lxxxvii,
Reforming
first their thrise-reard wall.
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OED - 21 - a |
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He obey
The intellectual eunuch
Castlereagh?
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laughed |
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Who is the intellectual eunuch? |
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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ANCIENT
RUSSIAN
SONG
i.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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)
The two great attempts that were made to
overcome the
eighteenth
century:
Napoleon, in that he called man, the soldier,
and the great struggle for power, to life again,
and conceived Europe as a united political power.
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Nietzsche - v14 |
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The
Germans are incapable of
conceiving
anything sub-
lime: for a proof of this, look at Schumann!
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Nietzsche - v17 |
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" ra^ P :
supplied
by K.
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Herodas the Mimes - 1922 - Headlam-Knox |
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She notes also that the media never addressed the programs of the contesting parties in Nicaragua, which allowed Reaganite
cliches
about Sandinista intentions and policies to prevail.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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TONE PICTURE
(Malipiero:
_Impressioni
Dal Vero_)
Across the hot square, where the barbaric sun
Pours coarse laughter on the crowds,
Trumpets throw their loud nooses
From corner to corner.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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God knows what they were feeling, with their white
Constrainèd
faces, they, so prodigal
Of cry and gesture when the world goes right,
Or wrong indeed.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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Strike at its head, and you will be
attacked
by its tail; strike at its tail, and you will be attacked by its head; strike at its middle, and you will be attacked by head and tail both.
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The-Art-of-War |
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Freud writes:
The distortion of a text is
similar
to that of a murder.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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How else should we sort the
grains?
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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MaximsandAnec
dotes from NICHOLAS DE CHAMFORT.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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According to the first psychologists, the human being is quite capable of loving, and this is the case in a twofold sense: he can love according to the high and
unifying
eros, insofar the soul is marked by the memories of a lost perfection.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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The train
reached
Ogden at two o'clock, where it rested for six hours,
Mr.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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) One of the four major
schools
of Buddhism in Tibet headed by His Holiness Karmapa.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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The perspectivist mode of delineating our
experience
was one direct consequence of this in- novation.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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xito en este
mercado
concreto que Estados Unidos, cuyos desafortunados McDonald's --por no hablar del inenarrable payaso Ronald McDonald-- suelen, en cambio, cargar con las culpas?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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o Charitas ad cuncta
virtutum
fa&ta di.
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Thomas of Ireland - 1558 - Flowers of Learned Men |
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Had they wanted to stop the United
Nations
forces at the level, say, of Pyongyang, to protect their own border and territory, a conspicuous early entry in force might have found the U.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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They load man, animal, plant and soil on a cart and chase it in
circles
through the empty sky.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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And when Squealer
went on to give
further
graphic details of Boxer's death-bed, the
admirable care he had received, and the expensive medicines for which
Napoleon had paid without a thought as to the cost, their last doubts
disappeared and the sorrow that they felt for their comrade's death was
tempered by the thought that at least he had died happy.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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"
"Ha; the
Turkmen
know and heed me;
Coursers good the Turkmen breed me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Finian
reposed
great confidence in him.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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From it came the
Catholic
Bill.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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He
converses
with fervor, and
often with eloquence.
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Poe - v08 |
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II
Morning and
evening
opened and closed above me:
Houses were built above me; trees let fall
Yellowing leaves upon me, hands of ghosts,
Rain has showered its arrows of silver upon me
Seeking my heart; winds have roared and tossed me;
Music in long blue waves of sound has borne me
A helpless weed to shores of unthought silence;
Time, above me, within me, crashed its gongs
Of terrible warning, sifting the dust of death;
And here I lie.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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129
is promised to all who are virtuous, and
which we desire to be
admitted
into when
we leave this world.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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I am far from thinking the
attacks of such people any honour or
dishonour
even to me, much less
to Mr.
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Selection of English Letters |
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BĒOWULF
SLAYS THE SPRITE.
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Beowulf |
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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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O the darkness of the corners,
the warm air, and the stars
framed in the casement of the ships'
lights!
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Imagists |
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His eyes, things in the world, are fixed on my body, a thing in the world-that is the
objective
fact of which I can say: it is.
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only |
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What are his eyes? |
Answer: |
sdfkdsf |
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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Matcham
often thinks of
the masterstroke.
