Toward the middle of
Finnegans
Wake (?
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A crude book like THE IRON HEEL, written nearly thirty years ago, is a truer
prophecy
of the future than either BRAVE NEW WORLD or THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO
COME.
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Orwell |
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Olympias the mother of Alexander killed Aridaeus, but then Cassander the son of Antipater
executed
her and both the sons of Alexander, the one by himself and the other (the son of Barsine) by prompting Polysperchon.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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He sobbed in such a
heartbroken
way
that those who were there, demoralized by the distress of it, were obliged
to rebuke him.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Private pension plans are diversifying into
equities
as the AMCON central resolution agency floats paper to handle another bank cleanup round.
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Kleiman International |
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But he was not a
remarkable
figure in society, and
consequently he escaped, to a certain degree.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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Faint cries and
laughter
from men and women
under the tower.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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They murdered the
citizens
indiscriminately, and acted cruelly in every other way.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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The
creative
power of Rome seemed to
have reached its zenith.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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XLI
But steal her sombre veil of mist away,
Although her reeds seem hands that clutch the dress
To hide her charms; thou hast no time to stay,
Yet who that once has known a dear caress
Could bear to leave a woman's unveiled
loveliness?
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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In the same way
there exist in every highly-civilized nation, big
private powers which actually exclude free com-
petition ; the State has to
restrain
their selfishness,
even if they do not injure any rights of third parties.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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But only after Nietzsche’s inversion of
Platonism
and Heidegger’s reorientation of philosophical reflection on the basis of “a different beginning” was it possible to recognize with greater certainty what a thinking whose generative pole had effectively stepped outside of the zone of metaphysical theories of essences would be all about.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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Soldiers
are good
hay pendencias y amoríos.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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The sign of extraordinary merit is to see that those who envy
it most are
constrained
to praise it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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From some curious people who are
perfectly
free.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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Thus all lower natures find their
highest good in semblances and
seekings
of that which is higher and better.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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What
a pity, that I did not dare to say what I then had
to say, as a poet: I could have done so
perhaps!
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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There can be little doubt that the
equalization
of property which we
have supposed, added to the circumstance of the labour of the whole
community being directed chiefly to agriculture, would tend greatly to
augment the produce of the country.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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Silence at length the gay Antinous broke,
Constrain'd a smile, and thus
ambiguous
spoke:
"What god to your untutor'd youth affords
This headlong torrent of amazing words?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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He is chiefly known for poems dealing with the Basūs War, in which a 40-year feud between the tribes of Taghlib and Bakr was
supposedly
ignited when his brother Kulayb was killed for slaughtering another tribe's stray camel.
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Translated Poetry |
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* Mueller:
Political
History of Recent Times.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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It
is made up of sixteen
different
Union or Soviet Socialist
Republics, organized on the basis of nationality and each
possessing a large degree of autonomy and "its own Con-
stitution, which takes account of the specific features of
the Republic and is drawn up in full conformity with
the Constitution of the U.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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Echoes of
Titmarsh
are heard in the
passages satirising Dickens and Carlyle; the characterisation and
the creation of a locality show complete originality.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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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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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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90
Enceladus
fled, but Athena threw on him in his flight the island of Sicily91; and she flayed Pallas and used his skin to shield her own body in the fight.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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thou art too laggard
a lover, and thou nothing
availest!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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In the first part of this book, the author develops the thesis that the
restoration of Poland is a
necessity
to the limitation of German
imperialism.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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There can
the genuineness this Will,
although
Edward's successor who held the crown direct opposi tion the limitations this will would natu
the rally disposed every means detract from validity.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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We know we have them in the
economic
and military fields.
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NSC-68 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:20 GMT / http://hdl.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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--I'm a believer in universal brotherhood, said Temple,
glancing
about
him out of his dark oval eyes.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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That white quivering sunlight that one sees now
in France, with its strange blotches of mauve, and its restless violet
shadows, is her latest fancy, and, on the whole, Nature
reproduces
it
quite admirably.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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His thoughts
dwelt
constantly
upon the unseen.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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'
And after the space of some hours his disciples came near him and bowed
themselves to the ground and said, 'Master, talk to us about God, for
thou hast the perfect
knowledge
of God, and no man save thee hath this
knowledge.
