The
faithful
servants
of God care no more for their wealth than for their clothes,
which they can put on and leave off at pleasure; but bad Christians prize it
as much as animals do their skin.
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a
another theatre,
returned
to their manager, though he specifically ex-
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The streets that shine so white, so white, are all
bestrewn
with
flowers,
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I bow myself
Humbly henceforward on the ill I did,
That
humbleness
may keep it in the shade.
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The artistic
contemplation
of the world: to sit
before the world and to survey it.
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"51 D'Espiard stressed that "society cannot exist without women," and nations like the Chinese "have de- stroyed Society by this eternal imprisonment of women, which is the least
philosophical
and most unjust thing in the world.
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He had been
studying
Wilhelm Roux, The Struggle ofParts in the Organism: A Contribution to the Perfection ofthe Doctrine ofMechanistic Teleolo- gy (Leipzig, 1881), so that these earliest notes on eternal recurrence appear in the often bizarre context of /'homme machine.
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Quum vitiorum tempestas
Turbabat omnes semitas,
Apparuisti, Deitas,
Velut stella salutaris
In
naufragiis
amaris.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of
Replacement
or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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""
That is only logical in a
discourse
network that needs someone for the impossible role of the writing analphabet.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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She clothed her
children
in strange raiment
and gave them masks, and at her bidding the antique world rose from its
marble tomb.
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{64}
latter, but
overlooks
the former.
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Tacitus |
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I will try
Ulysses — How can we escape this
imminent
catastro phe?
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O soir, aimable soir, desire par celui
Dont les bras, sans mentir, peuvent dire: Aujourd'hui
Nous avons
travaille!
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Quantity is
distinct
from accent though not inconsistent
with it.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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And their
advertising
is hardly different.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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" You
deprived
me of my growth, and reduced me to a"cripple.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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He soon be-
came a favorite with the gay and gifted
autocrats
of the New World
Grub Street, and strolled along the fashionable side of Broadway,
and about the nooks of Printing-House Square, with the confidence
of vested rights.
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I have myself
constantly
in my mind’s eye; I define myself in relation to time as a surprise for myself.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Pourquoi
sont-ils fermes?
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Oscar Wilde |
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This
happened
in the days of the democracy.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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I awakened at the noise he
made, and
observed
him to deliver his message in some disorder;
after which he went to my master, and in a great fright gave
him a very confused account of what he had seen.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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"Yet" said I, in my morn of youth,
The
unsunned
freshness of my strength,
When I went forth in quest of truth,
"It is man's privilege to doubt,
If so be that from doubt at length,
Truth may stand forth unmoved of change,
An image with profulgent brows,
And perfect limbs, as from the storm
Of running fires and fluid range
Of lawless airs, at last stood out
This excellence and solid form
Of constant beauty.
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Tennyson |
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How pure, how tender that song it
pealeth!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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"" If the buildings which housed machines im- portant to war production were too
severely
damaged, the machines often could be moved to other locations.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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This is not to say there is "a perfect fantasy," or "a discourse that precisely mirrors the real," or any such thing, but to claim that the more we come to collectively
understand
the rela- tionship between the ways we speak and the kinds of worlds we live in, the more enlightened as a species we become.
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It affords the author an opportunity of explaining the object
of the work, or of vindicating himself and
replying
to his critics.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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There is no English
ing to the views of the New Platonists,
together
version.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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Positivism's ir- responsibly bungled language fancies itself to be responsibly objective and
adaquate
to the matter at hand; the reflection on the spiritual becomes the privilege of the spiritless.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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He had amassed
eightpence
— a penny
short of his kip.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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Therefore whistled
Thorberg
Skafting,
As he sat with half-closed eyes,
And his head turned sideways, drafting
That new vessel for King Olaf
Twice the Dragon's size.
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Longfellow |
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Fresh carved cedar,
mimicking
a glade
Of palm and plantain, met from either side,
High in the midst, in honour of the bride:
Two palms and then two plantains, and so on,
From either side their stems branch'd one to one
All down the aisled place; and beneath all
There ran a stream of lamps straight on from wall to wall.
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Keats - Lamia |
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A-levels notoriously
traumatize
teenagers, because so much hangs on the result.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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1
This seems like a
prophecy
for the French King, for he did die.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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Given the fact of appendicitis, the value that health is desirable, and the conviction that the pain and expense of the operation are outweighed by the
resulting
gain in health, one ought to have the operation.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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"So you have a
grandmother
who knows three winning cards, and you
haven't found out the magic secret.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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It cannot be simply a restoration ot the so-called liberal education of pre-war times, too often merely the con- tinuance of
traditional
ideas, traditional methods.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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She feels a love for little things
That very few can feel beside,
And still the grass eternal springs
Where castles stood and
grandeur
died.
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[244] The word _fines_ in Cæsar, always
signifies
territory.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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”[748]
This proud glorification of his race attests the value which was set at
Rome upon antiquity of origin; but Cæsar, sprung from that aristocracy
which had
produced
so many illustrious men, and impatient to follow in
their footsteps, showed, from early youth, that nobility obliges,
instead of imitating those whose conduct would make one believe that
nobility dispenses.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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XVI
Gernando
was the King of Norway's son,
That many a realm and region had to guide,
And for his elders lands and crowns had won.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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Have you ever, my dear Sir, felt your bosom ready to burst with
indignation, on reading of those mighty villains who divide kingdoms,
desolate provinces, and lay nations waste, out of the
wantonness
of
ambition, or often from still more ignoble passions?
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--But are all these acts
unegoistic?
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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world-wide stage is built around them in order that they, the players, may prove
themselves
in their great or small roles.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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DEAR EMERsoN,--I
received
your Letter 1 by the
last Packet three or four days ago : this is the last
day of answering, the monthly Packet sails towards
you again from Liverpool to-morrow morning; and
1 Missing.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm
Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free
distribution
of
electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers
including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers.
