Perseus to redresse
This slaughter and this
spightfull
taunt, streight snatched out the Dart
That sticked in the fresh warme wound, and with an angrie hart .
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16
But she had another quality that much delighted her, although it may be thought a kind of check upon her bounty; however, it was a
pleasure
she could not resist: I mean that of making agreeable presents; wherein I never knew her equal, although it be an affair of as delicate a nature as most in the course of life.
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Nicholas
Barrain the queen's serjeant, Mr.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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Thy care is fixt and
zealously
attends
To fill thy odorous Lamp with deeds of light,
And Hope that reaps not shame.
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Milton |
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Once when I was staying at the
monastery
for a few days, the vener- able prior showed me Brother Medardus' posthumous papers, which were preserved in the library as a curio.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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Andit is enhanced because alarms and incidents will be more frequent, and those who
interpret
alarms will be readier to act on them.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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Stewart; "--
But a Short Time to Live," by the late
Sergeant
Leslie Coulson.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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What tears are “manly, Sir, manly,” as
Fred Bayham has it; and of what
lamentations
ought we rather to be
ashamed?
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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And ye tell me, friends, that there is to be no
dispute about taste and
tasting?
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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The lyf of love is ful contrarie,
Which
stoundemele
can ofte varie.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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What business remains will be
transacted
with you by L.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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He immediately
declares
his incompetence as soon as the metaphysical Atlas game is to be played with the world.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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An abyss separates those who conduct
themselves
according
to calculation, and
those who are guided by feeling.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Last
Modified
17 October 2015
PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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On Sunday mornings
Squealer, holding down a long strip of paper with his trotter, would
read out to them lists of figures proving that the production of every
class of
foodstuff
had increased by two hundred per cent, three hundred
per cent, or five hundred per cent, as the case might be.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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What is the hour,
Quintia?
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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All we can do is to list some of them and hope that the rest will know who they are and that we
appreciate
them.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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And exactly as in Art one is
only
concerned
with what a particular thing is at a particular moment to
oneself, so it is also in the ethical evolution of one's character.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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John M'Call has kindly made out written mAO'oos itiac eogAin of Clonmore for me the
following
pedigree from Dr.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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Gustavus Adolphus, at the sight of these
horrors, felt his blood boil with indigna-
tion, and
thoughts
of vengeance presented
themselves before him.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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Indeed, consumption stream resulting from starting a war at period t is the amount xt E[xjbt]: Player A may be willing to postpone the war at time t even if the transfer that he receives at time t and immediately
afterwards
is substantially less than the post war consumption level would have been.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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772) composed a poem on the dawn court
gathering
in the newly restored court.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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D'Aubigne,
speaking of Erasmus as the
greatest
critic of
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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For that would be just the same as to wish to taint the purity of the moral
disposition
in its source.
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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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FORERUNNERS
Long I
followed
happy guides,
I could never reach their sides;
Their step is forth, and, ere the day
Breaks up their leaguer, and away.
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Emerson - Poems |
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That clasped the
ribbands
of that azure sea,
Did any know thee save my heart alone?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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His first book was a
compilation
for the use of
students in schools, called (A Book of Elo-
quence) (1853).
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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The result of all his efforts
had been, on the one hand, to fill the most powerful classes in the
community--the dealers in slaves and, ivory--with a hatred of the
government, and on the other to awaken among the mass of the inhabitants
a new perception of the
dishonesty
and incompetence of their Egyptian
masters.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Indeed, it is rather
difficult
to do so.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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Nay,
My
children
live.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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83
God give you his grace: you have already the face
and figure of your grandfather, who was one of the
most accomplished
gentlemen
of his time: your reso-
lution delights me, and in a short time I shall second
it, by placing you in the house of some prince, where
you may make your apprenticeship in arms.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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And to whate'er pursuit
A man most clings absorbed, or what the affairs
On which we
theretofore
have tarried much,
And mind hath strained upon the more, we seem
In sleep not rarely to go at the same.
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Lucretius |
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“And the steed it shall be shod
All in silver, housed in azure,
And the mane shall swim the wind:
And the hoofs along the sod
Shall Aash onward and keep measure,
Till the
shepherds
look behind.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing
technical
restrictions on automated querying.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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the two delusive things
Stamp
impatiently
it seems,
Yours has heavenward soaring wings,
Mine is of the land of dreams.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
The counsel then proceeded to shew, that notice
having been received by the
government
of such
treasonable correspondence, messengers were sent to
the prisoner, who found in his bureau copies of twenty-nine letters of intelligence, which he sent to France ; some being of the most dangerous
apprehend
not only giving advice of our fleets and armies, their destination, but also advising a descent on this island, in order effectually to prevent our
successes abroad.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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80
As when the shepster in the shadie bowre
In jintle slumbers chase the heat of daie,
Hears doublyng echoe wind the wolfins rore,
That neare hys flocke is watchynge for a praie,
He tremblynge for his sheep drives dreeme awaie, 85
Gripes faste hys burled croke, and sore adradde
Wyth
fleeting
strides he hastens to the fraie,
And rage and prowess fyres the coistrell lad;
With trustie talbots to the battel flies,
And yell of men and dogs and wolfins tear the skies.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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ourland's leinster134 of saved and solomnones for the twicedhecame time, off Lipton's
strongbowed
launch, the Lady Eva, in a tan soute of sails135 he converted it's nataves, name saints, young ordnands, maderaheads and old unguished P.
