John Owen, John Smith, and
two Frenchmen, who were willing to share his fortune,
embarked
with
him on the raft, which was fitted out with a sail made of a
biscuit-sack, and an oar, to direct its course, instead of a rudder.
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After remaining some years at Tallaght, JEngus returned to
Clonenagh
His ascetic and literary fame must have culminated to a high degree, at .
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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When he
would deter me from filthy fondness for a light woman: [take care, said
he,] that you do not
resemble
Sectanus.
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Horace - Works |
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In _W_ 'All haile sweet Poet' is
followed
at once by these lines,
presumably written by Thomas Woodward and possibly in reply to the
above.
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Donne - 2 |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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When two point the same way,
forecast
with hope; when three, with confidence.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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We
therefore
set all our wits
a-work to find out some means or other to clear us from our captivity.
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Lucian - True History |
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So die he who my enemy;
and whoever
persecutes
me, so may see him.
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But as in states doubtfull of future heires,
When sicknesse without remedie empaires
The present Prince, they're loth it should be said, 45
The Prince doth languish, or the Prince is dead:
So mankinde feeling now a
generall
thaw,
A strong example gone, equall to law,
The Cyment which did faithfully compact,
And glue all vertues, now resolv'd, and slack'd, 50
Thought it some blasphemy to say sh'was dead,
Or that our weaknesse was discovered
In that confession; therefore spoke no more
Then tongues, the Soule being gone, the losse deplore.
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Donne - 1 |
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x PREFACE
but of revising central assumptions in the Western philo-
sophical
tradition.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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This fully
developed
myth appears first in the fifth century, then is further elaborated in more extensive details until a high point is reached during the Song dynasty, when three major hagiographies appear that each encompass many chapters in the Daoist canon and include and systematize all previous information on the god.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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what is
signified
by sheep, but cleanness of heart in the good?
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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This
activity
responds to what people need, yet the Buddha doesn't need to think, "I must do this for this person.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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"
Substance The chancellor at the same time, by the king's
of the chan- J
command, made a short
narrative
of the history of
the war, the circumstances with which it was be-
gun, and the progress it had since made, and the
victory that the duke had attained; of the vast
number of the prisoners and sick and wounded men,
a charge that had never been computed.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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This
statement
of Colgan cannot be ad- mitted, so far as the xxxvii.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Golden-winged, silver-winged,
Winged with
flashing
flame,
Such a flight of birds I saw,
Birds without a name:
Singing songs in their own tongue
(Song of songs) they came.
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Christina Rossetti |
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It can be based on things that can be presupposed and concentrate on introducing
specific
surprises anew (and as new).
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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The fancy possessed me that the man
behind it had
dissolved
away like salt in water, and that it laughed
and sighed, appealed and denounced at the bidding of beings greater or
less than man.
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Yeats |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
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Appoloinaire |
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' It would appear, she lived within the country of Ailell's Race ;' and, at a place called Senchue, he founded an
establishment
of some sort.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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In ruling out the
education
carried in and by the triadic 'and', diffe?
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Education in Hegel |
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49 (#75) ##############################################
WHY I AM SO CLEVER 49
such things, nothing more
dangerous
could be
conceived than to come face to face with one's
self by the side of this life-task.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Heemploysneither the Artifice nor Varnish of human Eloquence : He has no recourse to
Supplications
and Tears, he do's not bring his Wife and Children to soften the JudgeswiththeirGroansandLamentations.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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Revised and edited with an
Introduction
and Notes by
William Grooke.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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The
chiefest
blessings Adam's chaplain got.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Finally a visit to the eleven European countries is
intended to throw light on the complex of questions
that most excites Moscow, that interests all Euro-
pean nations, that is asked by every country and
every
corporation
doing business with the Soviet
Union, namely: What chance is there of the forma-
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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But surely unto Thee mine eyes did show
Why I am silent, and my lute unstrung;
Else it were better we should part, and go,
Thou to some lips of sweeter melody,
And I to nurse the barren memory
Of
unkissed
kisses, and songs never sung.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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As always,
Chateaubriand
enriches his narrative with extensive quotations and vivid moral and philosophical perceptions, to create a colourful and resonant self-portrait of the intelligent wealthy European traveller, in touch with the ancient world through Christian and Classical writers, and dismayed by the present but stimulated and inspired by the past.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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Attacked on every side by the Muslims, they held firm and defended
themselves
most vigorously.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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Repeated meditations led me
first to suspect,--(and a more intimate analysis of the human faculties,
their
appropriate
marks, functions, and effects matured my conjecture
into full conviction,)--that Fancy and Imagination were two distinct and
widely different faculties, instead of being, according to the general
belief, either two names with one meaning, or, at furthest, the lower
and higher degree of one and the same power.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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20
2 Now Severus
dispatched
Heraclitus to secure Bithynia and Fulvius to seize Niger's adult children.
