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Synonyms: ambition; ambitiousness; aspiration; dream
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National ambitions; being a critical study of the European desire for progress / Bailey, J. R. A
Bailey, J. R. A National ambitions; being a critical study of the European desire for progress Blackwell Progress ... details...- creator(s) - Bailey, J. R. A
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- subject(s) - Progress;
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Tamerlane / Poe, Edgar Allen
My spirit struggled with, and strove, When, on the mountain peak, alone, Ambition lent it a new ... ambition is chained down- And crouches to a keeper's hand- Not so in deserts where the grand details...- creator(s) - Poe, Edgar Allen
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- subject(s) - throne; sunshine; hell; ambition; shed; pride; glory; mountain; american literature; ambition; throne; pride; sunshine; shed; hell; mountain; american literature; glory;
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The Landscape Garden / Poe, Edgar Allen
principle was the love of woman. His third was the contempt of ambition. His fourth was an object ... of his which I have already mentioned- the idea, that in the contempt of ambition lay one of the essential principles details...- creator(s) - Poe, Edgar Allen
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- subject(s) - ellison; landscape; sentiment; creation; artificial; poetic; art; poet; principle; ambition; american literature; ambition; poet; artificial; ellison; art; sentiment; principle; poetic; american literature; creation; landscape;
- title - The Landscape Garden
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REALLY NATURALIZING VIRTUE / STEPHEN BROWN
, in examining the theory we are led to a more modest understanding of what the ambitions of this kind of ethical ... details...- creator(s) - STEPHEN BROWN
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- publisher - Universitade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil, Dep. Filosof
- source: Ethic@: An International Journal for Moral Philosophy
- subject(s) - virtue ethics; virtue; naturalized virtu ethics;
- title - REALLY NATURALIZING VIRTUE
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Ode On Indolence / Keats, John
Maid, and Love her name; The second was Ambition, pale of cheek, And ever ... ? And for that poor Ambition! it springs From a man's little heart's short fever-fit; For Poesy!- no details...- creator(s) - Keats, John
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- subject(s) - urn; indolence; figures; english literature; indolence; urn; english literature; figures;
- title - Ode On Indolence
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Prose quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: with indexes. Authors, 544; subjects, 571; quotations, 8810. / Allibone, Samuel Austin, 1816-1889
. Considering the usual motives of human ac- tions, which are pleasure, profit, and ambition, I cannot yet ... : Lacon. In the struggles of ambition, in violent com- petitions for power or for glory, how slender details...- creator(s) - Allibone, Samuel Austin, 1816-1889
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- publisher - Philadelphia Lippincott 1903
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- subject(s) - quotations, english; addison; lord macaulay; lord bacon; addison; lord bacon; quotations, english; lord macaulay;
- title - Prose quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: with indexes. Authors, 544; subjects, 571; quotations, 8810.
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To Helen / Poe, Edgar Allen
of pride! How daring an ambition; yet how deep- How fathomless a capacity for love! But now ... details...- creator(s) - Poe, Edgar Allen
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- subject(s) - enchanted; moon; roses; garden; save; heaven; fell; soul; saw; american literature; soul; save; fell; moon; heaven; enchanted; garden; saw; roses; american literature;
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The European Anarchy / Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes, 1862-1932
"--New Ambitions. 9. OPINION ABOUT GERMANY Bourdon--Beyens--Cambon--Summary 10. GERMAN POLICY ... . To any State of Europe that has conceived the ambition to dominate the Continent this policy of England details...- creator(s) - Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes, 1862-1932
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- subject(s) - germany; austria; baron beyens; russia; policy; war; l'allemagne avant; european anarchy; france; european; europe; great britain; triple alliance; british; russia; l'allemagne avant; france; policy; european; germany; war; great britain; british; european anarchy; austria; triple alliance; baron beyens; europe;
- title - The European Anarchy
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Of The Liberty Of The Press / Hume, David
of the people must frequently be rouzed, in order to curb the ambition of the court; and the dread of rouzing this spirit must be employed to prevent that ambition. Nothing so effectual ... details...- creator(s) - Hume, David
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- subject(s) - fieser; liberty; monarchy; jealousy; republican; government; james; shown; press; western philosophy; james; jealousy; fieser; western philosophy; government; liberty; shown; press; monarchy; republican;
- title - Of The Liberty Of The Press
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The Broken Heart / Irving, Washington
that it withers down many a lovely woman into an early grave. Man is the creature of interest and ambition ... of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice details...- creator(s) - Irving, Washington
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- subject(s) - melancholy; irish; sorrow; hopeless; bosom; grave; generous; scene; american literature; grave; bosom; melancholy; hopeless; scene; sorrow; generous; american literature; irish;
- title - The Broken Heart
- type - etext
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