Then the hangman climbed up and
fixed the rope round the
prisoner’s
neck.
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Project
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don't you
understand?
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Oscar Wilde |
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Baroness-You're a warm patron of
Monsieur
Maréchal!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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The view which promises liberty and freedom to mankind seems absurd in light of the sad fact that three fourths of the human race lives under
totalitarian
regimes.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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και της μητρός μου πάλι ο νους διστάζει αν, σεβομένη
την κλίνη του συντρόφου της και την φωνή του κόσμου,
μ' εμέ θα μένη σπίτι μου και θα το κυβερνάη, 75
ή απ' τους μνηστήραις Αχαιούς ήδη θ' ακολουθήση
εκείνον, 'που 'ναι
ανώτερος
και πλήθια δίδει δώρα.
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) to be covered, the standards to be
lowered, and the troops to pass in small detachments from the great to
the little camp, behind the
epaulment
of the double fosse of
communication, so that they cannot be perceived from the _oppidum_.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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And the
function of ancient Italy was not merely to give us what is
statical
in
our institutions and rational in our law, but to blend into one elemental
creed the spiritual aspirations of Aryan and of Semite.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Left far behind I heard the dolphins snort,
Tracking
their goddess with a wistful eye,
Around whose head white doves rose, wheeling high
Or low, and cooed after their tender sort.
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Christina Rossetti |
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It is printed in this book in
the new form, which was acted for the first time on
February
22, 1912,
at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
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Yeats - Poems |
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This is the program for practicing the
ordinary
path, which I have already explained elsewhere [in the Stages of the Path of Enlightenment] .
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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The election-victories of the opposition had, it is true, merely the value of demon strations, since the regents possessed and employed the means of
practically
annulling any magistrate whom they disliked ; but the criminal trials in which the opposition carried condemnations deprived them, in a way
keenly felt, of useful auxiliaries.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Next, like a bishop
consecrate
my ground,
That lucky fairies here may dance their round;
And, after that, lay down some silver pence,
The master's charge and care to recompence.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Possibly, though the intricacies of genetics and development would make it far harder than the fans of
eugenics
imagined.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-20 04:05 GMT / http://hdl.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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The most probable
explanation
for the term is that it was originally the title of the first section of the anthology compiled by Abū Zayd Al-Qurašī entitled Jamharatu Ašˁāri l-ˁArab, with the term al-muˁallaqāt meaning something like "the precious" (other sections have similar titles such as al-muntaqayāt "the chosen.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Before the close of the
century Marlowe's _Doctor
Faustus_
and Greene's _Friar Bacon and Friar
Bungay_, both based on the popular belief in magic, were presented on the
London stage.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But Ovid
ignored the difficulty in order to score a
rhetorical
point.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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So Jews are always
supposed
to pray together with at least ten.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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by
hastening
to explain himself.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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It seems that it is the interpersonal aspect of hopelessness (as opposed to things like managing money and
housework)
that matters most.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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But when he
commandeth
him to be scourged, to whose charge he heard no certain crime laid, he seemeth to deal unjustly.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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Christianity
fol- lowed this schema to set itself apart from Judaism, just as Augustine later did the same in relation to Manichaeism and the Roman cult, and, even later, Mohammed drew the line between Islam and its two monotheistic predecessors.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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" A short time after this event, the Angel of the Lord advised our saint to go into the
territories
of King Tachodrus, his grandsire.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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As
everyone
is crying,
We also, brother, will begin to cry.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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For in every action
of common life to find out some sentence clearly and
infallibly
setting before
our eyes what we ought to do (seem we in Scripture never so expert) would
trouble us more than we are aware.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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Thus, by speaking, I reveal the
situation
by my very intention of changing it; I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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O my deep waters,
cataract
and flood,
What wordless triumph did your voices render
O mountain-summits, where the angels stood
And shook from head and wing thick dews of splendour!
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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The
ideology
of detail nourished itself from the assumption that exchange value, this otherwise seemingly invisible genius malignus of the modern world, took shape in the ornamentation of wares and revealed itself in the arabesques of arcade architecture.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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The point is to re-combine media
alliances
intelligently.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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24, 1863]
_After the
surrender
of Major Anderson, the Confederates
strengthened the fort; but, in the spring of 1863, the U.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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16 9376–9380
Macdonald: «Sir Gibbie,” 16: 9456 ;
«At the back of the North Wind ► 9461
Macleod: « The Old
Lieutenant
and
His Son »
16 9497
Mallock; « The New Republic".
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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Gitarre summt; ein
Klimperklang
von Geld.
