2 We are having
satisfactory
news here about Dolabella, but we have nobody definitely to vouch for it.
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His
attempts
to gain the Roman regents to his interests remained without success; but he did not recoil before the idea of being obliged to maintain his new kingdom with arms in hand even against the Romans.
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"Anaxagoras," he says, "uses Mind only as a kind of last resort,
dragging it in when he fails
otherwise
to account for a phenomenon, but
never thinking of it else.
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VERSES
ADDRESSED
TO THE NOBLE AND UNFORTUNATE LADY, EMILIA V--,
NOW IMPRISONED IN THE CONVENT OF --.
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Shelley copy |
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When a torch is spun around oneself at night, it creates the illusion of a
tangible
wheel.
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They view
themselves
as suffering unjustly
under the lash, without friends, without protection of law or gospel,
and the green eyed monster tyranny staring them in the face.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Otherwise they
had no clear
relation
to any of the stories which Ovid had been telling.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intran- sigent and belligerent; if they
appeared
willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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And assuming a certain
lifetime
a lifl'time.
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Samuel Beckett |
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quite hje
accident^
and good
little'flrauk^^helkttfedhiq^^ii?
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Childrens - Frank |
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They heard when Pelion 's woody hill
101
And the seven Theban portals rang 165 With strains which the
melodious
skill
Of the gold -netted Muses sang .
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Pindar |
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It further
told them that an enemy might find new strength, life,
and rejuvenation in the very means by which an imscru-
pulous vengeance sought to overthrow him or sharpen
mortal arms against him ; as Rome found a second era of
greatness in Christianity, which Iridion intended should
become the instrument of his hatred ; as the Teutonic
order
encountered
the like in the Reformation ; or as
Russia shall perhaps yet meet in the material civilization
of our century.
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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Generated for
Christian
Pecaut (University of Chicago) on 2014-12-24 15:01 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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Many a spear
morning-cold shall be clasped amain,
lifted aloft; nor shall lilt of harp
those
warriors
wake; but the wan-hued raven,
fain o'er the fallen, his feast shall praise
and boast to the eagle how bravely he ate
when he and the wolf were wasting the slain.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Finally, the Daode jing advises the
practitioner
to learn to accept the natural course of things.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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Considering, then, the
writings
and fame of
Sir W.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Without anthropology we would lose our
consciousness
of the dark causes of that in which we possess ourselves .
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:29 GMT / http://hdl.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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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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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Certainly
the length is thinner and the rest, the round rest
has a longer summer.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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Then do not thou, my son, at pleasure's beck,
dethrone
thy reason for a woman's sake ; knowing that this is a joy that soon grows cold in clasping arms, — an evil woman to share thy bed and thy home.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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Gene: One of the people who spoke at the last Wilson Yard meeting [in 2004] said that this process is not
legitimate
because this process has taken so long.
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To compress a catastrophic war within the span of time that a man can stay awake drastically changesthepoliticsofwar,theprocessofdecision,thepossibil- ity of central control and restraint, the
motivations
of people in charge, and the capacity to think and reflect while war is in progress.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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"
"Thou canst lead a host against Troy; be
Agamemnon!
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Epictetus |
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And even if your education in studies and reflections is boundless, unless you succeed in being in harmony with the Dharma, you will not tame your enemy,
negative
emotions.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive
Foundation
are tax deductible to the full extent
permitted by U.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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LXXVI
Ye have heard how Marsyas,
In the folly of his pride,
Boasted of a
matchless
skill,--
When the great god's back was turned;
How his fond imagining 5
Fell to ashes cold and grey,
When the flawless player came
In serenity and light.
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Sappho |
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And this kind of faith is
likewise
particular which giveth place to 18 miracles, which many of God's children do want, who are, notwithstanding, indued with the Spirit of adoption.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:45 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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In fact, he has lost his
temper again, and
declares
that he is being robbed.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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In the mythical poem, _Kings in Legends_, this
concrete element in the art of Rilke has found perhaps its supreme
expression:
"Kings in old legends seem
Like
mountains
rising in the evening light.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And if his self-esteem had been affronted,
the pride of living familiarly with so important a
personage
was, for a
vain young man, a very full compensation.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Paul," his journey could not be
worthily
undertaken, nor end in
wisdom.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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The unchanging excellence
completes
its tale;
The simple infant man in him we hail.
