Both
perished
mute for lack of root, earth's nourishment to reach.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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Ben Jonson:
Volpone (1605)
The
Underwood
Poems (1640)
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Bidding a wedding, widening
received
treading,
little leading mention nothing.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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Companions
in the Path should not be sad
as he departs forever,
The mountains and rivers in front of his retreat
are his true portrait.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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Is it not evident that in all
four cases man loves one part of himself, (a thought, a longing, an
experience) more than he loves another part of
himself?
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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The idea struck him to change his
garments for clothes more in harmony with his project; by which he
might also get a little money to satisfy the
immediate
cravings of
hunger.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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It appears to me certain, that it
is the only one to obtain them in time; nor can the period
you have
appointed
for bringing them into the field be de-
layed, without defeating the object.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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Some people
understood
it, others could not.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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[596] Not few, either, are the
constellations
which the Maiden [Virgo] at her rising sends beneath the verge of the earth.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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Brinkmanship: The Manipulation of Risk If "brinkmanship" means anything, it means
manipulating
the
shaved risk ofwar.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly
would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for
each step his father took he had to carry out
countless
movements.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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, and
Pocantico
Hills, N.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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The tone of the poem is characteristic of Trakl: dusk, a dream-like or fevered reality that seems on the threshold of
consciousness
is typical of Sebastian im Traum [Sebastian Dreaming, 1914], the adjective 'traumsu?
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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Then
the wolves
gathered
at the foot of the cross, and the birds flew lower
and lower.
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Yeats |
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Why, then, in short,
I do not
understand
the benefit.
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Dryden - Complete |
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The Decree itfelf, founded on the common Con-
fent of all the Grecians, and the Names of the Perfons, who
fiibfcribed it, I produced,, as my
Witnefles
to the Fad:, out of
the public Records.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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90]
the imagination receives them without any fears; the
pleasure
grows; we dwell upon it, and at last we yield to it.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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How my heart aches to
remember
her, for she was a good
woman, and never overcharged for her rooms.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Come hither, Meletus, and let me ask a
question
of you.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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He who fears can form no judgment about the Sublime in
nature; just as he who is seduced by
inclination
and appetite
can form no judgment about the Beautiful.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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His expression is lucid, conveying
his meaning in direct and
competent
terms.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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I have renounced without difficulty all the charms of life, preserving only my love, and the secret
pleasure
of thinking incessantly of you, and hearing that you live.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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Nothing could hinder me from doing so but
mere wonder; thought being assuredly a far higher and more
subtle operation of Nature than the formation of a plant or
the proper motion of an animal But how can I accord to
such a feeling any
influence
whatever upon the calm conclu-
sions of reason?
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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This with the birches
rustling
before the window, and the song.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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The Decree itfelf, founded on the common Con-
fent of all the Grecians, and the Names of the Perfons, who
fiibfcribed it, I produced,, as my
Witnefles
to the Fad:, out of
the public Records.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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90]
the imagination receives them without any fears; the
pleasure
grows; we dwell upon it, and at last we yield to it.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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It's no exaggeration when
lawyers say that
conditions
like that are a disgrace.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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zanne and positivism (much more complex and
historically
responsible than the one gestured toward here), see Kathryn Tuma, "Ce?
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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Germain then replied, that vineyards abounded near Paris, and that, while wanting
waxlights
for the Church services, they had more wine than sufficient for monastic uses.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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The gods are mindful most when men forget --
Take heed lest they, at last,
remember
diee.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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Butbesidesthis'tisfalse, andI'llpresent
ly
demonstratethisto
you.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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Carthage
possessed a considerable arsenal;[254] we may appreciate its importance
from the fact, that, after her
conquest
by Scipio, she delivered to him
two hundred thousand suits of armour, and three thousand machines of
war.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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’ Her friend Marinette, a
thin, dark Corsican girl of
obstinate
virtue, tied her knees together and danced the
DANSE DU VENTRE.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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Bryan Oge, the son Henry O'Neill, having gone
predatory
incursion into Tirhugh, party from the house O’Donnell, Niall, overtook him, and recovered the prey, took himself prisoner,
in
of
of
on
to by
in to ina of
on of of of to
he
e.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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,A state which
accompanies
an event and already an effect of that event deemed "suffi cient cause " of the latter; the tense relationship of our feeling of power (pleasure as the feeling of power) and of an obstacle being overcome--are these things illusions?
