loveliest
village of the plain, (that is the very first line!
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Although most
students
of international politics probably believe that systems of many great powers would be unstable, they resist the widespread notion that two is the best of small numbers.
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He had long known that the
relation
in which
England and Scotland stood to each other was at best precarious, and
often unfriendly, and that it might be doubted whether, in an estimate
of the British power, the resources of the smaller country ought not
to be deducted from those of the larger.
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Macaulay |
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Now with more
seemliness
we may enquire,
After repast, what guests we have received.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Four Boston
ministers
and one of Charlestown
held a meeting, and passed a day in fasting and prayer, by which
exorcism the youngest imp was "delivered.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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Conception, its importance with Socra tes, 96
relation
to Idea with Plato,
118 f.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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5
Wherever
a young man roams
The Fates in ambush lie
6 What good that young men have
Did you lack in your life?
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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He, sick to lose
The amorous promise of her lone complain,
Swoon'd,
murmuring
of love, and pale with pain.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Recall how much he had just
obtained
and how spectacularly.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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We will therefore show, by such
observations as every one can make, that this property of our minds,
this receptivity for a pure moral interest, and consequently the
moving force of the pure conception of virtue, when it is properly
applied to the human heart, is the most powerful spring and, when a
continued and punctual
observance
of moral maxims is in question,
the only spring of good conduct.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Experience, however,
confirms
this order of notions.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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Nevertheless, he so detested those things by which Trajan was bespattered -- intoxication, to be sure, and desire of the triumph -- that he did not initiate wars, but found them in existence, and forbade by law lascivious occupations and that female lutists be
employed
in revelries, attributing so much to propriety and continence that he barred marriages of first cousins just as if they were those of sisters.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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Careless of his themes and
their development, he was
unsurpassed
in his handling
of witty dialogue, and his aphorisms are household
words to-day wherever Polish is spoken.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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153), and to this town
Antiphemus
15.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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His
hands were in his side-pockets and his
trousers
were tucked in at the
knees by elastic bands.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently
displaying
the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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The years had not
sharpened
their smooth round faces,
I met their eyes and found them mild--
Do they, too, dream of me, I wonder,
And for them am I too a child?
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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parties being severally treated in the same manner, the
executioner
cried out " God save King George.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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If Zarathustra must first of all become the teacher of eternal return, then he cannot
commence
with this doctrine straightaway.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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XI
Furi et Aureli, comites Catulli,
siue in extremos penetrabit Indos,
litus ut longe resonante Eoa
tunditur
unda,
siue in Hyrcanos Arabesque molles, 5
seu Sacas sagittiferosue Parthos,
siue quae septemgeminus colorat
aequora Nilus,
siue trans altas gradietur Alpes,
Caesaris uisens monimenta magni, 10
Gallicum Rhenum ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Mariano Roca de Togores, que aún no era
el marqués de Molins, y que ya figuraba entre la
juventud
ilustrada,
levantó el primero la voz en pró del narrador ameno del Doncel de D.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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" For these cup-
bearers to kings perform their
business
very cleverly;
they pour out their wine very neatly, and give the cup,
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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Copies are
provided
as a preservation service.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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Fast by the springs where she to bathe was wont,
And in those meads where
sometime
she might haunt,
Were strewn rich gifts, unknown to any Muse,
Though Fancy's casket were unlock'd to choose.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Leisurely flocks and herds,
Cool-eyed cattle that come
Mildly to wonted words,
Swine that in
orchards
roam,--
A man and his beasts make a man and his home.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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In Bologna they elected their own ministrales contratarum, whose
title shews the
antiquity
of their office.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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to thee by
devising
of the gods there shall be most great and age-long sorrow for my country when it is consumed by the breath of fire.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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Caesar's camp-guard
sufficed
to repulse the latter.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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4
A long tradition of critical literature has pointed to the tragedy of Trakl's
personal
life as evidence of his inability to escape the insoluble divisions that rent his life in two; he is said to have been inextricably trapped in its totalizing rhythms.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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This arouses any amount of
inferiority
complex.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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appll'd I venture on the name,
Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame,
Bloody dissectors, worse than ten Monroes,
He hacks to teach, they mangle to expose:
By blockhead's daring into madness stung,
His heart by wanton, causeless malice wrung,
His well-won ways--than life itself more dear--
By miscreants torn who ne'er one sprig must wear;
Foil'd, bleeding, tortur'd in th' unequal strife,
The hapless Poet flounces on through life,
Till, fled each hope that once his bosom fired,
And fled each Muse that glorious once inspir'd,
Low-sunk in squalid, unprotected age,
Dead even resentment for his injur'd page,
He heeds no more the
ruthless
critics' rage.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Re- garding the
essential
shape of things to come, they seldoiw argue with us but are content to draw the veil and let us see
?
