Lofting ''The Torch of Doubt'' to Illumine a Colonialistic Cave
In earlier generations, interpreters (in this case, Western, Chinese, and Jap- anese
interpreters)
went about their task on the basis of assumptions rooted securely in their own traditions.
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2)
Extension
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That’s
something they can see the sense of And so handwriting’s the thing you’ve got
to keep on and on at Plenty of nice neat copies that the girls can take home, and
that the parents’ll show off to the neighbours and give us a bit of a free advert I
want you to give the children two hours a day just at handwriting and nothing
else,’
‘Two hours a day just at handwriting,’ repeated Dorothy obediently
A Clergyman's
Daughter
391
‘Yes And plenty of arithmetic as well The parents are very keen on
arithmetic especially money-sums Keep your eye on the parents all the time
If you meet one of them m the street, get hold of them and start talking to them
about their own girl Make out that she’s the best girl in the class and that if she
stays just three terms longer she’ll be working wonders You see what I mean?
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We open our essay menu with the fol- lowing starters: Patricia Foster's chilling personal essay "Awakening," followed by Mark Gustafson's about the relation- ship of two poets--Robert Bly and James Wright--to bring the work of George Trakl, the Austrian-born poet who died of a suicide in 1914 at the age of twenty- seven, to an
American
audience.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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Nào
người
tích lục tham hồng là ai ?
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Nor shall the ship-devouring hostile beacons abate their sorrow for his shattered scion, whom a new-dug habitation in the territory of
Methymna
shall hide.
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shivarāya, the dominant partner in the confederacy, insisted on
three conditions, the surrender of Kaliyāni to 'Alī, the death of
Jahāngir Khān, whose interception of convoys had caused famine
and much distress in his camp, and the personal
submission
of Husain.
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For in the end higher men begin to
themselves according to the
standard
of
virtues upheld by the slaves—and discover that
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The Darwinian
mechanism
consists in that the species survives, because the strongest and fittest animals for the individual surviving, are those that have the bigger chances to procreate, while weak and feeble animals are either eliminated or ex- cluded from the possibility of mating.
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Winter's cold or summer's heat,
Autumn's
tempests
on it beat;
It can never know defeat,
Never can rebel;
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Herman did not recover his usual
composure
during the entire day.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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VŨ LÃM 武覽22
người
huyện Kim Động phủ Khoái Châu.
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stella-01 |
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AT length, the wife a lucky moment sought,
When Damon seemed by soft
caresses
caught.
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Eventually
she brings
him a fortune, he is released from prison,
old.
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Beim geborenen
Verbrecher
sind die inneren
Verha?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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Where an
objection
has been anticipated by such an author as
natural, his answer to it must needs be interpreted in some sense which
either is, or has been, or is capable of being controverted.
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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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And I flowed in upon thee, beat them off ; 1 have been
intimate
with thee, known
thy ways.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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Which perhaps are not all the same as I comprehend
them by _my sense_ (for Perception by sense is in many Things very
_Obscure_ and _Confused_) but those things at least, which I _clearly_
and _distinctly_ Understand, that is to say, all those things which are
comprehended under the
_Object_
of _Pure Mathematicks_; those things I
say at least are _True_.
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"I have little doubt that numerous really great writ- ings would come under the ban if tests that are fre- quently current were applied, and these approved pub- lications
doubtless
at times escape only because they
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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When Churchill said the British would fight on the beaches, he spoke for the British and not for a
mercenary
army.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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(Considerada desde este punto de vista, la Unión So viética fue, ante todo, una agencia de publicidad que llevó al mundo la no ticia de la revolución, que
pretendía
ser ella misma1*7.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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The Turks, the Indians, the Persians, the Chinese, the Siamese, the
Japanese, know nothing of it; but there is a
sufficient
reason for
believing that they will know it in their turn in a few centuries.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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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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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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Therefore
the favour of the gods was sought by consulting the Sibylline Books, and, according to their command, sacrifices were made to Jupiter Salutaris.
