"
To Mary In Heaven
Thou ling'ring star, with
lessening
ray,
That lov'st to greet the early morn,
Again thou usher'st in the day
My Mary from my soul was torn.
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The epic is the more flexible, broader, and more sol- emn form of myth, a form that is fitting for presentation in castles, on vil-
2
Only because the terrifying rage of heroes is
indispensable
may the singer turn to the goddess in order to engage her for twenty-four songs.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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Even into the heights of their virtue and into their cold spirit doth
this
creature
follow them, with its discord.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more
anxious!
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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Mrs Lackersteen looked
handsome
and serpentine in a red dress.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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In the same month that Hinton was asserting with assurance that the low-level guardsmen were acting on their own, internal State Department memos were stating that "Reading the documents
provoked
several questions which we think should have occurred to an investigator whose real aim was to determine who committed the crime" (quoted in Update, p.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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The first encounter was between the whole Turkish
army, which consisted
exclusively
of horsemen armed with bows, and the
smaller part of the Latin host, which included the Normans only, under
Bohemond, Tancred, and Robert of Normandy.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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The vain-glorious Mountjoy, give himself the greater honour this transaction, states that O'Neill went on his
knees for more than tent submission;
there ask pardon
hour his chamber door, making peni absurd falsehood, for O'Neill did not come
favour, but merely make formal sub
mission, having taken good care have his terms granted and
confirmed him before came, for he was too keen otherwise
official account the queen's death, and the accession James This was the first time O'Neill heard the queen's death, and
presence
the council Dublin Castle, burst into tears, moved with indignation and regret that had been deceived into
lo
been created earl and having retired related.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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Frederick
the Great
said that the dream of universal peace is a phan-
tom which everyone ignores so soon as it affects
his own freedom of action.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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It is to
be indirect, and not direct or
descriptive
or epic.
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Whitman |
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_Another
Room in_ Fitzdottrel's
_House.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Velleraque ut foliis
depectant
tenuia Seres.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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This
proposition
of his being somewhat over
amply and injuriously interpreted by some, made him a long time
after to be troubled in the inquisition of Rome.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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= The
procession from Newgate by Holbom and Tyburn road was in truth
often a 'triumphall egression,' and a popular
criminal
like Jack
Sheppard or Jonathan Wild frequently had a large attendance.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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In political life he
was always prominent, first as a receiver of Continental taxes, then,
successively, as a member of the Continental Congress (1782), the
New York Legislature (1786), the Annapolis
Convention
(1786), and
finally of the Constitutional Convention and of the ratifying conven-
tion in New York.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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To the extent that the scale is valid, it provides a measure of anti-Semitism in most of its
generality
and complexity.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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Now, in the "Opuscula,"
attributed
to St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Cacus had blocked the entrance
with, a large mass of rock, which even five yoke of
oxen could
scarcely
have stirred.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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In fact, the
communists
did not "very quickly" switch to the Right but struggled in the face of a momentous onslaught to keep Soviet socialism alive for more than seventy years.
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" These are to achieve national reconciliation through peaceful means, under conditions of full democratic freedoms, while "Foreign countries shall not impose any
political
tendency or personality on the South Vietnamese people" and "the United States will not continue its military involvement or intervene in the internal affairs of South Viet- nam" (articles 9C, 4).
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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But to be candid without
ostentation
or design--to take the
good of everybody’s character and make it still better, and say nothing
of the bad--belongs to you alone.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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" We ask
ourselves
what to do next and what will happen next.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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"Son," thus spake the courteous guide,
"Those, who die subject to the wrath of God,
All here
together
come from every clime,
And to o'erpass the river are not loth:
For so heaven's justice goads them on, that fear
Is turn'd into desire.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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topoiesis, and it should be clear from the above
considerations
that the re- productive modes of conscious and social systems differ radically from the (equally autopoietic) biochemical reproduction of life.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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8 This doubtless means, that he was fired with zeal and fidelity towards his Lord and Master, while he was indefatigable in
preaching
the Divine word, and he embraced the Cross of Christ, because he was crucified to the world.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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Homer also seems to have written on this subject, as that historian
shows who relates that Creophylus of Samos once had Homer for his guest
and for a reward received the
attribution
of the poem which they call
the "Taking of Oechalia".
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Hesiod |
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Beyond his
thousand
lî, chiefs of regions were appointed.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life
fully, entirely, completely, or dragging out some false, shallow,
degrading existence that the world in its
hypocrisy
demands.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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NIETZSCHE
IN OUTLINE AND APHORISM.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals
going about their business in the
assurance
of perfect safety, was
offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of
a danger it is unable to comprehend.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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They must first disarm themselves of their arguments as time has done for those of the classic writers; they must bring them to bear upon
subjects
which interest no one or on truths so general that readers are convinced in advance.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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When the knights had
passed in review before him, the poet's horse had been
duly
restored
to him.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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440
THE
COLONIAL
MERCHANTS: 1763-1776
Notwithstanding the polemics of the opposition, the work
of establishing the administrative machinery for the Asso-
ciation had gotten irresistibly under way.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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16 [Legamen ad paginam Latinam] 4 1 Furthermore, it is
generally
known that he often said about Verus:
"This hero Fate will but display to earth
Nor suffer him to stay.
