The wanton and savage
treatment
the unfor
of
of
of
so
as it
/*
so
by
of
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is in
all in
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is to
of a
of
52 MEMOIRS OF [george 11.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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What say you to
Charles?
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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In other respects they resemble
the octagonal tombs described above ; their grey granite walls
embellished with red
sandstone
and enamelled tilework, their
lofty drums and domes, their battlemented
parapets, their
pinnacles and lotus finials, their brackets and mouldings and
decorative designs incised on plaster and picked out in colours-
all these being similar in character and following the same course
of development as the corresponding features in the tombs of the
kings.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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And at the same time, what dangerous model that might pres- ent for penal justice in its current usage, if, in effect, a penal decision is habitually made a
function
of good or bad conduct.
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Foucault-Live |
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Many Greek derivatives
were made conformable in every respect to the analogy of the lan-
guage, into which they were introduced, and the length of their
vowels was
consequently
determined not so much by their original
quantity, as by the rules of Latin prosody.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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”
Glorvina, who plays
delightfully
upon
the harp, exerts an irresistible fascina-
tion.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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[1024]
Again, since the breadth of the longest part of the habitable earth,
which has the shape of a chlamys, (or a
military
cloak,) is about 30,000
stadia, this distance would be near the meridian line drawn through the
Hyrcanian and the Persian Seas, for the length of the habitable earth is
70,000 stadia.
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Strabo |
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Genius, as I had recently
occasion
to say apropos Francisci's work with a cine-camera, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and where the man of talent sees two or three, PLUS the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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Left open, to be left pounded, to be left closed, to be
circulating
in
summer and winter, and sick color that is grey that is not dusty and red
shows, to be sure cigarettes do measure an empty length sooner than a
choice in color.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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Reginald is only
repeating
after her
ladyship.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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But in this case I also must remark,
'T was well this bird of promise did not perch,
Because the tackle of our shatter'd bark
Was not so safe for roosting as a church;
And had it been the dove from Noah's ark,
Returning
there from her successful search,
Which in their way that moment chanced to fall,
They would have eat her, olive-branch and all.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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When the
long Atlantic coast
stretches
longer, and the Pacific coast stretches
longer, he easily stretches with them north or south.
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Whitman |
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In Eccles Street the bare arm of Molly, who is
awaiting
her l~ver, throws out a com ;0a smgmg one-legged sailor who is growhng a song about the onehan,dle?
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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To whom
shall Jupiter assign the task of expiating our
wickedness?
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Horace - Works |
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THE corn has turned from grey to red,
Since first my spirit wandered forth
From the drear cities of the north,
And to Italia's
mountains
fled.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But what greater debasement yet, if when he developed
these paradoxes he hardly believed them himself,-happily for him,
but
unhappily
for so many "Renanists" who did believe them.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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I have also
been told that when this town was settled they laid out a street four
rods wide, but at a
subsequent
meeting of the proprietors one rose and
remarked, "We have plenty of land, why not make the street eight rods
wide?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Him answer'd then
Penelope
discrete.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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In this town they embarked on the 8th of June in the Rhine
steamboat; and while they
descended
the famous river through
its most picturesque region, he seemed to enjoy, though he said.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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The motif of death culminates in the corpselike pallor of the 'black' women ('fahl' is an
adjective
used by Trakl some fifteen times in his work) and the image of the 'dead square' -- the ultimate destination of Weinheber's 'Gassen'.
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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Wonderful verse of the gods,
Of one import, of varied tone;
They chant the bliss of their abodes
To man
imprisoned
in his own.
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Emerson - Poems |
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— to
understand—to
be able to express something
new in the terms of something old and familiar,
xv.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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Now, I
have known so many burglars--not exactly known, but so many of them have
come near me in my various dwelling-places, that I am disposed to allow
them credit for
whatever
good qualities they possess.
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Twain - Speeches |
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I don't know whether this
immunization
really worked, but in those days it probably was worthwhile 'gutting' a virus and leaving a shell like this, rather than simply removing it lock, stock and barrel.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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--I am
beholden
to calumny, that she hath so
endeavoured and taken pains to belie me.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The poets of the Old Comedy did not have a serious purpose, but held their
contests
in pursuit of simple amusement.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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eira, Vicente Barbieri, Silvina Ocampo, Juan
Ferreyra
Basso, Enrique Molina, Miguel Angel Go?
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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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Gellius who lived in his family in the time of his
consulship
[120 B.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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Their prayers are offered up in their temples to the
same
Redeemer
whose intercession we expect to save us.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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but we, burnt out and cold,
See Honour smitten on the cheek and gyves
Bind the sweet feet of Mercy: Poverty
Creeps through our sunless lanes and with sharp knives
Cuts the warm throats of children stealthily,
And no word said:—O we are
wretched
men
Unworthy of our great inheritance!
