In
spite of the lip-service that is paid everywhere to youth, there is no such thing as a person
in a truly
commanding
position who is less than fifty years old.
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The right of
sovereignty
was the right to take life or let live.
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This is why, for all the misrepresentation and suppression, Marxist
scholarship
survives.
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And
Whiskerandos
quits
this bustling scene For all eter--
_Beef_.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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The
butterflies
spread their sails on the sea of light.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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[131]
Antipater_of_Thessalonica →
[132]
Theodoridas →
[133]
Antipater_of_Thessalonica →
[134]
Meleager →
[135] Anonymous { F 86 } G
On the Picture of Medea in Rome
The art of
Timomachus
mingled the love and jealousy of Medea as she drags her children to death.
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Greek Anthology |
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crivains alle-
mands
rapportent
toutes les ide?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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He
hastened
thither and found that money was needed to
carry out his plans.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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Therefore
my mistress' eyes are raven black,
Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem
At such who, not born fair, no beauty lack,
Sland'ring creation with a false esteem:
Yet so they mourn becoming of their woe,
That every tongue says beauty should look so.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Hauskuld
gave them a hearty welcome, and they stayed there that night.
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brennu-njals_saga.en |
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true, since, as he himself says in [He always
detested
Lying, tho' never so much for his Advantage and hoped none would be so unjust, or uncharitable, to think he'd venture on in these his last Words, for which he was so soon going to give an Ac count to the Great God, the Searcher of Hearts, and Judge of all Things.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Crystallization
designates
the plan to generalize boredom normatively and to prevent the renewed intrusion of "history" into the posthistori- cal world.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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We shall speak of them in our
description
of
Achaia.
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Strabo |
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19 When his
treasury
was low, Dionysius imposed a tax on the people.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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Flexibility in this context means overcoming not only the
inability
to act positively but also
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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The Elegies have
never before been published as here, together in the
cyclical
form of
their original conception.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The unusual
arrangement
of lines is probably mystic.
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Pattern Poems |
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It is true
some young students complained to me that on the
first few occasions they were quite unable to hear
what he said, that his delivery was much too rapid,
and that they were
irritated
by the gurgling noise
with which he from time to time unwittingly
drew in his breath.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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He commanded the
chasseurs
de la garde at Wa-
terloo, and enfonça some of your battalions.
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Napoleon - 1822 - Memoirs |
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' Being very hungry, however, he very prudently
resolved
to fill his belly first, and make his store for the future afterwards.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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To him the
hereditary
countenance descends, both
mother's and father's.
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Whitman |
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462 Student ]
Lachnicki
D.
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Dziady_(Mickiewicz) |
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‘All right,’ said Dorothy finally, ‘thanks very much I’ll come round-
about half past eight, I expect ’
‘Good If you can manage to come while it is still daylight, so much the
better Remember that Mrs Sempnll is my next-door neighbour We can
count on her to be on the qm vive any time after sundown ’
Mrs Semprill was the town scandalmonger-the most eminent, that is, of the
town’s many scandalmongers Having got what he wanted (he was constantly
pestering Dorothy to come to his house more often), Mr Warburton said au
revoir and left Dorothy to do the remainder of her shopping
In the semi-gloom of Solepipe’s shop, she was just moving away from the
counter with her two and a half yards of casement cloth, when she was aware of
a low,
mournful
voice at her ear It was Mrs Semprill She was a slender
woman of forty, with a lank, sallow, distinguished face, which, with her glossy
dark hair and air of settled melancholy, gave her something the appearance of a
Van Dyck portrait Entrenched behind a pile of cretonnes near the window.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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: _a se_ Da
278 _abitum_ ODa:
_habitum_
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Latin - Catullus |
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On
Literature
119
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Foucault-Live |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you
discover
a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain
materials
and make them widely accessible.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Labor leaders, peasant leaders, parliamentary delegates, and others critical of the new regime were beaten, exiled, or murdered by fascist terror
squadristi
The Italian Communist party endured the severest repression of all, yet managed to maintain a courageous underground resistance that eventually evolved into armed struggle against the Blackshirts and the German occupation force.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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"
"Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes,
stretching
his long,
thin legs towards the fire.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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3s Yet, whenever it suited his convenience, Ledwich is not ashamed to leave his incon-
sistency
on record.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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'
Woe him that cunning trades in hearts
contrives!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Their sons go
earliest
to school and leave it latest.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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”
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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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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It
requires
projecting intentions.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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--lest her sweet soul, amid its
hallowed
mirth,
"Should catch the note, as it doth float--up from the damned Earth.
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Poe - 5 |
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We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made
our way over to
England
without being suspected.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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The splendid slag left behind by this volcanic en- deavor was a large library bought with funds Count Leinsdorf had provided to start the
Parallel
Campaign, and together with Diotima's own books they had been set up as the only decoration in the last of the emptied rooms.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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These are the substances
searched
for and ingested by the true Immortals, the ?