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Prompt and impetuous
by nature, he was so on this occasion from principle; for every thing
depended on
concealing
the weakness of Sweden, under a firm and
confident speech, and by assuming the tone of a lawgiver, really to
become so.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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It is stated by some
authorities
that Africa was divided between the
two powers.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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Yet the
widespread
popularity of this
book, to say nothing of the existence of certain Rosicrucian societies,
had rendered their names familiar to the society for which Pope wrote.
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Alexander Pope |
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Written by a
Gentleman
of Quality.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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Now, if we conceive of the humanities as counterbalance to a life that has become completely
absorbed
by abstract information and speed, then, perhaps, reading and the attribution of meaning, at least under present-day circumstances, should be considered to be only one of two sides that make up the humanities.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg"
associated
with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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Hugo - Poems |
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He
was editor of the North
American
Review
from 1889 to 1896.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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"Thou alone,' says Davison,
'art
matchlesse
in them all.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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The Ass came to the place of
meeting,
overjoyed
at the prospect of a royal alliance.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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His father, though, was not in the mood to notice
subtleties
like
that; "Ah!
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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—Just as the illiterate
man of to-day believes that his wrath is the cause
of his being angry, that his mind is the cause of
his thinking, that his soul is the cause of his
feeling, in short, just as a mass of psychological
entities are still unthinkingly
postulated
as causes;
H
VOL.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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To the sires and the
children
strife evermore !
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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Salvation
is not the
privilege
of Africans only.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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>>>
She then closed the
cupboard
door.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Court records showed that it bought
property
from The LBJ Company and resold it the same day to Lyndon B.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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Among the tombs in which Thy
prophets
rest
The cooling earth yields unmolested moss.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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He beheld with temperate firmness the
approach of death;
enfranchised
his slaves (seventeen men, as
they are named, and eleven women), minutely directed the order
of his funeral, and moderated the lamentations of his weeping
friends, on whom he bestowed the benediction of peace.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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8 The moderate majority
had thus been forced to recognize the Committee of Me-
j'hpnicj; and
tqjiXteH
+h.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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It is possible that current copyright holders, heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as
illustrations
or photographs, assert copyrights over these portions.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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The more secure an attachment a woman has
experienced
during her early years, we can confidently predict, the greater will be her chance of escaping the slippery slope.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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"He is so deeply concerned in the affairs of this world," answered
Martin, "that he may very well be in me, as well as in
everybody
else;
but I own to you that when I cast an eye on this globe, or rather on
this little ball, I cannot help thinking that God has abandoned it to
some malignant being.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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He told us that twenty chance devils very much feared in our country dwelt
there in six different storeys, and that the biggest twins or braces of
them were called sixes, and the
smallest
ambs-ace; the rest cinques,
quatres, treys, and deuces.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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But there are two kinds of sufferers: on the one
hand those that suffer from
overflowing
vitality, who
need Dionysian art, and require a tragic view and
insight into life; and on the other hand those who
suffer from reduced vitality, who seek repose, quiet-
ness, calm seas, and deliverance from themselves
through art or knowledge, or else intoxication,
spasm, bewilderment and madness.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Iago, in
favourable
weather.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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(Agood adminis-
tration will conciliate the confidence and affection of the
people, and perhaps enable the government to acquire
more consistency than the proposed
constitution
seems to
promise for so great a country.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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The Jews withstood the siege for some time; but when all their provisions were used up, they were forced to send
ambassadors
to him, to seek terms for a truce.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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It is not simply the exist-
ence of individual items that is significant but their
interconnection
of con-
cept and design as well as their association with a social system.
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Childens - Folklore |
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At death, five signs appear: the god's clothes become smelly, his garland and flowers wilt,
perspiration
breaks out from his armpits, his body begins to smell, and his seat becomes uncomfortable.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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They were also perfectly
aware that
whatever
was said against a militia was said in favour of a
standing army; and the name of standing army was hateful to them.
