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[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
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| ... even more to their education than to their birth. And as, in the statues and pictures made of Castor and Pollux, though the brothers resemble one another, yet there is a difference to be perceived in their countenances, between the one, who delighted in the cestus, and the other, that ... |
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[ FICTION]
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| ... the less as evidence to the same effect as if they were really "primitive" populations. These communities that are without a defined leisure class resemble one another also in certain other features of their social structure and manner of life. They are small groups and of a simple (archaic) structure; ... |
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[ MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
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| ... And you, Monsieur?she said to Nick. ``I am his cousin,--is it not honor enough?said he. ``Yet you do not resemble one another.Mr. Ritchie has all the good looks in the family,said Nick. ``Oh!cried the young lady, and this time she gave us her profile. `` ... |
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[ FRENCH FICTION]
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| ... peculiar flavor of the Soulanges wine,--a white wine, dry and spirituous, very like Madeira or the Vouvray wine, or Johannisberger, --three vintages which resemble one another. The powerful effect produced by the Socquard ball upon the imaginations of the whole country-side made the inhabitants thereof very proud of ... |
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[ ESSAYS]
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| ... is in a drinking place, my place is there. If my daughter, or the daughter of any one else, my family or any other family is in trouble, my place is there. That woman would be selfish or cowardly who would refuse to leave her home to relieve suffering or ... |
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[ GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIC WORKS - OTHERS IN ENGLISH]
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| ... shop opens at eight." Another letter was written by a grandmother who is lucky to live in Budapest, Hungary, while the rest of her family is in Transylvania. In November 1982 she went to visit her children and grandchildren in Nagyvarad (Oradea), under Rumanian occupation. She carried a suitcase of ... |
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[ ENGLISH ESSAYS]
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| ... are a few capital lines in this key on the last spasm of the battle before alluded to. Surely nothing could be better, in its own way, than the fish in ''The Last Cruise of the Arrogant,''the shadowy, side-faced, silent things,'' that come butting and staring with ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... him, said 'do.The Carrier repeated 'as I did.But not firmly. His faltering tongue resisted his control, and would speak in its own way, for itself and him. The Figure, in an attitude of invocation, raised its hand and said: 'Upon your own hearth --''The hearth she has blighted, ... |
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| ... glowing shreds of old brocade and Chinese silk, shaken together in the kaleidoscope of some tasteful housewife's fancy; but a work of art in its own way, and plainly a labour of love. The patches came exclusively from people's raiment. There was no colour more brilliant than a heather mixture; ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... sensations; for overmastering pain - the most deadly and tragical element in life, and the true commander of man's soul and body - alas! pain has its own way with all of us; it breaks in, a rude visitant, upon the fairy garden where the child wanders in a dream, no less ... |
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[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
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| ... like the State out of which oligarchy came. Let us then consider whether there is any likeness between them. Very good. First, then, they resemble one another in the value which they set upon wealth? Certainly. Also in their penurious, laborious character; the individual only satisfies his necessary appetites, and ... |
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