, may
possibly be the result of this incorporated piece of
interpretation, of our
particular
point of view: the
organic world may ultimately perish owing to it-
just as the division of labour in organisms may
be the means of bringing about the ruin of the
whole, if one part happen to wither or weaken.
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--And afterwards,
Non cui profundum
Caecitas
lumen dedit
Dircaeus augur vidit hunc alto sinu, &c.
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" It is true that he himself believed, that
in a "short span of time," as he said, he would
be able to witness only the first
beginnings
of the
new order in Germany.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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There is no
evidence
to show
whether this was a pretence or whether he was really unable to
restrain his savage troops.
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Tacitus |
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There are a few
things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
works
even without complying with the full terms of this agreement.
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Milton |
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"Such is the feud, the foeman's rage,
death-hate of men: so I deem it sure
that the Swedish folk will seek us home
for this fall of their friends, the fighting-Scylfings,
when once they learn that our warrior leader
lifeless lies, who land and hoard
ever
defended
from all his foes,
furthered his folk's weal, finished his course
a hardy hero.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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* * * * *
In _The Book of Pictures_, Rilke's art reaches its
culmination
on what
might be termed its monumental side.
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'
When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
A certain old dream, sick desire of my spine,
Beneath
funereal
ceilings afflicted by dying
Folded its indubitable wing there within me.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Vide also
memorial
of the Browns in A.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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The interior is
typically
English, the same as we find it in the houses of the well-to-do classes, whose root principle is, "My home is my castle.
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Dedication
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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Now since every- thing that enters into self-love belongs to inclination, and all incli- nation rests on feelings, and
consequently
whatever checks all the feelings together in self-love has necessarily, by this very circum- stance, an influence on feeling; hence we comprehend how it is possible to perceive a priori that the moral law can produce an effect on feeling, in that it excludes the inclinations and the propensity to make them the supreme practical condition, i.
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NATIVE STATES OF
NORTHERN
INDIA
The annals of Jaisalmer record a siege of the city by the troops
of 'Alā-ud-din Khalji of Delhi, which lasted for eight years, from
1286 to 1295.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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Gerda did not want to, she was too impatient; but Fischel
repeated
his wish more strongly, and she obeyed, sitting hesitantly on the extreme edge of an annchair.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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Qu'y a-t-il de
plus
poétique
que Xerxès, fils de Darius, faisant fouetter de verges
la mer qui avait englouti ses vaisseaux?
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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5w flycwov, which is not really synonymous with it, but gives the
result of the removal of disorder in the
establishment
of order, Plato Tim.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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Had he sent just this verse to
Augustus
it
might have had some effect.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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171 And now forsooth
children
are employed at file-cutting in Sheffield.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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when have I laid
anything
to the charge of God or Man?
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Epictetus |
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320
First Fytz
Chivelloys
felt thie direful force;
Nete did hys helde out brazen sheelde availe;
Eftsoones throwe that thie drivynge speare did peerce
Nor was ytte stopped by his coate of mayle;
Into his breaste it quicklie did assayle; 325
Out ran the bloude, like hygra of the tyde;
With purple stayned all hys adventayle;
In scarlet was his cuishe of sylver dyde:
Upon the bloudie carnage house he laie,
Whylst hys longe sheelde dyd gleem with the sun's rysing ray.
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21 It seems, in other words, that it does not make much dif- ference what the Daode jing or Daoism
actually
says.
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the
sacrilegious
dog
Shall fuel be to boil it!
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burns |
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CHRISTENING
To-day I saw a little, calm-eyed child,--
Where soft lights rippled and the shadows tarried
Within a church's shelter arched and aisled,--
Peacefully wondering, to the altar carried;
White-robed and sweet, in
semblance
of a flower;
White as the daisies that adorned the chancel;
Borne like a gift, the young wife's natural dower,
Offered to God as her most precious hansel.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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O you, all my
learning!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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In addition to all of the other concerns that go into the artfulness of the painter, there are those key elements that we as
spectators
tend to focus on: the form or style of the painting and its content or "meaning".
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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Much
pleasure
we have lost, while we abstain'd
From this delightful Fruit, nor known till now
True relish, tasting; if such pleasure be
In things to us forbidden, it might be wish'd,
For this one Tree had bin forbidden ten.
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Milton |
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‘Fore Pan I’ll
presently
come thee an evil end if thou stay there.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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The king also
appointed a different lodging for
Hraereck
to sleep in, from that occupied by himself and by his attendants, while he set two of his court-men, who had long been with him, and whom he could trust, to attend Hraereck afterwards, both by night and by day.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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Isaak argues that
political
science has no theories and no theo- retical concepts (1969, p.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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Apologies
for this problem.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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I have walked upon the waters, and from
the
dwellers
in the tombs I have cast out devils.
