244), to
Rome, where he spent the
remainder
of his life as a teacher of
philosophy.
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Urswick, command the
Dukeling
and these fellows
To Digby, the Lieutenant of the Tower.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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Five times the moon her empty horns conceal'd,
Five times her broad
effulgence
shone reveal'd,
When, wrapt in clouds of dust, her mural pride
Falls thund'ring,--black the smoking breach yawns wide.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Again, too, the Synod of the Lateran (769), by
anathematizing the opponents of images, had
completed
the religious
separation between Rome and the East.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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She lost her liberty because she
completed
her work too
soon.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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A poet from
Derbyshire
(Moore) told me he had seen no such heart' s-ease.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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They were designed, as consequence, to eman cipate the plebeian members of the senate from the sub
ordinate
position which they occupied as silent by-sitters (p.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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One must have the intelligence to
distinguish
between good and bad explanations, otherwise one may reject correct explanations and adopt incorrect ones.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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The walls of
its—church
were 60 feet by 20.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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In the present collection, I have purposely included only those
poems in which this national vice is less in evidence; and this was not
a
difficult
task.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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Time, which hath wronged thee with ten thousand rents
Of thine imperial garment, shall deny,
And hath denied, to every other sky,
Spirits which soar from ruin:--thy decay
Is still impregnate with divinity,
Which gilds it with
revivifying
ray;
Such as the great of yore, Canova is to-day.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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All too small, even the
greatest
man !
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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He
rivalled
Euripides, (?
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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The faithful did at that day give
abundantly
even of that which was their own, but we are not only content at this day wickedly to suppress that which we have in our hands, but do also rob others.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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I to inflict,
Prometheus
—
They last while Jove must reign ; nor more nor less Do I desire or fear.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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Him thoughte his
sorweful
herte braste a-two.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Owing to the rising
influence
of the Western
Powers there began, with Mahmud II, the aston-
ishing attempt to alter Turkey according to the
pattern of the unified Western States.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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News & World Report con- demned Ho Chi Minh for "plouing new Red
aggression
in Southeast Asia.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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The
openness
of beings we call unconcealment-aletheia, truth.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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The presence of Petrarch in the
court of Robert, King of Naples, is far more likely to have been the
kindling of his genius to its subsequent activity: and the passion he
acquired while there for the
illegitimate
daughter of the King, Maria,—
the Fiammetta of his later life,-furnished the fuel for its burning;
his first work, the 'Filocopo,' being written as an offering to her.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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This is scarcely a matter for
argument; a reader can do no more than state his own subjective
impression, though he is glad to find that
impression
confirmed by the
unanimous authority of fifty generations of Hindus, surely the most
competent judges on such a point.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Rappellerai-je maintenant nos anciennes
souillures
et les honteux desordres qui ont precede notre marriage, l'indigne trahison enfin dont je me suis rendu coupable envers ton oncle, moi son hote et son commensal, en te seduisant si impudemment ?
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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Publius
Cornelius
Scipio: Nasica was one of the consuls in 138 BCE.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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The chief seat of Turgeis'
government
appears to have been, at Armagh ; while constant reinforcements oftheLochlannacharrivedfromNorway.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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Under the ice,
perhaps?
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
and he knew that it was mine, --
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
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blake-poems |
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You have found
salvation
from death.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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As the price of raw
produce continues to rise, these inferior machines are successively
called into action; and as the price of raw produce continues to fall,
they are
successively
thrown out of action.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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The digital images and OCR of this work were
produced
by Google, Inc.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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The same might be said of Africanus and Laelius, than whose language (you tell us) nothing in the world can be sweeter: nay, you have mentioned it with a kind of veneration, and endeavoured to dazzle our judgment by the great character they bore, and the
uncommon
elegance of their manners.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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Candor's handwriting has been
pronounced
that of Sir
Philip Francis ?
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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For many have promised
themselves
that they were Ver.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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And until you learn it and its meaning, till you learn the bearin' and depth of every word I am tellin' you, you will be more IGNORANT than the American President, even if you do think
yourselves
more level-headed.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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And yet a strange and horrid curse
Clung upon Peter, night and day;
Month after month the thing grew worse, _700
And
deadlier
than in this my verse
I can find strength to say.
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Shelley |
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--
As if with keenness for our fate,
Our
faltering
few steps on
To white rest, and a place of rest
Invisible at dawn,--
And yet with neither love nor hate,
Those stars like some snow-white
Minerva's snow-white marble eyes
Without the gift of sight.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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It was
reprinted
by
the Sao Yeh Co.
