Lamia |
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But there is
no getting away from the fact that Weary studies in general, and American Marxist theorists in
particular, have avoided the effort of seriously bridging the gap between the superstructural and
the base levels in textual, historical scholarship; on another occasion I have gone so far as to say
that the literary-cultural
establishment
as a whole has declare the serious study of imperialism and
culture off limits.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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Personnellement
je l'en blâme.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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In Mein Kampf Hitler makes clear that you can destroy the parties clearly opposed to you root and branch, but the
neighboring
party remains to infect your ranks.
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Source: |
Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Let us say rather: All knowing is
consciousness
of knowing.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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I regret that its length
renders it unsuitable for the
purposes
of this lecture.
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Poe - 5 |
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] -
Diophanes
of Aeolis, stadion race
193rd [8 B.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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The practical indifference to religious
matters in the midst of which he has been born and brought up, usually
sublimates itself in his case into circumspection and cleanliness, which
shuns contact with religious men and things; and it may be just the
depth of his
tolerance
and humanity which prompts him to avoid the
delicate trouble which tolerance itself brings with it.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] The Licinian law
provided
that no one should rent at a time more
than 500 acres of public land.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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Immanuel
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, trans.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Adorno-Metaphysics |
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As the title indicates, these poems are a
tribute, an
offering
to the Lares, the home spirits of his native town.
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Rilke - Poems |
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In particular, the ability to engage in brinkmanship allows a blackmailer to extract a positive stream of payments from the victim even if
carrying
out the threat is harmful to both parties.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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"This I call the Sala de los Embajadores; here is
where I receive my
distinguished
guests.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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He even
professed
love, as a forlorn hope, to the
countess's waiting-maid.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Ground
mahamudra
is the view, understanding things as they are.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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"
For all that, the Barbarian danger
continued
to threaten.
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Far to the right, among the trees, is a glimpse of
the new villa, with
scaffolding
round the tower.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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My old friend put on
his spectacles, and holding the scroll with no very firm hand,
began--"Paper, so much: O
moderate
enough--not at all beyond my
expectation!
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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In this way, I made more than my
landlord
paid
me, and I soon got a good stock of cash again.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Once, I know, there was a nest,
Held there by the
sideward
thrust
Of those twigs that touch his breast;
Though 'tis gone now.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"[92]
The answer to this was sent to him from beyond the barrier of Ausaka
(meeting-path) in the
following
form:--
"Whether my sleeve be wet or not,
In the waters of the Suzukah,
Who will care?
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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Patrick,
*7 The Fourth Life has it, that the multi- tude there " quidam beatam
Brigidam
inter- rogant," as if she were distinct from the great Patroness of Ireland.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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