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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Users are free to copy, use, and
redistribute
the work in part or in whole.
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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Neanthes of Cyzicus says, that when he came to the Olympic games all the Greeks who were present turned to look at him: and that it was on that occasion that he held a conversation with Dion, who was on the point of
attacking
Dionysius.
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First, when one knows the attributes of the Rare Jewels, one goes for refuge and then learns the reason for
clearing
away obscurations10 and gathering accu- mulations of spiritual merits through one's devotion, etc.
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Paul's Church, Des Moines, who lends his name to a
personal
endorsement.
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Hence, the portents [Vorbedeutungen] that con- tain in themselves no
interpretation
and are explained only by man.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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He
often chose falsely in his desire to find real trust
and
compassion
in men, only to return with a heavy
heart to his faithful dog again.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Not merely was the close square divided, as we have said, into two equally strong halves, but each of these was separated in the direction of its depth into the three divisions of the hastatt, prinapes, and triarii, each of a moderate depth probably amounting in ordinary cases to only four files; and was broken up along the front into ten bands (manipuli), in such a way that between every two divisions and every two
maniples
there was left a perceptible interval.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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age is the indiscriminate and extravagant
clothing
of
Generated for (University of Chicago) on 2014-12-26 09:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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The
combined
force marched into the interior.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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Elle était
parée pour moi de ce charme de l'inconnu qui ne se serait pas ajouté
pour moi à une jolie fille
trouvée
dans ces maisons où elles vous
attendent.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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'
The weeping child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They
stripped
him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
Where many had been burned before;
The weeping parents wept in vain.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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"
In others he is not equally successful; sometimes his
thoughts
are
deficient, and sometimes his expression.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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He spent some years in the Congo re-
gion and in the
Cameroons
country, and wrote
North Cameroons: An Account of Travels in
1886–92) (1895).
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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; but the
menced, but had left incomplete :— “ toreuticen reading is
somewhat
doubtful).
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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In its will to unify the effective with the painless, this way of thinking is not to be misled by
execution
protocols, which speak of torment for many of the delinquents in gas chambers, descriptions that are so drastic that one is led to think that there has been produced, in the 20th century, in the United States, under humanitarian pretexts, a regression to the tortures of medieval executions.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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The fact that we in part conceptualize arguments in terms of battle systematically
influences
the shape arguments take and the way we talk about what we do in arguing.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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It is worth mentioning, however, that at
the coronation procession one of the most conspicuous figures
was that of Marshal Soult, Duke of Dalmatia, the
opponent
of
Moore and Wellington in the Peninsula, the commander of the
Old Guard at Lützen, and one of the strong arms of Napoleon at
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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Now Praise to God's oft-granted grace,
Now Praise to Man's
undaunted
face,
Despite the land, despite the sea,
I was: I am: and I shall be --
How long, Good Angel, O how long?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Possessing
a true
poetic feeling of the heart, she placed herself at once
in the first poetic rank of those days.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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But now, if it seems good to you, answer me who ever uses the
compound
word like we do, calling the wild boar not ?
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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XIV
You journey to Olympia to see the work of Phidias; and each of you holds
it a
misfortune
not to have beheld these things before you die.
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Epictetus |
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This helps to keep the site as
available
as possible for visitors.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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(4) Increasing cleanliness and
wholesomeness
in
the home.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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1
The
enormous
original, a pre-fabricated building design, started to be constructed in the fall of 1850 in London's Hyde Park according to the plans of horticulture expert ]oseph Paxton, and was inaugurated on May 1sI, 1851 in the presence of the young Queen Victoria (only to be rebuilt with enlarged proportions in 1854 in the London suburb of Sydenham).