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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But it
appears to him, that the only remarkable
features
of the sketch are
its frank and genuine good-humor, and the general accuracy with which
he has conveyed his sincere impressions of the characters therein
described.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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Or forms that cross a window-blind
In circle, knot, and queue:
Gay forms, that cross and whirl and wind
To music
throbbing
through?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Wille Wiseman, late of the British secret service,
ensconced
in Kuhn, Loeb and Co.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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That man want to ruin
himself!
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Aristophanes |
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Bozo began to give me some
elementary hints on astronomy,
pointing
out-the chief constellations.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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France produces the finest flower
of
corruption
in Mallarme but the desirable life is revealed only to the
poor of heart, the life of Homer's Phaeacians.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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" The ves-
sel still lay calmly at anchor in the bay, those on
board being apparently quite unconscious of any
danger
awaiting
them.
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Poe - v05 |
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A truer cause of this distaste for the severer studies may
probably
be
found in his natural indolence and his love of convivial pleasures.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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He wanted to know my ideas concerning Koreans, and especially Korean children and the rising
generation
trained in our schools.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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He was a simple and devoted soul; but when he devoted
himself to me entirely I began to hate him
immediately
and repulsed
him--as though all I needed him for was to win a victory over him, to
subjugate him and nothing else.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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and who
That marks the fire still sparkling in each eye,
Who would but deem their bosom burned anew
With thy
unquenched
beam, lost Liberty!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Thus, Russian
geopolitics
could only be Eurasianist, since it is responsible for restoring Russia's great power status.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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the man who throws away his shield through
cowardice
or speaks harshly through bad temper or fails to help a friend with money through meanness), when a man acts graspingly he often exhibits none of these vices,-no, nor all together, but certainly wickedness of some kind (for we blame him) and injustice.
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Aristotle copy |
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And first, seeing to speake against the Holy Ghost, as
being the third Person of the Trinity, is to speake against the Church,
in which the Holy Ghost resideth; it seemeth the comparison is made,
betweene the Easinesse of our Saviour, in bearing with offences done to
him while he was on earth, and the
Severity
of the Pastors after him,
against those which should deny their authority, which was from the Holy
Ghost: As if he should say, You that deny my Power; nay you that shall
crucifie me, shall be pardoned by mee, as often as you turne unto mee by
Repentance: But if you deny the Power of them that teach you hereafter,
by vertue of the Holy Ghost, they shall be inexorable, and shall not
forgive you, but persecute you in this World, and leave you without
absolution, (though you turn to me, unlesse you turn also to them,) to
the punishments (as much as lies in them) of the World to come: And
so the words may be taken as a Prophecy, or Praediction concerning the
times, as they have along been in the Christian Church: Or if this be
not the meaning, (for I am not peremptory in such difficult places,)
perhaps there may be place left after the Resurrection for the
Repentance of some sinners: And there is also another place, that
seemeth to agree therewith.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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21; the
learning
of many
languages injurious, 247; a new language pre-
dicted, 248.
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Nietzsche - v18 |
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A portion of Pope's revised edition of his
poetical works was passing through the press at the time of his
death, and
Warburton
directed the printer to give the sheets,
when the executors inquired for them, to their colleague the
celebrated Murray, who was afterwards Lord Mansfield,
adding, “Pray preserve all the press copy to the least scrap.
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Alexander Pope - v01 |
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He was so great an adept in the art of trans-
lation that he invariably
preserved
even the original
form.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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LXVI
Sir, think not that more inland on the plain
The warfare is less mortal than along
The stream, nor that the troops behind remain
Which to the duke of
Lancaster
belong.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Following the stage
direction
"Lighming.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Why are the vital parts not split by trouble of the earth
element?
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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"
When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
Where our table with
cherries
and nuts is spread:
Come live, and be merry, and join with me,
To sing the sweet chorus of "Ha, ha, he!
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blake-poems |
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"There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End
called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in
order to see whether
anything
had turned up which might suit me.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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"
[247] Thus they spake here and there throughout the city; but the women often raised their hands to the sky in prayer to the
immortals
to grant a return, their hearts' desire.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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It
expresses
itself as bottomless settlement, as an arbitrary taste for suffering and for letting-suffer, as roaming destruction with no specific motive.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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Advisors, nobles, and
courtiers
fill the room, their faces reflecting the tension that hangs in the air.
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Phrynicus - Elara and Alastor |
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Happily the rascals had not the
patience
to wait.
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Hitler-Table-Talk |
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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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And
when Hera and Zeus quarrel unseemly (as Homer declareth), this meant
(said the learned in thy days) no more than the strife and confusion of
the elements, and was not in the beginning an idle
slanderous
tale.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Triumend an der Schreibmaschin'
saB die kleine Josephin',
die
Sehnsucht
des Herzens, die Ghrte die Hand.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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[827] PLATO (or
AMMONIUS)
{ F 22a } G
On the Same
I am the dear servant of horned Dionysus, and pour forth the water of the silver Naiads, soothing the young boy who rests asleep .
