At that, and without
delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front
hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time
before and had been
listening
to what was being said.
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Vulcan pleads his own
inability
to enforce the demand, as a circumstance
that made Neptune's promise unacceptable.
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The Cock and the Pearl The Frog and the Ox
The Wolf and the Lamb Androcles
The Dog and the Shadow The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts
The Lion's Share The Hart and the Hunter
The Wolf and the Crane The Serpent and the File
The Man and the Serpent The Man and the Wood
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse The Dog and the Wolf
The Fox and the Crow The Belly and the Members
The Sick Lion The Hart in the Ox-Stall
The Ass and the Lapdog The Fox and the Grapes
The Lion and the Mouse The Horse, Hunter, and Stag
The Swallow and the Other Birds The Peacock and Juno
The Frogs Desiring a King The Fox and the Lion
The Mountains in Labour The Lion and the Statue
The Hares and the Frogs The Ant and the Grasshopper
The Wolf and the Kid The Tree and the Reed
The Woodman and the Serpent The Fox and the Cat
The Bald Man and the Fly The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
The Fox and the Stork The Dog in the Manger
The Fox and the Mask The Man and the Wooden God
The Jay and the Peacock The Fisher
43-62 63-82
The Shepherd's Boy The Miser and His Gold
The Young Thief and His Mother The Fox and the Mosquitoes
The Man and His Two Wives The Fox Without a Tail
The Nurse and the Wolf The One-Eyed Doe
The Tortoise and the Birds Belling the Cat
The Two Crabs The Hare and the Tortoise
The Ass in the Lion's Skin The Old Man and Death
The Two Fellows and the Bear The Hare With Many Friends
The Two Pots The Lion in Love
The Four Oxen and the Lion The Bundle of Sticks
The Fisher and the Little Fish The Lion, the Fox, and the Beasts
Avaricious and Envious The Ass's Brains
The Crow and the Pitcher The Eagle and the Arrow
The Man and the Satyr The Milkmaid and Her Pail
The Goose With the Golden Eggs The Cat-Maiden
The Labourer and the Nightingale The Horse and the Ass
The Fox, the Cock, and the Dog The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner
The Wind and the Sun The Buffoon and the Countryman
Hercules and the
Waggoner
The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar
The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey The Fox and the Goat
Aesop's Fables
The Cock and the Pearl
A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the
hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw.
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Justice will
overtake
the framers and abettors of lies.
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Two
Gentlemen
of Verona, The.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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In this shifting
metaphysical
need, that state of the spirit which long ago made itself known in Novalis' On Christendom or Europe, or which the young Lukacs called transcendental homelessness, has come down to culturally defined knowledge .
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If we wish to know why the theater diverts, it is necessary to account for this type of very special pleasure: that of playing with fire absent any danger
stipulated
by this twofold clause: (1) it is a safe fire because it is on the stage, and because the play always extinguishes the fire, and (2) when there is fire, it is always at one's neighbor's.
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65-7): If _The Devil is an Ass_
cannot be ranked among the crowning masterpieces of its author, it is
not because the play shows any sign of
decadence
in literary power or
in humorous invention.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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If the
behaviorists
decree that 'behavior' is movement 'for them', they are going directly to a death end.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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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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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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If this man from the West was going
to claim the whole heritage of the
Achaemenian
kings, that would make him
the neighbour of the princes of India.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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Does it yet
continue
the same Wax?
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Descartes - Meditations |
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But, in place of the woodpecker, he swallowed in his throat a
scorpion
and bewailed to Phorcus the burden of his evil travail, seeking to find counsel in his pain.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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_ For tho I have experienced in my self this
_Infirmity_, that I cannot _always_ be intent upon _one_ and the _same_
Knowledge, yet _I_ may by a
_continued_
and _often repeated_ Meditation
bring this to pass, that as often as _I_ have use of this Rule _I_ may
Remember it, by which means I may Get (as it were) an _habit_ of _not
erring_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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This cause,
precedes; ill changes but tubjectiv tly, as the highest member in the and in consciousness, the representa
tion oftime, like every other, given series of the causes of cosmical
aolely
occasion
of perception.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Child Verse
" Nay, but onward,"
answered
Year,
" We must farther go,
Through the Vale of Autumn sere
To the Mount of Snow.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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He poured
contempt
on those who frittered life away.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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seems
necessary
for clearness of references: 'For, _Lacrymae sunt
sudor animae maerentis_, Teares are the sweat of a labouring soule,
.
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John Donne |
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U S I G N
Palestine, from Iraq to Sudan, from Ulster to the Indian sub- continent, look carefully at any region of the world where you find
intractable
enmity and violence between rival groups.
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"--
III
"The Keeper of the Field of Tombs
Dwells by its gateway-pier;
He celebrates with feast and dance
His daughter's
twentieth
year:
He celebrates with wine of France
The birthday of his dear.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I deserted; and that
answered
my purpose every bit as well as if I
had bought my discharge.
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Mariana, the classical
historian
of Spain, tells the story of the
ill-starred marriage which the King Don Alonso brought about
between the heirs of Carrion and the two daughters of the Cid.
