three
different
ways; we have made 2: our criticism of the " known world.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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190 Like the author from Pontigny, Stephen's later successor as
archbishop
Saint Edmund of Abingdon (d.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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And it is by such activity that you have attained to a glory which has never been
approached
by others, through the help of God who fulfils all your desires.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Nor shall my worship be
nameless
among men, nor fade hereafter in the darkness of oblivion.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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]
[Footnote 25:
"Flush'd by the spirit of the genial year,
Now from the virgin's cheeks, a fresher bloom
Shoots, less and less, the live carnation round;
Her lips blush deeper sweets; she breathes of youth;
The shining moisture swells into her eyes
In brighter flow; her wishing bosom heaves
With palpitation wild; kind tumults seize
Her veins, and all her
yielding
soul is love.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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Meanwhile the Eevolution progressed, and the King was beheaded, but not without some
protests
from the press.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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From the window I look out
To mark thy
beautiful
parade,
Stately marching in cap and coat
To some tune by fairies played;--
A music heard by thee alone
To works as noble led thee on.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Let us now see, in an example, whether the conception of an ac- tion, as a noble and
magnanimous
one, has more subjective moving power than if the action is conceived merely as duty in relation to the solemn law of morality.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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&*"'(*%"%"
&%#
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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He leads a lonely life: but finally returns to
entertains a wayward love for a beauti- France and again enlists, also aiding
ful girl, Charlotte Lang, in whose veins the
Napoleonic
cause with money.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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How-
ever this may be, it appears that Chingiz Khan withdrew temporarily,
and on his return to the attack was met by the Portuguese who put
him to rout; for in the interval Khudawand Khan had
promised
to
give Surat to the Portuguese if they would help him against Chingiz
Khan.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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" So, the misery of
a family on the death of a parent is nothing, for ten
thousand
maggots
are made happy by it.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Candide being desirous of selecting from
among the best, marked out about one-twentieth of them who seemed to be
sociable men, and who all
pretended
to merit his preference.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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A boat was immediately let down, into which the prince
and some of the young nobles were hurried; and they
might have reached the shore in safety, had not the
prince insisted on going back to rescue his sister Maud,
the
Countess
of Perche, whose shrieks he heard from
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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It is said that he
even had it under consideration whether he should not
punish the consuls; but on their
apologising
and beg-
ging pardon for the affront, he was appeased.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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Our
sovereign
Lady by King Harry's will;
The Queen of England--or the Kentish Squire?
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Tennyson |
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Of the Publishers of this Work may be
had,
The SUNDAY-LECTURER: or, Fifty-two
Sermons addressed to Youth, selected and a-
bridged from the writings of approved Authors,
and adapted to the use of Families and Schools;
with
Questions
for Examination.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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That's how you men manage to overcome the impression of your
physiological
inferiority!
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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Soth is, that God ne
graunteth
no pitee
With-oute thee; for God, of his goodnesse,
Foryiveth noon, but it lyke un-to thee.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The tragedy that has befallen the speaker's people, at the hands of a stronger party, is chiastically echoed in the final eagle-simile used to characterize the speaker's mount, in which a bird of prey strikes and brutalizes a fox,
pillaging
his heart to take to her eyrie.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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After the usual solemnities, he
addresses
the dead
in the words of this poem.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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Sweet sir, you fall into
a passion, I see,
returned
Panurge; well, hold, here is your money.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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Don Rodrigue has
convinced
his father
To propose him when the council's over,
Judge then the chance that he'll be denied.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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But here more than any- where else, the words must be
measured
against reality.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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Enter
Malcolme
and Donalbaine.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And that certain
unspeakable
future thing we S.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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says that the piece Was newer
against
their
favourite
diversion.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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_ Nothing else;
Like wit, much talked of, not to be defined:
He that
pretends
to most, too, has least share in't
Tis a ragged virtue.
