I am doubtful whether Burgoyne will attempt to pene-
trate far, and whether he will not content himself with ha-
rassing our back settlements by parties, assisted by the sa-
vages, who, it is to be feared, will pretty generally be
tempted by the enemy's late successes, to
confederate
in
hostilities against us.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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218, 219-
3 See Colgan's "Acta
Sanctorum
Hiber- nise," vii.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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II
For, wonning in these ancient lands,
Enchased and lettered as a tomb,
And scored with prints of perished hands,
And chronicled with dates of doom,
Though my own Being bear no bloom
I trace the lives such scenes enshrine,
Give past
exemplars
present room,
And their experience count as mine.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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There came a
companion
to her,
But, alas, he was no help,
For his name was Heart’s Pain.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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O
gracious
nations, give some ear to me!
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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"
Dick
returned
with the big clasped sketch-book that the Nilghai knew
well and did not love too much.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The divine
primitive
essence divides into the active and the passive, into force and matter.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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The
possibility
of the
young man’s coming to Mrs.
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Austen - Emma |
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But no man, you'll say, ever
sacrificed
to Folly or built me a temple.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Burns believes, as firmly as her
creed, that I am _le plus bel esprit, et le plus
honnête
homme_ in
the universe; although she scarcely ever in her life, except the
Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, and the Psalms of David in
metre, spent five minutes together on either prose or verse.
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Selection of English Letters |
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ei clepeden him waste bred,
&
wissheden
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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They only perish of winter 10
Whom Love,
audacious
and tender,
Never hath visited.
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Sappho |
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A Kalmuck gray, in caftan rent
And spectacles, his
knitting
staid
And the saloon threw open wide;
The princess from the sofa cried
And the newcomers welcome bade.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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He also obtained the
situation
of a custom-house-officer.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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The great asylum doctor--whether Leuret, Charcot, or Kraepelin--is both he who can state the truth of the illness through the knowledge he has of it, and he who can produce the illness in its truth and
subjugate
it in reality through the power his will exerts on the patient.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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Let me feel as I would, when I stand
On the shore of the river of Death;
Feel as I would, when my feet
Are
slipping
over the brink:
For it may be I'm nearer home,
Nearer now, than I think.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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Green is only a certain rapidity of vibration,
hardness
a degree of tenseness in cohering.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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You have even
forgotten
your Kipling.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Wolowski, "is that which
distinguishes
man from the
animals.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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7 All things are murderous
When you come to your Time
8 Long did your every gain
Come at hardship's price
9 Disaster deafens you
To questions that I cry
10 I must steel myself for you
Will never again reply
11 Would that my heart could face
Your death for a moment's time
12 Would that the Fates had spared
Your life instead of mine
The original:
طافَ يَبغي نَجْوَةً مَن هَلَاكٍ فهَلَك
لَيتَ شِعْري ضَلَّةً أيّ شيءٍ قَتَلَك
أَمريضٌ لم تُعَدْ أَم عدوٌّ خَتَلَك
أم تَوَلّى بِكَ ما غالَ في الدهْرِ السُّلَك
والمنايا رَصَدٌ للفَتىً حيثُ سَلَك
طالَ ما قد نِلتَ في غَيرِ كَدٍّ أمَلَك
كلُّ شَيءٍ قاتلٌ حينَ تلقَى أجَلَك
أيّ شيء حَسَنٍ لفتىً لم يَكُ لَك
إِنَّ أمراً فادِحاً عَنْ جوابي شَغَلَك
سأُعَزِّي النفْسَ إذ لم تُجِبْ مَن سأَلَك
ليتَ
قلبي
ساعةً صَبْرَهُ عَنكَ مَلَك
ليتَ نَفْسي قُدِّمَت للمَنايا بَدَلَك
Romanization:
Ṭāfa yabɣī najwatan
min halākin fahalak
Layta šiˁrī ḍallatan
ayyu šay'in qatalak
Amarīḍun lam tuˁad
am ˁaduwwun xatalak
Am tawallâ bika mā
ɣāla fī al-dahri al-sulak
Wal-manāyā raṣadun
lil-fatâ ḥayθu salak
Ṭāla mā qad nilta fī
ɣayri kaddin amalak
Kullu šay'in qātilun
ħīna talqâ ajalak
Ayyu šay'in ħasanin
lifatân lam yaku lak
Inna amran fādiħan
ˁan jawābī šaɣalak
Sa'uˁazzī al-nafsa ið
lam tujib man sa'alak
Layta qalbī sāˁatan
ṣabrahū ˁanka malak
Layta nafsī quddimat
lil-manāyā badalak
Die Mutter des Ta'abbata Scharran
Rettung suchend schweift' er um
vor dem Tod, dem nichts entflieht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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And I know thy foot was covered 5
With fair Lydian
broidered
straps;
And the petals from a rose-tree
Fell within the marble basin.