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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The Human Nature shall no more remain nor Human acts
Form the free
rebellious
Spirits of Heaven.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Greek derivatives ending in ais, eis, ois, aon, ion, the
compounds of hzbc, proper names in ea, ia, eum, and
adjectives in eus formed from proper names, generally
lengthen the penultimate; but genitives in eos, and accu-
satives in ea from
nominatives
in eus, generally make the
penultimate short; as Nais, Minois, Ixion, Archelaus,
Apamea, Antiochia, Mausoleum, Pelopeus, Orpheos, Or>>
phea.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The third and last reason for the icy silence
which has greeted Nietzsche in this country is due
to the fact that he
has—as
far as I know—no
literary ancestor over here whose teachings could
have prepared you for him.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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Phenomenology of
Spirit, 3, 9, 15, 18, 23, 41, 55-8,
60-3, 107, 143-65 Philosophy of Right, 9, 43, 139 Lectures on the History of
Philosophy, 40-1, 44, 46-7, 60
Philosophical
Propaedeutic, 52 Philosophy of Mind, 53, 147 Science of Logic, 56, 58, 61-3, 86
Heidegger, M.
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Education in Hegel |
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Levi, Sutralamkdra, Introduction), all the
preparations
for Bodhi (bodhi- sambhdra) produce (nirvartaka) the major and minor marks.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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There are three hundred and seventy
churches
in
Moscow.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
Silent the orderly,
watching
with tears in his eyes
as his officer scanned
Four short pages of writing.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:08 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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And I was free of haunts umbrageous;
Could wander in the mazy forest-house 470
Of squirrels, foxes shy, and antler'd deer,
And birds from coverts innermost and drear
Warbling for very joy
mellifluous
sorrow--
To me new born delights!
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Keats |
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He is something like a
fullgrown
outdoor man.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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Talos the brazen man protected Crete; also =
guardian
and other things.
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Pattern Poems |
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"New political thinking," the general rubric for their views, describes a world dominated by
economic
concerns, in which there are no ideological grounds for major conflict between nations, and in which, consequently, the use of military force becomes less legitimate.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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The thought hath
poisoned
all my years.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Noir
assassin
de la Vie et de l'Art,
Tu ne tueras jamais dans ma memoire
Celle qui fut mon plaisir et ma gloire!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I believe that was not the end of those nations or any person of
them, any more than this shall be the end of my nation, or of me;
Of their languages, governments, marriage, literature, products,
games, wars, manners, crimes, prisons, slaves, heroes, poets,
I suspect their results curiously await in the yet unseen world,
counterparts of what accrued to them in the seen world,
I suspect I shall meet them there,
I suspect I shall there find each old
particular
of those unnamed lands.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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Though if thou wilt,
Methinks 'twould be a guilt--a very guilt--
Not to
companion
thee, and sigh away
The light--the dusk--the dark--till break of day!
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Keats |
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Conrad and his
counsellors saw clearly that the King of France was a tool of Roger
for
thwarting
his plans in Italy and for making war on Constantinople;
and the Pope himself, although he could not oppose it openly, had no
faith in the possibility of a fresh expedition to the East.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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Email
contact links and up to date contact
information
can be found at the
Foundation's web site and official page at www.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Softly he
sang to a dusty
seascape
there: _A Last Farewell.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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He wrote to him in a
paternal
and severe tone.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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This new theory of politics, however, must not be
dismissed
?
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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Since then, thinking
historically
means orienting oneself in a situation where life is no longer a match for its own reflectivity.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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"
They threw back their heads to laugh,
With quaint countenances
They
regarded
him.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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"
And I was
overjoyed
at this.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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a curiouJ, and
penistent
error of inu.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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The strawberry-nosed man glanced
over his shoulder, caught
Gordon’s
eye, and moved off, foiled.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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I have tried to show [that--and to show] how--what
appeared
openly, as it were, in the naked state, in psychiatric practice at the start of the nineteenth century, was a power with the general form of what I have called discipline.