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Yet we have, I think, an example of this rare combination of quali
ties in Gray; and it accounts both for the kind of
excellence
to which he
attained, and for the way in which he disappointed expectation.
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i
rycchesse
of fortune be kept
to ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The country was much intersected and poorly furnished with grain, the towns were situated for the most part on cliffs and tongues of land, and were accessible from the mainland only by
shallows
which it was difficult to cross ; the provi sion of supplies and the conducting of sieges were equally difficult for the army attacking by land, while the Celts by means of their vessels could furnish the towns easily with everything needful, and in the event of the worst could accomplish their evacuation.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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While beneath plunder'd Saints, in outraged fanes
Plots Faction, and Revenge the altar stains;
And,
contrast
sad and wide,
The very bells which sweetly wont to fling
Summons to prayer and praise now Battle's tocsin ring!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The obvious and uninteresting explanation of the evolution of increasing
complexity
is that the first organisms were necessarily simple .
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11 Nevertheless, though so many factors
influenced
the mother to suffer with them out of love for her children, in the case of none of them were the various tortures strong enough to pervert her reason.
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Roman Translations |
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Armies were trained;
armament
plants
were moved beyond the Urals; new plants were constructed.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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The same is a remedy for the spleen, and blushing, and several distempers occasioned by the
stagnation
of the blood.
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' And in the laws of the king, we find the
following
words - 'That the parasites of the Acharnians shall sacrifice to Apollo.
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This content
downloaded
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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As for the few
following
predictions I now offer the world, I forbore to
publish them till I had perused the several almanacks for the year we are
now entered on.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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He longs to get home to his wife, but he is not averse to
fornication
with nymphs and god- desses.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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See "The
Illustrated
Dublin Jour-
Maps for the County of Meath," sheets 19, 26.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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Quando diritto al pie del ponte fue,
levo 'l braccio alto con tutta la testa
per
appressarne
le parole sue,
che fuoro: <
tu che, spirando, vai veggendo i morti:
vedi s'alcuna e grande come questa.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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children
small,
Blue-eyed, wailing through the city--
Our own babes cry in them all:
Let us take them into pity.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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Here was a glorious instance of Filial
Affection!
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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It is impossible to avoid the
conclusion that the birth-rate in these
families
is determined more by
the desire of the parents (based on economic grounds) than on the
natural fecundity of the women.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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The poetical pieces of the char-
acter then written are the most artificial
products
of an artificial age.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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,
it is evident that the expenses of the presidency then would be the
national expenses; and that, through the reversion of the civil list to
the mass of consumers, the great
inequality
of which I speak would form
an exact equation with the whole nation.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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There is a close analogy in the natures of all these
intelligences with the more lofty
constitution
of certain angelical
choirs.
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"
Was willst du dit
erhorchen?
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23-
The
Characteristics
of Corruption.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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" A
question
imme-
diately presents itself, Who was the Corinna whom he c^----
celebrates in these poems?
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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Cleis speaks no word to me,
For the land where she has gone
Lieth mute at dusk and dawn
Like a windless
tideless
sea.
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For this reason we hold that such practice is not
proper for free men, but savors of
meniality
and handicraft.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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He
therefore
took a middle
course, and declared it a free city; thereby leaving
the inhabitants to throw off their dependence on
their old masters, and making it appear to be then-
own act.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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The uncultured children of the Steppes
amalgamated
naturally with the native population.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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England exported cloth in exchange for wine, because by so
doing, her industry was rendered more productive to her; she had more
cloth and wine than if she had manufactured both for herself; and
Portugal imported cloth, and exported wine, because the industry of
Portugal could be more beneficially
employed
for both countries in
producing wine.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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Look up and see the
casement
broken in,
The bats and owlets builders in the roof!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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To start with magnetism was basically used as a sort of
displacement
of the crisis.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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Officer: The Greek word used here, toxotes, and
translated
as "officer," literally means "archer.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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We have many sailor songs, but as far as I at present
recollect, they are mostly the
effusions
of the jovial sailor, not the
wailings of his love-lorn mistress.
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Robert Burns- |
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If not
then made, that it was at least important to reserve the
power of making such a discrimination in case pecu-
* Affirmative--Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Virginia, (three to two,)
Jefferson
and Monroe in the negative.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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Taken the second time, he
instituted
an action in order that he might be recognized as a free-born citizen, of the family of Bel-rimanni ; and to prove that he was of noble origin, he pre tended that he had performed the matrimonial solemnities at the marriage of his master's daughter Qudasu with a certain Samas-mudammiq.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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In April 1888, he made
a vigorous speech at Allahabad in which he
advocated
propaganda
among the masses of India in the same way as the Anti-Corn Law
League had done in England.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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Say, I didn't think the girl was
much to brag on for looks -
>>
"Got a kinder way with her, though,"
Wickliff
struck in.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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We sought each other out and went on
and on together,
exploring
the Fairy Castle.
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Li Po |
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There rushes in at the hall-door a knight of gigantic
stature--the
greatest
on earth--in measure high.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Throughout an area of forty or fifty miles we have burned the
villages
of the Germans, driven off their flocks, carried away captives, killed men in arms, and fought a battle in a swamp.
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Historia Augusta |
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Also, to avoid any
appearance
of precedence,
they have been put in alphabetical order.
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Imagists |
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It was
probably
also the
oldest.
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He was a major influence on the
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However, users may print, download, or email
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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7 to "
Histoire
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This way my Lord, the Castles gently rendred:
The Tyrants people, on both sides do fight,
The Noble Thanes do brauely in the Warre,
The day almost it selfe
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And little is to do
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