But above all I believe that today we read
classics
less politically than even a quarter of a century ago--and experience the texts in- stead, to bring in a conflicting term, from an existential perspective.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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From Kant's Treatise De mundi
sensibilis
et intelligibilis forma et
principiis.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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O God of the night
What great sorrow
Cometh unto us,
That thou thus
repayest
us
Before the time of its coming?
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Adde nunc vires viribus,
Dulce balneum suavibus
Unguentatum
odoribus!
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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But mark, I
threaten
not in vain; should he 100
O'ercome thee, and in force superior prove,
To Echetus thou go'st; my sable bark
Shall waft thee to Epirus, where he reigns
Enemy of mankind; of nose and ears
He shall despoil thee with his ruthless steel,
And tearing by the roots the parts away[79]
That mark thy sex, shall cast them to the dogs.
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Here's the worth and wisdom Collieston can boast;
By a
thievish
midge they had been nearly lost.
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burns |
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Their prince, Ulghū Khān, had been treated
with
distinction
by Firüz, but he had been blinded by 'Alā-ud-din,
and if he was still alive was living in captivity and misery.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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Nor
do I like their Opinion, who think a Man happy, because he never had a
Wife; I approve rather what the
_Hebrew_
Sage said, _He that has a good
Wife has a good Lot_.
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Erasmus |
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Because of them, the
combating
of toxic clouds became a task of produc- tive design.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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The
question
is not put, how far extends
One's piety, but what he yearly spends.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Neanthes of Cyzicus says, that when he came to the Olympic games all the Greeks who were present turned to look at him: and that it was on that occasion that he held a conversation with Dion, who was on the point of
attacking
Dionysius.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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Icon painting thus
embodies
art at its ascetic maximum - and the minimum connection to the world.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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His preface to the collected
edition represents him as about to quit the
exercise
of poetry,
and desirous to preserve all his writings which were worth pre-
serving.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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One y
must know how to
conserve
oneself-the best test of
independence.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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His cows and horses died, and all manner of
trouble
overtook
him, and finally he himself was led home, and left
useless with 'his head on his knees by the fire to the day of his
death.
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Yeats |
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The head cook, if a
PLONGEUR
had
spoken to him like that, would have thrown a saucepan of hot soup in his face.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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It is time to do away with the
inevitability
of natural death.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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No more do old friends
frequent
me;
4 They’re buried now in old tomb mounds.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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What were my
feelings
when Thedora informed
me that you had been discovered drunk in the street, and taken home by
the police?
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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The hero is everywhere: in the elm that shades the salmon pool, in the shadow that falls upon the stream, in the salmon beneath the ripples, in the
sunlight
on the ripples, in the sun itself.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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The other buffalo also
extricated itself from the slime and
lolloped
away.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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One John Gauley,''' in 1845, carefully
examined
about this old ruin, and he could find no trace of any other old parish church.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Hevajra is said to be an
exclamation
of joy.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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and explained that they would not have been
waiting for hours if it had not been about something important that had
to be
discussed
now, at length and in private.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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For my part, give me all the year round the dear
delightful
spring, when cold doth not chill nor sun burn.
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Bion |
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ANSELM
What,
Ganymede?
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La Fontaine |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Tacitus |
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for a virgin to marry, no sin ; for one who has vowed
perpetual
virginity, a great sin, iv.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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What, to
Catullus
alone if a wayward fancy resort not ?
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Wilde - Charmides |
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Namque] The
reference
indicated in hamque
is lost in the absence of the preceding line.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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The critique of reason has to investigate what the
especial
Forms of this synthesis are in each stage, and in what their universal and necessary validity consists.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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Praises o f the Thought
What is unique about the Thought of
Enlightenment
when it rises in the [conscious] stream of the disciple who con- ceives it?