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Historia Augusta |
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Loud did wail his
familiar
hounds, and loud now weep the Nymphs of the hill; and Aphrodite, she unbraids her tresses and goes wandering distraught, unkempt, unslippered in the wild wood, and for all the briers may tear and rend her and cull her hallowed blood, she flies through the long glades shrieking amain, crying upon her Assyrian lord, calling upon the lad of her love.
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Bion |
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He wore an ancient long buff vest,
Yellow as saffron,--but his best,
And,
buttoned
over his manly breast,
Was a bright blue coat, with a rolling collar,
And large gilt buttons,--size of a dollar,--
With tails that the country-folk called "swaller.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to
digitize
public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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He was
intrusted with the chief command in Galilee, where the
conflict
had
originated, and he set himself at once to fortify certain towns and
to organize and discipline his army.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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Live in spite of history; existential reduction;
socialization
"as if; irony about politics; mistrust toward "plans.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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There he published two small volumes of poetry,
which were received with an
indifference
painful to.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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In less than ten years
afterwards, violent
dissensions
broke out between the patrician order
and the common people, who complained that they were harassed and
oppressed by their affluent creditors.
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Tacitus |
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York might find it hard to get the
necessary
endowments.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Granted they could draw
illusions
and sketch their dusty traces; 8 Yet they had no skill in capturing Master Baozhi.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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, 1880; also in Gesammelte
Aufsätze
zur Bühnengeschichte,
pp.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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It was
probably
also the
oldest.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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Our
conditions
mend;
In a change of mates we shall both rejoice;
I hoped that it thus might end!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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In contrast, the
American
understanding of the Orient will seem considerably
less dense, although our recent Japanese, Korean, and Indochinese adventures ought now to be
creating a more sober, more realistic “Oriental” awareness.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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), which was
dedicated
to Henry ?
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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According to others, it
comes from IttftCn, a young female, who having been severely attacked
in some satyrical verses, put an end to her existence: and on this account
they suppose that the Iambus
consists
of a short and a long, quod i i/'fj/s
e parvo orta principio, in magnum malum desinat,"
?
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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Augustus instituted seven
Cohortes
Vigilum, who paraded the city at
night under the command of their Præfectus, equipped with "hamæ" and
"dolabræ" to prevent fires.
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Satires |
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Jealousy
is a grief at another also having what one has one's self.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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No monarch was ever
monly
distinguished
from that period down to the more widely or more deeply beloved.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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We have an
enormous
nominal one at this time; but it is
only a name.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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Cases are reported where the usual period
was exceeded by five or six months; cases, too, where the circumstances
attending them and the respectability of their
reporters
are such as to
command our belief.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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Hold, let me look: indeed you're wondrous fair;
So, on the outside, Sodom's apples were:
And yet within, when opened to the view,
Not half so
dangerous
or so foul as you.
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Thomas Otway |
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He stands where all the eyes of men look one way, and
their hands all point in the
direction
in which he should go.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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At the harbour mouth a sail 5
Glimmers in the morning sun,
And the ripples at her prow
Whiten into
crumbling
foam,
As she forges outward bound
For the teeming foreign ports.
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Sappho |
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It was a pretty picture, full of grace,--
The slender form, the delicate, thin face;
The swaying motion, as she hurried by;
The shining feet, the
laughter
in her eye,
That o'er her face in ripples gleamed and glanced,
As in her pail the shifting sunbeam danced:
And with uncommon feelings of delight
The Earl of Halifax beheld the sight.
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Longfellow |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by
commercial
parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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How
glorious
fall the valiant, sword in hand, In front of battle for their native land !
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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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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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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The planning
of the project and the preparation of the
material
in its initial
stages were supervised by Professor Dorothy Douglas.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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My home,
lonesomeness
!
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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To whom can I tell the sad
thoughts
I think?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Princeton:
Princeton
University Press.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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Outre qu'il connaissait
admirablement les lieux, il appartenait à cette
catégorie
de gens du
peuple soucieux de leur intérêt, fidèles à ceux qu'ils servent,
indifférents à toute espèce de morale et dont--parce que, si nous les
payons bien, dans leur obéissance à notre volonté, ils suppriment
tout ce qui l'entraverait d'une manière ou de l'autre, se montrant
aussi incapables d'indiscrétion, de mollesse ou d'improbité que
dépourvus de scrupules,--nous disons: «Ce sont de braves gens.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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Showed him to man:i;:i' tlie Exchequer meeter ;
Digitized by VjOOQIC
233 THE POEMS
And who the forts would not
vouchsafe
a com.