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Macaulay |
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of no longer being able to
maintain
in its purity
his truly antique attitude towards philosophy.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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A typical Greek city is constructed,—
or rather, allowed to grow, and by the reform of
education
is in-
sensibly transformed into the ideal monarchy or aristocracy, governed
by philosopher-statesmen who have attained to the Idea of Good.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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"You have received
admirable
gifts from
"Heaven; if they have made you love what
"is good, have you not already enjoyed the
"reward of having been a soldier of Truth
"upon earth?
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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--El ano que viene,
respondio
el organista, prometo daros gusto, pues
por todo el oro de la tierra no volveria a tocar este organo.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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The world will
feel the loss of a man who has left few like him behind;
and America, of a citizen whose heart
realized
that patri-
otism of which others only talk.
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Source: |
Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Source: |
Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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In certain cases of aphasia the possibilities of acting, of understanding situations, and of having normal
relations
with the other sex, are lost.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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A portion of the conceptual network of battle
partially
characterizes the concept of an argumentt and the language follows, suit.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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Thou canst not doubt its fellow's excellence,
Which Thomas, ere my coming, hath declar'd
So
courteously
unto thee.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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A certain monk who always
devoutly
said her Hours was healed of a tumor in his throat by a drop of her milk.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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No, pasture molehills used to lie
And talk to me of sunny days,
And then the glad sheep resting bye
All still in
ruminating
praise
Of summer and the pleasant place
And every weed and blossom too
Was looking upward in my face
With friendship's welcome "how do ye do?
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John Clare |
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Water spreads
everywhere
on the earth and makes it
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Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
|
Augustin
was sixty-four years old.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
|
]
[Footnote B:
"The tall aspiring
Gordonia
lacianthus .
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William Wordsworth |
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On the other hand, the thoroughly positive and integrating role of antagonism emerges in cases where the structure is
characterized
by the clarity and carefully preserved purity of social divisions and strata.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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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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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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an is p{er}fit possessiou{n} {and} al
togidre of lijf
interminable
{and} ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Mountains mourn & Rivers faint & fail
There is no City nor Corn-field nor
Orchard!
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Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Not a word, however, passed his lips in
allusion
to it, till their
visitor took his leave for the night; but as soon as he was gone, he
turned to his daughter, and said:
“Jane, I congratulate you.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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But no religious community can be durable
and maintain its unity if its
doctrines
and
actions are not founded upon the pure word
of God.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
|
She
was in costly attire, and the bard named her in his song, and spoke of
the rich
treasure
of gold which she had brought to her husband.
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Source: |
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
|
Horne Tooke, in writing about the formation of
words only, thought he was explaining the
philosophy
of language, which is
a very different thing.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
|
These things
befit boys, who are heated with
youthful
years and with passion: the
other, with tranquil feelings, will put up with cruel wounds.
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Source: |
Ovid - Art of Love |
|
III
More than ever I dreamed, I have found it: my happy good
fortune!
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Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
We have, instead,
mere purveyors of book-lore in whom the paper god of the
bookshop
has
been made vocal.
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Source: |
Tagore - Creative Unity |
|
This way wherein
have they laid a trap for me, who
persecute
me in Christ, for
Christ's Name's sake.
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Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
|
—This man knows
mankind: to what purpose does he study his
fellows?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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Even the name Orientalism suggests a serious, perhaps ponderous style of expertise; when
I apply it to modern American social scientists (since they do not call themselves Orientalists, my
use of the word is anomalous), it is to draw
attention
to the way Middle East experts can still
draw on the vestiges of Orientalism’s intellectual position in nineteenth-century Europe.
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The pigs had an even harder
struggle
to counteract the lies put about by
Moses, the tame raven.
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Elizabeth
saw Flory spring to his feet, raise his gun and
pull the trigger instantly.
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His
earliest
song of which the date is known belongs to the year
1198, and already shows the mature artist.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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Tremendous
upheaval
occurs in the mind when you begin to meditate, and propensities that were previously latent become
The Five Skandhas 167
168 The Dharma
manifest.
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This notion presupposes the reduplication of the unobservable world in the
imaginary
space of math- ematical forms.
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Legamen ad paginam Latinam 22 1 As for myself, when I compare Probus as a ruler with other emperors, in whatever way almost all Roman leaders have stood out as courageous, as merciful, as wise, or as admirable, I
perceive
that he was the equal of any, or indeed, if no insane jealousy stands in the way, better than all.
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Credendo l'un provar l'altro bugiardo,
la risposta
aspettavano
ambedui.
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