Que
significa
isto, que não significa nada?
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But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out
Nevertheless
mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
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And I have known the eyes already, known them all--
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated,
sprawling
on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Waley's
admirable
work,
English renderings have usually failed to convey the flavour of the
originals.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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Should the bill for the
eighteen
thousand
pounds go out, in its present form, I cannot hope that it
will produce in the treasury above half the sum, -- such are
the vices of our present mode of collection.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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Beneath
the
overalls
his body was looped with filthy yellowish rags,
just recognizable as the remnants of underclothes.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you who hold it in your hands";
(Slowly
twisting
the lilac stalks)
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at situations which it cannot see.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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But Siddhartha
remained
silent.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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" Hauptmann,
like Rilke in these poems, has placed before us great epic figures and
his art is so concentrated that often the simple expression of the
thought of one of his characters produces a shudder in the
listener
or
reader because in this thought there vibrates the suffering of an entire
social class and in it resounds the sorrow of many generations.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Whether a book is still in
copyright
varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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It rais'd my hair, it fann'd my cheek,
Like a meadow-gale of spring--
It mingled
strangely
with my fears,
Yet it felt like a welcoming.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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In his own entreaty to the
young man, 'Sell all that thou hast and give to the poor,' it is not of
the state of the poor that he is
thinking
but of the soul of the young
man, the soul that wealth was marring.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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_ And did not I bring on the
blushing
bridegroom to taste
those joys?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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In 1883 he published "Inquiries into the
Human Faculty and Its Development," a
collection
of evolutionary and
anthropometric essays where the word Eugenics was first used in a new
exposition of the author's views.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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” That is what I want to say to you in
allegorical
language,
Barbara.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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The
Macmillan
Co.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Decadence itself is not a thing that can be
withstood: it is absolutely
necessary
and is proper
to all ages and all peoples.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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I remember it
was with great justice, and a due regard to the freedom, both of the
public and the press, forbidden upon several penalties to write, or
discourse, or lay wagers against the --- even before it was confirmed by
Parliament; because that was looked upon as a design to oppose the
current of the people, which, besides the folly of it, is a manifest
breach of the fundamental law, that makes this
majority
of opinions the
voice of God.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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and sciences; he is
instructive, and
requires
thought, in all his
observations: and the depth of his mind is
particularly surprising when he does not pre-
tend to appljr it to the secret of the universe;
for no man can attain a superiority which
cannot exist between beings of the same
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Accordingly,
Diogenes
said once to a person who was showing him a clock; "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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Appended
are poems by Mr.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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In 1820, Charles Whitworth, for libel, to be im prisoned six calendar months, and to give security for good behaviour for three years more ; William Great- head Lewis, for libel, fined fifty pounds, to be impri soned two years, and to give security for good behaviour for five years more ; Henry Hunt, for
seditious
conspi racy, to be imprisoned two years and six months, and to give security for good behaviour for five years more , Jane Carlile, for libel, to be imprisoned two years, and to give security for good behaviour for three years more.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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However,
throughout
this time I did in a sense engage in literary activities.
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Orwell |
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Among the six
compilers
was Fujiwara Teika.
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” I
blush for
Elizabeth!
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Aussi
cher ami ne sois pas trop surpris si je ne suis pas encore
répondu
à ta
dernière lettre, à défaut du pardon laisse venir l'oubli.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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If we now want to try again, under very
modified
constellations, to make the con-
cept of mobilization fertile for a theory of modernity (of course on a different path than Officer Ju?
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Sloterdijk |
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But the Syracusans, who had thoroughly
refreshed
themselves, obtained an easy victory.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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”
And
accordingly
she did turn, and they walked towards the Parsonage
together.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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''
Benignus, martyr, most
probably
imder Au- reliaus, about the year 272, and on the ist of November, near Dijon : all of these are alluded to by the writer, as saints greatly
''
feast is assigned to the 1 7th of August ; St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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Yet it must be
confessed
that a great victory
is a great danger.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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What should avail me
the many-twined
bracelets
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Nor would I have you think it like the rest of
orators, made for the ostentation of wit; for these, as you know, when
they have been beating their heads some thirty years about an oration and
at last perhaps produce
somewhat
that was never their own, shall yet
swear they composed it in three days, and that too for diversion: whereas
I ever liked it best to speak whatever came first out.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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18:3 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt
thou go with me to
Ramothgilead?
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bible-kjv |
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As a consequence of this attack on the Eternal City, one after another
caught the disease of plunder, which
contaminated
even the functionaries
and the subjects of Rome.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Michael Birkett has become my ideal
intelligent
layman.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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This natural bias of
children
is easy to exploit.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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”
I alone
understood
the dark significance of those words: they referred
to me.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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This change did her great good, and she
speedily
recovered from the
attack.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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IV
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o'clock;
And short square fingers
stuffing
pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
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T.S. Eliot |
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His
clear
political
acumen was not at fault.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was
carefully
scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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Is it, therefore, as a kind of specimen of beauty that men carry
beautiful
things in their hands, and take delight in them?
