A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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Larkyn was a
frivolous
lady,
and called the Colonel's Wife "old cat.
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Kipling - Poems |
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ii:*
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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Doctors' work is based on their alliance with the natural
tendencies
of life toward self-integration and the avoidance of pain.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But
what made it
singularly
alarming was, that it was a
most dangerous menace to the Athenian interests on
the north of the ]Egean.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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you seeme to
vnderstand
me,
By each at once her choppie finger laying
Vpon her skinnie Lips: you should be Women,
And yet your Beards forbid me to interprete
That you are so
Mac.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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--“But she is ill, and I am certain
that it is no simple
illness!
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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[8] How Cimabue found Giotto, the shepherd-boy, sketching a ram of
his flock upon a stone, is prettily told by Vasari,--who also
relates that the elder artist
Margheritone
died "infastidito"
of the successes of the new school.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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--- make his
appearance
than she went below
stairs, brushed his shoes, coat, &c.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Wine masters all
disputes
and binds us
to our friends, wine drowns our sorrows, dulls our cares,
and fills our hearts with joy -- (pause) -- there's naught like
wine.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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Bronzino
was one of
the poet's preferences.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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Dorylaus
captured the city with some difficulty.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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And put out their
lightnings!
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Hugo - Poems |
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The Greek settlers who reached the
Anatolian
coast about 1000 encoun- tered the deities of the indigenous peoples.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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Can one
identify
a particular audience for the passage?
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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Such a "tranquil" critique, however, cannot possibly produce its own
beginning
by itself, its own arising from the urge to make it different.
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Sloterdijk |
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It was not safe, nor prudent, in her presence, to offend in the least word against modesty; for she then gave full
employment
to her wit, her contempt, and resentment, under which even stupidity and brutality were forced to sink into confusion; and the guilty person, by her future avoiding him like a bear or a satyr, was never in a way to transgress a second time.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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it
originally
belonged and annexed it to
Munster.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Sau khi mất, ông
được
phong phúc thần.
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stella-03 |
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For men believe in
the truth of all that is manifestly believed with due
implicitness
by
others.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing
technical
restrictions on automated querying.
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Tully - Offices |
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He returned to France in 1800, and it was a substantial literary defence of Christianity which attracted Napoleon's notice and led to his
employment
by the Emperor at Rome and in Switzerland.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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The
monumental
history of Egypt, 1876.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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It was
the mere
retaliation
which any heroic Greek would think perfectly
justifiable.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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Surely we have been
abridged
into a race of pygmies.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The attempt succeeded, and the two
usurpers
have reigned
ever since in his stead; but, to maintain quiet for the future, it was
decreed that all polemics of the larger size should be hold fast with a
chain.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a
pleasant
fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the livelong day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
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blake-poems |
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4 THE METAPHYSICAL
ELEMENTS
OF ETHICS .
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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And there led I the Bushby clan,
My gamesome billie, Will,
And my son Maitland, wise as brave,
My
footsteps
follow'd still.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"Your
directions
shall be attended to, sir," said Miss Temple.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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Probably,
there was some personal satire in the earlier of these plays, and its
successor
attacked
Marston and Dekker, calling forth Dekker's
rejoinder, Satiro-mastix.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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Bearing the
sleeping
Mahaud they moved now
Silent and bent with heavy step and slow.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Deseosos los pastores de saber el sucesso
de la
visitacion
de Isabel por la divina Virgen,
le rogaron que prosiguiesse, y e?
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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COrV AODr'D
3JNALTQBE
RETAINED
NOTE
AIDS TO THE
PRONUNCIATION
OF POLISH WORDS :
c = ts in English its
cz = ch church
sz = sh shall
w = v love
o = oo n boot
ie = ye yet
dzi) _
di \-~- dy d>u
^ } = tty " " Lutt y ens
ch = ch loch
j =r y i, you
'I = j French jour
All Polish names are acc'eri'texf on the penultimate syllable
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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There is no person with the smallest
knowledge of land but would say that it was impossible that the average
produce of the country could be increased during the second twenty-five
years by a
quantity
equal to what it at present yields.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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University of
California
Berkeley
From the library of
JAMES D.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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From the
inception
of the case, there were points suggesting that Agca was coached while in prison.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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'105-106'
In Shakespeare's play Othello
fiercely
demands to see a handkerchief
which he has given his wife, and takes her inability to show it to him
as a proof of her infidelity.