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Oscar Wilde |
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'
has postquam maesto profudit pectore uoces,
supplicium saeuis exposcens anxia factis,
annuit inuicto
caelestum
numine rector.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The format of the panel replicated in vivo the way testimony takes place with personal narrative, and brought the audience into intimate con- tact with mass and
individual
agonies, and resilience and creativity.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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A MEAN IN OUR MEANS
Though
frankincense
the deities require,
We must not give all to the hallow'd fire.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Once by the
churchyard
he had passed and for his mother's rest he had
not prayed.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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92 how could I bring myself to discuss our
livelihood?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in
forgetful
snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Although
a mirage contains no water
~ Confused beings want to drink it.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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Le culte des muses chez les
philosophes
grecs: e?
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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You see I rather chummed with the few
mechanics there were in that station, whom the other
pilgrims
naturally
despised--on account of their imperfect manners, I suppose.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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Anyone who now attends a lecture - this is the new ideal - should do so by essentially re-reading or re-listening to a text that is already known, and whoever chooses not to attend should
definitely
not forfeit the possibility of reading it or to listening to it at a later date.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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After having
mutually
given each other our
hands, we have made a sacred promise faith-
fully to maintain peace and faith, and to pro-
mote it every day more and more for the edi-
fication of the kingdom of God, and carefully
to avoid all occasions of dissension.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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_al-bi_,
compound
verb, 189 n.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Sống làm vợ khắp
người
ta,
Khéo thay thác xuống làm ma không chồng.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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”
I had enough of it, and went out, firmly
resolved
to find the key to the
riddle.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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This will prepare the way for a more
detailed
account of the milieu in which Trakl's writing found its home around 1912.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Ye shall watch while strong men draw
The nets of feudal law
To
strangle
the weak;
And, counting the sin for a sin,
Your soul shall be sadder within
Than the word ye shall speak.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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At last we were
scarcely
set
ashore at the fourth hour.
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Horace - Works |
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Cause,
principle
and unity
?
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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It is uncertain whether he is a son of the serve their
features
perfectly.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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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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The story is confirmed Thence he returned to Egypt, and publicly taught
by Jerome, who relates that this Hebrew Gospel his heretical
doctrines
at Alexandria.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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When a business man at Hippo left to the diocese his share of
profits in the service of boats for
carrying
Government stores, Augustin
came to the conclusion that it would be better to refuse.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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It must
necessarily
be so.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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For this reason the character of gentleman,
in the sense to which I have confined it, is
frequent
in England, rare
in France, and found, where it is found, in age or the latest period
of manhood; while in Germany the character is almost unknown.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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*The
Eternity
of Motion*.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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Is You Must Change Your Life a left-wing
manifesto?
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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; sub-
mits, 198; death of, 199
Frederick,
Archbishop
of Ravenna, 221, 224
Frederick, brother of Adalbero of Metz,
Duke of Upper Lorraine, 201
Frederick II, Duke of Upper Lorraine, 270
Frederick of Luxemburg, Duke of Lower
Lorraine, 289
Frederick, Count, 290
Freising, bishop of.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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]
XLIII
In the History, Tze-chang said: What's the mean- ing of the
statement
: Kao-tsung observing the imperial rnourning did not speak for three years?
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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Engliinderin, is now in the
Sprengel
Museum.
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Samuel Beckett |
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JOHNSON'S
FAREWELL
TO HIS MOTHER'S AGED SERVANT
UNDAY, Oct.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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He was
beheaded
on Tower-hill, January 23, 1697, aged 52 ; and was buried near the altar, in the church of St.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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The masses mass madder, both
numbskull
and sage;
They root up the arbours, they trample the grain;
Make way for the new Resurrected.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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Olho-o, voltando-me, com um
silêncio
cheio de ódio, escuto antecipadamente, numa tensão de homicídio latente, a voz que ele vai usar para me dizer qualquer coisa.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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If a crowd destroys a house, pronounces a judgment, or breaks out into shouting, the actions of the individual
subjects
are summarized into an event that we describe as one, as the realization of an idea.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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_ 81]
* * * * *
THE POET'S
ASSIGNMENT
OF HIS WORKS.
