In short, when hu-
man laws contradict or discountenance the means which
are necessary to preserve the
essential
rights of any society,
they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null
and void.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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This con-
trast must be
strongly
emphasised: philology suffers
by endeavouring to substitute the humanitarian ;
## p.
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Nietzsche - v08 |
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h The final o in the dative and ablative singular of the secopd declension,
ii long,
because
contracted from oi.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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When the
Syracusan
women leave their house, they are astonished by the crowd and by what is happening in the crowd.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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If a German, from hatred of these claims
on the part of a French city, wishes to dress differ-
ently,—as, for example, in the Diirer style,—let
him reflect that he then has a costume which
the
Germans
of olden times wore, but which the
Germans have not in the slightest degree invented.
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Nietzsche - v07 |
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Patrick, Archbishop of Armagh, and the Abbot Patrick, who is
related
to have founded the Purgatory, on Lough Derg.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Therefore it is said, "One does not feel a hair placed on the palm of the hand; but the same hair, in the eye, causes
suffering
and injury.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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"
And the Good God said, "But I too have been
mistaken
for you and
called by your name.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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If an individual
Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
61 The Second Life afterwards
continues
its account of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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As a river ran close by the
town, several attempted to escape by
swimming
and
diving; but they were prevented by nets let down for
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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I, my good Lord: safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty
trenched
gashes on his head;
The least a Death to Nature
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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it,
a
in
448
THE WAR WITH
ANTIOCHUS
OF ASIA book hi
opportunity presented by the withdrawal of the Macedonian garrisons to introduce his own.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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N_3 to the end contains the
play proper; the
epilogue
being on the last leaf verso.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The King's mind is a summer over us;
Thou with a storm wilt fill him, and the hail
That
shatters
thee will leave us bruised and weeping.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Neither can it be
expressed
in words nor indicated by example.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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We
know that through his merchants, the German
will, at the least, share in the noble
destiny
of
our race, and fructify the wide world.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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when, like spring, that
gracious
mien of thine
Dawns on thy Rome, more gently glides the day,
And suns serener shine.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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36 (#62) ##############################################
MEMOIR
"It gives me sincere pleasure to understand that your
own good sense and the influence of high and noble
motives have
enabled
you to overcome a seductive and
dangerous besetment, which too often prostrates the
wisest and best by its fatal grasp.
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Poe - v01 |
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International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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The shout of a "White
dragon!
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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We have
gathered
a SIeve full of water"
And from the comb of reeds, came notes and the chorus Mov1Og, the young fauns ?
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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This is the relation
between
analytic practice and theory.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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LXIX
Like a tall forest were their spears,
Their banners like a silken sea,
When the great host in splendour passed
Across the crimson
sinking
sun.
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Sappho |
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I make it all facile, the rare and the earned;
Here’s something like gold (I create it from dirt)
And something like scent, sap, and spices –
And what the great prophet
himself
never dared:
The art without sowing to reap out of air
The powers still lying fallow.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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Disabled in the feet and hands through a malady of the joints, he was fortunate in temperateness of climate, in an abundance of harvests, and in no terror from barbarians, things which would have been still
greater
indeed, if he had promoted governorsof provinces not for a price, but on the basis of judgment.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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We who belong to the
Anglican
branch
of.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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" Yet expression is not altogether
circumscribed
by the magic spell.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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When
sailing
to the leeward of the Island of Bermuda, where the Cedar so
abounds, I have distinctly inhaled its fragrance, even when no land was to be seen.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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You will be quite right, as there are
proceedings only if I
acknowledge
that there are.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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Her pretty parasol was seen
Contracting in a field
Where men made hay, then struggling hard
With an
opposing
cloud,
Where parties, phantom as herself,
To Nowhere seemed to go
In purposeless circumference,
As 't were a tropic show.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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From time to time clusters of people passed by in heated talk, and here and there a mouth would open to shout a threat or some waver- ing "hoo-hoo,"
followed
l?
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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In a century swayed
by romanticism and democracy, Gobineau was a
classic
and
an aristocrat.
