One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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At the noise of this dispute, the latter turned
his bridle, and advanced
uttering
threats.
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what a dreadful
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Pray one-pointedly and
steadfastly
from your heart.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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One could get extra tea in the morning,
as the Tramp Major was selling it at a halfpenny a mug,
illicitly
no doubt.
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"The
mountain
of Tsang-wu shall fall and the waters of the Hsiang
shall cease, sooner than the marks of our tears shall fade from these
bamboo-leaves.
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How could he
transgress
in his behaviour, who never went out from the desert?
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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His design was to visit India, in the belief that he had
in his knowledge of its various languages, and in the views he had
taken of its society, the means of materially
assisting
the progress of
European colonization and trade.
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and
independence
of mind.
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Villon |
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The
saying that tyrants are generally
murdered
and that
their descendants are short-lived, is true also of the
tyrants of the mind.
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The old battle- cries raised Gracchus and Drusus, Cinna and Sulla, used up and meaningless as they were, remained still good enough for watchwords in the struggle of the two
generals
contending for the sole rule and, though for the moment both Pompeius and Caesar ranked themselves officially with the so-called popular party, could not be for moment doubtful that Caesar would inscribe on his banner the people and democratic progress, Pompeius the aristocracy and the legitimate constitution.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Eventually he visited Ryutan and
realized
the way of master and
disciple, after which he did indeed become a true person.
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Shobogenzo |
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Here by the
labouring
highway
With empty hands I stroll:
Sea-deep, till doomsday morning,
Lie lost my heart and soul.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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If her beauty has faded, where - where is my
strength
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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It was
engraved
by George A.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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" Matthews relented, and said, " I cannot find in my heart to do it ;" to which Miss Jeffries replied," You may be damned for a villain, for
Matthews,
Soon after this Matthews heard the report of a pistol; when, getting out of the house by the back way, he crossed the ferry, and
proceeded
to Enfield-chase.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Stephen Bathori, the able
Duke of Transylvania, seemed to be such a
man; but after his election, to their dismay,
they saw him
kneeling
at the mass.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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Up flies the bouncing woodcock from the brig
Where a black quagmire quakes beneath the tread,
The fieldfares chatter in the whistling thorn
And for the awe round fields and closen rove,
And coy
bumbarrels
twenty in a drove
Flit down the hedgerows in the frozen plain
And hang on little twigs and start again.
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THE
ELEVENTH
BOOK OF THE /ENEIS 385
I'hey clash with manly force their moony shields; Wit_ female shouts resound the Phryglan fields.
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'Φαίνεταί μοι κῆνος ἴσος θέοισιν'_
ILLE mi par esse deo uidetur,
ille, si fas est, superare diuos,
qui sedens aduersus
identidem
te
spectat et audit
dulce ridentem, misero quod omnis
eripit sensus mihi: nam simul te,
Lesbia, aspexi, nihil est super mi,
Lesbia, uocis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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339
this single substance becomes
realised
(cf.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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Subsequently
the church became a place of exchange where one could hand over one's old identity and receive a spirited new self.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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The form of the poem is in perfect
correspondence
with its spirit.
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Alexander Pope |
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ned by UA(b1) = E[UA(X)]: Indeed, even if party A believes that B is going to reduce
transfers
to zero very soon, there is no reason not to wait until transfer rate would drop to b1: Consequently, continuity implies that out of a large set of Nash equilibria, only the least favorable for A survives subgame perfection.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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sk
The instincts of
decadence
have become master of the instincts of ascending life.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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About midnight, the sea being calm, we fell before we were aware upon
a mighty great halcyon's nest, in compass no less than threescore
furlongs, in which the halcyon herself sailed, as she was hatching her
eggs, in quantity almost equalling the nest, for when she took her
wings, the blast of her
feathers
had like to have overturned our ship,
making a lamentable noise as she flew along.
