Not on seven hills but on
millions
of stars do her feet rest.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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TZETZES: The family of Lycophron
The family of this
Lycophron
lived in Chalcis.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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how felicitous the
illustration
of the blue chamber!
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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238
Grandmother
Mouse's Tale.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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said,
my
Thus much for his
Behaviour
in the Way to his Martyrdom.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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And
straight
away they took him to the Tower, With much ado he there was brought at last,
for
a Wing and Arm
; for what are you ?
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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1: The Years
ofAcclaim
(New York: E.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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Stanford, in order
to capture the
sequential
positions of horses in various gaits.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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Wherefore, O men of Athens, I say to you, do as Anytus bids
or not as Anytus bids, and either acquit me or not; but
whatever
you
do, know that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die
many times.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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not suffer the same
catastrophic
collapse as did the civilization of the ancient world some two thousand years ago - a civilization which was driven to its ruin through this same Jewish people.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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In some
obscure manner, however, savage existence has been constantly
interrupted; and it seems as if the long-repressed forces of
individuality then burst out into exaggerated vehemence; for the result
(if it is not
slavery)
is, that a people passes from its savage to its
heroic age, on its way to some permanence of civilization.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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But an interpretation which is as old as our traditional Western logic and
The Raging
Discordance
147
grammar makes this apparently simple state of affairs even simpler and therefore more ordinary.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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Cory, in lonica, modelled as it is on a
* In this one respect Catullus was
Alexandrian
to the core.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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After Martins Months
Minde, this is the most
readable
of the answers to Martin.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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[228] While
their rage was fresh they sated their savage cravings with blood; then
suddenly the
instinct
of greed prevailed.
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Tacitus |
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Black is night's cope;
But death will not appal
One who, past
doubtings
all,
Waits in unhope.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But these be fruits of reprobation, until God gather together the remnant according to Paul's
prophecy
(Romans 11:5).
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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16] Aeson, son of Cretheus, had a son Jason by Polymede,
daughter
of Autolycus.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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It is sufficient to regard science
as the exactest humanising of things that is
possible; we always learn to describe ourselves
more accurately by
describing
things and their
successions.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the
chosen
disciples
at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it
would seem, not the power of speech in foreign and unknown languages,
but that of addressing the whole human brotherhood in the heart's
native language.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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Foiled, bleeding, breathless, furious to the last,
Full in the centre stands the bull at bay,
Mid wounds, and clinging darts, and lances brast,
And foes disabled in the brutal fray:
And now the
matadores
around him play,
Shake the red cloak, and poise the ready brand:
Once more through all he bursts his thundering way--
Vain rage!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Let not so mean a Stile your Muse debase;
But learn from†Butler the Buffooning grace:
And let
Burlesque
in Ballads be employ'd;
Yet noisy Bumbast carefully avoid,
Nor think to raise (tho' on Pharsalia's Plain)
† Millions of mourning Mountains of the Slain:
* Nor, with Dubartas, bridle up the Floods,
And Periwig with Wool the bald-pate Woods,
Chuse a just Stile; be Grave without constraint,
Great without Pride, and Lovely without Paint:
Write what your Reader may be pleas'd to hear;
And, for the Measure, have a careful Ear.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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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_satires_of_Persius |
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Grands yeux de mon enfant, arcanes adorés,
Vous ressemblez beaucoup à ces grottes magiques
Où, derrière l'amas des ombres léthargiques,
Scintillent
vaguement
des trésors ignorés!
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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Self-contempt on the part of the
weak would be the result: they would do their
utmost to
disappear
and to extirpate their kind.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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vous lui auriez
tellement
plu!
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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The fact that it cannot do that is one of the enigmas that is concealed in the omnipresent
chitchat
about postmodernism.
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Sloterdijk |
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What I have written has simply been
written because I love truth and justice _quand même_,--"more than
Plato" and Plato's country, more than Dante and Dante's country, more
even than
Shakespeare
and Shakespeare's country.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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337 vatber, being join'd with the father in the $th command,
take away the
supremacy
of the father!