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Greek Anthology |
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The simple verb censeo made censui and
censivi in the perfect, centum and
censitum
in the supine; hence we find
in an old inscription, censlta sunt', for censa sunt; and in the writers on
the civil law, censlti for censi: so also the noun censor is a contraction
from censitor, and occurs in the latter form in another inscription which
has come down to us, as well as in the writings of the ancient lawyers.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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In the earlier
sections
of A Portrait we visit other Irish places, but briefly.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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In these drawings
Figure 1 is a plan view of a central station; Figure 2 is a
modification
of Figure 1;
application for patent to be filed by me.
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Edison |
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For the Mahayanist this type of analysis would not be adequate for liberating the mind from ignorance, since the very emptiness of
substantiality
of the component phenomena themselves is what must be seen and experienced.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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But thou, who, in my voice's sink and fall
When the sob took it, thy divinest Art's
Own
instrument
didst drop down at thy foot
To harken what I said between my tears, .
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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With these words virtue removes its wrathful armor, the spirit of man lays its scepter aside and all thoughts vanish before the image of the world's eternal unity, just as the rules of the
struggling
artist vanish before his Urania; and iron fate abdicates its power, and death vanishes from the union of beings, and indivisibility and eternal youth bless and beautify the world" (1797/2008, Benjamin translation: 12).
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Hegel_nodrm |
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Hann var
bróðir
Bjarna og bjó á þeim bæ í Hrafnkelsdal, er að Hóli hét, gegnt Aðalbóli fyrir austan.
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hrafnkels_saga_freysgoda.is |
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The butterfiy's assumption-gown,
In chrysoprase apartments hung,
This
afternoon
put on.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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That is to say, the action has no deeper
significance
than any
other actual warfare; it has not been, and could not have been, shaped
to any symbolic purpose.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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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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Yet for the essay, culture is not some epiphenomenon
superimposed
on being that must be elim- inated, but rather what lies underneath is itself artificial (thesei), false society.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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DEVANT LA CONVENTION
NATIONALE
CITOYENS,
DÉLÉGUÉS
DU PEUPLE,
UNE
NE accusation , sinon très-redoutable,
au moins très-grave et très-soleinnelle , a
été intentée contre moi, devant la conven-.
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Robespierre - 1792 - Résponse de Maximilien Robespierre, a l'accusation de M. Louvet, devant la Convention nationale |
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Carrying this question to absurdity
surfaces
the question of whether insemination (natural or artificial) is appropriately called (contingent) work product.
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John Vermes |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:55 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
|
Since, nevertheless, it is required as practically necessary, it can only be found in a progress in infinitum towards that perfect accordance, and on the principles of pure
practical
reason it is necessary to as- sume such a practical progress as the real object of our will.
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But the worst enemy thou canst meet, wilt thou
thyself always be; thou
waylayest
thyself in
caverns and forests.
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within the gloom
Of yonder trees methought a figure passed-
A
spectral
figure, solemn, and slow, and noiseless-
Like the grim shadow Conscience, solemn and noiseless.
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Always a bit
unsettled
and irritable, the col- laborating consciousness looks around for its lost na;vetes, to which there is no return, since the attainment of consciousness is irrevers- ible.
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He ordered him at the same time to be
gone, and from all his former
domestics
to chuse one such as he should
think proper, which was all that should be granted to attend him.
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Your
abandoned
shadow In the red of evening
Is a dark pirate ship
Of the salty oceans of confusion.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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It is doubtful how far their
intimacy
was carried.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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As such, a person's anger is
directed
at anyone, past or present, who can be identified with the absence of protection - above parties, below parties, principled parties (who bring to mind the gravity of the situation and who seem to be able to internally generate some of the desperately needed protection), and, of course, some of the person's anger is directed towards themself.
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paradigm |
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How can you help
yourself?
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it
universally
accessible and useful.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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1, 1862]
_These verses were written in memory of General Philip Kearny,
killed at
Chantilly
after he had ridden out in advance of his men
to reconnoitre.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Dimpling the lucid pools, the
fragrant
breeze
Sighs o'er the lawns, and whispers thro' the trees;
Refresh'd, the lily rears the silver head,
And opening jasmines o'er the arbours spread.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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He
merely
negotiates
a purchase or sale as agent for
another under specific orders.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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Shambhala
Guide to Taoism.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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The
heroes of Ariosto meet beautiful women in the palace of Alcina:--
"Before the threshold wanton damsels wait,
Or, sport between the pillars of the gate:
But, beauty more had brighten'd in their face
Had modesty attemper'd ev'ry grace;
In vestures green each damsel swept the ground,
Their temples fair, with leafy
garlands
crown'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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[10]
Isabella
was the name of this princess; and the grateful
poet did not forget to embalm it in his verse.
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The man in red who reads the Law
Gave him three weeks of life,
Three little weeks in which to heal
His soul of his
soul’s
strife,
And cleanse from every blot of blood
The hand that held the knife.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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For those
uninterested
in nuance, their English meanings should appear evident.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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