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Oscar Wilde |
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LXXIX
No greater were the daring and the might
(Though
infinite)
which Rodomont displaid
Than the precaution and the nimble sleight
Which the Circassian summoned to his aid:
No mill-wheel ever turns with swifter flight
The circling stone by which the grain is brayed,
Than Sacripant at need moves foot or hand,
And shifts now here, now there his restless stand.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Together with variety of Humours of several
nations, fitted for the
pleasure
and content of all persons, either in court,
city, country or camp.
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or las altas casas,
ni de mirar se admira
fuertes colunas oprimiendo basas
en las sobervias puertas
a la lisonja
eternamente
abiertas.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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no bard's ecstatic lays
Nor polish'd prose your
deathless
name can raise
To match your genuine worth!
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Petrarch |
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And this is
specially
the case, in a greater degree, at that time, when the head of the wicked himself arising, in the last persecution, against Holy Church, his boldness attacks it with unrestrained strength.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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A smile
plays round the
features
of the one; a tear is ready to start from the
thoughtful gaze of the other.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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988, in the Annals of Ulster, when
Dublidaleithe
was elected Abbot, in this manner.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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The books
are published by special low-class firms and turned out by wretched hacks at the rate of
four a year, as mechanically as
sausages
and with much less skill.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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He laughed nervously as he spoke and, looking up into Stephen's face
with moved and
friendly
eyes, said:
--Do you know that you are an excitable man?
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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The river at the time was fallen away,
And made a
widespread
brawl on cobble-stones;
But the signs showed what it had done in spring;
Good grass-land gullied out, and in the grass
Ridges of sand, and driftwood stripped of bark.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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Therefore in chariot fighting, when ten or more
chariots
have been taken, those should be rewarded who took the first.
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The-Art-of-War |
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Slow-melting strains their Queen's
approach
declare:
Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay:
With arms sublime that float upon the air
In gliding state she wins her easy way:
O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move
The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.
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Golden Treasury |
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There is Nicostratus the son of Theosdotides, and the brother of Theodotus
(now Theodotus himself is dead, and therefore he, at any rate, will
not seek to stop him); and there is Paralus the son of Demodocus,
who had a brother Theages; and
Adeimantus
the son of Ariston, whose
brother Plato is present; and Aeantodorus, who is the brother of Apollodorus,
whom I also see.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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Iphigenia
—
Thou talkest idly ; grief hath turned thy brain.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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Storm out your threats, yet knowing this for sooth,
That I am ready, if your hand prevail
As mine now doth, to bow beneath your sway:
If God say nay, it shall be yours to learn
By
chastisement
a late humility.
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Aeschylus |
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Round,
righteous
and kind they are to one another, like grains of sand are round, righteous and kind to one another.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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—A: "You
withdraw
faster
and faster from the living; they will soon strike
you out of their lists !
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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To be sure, Sir Oliver, I did make a little free with the
Family Canvas that's the truth on't:--my Ancestors may
certainly
rise in
judgment against me there's no denying it--but believe me sincere when I
tell you, and upon my soul I would not say so if I was not--that if I do
not appear mortified at the exposure of my Follies, it is because I
feel at this moment the warmest satisfaction in seeing you, my liberal
benefactor.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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It happened one single coxcomb, of the pert kind, was in her company, among several other ladies; and in his flippant way, began to deliver some double meanings; the rest flapped their fans, and used the other common
expedients
practised in such cases, of appearing not to mind or comprehend what was said.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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Sylla
multiplied
the
commissions of justice.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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There are a lot of things you can do with Project
Gutenberg-tm
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works if you follow the terms of this agreement
and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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It is a question
whether she will be able to carry out her Plan in full,
since she has cut a good deal of the most conveniently
situated timber and from now on the problem of
transporting felled trees to
waterways
will become
increasingly difficult.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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'Come, then,' he
whispered
earnestly.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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As to the Cause of Christ, I bless the Lord I never had Cause, to this Day, to repent for
anything
I have suffered, or can now suffer for his Name.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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He
trembles
for Orestes' wrath?