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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But it is not necessary to turn to the
footnotes, and to mark what may be called the
literary
growth of a poem,
while it is being read for its own sake: and these notes are printed in
smaller type, so as not to obtrude themselves on the eye of the reader.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Overtly a
critique
of Hare's tribute to Yang Zhu's
f.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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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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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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Macneile
Dixon's learned and vigorous "English Epic and
Heroic Poetry"; and especially the assistance of Mr.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And it was not so long since the Circoncelliones were
keeping people
constantly
on the alert.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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The faint light cast from every distant star
Showed thirty ships now
crossing
the bar;
The waves swelled beneath, and their effort
Brought the tide-borne Moors within the port.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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In me thou see'st the
twilight
of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The name Ruarc valiant, and arg, champion;
champion, and hence may signify tiful and fertile,
producing
various crops, and capable cultiva the valiant champion, the red-haired champion.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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O'er Heorot he lorded,
gold-bright hall, in gloomy nights;
and ne'er could the prince {2d}
approach
his throne,
-- 'twas judgment of God, -- or have joy in his hall.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Shall I say
What made my heart beat with
exulting
love
A few weeks back?
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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When my play was with thee I never
questioned
who thou wert.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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[100] But in order that we might gain complete information, we
ascended
to the summit of the neighbouring citadel and looked around us.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Men say that he by the music of his songs charmed the stubborn rocks upon the
mountains
and the course of rivers.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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O tu che mostri per sì bestial segno
Odio sovra colui che tu ti mangi
Dimmi 'l perchè, diss' io, per tal convegno,
Che se tu a ragion di lui ti piangi,
Sappiendo
chi voi siete, e la sua pecca,
Nel mondo suso ancor io te ne cangi,
Se quella con ch' i' parlo non si secca.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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His
philosophy
is nothing apart from his own life.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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The Demon arose from his wallow to laugh,
Brushing
the dirt from his eye as he went;
And well I knew what the Demon meant.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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Antipathetic
to the French Revolution, he travelled to North America in 1791.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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, the other but little more than
4-1/4; a certain quantity of these exchequer bills is required as a safe
and marketable investment for bankers; if they were
increased
much
beyond this demand, they would probably be as much depreciated as the 5
per cent.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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LXVIII
The emperor, on the vigil of the day
Of battle, within Paris, everywhere,
By priest and friar of orders black and gray,
And white, bade celebrate mass-rite and prayer;
And those who had confessed, a fair array,
And from the Stygian demons rescued were,
Communicated
in such fashions, all,
As if they were the ensuing day to fall.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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A few
years later, as divergent copies were circulated, the Caliph Othman
ordered a
standard
text to be made by three learned men; and when
this was completed, other copies were made to conform to it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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Point out the causes of
industrial
warfare.
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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He continued to work on his Memoirs, and viewed as a member of the political opposition, a great
literary
figure, and a champion of freedom, was celebrated at the Revolution of 1848, during which period of turmoil he died.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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Now, they
apparently
thought, they were going to see the very soul of American puissance in action.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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FREDERICK
STREET
ED IN BURGH : AND LONDON
191 I
## p.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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They live, indeed, in a
perpetual
warfare with each other : all the artifices usual with authors, are devised and put in practice amongst them ; and their mutual jealousies sometimes give birth to scenes of an extraordinary nature.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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It strips our ideas
of the colours which so well enable us to
understand them; and the fine arts, poetry,
and the
contemplation
of nature, disappear
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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" What appears to
you a great deal,
compared
with an
unfortunate boy, who has not been
taught any thing, will appear very
little compared with others, who have
learnt a great deal.
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Childrens - Frank |
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187
Toes are the fingers that have
forsaken
their past.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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based on the
qualities
of our karma.
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Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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_
O we live, O we live--
And this life we would retrieve,
Is a
faithful
thing apart
Which we love in, heart to heart,
Until one heart fitteth twain.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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And when I reached the market place, a youth
standing
on a house-top
cried, "He is a madman.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"Do you not know that this island is
enchanted?
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Source: |
Universal Anthology - v02 |
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XIX
All
perfection
Heaven showers on us,
All imperfection born beneath the skies,
All that regales our spirits and our eyes,
And all those things that devour our pleasures:
All those ills that strip our age of treasures,
All the good the centuries might devise,
Rome in ancestral times secured as prize,
Like Pandora's box, enclosed the measure.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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Because of this one child thou hast no more of might,
O star-girt Earth, his death yields thee not higher
delight!
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Hugo - Poems |
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] -
Aristolochus
of Athens, stadion race
110th [340 B.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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But after that God did gather unto himself on every side a Church, the wall of separation being pulled down, so many as are received into the society of the
covenant
are called by the same name.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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Nay, Rayab, this is worse than folly –
'Tis cruel, since o'er earth's wide round
Thy slaves must follow, fast or slowly:
If thou decline to stand thy ground
The world must turn
pedestrian
wholly,
Nor will one soul at rest be found
In Roumilee* or Anadoli.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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) The
difficulty
is just and well stated, and I am afraid
that the mode by which he proposes it should be removed will be found
inefficacious.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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17 In spite of apparent similarity, there are also
profound
di?