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Bloom |
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What was his masterstroke? |
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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Rosinger of the staff of the
Foreign
Policy Association points out, are not far to seek.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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That's a matter for everyman's
opinion
and, without dragging in the
sectarian side of the business, I beg to differ with you _in toto_
there.
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opinion |
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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Mandaville, Bedouin Ethnobotany: Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert
Pastoral
World), a type of bindweed, also known as the desert morning glory.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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"
The string was cut, the document unfolded, and the
witness
read as follows : —
" The testament of Polycles the Paeanian.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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And nearer as they came, a genial savour
Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus,
Things which in hungry mortals' eyes find favour,
Made Juan in his harsh intentions pause,
And put
himself
upon his good behaviour:
His friend, too, adding a new saving clause,
Said, 'In Heaven's name let's get some supper now,
And then I 'm with you, if you 're for a row.
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credence |
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Where did they come from? |
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Bryon - Don Juan |
|
+ Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting research on machine translation,
optical
character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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]--These people had also
revolted
from the
Athenians, and joined with the islanders in the social war: how for, or
on wnat pretence, they were suffered to commit those outrages on the
seas, does not appear.
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strife |
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Why did the people revolt? |
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Source: |
Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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Let us meet like men who have been many
years
acquainted
with each other,” and whose friendship is not
to begin, but continue.
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together |
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When did we first meet? |
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Source: |
Alexander Pope - v09 |
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We use cookies to
enhance
user experience.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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and now, by Pan, 280
I care not for this old
mysterious
man!
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Keats |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the
maximum
disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:06 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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This cherubim
One may distinguish among the
angelic
hierarchies, vowed to the service and glory of the divine, beings with unknown forms and the most amazing beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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But it is
evident
from what has been said on aes thetic, that the first condition, under which alone objects can be intuited, must in fact exist, as a formal basis for them, u priori in the mind.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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117
It is a question of a struggle between two elements unequal in power: a new adjustment is arrived at,
according
to the measure of power each possesses.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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The Tilneys called for
her at the appointed time; and no new
difficulty
arising, no sudden
recollection, no unexpected summons, no impertinent intrusion to
disconcert their measures, my heroine was most unnaturally able to
fulfil her engagement, though it was made with the hero himself.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Knowing the weakness of the Empire, the
Moor only thought of
cutting
out for himself an independent principality
in Africa.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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) which is the voice of God made audible
through
the noise of Finnegan's fall.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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Join in your
prayers
with me, my
dear countrymen, that God would not forsake me in my last moments.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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n a este libro-- en lugar de alabar,
criticar
o analizar feno?
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Source: |
Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
|
It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Source: |
Tully - Offices |
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Then it was that
the nation first
understood
completely what they pos-
sessed in their Emperor; and a stream of affectionate
loyalty, such as only springs from the depths of the
German spirit, carried and supported him through his
last years.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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Und es
leuchtet
ein La?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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--'Lycimnius' is,
according to the Scholiast, the title of a
tragedy
by Euripides, which is
about a ship that is struck by lightning.
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Aristophanes |
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From this moment, he took no food beyond the merest morsel, no drink beyond what would just
moisten
his lips.
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Source: |
Universal Anthology - v07 |
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TO SATURN [KRONOS]
The
Fumigation
from Storax.
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Source: |
Orphic Hymns |
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The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country
outside
the United
States.
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Source: |
Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Mr Small says that 'no copy of the original is to be found in the Benedictine edition of Jerome's Works'; and Mr Wright states that 'others say they are first found in the Prognosticon futuri seculi of
Julianus
Pomerius, a theologian, who died in the year 690'.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I am Fever,
Ahkosewin!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
'
'How many fingers,
Winston?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Orwell - 1984 |
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But if in an actor
there
appears
an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid
languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is
a speedy sentence of expulsion.
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Samuel Johnson |
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" rough Mary, God
revealed
himself to the world as at once its Creator and Redeemer: "God who made all things made himself of Mary and
thus he refashioned everything he had made.
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Source: |
Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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So at first I
intended
to omit them, but had I done so my
history would have become like a fiction, and the censure I should
expect would be that I had done so intentionally, because my hero was
the son of an Emperor; but, on the other hand, if I am accused of too
much loquacity, I cannot help it.
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Source: |
Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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warbled
forth we hear:
_Come to my golden palace, dear_!
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Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And Goethe, with that reaching eye
His soul
reached
out from, far and high,
And fell from inner entity.