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Whoso before her kneeleth reverently
No longer wasteth but is
comforted
;
The sick are healed and devils driven forth,
And those with crooked eyes see straightway straight.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Both frank and sagacious, ardent and acute, there were
united within him talents
apparently
the most opposed; and it was
this which gave his genius a character at the same time so practical
and so mystical, so occupied with reality while soaring toward the
ideal.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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This is my
excuse, too, for
considering
only the most conspicuous instances of epic
poetry.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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He was ever
attentive
to the wants of his flock, and those, who came to visit him with
recognised Mansuy pastor.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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725
Heav'n thy
friendless
steps shall guide,
Cheer thy hours, and guard thy side.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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we have
conquered
by evil;
Good reigns not alone:
_I_ prevail now, and, angel or devil,
Inherit a throne.
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
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This is said to have been the first
instance of secularization in history, and the
first
diplomatic
recognition of Lutheranism as
an established religion.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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as explained in the authoritative treatises, and in particular who do not know the literature of the Community which explains all the keys of that [dissolution
process]
emphasizing vajra recitation.
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"# " "
%*##
" " !
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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The current account deficit has
widened however, and authorities
continue
currency intervention amid
incremental capital account liberalization.
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Kleiman International |
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" Lear did not know where
Knowsley
was, or what it
meant; but the old gentleman was the thirteenth Earl of Derby.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Because your
cognitions
are not sticky with respect to their objects, they do not grasp at all their details and thus your mind does not indulge itself in mental wandering.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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It is one of the Hebrides, about eight miles from the nearest
Scottish
coast, above six miles in length, and varying from a mile to three miles in breadth.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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In the earlier works, such as the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts and The German Ideology Marx is in the process of becoming a Marxist and is piecing together his understanding of capitalism in history, leaning more heavily on his philosophical
training
and his criticisms of the neo-Hegelians.
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In particular, I appreciate Harpham's insistence on the humanities being a space "of contemplation and reflection," for I trust that this phrase is meant to include the
connotation
of "contemplation" as an exercise and an island of slowness within the pace of today's everyday life.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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Hamd-Ullāh
Mustaufi
Qazvini.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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But now with snow the tree is grey,
Ah, sadly now the
throstle
sings!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'Tis he will tell you, to what noble height
A generous Muse may sometimes take her flight;
When, too much fetter'd with the Rules of Art,
May from her
stricter
Bounds and Limits part:
But such a perfect Judge is hard to see,
And every Rhymer knows not Poetry;
Nay some there are, for Writing Verse extol'd,
Who know not Lucan's Dross from Virgil's Gold.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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The Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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"
This affair, known in history under the
name of
Defenestration
of Prague, inau-
gurated the Thirty Years' War, May 25,
1618.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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« The
floating
clouds their state shall lend
To her; for her the willow bend;
Nor shall she fail to see
Even in the motions of the storm,
Grace that shall mold the maiden's form
By silent sympathy.
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"This he says, "is the most
important
moment in the history of the Greek ?
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Much of D'Israeli's popularity was
unquestionably
due
to his qualities of heart.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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For it will not
only minister and suggest for the present many ingenious practices in all
trades, by a connection and
transferring
of the observations of one art
to the use of another, when the experiences of several mysteries shall
fall under the consideration of one man’s mind; but further, it will give
a more true and real illumination concerning causes and axioms than is
hitherto attained.
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Bacon |
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But will the British or American democracies step in to save Germany'sfinancesand enable her to continue the
rearmaments
which in turn impose on them such costly rearmament programs?
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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FAUST:
O glucklich, wer noch hoffen kann,
Aus diesem Meer des Irrtums
aufzutauchen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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1340
Should I in making a
statement
all too sincere,
Cover with shameful blushes the brow of a father?
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eucosvrii, the Greek form of a name applied by
(he Persians to the Cappadocians, and
signifying
White
Syrians.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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Neither can we assent to the proposition that ideal or spiritual Being is timeless, while
temporal
Being as such is physical or material ; Being thought, as the idea of a triangle, of spirit, or of history, is indeed timeless ; but thinking Being, or spirit itself, is never given us in experience as timeless Being, but always as the consciousness of our ego taking place in time.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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XXV
A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
From year to year until I saw thy face,
And sorrow after sorrow took the place
Of all those natural joys as lightly worn
As the
stringed
pearls, each lifted in its turn
By a beating heart at dance-time.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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following
sentence, with active links to, or other immediate
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almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Once more, if thou delayest in hot baths,
When thou art over-full, how readily
From stool in middle of the
steaming
water
Thou tumblest in a fit!
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Lucretius |
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Nowadays an attempt of this kind would be not only a
palpable
infringement
of international law, but also an
unparalleled piece of stupidity.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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It seems, indeed, that you derive no
advantage from all this wealth, but anybody manages it rather than
you, nor from your body, nobly born as it is, but some one else
shepherds
it and takes care of it.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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To
Mnemosyne
(Memory)
77.
