Next, to
Eurymachus
his herald bore
A necklace of wrought gold, with amber rich
Bestudded, ev'ry bead bright as a sun.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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It would not have been easy to find
in the whole kingdom a man better
informed
than the
prince.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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Thou shalt not be happy so long as thou catch him not, but so sure as thou shalt come to the stature of a man, he that hoppeth and scapeth thee now will come
suddenly
of himself and light upon thy head.
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Bion |
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Would thou hadst lesse deseru'd,
That the
proportion
both of thanks, and payment,
Might haue beene mine: onely I haue left to say,
More is thy due, then more then all can pay
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Dreams are nowhere to be found in his work, and he is, for the most part, concerned with
observable
behaviour rather than the inner world.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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” It was also translated, in 1793,
government
under which he is born.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work
electronically
in lieu of a refund.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Establecido ya de años en París, y encargado
por sus amparadores de toda clase de comisiones, era
conocido
en el
comercio y conocia á París, como un _commis-voyageur_ á quien comprar
en la tienda ó en el taller, puede producir legal y honrosamente un
tanto por ciento más crecido de utilidad.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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Modern poetry owes much both to
Meredith
and Mr.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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The
yells of the
suffering
sinners fill the remotest corners of the vast
abyss.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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Charondas, a
celebrated
legislator, born at Catana
in Sicily, where he flourished about 650 B.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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In her book, The Human Condition, she
propounded
a radical and snobbish interpretation of unemployment.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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O hero-words that
glittered
like the stars
And stood and shone above the gloomy wars
When the hero-life was done!
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Sidney Lanier |
|
Christianity teaches that to seek after the maximum
enjoyment
of material
things is not the chief end of man, because the life of a man in this world
is very short compared with his life in eternity.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Source: |
Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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There is the gale to urge behind
And bruit our singing down,
And the shallow waters
aflutter
with wind
From which to gather your gown.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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In front of it the son of Iapetus [1622] stands immovably
upholding the wide heaven upon his head and
unwearying
hands, where
Night and Day draw near and greet one another as they pass the great
threshold of bronze: and while the one is about to go down into the
house, the other comes out at the door.
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Hesiod |
|
Although the
Christian
star were rising there !
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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Ulrich was no less
prejudiced
ag~nst this Section Chief Tuzzi than against his wife.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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6 As John Locke put it in the seventeenth century: 'The Natural Liberty of Man is to be free from any
Superior
Power on Earth.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
|
'
With what
eagerness
did I hasten every morning at sunrise to
breathe the balmy air!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
|
Of this famous visit, as of other important events,
Drummond
kept a
record, in which he set down his guest's behavior, opinions, and con-
fidential sayings.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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So the dispute was
for one seat only which resulted in this
gigantic
failure.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
|
It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
|
Or if in syknesse that he falle,
And lothe mete and drink withalle, 5610
Though he have nought, his mete to by,
He shal bithinke him hastely,
To putte him out of al daunger,
That he of mete hath no mister;
Or that he may with litel eke 5615
Be founden, whyl that he is seke;
Or that men shul him bere in hast,
To live, til his syknesse be past,
To somme
maysondewe
bisyde;
He cast nought what shal him bityde.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Thus to the truly cultured man is
vouchsafed the inestimable benefit of being able to
remain faithful, without a break, to the contem-
plative
instincts
of his childhood, and so to attain
to a calmness, unity, consistency, and harmony
which can never be even thought of by a man
who is compelled to fight in the struggle for
existence.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
|
PAYNE UniversiotfyWisconsin, Madison
GILBERT ALLARDYCE HAS BROUGHT UP THE HEAVY ARTILLERY to
bombardthe
enemyposition:thatofgenericfascismor,as hecallsit,"unifascism.
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Source: |
Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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The
subjects
of these essays
cover a wide range, but there is between them the bond of an under-
lying unity.
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
|
In actual fact, science requires
doubt and
distrust
as her surest auxiliaries; nevertheless, the sum of
the irresistible (that is all the onslaughts of skepticism, all the
disintegrating effects of surviving truths) can easily become so great
(as, for instance, in the case of hygienic science) as to inspire the
determination to build "eternal" works upon it.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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Tradi- tionalists emphasize the
structural
distinction between domestic and international politics, a distinction that modernists usually deny.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
|
My crop is carried off by the claws of a flying Progne, and
deposited
in a swallow's nest; and there is not room even for the half of a Priapus, though he be without his scythe and sceptre.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
|
e
batailes
by ten ?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
She had,
however, grave doubts as to the
propriety
of his conduct, and felt
somewhat uncomfortable, saying shyly, "Perhaps you have made a
mistake!