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Finnegans |
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The Ædui, according to this, would not have
built their
principal
town on the site of Autun, situated at the foot of
the mountains.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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A
memorable
grave!
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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Neurasthenics, whose imaginations
have been infected with stories of ghosts and goblins, may con-
ceive
themselves
to be the victims of all kinds of malpractices
and diseases.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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system that exploded the frag- ile Hegelian synthesis, a renewed Hegelian approach that remains faithful to the idea of concrete uni- versality, of universal rights for all, "calls in its very
structure
for the subsequent enlargements of later history" (115) and for a new project of reconciliation?
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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We admit that
punishment ought not to be an arbitrary and inhuman torture, and
for this reason we have no sympathy with the system of solitary
confinement, now so much in fashion with the classical jurists and
prison authorities, precisely because it is inhuman, as well as
unwise and
needlessly
expensive.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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The number of verses he could
recite was prodigious, and what he
remembered
of the
parts of playes, which he would also act: and when
seeing a Plautus in a person's hand, he asked what
booke it was, and being told it was comedy, and too
difficult for him, he wept for sorrowe.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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άπλωσαν κείνοι 'ς τα έτοιμα φαγιά 'που εμπρός τους είχαν•
και του φαγιού και του πιοτού την όρεξι αφού σβύσαν,
η Πηνελόπ' η
φρόνιμη
τότ' άρχισε να λέγη• 100
«Τηλέμαχε, 'ς τ' ανώγι μου θ' αναίβω να πλαγιάσω
'ς την κλίνην πολυστένακτην, 'που δάκρυα την ποτίζω
απ' ότε για την Ίλιον εκίνησ' ο Οδυσσέας
με τους Ατρείδαις• αχ!
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every
blackening
church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
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blake-poems |
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I heard one
suddenly
coming to the
rear, exclaim, "Michael Donouy, take his name!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Why is the perfect
reestablishment
practiced and prized, why
is it composed.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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tf~I such IJ1lllter-s as lone-for
instance
the "".
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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NEILL
JOHN BACH MCMASTER
LIVED
1830-
EMERICH MADÁCH
The Conspiracy against Carlo Galeazzo, Duke of Milan,
1476 (History of Florence')
How a Prince Ought to Avoid Flatterers ('The Prince')
Exhortation to Lorenzo de' Medici to Deliver Italy from
Foreign
Domination
(same)
1824-
1812-1872
The Home-Coming (The Old Lieutenant and his Son')
Highland Scenery
My Little May
JAMES MADISON
From the Tragedy of Man'
1469-1527
1852-
Town and Country Life in 1800 (History of the People
of the United States')
Effects of the Embargo of 1807 (same)
BY GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT
1823-1864
1751-1836
From The Federalist'
Interference to Quell Domestic Insurrection ('The Feder-
alist')
PAGE
9440
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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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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Sallust - Catiline |
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; Great Purges of 1939, 79; and socialism, 42, 49-58, 72-75, 85, 93;
German
invasion
of, 56; suppression of the Left, 87-94; free-market reforms, 94-97; Nazi invasion of, 56; overthrow of Communism, 76-77;
INDEX 165
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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The third and last reason for the icy silence
which has greeted Nietzsche in this country is due
to the fact that he has—as far as I know—no
literary ancestor over here whose teachings could
have
prepared
you for him.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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Hegel dio
preeminencia
al sano espi?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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o pater, o patria: o Priami domus,
saeptum altisono cardine templum,
uidi ego te
adstantem
ope barbarica
tectis caelatis laqueatis
auro ebore instructam regifice .
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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When the
Athenians
were fully bent to banish him by an ostracism, an illiterate country fellow came to him with his shell, and asked him to write in it the name of Aristeides.
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Roman Translations |
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and there are moments
when we view YOUR
sympathy
with an indescribable anguish, when we resist
it,--when we regard your seriousness as more dangerous than any kind
of levity.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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org
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited
donations
from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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ren II-Globen,
Makrospha?
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Sloterdijk |
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"Her belly-full our Kate may get
"Of
nightingale
or of linnet.
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La Fontaine |
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XII AND OF CAPITAL
95
those who did, and it placed alongside of the
aristocracy
.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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54
without the dead ceasing to be dead or the living ceasing to live - albeit in a
mortified
form, namely as a post-mortal soul.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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But whether he useth them by such casualtye and
custome, or of set purpose and choyse, as
thinking
them fittest for such
rusticall rudenesse of shepheards, eyther for that theyr rude sounde would
make his rymes more ragged and rustical, or els because such olde and
obsolete wordes are most used of country folke, sure I think, and think I think
not amisse, that they bring great grace, and, as one would say, auctoritie to the
verse.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
|
__________________________________________________________________
Whether the Eucharist is a
sacrament?
