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Plutarch: Lives of the Ten Orators
Pages 832 - 844
These lives are unlikely to have been written by Plutarch himself, but nevertheless they contain much unique and valuable information about the ten Athenian orators, most of whom lived in the 4th
century
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It is also worth noting that the mass media force such a quick reac- tion in the mass media that there is no time to wait and see
whether
the judiciary will correct itself.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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5
Wherever
a young man roams
The Fates in ambush lie
6 What good that young men have
Did you lack in your life?
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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clarity
will come
automatically.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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This letter, my dear Mother, will be
brought
you by Reginald.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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If old Herod with the Cormwell's ec;ema was to go for me like he does Snuffler
whatever
about his blue canaries I'd do nine months for his beaver beard.
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Men love to distinguish themselves, and in either of the other
lines
distinction
may be gained, but not in the church.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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212-223) And of them all, well-girded
Metaneira
first began to
speak: 'Hail, lady!
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Hesiod |
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Were there to be no more places and pensions,
because
Mr.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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"I think you might do
something
better with the
time," she said, "than wasting it in asking riddles that have no
answers.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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Our living feet walk on dead ground:
Our high wills
surmount
the snares of Fate.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Only in vain
I cast my voice
against
the outer rays
Of _my_ Star shut in light behind the sun.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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--Imposture is a
specious
thing, yet never worse than
when it feigns to be best, and to none discovered sooner than the
simplest.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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It more
becomes
a man
Than gilt his trophy.
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Shakespeare |
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materials
and make them widely accessible.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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Is the failed
pillager
equal to him who gains?
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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In the view typical of other Hlnayana schools, con- sciousness
existed
moment by moment, Hickering on and off like a movie.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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Hindley is too reckless to select
his
acquaintance
prudently: he doesn't trouble himself to reflect on the
causes he might have for mistrusting one whom he has basely injured.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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If you had any
occasion
to fear you would be less negligent.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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Scarcely has he
married
her, when he is on
the point of giving himself up to the love
he feels for the other.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Toutefois, il fit
occuper
la citadelle de Ber-
game, qui avait garnison vénitienne, et donna pour
raison qu'il ne la croyait pas assez bien gardée
pour résister à un coup de main de la part des Au-
trichiens.
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Stendhal - 1817 - Vie de Napoleon |
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Your IP address has been automatically
blocked
from the address you tried to visit at www.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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Wilson sees American
finance
as the real enemy of England.
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As night fell
The dark man
reached
a mount in a great plain,
And his tired wife and his sons, out of breath,
Said: "Let us lie down on the earth and sleep.
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Hugo - Poems |
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100 116
So that in England not only the total delinquency, but more
especially the commoner offences against the person and against
property show a
slighter
increase than that which has been
established for the same period in France.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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The army
had felt the importance of an action; an impression was made
on their adversary, that even in a close engagement, without
the advantage of ground, the gallantry and
discipline
of this
inferior force was a just object of vigilance.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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And though this be very hard that this holy minister of God is so
shamefully
handled, yet the equity of the chief captain is to be commended if he be compared with the Jews.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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She waves delicately
With the
movement
of the tree.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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LONG Parliament, the,
curtailed
273, 285, 420, x.
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Alexander Pope - v05 |
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I
1 Bowles, from the Mapledurham was
therefore
the 22nd of March, 1744,
MSS.
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Alexander Pope - v09 |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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The slim bronze men beat the hour again,
But only the
gargoyles
up in the hard blue air heed them.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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University
of Notre Dame Press.
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Hitler and Mussolini are
competitors
for very much the same power and hegemony and therefore are po- tential enemies.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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Among his prose works the " Areopagitica " (1644), advocating the freedom of the press, his work on Divorce, and his "Defense of the
English
People" (1654) are most famous.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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The
sparkling
glance that shoots desire.
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Marvell - Poems |
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If my poor songs are good, I shall have fame out of such things as Fate hath bestowed upon me already – they will be enough; but if they are bad, what boots it me to go
toiling
on?
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Bion |
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If hereafter it was necessary to be con-
tent with the policy of social reform, the parliamentary
parties
and the ministry would have to be negotiated
with — that is, it would be necessary to behave exactly
as the middle classes did.