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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He, of all heroes I heard of ever
from sea to sea, of the sons of earth,
most
excellent
seemed.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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He sees the tree nearby, then he directs his gaze further into the dis- tance, to the road, before finally looking to the horizon; the apparent dimensions of the other objects change each time he stares at a
different
point.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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Being a younger son, he was bred up a divine of the church of Scot
land ; and, going over to Ireland, became preacher to a dissenting congregation at Monahan, where he was
universally
esteemed as a gentleman of
probity, piety, and humanity.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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MARY
You have still some way,
But I can put you on the trodden path
Your
servants
take when they are marketing.
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Yeats - Poems |
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xii
distanced assessment of his position in the field of
contemporary
theory.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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It is not for direct imitation, but it teaches
by which means art has hitherto been
perfected
in
the highest degree.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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The viewless and
invisible
Consequence
Watches thy goings-out, and comings-in,
And.
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Shelley |
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Las aguas saltaron en chispas de luz, y se cerraron sobre su cuerpo, y
sus
circulos
de plata fueron ensanchandose, ensanchandose hasta
expirar[1] en las orillas.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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|re^nt
In inores tempora
priscos!
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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That disadvantage is not diminished, when that pressure necessitates the
drawing of
stipendiary
emoluments, before those emoluments are strictly
due and payable.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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A
Seneschal
and usher would appear,
And troops of servants many baskets bear.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Not song but wail, and
mourners
pale,
Not bards, to love belong.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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A young apostle; and,--with
reverence
may
I speak't,--inspired with gift of tongues, as they.
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Dryden - Complete |
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' This is evidently a sleepy deformation of ,My cold and melancholy male chick' but it is also the Russian 'Mory
maiJenki
malchik'- 'my little boy'.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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But such a
unilateral
war-based history of media technology would not meet with the approval of all historians and theorists of communica- tion.
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Visions of cloud-hidden glory
Breaking
from sources of light
Mimic the mist of life's story.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Mill might have asked why the
argument
had not been pushed
to its logical conclusion.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Also, upon the suit the
said lord cardinal Rome, have his autho Chester, and afterwards his power and rity legatine, made untrue surmise the might, contrary right,
committed
the said Pope's holiness against the clergy your
realm, which was, that the regular persons the said clergy had given themselves repro
bum sensum; which words St.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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Hence, the question no longer-- What the
quantity
of this series of conditions in itself
?
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Success has always been
the greatest liar—and the
“work”
itself is a
success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the
discoverer, are disguised in their creations until they
are unrecognisable; the "work" of the artist, of the
philosopher, only invents him who has created it, is
reputed to have created it; the “great men,” as they
are reverenced, are poor little fictions composed
afterwards; in the world of historical values
spurious coinage prevails.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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"s itisre-
markable,
that March the seventeenth fell on —the latter Wednesday, during
This
the Book of Sligo
us to
understand
the drift of that found in passage
assigning St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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In the 1950s, the young David Attenborough sailed to Tanna with a cameraman,
Geoffrey
Mulligan, to investigate the cult of John Frum.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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Under thy great sky in
solitude
and silence, with humble heart
shall I stand before thee face to face.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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Quyền Thượng thư Chính sự viện kiêm Cẩn Đức điện Đại học sĩ Thái tử tân khách
Nguyễn
Như Đổ.
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stella-04 |
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It is not just a question of saying to the family, if you pay me, I will make your madman able to function in the family; the family still has to play its role, that is to say, actually
designate
those who are mad.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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My uncertainty about Marya Ivanofna's fate
tormented
me more than I can
say.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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But there is another class of poor white
people in the South, who, I think would be glad to see slavery
abolished in self defence; they despise the institution because it is
impoverishing and
degrading
to them and their children.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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{and} markede my wepli
compleynte
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The true
perfection
of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man
is.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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Luke
however who
eventually
silences the other th!
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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Between ourselves, I should have been
glad if they had been written a quarter of a century
earlier; then, at least, I should have understood
why the thoughts seem to be so bleached, and why
they are so
redolent
of resuscitated antiquities.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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About the
Functions
of Poetic Form in Goethe's 'Ro?
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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The
Austrians
were between him
and his troops, in the melee, and he was brought off with desperate
efforts.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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Man's labor
consists
in a simple
laying on of hands.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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i;i*;i
iiiiziitit
i= iii:r ; il j ?
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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”
With that,
Calpurnia
led us to the church door where we were greeted by Reverend Sykes, who led us to the front pew.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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' He leaned on his left elbow,
stretched
out his right hand, took the inkstand, signed the plea.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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I see his finger
pointing
where the shell
Should fall to slay most rabble,
And save foul regicides; or strike the knell
Of weaklings 'mid the tribunes' babble.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Wishing therefore to preserve the third
book for Tibullus and to prevent it from being assigned to
Ovid, they pronounced the birth-line an interpolation from
the Tristia and
bracketed
the whole distich.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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The
beautiful
child, for she
is little more, throws herself weeping \>n the
mercy of her brother.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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--
O had M'Lauchlan,[67] thairm-inspiring Sage,
Been there to hear this heavenly band engage,
When thro' his dear
strathspeys
they bore with highland rage;
Or when they struck old Scotia's melting airs,
The lover's raptur'd joys or bleeding cares;
How would his highland lug been nobler fir'd,
And ev'n his matchless hand with finer touch inspir'd!