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Wilde - Charmides |
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I’ll do for you
everything
heaven can do.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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The number of wrestlers who could enter the lists for
wrestling
is not known, but appa- rently, the entrants had to wrestle a series of elimination matches prior to the start of the games, so that the number of finalists was reduced to 16.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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The servant instantly,
Quitting the fruit, seiz'd on my heart alone,
And threw it in a font, wherein did fall
A stream of blood, which issued from the side
Of a great rock: I well
remember
all,
And have good cause: there it was dipt and dyed,
And wash'd, and wrung: the very wringing yet
Enforceth tears.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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Lay him down in the soft
coverlets
wherein he used to slumber, upon that couch of solid gold whereon he used to pass the nights in sacred sleep with thee; for the very couch longs for Adonis, Adonis all dishevelled.
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Bion |
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I'd give my gentle blood
To wash my special shame
And drown my private grudge;
I'd toil and moil much rather
The
dingiest
cottage drudge
Whose mother need not blush, 470
Than live here like a lady
And see my Mother flush
And hear her voice unsteady
Sometimes, yet never dare
Ask to share her care.
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Christina Rossetti |
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To beguile the time I
composed
a Sonnet.
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William Wordsworth |
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Again, before terror-stricken Vienna, he at-
tacked the Turks,
outnumbering
his army
four to one.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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Comme je lui
reprochais
de ne pas m'avoir laissé
l'embrasser, je lui avais dit que je trouvais cela aussi naturel que je
trouvais ignoble qu'une femme eût des relations avec une autre femme.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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Most of our social problems would be solved if we could some- how get rid of the immoral, crook~d, and
feebleminded
people.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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The per Lochinvar, by Haydn Wood; Sunset,' even in respect of the facile rules of cape-
formances were under the
direction
of Mrs.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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For that thu hast bene
deceyved
the serpent, wyll put hatred betwixt hym for hys doynge,
And the woman kynde.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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sin conocimiento de la
verdad, y sin juzgar Con la equidad que es justo,
condenais a muerte a una hija vuestra, y de las
prendas y
virtudes
de Susana ?
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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•
Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Iacchus was an epithet of the god
Dionysus
(Bacchus) and the name of the torch-bearer at the Eleusinian mysteries, herald of the child born of the underworld.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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When summer days are o'er,
And the
snowfalls
come,
Rabbits count the hours no more,
For the bells are dumb.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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Inasmuch as it persists, it remains in a kind of proximity, a proximity that preserves what is remote as remote by commemorating it and turning its
thoughts
toward it.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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Within thirty years so great a change has passed over the profession of
letters in America; and it is
impossible
to estimate the rewards which
would have fallen to Edgar Poe, had chance made him the contemporary of
Mark Twain and of “Called Back.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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NINE times winter had end, nine times flush'd summer in
harvest,
Ere to the world gave forth Cinna, the labour of years,
Zmyrna ; but in one month
Hortensius
hundred on
hundred
Verses, an unripe birth feeble, of hurry begot.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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You can easily comply with the terms of this
agreement
by
keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project
Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others.
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Donne - 1 |
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_ Sessilis is
properly
applied to the broad back
of a stout horse, affording a good seat ("tergum sessile," Ov.
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Satires |
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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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Tully - Offices |
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Users are free to copy, use, and
redistribute
the work in part or in whole.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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Whitaker
would quite force upon me: she would not take
a denial.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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This is
why
children
begin to listen [to fables], and are acquainted with them
before any other kind of knowledge; the cause of this is that the myth
introduces them to a new train of ideas, relating not to every-day
occurrences, but something in addition to these.
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Strabo |
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How we should have got on
together!
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the
marriage
of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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] Find him
Where is
Pyrrhias
?
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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LVII
Others shall behold the sun
Through the long
uncounted
years,--
Not a maid in after time
Wise as thou!
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Sappho |
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344
The sweet
songsters
of the grove now
Prepare their matin hymns,
Which, tun'd to love and gratitude,
Declare their maker's pow'r.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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Thus space is the uniform medium in which things are arranged in three
dimensions
and in which they remain the same regardless of the position they occupy.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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And when the nine dogs of Napoleon's
own bodyguard, whom he had
instructed
to make a detour under cover
of the hedge, suddenly appeared on the men's flank, baying ferociously,
panic overtook them.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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Some say that he went to Syria and stayed with Antiochus, who asked him to produce an edition of the Iliad, because it had been
contaminated
by many others.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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But by practicing the utmost propriety in all your actions, you have shown that you are a
philosopher
and you are honoured by God on account of your virtue.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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How is it possible to
conceive
an Extension of Pure
Reason in a Practical point of view, without its
Knowledge as Speculative being enlarged at
the same time?