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Tao Te Ching |
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As for contact between separated twins, it is
unlikely
that an occasional encounter between two people could revamp their personality and intelligence, but in any case the amount of contact turns out to have no correlation with the twins' degree of similarity.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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_ There is probably a covert
allusion
here to Adrian, who
gained the empire through the partiality of Plotina, in spite of the
will of her dying husband Trajan.
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Satires |
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Unless you prepare
yourself
with the attitude that your death could happen at any time, you cannot achieve the great aim that is surely needed at the time of death.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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Legendaires du
Douzieme
Si^le, sect, i.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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Colepeper
himself &• posed, that Mr.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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We use information
technology
and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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"
Well, turn round then and baste
yourself
With oil and melted butter.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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That other gallant lord is conqueror
Of
conquering
Rome, led captive by the fair
Egyptian queen, with her persuasive art,
Who in his honours claims the greatest part;
For binding the world's victor with her charms,
His trophies are all hers by right of arms.
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Petrarch |
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And
among the Ethiopians the first fruits of victory in war are offered in
the form of
sacrifice
of human captives to their gods.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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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
MERCHANTABILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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have
performed
the whole of love; they have always played the full dialogue, both parts"?
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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TheJewbelievesin
nothing, within him or without him.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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They would suffer all the difficulties which
now
paralyse
the action of the Turks :
the remoteness from the base, the slow-
206
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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For if He makes known what we have lost, He shews that to be
grievous
which we endure.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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In his Palace, the King of Wu is
drinking
with Hsi Shih.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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42, who thought it right to say: "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great
millstone
were hung around his neck and he
were thrown into the sea.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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48 l Ave Maria
e latter is spoken rather than sung,
followed
by a Gloria Patri.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
1.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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,
finally applyed to her alone, and therefore, when images began to multi-
1 "
Officium
B.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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O what a
multitude
they seemed, these flowers of London town!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Existence
consists
entirely in those sentiments of confidence,
and of anxiety, with which the soul is filled,
wandering between heaven and earth, and
?
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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When one contemplates all this from the point
of view of art alone one cannot but be grateful that the supreme office
of the Church should be the playing of the tragedy without the shedding
of blood: the mystical presentation, by means of dialogue and costume and
gesture even, of the Passion of her Lord; and it is always a source of
pleasure and awe to me to remember that the
ultimate
survival of the
Greek chorus, lost elsewhere to art, is to be found in the servitor
answering the priest at Mass.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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Of the remainder I gave one quarter to Ann,
meaning on my return to have divided with her
whatever
might remain.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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For the hands are an
instrument; and Nature always assigns an
instrument
to the one fitted
to use it, just as a sensible man would.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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Gralus horn'
Infectos
linquens profu-|-gfis hjjme-\
-nseos .
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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He taunts Ziischines with
having been all along the conscious tool of Philip's
cunning policy, when it was
perfectly
well known that
he had himself, from want of clear foresight perhaps,
not steadily opposed that policy at more than one criti-
cal point.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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FOUR FEGS GOOD, TWO FEGS BAD, was
inscribed on the end wall of the barn, above the Seven
Commandments
and in bigger letters When they had once got it by heart, the sheep
developed a great liking for this maxim, and often as they lay in the
http://www.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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The right
attitude
to take up, however, is
the reverse one, viz.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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But the ' -joy in the
fruition
is at once death itself, when one gains
1Tim.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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I know not
whether
mischief
to be the greater, that which they do being absent, or
that which they do being present.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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Ông làm quan
Thượng
thư Bộ Binh kiêm Hàn lâm viện Học sĩ, tước hầu.
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stella-01 |
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Though
and expensive experiments, by which he
endeavoured
to establish what he regarded as a still more rapid route to India, via Trieste.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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"
XLVII
His tale the mournful cavalier so taught;
And when he now had closed his history,
With pity touched,
somewhile
immersed in thought
Rinaldo mused, and after made reply:
"Right ill advice to thee Melissa brought,
Who moved three thus to anger wasps; and I
Perceive in thee small wisdom, that wouldst sound
A thing which thou wouldst gladly not have found.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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For though a man may wrestle well, or run,
Or throw a discus, or strike a heavy blow,
Still where's the good his country can expect
From all his
victories
and crowns and prizes?