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In Europe often by prIvate houses, wIthout aSsIstance of banks RelIef 15 got not by Increase
but by dImInutIon of debt
as JustIce Marshall, has gone out of hIS case
TIp an' Tyler
We'll bust Van's biler
blOUght In the vice of luxuria sed aureiS furcuhs, whIch forks were
bought back In the tIme of
PresIdent
Monroe
by Mr Lee our consul1n Bordeaux
(( The man IS a dough-face, a proflIgate,"
won't say he agrees wIth hIS party
AuthorIzed Its (the banl\.
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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When their places were
determined
on, and they
were all properly arranged, she looked round to see if he should happen
to be in the same part of the room, but he was not; her eye could not
reach him; and the concert being just opening, she must consent for a
time to be happy in a humbler way.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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His poem is
excellent
modern verse.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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This line represents one of
the alterations which
Warburton
induced Pope to make.
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In a lake of reeds,
he saw the pike hungrily hunting for its dinner; propelling themselves
away from it, in fear,
wiggling
and sparkling, the young fish jumped in
droves out of the water; the scent of strength and passion came
forcefully out of the hasty eddies of the water, which the pike stirred
up, impetuously hunting.
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Nay, but in day-dreams, for terror, for pity,
The trees wave their heads with an omen to tell;
Nay, but in night-dreams,
throughout
the dark city,
The hours, clashed together, lose count in the bell.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Nay, but in day-dreams, for terror, for pity,
The trees wave their heads with an omen to tell;
Nay, but in night-dreams,
throughout
the dark city,
The hours, clashed together, lose count in the bell.
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So should kinsmen be,
not weave one another the net of wiles,
or with deep-hid
treachery
death contrive
for neighbor and comrade.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Tully - Offices |
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Or if it be necessary, as the case is with some barren wits, to take in the thoughts of others, in order to draw forth their own, as dry pumps will not play till water is thrown into them; in that necessity, I would recommend some of the
approved
standard authors of antiquity for your perusal, as a poet and a wit; because maggots being what you look for, as monkeys do for vermin in their keepers' heads, you will find they abound in good old authors, as in rich old cheese, not in the new; and for that reason you must have the classics, especially the most worm-eaten of them, often in your hands.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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[15] The
legendary
Li Po is the subject of the sixth tale in "Chin Ku
Ch'i Kuan", translated by T.
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A smaller sum I had given to my friend the
attorney (who was connected with the money-lenders as their lawyer), to
which, indeed, he was
entitled
for his unfurnished lodgings.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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" 2 This means a
restructuring
of the "series rerum" in the sense of a development from simple to complex forms.
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But this may find a speedier redress in
writing, where all comes under the last
examination
of the eyes.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The
inverted
form used here, liuzhui ?
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With time both wiser and sedater too:
For as in spring the swelling stream rolls by,
Foams, dashes o'er its borders furiously,
Then flowing further glides serenely on,
So youth is gay and wild till youth is gone;
Till, taught by thick
anxieties
and years,
It sheds the excess of blossoms which it bears,
And, shaken by the winds of want and woe,
Its flowers drop off upon the sod below.
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50 BHAVANAKRAMA
kaya',347
ministering
to the well-being of the whole world, will roam the world as long as it lasts.
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To cover the
awkwardness
of the moment
he bent down and picked up the jungle cock.
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40 WhenNiall's
posterity 4I and the men of the
northern
province entered the Leinster terri-
tory, in order to ravage it, the king of this latter province came to St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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Neverthe- less, although the system of nature is looked upon as a machine, yet so far as it has
reference
to rational beings as its ends, it is given on this account the name of a kingdom of nature.
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began, a
matchless
creator of life's
greater ironies.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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I am
inclined
to keep to
the reading of the MS.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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This first
conclusion
of
peace brings with it a something which looks like the
first step towards the attainment of that enigmatical
bent for truth.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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Further, he has an
instinct
for "timing," for choosing the favorable moment.