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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21 For Kraus, he organized readings in Innsbruck and Munich, but he and other
contributors
also discussed, praised and emulated Kraus in the pages of the Innsbruck publication from the very outset.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends,
And fame, this lord of useless
thousands
ends.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Guignon (1874);
Dangerous
Charm)
(1891).
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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The difference was
greatest
among the horse, where
every private trooper pretended to the chief command, from Tasso and
Milton to Dryden and Wither.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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Some thought he had been bitten by a dog,
Because his
violence
took on the form
Of carrying his pillow in his teeth;
But it's more likely he was crossed in love,
Or so the story goes.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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of
California Student Men 21 Totals: 58
Groups taking fora 45:
Maritime School Men 95
Psychiatric
Clinic Men :?
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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La casa di che nacque il vostro fleto,
per lo giusto
disdegno
che v'ha morti
e puose fine al vostro viver lieto,
era onorata, essa e suoi consorti:
o Buondelmonte, quanto mal fuggisti
le nozze sue per li altrui conforti!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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When is it
abandoned
through Seeing?
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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talis ad
Haemonium
Nereis Pelea quondam
uecta est frenato caerula pisce Thetis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Dorus received the country over against
Peloponnese
and called the settlers Dorians after himself.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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Lange Zeit
genoßest
du
deinen Wunsch durch nichts bemüht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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This is our
preparation
before becoming the
law-givers of the future and the lords of the earth;
if not we, at least our children.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
|
Sexual independence remains one of tn
18
rinC1
Diogenes, the political animal, raises existential presence of mind to a p
pie that finds its most concise expression in the phrase "Be prepared for anything- In a world of incalculable risks, where
accidents
and changes make it too difticu
most important conditions of emancipation.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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For we must
understand
that a sin is committed in three ways.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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Could my words issue from a hundred mouths,
could Phoebus' manifold inspiration breathe through a hundred breasts, even so I could not tell of Probus' deeds, of all the people his ordered governance ruled, of the many times he rose to the highest honours, when he held the reins of broad-acred Italy, the
Illyrian
coast, and Africa's lands.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Sometimes you come across a crow tliat
is
perfectly
white, but this is not the case often.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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LXXXV
Marphisa, whom these cries, mid others, bring,
When of the robbery of the horse advised,
In visage is disturbed, remembering
How on that day her
faulchion
was surprised;
And when that courser (which equipt with wing
Appeared when flying her) she recognized;
And recognized as well -- at first unknown --
The valiant king who filled Circassia's throne.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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The
resolutions
were an advance be-
yond anything that had been adopted elsewhere up to
this time.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
|
(Stein, 463)
Unlike some o f Lewis Carroll's
nonsense
lyrics, this passage plays between sense and nonsenseintheattempttoconstructwhatSteincalledacontinuouspresent.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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e kyng sent
messagers
to hem; & gret doel to hym he nom;
Wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Or holds a lute on her neglected skirt,
And tries to sing of me, and tries in vain;
For she dries the tear-wet string with hands inert,
And e'er begins, and e'er forgets again,
Though she herself
composed
it once, the loving strain.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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, que de
sesenta y cinco
engendro?
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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I outrage my own
conviction
in now reminding myself
that any one, save you, could ever have interested me: on
this subj ect I feel eq ual grief and repentance.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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The grass does not refuse
To
flourish
in the spring wind;
The leaves are not angry
At falling through the autumn sky.
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Li Po |
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But unless we are willing to do this, we should not
introduce
nuclear weapons against an adversary who has nuclear weapons on his side.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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Eeligion, in fact--its history, its ritual, all its
ancient associations--became
subjects
of popular inter-
est; and, as might be expected, a fashionable poet
could not do otherwise than recognise in his verses the
growth of this new taste among his countrymen.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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in a way that would set everything to
indiscriminate
rout in a
moment.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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All these virtues, however, did not screen our Saint from the envy and persecution of her father's
wife—thus
runs the fable—when, with her nurse, she had been sent to her first home by the Magus.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Every artifice of sedition has been since
practised
to awaken discontent
and inflame indignation.
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Samuel Johnson |
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But this age counted a number of other writers who
struck out lines of their own, and each in his way
acquired distinction and fame : such were Bielski the
historian, who performed, in writing his Universal
History in Polish, a feat without precedent, and one
not paralleled till the nineteenth century; Skarga, the
genius of the pulpit and
incomparable
leader of the
Jesuits in Poland ; Klonowicz, the citizen poet and
moralist ; Orzechowski, the cultured and gifted polemist,
c
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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One of the
episodes
of his life was an interview
with Napoleon after the latter's return from Elba in 1815.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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Another source, we have seen, is legend; still another
is the direct
historical
event.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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40 In the more
important
monasteries of Ireland, from a very early date, there was a func-
tionary
called the
Ferlegeinn,
or Lecturer, which meant " man of literally
learning,"toexercisetheofficeofteachingyoungclericsandlaics.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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