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| Source: |
Summa Theologica |
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The sense of their unity, with the consequent need for
a general designation for themselves, would, naturally, be the pro-
duct of the time when they found themselves settled among a
population
speaking
an alien and unintelligible tongue.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
|
And of course if the mind is
separate
from the body, it can continue to exist when the body breaks down, and our thoughts and pleasures will not someday be snuffed out forever.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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Albertine
au fond avait besoin de son
oncle et de sa tante et quand elle a su qu'on lui mettait le marché en
mains, elle vous a quitté.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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But the
laughing
rains of spring
Will break the weak green shoots of their love.
| Guess: |
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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maras
digitales
del Taj Mahal,
la O?
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| Source: |
Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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maras
digitales
del Taj Mahal,
la O?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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The French general Jean-Jules Henry Mordacq (1868 ^ 1943), who then was 5 km from the front, received a telephone call shortly after 18:20 hours from the field in which an officer of the first sharpshooter (tirailleurs) regiment
announced
the appearance of yellowish clouds of smoke that stretched from the German to the French trenches (Mordacq, 1933, cited in Hanslian, 1935, page 123f).
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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At that time it is
especially
excellent to undertake secret activities in charnal grounds and such places.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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Nay về
đường
văn học chính trị, bổ nhiệm người chăn dân ở các địa phương, thảy đều từ kỳ thi ấy mà ra.
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stella-04 |
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,
Sinks deep within him, and
possesses
whole,
Then dubs director, and secures his soul.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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The King taking Notice of one that look'd
very
wishfully
upon it, and as if he would devour it with his Eyes,
turning to him, says, Well, Friend, what have you to say?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Erasmus |
|
My feelings are profound, but I
possessed
a coolness of
judgment that fitted me for illustrious achievements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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In like manner we must first,
by every kind of experiment, elicit the
discovery
of causes and true
axioms, and seek for experiments which may afford light rather than
profit.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Bacon |
|
" Roughly a century later, a
Thessalian
woman was buried with two gold tablets shaped like ivy leaves positioned over her breasts, tablets which also provided the password to life after death: "Tell Persephone that the Bakchic one himself has set you free!
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He spread the pictures before him, and again
surveyed
them alternately.
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Then I straightened myself out up in my tree, and for the
first time for a long while, once more looked fairly out into the
land, and saw how a few ships were already sailing down the
Danube between the vineyards, and how the still empty high-
ways swung
themselves
like bridges across the glistening coun-
try, far out over the mountains and valleys.
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The abbé replied: "The
Marquise
de Pompa
dour takes me in hand and brings me to the door of the
Academy; then she withdraws her hand; I fall and break both
legs.
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Genuine world-weariness is the
outgrowth
of a more
complex civilization than that of Spain.
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A cup of wine
together
will make us glad,
And a little friendship is no little matter.
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How
maintain
full and continuing control over this group of praetorians ?
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Its identification of the Soviet system with communism, its peace campaigns and its championing of colonial peoples may be viewed with apathy, if not cynicism, by the oppressed totalitariat of the Soviet world, but in the free world these ideas find
favorable
responses in vulnerable segments of
society.
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IV
THERE is no chapel on the day
On which they hang a man:
The
Chaplain’s
heart is far too sick,
Or his face is far too wan,
Or there is that written in his eyes
Which none should look upon.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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--We'll hang Joe Chamberlain on a
sourapple
tree.
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I turn my body and gaze
longingly
towards the West.
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I have previously accepted as a con- ventional fact that this table is made of cherrywood; I acknowledge with the tolerance of the educated that the cherrywood consists of atoms, even though these oft-cited atoms, these epistemological con-
temporaries
of the twentieth century, possess no greater reality for me than unicorn powder or Saturnian influences.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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Why did he kill
himself?
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me
for days, reading it in railway trains, or on the top of
omnibuses and in restaurants, and I have often had to close it
lest some
stranger
would see how much it moved me.
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' But if, to
supplement the picture, inevitably imperfect, which this gives, we turn
to Herrick's own book, we learn little, biographically, except the
names of a few friends,--that his general
sympathies
were with the
Royal cause,--and that he wearied in Devonshire for London.
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Understanding, he argued, inevitably entails an attitude of forgiving-- and such forgiving must not be offered to those who invented and practiced the
industrialization
of murder.
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Dimmesdale thus communed with
himself, and struck his
forehead
with his hand, old Mistress Hibbins,
the reputed witch-lady, is said to have been passing by.
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Of the eight
great
interest
and value.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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Lest thou shouldst think
Catullus
loved thee not,
And with a brother I should lose a friend.
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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The conventionally received tradition, which assumes the name of history, is composed of a few serviceable notices by civilized travellers, and a mass of mostly worthless legends, which have usually been
combined
with little discrimination of the true character either of legend or of history.
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