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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Gillespie,
William
M.
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Source: |
Poe - v10 |
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As he sleeps the I
j Minstrals cease their song and there is heard the j
l^
Husbandmen
singing in the distance.
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Source: |
Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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I can
likewise
applaud his speeches, considering the time he lived in.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 12:11 GMT / http://hdl.
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Source: |
Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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Although his
father was a Lutheran, he had him taught
the Polish language and trained in the Poman
Catholic faith, with reference to such a ca-
reer; while his mother was
entirely
under
Jesuit influence.
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Source: |
Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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I go, ye nymphs, where
furious
love inspires;
Let female fears submit to female fires.
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Source: |
Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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Bacchus
indeed had much in com-
mon with the Egyptian deity; but he entered the Greek world from the
more northern region of Phrygia and Thrace.
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Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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For it can give no answer to our questions respecting the conditions of its synthesis --except such as must be
supplemented
by another question, and so on to infinity.
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Source: |
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Much use for years
Had gradually worn it an oblate
Spheroid that kicked and struggled in its gait,
Appearing
to return me hate for hate.
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Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Willibrord, many of these were brought over to embrace the
Catholic
faith.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
|
50
Think not, when Woman's transient breath is fled
That all her
vanities
at once are dead;
Succeeding vanities she still regards,
And tho' she plays no more, o'erlooks the cards.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Origins: A Short Etymological
Dictionary
o f the English Language.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
|
730] Aristus of Salamis, a writer of a much later age than these,
says, that the tower
consisted
of two stories, and was large; that it
was built at the time the Persians succeeded to the kingdom (of the
Medes); that the tomb was preserved; that the above-mentioned
inscription was in the Greek, and that there was another to the same
purport in the Persian language.
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Strabo |
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Th' offence (as often
happens)
was but small,
But on him, vowed the peer, his rage should fall--
Said he, a halter, rascal, you deserve;
You'll never from the gallows-turnpike swerve:
Or, soon or late you swinging will be found
Who, born for hanging, ever yet was drowned?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
) Some animals change the colour of their hair with a change in their drinking-water, for in some countries the same
species
of animal is found white in one district and black in another.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Aristotle copy |
|
Par un
sentiment
de même nature, on ne peut plus
aimer un autre général après avoir vu agir Napoléon.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Stendhal - 1817 - Vie de Napoleon |
|
119
scolding is to
defoliate
one's candour.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
|
And while Cleonice, the wife of Cnopus, was busied about the offices due to the corpse (and it was the time of the festival and assembly
instituted
in honour of Athene Strophaea), on a sudden there is heard the noise of a trumpet; and the city is taken by Ortyges and his troops, and many of the friends of Cnopus are put to death; and Cleonice, hearing what had happened, fled to Colophon.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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Repentance, trembling in the
presence
of the
judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets.
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Source: |
Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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This syllo gism, the major of which seems so
natural
and evident, intro duces as many cosmological ideas as there are different kinds of conditions in the synthesis of phsenomena, in so far as theae conditions constitute series.
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Source: |
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Yet this
violence
is latent in the first violence.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Education in Hegel |
|
It grants the secret empowerment,
permitting
you to meditate on the com?
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
|
My honour's mute, my duty
impotent!
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
_
Past the court and
through
the doors, across the rushes of the floors,
But they goad him up the stair.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
|
Many pieces have been, here refused
admittance, whether from coarseness of phrase or inferior value: yet
these are rarely defective in the
lyrical
art, which, throughout the
writer's work, is so simple and easy as almost to escape notice through
its very excellence.
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Hence people now try the
opposite
direction
: the road along which humanity
is proceeding shall stand as an indication of their
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Nietzsche - v09 |
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The Alchemy of Sadness
One man lights you with his ardour
one decks you in mourning,
Nature!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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I began to
receive
letters on private grievances and on
every imaginable subject that related to any kind of public affairs,
however remote from my knowledge or pursuits.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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The Longwy
dock strikes, in 1905, arose out of the efforts of a Republican
federation which attempted to organise the syndicates
that might
possibly
serve its policy as against that of the
employers ; ^ the business did not quite take the turn
desired by the promoters of the movement, who were
not familiar enough with this kind of operation.
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Sorel - Reflections on Violence |
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Leave all thy
burdens
on his hands who can bear all, and never
look behind in regret.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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