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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John Dashwood,
without sending any notice of her
intention
to her mother-in-law,
arrived with her child and their attendants.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to
organize
the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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But 1035, the year
of Knut's death, saw a general disturbance and one of the most savage
of
recorded
Slav incursions.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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Goodman found that the enthusiasm of invitees to write in their book created
momentum
and felt like an Anti-Train - anti the Nazi trains.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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I told them all about my situation, and these ladies said they hoped
that I might get away again, and went so far as to tell me if I should
be kept in the jail that night, there was a hole under the wall of the
jail where a
prisoner
had got out.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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The fact that "existence" is only applicable to descriptions is
concealed by the use of what are
grammatically
proper names in a way
which really transforms them into descriptions.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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I haue liu'd long enough: my way of life
Is falne into the Seare, the yellow Leafe,
And that which should
accompany
Old-Age,
As Honor, Loue, Obedience, Troopes of Friends,
I must not looke to haue: but in their steed,
Curses, not lowd but deepe, Mouth-honor, breath
Which the poore heart would faine deny, and dare not.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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he, who
imitates
the twelve postures of Cyrene in his poetry?
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Aristophanes |
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My coggie is a haly pool
That heals the wounds o' care and dool;
And
Pleasure
is a wanton trout,
An ye drink it a', ye'll find him out.
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burns |
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Je
regrette
les temps de l'antique jeunesse,
Des satyres lascifs, des faunes animaux,
Dieux qui mordaient d'amour l'ecorce des rameaux
Et dans les nenufars baisaient la Nymphe blonde!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Is it not because
there is more truth in it than may be
altogether
palatable to you?
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Rogers,
Benjamin
Bickley (tr.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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Non-dramatic writings from
the pens of both have been preserved; of their dramatic com-
positions, we have only Edwards’s Damon and Pithias, though
chance has preserved for us a very detailed account of his other
known play, Palamon and Arcyte,
produced
at Oxford in 15662.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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269
“Cydonea
harundine,” vii.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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CX cum CIX
continuant
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Written
originally
in Latin by the late
Rev.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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Overwork
started his illness, kept it alight, and
killed him poor devil.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Then the inhabitants of Alexandria sent
Menelaus
and Lampon and Callimander to ask Antiochus to come and rule in Egypt together with the daughters of Ptolemy, when Ptolemy Dionysus had been driven out of Alexandria.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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The exchange of
students
is also an excellent idea as well as bilingual edu- cation wherever it is practised.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Or SItting In the
underbrush
plaYing mandolms "
And Kung smtled upon all of them equally And Thseng-sie deSIred to know
.
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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You see in him, madam,
as complete a villain as ever
disgraced
humanity.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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Readers are referred to the
Bibliography
whenever full mformatlOn on pnmary and secondary sources does not appear in the relevant note.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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Why
specially
Jean?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And the nymphs were affrighted when they saw the terrible monsters like unto the crags of Ossa: all had single eyes beneath their brows, like a shield of fourfold hide for size, glaring terribly from under; and when they heard the din of the anvil echoing loudly, and the great blast of the bellows and the heavy groaning of the
Cyclopes
themselves.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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Not
spoiling
the ship for a ’aporth of tar?
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:07 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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He is the idol of the
people of Westminster: few persons have a greater number of friends
and well-wishers; and he has still greater reason to be proud of his
enemies, for his integrity and
independence
have made them so.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Them that he couldn't lead he'd get behind
And drive, the way you can, you know, in mowing--
Keep at their heels and
threaten
to mow their legs off.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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We were not silent during the author's
life-time, either for his reproof or encouragement (such us we
could give, and _he_ did not disdain to accept) nor can we now turn
undertakers' men to fix the
glittering
plate upon his coffin, or fall
into the procession of popular woe.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:16 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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at postquam pulsisque bonis et faece retenta
peiores legit socios
dignusque
satelles
hinc Hosius stetit, inde Leo, fiducia crevit
regnandique palam flagravit aperta libido.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Smoothed
by long fingers,
Asleep.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Der Streit um die Gestalt einer Ersten
Philosophie
(1799-1807).
