He had
discharged
whatever debt he owed her.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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2:23 And I will kill her
children
with death; and all the churches
shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I
will give unto every one of you according to your works.
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bible-kjv |
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Whoever menti-
ons the facred Treafures is inftantly crucified; the Republic is
defpoiled of her Prerogative of firft confulting the Oracle at
Delphos, and all her Aftairs are perplexed and
confufed
like
an -^inigma.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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Mr Macgregor told his
anecdote
about Prome, which could be produced in almost
any context.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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EANTIME the Trojan cuts his wat'ry way, Fix'd on his voyage, thro the curling sea;
Then, castmg back his eyes, with dire amaze, Sees on the Punic shore the
mounting
blaze.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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John desired me to speak to you on the subject, and
therefore
I have.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Southey is chargeable with any human frailty but--_want of
charity_!
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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accompanied by a sense ol cheerfulness and
happiness
( .
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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It is
unquestionable
that Carthage, with its buildings and statues, its
squares, avenues and public gardens, looked like a large capital, and was
a perfect example of that ideal of rather brutal magnificence and strength
which the Romans obtruded everywhere.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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The woods closed in,
The stream grew dark,
And then
The boat was
grounded
sudden on the shoals,
And I
Said quickly that perhaps
We'd come too far.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Truth
and falsehood start from same point,
truth
invulnerable
to satire,
compared to a river,
of fiction sometimes truer than fact,
told plainly, _passim_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Therefore a sage has said, 'I will do nothing (of purpose), and the
people will be transformed of themselves; I will be fond of keeping
still, and the people will of
themselves
become correct.
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Tao Te Ching |
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And the monarch said to his royal guest : —
"
Wherefore
is this visit ?
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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This
disappointment
Smollett never
forgot or forgave.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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McKinney
and Edward A.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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In him, these things
demanded
approbation: he was a fine advocate for owners of property; he seldom shifted judges; he was loyal to friends; he became angry without injury or danger to anyone; he was quite cautious, to be sure.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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The rearing of cattle, on the other hand, held a far less important place in the economy of the Italians than it holds in modern times, for vegetables formed the general fare, and animal food made its appearance at table only exceptionally ; where it did appear, it
consisted
almost solely of the flesh of swine or lambs.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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)
Landor, Walter Savage: a
biography
by John Forster.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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One is to watch
some of the human and business philosophy of
Justice Brandeis, as seen
underlying
"Other People's
Money" working itself out in the new field of Su-
preme Court opinion; the other to see how history
has been testifying to the soundness of that phi-
losophy.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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of wealth and depth of thought,
strength
of moral pathos, warmth of religious emotion, clearness and vividness of style, and elevation and beauty of language.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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4 And so Aemilianus was
constrained
to assume the imperial power, knowing well that he would have to die in any event.
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Historia Augusta |
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Their
mother had been
captured
in a trap vrhen they
were little, tiny bears, and Mother Bruin had
taken them to her home and cared for them ever
since.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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ed: (i) Present value of transfers is less than the
expected
loss from a war.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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At Rome, he
celebrated
with remarkable pomp a triumph over the Persians.
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Roman Translations |
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I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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A floating Delos was to be sought for, where she might be safely
delivered
of a burden she began already to feel.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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What more than these can tombs or
tombstones
pay?
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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For which to chaumbre
streight
the wey he took,
And Troilus tho sobreliche he grette,
And on the bed ful sone he gan him sette.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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On 31 October 802 the
revolution
broke
## p.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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And this person loves that other person because
everybody
loves somebody but God loves everybody.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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Walter
Jaeschke
in: Hegel, Vorlesungen.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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And by means of this, one was free to pseudo-metanoethically deal with the failure of the Third Republic, with the infamy of col-
laboration
and French colonialism not to mention the internal contradictions of Gaullist reconstruction without ever having to come down from the victor's high horse.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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While this conversation was going on, my poor
bereaved
wife, who
never expected to see me again in this life, spied me and came rushing
to me through the crowd, throwing her arms about my neck exclaiming in
the most sympathetic tones, "Oh!