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The ultimate end of criticism is much more to establish the
principles of writing, than to furnish rules how to pass
judgment
on
what has been written by others; if indeed it were possible that the two
could be separated.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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Da- ladier had flown to Munich at the
eleventh
hour to plead with the Fiihrer for mercy and peace.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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And princes, shining through their windows, start ;
Who their suspected
counsellors
refuse.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The psychologists of France--and where else are there still
psychologists
nowadays?
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Sub jugajdm Seres, jam
bdrbarus
tsset Ar axes.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Tully - Offices |
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'[The district near the Hellenic site of Argalasti] I take to have been
the district of Magnesia or the city of the Magnctes, where the coins of
that people were struck ; for
although
this place is scarcely ever mentioned
in history, its existence is proved by Demosthenes, from whom we learn
that it was taken and fortified by Philip, but afterwards restored to the
Thessalians.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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"
In this parable the young shepherd is obviously the man of to-day; the
snake that chokes him represents the
stultifying
and paralysing social
values that threaten to shatter humanity, and the advice "Bite!
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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It was
likewise
easy to give employment to mil- lions of unemployed through rearmament, the building of roads and the creation of a great defense system.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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When the large iron gate or door was thrown open to receive us, it was
astonishing to see so many whites as well as colored men loaded down
with irons, at hard labor, under the
supervision
of overseers.
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It was generally thought he was treated with un reasonable, and unmerited severity, and, at last, ob tained his liberation from Newgate by the interpo sition of Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford; and the Queen herself
compassionating
his case, sent money to his wife and family.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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The
most remarkable fact
revealed
by the laws about the ceorls, in the
stricter sense of the term, was the inferior status held by the Wessex
ceorls as compared with the Kentish ceorls.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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I
regretted
at once that I had frightened her, making her count the
strokes, and I cursed myself for my spiteful impulse; I felt sorry for
her, and did not know how to atone for what I had done.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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That the English-
speaking public may gain at any rate some faint idea
of his genius, it has been my joyous task to translate
the following small
selection
of his works.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But, on coming to the top of a high hill, they
perceived
at a
long distance off a Clangle-Wangle (or, as it is more properly written,
Clangel-Wangel); and, in spite of the warning they had had, they ran
straight up to it.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Observe the
dramatic
way in
which Duessa saves Sansjoy.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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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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" In this level our
experience
of one taste is enhanced and is likened to the experience of water being poured into water.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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Even this brief list, however, shows the variety in his work:
the masque, in The Hunting of Cupid, and something very closely
related to it, in The Araygnement of Paris; the chronicle history,
in Edward I, and, very probably, in The Turkish Mahomet, an even
more marked mingling of romance and so-called history; something
like an attempt to revive the miracle-play, in King David and
Fair Bethsabe ; and genuine
literary
satire on romantic plays of
the day, in The Old Wives Tale.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Those who had been
the friends of his bosom before the Nicaragua catastrophe, stand-
ing ready to help in the
organization
of anything, and willing to
permit any number of shares of it to stand in their names, now
would have none of him.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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360, to a
lonely spot near
Neocaesarea
in Pontus, and there began to lead a
a
CH, XVIII.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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A brief anthropology 165
The interesting thing about this debate - apart from the fact that it may affect the future of humanity - is that both sides base their
argument
on the very same model: capitalization.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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Charles Asselineau, qui n'a pas paru: _Mélanges tirés d'une
petite
bibliothèque
romantique_; lequel devait avoir pour prologue
un sonnet de M.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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Le soleil sur le mur, puisqu'il est ques-
43
tion du soleil sur le mur, subit en même temps une trans- formation
foudroyante
et j'ose dire radicale.
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Your master
happened
to come because it was his time, and he happened to leave because things follow along.