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Historia Augusta |
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Zazen, even if it is only one human being sitting for one moment,
thus enters into mystical cooperation with all dharmas, and
completely
pen-
etrates all times; and it therefore performs, within the limitless universe, the
eternal work of the Buddha's guiding in?
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Shobogenzo |
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Parents may be thought of as experienced and sensible; the patients, by contrast, are young, and seen, perhaps, as
inclined
to exaggerate or even fabricate.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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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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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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162 recent
scholarship
and teaching the daode jing
10.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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And it is equally evident, that from the nature of its operations, that princi- ple is less
essential
to it, than to an institution constituted with a view'to the accommodation of the public and indi- viduals, by direct loans and a paper circulation.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Maupassant
went insane
because he would work and he would play the same day.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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That
Emperour
canters with fury mad,
And all the Franks dismay and wonder have;
There is not one but weeps and waxes sad
And all pray God that He will guard Rollant
Till in the field together they may stand;
There by his side they'll strike as well they can.
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Chanson de Roland |
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piled
allusion
after allusion to virtually every major theme in Finntgmu Wok" including the Fall, ritual murder, hlindn.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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[847] And he shall visit the fields which drink in summer and the stream of
Asbystes
and the couch on the ground where he shall sleep among evil-smelling beasts.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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CHAPTER 4
With more than usual eagerness did
Catherine
hasten to the pump-room the
next day, secure within herself of seeing Mr.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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You have beheld a smiling rose
When virgins' hands have drawn
O'er it a cobweb-lawn;
And here you see this lily shows,
Tomb'd in a crystal stone,
More fair in this
transparent
case
Than when it grew alone
And had but single grace.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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TO THE
HANDSOME
MISTRESS GRACE POTTER
As is your name, so is your comely face
Touch'd every where with such diffused grace,
As that in all that admirable round,
There is not one least solecism found;
And as that part, so every portion else
Keeps line for line with beauty's parallels.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Detente, says the Christian psychologist,
inevitably
results in releasing evil in the human being.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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When Joshua 'gainst the high-walled city fought,
He marched around it with his banner high,
His troops in serried order
following
nigh,
But not a sword was drawn, no shaft outsprang,
Only the trumpets the shrill onset rang.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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At seventeen he had tried for a Government appointment, but he had failed to get it, being
poor and friendless, and for three years he had worked in the stinking labyrinth of the
Mandalay bazaars,
clerking
for the rice merchants and sometimes stealing.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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He died in 1736, aged one hundred and twenty-three years, witnessing
eight reigns, exclusive of the
protectorate
of the Cromwell's; from James the First to King George the Second.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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"
We doubt if even the most
uncompromising
advocate oi "industrial democracy" would wish such decisions to be made by a vote of the government employees engaged in producing iron and steel.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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_ Remove the veil from all things and relate
The story to us,--of what crime accused,
Zeus smites thee with
dishonourable
pangs.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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I heard the runnel with delight; I looked round me for some-
thing beautiful and unexpected: but the still black pine-trees, the
hollow glade, the munching ass,
remained
unchanged in figure.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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'I have an intellectual nature which
requires
satisfaction,' she noted,
'and that would find it in him.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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But the Councils of Ancyra and
Neocaesarea (both in 314) had
legislated
on the point, although with
soine reserve.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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That was the duty of counsel for the defence, and he, though doubtless learned in the law and also eloquent, had no more clue about
probability