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Nietzsche - v16 |
|
You can search
through
the full text of this book on the web at http://books.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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mencement of the next--however short, and almost imper-
ceptible, the pause may be--gives nevertheless an additional
length of time to the final
syllable
of the furmer : and we per-
fectly well know, that, in Greek and Latin poetry, that little
pause frequently produces a dactyl or a spondee from syllables
which, to an inexperienced prosod lan, would appear to make
only a tribrachvs in the former case, in the latter an Iambus, as I
have shown in my " Latin Prosody.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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But all my scores were by
another
paid,
Who took my guilt upon him.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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How Edwin was
persuaded
to believe by a vision which he had
once seen when he was in exile.
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bede |
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Convinced that no efficient plan would be
adopted
from
the predominance of state jealousies, and regarding the
contemplated mode as involving inequalities and contro-
versy, Hamilton moved to postpone the valuation.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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Inebriate of air am I,
And debauchee of dew,
Reeling,
through
endless summer days,
From inns of molten blue.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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You loved me with these
and with the
kindness
of people,
country folk, sailors and fishermen,
and the old lady who had lodged us and supped us.
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Imagists |
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321
portunity, was now changed by the unruly humour
of his wife, and the frequent
instances
of the king;
and made it his business to solicit and dispose the
members of both houses, with many of whom he had
great credit, "no longer to adhere to the chancellor,
" since the king resolved to ruin him, and would
" look upon all who were his friends as enemies to
" his majesty.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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The
Sautrantika
Theory 556 D.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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The first fascists consecrated themselves to the
regeneration
of Italy.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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Dream yields to dream, strife
follows
strife,
And Death unweaves the webs of Life.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A wreath of laurel was a mark of
distinction
or honour.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
|
It is nothing vague or wasteful, it does not stretch
into infinity; but is a definite quantum of energy
located in
limited
space, and not in space which
would be anywhere empty.
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Nietzsche - v15 |
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I am, as I
have always been,
neither
rich nor poor.
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Petrarch |
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Love me, O
beloved!
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Elizabeth Browning |
|
" Whereupon
Milarepa
sang:
I bow down to all holy Gurus.
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Milarepa |
|
He sought the forces that move the heavens, the fixed (though errant) path of the planets, the calculation, which predicts the over
shadowing
of the sun and its surely-fixed eclipse, and the line that sentences the moon to be left in darkness by shutting out her brother.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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which though he did not entirely
approve
of, he said few persons would refuse with ten guineas for its contents.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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Though you
modestly
say the world has left you, yet I verily
believe it is coming to you again as fast as it can: for to give
the world its due, it is always very fond of merit when 'tis
past its power to oppose it.
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Alexander Pope - v10 |
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147
Adda,s and Betta, as well as Diuma,
belonged
to Scotia or Hibemia,^ of which
country St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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Of these last, the former published commentaries on the Gospel
and the epistles of St John, and on the
epistle
to the Hebrews.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1915 - v12 - Nineteeth Century |
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f*
has grown this
general
impression, as of decay: and perhaps decay itself.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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To decide on his career a family
conclave
was held.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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Oh I am like a rock in the rising river
Where the
flooded
water breaks with a low call--
Like a rock that knows the cry of the waters
And cannot answer at all.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
|
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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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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The more he thought, the more his mind was posed:
In the mean time, his valet, whose precision
Was great,
because
his master brook'd no less,
Knock'd to inform him it was time to dress.
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Source: |
Bryon - Don Juan |
|
Google requests that the images and OCR not be re-hosted,
redistributed
or used commercially.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
|
With all the self-acquired
culture
and learning that raised
him above his class (his father and grandfathers before him for
more than a hundred years had been sextons to the church of St.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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had already blessed him, and had
promised
him the kingdom on earth and in heaven.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Nearly all
the Characters of Thcophrastus are
introduced
with the phrase
rowiire?
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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Gesco, on his return to his country,
ordered
his enemies to be brought before him in chains.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
|
Of land animals some are
furnished
with wings, such as birds
and bees, and these are so furnished in different ways one from
another; others are furnished with feet.
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Aristotle |
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, assuming the idea of a reason possessing full power over all
subjective
motives).
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Source: |
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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Weigh the vessel up
Once
dreaded
by our foes!
