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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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XLIV
So long they fight, and fell revenge pursue,
That
fainting
each, themselves to breathen let,
And oft refreshed, battell oft renue: 385
As when two Bores with rancling malice met,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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He aimed at raising poetry from the triviality into
which it had sunk and restoring it to its proper
intellectual
level.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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XLIII
"For in these caves I dwell not buried still
From sight of Heaven, but often I resort
To tops of
Lebanon
or Carmel hill,
And there in liquid air myself disport,
There Mars and Venus I behold at will!
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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"Then they are
slaying
him innocently?
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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Thenewsofherflightsoonspread
through the court.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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The
propaganda
State is doomed.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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By such words the soldiers' counsel was kindled yet higher and higher,
and a murmur crept through their columns; the very Laurentines, the very
Latins are changed; and they who but now hoped for rest from battle and
rescue of
fortune
now desire arms and pray the treaty were undone, and
pity Turnus' cruel lot.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Authors, for Him your great
indeavours
raise;
The loftiest Numbers will but reach his praise.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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Vasya's chin was
quivering
and his eyes were
moist.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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As is shown even by the
external
form of the exposition, chief emphasis has been laid upon the development of what is weightiest from a philosophical standpoint: the history of problems and concej- tions.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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I
have been greatly and in the most generous matter
obliged
to
him.
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Alexander Pope - v09 |
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Obviously
Chiang K-S did NOT (p 425) practice the Confucian doctrine of ANYthing.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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The Pope demand
ed their
liberation
as.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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15-
There has always been a want of wit in
Germany, and mediocre heads attain there to the
highest honours,
because
even they are rare.
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Nietzsche - v13 |
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155, king of Ho-kien, which is still the name of one of the departments of Kih-lî, and there he continued till his death, in 129, the patron of all
literary
men, and unceasingly pursuing his quest for old books dating from before the Khin dynasty.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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Niños y adultos chupaban encantados los deliciosos gallitos verdes del insomnio, los exquisitos peces rosados del insomnio y los
tiernos
caballitos amarillos del insomnio, de modo que el alba del lunes sorprendió despierto a todo el pueblo.
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Gabriel García Márquez - Cien Anos de Soledad |
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That attic window will never be the symbol of misery; for that, it would have to be a sign,
whereas
it is a thing.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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It matters little that this
beloved
turns out to be his own blood relative.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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This is
probably
why the conception of evolution came so late in Europe.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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or some
missionary
monk.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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She and her friend having removed their
lodgings
to a new house, which stood solitary, a parcel of rogues, armed, attempted the house, where there was only one boy.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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He set the world in the dry light
of truth, and since the vanity of mankind is a constant factor
throughout the ages, there is scarce a page of Lucian's
writing
that
wears the faded air of antiquity.
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Lucian - True History |
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They can also be
discussed
according to types of practices and means of guarding them.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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One can only consider as a part of dependent orgination a dharma the existence or
nonexistence
of which governs the existence or nonexistence of another part.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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* * * * *
Sing soft, ye pretty birds, while Cælia sleeps,
And gentle gales play gently with the leaves;
Learn of the neighbour brooks, whose silent deeps
Would teach him fear, that her soft sleep bereaves
Mine oaten reed, devoted to her praise,
(A theme that would befit the
Delphian
lyre)
Give way, that I in silence may admire.
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William Browne |
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2 The writer sometimes uses
archaisms
such as quom, which I
render 'whenas'.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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Down, down with the
handful
who doubt him!
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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The views expressed in Kennan
Institute
Occasional Papers are those of the authors.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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some school or mere
religion?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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While Dove is not so elaborate as Spencer, he is
clearer in distinctly disclaiming the idea of compen-
sation, and in proposing to take ground rent for
public purposes by taxation,
abolishing
all other
taxes.
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Henry George - Works |
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So they kept us close till nigh on noon,
And then they rang the bell,
And the Warders with their jingling keys
Opened each
listening
cell,
And down the iron stair we tramped,
Each from his separate Hell.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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You should also recite, "{I go for refuge untill am enlightened) to the Buddhas, the Dharma anci the
Highest
Assembly .
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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There Quintus
Metellus
was stationed in
4o:
POMPEIUS AND THE EAST BOOK v
state, which had been called forth in lavish measure, the corsairs could as little cope as the combined gangs of thieves in a great city can cope with a well-organized police.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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And just as drama,
whatever
grandeur of purpose it may attempt,
must be a good play, so epic must be a good story.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The swing of his nature took him from
extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was
never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been
lounging in his
armchair
amid his improvisations and his
black-letter editions.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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I admit the impeachment; I was
running
over the details of
what he said in yesterday's lecture.