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Then in the morning, officious, she'll leave the bed of her lover,
Rouse
adroitly
the flames out from their ashes anew.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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139
the indeterminate point, and the All-One-equally in- determinate, because it has no determination outside of itself-are
themselves
one.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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It is certainly very sad to will
and see the Good, and yet feel utterly powerless before
the Evil ; the Prince of Denmark fully felt this terrible
anguish ; — but it was
reserved
for the man of our times to
endure a torment far more horrible, — that of aspiring to
the Good, and to be not only forced to tolerate the Evil,
but even to defend it — through fear ofxvorse, — through dread
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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As has
been pointed out, he is fond of working from a general consideration
of a period with its
formative
influences, to the particular care of the
author with whom he is dealing.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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The bravest of the host,
Surrendering the last,
Nor even of defeat aware
When
cancelled
by the frost.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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και η σεβαστή κελλάρισσα τον άρτο παραθέτει,
και απ' όσα φύλαγε φαγιά προσφέρει
τους
περίσσα.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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" "We have the same
complaints
and fears re-
peated in the fifth book.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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but there was no
deceitful
dealing in the sons of Tyndareus.
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Hesiod |
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That time wert thou deprived
Of thy betroothed, when hir life upon the losing stoode:
Onlesse
perchaunce
to see hir lost it woulde have done thee good, And easde thy heart to see me sad.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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Every great career, whether of a nation or of an individual, dates
from a heroic action, and every downfall from a
cowardly
one
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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151, gives a kindly picture of the friendliness and geniality of the
lower classes of his age, which is justly
commended
by Furnivall.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Todd
examined
this MS.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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—No
conqueror
believes
in chance.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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The old spirit of the
Brāhman
period, which declares
that 'priest, warrior, and people constitute the whole world' is still practi-
cally in force.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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If the world's whole field of experience, including those spheres which are beyond our knowledge, be represented in a
complete
circle, it will be immediately evident that when the black sectors, denoting that which we are incapable of experiencing, are measured against the lesser, light sections, correspond to that which is illuminated by the senses, the former are very much greater.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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145
Finally, although Khomeini criticized the state system as an illegitimate human invention and welcomed Iran's isolation from other states, the Is- lamic Republic was not immune from the competitive
pressures
of balance- of-power politics.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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To her
powerful
talent are due many
literary achievements of rich and varied form; one
of the latest is "Mister Balcer in Brazil," the
?
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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org/3/0/2/3026/
Produced by David Reed
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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XX
"Franks, chevaliers," says the
Emperour
then, Charles,
"Choose ye me out a baron from my marches,
To Marsilie shall carry back my answer.
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Chanson de Roland |
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We form him after our know-
ledge of ourselves into a satellite of our own system,
and if he shines upon us, or grows dark, and we in
any case are the ultimate cause of his doing so, we
nevertheless still believe the
contrary!
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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attribution
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Tully - Offices |
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Fleet and army
perished
from the face of the earth ; nothing was saved, and of the many who went forth few returned home.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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In both cases, the
cosmopolitanism
so often associated with eighteenth-cen- tury French culture abruptly disappeared from books and periodicals, to be replaced by snarling hostility to France's enemies.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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Bryan has adopted a mode of elucidation by reference to diagrams,
which cannot fail to impress them on the minds of young people, and
enlarge their stock of scientific ideas, by
increased
means of associa-
tion.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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The jE however is
preserved
long in Statius, Theb.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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They are led by a new class, a "tiny
seed," as Lenin put it,41 that means to
transform
and will transform everything.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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Antony had determined to take his route through a
plain and open country; but a certain Mardian, who
was well acquainted with the
practices
of the Par-
tisans, and had approved his faith to the Romans at
the battle when the machines were lost, advised him to
take the mountains on his right, and not to expose his
heavy-armed troops in an open country to the attacks
of the Parthian bowmen and cavalry.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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your father and uncle were little chaps, I took
them out to get our
Thanksgiving
dinner.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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Out of clay
hast thou
fashioned
me and to thee I owe mine all.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Some reasons why IP
addresses
are blocked include:
- Your program is trying to "harvest" the contents.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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Dein
entschlagen
will ich mich,
weil weil mich deine Antwort flieht.
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| Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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Probably
you would
not be very tolerant (tolerance was not your leading virtue) of Mr.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Car en me représentant le retour en somme si aisé
d'Albertine, brusquement toutes les raisons qui
rendaient
notre mariage
une chose mauvaise pour moi revinrent avec toute leur force.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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Yet, Time's
Complaint
is
far from being without interest.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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But the rather well-populated group that Lampman calls top wealth-holders also certainly
contains
many blanks as far as big wealth is concerned.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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With
regard to the latter, it was pretended that this change was due to
Cæsar’s
connection
with his mother.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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For they starve the little
frightened
child
Till it weeps both night and day:
And they scourge the weak, and flog the fool,
And gibe the old and grey,
And some grow mad, and all grow bad,
And none a word may say.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
In the mean time, till all these
alterations
could be made from the
savings of an income of five hundred a-year by a woman who never saved
in her life, they were wise enough to be contented with the house as it
was; and each of them was busy in arranging their particular concerns,
and endeavoring, by placing around them books and other possessions, to
form themselves a home.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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6
The female of the Halcyon,
Love, the
seductive
Sirens,
All know the fatal songs
Dangerous and inhuman.