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Alexander Pope |
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It
provides
enthusiasm with the direction of its ascent - up until the calm at the summit, close to the divine.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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They are couched in the wearisome formalities
of semi-legal documents, like the
proclamations
of the time.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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Money can never
represent
what we
lost when the flower of our youthful manhood fell on
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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He
enclosed, without the
knowledge
of the inhabitants, a kind of peninsula
with a ditch and wall, and by his courteous address gained over those
who were inclined to obstruct the work, and instead of enemies made them
his friends.
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Strabo |
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Great fortunes sprang up like mushrooms in a day; primitive
accumulation
went on without the advance of a shilling.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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Some fly, some cower in vain,
Hoping that Time, the grim and eager foe,
Will pass them by; and some run to and fro
Like the Apostles or the
Wandering
Jew;
Go where they will, the Slayer goes there too!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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O LASSIE, ART THOU
SLEEPING
YET.
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Robert Burns |
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10
[70] O
tunefullest
of rivers, this makes thee a second grief, this, good Meles,11 comes thee a new woe.
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Moschus |
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The fragrance of balsam extracted from
aromatic
trees; the ripe odour yielded by the teeming saffron; the perfume of fruits mellowing in their winter repository; or of the flowery meadows in the vernal season; or of silken robes of the Empress from her Palatine wardrobes; of amber warmed by the hand of a maiden; of a jar of dark Falernian wine, broken and scented from a distance;1 of a garden that attracts the Sicilian bees; of the alabaster jars of Cosmus, and the altars of the gods; of the chaplet just fallen from the brow of the luxurious;----but why should I mention all these things singly?
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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Es war
ein
spielerisches
Denken, dem jede Tendenz fehlte;
ein vo?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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In the long run, this world will be unable to exist within its present
framework
in the areas around us without having to go through genuine revolutionary changes.
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If he finds any one flying in the
face of these, or
straggling
from the beaten path, he thinks he has them
at a notable disadvantage, and falls foul of them without loss of time,
partly to soothe his own sense of mortified self-consequence, and as an
edifying spectacle to his legitimate friends.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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83
Notably, both of these confraternity rules also include instructions for saying
additional
Pater Nosters and Ave Marias.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Here Homer, with the broad suspense
Of thunderous brows, and lips intense
Of
garrulous
god-innocence.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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In the long run it has become more than clear that it was Camus who had the right answers to the
fundamental
questions back in the late 40's.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Smoothed
by long fingers,
Asleep .
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T.S. Eliot |
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The masses mass madder, both
numbskull
and sage;
They root up the arbours, they trample the grain;
Make way for the new Resurrected.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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Unlike in previous revolutions, neither side need fear that its rule will be
undermined
by the
spread of potentially corrosive ideas.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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" [At the moment of
agreeable
sensation, the anuiaya of desire (rdga) is in the process of arising, utpadyate; it has not yet arisen, utpanna.
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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Had you gone first, would he have had the name
Of
following
to the grave as you design?
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La Fontaine |
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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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Similarly, study of walking and running brings to our pictures the appearance of the truth in the
movements
of life which are depicted.
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think,
If thou didst miss the sequel of my tale,
To know the rest how sorely thou wouldst crave;
And thou shalt see what
vehement
desire
Possess'd me, as soon as these had met my view,
To know their state.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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His listening within this
condition
through faith allows him to hear in the voice of a child a command from God to
"'pick up and read'" (VIII.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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"Be careful, be on your guard, and make sure that you
yourself
are in the right!
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Chuang Tzu |
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One example of the latter would be the highly active Protestant ‘Doomsday sects’ in the USA and their
partners
in the pop-culturally inflamed areas of Islamic apocalyptic thought.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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All " objects," " purposes," " meanings," are only manners of
expression
and metamorphoses of the one will inherent in all phenomena: of the will to power.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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With the
limitations
imposed on the customs tariff,
it was necessary to fall back on other heads of taxation which promised
to yield the additional income required.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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The third most
glorious
of these majesties
Give aid, O sapphires of th' eternal see, And by your light illume pure verity.