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Lucian |
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~
Γ υ}Η
Αξιχ
χ/λομ^Η,Ιτη<&φ&ξΜ τψϊ^ντί ']&\μιχ.
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Ailianou Poikilēs historias - 1545 |
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And it is for this reason that a like practice is
declared
unclean in men.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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There-
fore, he concludes, the Lygdamus elegies, which are written
in spondees and in a natural style, cannot
possibly
be the
work of Ovid.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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to_ G
171
_utinam
non_ Macrob.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Psalm times, that is,
continually
; and what is, I will bless, that is>
'Exp.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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Caution
seldom goes far enough.
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Whitman |
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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She crimps it; call those
twisted
locks divine.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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The vast majority of the
remaining
categories showed at least a trend in the expected direction.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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These assessment-classes correspond to the
four rim of the Solonian constitution, and must not be confounded with
the avppopial or boards formed for
organising
the payment of the war-tax.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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I was drawn in by short gasps,
inhaled
at
each momentary recovery, lost finally in the dark caverns of her
throat, bruised by the ripple of unseen muscles.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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PIÈCES
CONDAMNÉES
TIRÉES DES _FLEURS DU MAL_
II
LESBOS[2]
[2] Cette pièce et les cinq suivantes ont été condamnées en 1857, par
le tribunal correctionnel, et ne peuvent pas être reproduites dans
le recueil des _Fleurs du Mal_.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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l21-45) where
Tsongkhapa
states that he had alrEi.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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" KAU}
And Enitharmon joyd Plotting to rend the secret cloud
To plant divisions in the Soul of Urizen & Ahania
But For infinitely beautiful the wondrous work arose {Erdman notes that the word "For" has been
deleted
in Blake.
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Blake - Zoas |
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I
yearned
before
To fly this sight; and, now I gaze on it,
I sicken inwards.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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But the God of
Theologians is
incapable
of local visibility.
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Shelley |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXII
I'd like to burn all the dross of my human clay,
So that I could take my flight to heaven,
Making myself divine, like Alcmene's son,
Hercules,
joining
the gods, all ablaze.
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Ronsard |
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"
And there went a murmur
amongst
them.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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" And again, he prophesies as follows [ 25'11-12 ]: "All this land will be deserted and ruined, and they will serve the king of the Babylonians
amongst
the foreigners; and the Lord says about that nation, and about the land of the Chaldaeans, that I will bring them to ruin.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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To this culture
he finds
English
people either totally indifferent as they very commonly
are to all culture, or else politely evasive, the truth being that
Hector's culture is nothing but a state of saturation with our literary
exports of thirty years ago, reimported by him to be unpacked at a
moment's notice and hurled at the head of English literature, science
and art, at every conversational opportunity.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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The eternal art, educing good from ill,
Grafts on this passion our best principle:
'Tis thus the mercury of man is fixed,
Strong grows the virtue with his nature mixed;
The dross cements what else were too refined,
And in one
interest
body acts with mind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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98
Mentre Rinaldo in tal fretta venìa,
che ben parea da l'angelo condotto,
e con silenzio tal, che non s'udia
nel campo saracin farsene motto;
il re
Agramante
avea la fanteria
messo ne' borghi di Parigi, e sotto
le minacciate mura in su la fossa,
per far quel dì l'estremo di sua possa.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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It should have the dignity of a
ceremony as well as its unreality, and should combine the insincere
character of a romantic play with the wit and beauty that make such
plays
delightful
to us.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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"
"There is
actually
an aristocratic playfulness about it!
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's
information
and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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Three-eighty includes the
builder’s
profit, but the
Cheerful Credit, under the name of Wilson & Bloom, builds the houses itself and scoops
the builder’s profit.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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čartóém * x&paros rols
rtóepuévous' cat' évvavrov 8é àyöva plovaucis
aúroſs cal yupuwuxöv in
Truków
re 6.
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Plato - 1926 - Laws |
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He must have
noticed
that I was staring at him, but the problem with George is that he would normally ignore a girl who was staring at him, so his indifference meant nothing.
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Perry - Suzy's Memoirs |
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Thus the mo-
deration with which he
treated
the Spartans after they
had offended him, his engaging behavior to the Cre-
tans, by which he gained the whole island in a few
days, and the glorious success of his expedition against
the >?
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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BIRCHES
When I see
birches
bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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Its
abstraction
allowed for grain to be treated as fungible.