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Sorel - Reflections on Violence |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Here a little child I stand
Heaving up my either hand;
Cold as
paddocks
though they be,
Here I lift them up to Thee,
For a benison to fall
On our meat and on us all.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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That they may be as extravagant, as little tempered by
anything ideal or distant as possible, he will break up the rhythm,
regarding neither the length of the lines nor the natural music of
the phrases, and
distort
the accent by every casual impulse.
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Yeats |
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In
poetry, a new
cadence
means a new idea.
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Imagists |
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All such bogy
stories as those of your “Philopseudes,” and the ghost of the lady who
took to table-rapping
because
one of her best slippers had not been
burned with her body, are gravely investigated by the Psychical Society.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Apologies if this happened, because human users who are making use of the eBooks or other site
features
should almost never be blocked.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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Grey walks,
Mossy stones,
Copper carp swimming lazily,
And beyond,
A faint toneless
hissing
echo of rain
That tears at my heart.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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Cormac Mac Cuileannan, king and bishop, who departed this life in the
earlier
part of the tenth century, nor, in fact, of any saint, who died after a.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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My dreams are over, I have ceased to cry
Against the fate that made men love my mouth
And left their
spirits
all too deaf to hear
The little songs that echoed through my soul.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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When the pilgrims emerged from the opening through which they beheld the
stars, they found
themselves
in a scene which enchanted them with hope
and joy.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Such Being should be more than mortality disvalued as
something
thingly-em- pirical.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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The two splendours quickly turned out to be
wings; and Virgil, who had hitherto
watched
its coming in silence, cried
out, "Down, down,--on thy knees!
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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"Break this heavy chain,
That does freeze my bones
around!
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blake-poems |
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And do so, love; yet when they have devis'd,
What strained
touches
rhetoric can lend,
Thou truly fair, wert truly sympathiz'd
In true plain words, by thy true-telling friend;
And their gross painting might be better us'd
Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abus'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Old-fashioned eyes,
Not easy to
surprise!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Is
Hareton
to be a beggar?
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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To raise the mast, the missile dart to wing,
And send swift arrows from the bounding string,
Were arts the gods made grateful to my mind;
Those gods, who turn (to
various
ends design'd)
The various thoughts and talents of mankind.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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1405), Grub mtha' kUIl shes nas mtha' bral grub pa zhes bya ba'i bstan bcos, Thimphu:
Kunsang
Topgey, 1976.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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During the war there
was a by-election which the
Conservatives
won.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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This was a joint undertaking: the
psychological
notes being
furnished in about equal proportions by Mr.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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If in
Nietzsche
we were left with an image of the self seeing itself overcome itself, of unmasking the unmasking of itself, in Rilke it is merely the reverse, a mask of masking.
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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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[951] And others shall dwell in the land of the Sicanians, wandering to the spot where Laomedon, stung by the
ravages
of the gluttonous sea-monster, gave to mariners to expose the three daughters of Phoenodamas that they should be devoured by ravenous wild beasts, there far off where they came to the land of the Laestrygonians in the West, where dwells always abundant desolation.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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"
The Vydkhd quotes the Vibhdsd: sydc chuddhakam
vairagyena
labheta, parihdnyd
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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It is remarkable that this man, who, by his perception of symbols, saw
the poetic construction of things, and the primary relation of mind
to matter, remained entirely devoid of the whole
apparatus
of poetic
expression, which that perception creates.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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And, indeed,
This is a cloister that a man could like,
This blue-aired space of grassy land, that here,
Just as it touches the sea's bitter mood,
Is troubled into dunes, as it were thrilled,
Like a calm woman trembling
against
love.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Consider the mighty Demosthenes, whose son he
was, and
whither
I exalted him; consider Aeschines; how came a Philip
to pay court to the cymbal-woman's brat?
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Lucian |
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And though the god of war should
numbers
bring,
With all the arms that can his thunders fling,
Before the fort he'll vainly waste his time,
While Cupid, unattended, in shall climb,
Obtain possession perfectly at ease,
And grant conditions just as he shall please.
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La Fontaine |
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It is said that by
accumulating
such merit over three measure- less aeons, one will perfect the Five Spiritual Paths and Ten Spir- itual Stages and will attain Buddhahood, their result.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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Can you
imagine
how different your life would be if you hadn't had the presence of mind to call me out when you did?