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Li Po |
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Piercing with the lance a
suspended
ring, as one rode at full speed, was
a favorite sport of the day.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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A solidão desola-me; a
companhia
oprime-me.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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Thehostilitytohappinessof
official
critical thought can be felt particularly in Kant's transcendental dialectic: it wants to eternalize the boundary between understanding
and speculation, and, according to its characteristic metaphor, to pre- vent any "roaming around in intelligible worlds.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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Familiarity
tempts us
to regard it with less reverence.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Latin - Catullus |
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And so
again and yet again proffer I you my
heartiest
thanks.
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Twain - Speeches |
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Nietzsche exposes his
Dionysian
alchemy, that is, his talent for changing a he-goat into a musician, at this one point more clearly than anywhere else.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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Withers, Carl, and Sula Benet
1954 The
American
Riddle Book.
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Childens - Folklore |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The vacant chair in the Council
Chamber where Roon had sat
reminded
him ' that I once
had a comrade.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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Lastly, hee
bringeth
for argument, the testimony of two Popes, Innocent,
and Leo; and I doubt not but hee might have alledged, with as good
reason, the testimonies of all the Popes almost since S.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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O jardim da Estrela, à tarde, é para mim a
sugestão
de um parque antigo, nos séculos antes do descontentamento da alma.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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While Ford is still cooperating with the
Soviets under a $30,000,000
contract
to supply
plans, engineers and automobile parts for the Nijny
Novgorod plant, it appears unlikely that the Soviets
should ignore his protest against the sale abroad of
Soviet model Fordsons.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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He, with modest mien, retrents, Christian-like,
To the far-sequester'd green, or close copse,
And, without
desiring
to be seen, shines.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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Ac cordingly he and his companion set out upon new adventures, and riding over Shooter's-hill, they met
two post-chaises ; in one of which was a supercargo
belonging
to the East India Company, and in the other two gentlemen, whom they disarmed, after a
rJ
fought.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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At his entrance into
the world of science, he meets with many things which
seem to him strange and unaccountable, insignificant or un-
attractive ;--he cannot
conceive
the grounds of their neces-
?
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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VII
--Yet, voices haunting us,
daunting
us, taunting us,
Hint in the night-time when life beats are low
Other and graver things .
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The shutter had not been made
fast, and I could see the
banqueters
and catch what they were saying.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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and sing the Man of Ross:
Pleased Vaga echoes through her winding bounds,
And rapid Severn hoarse
applause
resounds.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Peter the Great did not, however, succeed in
securing
a sea-
port in warm water which would be a secure outlet to the main
ocean routes.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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Generations
and genera-
tions of men have passed that stone, and it still waits for a man
with an altruistic idea.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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[At a dinner-party, where
politics
ran high, lines signed by men who
called themselves the true loyal natives of Dumfries, were handed to
Burns: he took a pencil, and at once wrote this reply.
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Robert Burns |
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Early on, friends and
colleagues
who were close to him realized that other forces were also at work within the psyche of the great stylist ?
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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If money falls in value, all
commodities
rise in
price; and if the effect is confined to one country, it will affect its
foreign commerce in the same way as a high price of commodities caused
by general taxation; and therefore in examining the effects of a low
value of money confined to one country, we are also examining the
effects of a high price of commodities confined to one country.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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Included in the Esdaile
manuscript
book.
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Shelley |
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I could hear his
voice in the hall, asking the way to the nearest
telegraph
office.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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A unique exception to this characteristic of the nobility comes about through the accumulation or ideal crystallization of
dignities
and offices, fortunes and honors, duties and rights that are gained within the family and social stratum and in which every member shared--not pro rata as with a share but as an indivisible property that is, as it were, the a priori of every personal being and act.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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)
Major
Exposition
on the Treasure by Parsva and Vasumitra II Mahii-vibh~ii (?
| Guess: |
rgyun gyi rtag pa |
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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Doch den Tod bringt Alles dir,
wo dich dein
Verhängnis
zieht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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Nor was it long after this, that several
Persons were tried for Rioters, who attended the Election of Sheriffs and Mayor, and Fines were passed upon many worthy Citizens, as Rioters on that Occasion ; in promoting which, this Person as a Counsellor by his florid
Rhetorick
was mainly in strumental, by giving the Court an Account of their respective Abilities, the better to settle the Fines; but the Lord Chief Justice Saunders dying, he succeeded him as Lord Chief Justice of the King?