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A History of Trust in Ancient Greece_nodrm |
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On
countless
occasions we are led unnecessarily to avoid wholly harmless situations; on a few others we are permitted to blunder into truly dangerous ones.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
address
specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Such are the
sufferings
peculiar to the six states of rebirth.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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At, 81 vera fides, mandi melioris ab ortu,
Saecula Christinae nulla tulere parem ;
Ipsa licet redeat (nostri decas orbis) Eliza,
Qualis nostra tamen
quantaque
Eliza fbit.
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Marvell - Poems |
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_ _1650-54_]
[12 spent] worn _1669_]
[15 mee, _1633:_ me; _1635-69_]
[17
travaile]
_spelt_ travell, travel _1635-69_]
[19 sigh] sing _1669_]
[20 sweetest Part,] sweetest sweet, _1669_, _P_, _S_]
[21 and that it _1633_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _S:_ it
_1635-69_, _H40_, _P:_ and it _A18_, _JC_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_,
_TC_]
_Loves Vsury.
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John Donne |
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21
Our
existence
in this country itself is certain, and there is no force that could remove us from here either forcefully or by treachery (Sadat's method).
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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They were
wretched
comforters for
one another.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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The denunciation of Prussia as aiming at a
League of Secession (Sonderbund) was made, curiously
enough, in the name of German unity--unity through
the dynasties--but Austria and the middle States increas-
ingly felt that the Union would only end as the Zollverein
had done, in an organisation
controlled
by its most power-
ful member.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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What we must hope for
is that my Lord Arthur and
Quincey
arrive first.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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" Within the armed forces suicides have risen
dramatically
and deaths from drug overdoses have climbed 80 percent in recent years.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free
distribution
of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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I accordingly sent subscriptions to nearly all
the
working
class candidates, and among others to Mr.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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There is exquisite
pleasure in subduing an
insolent
spirit, in making a person
predetermined to dislike acknowledge one's superiority.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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The
stretcher shook as the bearers staggered forward again, and almost at
the same time I noticed that the crowd of savages was vanishing without
any
perceptible
movement of retreat, as if the forest that had ejected
these beings so suddenly had drawn them in again as the breath is drawn
in a long aspiration.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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You must have heard of him, as many
wonderful
stories
have been told about him.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The bitterest
punishment
indeed that the years can bring
to some men and women is the fear and the resentment of
rivals in power.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Some time after, leading his horse carelessly down Highgate
hill, he was
followed
by three men on horseback; who, suspecting he was the highwayman that had
robbed Mr.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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The book aims to make distinct the character and public
services of some great Americans, brief accounts of whose lives
are given in special
sections
of the text.
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Tuyl - 1911 - Complete business arithmetic |
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tHobson's and Lenin's theories are not identical, but they are highly
similar
and largely compatible.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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Now
precisely
the
same pentameter (cum cecidit, etc.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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Therefore the soul of Christ knows all
things that God knows in Himself by the
knowledge
of vision, but not
all that God knows in Himself by knowledge of simple intelligence; and
thus in Himself God knows many more things than the soul of Christ.
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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Yet sometimes Artless Poets, when the rage
Of a warm Fancy does their minds ingage,
Puff'd with vain pride, presume they understand,
And boldly take the Trumpet in their hand;
Their Fustian Muse each Accident confounds;
Nor can she fly, but rise by leaps and bounds,
Till their small stock of Learning quickly spent,
Their Poem dyes for want of nourishment:
In vain Mankind the hot-brain'd fools decryes,
No
branding
Censures can unveil his eyes:
With Impudence the Laurel they invade,
Resolv'd to like the Monsters they have made.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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inward
structure
more plainly.
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Alexander Pope - v06 |
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GALILEO (throws a bundle of
manuscripts
in front of him) Are you a physicist, my
son?
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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Objection 2: Further, it is
written
(Dan.
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Summa Theologica |
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It was the most
premature
definition
ever given.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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Gosse writes me, when the library of the Earls of Westmoreland
was
disposed
of, about the year 1892.
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Donne - 2 |
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"
O, what a shout there went
From the black
regiment!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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He rather enjoyed the
voyage, for he was well fed and well lodged, took a great
interest
in
the scenes through which they were passing, and consoled himself with
the delusion that his master's whim would end at Bombay.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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[580] And straightway the misty land of the Pelasgians, rich in cornfields, sank out of sight, and ever speeding onward they passed the rugged sides of Pelion; and the Sepian headland sank away, and Sciathus
appeared
in the sea, and far off appeared Piresiae and the calm shore of Magnesia on the mainland and the tomb of Dolops; here then in the evening, as the wind blew against them, they put to land, and paying honour to him at nightfall burnt sheep as victims, while the sea was tossed by the swell: and for two days they lingered on the shore, but on the third day they put forth the ship, spreading on high the broad sail.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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