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
|
Politics and Propaganda By ALVIN JOHNSON
THE SPIRIT OF
POLITICS
is compromise.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
|
PREFACE
IT is thought that a selection from Oscar Wilde's early verses may be of
interest to a large public at present familiar only with the always
popular _Ballad of Reading Gaol_, also
included
in this volume.
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Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Source: |
Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
|
) We are treated in the Ford picture to the spectacle of two kinds of understanding of the
material
world con- fronting each other nakedly, with no other mediation than the painter's will.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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With good reason the power of artworks to reconcile is sought in their unity, in the fact that, in accord with the ancient topos , they heal the wound with the spear that
inflicted
it.
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Source: |
Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
|
In the coming years, free Berlin and its Free
University
could assume a role every bit as important as the one they assumed during the Cold War, provided they remain alert and are not guided by naive trust.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
|
’”
Eula May was Maycomb’s leading
telephone
operator.
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Source: |
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
|
x6o
Pastores
de Belbn.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
|
At the
approach
of winter many of the wasps that have stings appear to lose them; but we have never met an eyewitness of this phenomenon.
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Source: |
Aristotle copy |
|
Under
pressure
of Karboghā's
approach, the leaders had reluctantly assented to his proposal that the
lordship of Antioch should fall to anyone who secured its capture or be-
trayal.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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there I should rest
And sleep secure; his
dreadful
voice no more
Would Thunder in my ears, no fear of worse 780
To mee and to my ofspring would torment me
With cruel expectation.
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Source: |
Milton |
|
The safety of thy life was all I aimed at,
In
recompense
for faith and trust so broken.
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Source: |
Thomas Otway |
|
Everything ma-
revealing
something of the Infinite.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
|
During his firsts visit to London, which has already been mentioned,
Count d'Orsay was invited once or twice to receptions given by the Earl
and Countess of Blessington, where he was well received, though this was
only an
incident
of his English sojourn.
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Source: |
Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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If then He will favour them that suffer wrong, and punish the wrong-doers, consider now of which number thou
choosest
to be.
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Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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You seem to
me like a man who
welcomes
middle age, and is more glad than Sophocles
was to “flee from these hard masters” the passions.
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Source: |
Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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190] But now the
clattring
of the swordes and harnesse at that tide
With grievous grones and sighes of such as wounded were or dide,
Did raise up such a cruell rore that nothing could be heard.
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Source: |
Ovid - Book 5 |
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All of the Teachings must be
perfectly
and decisively understood according to this.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
|
294-303) So there came suddenly warriors with mailed backs and
curving claws, crooked beasts that walked sideways, nut-cracker-jawed,
shell-hided: bony they were, flat-backed, with
glistening
shoulders and
bandy legs and stretching arms and eyes that looked behind them.
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Source: |
Hesiod |
|
But the spirit of
reaction
could not forgive his political
antecedents; and in 1873, on the fall of Thiers, he was removed
before he could complete his plan for establishing a museum of cop-
ies to reproduce the masterpieces of painting.
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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The ultimate goal is to build, on the founda-
tions of economic security and equilibrium,, a culture
of socialist Humanism unequalled in
qualitative
achieve-
ment and in the proportion of the people participating
as creators and sharers.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
|
They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,
Like petals from a rose,
When
suddenly
across the June
A wind with fingers goes.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
If he had had, to prevail among another kind of men, he could have availed himself of other means; and thus would not
seem
necessary
that Caesar must become bad.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
|
To him, the only significance the philosophical library of the Old Europe still had was as a
reservoir
of verbal figures with which the priests and intellectuals of former times attempted to grasp the whole.
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Source: |
Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
|
A'NTIAS, a
cognomen
of the Valeria Gens,
1786, pp.
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Source: |
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
|
50
Our
neighbouring
gentry reared
The good old-fashioned crops,
And made old-fashioned boasts
Of what John Bull would do
If Frenchman Frog appeared,
And drank old-fashioned toasts,
And made old-fashioned bows
To my Lady at the Hall.
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Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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This
selection
from her poems is published to meet the desire of her
personal friends, and especially of her surviving sister.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
It was only when our State again
became true like its Church, when it
rejected
the
claims of the Holy Roman Empire, now proved ill-
founded, when it placed its episcopal lands under
worldly jurisdiction, that it again became able to
move with the times.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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" As president of
Greater Columbia, he
organized
the govern- ment of Peru and created the state named after him, Bolivia.