theory' than the prosecutor.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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EARLY
CHRISTIAN
ART.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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This formlessness should also be understood as a violent erasure of (previous) forms: whenever a cer- tain act is posited as a founding one, as a historical cut, the beginning of a new era, the previous social real- ity is as a rule reduced to a chaotic
ahistorical
conundrum--say, when the Western colonialists "discov- ered" Black Africa, this discovery was read as the contact of "prehis- torical" primitives with civilized history proper, and their previous history basically blurred into form- less matter.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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" It is systematized in an aesthetico-political regime, an
occlusion
of the order of inscription (on this a certain definitional closure of the "human" depends) in favor of tropes guarding the claims of human immediacy and perception.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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After the war is over there will be powerful forces drawing young people away from the liberal studies- But there will be other powerful forces operating in the
opposite
direction-
The vindication of democracy by victory will raise a vast number ot questions as to the meaning of democracy, of the conditions economic and psychological and spiritual under which democracy can thrive.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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In
the case of Christ the
rejoicings
of the people
?
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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By contrast, "the objective of a successful counterideology is to convince peo- ple not only that the
observed
injustices are an inherent part of the system but also that a just system can come about only by active participation of in- dividuals in the system.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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In addition Constantinople has
a Greek
population
of more than 200,000,
who play prominent parts in every vital
branch of local life.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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, 150, 152, 176, 448; claims the Empire, 18; restores
178; 422; kings of, see Aistulf; see also Louis I, 19; 21; proclaimed Emperor, 10,
Longobardia
22;
relations
with his brothers, 22 sqq.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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10 6011
Defeat of
Ariovistus
and the Germans,
The, Cesar
5 3016
Varus, Scene of the, Tacitus 24 14384
the.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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All-honor'd, prudent, whose sagacious mind knows all that was, and is, of ev'ry kind,
With all that shall be in
succeeding
time; so vast thy wisdom, wond'rous, and sublime:
For all things Nature first to thee consign'd, and in thy essence omniform confin'd.
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Orphic Hymns |
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Kitchin thinks this passage is a
reminiscence
of
the beacon-fires of July 29, 1588, which signaled the arrival of the Armada
off the Cornish coast.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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He taught the Hundred Thousand Verses of the Vajrakfla Tantra, the Garland of Views: A Collec- tion of
Esoteric
Instructions, and other works.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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The more thoroughly and impartially this spirit is observed
and extracted, the more will it be found to consist in the sub-
jection of all things to what may be called the romantic process of
presenting them in an
atmosphere
of poetical suggestion rather
than as sharply defined and logically stated.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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There is neither splendour nor taste in the carnival:
its universal tumult assimilates it in the fancy with the
bacchanalian orgies; but in the fancy only; for the R o-
mans are
generally
sober and serious enough -- the last
days of this fete ex cepted.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Marks,
notations
and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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" 7 On this information, Artaxerxes, fearing the number of Artabanus' sons, gave orders for the troops to be ready under arms on the following day, as if he meant to
ascertain
their strength, and their respective efficiency for the field.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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If we should seek a warrant for our
belief in the
ultimate
victory of the two last-named
movements, we could find it in the fact that both
of the forces which we hold to be deleterious are
so opposed to the eternal purpose of nature as the
concentration of education for the few is in harmony
with it, and is true, whereas the first two forces
could succeed only in founding a culture false to
the root.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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)
người
xã Thái Bạt huyện Bất Bạt (nay thuộc xã Tòng Bạt huyện Ba Vì tỉnh Hà Tây).
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stella-01 |
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So she
repaired
to the palace of Pelias and persuaded his daughters to make mince meat of their father and boil him, promising to make him young again by her drugs; and to win their confidence she cut up a ram and made it into a lamb by boiling it.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN
PARAGRAPH
F3.