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Robert Burns- |
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What of the faith and fire within us
What was it kept you so long, brave German
submersible?
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Ve usted aquel cabezo alto, alto, que parece cortado a pico, y por
entre cuyas penas crecen las aliagas y los
zarzales?
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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Gottschalk
or Godescalcus, monk of
Orbais (805-869), fills an enormous space in the dogmatic history of his
time.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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Thus hath he
graunted
my prayere.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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": thus Hans Magnus
Enzensberger
begins a poem about Johann Gensfieisch zum Gutenberg.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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Homer answered in a
mathematical
problem, thus:
'There were fifty hearths, and at each hearth were fifty spits, and
on each spit were fifty carcases, and there were thrice three hundred
Achaeans to each joint.
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Hesiod |
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At noon, upon the motion of Athelstane, the
travelers
paused in a
woodland shade by a fountain to repose their horses and partake of some
provisions with which the hospitable abbot had loaded a [v]sumpter mule.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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ter konnte man in dem
monotonen
gebethaften Insichsprechen dieses schon a ?
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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7 per cent of 375,741 retailers net less than 125 marks a month (fifty dollars at official
exchange
rates), which is considerably less than a skilled worker receives.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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She saw her brother Peterkin
Roll
something
large and round,
Which he beside the rivulet
In playing there had found;
He came to ask what he had found,
That was so large and smooth and round.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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Thinks I, while I smoke my pipe
Here beside the
tumbling
Fleet,
Apples drop when they are ripe,
And when they drop are they most sweet.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Both Disraeli and Nietzsche you perceive start-
ing from the same pessimistic
diagnosis
of the
wild anarchy, the growing melancholy, the threat-
ening Nihilism of Modern Europe, for both
recognised the danger of the age behind its loud
and forced “shipwreck gaiety," behind its big-
mouthed talk about progress and evolution, behind
that veil of business-bustle, which hides its fear
and utter despair—but for all that black outlook
they are not weaklings enough to mourn and let
things go, nor do they belong to that cheap class
of society doctors who mistake the present
wretchedness of Humanity for sinfulness, and
wish to make their patient less sinful and still
more wretched.
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I don’t think that’s what I should advise ’
All this time Mr Warburton, unwilling as ever to expose his baldness, had
been wearing his rakish, rather broad-brimmed grey felt hat Now, however,
he took it off and laid it carefully on the empty seat beside him His naked
A Clergyman's Daughter 41$
cranium, with only a wisp or two of golden hair lingering in the
neighbourhood of the ears, looked like some monstrous pink pearl Dorothy
watched him with a slight
surprise
‘I am taking my hat off,’ he said, £ in order to let you see me at my very worst
You will understand why m a moment Now, let me offer you another
alternative besides going back to your Girl Guides and your Mothers’ Union,
or imprisoning yourself in some dungeon of a girls’ school ’
‘What do you mean 5 *’ said Dorothy
‘I mean, will you-think well before you answer, I admit there are some very
obvious objections, but-will you marry me 5 ’
Dorothy’s lips parted with surprise Perhaps she turned a little paler With a
hasty, almost unconscious recoil she moved as far away from him as the back of
the seat would allow But he had made no movement towards her He said with
complete equanimity
‘You know, of course, that Dolores [Dolores was Mr Warburton’s ex-
mistress] left me a year ago 5 *’
‘But I can’t, I can’t f ’ exclaimed Dorothy ‘You know I can’t 1 I’m not-like
that I thought you always knew I shan’t ever marry ’
Mr Warburton ignored this remark
‘I grant you,’ he said, still with exemplary calmness, ‘that I don’t exactly
come under the heading of eligible young men I am somewhat older than you
We both seem to be putting our cards on the table today, so I’ll let you into a
great secret and tell you that my age is forty-nine And then I’ve three children
and a bad reputation It’s a marriage that your father would- well, regard with
disfavour And my income is only seven hundred a year But still, don’t you
think it’s worth considering 1 ’
‘I can’t, you know why I can’t 1 ’ repeated Dorothy
She took it for granted that he ‘knew why she couldn’t’, though she had
never explained to him, or to anyone else, why it was impossible for her to
marry Very probably, even if she had explained, he would not have
understood her He went on speaking, not appearing to notice what she had
said
‘Let me put it to you’, he said, ‘in the form of a bargain Of course, I needn’t
tell you that it’s a great deal more than that I’m not a marrying kind of man, as
the saying goes, and I shouldn’t ask you to marry me if you hadn’t a rather
special attraction for me But let me put the business side of it first.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:10 GMT / http://hdl.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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