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Appoloinaire |
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It is something which
penetrates
the nature of the human female, something with which the most animal-like mother is tinged, something which corresponds in the human female, to the characters that separate the human male from the animal male.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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^^s In the
thirtieth
year of his age, accord- ing to Rudolf, Raban wrote this admirable work, partly in prose and partly in verse.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Far about,
A hundred slopes in hundred fantasies
Most ravishingly run, so smooth of curve
That I but seem to see the fluent plain
Rise toward a rain of clover-blooms, as lakes
Pout gentle mounds of
plashment
up to meet
Big shower-drops.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Not tears for the dead nor sighs,
But worship and joy divine
Shall win thee peace in thy skies,
O
daughter
mine!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Midhat Pasha was once a greater
Liberal than any of the Young Turkish
leaders of to-day, and he was surely a
great and wise statesman ; and even before
Midhat's time the
important
reforms of
1839 and 1856 -- the so-called Tanzimat --
were unquestionably inspired by broad
liberal ideas.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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Va t'en te
decrotter
les rides du visage;
Tiens, ma fourchette, decrasse-toi le crane.
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T.S. Eliot |
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SEATON
[1]
Beginning
with thee, O Phoebus, I will recount the famous deeds of men of old, who, at the behest of King Pelias, down through the mouth of Pontus and between the Cyanean rocks, sped well-benched Argo in quest of the golden fleece.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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When you
yourself
forever provide to defend me?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Under
dominating influence of tragic poetry, these
myths are now reproduced anew, and
this metempsychosis that meantime the
culture also has been
vanquished
by a
view of things.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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We have said that this infinite divisibility is the one por-
tion of Form; and we made use of this portion as an exam-
ple, in order thereby to make our
fundamental
principle
more distinct.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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Lay now this ringlet whence 'twas shorn, and judge,
And look upon this robe, thine own hands' work,
The shuttle-prints, the creature wrought thereon--
Refrain thyself, nor
prudence
lose in joy,
For well I wot, our kin are less than kind.
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Aeschylus |
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There is even one food truck
entrepreneur
in Ed- monds, Washington, who tours her orange truck around the local area area "making hearty sandwiches, salads and soups .
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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[Not
translated
in the Bohn or Ker]
LXXXII.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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Notes:
1 - The term bindweed is my
translation
of Arabic ruḵāmā.
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| Source: |
Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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As if to prove that it was serious about its
imperative
of achievement, the order of achievement that donned the mantle of civil 'society' also has something resembling confirma- tions for the elan of the young: certificates, examinations, doctorates and bonuses.
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3000, and
devising it, as to one-third to his wife, and as to the other two-thirds
to his
children
in equal shares.
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what is all that ostentation, but
mere wretchedness of slavish minds, that groan privately, and yet would
make a show of
obedience
to reason, and truth?
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The works marked by an asterisk will
probably
be found most useful for
the beginner.
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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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That the patience of the army, from an almost un-
interrupted series of
complicated
distress, is now nearly
exhausted; their discontents are matured to an extremity
which has recently had the most disagreeable consequen-
ces, and demonstrates the absolute necessity of speedy re-
lief.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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While we stood there looking at this, we found that the line of
cloud which we had seen in the North was making for us, swollen and grown
darker, flashes of
lightning
gleaming the while.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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Quindi poi sopra il mare il destrier muove
là dove la minor Bretagna lava:
e nel passar vide, mirando a basso,
Angelica
legata al nudo sasso.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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I
This moment in disguise escaped the senate,
And as I left, heard Canulejus cry
That thou
shouldst
die the death of Nero, and
Thy brother should be chosen Emperor !
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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he appeared
perfectly
calm and
** >>.
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Childrens - Frank |
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see
TheMagus
of theNorth: J, G.
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It is
difficult
sometimes to determine what should be chosen
at what cost, and what should be endured in return for what gain,
and yet more difficult to abide by our decisions; for as a rule what
is expected is painful, and what we are forced to do is base, whence
praise and blame are bestowed on those who have been compelled or have
not.
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Aristotle |
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Let's hush over all that's denied us,
Let's promise at peace to remain,
Though
everything
else be decried us
But still a stroll-round atwain.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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83-89) But when he had finished the sheer, hopeless snare, the
Father sent glorious Argos-Slayer, the swift
messenger
of the gods, to
take it to Epimetheus as a gift.
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