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Christina Rossetti |
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But the
offering
should be dearer to your eyes.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Mortal works must perish: much less can the
honor and
elegance
of language be long-lived.
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Horace - Works |
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He continued to work on his Memoirs, and viewed as a member of the political opposition, a great literary figure, and a champion of freedom, was celebrated at the
Revolution
of 1848, during which period of turmoil he died.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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Experience, reminiscing, gives depth to its
observations
by confirming or refuting them.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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"Certainly,” she replied;
"and to show you how true it is, he has sent Lamotte here,
who has already
informed
the King of everything.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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An international-political theory serves
primarily
to explain international-political outcomes.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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There I fear for my good name,
For in the land dwell
babblers
evermore,
Proud, supercilious, who might work me shame
Hereafter with sharp tongues of cavil and quick blame.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the
publisher
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XIII
But by the yellow Tiber
Was tumult and affright:
From all the
spacious
champaign
To Rome men took their flight.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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He, too, was fated to meet with an end
corresponding
to his life.
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He was foreign,
comparatively
wealthy, male, and
these were historical facts of domination that allowed him not only to possess Kuchuk Hanem
physically but to speak for her and tell his readers in what way she was “typically Oriental.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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So I began
explaining
and kept at him for three days, 14 and after that he was able to put the world outside himself.
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Chuang Tzu |
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who
Lately a hundred thousand held as nought,
And now, deprived of courage, basely flew,
As ring-doves flutter and as coneys fly,
Who hear some mighty noise
resounding
nigh.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Lastly, all other things may be
described
in some way ; He
alone, Who spoke, and all things were made, cannot be Ps.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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Over his countenance flitted a shadow like those on the landscape,
Gloom intermingled with light; and his voice was subdued with emotion,
Tenderness, pity, regret, as after a pause he proceeded: 60
"Yonder there, on the hill by the sea lies buried Rose Standish;
Beautiful
rose of love, that bloomed for me by the wayside!
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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Synceceiosis to one subject ties 38
Two
contraries
; and fuller sense supplies.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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My
laughter
smites upon my ears,
So one who cries and wakes from sleep
Knows not it is himself he hears.
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Sara Teasdale |
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though all were o'er,
For us
repeopled
were the solitary shore.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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17 Matthias
Corvinus
(Mathew Corwin, in English; 1443-1490), King of Hungary 1458-1490, King of Bohemia after 1469, Duke of Austria after 1486; he had an army of mercenaries and was rumored to have sounded out public opinion by mingling with commoners--ed.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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28
passionate child, at whose touch the cold Latin took on the
warm
humanity
and poignant pathos which meet us again
and again in that other quasi-Celt, the Master, Virgil,* and
which through some mysterious medium of racial sym-
pathy never fail to awaken a responsive echo of vivid
affection in Celtic students to-day.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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THE LITTLE GIRL LOST
In futurity
I
prophetic
see
That the earth from sleep
(Grave the sentence deep)
Shall arise, and seek
for her Maker meek;
And the desert wild
Become a garden mild.
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blake-poems |
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One
gets the best of music, the
sincerest
part, when he is alone.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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The censures of the critics by
profession are extant, and may be easily referred to:--careless lines,
inequality in the merit of the
different
poems, and (in the lighter
works) a predilection for the strange and whimsical; in short, such
faults as might have been anticipated in a young and rapid writer, were
indeed sufficiently enforced.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Some idea of the scope and range of its activities at the outset can be given by listing the matters covered in its first annual report: ^^
Overseas Trade
Committee
set up to study the development of the Government service for the promotion of British trade in foreign coun- tries.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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But I have done all I wished in respect to pronunciation, if I
have proved that where we are vulgar, we have the
countenance
of very
good company.
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James Russell Lowell |
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For alas,
he had crowded the city so full
that men could not grasp beauty,
beauty was over them,
through them, about them,
no crevice
unpacked
with the honey,
rare, measureless.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Thus, what enables the wise
sovereign
and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.
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The-Art-of-War |
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