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Orphic Hymns |
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The Gracehoper who, though blind as batflea, yet knew, not a leetle beetle, his good smetterling of entymology asped nissunitimost lous nor liceens but promptly tossed himself in the vico, phthin and phthir, on top of his buzzer, tezzily wondering wheer would his aluck alight or boss of both appease and the next time he makes the
aquinatance
of the Ondt after this they have met themselves, these mouschical umsummables, it shall be motylucky if he will beheld not a world of differents.
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Finnegans |
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He is not the author
of that
anatomical
method:, which consi-
ders the intellectual powers severally, or
each by itself; and which appears to be
ignorant of the admirable unity in the moral
being.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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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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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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Come with thy
panoplied
array,
Maryland!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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"I wish that it should be
this way, my teacher; that my glance shall please you, that always
good fortune shall come to me out of your
direction!
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Groys's archive· is a funeral parlour for world art and world cultures - it is the place in which, as hinted, a number of persons can attain immortality with their works according to a law of
selection
that is never quite transparent.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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Dưog díu cben lín ngang xnrr iL\ ỉ)uog
người
gi4Ỉvru, lo.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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Antigonus' passion, for it was not less than that of
love in its greatest madness; and it was the chief ob-
ject of his cares to find a method of taking it by sur-
prise, when the hopes of
succeeding
by open force
failed.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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'tis the first, 'tis
flattery
in my seeing,
And my great mind most kingly drinks it up:
Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing,
And to his palate doth prepare the cup:
If it be poison'd, 'tis the lesser sin
That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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SYNOPSIS
of Poetic Licences
noticed in the
preceding
Clavis.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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For me who stand in Italy to-day
Where
worthier
poets stood and sang before,
I kiss their footsteps yet their words gainsay.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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* You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Wilde - Poems |
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He believes that in savage
life it _is_, and in wisely organized society of duly enlightened and
civilized beings it should be the source of ten-fold more
happiness
than
misery.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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Before all my tinder
Dies away into coals, coals then to ashes decline,
She will be back and new faggots as well as big logs will be blazing,
Making a
festival
where lovers will warm up the night.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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67
present,
indicates
with perfect precision the proper place to which each conception belongs, while it readily points out any that have not yet been filled up.
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They also call
rhetoric
a science conversant about speaking well concerning matters which admit of a detailed narrative; and dialectics they call the science of arguing correctly in discussions which can be carried on by question and answer; on which account they define it thus: a knowledge of what is true, and false, and neither one thing nor the other.
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something
lonesome go through you?
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He has taught
several
generations
to see with their eyes, think with their minds,
and work with their hands.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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But how did Kraus's linguistic critique compare to other cultural
endeavours
of the early twentieth century?
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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" Here I concluded, and I hope you
will be
satisfied
with my speech.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Many a stretch of slime-aged standing water
I've reached through deathly, terrifying wastes,
The plumes of pigeon
carcasses
strewn about.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Many of his winged
words have survived to the present day, as, for
instance, his explanation of the request of German
issuing banks for paper (money) "based on a
deeply founded desire in human nature"; or
"making debts without getting interest on them";
or his sneering remarks about the predilection of
South Germans for
Bavarian
military helmets and
dirty florin notes.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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Towards the latter end of Brown's life, we are
informed
by Mr.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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Likewise, if you hate your Guru and generate negative energy towards him, you are
deliberately
casting yourself away from his state of Enlightenment and its freedom from pain.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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A single climb to a line, a straight
exchange
to a cane, a desperate
adventure and courage and a clock, all this which is a system, which has
feeling, which has resignation and success, all makes an attractive
black silver.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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The sign of extraordinary merit is to see that those who envy
it most are
constrained
to praise it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Our
public schools—established, it would seem, for
this high
object—have
either become the nurseries
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Their base desire and purpose are to slay
Telemachus
on his return; for he,
To gather tidings of his Sire is gone
To Pylus, or to Sparta's land divine.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Childrens - Brownies |
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The dates of his birth and death are
variously
giveii^
but the divergence is not wide.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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Louis
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ty has been amply evinced hy its 'fruits--American iade- pendenee owes much to it--And it is very conceivable, that reasons of the moment, may have rendered those fea- tures in it inexpedient, which a
revision
with a permanent view, suggests a| desirable.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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WHILE Septimius in his arms his Acme
Fondled closely, * My own,' said he, ' my Acme,
If I love not as unto death, nor hold me
Ever
faithfully
well-prepar'd to largest
Strain of fiery wooer yet to love thee,
Then in Libya, then may I alone in
Burning India face a sulky lion.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Midas was offered a gift by the god Bacchus, and asked to turn
everything
to gold.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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The second was the
important
Regulating Act.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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" 2 According to his own account, when he first re-
cited his
juvenile
poems to a public audience, his " beard
had been shaved only once or twice.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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Thou shalt [here lerne] without science,
And knowe,
withoute
experience, 4690
The thing that may not knowen be,
Ne wist ne shewid in no degree.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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He brought information that the Athenians spent their time at Catane in pleasure, and used to leave their camp casually, without their weapons; therefore if the
Syracusans
could surprise the camp early in the morning, they would find it easy to capture the other Athenians, who were unarmed and indulging themselves in the city.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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