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Lucian - True History |
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For the very power of
making the selection implies the
previous
possession of the language
selected.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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Thereafter
I sat me against a tree.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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The Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Sin signifies nothing
but sinful actions, and sinful, wicked, vicious, or bad actions are
those which are
productive
of more misery than happiness.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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90 the value of the variable capital, we have
remaining
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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The leading school had not
attempted a justification by reason of such specifically Christian
doctrines as those of the Trinity or the
Incarnation
(as Erigena,
for instance, had done).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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Now the prey beneath her lies in
crippling
pain.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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It seemed as though the music of life flowed
therefrom in a vague murmur; and the banks, rich with all kinds of
growths, breathed, for leagues around, a
delicious
odour of flowers and
fruits.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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On the other hand, ballads
were neglected in France until very recent times; for specimens of
the French ballad, and for an account of it, the reader should consult
Professor Crane's
Chansons
Populaires de France,' New York, 1891.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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It varies greatly in single
Lygdamus
elegies from 82.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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O gentle Lady,
'Tis not for you to heare what I can speake:
The
repetition
in a Womans eare,
Would murther as it fell.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And
will not the
Meistersingers
continue to acquaint
men, even in the remotest ages to come, with the
nature of Germany's soul?
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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He was a
Christian
hero,
wasn't he?
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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They burnt it with my other possessions, when they plundered my house, and
denounced
me and my belongings for sorcery.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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John Selden,
in his De Dis Syris (in Latin), 1617, investigated the history of
the idol deities
mentioned
in the Old Testament, and made his
work a comprehensive enquiry into both Syrian and other heathen
theologies.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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20
1 A reference to Stilicho's campaign against Alaric in the
Peloponnese
in 397 (see Introduction, p.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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He was in constant correspondence with
the great party leaders,
advising
them with an authority which they
could not resent, such were its mass and weight.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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To wander o'er leagues of land,
To search over wastes of sea,
Where the Prophets of Lycia stand,
Or where Ammon's
daughters
three
Make runes in the rainless sand,
For magic to make her free--
Ah, vain!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Could she forget me, to rail not,
Nought were amiss ; if now scold she, or if she revile,
'Tis not alone to
remember
; a shrewder stimulus arms
her, 5
Anger ; her heart doth burn verily, thus to revile.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Naturally the figure of Moses had to be the first to be
affected
by the dis tortion.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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While perusing such passages, the reader will
grasp the full meaning of Schopenhauer's solemn
utterance to the effect that, where optimism is not
merely the idle prattle of those beneath whose flat
brows words and only words are stored, it seemed
to him not merely an absurd but a vicious attitude
of mind, and one full of
scornful
irony towards
the indescribable sufferings of humanity.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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Reciprocators can also do better over the long run than the
cheaters
who take favors without returning them, because the reciprocators will come to recognize the cheaters and shun or punish them.
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And to thy life were not denied
The wounds in the hands and feet and side; 285
Mild Mary's Son,
acknowledge
me;
Behold, through him, I give to thee!
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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Ronsard |
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In
addition
to "casuists," vinayadharas, they had "philosophers," dbhidhdrmikas.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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The first number contains the following announcement
of policy:
The name of this publication announces already in part
what its aims are: to serve art, especially poetry and letters,
whilst
excluding
all that has reference to the state and
society.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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The application of puzzles or riddles to this form of composition was new, but in giving himself the
patronymic
Simichidas the author is probably acknowledging his dept to his predecessor, Simichus being a pet-name for of Simias, as Amyntichus for Amyntas in VII.
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Pattern Poems |
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If in
anything
at all, it was
in this that I became a master.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Honour, truth, liberality, good nature, and modesty, were the virtues she chiefly possessed, and most valued in her acquaintance: and where she found them, would be ready to allow for some defects; nor valued them less,
although
they did not shine in learning or in wit: but would never give the least allowance for any failures in the former, even to those who made the greatest figure in either of the two latter.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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XI
In a lonely place,
I encountered a sage
Who sat, all still,
Regarding
a newspaper.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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The action of the play falls within the thirteenth century,
the “pretenders” being the two
claimants
to the throne of Sverre,
King of Norway,– Hakon and Skule.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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She suspected the
flight of Achæmenes, and the motive of it; for Cybele, whenever she
was questioned on the subject, made various excuses for his absence,
and studiously endeavoured to
persuade
her that he was anywhere else,
rather than in the camp of Oroondates.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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e, 3if yow lyke3,
3if any were so
vilanous
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions,
knowing it is thy power gives me
strength
to act.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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appreciation of natural beauty, the
tranquility
gained by release from action, the elusiveness and indefinability of the Tao.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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Lange Zeit
genoßest
du
deinen Wunsch durch nichts bemüht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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And
for the same reasons is it that women are so earnestly
delighted
with
this kind of men, as being more propense by nature to pleasure and toys.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Envy at last the silence broke,
And smiling, with
malignant
sneer,
Upon her sister dear,
Who stood in expectation by,
Ever implacable and cruel, spoke
"I would be blinded of _one_ eye!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I do hold it, in the royal
ordering
of gardens,
there ought to be gardens, for all the months in the year; in which
severally things of beauty may be then in season.