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--
Panopeie -- the JE preserved, and made short
before the
following
vowel.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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" Many of them, like the ATM around the corner, the check-in device at the local airport, or the program at the cus- tomer service number of your Mastercard, simply replace former
institutions
and situations of face-to-face interaction.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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On that occasion
there was much
learning
and good-humor in the con-
versation.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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Andrew Mueller, 'An
argument
with Sir Iqbal', Independent on Sunday, 2 April 2006, Sunday Review section, 12-16.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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The Ascetic Suspension of Alienation: The Five Fronts
These considerations enable us to define the
consequences
of the ethical distinction more precisely: it aims for the systematic weaning of the subject from the reality effects of the Iron Age.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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A good story travels far, and the path which it wan-
ders from people to people is often easy to follow; but the more vola-
tile contents of the popular lyric we are not speaking of its tune,
which is carried in every
direction
are easily lost.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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In 1824 he once more fell under the
imperial
displeasure.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
March 2 2018: There are some problems with the automated software used to prevent abuse of the Web site (mainly to prevent mass downloads from hurting site performance for
everyone
else).
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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Love and a Question
A
STRANGER
came to the door at eve,
And he spoke the bridegroom fair.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:30 GMT / http://hdl.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Then, in the overflow of his happiness,
his creative genius blazed up into a most
wonderful
flame; but he soon
discovered that the promise was not to be at once fulfilled.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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My draught of passion hath been deep--
I revell'd, and I now would sleep
And after
drunkenness
of soul
Succeeds the glories of the bowl
An idle longing night and day
To dream my very life away.
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Poe - 5 |
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'105-106'
In Shakespeare's play Othello
fiercely
demands to see a handkerchief
which he has given his wife, and takes her inability to show it to him
as a proof of her infidelity.
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Alexander Pope |
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ON AN INVITATION TO THE UNITED STATES
I
MY ardours for emprize nigh lost
Since Life has bared its bones to me,
I shrink to seek a modern coast
Whose riper times have yet to be;
Where the new regions claim them free
From that long drip of human tears
Which peoples old in tragedy
Have left upon the
centuried
years.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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[403] Next are the means for
purifying
oneself.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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[735] In it too were the twin sons of Antiope,
daughter
of Asopus, Amphion and Zethus, and Thebe still ungirt with towers was lying near, whose foundations they were just then laying in eager haste.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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22
Macrinus, with his son Diadumenus, were made imperatores by the army, ruled fourteen months, and were cut down by the same army, because Macrinus began to check
military
luxury and increased pay.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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When first I gaed to woo my Jenny,
Ye then was
trotting
wi' your minnie:
Tho' ye was trickie, slee, an' funnie,
Ye ne'er was donsie;
But hamely, tawie, quiet, an' cannie,
An' unco sonsie.
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burns |
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7 All these things, as I have frequently said, were done out of contempt for Gallienus, a man given over to luxury and ever ready, did he feel free from danger, for any
disgraceful
deed.
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Historia Augusta |
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Reasons of state opposed their early union--
But can it, sire, be thought she ever gave
To the state council such
authority?
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Friedrich Schiller |
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Our model
biologists
are rather puzzled and don’t know what they are supposed to do with this junk.
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From this
slaughter
Neleus alone escaped (frags.
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the
architrave
some were as much as 30 feet long.
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Literacy itself, at least until the very recent accomplishment of
universal
literacy, has had a sharply selective sorting effect.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Her burning breath
scorched
my cheeks; she
bent close down to my face as though trying to make sure.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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What
sort of men must these citizens have been who formed a stable
and flourishing State with
institutions
so variable?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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In
pilerinage
fer & ner
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And again the goddess murky
Night, though she lay with none, bare Blame and painful Woe, and the
Hesperides who guard the rich, golden apples and the trees bearing fruit
beyond
glorious
Ocean.
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