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Source: |
A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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To the Saronic Gulf belong Epidaurus,[171] and the island in front of
it, Ægina; then Cenchreæ, the naval station of the Corinthians towards
the eastern parts; then Schœnus,[172] a harbour at the
distance
of 45
stadia by sea; from Maleæ the whole number of stadia is about 1800.
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Strabo |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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-62) who
continued
the chronicle of Richard
Arnold which was referred to in vol.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
|
Where youth (the proper rhyme is
fleetness)?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation, as the most terrible
mode in which disgrace could be
inflicted
on me.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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It seems to
follow directly from this that
intellectual
education was imparted in
the palaestras.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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Angered by this, Ptolemy set up Alexander, a
pretended
son of Alexander, to be king of Asia; Alexander was called Zabinas by the Syrians, because he was thought to have been bought by Ptolemy to take on this role.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
|
Parenthetically a recent book by Nicholas Carr titled The
Shallows
has a provocative subtitle: "What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
|
s A Life has also been
published
by Du Bosc.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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that' determines nearness and famess as a
function
o f this appropriating.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
|
Everyone
in the land began to notice that things didn't work any- more .
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
|
But of all sadness this was sad,--
A
woman’s
arms tried to shield
The head of a sleeping man
From the jaws of the final beast.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
|
Thirdly, he declared that the Angel was the
governor
and chief, in giving the law and delivering the people, and that Moses did so serve in his function, that he taught that there should come other prophets hereafter, who
231
Acts 7: 51-53
?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
|
At six
o’clock
we cleaned our cells,
At seven all was still,
But the sough and swing of a mighty wing
The prison seemed to fill,
For the Lord of Death with icy breath
Had entered in to kill.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Source: |
Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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Remember, we are not immortal, and
therefore
have no time to
lose.
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
|
Morlot, the
distinguished
Swiss archæol.
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
|
16 These results have little if any bearing
16 Similar negative results were
obtained
in preliminary (unpublished) studies of E in relation to desired income.
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Source: |
Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
|
It may be better to consider
it as expressing the remote object of the verb, and in-
dicating more
strongly
than mallem would do without
it, the personal interest of the writer.
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Source: |
Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
|
So, why do you see a
complete
rainbow?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
|
But the trade association has appeared to be, in the main, relatively unimportant in the
formulation
and promotion of business policy as a whole.
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Source: |
Brady - Business as a System of Power |
|
_Venus_ heard me sigh this song,
And by Loves
sweetest
Part, Variety, she swore, 20
She heard not this till now; and that it should be so no more.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Donne - 1 |
|
My father was a good and pious man,
An honest man by honest parents bred,
And I believe that, soon as I began
To lisp, he made me kneel beside my bed,
And in his hearing there my prayers I said:
And afterwards, by my good father taught,
I read, and loved the books in which I read;
For books in every
neighbouring
house I sought,
And nothing to my mind a sweeter pleasure brought.
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Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
gāst-bona is
regarded
by Ettmüller and G.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Not less than seven directors shall
constitute
a board for the transaction of business.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
|
In dying still
longing!
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|
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
|
He was
emotionally
and artistically unable to forge a finished work from them.
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Answer: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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They claim you're
responsible
for
those pamphlets against the Bible that are being sold all over.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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They resembled coopers'
drays; they
consisted
of long ladders placed on two wheels and
forming barrows at their rear extremities.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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The true
symbolist
and all the supreme artists of the
world have been in this sense symbolists-recognizes that there are
truths too vast and too subtle to endure definition in scientific
phrase.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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Of the fashions prevalent in every
country, a few have arisen, perhaps, from particular temperatures of the
climate; a few more from the constitution of the government; but the
greater part have grown up by chance; been started by caprice, been
contrived by affectation, or
borrowed
without any just motives of choice
from other countries.
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Samuel Johnson |
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[913] When, too, the heron in disordered flight comes
landward
from he sea with many a scream, he is precursor of the gale at sea.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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We know too little of
the state of Rome in those days to be able to
conjecture
how,
during that long anarchy, the peace was kept, and ordinary
justice administered between man and man.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The work is as entertaining to linson, too
ineffective
either in virtue or
the reader as it is instructive to the stu-
sin to find place in heaven or hell.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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In tender accents, faint and low,
Well-pleased I hear the
whispered
"No!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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