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Thomas Otway |
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" But he adds
that the poet had while a student a high reputation
as a declaimer; and he speaks strongly in praise of
the
particular
discourse which he had himself hap-
pened to hear, describing it as one of marked ability,
though somewhat wanting in order.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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On the left bank I saw a church or two in
the distance; on the right bank we passed by steeple and
windmill
and
cottage, and windmill and single house, windmill and windmill, and neat
single house, and steeple.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an
overwhelming
question .
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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"
"Let her be taken care of; let her be treated as
tenderly
as may be: let
her--" he stopped and burst into tears.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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But
discipline
and form do
not exclude the element of song which is an essential of poetry;
and the importance of the musical element in poetry is signalized
in the following statement: 'The deepest insight, the strongest
impression are still no guarantee of a good poem.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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Ông làm quan Tham chính và từng
được
cử đi sứ nhà Minh (Trung Quốc).
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stella-02 |
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But there is one more strong,
Love, that came laughing from the elder seas,
The Cyprian, the mother of the world;
She gave me love who only asked for death--
I who had seen much sorrow in men's eyes
And in my own too
sorrowful
a fire.
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Sara Teasdale |
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For though thou view'st some beasts to be more rare,
And mark'st in them a less
prolific
stock,
Yet in another region, in lands remote,
That kind abounding may make up the count;
Even as we mark among the four-foot kind
Snake-handed elephants, whose thousands wall
With ivory ramparts India about,
That her interiors cannot entered be--
So big her count of brutes of which we see
Such few examples.
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Lucretius |
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What are the various devices that have been used for
nominating
purposes?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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The canon of classical Greek was, appar ently, long since closed but he reopened it by his dramatic
contributions
to the Satiric Dia logue.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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And has not Goethe been—not alone
for Germany, but also for the whole of Europe, -
merely an episode, a
beautiful
“in vain"?
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Octavius,
guardian
of Antlochus
Rome,
Put to death, iii.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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For we always desire Nuance,
Not Colour, nuance
evermore!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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She
listened
with a feeling of terror
and disgust.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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s
forces�and
forced to accept a post in An Lushan?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Meanwhile the troops beneath Patroclus' care,
Invade the Trojans, and
commence
the war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The
apparent
exclusion
of reality from the poems in which his genius was most manifest
finds its analogue in the detachment of his own mind from the
moral, the practical, the usual in life as he led it in his spirit; and
his work of the highest creative sort, which is all there is to his
enduring fame, stands amid his prose and verse composition of a
lower sort like an island in the waste of waters.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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If irony is permanent parabasis it would seem to have little to do with history, but to be rather the withdrawal from
effective
historical action.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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" Das Leise ist das
Entgleitende
(XII, 39).
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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There is only
one way of
attaining
to it, and that is to become
a priest.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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On the part of the border round the table which slanted upwards and met the eyes, there was wrought a pattern of eggs in precious stones, elaborately engraved by a continuous piece of fluted relief-work, closely [63]
connected
together round the whole table.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit
501(c)(3) educational
corporation
organized under the laws of the
state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal
Revenue Service.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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The quantity it will possess, ^trill therefore, in the
ordinary
course .
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Whereas the centered subject is the effect of a grammat- ical system that harasses to death the living
consciousness
between "Thou
and "I want," the decentered subject would perhaps be the first to have the right to say in reference to itself: I am.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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(In a local tactical sense,
American
forces were often on the "defensive" in North Korea and on the "offensive" in South Korea.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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expression
here I clearly need;
What word will decently express the thought?
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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^ v Dều cbi chồng chẳng bằug lộng,
Cím ngăn, thi ‘ >1 hãy*
16* —
Phảỉ
nhịn nhục nhau mọi khi lám lỏi.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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About 770 Wei Hao produced an
edition of twenty _chuan_, many
additional
poems having come to light
in the interval.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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But I am not
pressing
you, for I shall look forward to, or rather insist upon, a longer letter.
