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Polvbius describes the country around Amyclaj as
most
beautifully
wooded and of great fertility; which
iceount is corroborated by Dodwell, who says, "it
luxuriates in fertility, and abounds in mulberries, ol-
ives, and all the fruit-trees -which grow in Greece.
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Louis, Missouri, where she
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First flew Eumelus on Pheretian steeds;
With those of Tros bold Diomed succeeds:
Close on Eumelus' back they puff the wind,
And seem just mounting on his car behind;
Full on his neck he feels the sultry breeze,
And, hovering o'er, their
stretching
shadows sees.
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Swarms of Iconoclasts
already penetrated into Brabant; and the metropolis, where they were
certain of
powerful
support, was threatened by them with a renewal of
the same atrocities then under the very eyes of majesty.
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There sits my mother on a stone,
The sight on my brain is
preying!
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Footsteps
shuffled on the stair.
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with the
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Etruria likewise showed tendencies towards kindred
development
in the remarkable vases which have been
discovered 80) belonging to this period,
those of Campania and Lucania and though Latium and Samnium remained more strangers to Hellenism, there were not wanting there also traces of an incipient and ever-growing influence of Greek culture.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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As to your practice, if a
gentleman walks into my rooms
smelling
of iodoform, with a black
mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge
on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted
his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce
him to be an active member of the medical profession.
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FOREWORD
Pbophbt and Statesman
The main purposes of this
foreword
(which in its
nature is an appendix) are two.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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The
Etruscan
confederacy was composed of
twelve cities.
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ductheis, and that God would not
sufferhim
tospeak, during the greatTenderness of Alcibiades his Youth, which would have render'dallhisInstructionsuseless.
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“I certainly cannot return his affection, and as certainly never meant
to
encourage
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the posse of the kingdom, and the native
strength
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She knew the ways of
Uppercross
as
well as those of Kellynch.
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I do confess thee sweet - but find
-
Thou art sae
thriftless
o' thy sweets,
Thy favors are the silly wind,
That kisses ilka thing it meets.
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Again, this is natural when deterrence is our business, because the prohibited misbehavior is often approximately defined in the threatened response; but when we must start something that then has to be stopped, as in compellent actions, it is both harder and more
important
to know our aims and to communi- cate.
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Criseyde, at shorte wordes for to telle,
Welcomed
him, and doun by hir him sette;
And he was ethe y-nough to maken dwelle.
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On the other hand the positive organization of the body politic, the decision of the questions between regal sovereignty and the sovereignty of the community, between the hereditary privilege of royal and noble houses and the
unconditional
legal equality of the citizens, belong altogether to later age.
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Princeton:
Princeton
University Press.
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He, and they, are stalwart defenders of human life, as long as it is embryonic life (or terminally ill life) - even to the point of
preventing
medical
124
research that would certainly save many lives.
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For the count of the years
requires
this; and the number of years that each king reigned is shown in (?
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He accepted the
imperial
authority
of the Roman Empire and paid tribute.
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"I know you--
"All day
stuffing
your belly,
"Burying your heart
"In grass and tender sprouts:
"It will not suffice you.
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"
I feel like one who smiles, and turning shall remark
Suddenly, his
expression
in a glass.
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He must, also,
have gone through much intellectual and
spiritual
trouble, if we
may judge from the crisis that changed his life.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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The little souls were comforting
each other with better thoughts than I could have hit on: no parson in
the world ever pictured heaven so
beautifully
as they did, in their
innocent talk; and, while I sobbed and listened, I could not help wishing
we were all there safe together.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Death and
devastation
are your
favorite chants ; to us you leave the j^lory and the piuiishnieiit !
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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chapter iudr; where head and
buttocks
a.