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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us, Apchota as the wInds veer In
perlplum
10 son la luna " Cunlzza
as the wInds veer In perlplum and [roIn under the Rupe Tarpela
drunk wIth WIne of the Cast,lll
(( In the name of Its god >> U ')plrltus venl U
443
FIRE U
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any
specific
use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Neither would I despair to prove, if legally called thereto, that it is
impossible
to be a good soldier, divine, or lawyer, or even so much as an eminent bellman, or ballad-singer, without some taste of poetry, and a competent skill in versification.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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) The tomb of Areïthous
Sicyon, were,
according
to Pliny (xxxv.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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Under
pretence of forming an
advanced
guard in time of war, these despe-
radoes were permitted to dwell under the sovereignty of Austria.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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)
El signo del Dios sufriente, la cruz, señala a los renacidos en el
proceso de transferencia y
ampliación
de la conciencia de elegido.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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The difficulty of sketching the history of the rules and principles of the
Roman and Canon Laws is increased by the further fact that these laws
are never at rest; at all times and in all places they are subject to change
in response to the
pressure
of the many forces at work in society.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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One does not need to make a big fuzz about this: one only has to distinguish between the publicist and the scientific genre, for the form really has to be subjected to objectivity and to the
accuracy
of the texts.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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--De Sapho qui mourut le jour de son blaspheme,
Quand,
insultant
le rite et le culte invente,
Elle fit son beau corps la pature supreme
D'un brutal dont l'orgueil punit l'impiete
De Sapho qui mourut le jour de son blaspheme.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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" Yet according to this hypothesis the disquisition,
to which I am at present soliciting the reader's attention, may be as
truly said to be written by Saint Paul's church, as by me: for it is the
mere motion of my muscles and nerves; and these again are set in motion
from
external
causes equally passive, which external causes stand
themselves in interdependent connection with every thing that exists or
has existed.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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And grant, Lord, that my verse the height may gain
Of her great praises, else in vain essay'd,
Whose peer in worth or beauty never stay'd
In this our world,
unworthy
to retain.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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These insolences offended the par-
liament very much : and the house of commons
expressed much impatience, that the Liturgy was so
long in preparation, that the act of
uniformity
might
b reflections] reflection
124 CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF
1662.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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under way to language"; what does this
describe?
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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They set no store by
our more modest, intimate wants which have to be met behind the
scenes,--the whole of their attention is
directed
to momentary
attitudinising and display.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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But soon finding that there was no end to it, he flew into a rage, cast down his rods, and sought the old ploughman who had taught him his trade; and both told him what had
happened
and showed him where young Love did sit.
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Bion |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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His efforts were repeated in the fifteenth century by Raymund of Bllilinrla a Spanish physician, who taught in Toulouse and gained respect by his
ThetAogia
Xaturalis (sire Liber Creaturarum).
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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D) CIRCLES OF THE
CELESTIAL
SPHERE
[462] These orbits lie like rings, four in number, chief in interest and in profit, if thou wouldst mark the measures of the waning and the waxing of the Seasons.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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And now he was
ambitious
to mount
the little black horse.
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Childrens - Frank |
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I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every
Hyacinth
the Garden wears
Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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With the fifth century began the building of gates, bridges, and aqueducts based mainly on the arch, which thence forth inseparably
associated
with the Roman name.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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IF WE ADMIT for the moment that the fascist and
communist
challenges to liberalism are dead, are there any other ideological competitors left?
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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1 If a
quantity
of hard cash is your object, sell your plate, your tables, your myrrhine vases, your estate, your house.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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The
earliest
medical treatise published in Scotland.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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Rather, on account of the
elimination of mythological and
theistic
miracle-
working and anthropomorphic ends and utilities,
Anaxagoras might have made use of proud words
similar to those which Kant used in his Natural His-
tory of the Heavens.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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The
academic
ass exists in a vacuum with a congeries of dead fixed ideas, or with a congeries of fixed ideas which may be " good " and not quite dead, or rather which MIGHT be useful were they brought to focus on something.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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The paramount
influence of
Montesquieu
in the American constitutions is seen in the
practically successful separation of the three functions of the State,
"to the end," as the Constitution of Massachusetts puts it, that "it may
be a government of laws and not of men"; and, as this and others
provide, that one department shall never exercise the powers of either
of the others.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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XVIII
"Dear to the monarch, to the daughter still
This lord was dearer,
Ariodantes
hight.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Much of the
intended
humour of the piece lies in the list of
Jynny's 'tocher-gud’or dowry and in the complementary inventory
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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Because of an unforgivable transgression, the primal habitus of enduring in the face of
constant
lack is burned into the notion of the world entertained by man, the supposedly 'deficient being'.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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This ex plains the incredible effect of his work in the academic world, where deconstruction proved to be the last chance of a theory that
achieves
inte gration through disintegration� by breaking through the boundaries of the archive , it offered a possibility of holding it together.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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The nature of mine, as I listened to him, I need
not attempt to describe; for a minute or two I remained in the same
spot, overpowered by wonder of a most agreeable sort indeed; yet it
required some
consideration
to be tranquilly happy.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Then, again, there is
something
very shadowy and
unreal about the beauties to whom Horace pours forth
his passion or his reproaches.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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This, to be sure, works oddly when we notice that completely
illustrations of this same assertion are given by Heracli- t*s and
Parmenides
in close succession.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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Therefore
the propaganda spirit of Communism had to destroy the peasants first of all.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Not only education and
propaganda has been directed to bring about this change
in
fundamental
incentives; planning itself, through es-
tablishing general economic security and the promise of -
ultimate abundance, has been an even more effective
factor.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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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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