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2 To be sure, at the battles of Sisara, Singara, and Singara again with Constantius present, and of Sicgara and also Constantina, and, when Amida was captured, the state
received
a serious wound while he was princeps.
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” To which the beast “I swear to thee, Cytherean,” answered he, “by thyself and by thy husband, and by these my bonds and these thy huntsmen, never would I have smitten thy pretty husband but that I saw him there beautiful as a statue, and could not
withstand
the burning mad desire to give his naked thigh a kiss.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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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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And now (for
seasonable
is the time)
You ought, my soul, to pluck the flowers of love,
Which suit your age.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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But this I know, that no girl writes
anything
to you.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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At the same time, ask yourself: Whether
such vanity, and nothing else,
actuated
him therein; whether
this was the true essence and moving principle of the pheno-
menon, or not rather its outward vesture, and the accidental
environment (and defacement) in which it came to light?
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Thomas Carlyle |
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One Duke Univer- sity
professor
of English whom Carr quotes can't get her literature students to read "whole books anymore.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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The motive which
prompted
my action has been the desire to act piously and render unto the supreme God a thank offering for maintaining my kingdom in peace and great glory in all the world.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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'
Then,
speaking
from the pigs' point of view, he continued: 'It is
better, perhaps, after all, to live on bran and escape the
shambles.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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Sometimes the shimenawa is made of bronze, when the
torii itself is of bronze; but according to tradition it should be
made of straw, and most
commonly
is.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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The case of a person
detached
from Kamadhatu [and who has entered into a dhydna due to this detachment] is different: he can manifest the dharmajndna because his existence in Kamadhatu is not exhausted.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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I f some Indians were killed to make other Indians behave, that was
coercive
violence-or intended to be, whether or not it was effective.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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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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Ethelwald, King of
Northumbria
after Oswulf, 393.
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bede |
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That which a theologian
considers
true,
must-of necessity be false: this furnishes almost
the criterion of truth.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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O my
soldiers
twain!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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_ Nay, I will have
justice!
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Thomas Otway |
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”
“In the same room in which you were born — I have had it
arranged for you, and your mother's
furniture
put in.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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442 (#466) ############################################
442
Bibliography
times
publiquely
acted in the Honourable Citie of London, by the right
Honourable the Lord Strange his Servants.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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At the
Tuileries, in the Corps Legislatif, on the boulevards, and
in the 'estaminets de province,' Wittelsbach pride, the
clerical press, and the Radical critics and caricatures of the
south were
regarded
as proofs that the red trousers of the
French army would receive a warmer welcome in Bavaria
than.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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One of them,
called Ptolemy, had gone with Otho to Spain[50] and
foretold
that he
would outlive Nero.
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Tacitus |
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" She then finishes: "Anyway, reading Ted Hughes' letter I suddenly thought how years and years from now, when, as in the children's book, all the good men are
recognized
for their truth and love, ill-kempt moth- ers with squawling babies on their red arms will suddenly cry, Hush, youngster!
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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Sin embargo, casi nadie puede acordarse ya de qué
«sería
otra co sa».
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An
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[1261] Thus he spake; and when
Heracles
heard his words, sweat in abundance poured down from his temples and the black blood boiled beneath his heart.
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" It is certainlytruethatthe historyoftheWeimarRepublicinall itsaspectsbelongstothehistoryofthe Holocaust, but
thenWalterRathenauas
an influentialrepresentativeof the "bourgeoisfantasy"ofa returntoa naturalorder(RobertA.
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Burgess told them last funday se'nnight, at his Meeting, where I look'd in, and heard him,
advising
them to be stars, and moving stars, not only to shim, but that they must move too.
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I beg you tell the Great River | whose stream flows to the East
That
thoughts
of you will cling to my heart | when _he_ has ceased
to flow.
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Her teeth are like a flock of sheep,
With fleeces newly washen clean,
That slowly mount the rising steep;
An' she has twa
sparkling
roguish een.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Religion
has its book of lamen-
tations.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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Said :
Studying
the rites?
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