1 The battle at Gilboa; wherein Saul's army being defeated, and his sons slain, he and his armourbearer kill themselves. 7 The Philistines take possession of the towns deserted by the Israelites. 8 They insult over the dead bodies of Saul and his…
— Bible (King James)
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La Haute-Cour de Versailles vient de prononcer son verdict. On ne le connaît pas encore dans tous ses détails, on sait seulement que onze prévenus, dont un représentant, ont été acquittés. Tous les autres représentants sont
condamnés à la déportation, ainsi…
— Frédéric Bastiat
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Vasari, Le Vite dei Pittori (Milanese ed., Florence, 1878, 1885); Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon (Frankfort, 1898); Lanzi, Storia Pittorica della Italia (Bassano, 1806); Dominici, Vite dei Pittori (Naples, 1742); Conca, Descrizione Odeporica della…
— George Charles Williamson
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JUGEMENT DE PAN PIAO SUR SE-MA TS’IEN
Heou Han chou, chapitre XL, p. 2 r°: «L’époque de T’ang (Yao),
de Yu (Choen) et des trois dynasties (Hia, Yn et Tcheou), c’est le sujet
du Livre des Vers (Che king) et du Livre de l’Histoire (Chou…
— Édouard Chavannes
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White’s Maori History.
With a small escort of picked warriors Manaia and Rata parted company from the taua the morning after the battle, and proceeded southward over the plateau and then across the open pumice country to the east of Lake…
— Frank Acheson
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Paor orent Paiens quant perdirent Landrais;
Le uns dist contre l’autre: «Or n’est il mie gais;
«Quant mort est le meilor, tut morromes humais.
«Folqenor, jentil sire, com grant folie fais!
«Se tu plus i demores, jameis non estordrais,
«Car as cols de…
— L’entrée d’Espagne
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"Now," quoth our Host, "Merchant, so God you bless,
Since ye so muche knowen of that art,
Full heartily I pray you tell us part."
"Gladly," quoth he; "but of mine owen sore,
For sorry heart, I telle may no more."
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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My soul is dark--Oh! quickly string
The harp I yet can brook to hear;
And let thy gentle fingers fling
Its melting murmurs o'er mine ear.
If in this heart a hope be dear,
That sound shall charm it forth again:
If in these eyes there lurk a…
— George Gordon, Lord Byron
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"Mah mammy's lyin' in her grave,
Mah daddy done run away,
Mah sister's married a gamblin' man,
An' I've done gone astray.
Yes, I've done gone astray, po' boy.
An' I've done gone astray,
Mah sister's married a gamblin' man,
An' I've done gone astray, po'…
— James Weldon Johnson
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THE rain and wind, the rain and wind, raved endlessly.
On me the Summer storm, and fever, and melancholy
Wrought magic, so that if I feared the solitude
Far more I feared all company: too sharp, too rude,
Had been the wisest or the dearest human…
— Edward Thomas
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INCIPIT.edit
Here beginneth again another branch of the Graal in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
— The High History of the Holy Graal
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Du Japon au xvii siècle, et de l’extinction de la religion chrétienneen ce pays.
Dans la foule des révolutions que nous avons vues d’un bout de l’univers à l’autre, il paraît un enchaînement fatal des causes qui entraînent les hommes, comme les vents poussent les…
— Voltaire
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‘Phew!’ cried Lisa.
‘Ugh!’ cried Aina.
‘What now?’ cried the big sister.
‘A worm!’ cried Lisa.
‘On the raspberry!’ cried Aina.
‘Kill it!’ cried Otto.
‘What a fuss over a poor little worm!’ said the big sister scornfully.
‘Yes, when we had cleaned the raspberries…
— Andrew Lang
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L’autre brochure est un projet de budget, ou plutôt la pensée fondamentale qui, selon moi, doit présider à la réforme graduelle de notre système financier. Elle se ressent de la rapidité de l’exécution. Il y a des longueurs, des omissions, etc. Quoi qu’il…
— Frédéric Bastiat
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.The Gospel in Rome.