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Chuang Tzu |
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The Vision of William
concerning
Piers the Plowman in three parallel texts
together with Richard the Redeless.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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An odd number of jurors was selected to
preclude
tie votes.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Keats - Lamia |
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3 To the Egyptian the world was
inhabited
by nine races of men.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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quare, diua, precor, quoniam tua munera paruo
ausus calle sequor, uitreo de gurgite uultus
dextera prome pios et numine laeta sereno
Pierias age pande uias: da Nerea molli
pacatum candere freto
uotisque
litata
fac saltem primas pelagi libemus harenas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The impact of a dollar upon the heart
Smiles warm red light,
Sweeping
from the hearth rosily upon the
white table,
With the hanging cool velvet shadows
Moving softly upon the door.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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So I pretend to busy myself with other things, to prevent Plato's
emphatic
reproach from ringing in my ears.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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[90] And thee, cuckold sailor, the downward path of Acheron shall receive, walking no more the byres of they
father’s
rugged steadings, as one when thou wert arbiter of beauty for the three goddesses.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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George Sand was
in open
rebellion
against every kind of slavery.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The N
eapolitans
were
surprised at the gloomy character of her poetry, much as
they admired it.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Jove aunswerde thus: My
daughter
is a jewell deare and leefe: .
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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Grown weary of
monastic
servitude,
I pondered 'neath the cowl my bold design,
Made ready for the world a miracle--
And from my cell at last fled to the Cossacks,
To their wild hovels; there I learned to handle
Both steeds and swords; I showed myself to you.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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" Her mouth and eyes
hesitated
and flickered for an instant; then she took her leap over the initial hurdle.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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He
was the husband of Theano,
daughter
of Cisseus, king
of Thrace, and father of nineteen sons, of whom the
most known were Polybus (//.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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It is only when one considers the things in li om a cosmic perspec tive that they can appear both beauti l and valueless: beauti l, because they exist, and yet
valueless
because they cannot accede to the realm of eedom and morality.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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"90 These ideas permeated travel literature and the
missionary
Relations, which Jesuit colle`ges pressed on their students.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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Among
Nietzsche
lovers it is a mark of decency not to cite this sort of thing, is it not?
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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183
The beauty cf the child was of that
striking nature, that it was impossible
to behold it without admiration ; but the
too partial fondness of its worthy pa-
rents
threatened
destruction to its future
peace ; for they were alike incapable of
correcting or controlling, and the most
extravagant of her wishes were imme-
diately complied with.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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["I have just," says Burns to Thomson, "been looking over the
'Collier's bonnie Daughter,' and if the following rhapsody, which I
composed the other day, on a
charming
Ayrshire girl, Miss Leslie
Baillie, as she passed through this place to England, will suit your
taste better than the Collier Lassie, fall on and welcome.
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Robert Burns |
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O ur lively taste for
music, ballet, and spectacle, is a proof of
powerful
fancy,
and a necessity to interest ourselves incessantly, even in
thus sporting with serious images, instead of rendering
them more severe than they need be, as did A lfieri.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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The duchess, to
alter slightly her own words, ‘had been bred to elevated thoughts,
not to a
dejected
spirit; her life was ruled with honesty, attended
by modesty, and directed by truth.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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or what it meant--
The shrieking and the whistling and the stink
He'd lived in
fourteen
days and nights.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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All night long a vague wonder, born of
sleeplessness and intolerable discomfort, kept stirring m
Dorothy’s
mind Was
this the life to which she had been bred-this life of wandering empty-bellied
all day and shivermg at night under dripping trees?
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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"Sons of the mighty," he said, "ye bring back the days of
old, when first I
descended
from waves, on Selma's streamy
vale!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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Bulteale's, BeaVn's,* Morley's, Wren's fingers
with telling
Were shrivelled, and Clatterbuck's, Eager*^,
and Kipps' ;
Since the act of
oblivion
was never such selling,
As at this benevolence out of the snips.
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Marvell - Poems |
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