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He it was who first
taunted Nature with being an
imitator
of art, with always being the
same.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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So the Jay could do no better
than go back to the other Jays, who had watched his
behaviour
from
a distance; but they were equally annoyed with him, and told him:
"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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237-
The Most
Terrible
Revenge.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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With a literal translation into
English and a dissertation on the
authenticity
of the poems, by Clerk, A.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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"]
FROM SEXTUS EMPIRICUS
Honors and crowns of the tempest-footed
Horses delight one;
Others live in golden chambers;
And some even are pleased traversing securely
The
swelling
of the sea in a swift ship.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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In like manner, and for the very same reasons, it may
perhaps be neither safe nor prudent to argue against the abolishing of
Christianity, at a
juncture
when all parties seem so unanimously
determined upon the point, as we cannot but allow from their actions,
their discourses, and their writings.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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" When he got through he jumped up and cracked his
heels
together
three times, and let off a roaring "Whoo-oop!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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--the skepticism of daring manliness, which is closely related
to the genius for war and conquest, and made its first
entrance
into
Germany in the person of the great Frederick.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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' Hyperkommunikation verhindert unmittelbares Erleben,
behauptet
der Literaturwissenschaftler Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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He could meet
even Lady Russell in a discussion of her merits; and Anne could not be
given to understand so much by her friend, could not know herself to be
so highly rated by a
sensible
man, without many of those agreeable
sensations which her friend meant to create.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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As if some little Arctic flower,
Upon the polar hem,
Went
wandering
down the latitudes,
Until it puzzled came
To continents of summer,
To firmaments of sun,
To strange, bright crowds of flowers,
And birds of foreign tongue!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Here comes another: gentle words, my Queen,
Let him take from thee now, and swiftly follow
Contrite, and let the beauty of thy grief
Bend
pleading
against the King's furious eyes.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Chor: It is not vertue, wisdom, valour, wit, 1010
Strength, comliness of shape, or amplest merit
That womans love can win or long inherit;
But what it is, hard is to say,
Harder to hit,
(Which way soever men refer it)
Much like thy riddle, Samson, in one day
Or seven, though one should musing sit;
If any of these or all, the Timnian bride
Had not so soon preferr'd
Thy Paranymph, worthless to thee compar'd, 1020
Successour
in thy bed,
Nor both so loosly disally'd
Thir nuptials, nor this last so trecherously
Had shorn the fatal harvest of thy head.
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Milton |
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They said I was a wealthy man;
My sheep upon the
mountain
fed,
And it was fit that thence I took
Whereof to buy us bread:"
"Do this; how can we give to you,"
They cried, "what to the poor is due?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Even of those who have dedicated
themselves
to knowledge, the far
greater part have confined their curiosity to a few objects, and have
very little inclination to promote any fame, but that which their own
studies entitle them to partake.
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Samuel Johnson |
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The author expressly says that "Mathematica quadrivium continet"; but he
plainly does not include the
_Trivium_
under Philosophy.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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But surely you can
understand
that being with
Torvald is a little like being with papa--(_Enter_ MAID _from the hall_.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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James and of their
patroness
of Wenlock, St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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23), and three
of the chief characters are
mentioned
in Widsith.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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das Wort, das Bild, der Begriff sucht einen der Musik
analogen
Ausdruck und erleidet jetzt die Gewalt der Musik an sich" (I, 49).
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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I have never believed that my grandfather put a bit of railway across Wisconsin
simplyor
chiefly to make money or even with the illusion that he would make money, or make more money in that way than in some.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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‘We’d
better get hold of a
taxi,’ he said, looking up and down the street.
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Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-20 04:05 GMT / http://hdl.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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At the first we had the sight but of two or three of
them: afterwards appeared no less than six hundred, which, dividing
themselves in two parts,
prepared
for encounter, in which many of
them by meeting with their barks together were broken in pieces, many
were turned over and drowned: they that closed, fought lustily and
would not easily be parted, for the soldiers in the front showed a
great deal of valour, entering one upon another, and killed all they
could, for none were taken prisoners.
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The deviation is that one may think every time a disturbing emotion arises we have to
meditate
on emptiness using emptiness as a remedy.
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The ' sea" raging,
spiritual
'flood*' still rejoice.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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She
proceeded
to other less known and less humiliating adventures.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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Even more telling is the finding that children have different, but characteristic, attachment patterns with their two parents, and may be
classified
as secure with one and insecure with the other.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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tydynges
harde sche spokyn;
She com forthe in A sempyll pace,
Sory, I wott, welle ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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No doubt the
reason demands unity, and nature variety, and both
legislations
take
man in hand.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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Does he not recognize in him- self the peculiar, irreducible character of human
reality?
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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The flames rushed on, and we already felt the heat, as
volumes of smoke enveloped us; I thought it advisable to carry
the
gunpowder
(about 20 lbs.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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And the period which preceded it, the period
after the failure of Roman civilization, was sufficiently "dark" and
devoid of individuality, to make the sudden plenty of potent and
splendid individuals seem a phenomenon of the same sort as that which
has been roughly described; it can scarcely be doubted that the age
which is exhibited in the _Poem of the Cid_, the _Song of Roland_, and
the lays of the Crusaders (_la Chanson d'Antioche_, for instance), was
similar in all
essentials
to the age we find in Homer and the
_Nibelungenlied_.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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Usage guidelines
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libraries
to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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I shall seem to you stupid, and
the
reputation
I have, false.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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His offence in the eyes of de Crousaz was that he had
left out of account all
doctrines
of orthodox theology.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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It is best that the river and its bank be
separate
but equal.
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