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Likewise, one of the same handmaids of God, being smitten with the same
disease, and reduced to the last extremity, began on a sudden, about
midnight, to cry out to them that
ministered
to her, desiring they would
put out the lamp that was lighted there.
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bede |
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Having pleaded a cause for some one when he was
exceedingly
old, after he had finished speaking, he leaned back with his head on the bosom of his daughter's son; and after the advocate on the opposite side had spoken, and the judges had given their decision in favour of Bias's client, when the court broke up he was found dead on his grandson's bosom.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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And each generation keeps on translating
the
thoughts
of the last into its own vernacular.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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The
decisive
battle was fought near Trifanum of the
single
Romans.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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1
1
Supposed
to be a corruption of the Hebrew for "as the Lord wills," the Romans supposing that the Jews, when they pronounced those words, uttered the name of some deity, which they wrote Anchialus.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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In 1930 he was one of
the official representatives sent by a the Polish government to the _ un-
veiling of the Pulaski
monument
in Savannah, Ga.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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Emily,inhercorrespondencewithherfa-
ther, expressed that warm
affection
which
neither absence nor circumstances can
ever diminish in the breast of an amiable
?
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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" And, in a postscript to the same epistle, he adds, " The strong Kentish-man, (of whom you have heard so many stories) has, as I told you above, taken up his
quarters
in Dorset-gardens, and how they'll get him out again the Lord knows, for he threatens to thrash all the Poets, if they pretend to disturb him.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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Though old Ulysses
tortured
from his slumbers
The glutted Cyclops, what care?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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; she
received
them with a very
gracious smile of welcome, and bade
them walk in: her plush coat was now.
| Guess: |
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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TO A BUDDHA SEATED ON A LOTUS
Lord Buddha, on thy Lotus-throne,
With praying eyes and hands elate,
What mystic rapture dost thou own,
Immutable and
ultimate?
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
1
Divine revelation we find in every
religious
phenomenon which so impresses us with the power of the religious truth and beauty conveyed in as to make us feel ourselves lifted beyond ourselves and our own spiritual capacity.
| Guess: |
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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Infections had
developed
in the areas of his legs swollen by the chains.
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| Source: |
Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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Any
Marxist can demonstrate with the
greatest
of ease that ‘bourgeois’ liberty of thought is an
illusion.
| Guess: |
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Orwell |
|
) Have a look, is either of
them
blushing?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
|
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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Imagists |
|
"The current was more rapid now, the steamer seemed at her last gasp,
the stern-wheel flopped languidly, and I caught myself listening on
tiptoe for the next beat of the boat, for in sober truth I
expected
the
wretched thing to give up every moment.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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[322] _Qui mores hominum
multorum
vidit.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Bosola — Yes, and the more dangerously, since thy
sickness
is in-
sensible.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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two stages from A-tun-tzu, a
distance
of about 105 Ii [I Ii - a bit less than 1/3 mile] .
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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Because Theocritus received nothing from Hieron, he
composed
this idyll, which has as its title "The Graces" [or "The Favours"].
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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And he said that these did no other thing but row
boats, and throw balls from one to the other, and this they were made to
do, he said, that the young priests might learn to be humble, for they
are the
proudest
of men.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer lived;
which exactly
explains
my view of the nature of their attachments.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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These I
remember
and they go to make up my sketch of their moral character.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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Ave, Dea;
moriturus
te salutat
(Hail, Goddess; he who is about to die salutes you)
To Judith Gautier
Death and beauty are two things profound,
So of dark and azure, that one might say that
They were two sisters terrible and fecund
Possessing the one enigma, the one secret.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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_ You have nothing to be afraid of as far as
Krogstad
is
concerned; but you must tell him.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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I looked for him behind an isle of trees;
I listened for his
whetstone
on the breeze.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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In order to establish the
otherworldly
place of purgatory as a third eschatological space, the introduction of a processual moment into the heretofore timeless and statically conceived divine world became necessary.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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8 Then he threw aside all restraint and
compelled
Servianus to kill himself, on the ground that he aspired to the empire, merely because he gave a feast to the royal slaves, sat in a royal chair placed close to his bed, and, though an old man of ninety, used to arise and go forward to meet the guard of soldiers.
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Historia Augusta |
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This
fellow, as void of shame as honesty, as he opened the now
trebly secured door, asked her, with a leer which made her
shudder, whether she
remembered
him?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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"Is it
probable
that the sun
would throw his rays on nothing, and that the
nocturnal vigils of the stars should be wasted upon
untravelled seas and unpeopled countries?
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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For this reason, I think the definite criterion of prosody a very valuable one in the
training
of the imagination.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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