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With peasant cunninglegitimated as primordiality, it refuses to honor the obligation of conceptual thought to which it has subscribed as soon as it has
employed
concepts in statements andjudgments.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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They
listened
at his heart.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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We are still compro- mising, right and left, between public and private enterprise, between farm and city, between social
security
and social flexibility.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Another major question is the
restoration
of international trade, for Burma is the world's leading rice exporter.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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τότε ομιλώντας τον βοσκόν δοκίμαζ' ο Οδυσσέας,
αν, όπως τον αγάπησε, θα του 'διδε μιαν χλαίνα 460
δική του, ή καν θα πρόσταζε εις έναν των συντρόφων•
«Εύμαιε, και σεις ολόγυρα οι άλλοι, ακούσατέ με•
λόγον θα ειπώ περήφανον τι το κρασί με σπρώχνει,
'που και τον γνωστικώτερον τρελλαίνει, και κινάει
να ψάλνη, να γελοκοπά, και να πηδοχορεύη, 465
και
γεννά
λόγον 'π' άλεκτος άμποτε να 'χε μείνει.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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Gregor heard
how he opened the
complicated
lock and then closed it again after he
had taken the item he wanted.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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Napoleon made Elise a
princess
in her own right and gave her the Grand
Duchy of Tuscany.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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In the picture book of social characters he creates distance with his mockery, a biting and evil
individualist
who pretends not to need anyone and who is loved by no
one because no one escapes unscathed his crudely unmasking gaze.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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And now if there a man be found
That looks for such prepared ground,
Let him, but with
indifferent
skill,
So good a soil bestock and till;
He may ere long have such a wife
Nourish in's breast a tree of life.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Is there
anything
that doth though never so common,
as a knife, a flower, or a tree?
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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Can we stifle the old, long-lived
Remorse?
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NGUYỄN
TƯỜNG
阮祥12 người huyện Tân Phong phủ Tam Đới.
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volunteers
with the
assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's
goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will
remain freely available for generations to come.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Then, as my sight became daily more
impaired, the colours became more faint and were emitted with a
certain inward crackling sound; but at present, every species of
illumination being, as it were, extinguished, there is diffused around
me nothing but darkness, or darkness mingled and
streaked
with an
ashy brown.
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Selection of English Letters |
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If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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God's
prescience
makes none sinful; but th' offence, II.
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Epithalamium_
ITE, uerecundo coniungite foedera lecto
atque Cupidineos discite ferre iocos;
alliget amplexus tenerorum mater Amorum,
quae regit Idalium, quae Cnidon alma regit,
concordisque tegens cum
maiestate
benigna
constituat, patres et cito reddat auos.
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'And now, sir, I have done, and say no more;
The little I have said may serve to show
The guileless heart in silence may grieve o'er
The wrongs to whose exposure it is slow:
I leave you to your
conscience
as before,
'T will one day ask you why you used me so?
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But, lo, the
Bridegroom
shall come, and all shall rise, but not all shall enter.
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97 97
O cieco mondo, di
lusinghe
pieno .
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Theirs theres is a
gentlemeants
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"Well,
Sourine?
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Line after line my gushing eyes o'erflow,
Led thro' a sad variety of woe:
Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom,
Lost in a convent's
solitary
gloom!
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Also arose about the self-same time,
Perhaps a little later, her great lord,
Master of thirty kingdoms so sublime,
And of a wife by whom he was abhorr'd;
A thing of much less import in that clime--
At least to those of incomes which afford
The filling up their whole
connubial
cargo--
Than where two wives are under an embargo.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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And
when I reflect upon my self, and consider how that I _doubt_, that is,
am an _imperfect
dependent
Being_, I from hence Collect such a _clear_
and _distinct Idea_ of an _Independent perfect Being_, which is _God_,
and from hence only that _I have such an Idea_, that is, because _I_ that
have this _Idea_ do _my self Exist_; I do so _clearly_ conclude that
_God also Exists_, and that on him my _Being depends_ each Minute; That
I am Confident nothing can be known more _Evidently_ and _Certainly_ by
_Humane Understanding_.
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No: I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man:
he who seeks in
contemplation
to discover the inner will of the world,
in invention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in
action to do that will by the so-discovered means.
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The Thane of Cawdor liues:
Why doe you dresse me in
borrowed
Robes?
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Here she comes ; but with a look
Far more
catching
than my hook ;
*Twa8 those eyes, I now dare swear.
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My heart just hears
Eight
lingering
strokes of some far village-bell,
That speak the hour so inward-voiced, meseems
Time's conscience has but whispered him eight hints
Of revolution.
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There would
have been no
Marathonian
victory, no Athens, no Greek liter-
ature, for us at least.
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^ v Dều cbi chồng chẳng bằug lộng,
Cím ngăn, thi ‘ >1 hãy*
16* —
Phảỉ
nhịn nhục nhau mọi khi lám lỏi.
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All this is quite distinct from those cases in which, psychologically speaking, the
criminal
yields to an incomprehensible impulse, and attributes a motive to his deed by associating it with' a merely incidental and insignificant action (for example,
robbing a man, when his real desire was to take
his blood).