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| Source: |
Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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Những khi con
trẻ^iấc
u£ơĩ,
Quạt ruồi đuôi muỗi, mùng thơi ẽm giăng.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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She had a host of admirers and friends; and--to say
nothing of her
personal
qualities--her knowledge, her tenacity, her
tact--she possessed, too, one advantage which then, far more even than
now, carried an immense weight--she belonged to the highest circle of
society.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Where dined you
yesterday?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lucian |
|
"
But when it broke its shell
It slipped and
stumbled
and fell about its prison
And tried to climb to the light
For space to dry its wings.
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Imagists |
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Ignorant
of common law, as a Scotsman might well be, and of earlier
English history, and
inclined
to scepticism, he failed to recognise
the fundamental liberties of the nation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
|
Series
For the
splendour
of the day of happinesses in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The hedgehog was engaged
in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed to Alice an excellent
opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other; the only
difficulty was that her flamingo was gone across to the other side of
the garden, where Alice could see it trying, in a
helpless
sort of way,
to fly up into a tree.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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This is the Hinayana ideal, and it will certainly lead to complete
Enlighten?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kalu Rinpoche |
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Fair is the night:
On, on he strides, nor
slackens
speed,
And knows not where his path will lead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
|
3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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αλλ' όλ' αυτά στην
δύναμι
των αθανάτων μένουν•
τώρα, πατέρ', άμε γοργά και ειπέ της Πηνελόπης 130
ότι της σώζομ' άβλαπτος και ότ' έφθασ' απ' την Πύλο.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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rzliche Fahrt
Entschwand
am Kanal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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The
Mahamudra
practice connected to the Six Yogas of Naropa.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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My worthy friend, ne'er grudge an' carp,
Tho' fortune use you hard an' sharp;
Come, kittle up your moorland harp
Wi'
gleesome
touch!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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One could name a desire utterly a priori that would be ascribed to every individual being without difference in genus, species, and gender to the extent that all strive in the same way
generally
to pre- serve their existence [sich u?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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Hymen o
Hymenaee!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
|
4 These are the stone
funerary
horses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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"But,"
answered
Frank, "he knows
a great deal more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Frank |
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Moreover, "Ouids abuses, in describing
whereof you labour very vehementlye, terming him letcher, and
in his person dispraise all poems: but shall on(e) man's follye
destroye a universal
commodity?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
|
In 551 a Roman envoy at the head of the
Illyrian
sot.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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" The
essential reason for this is that
soundness
of
judgment is easily obscured by self-interest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
|
But as the
Greeks wallowed in the blood of Greeks, so do
Europeans now in the blood of Europeans: and
indeed, taken relatively, it is mostly the highly
cultivated who are sacrificed, those who promise
an
abundant
and excellent posterity; for such
stand in the front of the battle as commanders,
and also expose themselves to most danger, by
reason of their higher ambition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
|
" Now, Varus, I-
For lack there will not who would laud thy deeds,
And treat of
dolorous
wars- will rather tune
To the slim oaten reed my silvan lay.
| Guess: |
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How the matter might be stated
positively
- you will see in a moment.
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In any case this theological school has as much historical
justification
as any other, and it is undeniable that its representatives in the first half of our century presented Christianity to the great majority of the German people in the form most intelligible to them, and did better work in the cause of quiet, practical Christi anity than many of those who from the proud position of a reactionary theology, artificially conformed to the creeds, assumed the right to condemn these men.
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1 He was born in 511/ 1117, and was known
throughout
his realms as a wise and just ruler.
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Catullus had
promised
Hortalus a translation or
imitation of the poem of Callimachus, entitled de
Coma Berenices, but had been long delayed in ex-
ecuting this promise, by his grief for the loss of a
tenderly loved brother.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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It was
essentially
personal, expressing the singer's own emo-
tion.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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And I think that that is called the most strait sect, not in respect of
holiness
of life, but because there was in it more natural sincerity of doctrine, and greater learning.
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Sau khi mất, ông
được
phong phúc thần.