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Golden Treasury |
|
A very well-known
American
editor (call him Ole H.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
|
It could not be
real and soon he would wake up, in order to enjoy the
stench from his
stairway
at first.
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Orwell - 1984 |
|
exhibit
some peculiarities in consequence of the intro-
duction of new matter into the sheets transferred from the publication of 1729.
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Alexander Pope - v06 |
|
Morland could not but feel that it might have been
productive of much
unpleasantness
to her; that it was what they could
never have voluntarily suffered; and that, in forcing her on such
a measure, General Tilney had acted neither honourably nor
feelingly--neither as a gentleman nor as a parent.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
|
transmitted many plans of attack from the Wolfsschanze via Swiss dou- ble agents to Moscow, but who has yet to be
located
historically, may well have been one of the simulacra that systematically screened Bletchley Park from the Red Army.
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Source: |
Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
|
Much the same
appears
to be the case in Italy.
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Source: |
Brady - Business as a System of Power |
|
What the bour- geois writers really wanted to prove was that there is no life so
bourgeois
or so humdrum that it has not its poetic
beyondness.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
|
The answer is simple; for since the
French nation made itself prominent in the Celto-
Romance world, its national life and ours have at
all times stood toughly and sharply
opposed
to one
another.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
|
Also,
by the way, that it is extremely
improbable
that he has gas laid
on in his house.
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Source: |
Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
|
How
graceful
climb those shadows on my hill!
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Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Luachair, venerated at
According to Colgan, he must have
:
One day, while
travelling
" Go, brothers, and bring
and to those of St.
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Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
|
_See note_]
[206 selfe-preserving] _no hyphen_ _1633-39_]
[207 soules,] souls _1669_]
[208 temperance] têperance _1633-39_]
[212 grow,] grow _1633-39_]
[214 hid _G:_ his _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TC_
snare,] snare _1633-69_]
[220
encrease
his race,] encrease, _1633_]
[223 brooke.
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Donne - 1 |
|
eft , Pro
libertare
Ecclefiæ Gallicanæ
De Dominis.
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Source: |
Pope Alexander VII - Index Librorum Prohibitorum |
|
Is it to be
wondered that he should once in his life forget you, who has been all his
life
forgetting
himself?
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Oliver Goldsmith |
|
_ The devil,
neighbour?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Thomas Otway |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
|
245
Easter is not Easter
without
plenty of eggs.
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Source: |
Childrens - Brownies |
|
I was frightened, to be sure, while I
lay tied up in the sack, and the wind whistled in my ears when you
threw me into the river from the bridge, and I sank to the bottom
immediately; but I did not hurt myself, for I fell upon beautifully
soft grass which grows down there; and in a moment, the sack opened,
and the
sweetest
little maiden came towards me.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
|
la su-
blime
cancio?
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Source: |
Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
|
Sleep, they say, is produced by a
relaxation
of the aesthetic energies with reference to the dominant part of the soul.
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Source: |
Diogenes Laertius |
|
Of other Yankeeisms,
whether
of form or pronunciation, which
I have met with I add a few at random.
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Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Morn is
supposed
to be,
By people of degree,
The breaking of the day.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Inquiring tourists who wish to trace the anatomy of the fallen giant in the Dublin landscape must seek his head in the Hill of Howth and his upturned toes at Castle Knock in a
cemetery
in Phoenix Park.
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Source: |
A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
|
Thar's one thing farmers all must do,
To keep themselves from goin' tew
Bankruptcy
and the devil!
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Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
III
The October night comes down; returning as before
Except for a slight
sensation
of being ill at ease
I mount the stairs and turn the handle of the door
And feel as if I had mounted on my hands and knees.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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Go seek some other
quarry!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Maria Rosario Godoy de CUe1UUJ secretary of the Mutual Support Group,
murdered
in Guatem.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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"Yet with these April sunsets, that
somehow
recall
My buried life, and Paris in the Spring,
I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world
To be wonderful and youthful, after all.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by
lopping
off our desires, is
like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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“To Marie
Louise”
(Mrs.
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Poe - v10 |
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"
Breakfast was a
strange
meal to us all.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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I wish to hold you to myself, for the reason that I
cannot bear to part with you, and love you as my
guardian
angel.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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