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Marvell - Poems |
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interdum uouet, interdum, quod
langueat
illa,
dicit in aeternos aspera uerba deos.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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I grappled at once with the problem of Induction,
postponing that of Reasoning, on the ground that it is necessary to
obtain
premises
before we can reason from them.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Rushworth, never weary in the cause, would have proceeded towards the
principal staircase, and taken them through all the rooms above, if her
son had not
interposed
with a doubt of there being time enough.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-16 02:37 GMT / http://hdl.
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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In order to engage in Vajrayana it is
essential
to have direct contact with a Tantric Master, and to recognize him as the com- plete master (khyab.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Lewis Carroll |
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_Spring Love_
Through the weak spring rains
Two lovers walk together,
Holding
together
the parasol.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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He carried
everything
off with a swagger, but all
the while there was that blank, staring look in his eyes; he would fall into a kind of
reverie at every gap in the conversation.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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There is a whole
literature
of
the rose in English poetry.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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Die Nymphen haben die
goldenen
Wa?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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lo pueden provenir de un nivel
sobresaliente
de auto- motivacio?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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Yet, though the copy is wanted in haste, the
original is so
carelessly
written that I hardly know how to set about my
task.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Lo, the ship, at this opportunity, slipped slyly,
Making cunning
noiseless
travel down the ways.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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She balanced, a little budding messiah; her head over-weighted; not knowing what to do with her hands ; her
petticoat
so simple, art long, very long, and life so very inextensive ; so obviously ready for the cosy-corner, for little talks in conservatories .
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Third Self: And what of me, the love-ridden self, the flaming brand
of wild passion and
fantastic
desires?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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We find some proof in a passage from Derrida's meditation on the pit and the pyramid in which the author suddenly plunges into a dizzying
speculation
that goes far beyond the context.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:56 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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Essai d'une
psychologie
orig- inelle du litte?
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As 'twixt two equall Armies, Fate
Suspends
uncertaine victorie,
Our soules, (which to advance their state, 15
Were gone out,) hung 'twixt her, and mee.
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Even so man's frail power
will
prevail!
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Este é o único
ascetismo
final.
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see
Sections
3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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I suppose if my parents had been a little better educated
I’d have had ‘good’ books shoved down my throat, Dickens and
Thackeray
and so forth,
and in fact they did drive us through Quentin Durward at school and Uncle Ezekiel
sometimes tried to incite me to read Ruskin and Carlyle.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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I answer--as yet the first four books only: and as to my
opinion--(the reasons of which hereafter)--you may guess it from what
I could not help
muttering
to myself, when the good pastor this morning
told me, that Klopstock was the German Milton--"a very German Milton
indeed!
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The city fell under the sway of Argos at an early date and became
increasingly
Dorianized, yet it exported the worship of Poseidon to its colony of Halikarnassos in Karia.
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The lapis lazuli is so clear that everything happening in heaven can be seen
reflected
on the ground.
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OUIDA
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His hands were low; his head a little back; his face very calm,
-the eyes only had a daring, eager, resolute will lighting in
them:
Brixworth
lay before him.
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Amongst
many Frenchmen who had been sent to Newgate,
there was one Hubert, a young man of five or six
and twenty years of age, the son of a famous watch-
maker in the city of Roan ; and this fellow had
wrought in the same
profession
with several men
in LnndnM.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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The
profession which he
intended
to follow was that of physick; and he took
much delight in natural history, of which botany was his favourite part.
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7)
_splendor_
(in heaven): acc.
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]
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
by
JOHN STUART MILL
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I 1806-1819
CHILDHOOD AND EARLY EDUCATION
CHAPTER II 1813-1821
MORAL
INFLUENCES
IN EARLY YOUTH--MY FATHER'S CHARACTER AND OPINIONS
CHAPTER III 1821-1823
LAST STAGE OF EDUCATION, AND FIRST OF SELF-EDUCATION
CHAPTER IV 1823-1828
YOUTHFUL PROPAGANDISM--THE "WESTMINSTER REVIEW"
CHAPTER V 1826-1832
A CRISIS IN MY MENTAL HISTORY--ONE STAGE ONWARD
CHAPTER VI 1830-1840
COMMENCEMENT OF THE MOST VALUABLE FRIENDSHIP OF MY LIFE--MY FATHER'S
DEATH--WRITINGS AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS UP TO 1840
CHAPTER VII 1840-1870
GENERAL VIEW OF THE REMAINDER OF MY LIFE.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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There
were only two girls in the class who knew whether the earth went round the
sun or the sun round the earth, and not a single one of them could tell Dorothy
who was the last king before George V, or who wrote Hamlet , or what was
meant by a vulgar fraction, or which ocean you crossed to get to America, the
Atlantic or the Pacific And the big girls of fifteen were not much better than
the tiny infants of eight, except that the former could at least read
A Clergyman's Daughter 375
consecutively and write neat copperplate That was the one thing that nearly
all of the older girls could do-they could write neatly Mrs Creevy had seen to
that And of course, here and there in the midst of their ignorance, there were
small, disconnected islets of knowledge, for example, some odd stanzas from
‘pieces of poetry’ that they had learned by heart, and a few Ollendorffian
French
sentences
such as c .
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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