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Hegel_nodrm |
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She shakes the clustered stars
Lightly, as she goes
Amid the unseen
branches
of the night,
Rose-limb'd, rose-bosom'd bright.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But another problem interests
Euripides
even more than this.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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" He held it particularly
dishonorable
to receive them; he had bound others by an oath not to receive them: but he received them himself;
and why does he conceal it?
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Edmund Burke |
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South Korea had developed into a modern, urbanized society with an increasingly large and well-educated middle class that could not possibly be isolated from the larger
democratic
trends around them.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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The Dalmatian coast
had been for centuries a sore blemish on the Roman rule, and its inhabitants had been at open feud with Caesar since the conflicts around Dyrrhachium ; while the interior also since the time of the Thessalian war, swarmed with
dispersed
Pompeians.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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What Smith views as an effect of the market is in fact a
consequence
of demographic policy.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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HEALTH AND LIFE ARE' UP;
SICKNESS
AND DEATH ARE DOWN
He's at the peak of health.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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According
to some accounts, Aedh invited over from Iona the great patron of his race, St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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unto my
children
will I make
amends for being the child of my father, xi.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
|
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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)
books,
ascribed
to St.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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All the
tomorrows
will be as today.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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If our dream is realized, a new chapter
will
speedily
be added to the History of Polish
Literature.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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Twice ranged the Sons of
Boreas along this coast and wheeled round and about
yearning
to catch
the Harpies, while they strove to escape and avoid them.
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Hesiod |
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Some further particulars
respecting
this controversy are
mentioned in Dryden's Life.
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Dryden - Complete |
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"
Do you see whither you are looking--down to the earth, to the pit, to
those
despicable
laws of the dead?
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Epictetus |
|
Or on still
evenings
when the rain falls close There comes a tremor in the drops, and fast
My pulses run, knowing thy thought hath passed That beareth thee as doth the wind a rose.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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_ BLANCHE _stands at
the door
watching
him, and_ DAME BERARDE, _her
housekeeper, joins her.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Those monarchs
who held aloof from these
movements
did not dare to oppose the
Pope's claim of divine right to supremacy over them, for fear
of unsettling their own thrones.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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There are about half-a-dozen ingenious men,
who live very
plentifully
upon this curiosity of their fellow-subjects.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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You say that in
Scandinavia
almost nothing is known about
Weininger.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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He was a
humorous
martyr, though, full of drink and irony.
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Source: |
re-joyce-a-burgess |
|
For opium (like
the bee, that extracts its
materials
indiscriminately from roses and from
the soot of chimneys) can overrule all feelings into compliance with the
master-key.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
|
Even while his affec-
tion for his friends remains
undiminished
he
is taught to be ashamed to show it; and
he is led to set at nought the opinion and
advice of fathers, mothers, brothers, and
sisters, because his schoolfellows call this
being manly and independent.
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Childrens - Frank |
|
Hymen o Hymenaee, Hymen ades o
Hymenaee!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
_
_As the tears of your so Unworthy One escape and
continue
constantly
to flow.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
|
To this, there-
fore, we may confine our
detailed
notice.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
|
There is
petrifaction
of the
understanding; and also of the sense of shame.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Epictetus |
|
O widowed
northern
pole!
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
|
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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Nevermore, nevermore
Would I languish for
The stranger's word
To thrill in mine ear--
Nevermore for the wrong and the woe and the fear
So hard to behold,
So cruel to bear,
Piercing
my soul with a double-edged sword
Of a sliding cold.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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Passepartout
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colonel out of the window, but a sign from his master checked him.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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The Delphians
celebrated
the seventh day of the month Bysios – the birthday of Apollo – when he was supposed to revisit his temple, and the seventh of the holy month (Attic Anthesterion) was celebrated by the Delians when Apollo was supposed to return to Delos from the land of the Hyperboreans.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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