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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Nietzsche represents this compromise
graphically
and does not neglect to mention that the authority who has succeeded in reaching the compromise is ?
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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"[I]t is at the heart o f this 'heaviness' that poetry must do its atoning work, this heaviness which is simultaneously the 'density' o f
language
and the 'specific gravity o f human nature'" (15).
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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ie empirical, though it must still he in
connection
with it.
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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To interview a great man, his
pampered
lackeys must have a fee.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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His prophetic soul
forebodes
evil and his
'imagination is fill’d with gashly forms of dreary graves, and
bodies chang'd by death.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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She shared in their
attendance
on Mrs.
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| Source: |
Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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” - Ten
Commandments
seem have been cant terms for the nails
thy nose, whiche every man seth wolde
And ten
And twentie tymes ten, this wyshe That thou haddest been hanged
For thou goest about wyll thou knowe
Fet soules, &c.
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| Source: |
Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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It remains to say
something
of the occasional criminals, and the
criminals of passion.
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| Source: |
Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
|
The
bankers and their associates received the com-
missions paid for
purchasing
the stocks which
the Supreme Court holds to have been acquired
illegally--and have retained them.
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| Source: |
Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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nedby
b0 = 1E[U(Xjb0)]: (2) There exists a unique
solution
to the above di?
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Schwarz - Committments |
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582
Chertsey
in Surrey.
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bede |
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But England,
in spite of the loss of her American colonies, was rich and prosperous,
and her
invincible
fleets were extending her empire over the seven seas.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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The consul, while all were panic-struck, himself suffi ciently undaunted, though in so perilous a case, marshals, as well as the time and place permitted, the lines which were thrown into confusion by each man's turning himself towards the various shouts ; and
wherever
he could approach or be heard, exhorts them, and bids them stand and fight : for that they could not escape thence by vows and prayers to the gods, but by exertion and valor; that a way was sometimes opened by the sword through the midst of marshaled armies, and that generally the less the fear the less the danger.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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THE BELL-MAN
From noise of scare-fires rest ye free
From murders, Benedicite;
From all mischances that may fright
Your
pleasing
slumbers in the night
Mercy secure ye all, and keep
The goblin from ye, while ye sleep.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Et en effet
elle avait trouvé
Albertine
sur le balcon.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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They say that before setting his eyes upon this lady, he
had asked in marriage the
daughter
of a man of large fortune, but the
girl's father, of whom the rumor goes that he is a bit of a miser,--but
hush!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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Blocks
automatically
expire.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Devils |
|
I
Such a
representation
would emphasize that the two parts of each metaphor are linked only via an experiential basis and that it is only by means of these experiential bases that the metaphor can serve the purpose of understanding.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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He travelled to Greece and Constantinople on his way to Jerusalem,
returning
through Egypt, Tunisia and Spain.
| Guess: |
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
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On that pleasant morn of the early fall
When Lee marched over the
mountain
wall, -
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Over the mountains winding down,
Horse and foot, into Frederick town.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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It is well known that there
was an earlier edition in five books,
published
in 14 B.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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Le
cimetie`re
des Moraves est un jardin dont les alle?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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A continuous presentation would contradict material that is full of
antogonisms
as long as it did
10.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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Yielding
to the persuasions of the gods, Ea sends a
messenger
to demand
the release of the goddess.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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Recall Baudelaire's prayer: "Thou, O Lord, my God, grant me the grace to
produce some fine lines which will prove to myself that I am not the
last of men, that I am not
inferior
to those I contemn.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Concerning
Thy testimonies, I have
known of old that Thou hast founded them for ever.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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There is also the greenpie, a bird about the size of a turtle-dove, green-coloured all over, that pecks at the bark of trees with
extraordinary
vigour, lives generally on the branch of a tree, has a loud note, and is mostly found in the Peloponnese.
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MOSES COIT TYLER
of man, it may be doubted whether, under the vast practical
inducements involved, Calhoun might not have succeeded in win-
ning over an immense majority of the American people to the
support of his compact and
plausible
scheme for making slavery
the basis of the republic.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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But as
the _Quarterly Review_ is a mere mass and tissue of prejudices on
all subjects, it is the foible of the _Edinburgh Review_ to affect a
somewhat fastidious air of superiority over prejudices of all kinds, and
a determination not to indulge in any of the amiable
weaknesses
of our
nature, except as it can give a reason for the faith that is in it.
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