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Bacon |
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The Life & Spiritual Songs ofMilarepa
(3) This
meditation
is not the creation of something new.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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Thus persons who are
detached
do not possess all the indriyas which are retributioa 66.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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"The truth is, the security intended to the general liberty
in the confederation, consists in the frequent election and
in the
rotation
of the members of congress, by which there
is a constant and an effectual check upon them.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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I can very truly
say, that I have not found, by observation, or inquiry,
that any sense of the evils produced by their projects
has produced in them, or any one of them, the
smallest
degree of repentance.
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Edmund Burke |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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At half past five I was
suddenly
awakened.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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The intellect, for example, of a discoverer of
truth excites our wonder; but what rouses our
enthusiasm
is the
calm and modest valor with which he defies the powerful animos-
ity of those who thrive by debauching the understanding of man.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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Marks, notations and other
marginalia
present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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Bentham, like Hobbes before him and from whom he took many of his lead- ing ideas,
despised
the lower orders.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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This iterability forms the trans-subjective frame
providing
the continuity between moments.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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He thinks, in his exhaustive, rempiri-
cal way, that freedom
embraces
two things: the
suitability of the citizens to live as they prefer,
and the sharing of the citizens in the State-
government (ruling, and at the same time, being
ruled).
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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The anonymous author
reported
that nearly everyone in the area spoke Gascon in preference to French.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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Arthur, taking with him his
British
warriors
only, returns home.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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Uns eram redatores dos principais jornais, e conseguiam não existir; outros tinham lugares públicos em vista no anuário e conseguiam não figurar em nada da vida; outros eram poetas até consagrados, mas uma mesma poeira de cinza lhes tornava lívidas as faces parvas, e tudo era um túmulo de
embalsamados
hirtos, postos com a mão nas costas em posturas de vidas.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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As such, the effects of its operation can be regarded as an example of what can
usefully
be termed environ- mental homeostasis (Bowlby, 1969, 1982).
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In the case of
individual
donations of rage, the person who hates initially draws on her own rage supply, even at the risk of using up her capacity for experiencing rage.
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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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nschten Schrifttums [List of Dangerous and Undesirable Writing] issued by the Reich
Ministry
for Literature between 1935 and 1943,4 and he was never publicly vilified to the extent that some other writers were.
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Know then that I loved you from afore-time, Clear speakers, naked in the sun, untrammelled,
To KaXoV
EVEN in my dreams you have denied
yourself
to me
And sent me only your handmaids.
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But as the swain amazèd stood,
In this most solemn vein,
Came
Phyllida
forth of the wood,
And stood before the swain.
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' Either
would have taught him that whatever happens to another happens to
oneself, and if you want an inscription to read at dawn and at
night-time, and for
pleasure
or for pain, write up on the walls of your
house in letters for the sun to gild and the moon to silver, 'Whatever
happens to oneself happens to another.
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The woods closed in,
The stream grew dark,
And then
The boat was
grounded
sudden on the shoals,
And I
Said quickly that perhaps
We'd come too far.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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It
therefore
shows that the opposition between discrete and analog media was already beginning to become fluid in Edison's time.
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Upon his majesty's happy return,
those
gentlemen
who were alive of the old farmers,
who were sir John Jacob, sir Job Harby, sir Ni-
cholas Crispe, and sir John Harrison, applied them-
selves to the king, having lain several years and at
that time remaining in execution in several prisons,
and having had their estates sold, upon the prosecu-
tion of those creditors to whom they were bound for
money lent to his majesty.
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It thunders and the wind rushes
screaming
through the
void.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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But I wish the present little book to laugh from one end to the other, and to be more free in its language than any of my books; to be redolent of wine, and not ashamed of being greased with the rich
unguents
of Cosmus; a book to make sport for boys, and to make love to girls; and to speak, without disguise, of that by respecting which men are generated, the parent indeed of all; which the pious Numa used to call by its simple name.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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I cry woe for Adonis, the
beauteous
Adonis is dead.
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Bion |
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He had been
Flory’s
servant since his first day
in Burma.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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