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Sappho |
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In the reign of King George the First, the rebellion revived the fame of the Highlanders; and it is well
recorded
how deeply they were engaged on both sides ; but on the one part, many were found of the Scots' nation to join the standard of rebellion; an equal por
tion of the same country were found, at least, to assemble round that of the royal cause.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-19 08:38 GMT / http://hdl.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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This
opinion is as alive to-day in Lower
Brittany
as in the Middle Ages;
and we have seen celebrated there the same funeral ceremonies as
those of olden times.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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Thou art my love,
And thou art a strorm
That breaks black in the sky,
And, sweeping headlong,
Drenches and cowers each tree,
And at the panting end
There is no sound
Save the
melancholy
cry of a single owl--
Woe is me!
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Stephen Crane |
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CENTELLAS: Pero digo, Can it be
¿es cosa de que dejéis that you abandon some guest
algún huésped por
nosotros?
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Jose Zorrilla |
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E questo modo credo che lor basti
per tutto il tempo che 'l foco li abbruscia:
con tal cura
conviene
e con tai pasti
che la piaga da sezzo si ricuscia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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My Lord, the thing thus stolen demand no more,
Here see the thief that
scorneth
death therefor.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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The shrivelled seeds
are spilt on the path--
the grass bends with dust,
the grape slips
under its
crackled
leaf:
yet far beyond the spent seed-pods,
and the blackened stalks of mint,
the poplar is bright on the hill,
the poplar spreads out,
deep-rooted among trees.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And so we have this day to hunt out
all his lairs and
sterilize
them.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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They are too many for remembrance here, and they have no special
significance, save one who, as is
generally
believed, became his wife so
far as the church could make her so.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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A
striking
instance of this might be adduced,
in the revolution of many a hymeneal honeymoon.
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Robert Burns |
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm
We had crossed each other's way:
But we made no sign, we said no word,
We had no word to say;
For we did not meet in the holy night,
But in the
shameful
day.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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human
language
is countered by an allegorical similarity, inwhich, as
Augustine describes it, "the sound [of aword] is a body, but the sig nificance is, so to speak, the soul of the sound.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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He took refuge at the court of
is an
abridgment
of this work in a Greek manu- Ptolemy, king of Egypt, but his surrender being
## p.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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]
[Sidenote H: It was the
merriest
meet that ever was heard.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Cornelius Cossus, and, above all, the great Camillus, had extorted the
reluctant
esteem of the multitude.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was
carefully
scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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) Brennus in his
invasion
of Greece.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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revives the
harshest
forms of that law.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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The unusual
arrangement
of lines is probably mystic.
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Pattern Poems |
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FAUSTUS: O Christ, my Saviour, my Saviour,
Help to save
distressed
Faustus' soul.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The interest excited by the two papers bearing this title, in our numbers
for September and October 1821, will have kept our promise of a Third
Part fresh in the
remembrance
of our readers.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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If then to all men happiness was meant,
God in
externals
could not place content.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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CHANCE
How many times we must have met
Here on the street as
strangers
do,
Children of chance we were, who passed
The door of heaven and never knew.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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[$
fiiE;a$:::=
ggFFIiigEiEst?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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What was the good of spending money and hiring a
'_moussie_,' as if there were not enough
servants
in the house?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Balint's 'basic fault' patient (that is, one who is severely damaged by early environmental failure) needs a new kind of
empathic
experience with the therapist which can then be internalised and so provides an inner sense of security which is the precondition of autonomy.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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As regards what may be called
'pure' poetry, that, no doubt, is true; but, as regards what may,
with equal justice, be called 'applied' poetry--verse with a special
object and
purpose—it
is not.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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Which is why "pre- cisely" in the case of a
paranoiac
"a written report or a printed case his- tory can take the place of personal acquaintance with the patient" (read:
.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Nathless there
knocketh
now
The heart's thought that I on high streams
The salt-wavy tumult traverse alone.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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The Peacock
Juno and the Peacock
'Juno and the Peacock'
Magdalena van de Passe, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 - 1634, The Rijksmuseun
In spreading out his fan, this bird,
Whose plumage drags on earth, I fear,
Appears more lovely than before,
But makes his
derriere
appear.
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Appoloinaire |
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It is with some hesitation that I describe their eyes, the
thing being
incredible
enough to bring doubt upon my veracity.
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Lucian |
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_ Why did he not rise again
presently?
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Erasmus |
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For whom I robbed the dingle,
For whom betrayed the dell,
Many will
doubtless
ask me,
But I shall never tell!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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_ Bow down to Him on high who sends
His
heavenly
help and helping friends!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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What was her astonishment to find herself
in this carriage, on the railway, dressed in European habiliments, and
with
travellers
who were quite strangers to her!
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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LI
Yet one man for one moment
Strode out before the crowd;
Well known was he to all the Three,
And they gave him
greeting
loud.
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Macaulay |
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In Vienna,
Beethoven
may
be said to have passed his life.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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IT happened then near Mans, a Normand town,
For sapient people always of renown,
A maid not long ago a lover had
Brisk, pleasing, ev'ry way a
handsome
lad;
The down as yet was scarcely on his chin;
The girl was such as many wished to win:
Had charms and fortune, all that was desired,
And by the Mansian sparks was much admired;
Around they swarmed, but vain was all their art
Too much our youth possessed the damsel's heart.