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Perry - Suzy's Memoirs |
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" Bad as was to me this detection by San
Carlo, this frost in July, this blow from a brick, there was still a
worse, namely, the cloy or
satiety
of the saints.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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A truth passes over me
Like a cloud,
With
invisible
lightnings it strikes me,
On broad, slow stairs,
Its happiness climbs to me:
Come, come, beloved truth!
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Nietzsche - v17 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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SANCTUS JANUARIUS 239
virtues whose very essence is
negation
and self-
renunciation.
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Nietzsche - v10 |
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They let the Germans bleed for
the
freedom
of the left bank of the Rhine--including
Luxemburg--they loudly boast they have no fatherland,
and reserve it to themselves to heap abuse on Germans
as slaves, to shout to the German tide-waiters a scornful
"merde pour la Prusse!
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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And he concedes that for longer trips he
himself
uses an automobile because it's faster and more comfortable than a horse-drawn coach, but he maintains that this box with springs on four wheels has deprived traveling of its true nobil- ity.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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The mill grinds with a grin
through
grains.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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And ye, young men,
prepare
ye for song and for the dance.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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I have other questions or need to report an error
Please email the diagnostic
information
to help2018 @ pglaf.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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A letter a cold
sleeve a blanket a shaving house and nearly the best and
regular
window.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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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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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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"He that
endeavours to free himself from an ill habit," says Bacon, "must not
change too much at a time, lest he should be
discouraged
by difficulty;
nor too little, for then he will make but slow advances.
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Samuel Johnson |
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federal
laws and your state's laws.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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--When females arrive at the age of
puberty
they begin to
have a discharge once every month, by way of the vagina, of the color of
blood.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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O ye spirits of earth,
I almost, from my miserable heart,
Could here
upbraid
you for your cruel heart,
Which will not let me, down the slope of death,
Draw any of your pity after me,
Or lie still in the quiet of your looks,
As my flower, there, in mine.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Is it not said that many years ago,
In a far Eastern town, some
soldiers
ran
With torches through the midnight, and began
To wrangle for mean raiment, and to throw
Dice for the garments of a wretched man,
Not knowing the God’s wonder, or His woe?
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Wilde - Charmides |
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carried off the tyrant's head, and then hurried off to overtake the
pursuing
party, being eager to give the soldiers ocular evidence of the fall of the enemy's commander, that they might continue the pursuit of their opponents with all the more confidence and spirit right up to Tegea.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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" Environment
and
Behavior
6:131-68.
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Childens - Folklore |
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Go to the hideously wedded,
Go to them whose failure is concealed,
Go to the
unluckily
mated, Go to the bought wife,
Go to the woman entailed.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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Yet
undoubtedly
insufficient nourishment must have accelerated his end.
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Thomas Otway |
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Place me in lowly state, in power and pride,
Where lour the skies, or where bland zephyrs play
Place me where blind night rules, or
lengthened
day,
In age mature, or in youth's boiling tide:
Place me in heaven, or in the abyss profound,
On lofty height, or in low vale obscure,
A spirit freed, or to the body bound;
Bank'd with the great, or all unknown to fame,
I still the same will be!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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If the Wake is about us, then we are
it only ifwe can find away
tomatch
ourselves with how it is nonsen
sical.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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The question must nevertheless be asked whether
current
and currently projected programs will adequately support this policy in the future, in terms both of need and urgency.
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NSC-68 |
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Without
activity he will traverse all the paths and levels.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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Would you
rather the state persecuted
philosophers
than paid
them for official services?
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Nietzsche - v05 |
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The literary reflec- tions of Dostoyevsky's visit to London are found in his travel feature Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (1863), a text in which the author makes fun, among other things, of the "ser- geant-majors of civilization," the hothouse character of the "orangery progressivists," and
articulates
his fear of the Baalish triumphalism of the World Exhibition palace.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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America ought not to be makin' war on Europe, and
America
knows it.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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'*^ The
Munster
narratives will have it, th;;t Morough showed great courage,
notwithstanding, under the depressing circumstance, and at a juncture least expected.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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tive, ou tenait garnison dans
quelque
place de la
Ligurie.
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Stendhal - 1817 - Vie de Napoleon |
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Foreigners, come from all the countries of the
Mediterranean,
plundered
the provinces under its authority.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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And now the hundred mighty portals of the
house open of their own accord, and bring
through
the air the answer of
the soothsayer:
'O past at length with the great perils of the sea!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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