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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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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That at the same time the number of the praetors and
quaestors
was doubled, has been already mentioned; the same course was followed with the plebeian aediles, to whom two new " corn-aediles " (aediles Ceriales) were added to superintend the supplies of the capital.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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They associate the regal power, and
transfer
the entire sovereignty to Rome.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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" KAU}
Roaring let out the fluid, the molten metal ran in channels
Cut by the plow of ages held in Urizens strong hand
In many a valley, for the Bulls of Luvah dragd the Plow
With trembling horror pale aghast the
Children
of Men Man
Stood on the infinite Earth & saw these visions in the air
In waters & in Earth beneath they cried to one another
What are we terrors to one another - Come O brethren wherefore
Was this wide Earth spread all abroad.
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Blake - Zoas |
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She was not Rosemary to him any longer, she was just a girl, a
girl’s
body.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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This experienced general
having
captured
the towns of Benfeld, Schlettstadt, Colmar, and Hagenau,
committed the defence of them to the Rhinegrave Otto Louis, and hastily
crossed the Rhine to form a junction with Banner’s army.
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FATHER HART
My daughter, take his hand--by love alone
God binds us to Himself and to the hearth,
That shuts us from the waste beyond His peace,
From
maddening
freedom and bewildering light.
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Yeats - Poems |
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Give, then, my children--lowly, blushing plants,
Whom sorrow waits to seize--
Free course to instincts,
whispering
'mid the flowers,
Like hum of murmuring bees.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Of Silius Itali-
cus, on the other hand, he remarks that "he used to write verses
with more diligence than force," -a
criticism
which very few have
been found to dispute.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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I feel your spirit and I close my eyes,
Knowing the bright hair blowing in the sun,
The eager whisper and the
searching
eyes.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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It is obvious that much of the
relevant
data, both in the notes and in the text, is garbled or omitted, such as the financial help of the U.
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My quatraining of the distichs was
inspired
by the translation practice of my former teacher, Michael Sells, who is in my unapologetically biased view the only decent literary translator into English that pre-Islamic poetry has had in perhaps half a century.
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Translated Poetry |
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Man
founders
in deceit, all the age of his life.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Along the back wall, the excavators found a stone box filled with bones and goats' horns, which
reminded
them of the Keraton or horn altar at Delos (below).
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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Does it mean, ' Thou shewest mercy to me, and in me
manifestest
Thyself merciful,' or, ' Thou hast given to me that I too myself should be merciful ?
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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In the principal book of his younger, and still
Anglican, years, The Cherwell Water Lily, and in most of his other
work, the
possibility
rather than the certainty of such a develop-
ment, to any great extent, may be noted.
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To return to the present " Clavis" -- Though I had origi-
nally
intended
it for the Dauphin edition alone, as being
most read in schools, a casual co-incidence induced me tc
extend its utility.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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132; its
relation to antiquity, 139; the basis of Greek
culture, 159; its greatest
failure—the
political
defeat of Greece, 161; the city culture of the
Greeks, 178; the death of the old culture, 186.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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In the rst place, in many ofthese
declarations
we can recognize the method of physical de nition which we have encountered earlier.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Necesitamos
recuperar el cuerpo humano como dimensio?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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be
vnparygal
to the strokes of fortune / as 1708
who seyth.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I only signifie that all those _modes_ or _manners_
of _thinking_ reside in me, neither do I herein
perceive
what occasion of
_doubt_ or _obscurity_ can be imagined.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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And, in that pause, a
sinister
whisper ran:
Burial at Sea!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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That separations and instabilities of maternal care should
____________________
1 Compare the case of Lottie who began
attendance
at nursery school when she was two
years and three months old (see Chapter 3).
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Bowlby - Separation |
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the great unseen
phenomena
of a poet's
mind.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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[216] Long since I see the coil of trailing woes dragging in the brine and hissing against my
fatherland
dread threats and fiery ruin.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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Col drudo avendo già l'astuzia ordita,
corre, e
fingendo
una letizia estrema,
verso Grifon l'aperte braccia tende,
lo stringe al collo, e gran pezzo ne pende.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
That was the
Frederick
who wrote the Con-
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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" she asked in a
frightened
whisper.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the
communion
of
the blood of Christ?
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bible-kjv |
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Then, Daphnis, to the cooling streams were none
That drove the
pastured
oxen, then no beast
Drank of the river, or would the grass-blade touch.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the
merriest countenances in
mourning
coaches.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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If he had sooner placed confidence in
me, this thing would not have happened
and
Magdeburg
would not have fallen.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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the ripe moon hangs above
Weaving
enchantment
o'er the shadowy lea.
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Rilke - Poems |
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