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Euripides - Electra |
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When twilight twinkling o'er the gay bazaars,
Unfurls a sudden canopy of stars,
When lutes are strung and fragrant torches lit
On white roof-terraces where lovers sit
Drinking
together of life's poignant sweet,
BUY FLOWERS, BUY FLOWERS, floats down the singing street.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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), and were probably of Oceanus, who was the mother of
Geryones
and
made at Cyzicus, since Ptolemy (ad fin.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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Bên cầu tơ liễu bóng chiều
thướt
tha.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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The legend states, that when Fachannan had followed the angel's
directions, his sight was
miraculously
restored.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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" said Emma,
*c did you ever see so
complete
a beauty.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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We were just
speculating
as to the position of the rhinoceros,
and thinking how uncommonly unpleasant it would be should he
obtain our wind, when whiff!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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"
The Knight made answer to the Maid,
While to his heart he held her hand,
"Nine castles hath my noble sire,
None
statelier
in the land.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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But when we hear the theorem of the will to power, our recollection of this more complex
structure
seems to have been obliterated in an almost ingenious way.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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For it may be observed
generally, that
wherever
two thoughts stand related to each other by a
law of antagonism, and exist, as it were, by mutual repulsion, they are
apt to suggest each other.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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I keep my countenance,
I remain self-possessed
Except when a street piano, mechanical and tired
Reiterates some worn-out common song
With the smell of
hyacinths
across the garden
Recalling things that other people have desired.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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Increase
of capital in quantity and value, increases the natural
price of wages, 94, 95.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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His eye is on the main chance and
his great mission is the love of war for war's
sake; he is
bellicose
but not heroic.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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1-8) Hear me, Poseidon, strong shaker of the earth,
ruler of wide-spread, tawny
Helicon!
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Hesiod |
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Some of these pathways are compat- ible with healthy development; others deviate in one or another
direction
in ways incompatible with health.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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" The United States have lost
much by that
unseasonable
diffidence, which prevented his
embracing the numerous opportunities he had in council, of
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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736, Camerarius relates, and on the 24th of March,
according
to the same writer.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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Wyrd they knew not,
destiny dire, and the doom to be seen
by many an earl when eve should come,
and
Hrothgar
homeward hasten away,
royal, to rest.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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For Ghulām Husain Salim, Riyāz-us-Salātin and Dr Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khān,
Āsār-us-Sanādid, see
Bibliography
to Chapter in.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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The third picture is B elisarius, bearing his young guide,
who had ex pired while ask ing alms for him: thus is the
hlind hero
recompensed
by his master; and in the world he
vanq uished hath no better office than that of carrying to
the grave the sad remains of yon poor boy, his only faith-
ful friend.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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An
immortal
Peter !
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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the final
resignation
of the junta members.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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Lastly, an age reaches a
dangerous
con-
dition of irony with regard to itself, and the still
more dangerous state of cynicism, when a cunning
egoistic theory of action is matured that maims and
at last destroys the vital strength.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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He told us that he had read Milton, in
a prose translation, when he was
fourteen
[77].
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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What a desperate
annoyance indeed to meddle with
philosophy
as an
—" educated person "!
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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The increase of time only mellows your renown, and each year
that passes and brings you no
successor
does but sharpen the keenness of
our sense of loss.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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MEET THE SOVIET RUSSIANS n
bines which have been so vital in the
mechanization
of agri-
culture.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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Has it ANY will left to
survive?
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Murderous minstrel,
instrument
of evil, most
innocent instrument!
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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--Greek nouns in ER,
originally
termi-
nating in <<{, and which form their genitive in ERIS long,
lengthen the final syllable; as Aer, tether, crater, firester,
Ser; to which add Iber, though its compound Celtiber is
common.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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QUILLER-COUCH
11953
the little-used footpath that here runs close
alongside
the fence
for fifty yards before diverging down-hill towards the village.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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If it is ad mitted, in the sense of an external announcement on the part of God, as the theological Kantians wished, the fate of Kant's fundamental principle of the
autonomy
of reason is at once sealed.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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At this time Richomer returned
in order to secure further help from Gratian, while Saturninus arrived
from Asia with the rank of
magister
equitum, in command, it would
seem, of reinforcements.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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We
should also take the greatest precautions in regard
to
everything
connected with old age and its judg-
ment upon life, more especially since old age, like
the evening, is fond of assuming a new and charm-
ing morality, and knows well enough how to
humiliate the day by the glow of the evening skies,
twilight and a peaceful and wistful silence.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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194 When the ship was brought into port, Jason
repaired
to Aeetes, and setting forth the charge laid on him by Pelias invited him to give him the fleece.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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Gli miei folli occhi, che'n prima
guardaro
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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When oxen lick with their tongue around the hooves of their fore-feet or in their stalls stretch
themselves
on their right side, the old ploughman expects the sowing to be delayed.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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This explanation, which goes back to the tenth century and is part of common knowledge among educated Arabs even today, has largely been rejected by scholarship as
entirely
fictitious and based on little more than folk etymology.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Shading your eye you stand
on the bridge
watching
the flight of the swans.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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Yes, men are like shooting stars:
a
trailing
light
collapsed to ashes
after the briefest blaze.
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Translated Poetry |
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All Elfland's
mortgaged!
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Sidney Lanier |
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He drew the
inference
from the way I used to play with the wax.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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'# " #
HI*
33!
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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And some exclaimed who saw afar
The figures he
described
with it,
"I wonder what those signals are
Brown makes at such an hour of night!
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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