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Observations On The Slaves And The Indented Servants Inlisted In The Army And In The Navy Of The U
[english | ]Antibiastes
Excerpts: [... it then was in their power, to reform our morals, by checking the progress of the general depravation, which, sooner or later, proves the ruin of the countries, ...... Slaves, however, too many perhaps, are incautiously allowed to fight under our banners. They share in the dangers and glory of the efforts ...... of the least portion of our rights, to a race of men, whose unhappy ...]
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On The High Road
[english | ]Anton Chekhov
Summary: [Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 ? 15 July 1904) was a Russian short-story writer playwright and physician considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout most of his literary ...]
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Os Filhos Do Padre Anselmo
[english | ]Antonio Da Costa Couto Sa De Albergaria
Excerpts: [... com o calor e a convicc~ao que p~oem nas mentirosas phantasias todos os intruj~oes que fazem officio de o ser, o bohemio tornou a levantar-se de repell~ao, ...... Muito pelo contrario, tenho sido alvo do carinhoso interesse de mulheres finas, elegantes, da primeira roda. Mas essas, impede-me a minha posic~ao ...... exteriores. Os caseiros encarregados do amanho e semeadura das ...]
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O Renegado A Antonio Rodrigues Sampaio
[english | ]Antonio Duarte Gomes Leal
Excerpts: [... Eu sou a voz do P'o, eu sou a voz do Ch~ao. O que alguns chamam Zero, os outros chamam Charco. Ando a erguer uma Ponte, e a abrir um grande Arco. ...... primaveras, sendo a gloria da leiva, a sombra dos caminhos, tendo as benc~aos do Sol e os canticos dos ninhos. Sim, tu foste um plebeu-da ...... vezes s'o, pobre de terra em terra, na floresta, no val, nas rochas ou na serra, 'a ...]
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Oracao Funebre Recitada Nas Exequias Do
[english | ]Antonio Vasconcellos
Excerpts: [... solida e duradoira como a da virtude, e mais s~ao muitas, s~ao quasi innumeraveis as poderosas circumstancias accidentaes a que o juizo dos homens ...... victorias, porque nenhuma dessas circumstancias accidentaes deu origem ao honrado conceito que os contemporaneos legam 'a posteridade 'acerca do homem ...... a voz da independencia, da raz~ao, e da verdade, despedacaria junto ao ...]
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On Dreams
[english | ]Aristotle
Summary: [The Road of Dreams is a book of poetry by crime writer Agatha Christie. It was published at her own expense by Geoffrey Bles in January 1925 priced at five shillings (5/-). Only one edition of the 112-page volume was ever published and this was undated. Christie wrote poetry for most of her life and the first traceable published works by her are three poems in 1919 - World Hymn in The Poetry ...]
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On Generation And Corruption
[english | ]Aristotle
Excerpts: [... the air-being by nature such as both to act and suffer action-heats the body.) But the supposition that a body is 'susceptible in some parts, ...... on the contrary, postulate two or more materials-ascribing to their 'association' and 'dissociation', or to their 'alteration', the coming-to-be ...... have more senses than one. For 'the damp', as well as the moist, is opposed to the ...]
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On Interpretation
[english | ]Aristotle
Summary: [An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States is a 1913 book by American historian Charles A. Beard. It argues that the structure of the Constitution of the United States was motivated primarily by the personal financial interests of the Founding Fathers. More specifically Beard contends that the Constitutional Convention was attended by and the Constitution was therefore ...]
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On Longevity And Shortness Of Life
[english | ]Aristotle
Excerpts: [... animals and plants universally it is a single or diverse cause that makes some to be long-lived, others short-lived. Plants too have in some cases ...... of the difference applying to the genus I give man and horse (for mankind has a longer life than the horse), while within the species there ...... of them should share in the same nature, in all cases where things are not, like a ...]
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On Memory And Reminiscence
[english | ]Aristotle
Excerpts: [... remember the future is not possible, but this is an object of opinion or expectation (and indeed there might be actually a science of expectation, ...... for himself, as to the latter, that he heard, or saw, it, or had some such sensible experience of it. For whenever one exercises the faculty of ...... the faculty of memory), and the presentation (involved in such cognition) is an ...]
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On Prophesying By Dreams
[english | ]Aristotle
Excerpts: [... with contempt or give it implicit confidence. The fact that all persons, or many, suppose dreams to possess a special significance, tends to inspire ...... none of the other causes assigned appears probable. For that certain persons should have foresight in dreams concerning things destined to ...... a star [into the shadow] is a token of the eclipse, or [in which] roughness of the ...]
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On Sense And The Sensible
[english | ]Aristotle
Summary: [A Sense of the World (subtitled How a Blind Man became Historys Greatest Traveler) is a bestselling biography of James Holman (1786-1857) the blind Engishman who overcame the adversity of sightlessness to become a world traveler and cultural commentator. Its author is Jason Roberts. The book was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and for the international Guardian First ...]
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On Sleep And Sleeplessness
[english | ]Aristotle
Excerpts: [... whether they are peculiar to soul or to body, or common to both and if common, to what part of soul or body they appertain: further, from what ...... the following considerations. The criterion by which we know the waking person to be awake is identical with that by which we know the sleeper ...... work beyond the natural time-limit of their working period for instance, the eyes ...]
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On Sophistical Refutations
[english | ]Aristotle
Excerpts: [... place, it is possible for any such argument as bears more than one meaning to be directed against the expression and against the thought, and ...... the first place absurd (for sometimes the questioner does not see the ambiguity of his question, and he cannot possibly draw a distinction which ...... those which demonstrate. This is why the contentious reasoner does not stand in the ...]
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On The Gait Of Animals
[english | ]Aristotle
Excerpts: [... bent. For the opposite limbs are naturally of equal length, and the one which is under the weight must be a kind of perpendicular at right angles ...... In all the changes described that which moves now extends itself in a straight line to progress, and now is hooped it straightens ...... four points? Now we did not say that all Sanguinea move at four points, but merely at not ...]
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On The Generation Of Animals
[english | ]Aristotle
Excerpts: [... the front or the back of the body. To take the uterus first, it is in the front of the body in vivipara because of the foetus, but at the loin ...... which must be investigated hereafter. For even if it were true that it comes from all the body, as they say, they ought not to claim that it comes ...... expelled from the body is great but the discharge still continues, only not on ...]
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On The Heavens
[english | ]Aristotle
Excerpts: [... these distinctions, we may now proceed to the question whether the heaven is ungenerated or generated, indestructible or destructible. Let ...... what formerly was not afterwards is, whether a process of becoming was or was not involved, so long as that which then was not, now is (b) secondly, ...... as earthy and endowed with weight, and therefore supported it in their fabulous ...]
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On The Motion Of Animals
[english | ]Aristotle
Excerpts: [... of movement is altered in structure through sense-perception and thus changes, it carries with it the parts that depend upon it and they too ...... desire is the middle term or cause, and desire moves being moved, still in the material animated body there must be some material which itself ...... their assigned part as it is ordered, and one thing follows another in its accustomed ...]
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On The Parts Of Animals
[english | ]Aristotle
Excerpts: [... animals as these never coagulates. For one part of the blood consists mainly of water and therefore does not coagulate, this process occurring ...... flesh. Thus we find all the fleshy parts, with one exception, supported by bones, which serve, when the parts are organs of motion, to facilitate ...... other part requires to be held up. But, were the head heavily laden with flesh, ...]
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