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La Fontaine |
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There are cases in which men, even with the same education which has been
profitable
to others, yet show such early depravity, and so continue to progress in it to years of manhood, that they are thought to be born villains, and their character altogether incapable of improvement; and nev- ertheless they are judged for what they do or leave undone, they are
100
reproached for their faults as guilty; nay, they themselves (the chil- dren) regard these reproaches as well founded, exactly as if in spite of the hopeless natural quality of mind ascribed to them, they re- mained just as responsible as any other man.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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Philosophy
will clip an Angel's wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine--
Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made
The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Every one was constantly listening to learn the sentiments of Rome, the liberal man no less than the servile ; they thanked heaven, when the dreaded decree was not issued; they were sulky, when the senate gave them to understand that they would do well to yield voluntarily in order that they might not need to be compelled ; they did what they were obliged to do, if possible, in a way offensive to the Romans, " to save forms " ; they reported, explained, postponed, evaded, and, when all this would no longer avail, yielded with a
patriotic
sigh.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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— the
historical
training of, and its results, v.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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_Over my bed a strange tree gleams_--half filled
With stars and birds whose white notes glimmer through
Its seven
branches
now that all is stilled.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Capacity
is, in fact, divorced from
our personality in most cases, and sacrificed to the state, to science,
to the needy, as if it were the bad which deserved to be made a
sacrifice.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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"Haller discusses this
hypothesis
(Bostock's 'most
natural supposition, perhaps') and decides against it.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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Betwixt the
quarters
flows a golden sea;
But foaming surges there in silver play.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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177
Alix was pore Monnes fere
fulle
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And finally I shall have to fill this long work with introductions, notes, and indices which will
facilitate
their use.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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' It is
noteworthy
that in his meditations Marcus Aurelius
mentions Fronto only once.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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So thou, dear bird, young Jeany fair,
On
trembling
string or vocal air,
Shall sweetly pay the tender care
That tends thy early morning.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
The
progress
of a wild plant to a beautiful garden flower is perhaps
more marked and striking than anything that takes place among animals,
yet even here it would be the height of absurdity to assert that the
progress was unlimited or indefinite.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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Wise Nestor then his
reverend
figure rear'd;
He spoke: the host in still attention heard:(200)
"O truly great!
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Iliad - Pope |
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This expression of the Sutra, asukla, is "intentional:" the Blessed
One wishes to oppose pure action to white action; but,
speaking
in the
m
Maha?
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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” Two lines only of his
compositions
Needham, and the last at Leipzig, 1781, 4 vols.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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" The translator's coincidence with Miss
Swanwick here was
entirely
accidental.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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vadhyantdm vd Hryantdm
vdanayanavyasanam
dpadyantdm itydkdrapravrtto vyap adah / sattvdkarsanasamtrdsatarjanddikarmapravrttd vihimsd / tdbhydm anyah sattvdsattvayor dghdtah krodhah / tadyathd iiksdkdmasya bhiksoi cittaprakopah kanpakddisu ca prakopa iti /.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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Lại côn
chưỡi
mắng đã vang, ông bề ỏng vải, nốt tan chuôi cồo.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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An aesthetics of applied physiology, by contrast,
required
nei-
ther training nor elite culture.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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For the most part, the Civil War was a
military
engagement with each side's military force pitted against the other's.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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Stable expectations have to be
constructed
out of successful experi- ence, not all at once out of intentions.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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See my
deflationary
note after the poem for more.
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Translated Poetry |
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When I survey
This throng of faces turned to meet my own,
Friendly and fair, and yet to me unknown,
Transformed the very
landscape
seems to be;
It is the same, yet not the same to me.
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Longfellow |
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Jewels
If I should see your eyes again,
I know how far their look would go--
Back to a morning in the park
With
sapphire
shadows on the snow.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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Font trois fois le tour de I'eglise En se
trainant
sur leurs genoux,
Et boivent I'eau miraculeuse Ou les Job teigneux ont lave Leur nudite contagieuse .
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Satire is
reckoned
the easiest of all wit, but I take it to be otherwise
in very bad times: for it is as hard to satirise well a man of
distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Ethuiusmodistantiaeususestfereinomnibuscantionibussuis
"
A rnaldus
Danielis
et nos eum.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
generations
on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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The whole of
Calcutta
seemed
enveloped in some awful mystery, the houses being only dimly visible
through a dense, dark mist, within the veil of which there were strange
doings.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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Confucius said, 'When (the
mourner)
bows to (the visitor), and then lays his forehead to the ground,
[1.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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Other poets of this epoch of the disintegration
and failure of
positivism
were .
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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Natheless
by that Vale do Englishmen go
unto Ynde, and they gon by Aden, even to Kurrachee, at the mouth of the
Flood of Ynde.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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This is no
authority
for the
abuse of cheese.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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The domestic series, of which «The Caxtons) is the type, are the
most
generally
popular of his works, and are likely to be so longest.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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She seized it with all the eagerness and
curiosity
of
eleven years.
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Selection of English Letters |
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