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Ce qui ajoutait à mon désespoir de ne pas voir Mme de Stermaria, c'était
que sa
réponse
me faisait supposer que pendant qu'heure par heure,
depuis dimanche, je ne vivais que pour ce dîner, elle n'y avait sans
doute pas pensé une fois.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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So, although this movement may well
identify
the contradictions between what the institution claims to do and what it really does, it does not succeed in addressing the question of "psychiatric power," since the criticism is formulated in terms of the institutional project and of its own criteria.
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‘Well, I’ll be leaving you, then And just you behave yourselves, girls' Don’t
you get trying it on with Miss Millborough like you did with Miss Brewer,
because I warn you she won’t stand it If I hear any noise coming from this
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room, there’ll be trouble for somebody 5
She gave a glance round which included Dorothy and indeed suggested that
Dorothy would probably be the ‘somebody’ referred to, and departed
Dorothy faced the class She was not afraid of them-she was too used to
dealing with
children
ever to be afraid of them-but she did feel a momentary
qualm The sense of being an impostor (what teacher has not felt it at times*)
was heavy upon her It suddenly occurred to her, what she had only been
dimly aware of before, that she had taken this teaching job under flagrantly
false pretences, without having any kind of qualification for it The subject she
was now supposed to be teaching was history, and, like most ‘educated’ people,
she knew virtually no history How awful, she thought, if it turned out that
these girls knew more history than she did 1 She said tentatively
‘What period exactly were you doing with Miss Strong*’
Nobody answered Dorothy saw the older girls exchanging glances, as
though asking one another whether it was safe to say anything, and finally
deciding not to commit themselves
‘Well, whereabouts had you got to*’ she said, wondering whether perhaps
the word ‘period’ was too much for them
Again no answer
‘Well, now, surely you remember something about it* Tell me the names of
some of the people you were learning about m your last history lesson ’
More glances were exchanged, and a very plain little girl in the front row, m
a brown jumper and skirt, with her hair screwed into two tight pigtails,
remarked cloudily, ‘It was about the Ancient Britons ’ At this two other girls
took courage, and answered simultaneously One of them said, ‘Columbus’,
and the other ‘Napoleon’
Somehow, after that, Dorothy seemed to see her way more clearly It was
obvious that instead of being uncomfortably knowledgeable as she had feared,
the class knew as nearly as possible no history at all With this discovery her
stage-fright vanished She grasped that before she could do anything else with
them it was necessary to find out what, if anything, these children knew So,
instead of following the time-table, she spent the rest of the morning m
questioning the entire class on each subject m turn, when she had finished with
history (and it took about five minutes to get to the bottom of their historical
knowledge) she tried them with geography, with English grammar, with
French, with anthmetic-with everything, m fact, that they were supposed to
have learned By twelve o’clock she had plumbed, though not actually
explored, the frightful abysses of their ignorance
For they knew nothing, absolutely nothing-nothing, nothing, nothing, like
the Dadaists It was appalling that even children could be so ignorant.
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Do with me what you choose, if only
you will not throw
yourself
into the flames of hell.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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Through the
memberships
of The Links and the Knickerbocker Club one could obviously obtain instant entree to any financial-political circle in the world.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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This applies, of course, only to the
germinal
nature.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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With all their might the authors of this radical tendency attempted to main- tain faith in life, above all the defeat of 1940 had proved that the world was in urgent need of French ideas
particularly
after they had taken an invigorating Stalinist or Maoist bath.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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If, in the struggle, the strong come to the aid of the
weak, their kindness
deserves
praise and love; but their aid must be
accepted as a free gift,--not imposed by force, nor offered at a
price.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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For as reason is not competent to guide the will with certainty in regard to its objects and the satisfaction of all our wants (which it to some extent even multiplies), this being an end to which an im- planted
instinct
would have led with much greater certainty; and since, nevertheless, reason is imparted to us as a practical faculty, i.
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