And then in the same year, in the autumn season, a
certain one, standing in a public place, cried and said, Men of
Rome, hearken. The Son of God is come in Juda, proclaiming
eternal life to all who will, if they shall live…
— Thomas Smith (1817-1906)
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"Why?" Because all I haply can and do,
All that I am now, all I hope to be,--
Whence comes it save from fortune setting free
Body and soul the purpose to pursue,
God traced for both? If fetters, not a few,
Of prejudice, convention, fall from me,
…
— Robert Browning
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LUCY CROSBY was dead. One moment she was of the quick, moving about the house, glancing in at David, having Minnie in the kitchen pin and unpin her veil; and the next she was still and infinitely mysterious, on her white bed. She had fallen outside the…
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Nous avons eu soin d’indiquer, dans le courant de ces notes, toutes les différences qui séparent de notre texte la Karlamagnus Saga d’une part, et, de l’autre, la Keiser Karl Magnus’s Kronike. Nous allons donner ici, pour la première fois, la traduction…
— Léon Gautier
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DICK had written his note, and placed it where Bassett would be certain to see it. Then he found his horse and led him for the first half mile or so of level ground before the trail began to descend. He mounted there, for he knew the animal could…
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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THE summer nests uncovered by autumn wind.
Some torn, others dislodged, all dark.
Everyone sees them: low or high in tree,
Or hedge, or single bush, they hang like a mark.
— Edward Thomas
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Educationist, born at Kalteneber in the district of Eichsfeld, 29 January, 1811; died at Trier, 18 August, 1892. He was the son of Heinrich Kellner who had been a pupil of Pestalozzi at Yverdon and had introduced Pestalozzi s methods at the normal school he…
— Karl Hoeber
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(For Katherine Bregy)
I went to gather roses and twine them in a ring,
For I would make a posy, a posy for the King.
I got an hundred roses, the loveliest there be,
From the white rose vine and the pink rose bush and from the red
rose tree.
But when I took…
— Joyce Kilmer
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Ecclesiastical Memorials, vol. i. Appendix, p. 216.—Cotton. MS. Cleopatra, E 4, fol. 225.
— James Anthony Froude
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Lorsqu’un monarque conquiert un grand état, il y a une pratique admirable, également propre à modérer le despotisme & à conserver la conquête: les conquérans de la Chine l’ont mise en usage.
Pour ne point désespérer le peuple vaincu, & ne point enorgueillir…
— Montesquieu
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The subject matter of the history of philosophy consists of the efforts which individual thinkers have made to explain or perchance to solve the ultimate problems of knowledge and of being. Modern philosophy—i. e. the philosophy of the last three…
— Harald Høffding
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LA RECEPTION
Si vous avez consulté l'almanach, vous n'ignorez pas, lecteur, que c'est aujourd'hui le 31 décembre, et vous saurez que c'est précisément le jour consacré aux grandes réceptions.
Nous aurons donc l'honneur d'aller rendre une…
— Joseph Poisle Desgranges
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Private business and cares have frequently so absorbed me as to prevent
my obtaining all the information during this journey which the novelty of
the scenes would have afforded, had my attention been continually awake
to inquiry.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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L. M.
Grace above riches; or, The happy nation.
Happy the city where their sons,
Like pillars round a palace set,
And daughters, bright as polished stones,
Give strength and beauty to the state.
Happy the country where the sheep,
Cattle, and corn,…
— Isaac Watts
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Of the Normal Position and Duties of the Upper Classes. General Statement of the Land Question.
— John Ruskin
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ANSIAUX (Emmanuel-Antoine-Joseph), jurisconsulte et littérateur, né à Liége, le 1 janvier 1761, mort à Munster, le 27 février 1800.
Après avoir fait des études approfondies en droit romain et en droit coutumier, Ansiaux s’adonna plus…
— Mathieu-Lambert Polain
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