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Schwarz - Committments |
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One space at length he spies, to let in fate,
Where 'twixt the neck and throat the jointed plate
Gave entrance: through that penetrable part
Furious he drove the well-directed dart:
Nor pierced the windpipe yet, nor took the power
Of speech,
unhappy!
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Iliad - Pope |
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There saw they, besides, the
strangest
being,
loathsome, lying their leader near,
prone on the field.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Also diet is
extremely
important.
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Source: |
Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
|
Other signs may be selected from the increase and progress of
particular systems of
philosophy
and the sciences; for those which are
founded on nature grow and increase, while those which are founded
on opinion change and increase not.
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Bacon |
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In short, whether the
author has succeeded in
attaining
his object or not, can be deter-
mined only by the effect which the work shall produce on the
readers to whom it is addressed, and in this the author has no
voice.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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I took
pleasure
where it pleased me, and passed on.
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Source: |
Wilde - De Profundis |
|
And now a weighty question
We shall determine; ye know how everywhere
The insolent
pretender
hath spread abroad
His artful rumours; letters everywhere,
By him distributed, have sowed alarm
And doubt; seditious whispers to and fro
Pass in the market-places; minds are seething.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Among his
writings
are three volumes on Eng.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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His country was Athens, the Hellas of Hellas, and as by his verse he gave exceeding delight, so from many he
receives
praise.
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Source: |
Greek Anthology |
|
They made his head ache and his eyes burn, and the only conclusion he came to was that a few thousands of pounds are soon spent, and that Haidee of late had been pretty
prodigal
with her cheques.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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, some months
before the defeat of
jEgospotamos
put the finishing
stroke to the misfortunes of Athens, death came gen-
tly upon the venerable old man, full of years and glory.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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On the other it has been said to have moved the British
frontier
from
the Jumna to the Satlej.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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To
Charlotte
Cushman.
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Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
[354] NOSSIS { H 9 } G
Even from here this picture of
Sabaethis
is to be known by its beauty and majesty.
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Source: |
Greek Anthology |
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Birch boughs enough piled
everywhere!
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Source: |
Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
|
JACKE,
Carisophus
lackey.
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Source: |
Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
|
_
Poor Little Children
Apostrophe
to Nature
Napoleon "The Little"
Fact or Fable--_H.
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Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
”
O could you but hear it, at
midnight
my laugh:
My hour is striking; come step in my trap;
Now into my net stream the fishes.
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Source: |
Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
|
Ultimately however Napoleon's actions led to Chateaubriand's
resignation
in 1804, after the execution of the Duc d'Enghien.
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Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
|
LXXI
"Now on our way, the way to death we ride,
But Providence Divine thus for us wrought,
Rinaldo, whose high virtue is his guide
To great exploits,
exceeding
human thought,
Met us, and all at once our guard defied,
And ere he left the fight to earth them brought.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
|
Princes in their infancy, childhood, and youth are said to discover
prodigious parts and wit, to speak things that
surprise
and astonish.
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Source: |
Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
|
'
Pollis
therefore
carried him to .
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Source: |
Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
|
Beauty and worth are purchased much too dear,
If a wife force them hourly on your ear;
For, say, what
pleasure
can you hope to find,
Even in this boast, this phœnix of her kind, 265
If, warped by pride, on all around she lour,
And in your cup more gall than honey pour?
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It was in order to refute this opinion and to show that the vibhavatrsna mentioned in the Sutra is
abandoned
by Seeing alone, that this treatise was composed (tso ssu lun fp^Ulfe ): Should we say that vibhavatrsna is abandoned through Seeing or Meditation?
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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Hudtwalcker(1880-1952),indus
trialist
and art patron in Hamburg, whose collection he visited on 22 November.
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Samuel Beckett |
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I am come; and
straight
will bear her to the tomb.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Point out the
limitations
placed by Congress upon the
activities of political parties in the United States.
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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And the number of those that are to be warmed thus
hereafter
is?
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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The
Bibliographical
Decameron,
3 vols.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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Stockpiling
and Use of Atomic Weapons
C.
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NSC-68 |
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What evil may not have been done to
humanity
through
this!
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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