Lower, that is, towards the north, the
different
incidents
related in the “Commentaries” are without possible
application to the theatre of the events; higher, towards the south, the
Rhine flows upon a rocky bed, where the piles could not have been driven
in, and presents, between the mountains which border it, no favourable
point of passage.
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As the night keeps hidden in its gloom the
petition
for light,
even thus in the depth of my unconsciousness rings the cry--'I
want thee, only thee'.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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Now, as
touching
his wife Drusilla, the readers must understand that she was daughter to Agrippa the elder, of whose filthy death Luke spake before, chapter 12, (Acts 12:23).
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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Even
Sheppard
says that Pecke tried to be impartial.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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"
EARLY
VICTORIAN
AND OTHER PAPERS.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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Daughter of great Protogonus, divine, illustrious Rhea, to my pray'r incline,
Who driv'st thy holy car with speed along, drawn by fierce lions,
terrible
and strong.
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Orphic Hymns |
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The Governor was strong upon
The Regulations Act:
The Doctor said that Death was but
A
scientific
fact:
And twice a day the Chaplain called
And left a little tract.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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" I assured my friend
that, if the epigram was a good one, it would only increase my desire to
become acquainted with the author, and begged to hear it recited: when,
to my no less
surprise
than amusement, it proved to be one which I had
myself some time before written and inserted in the "Morning Post," to
wit--
To the Author of the Ancient Mariner.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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Herbert know,' she wrote to the War Minister, 'that I wish
Miss
Nightingale
and the ladies would tell these poor noble, wounded,
and sick men that NO ONE takes a warmer interest or feels MORE for their
sufferings or admires their courage and heroism MORE than their Queen.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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This thought Robertson applied
energetically
in relation to the Sabbath question ; he openly declared the legal observance of the Sabbath a relapse from the spirit of the Gospel into
and Pharisaism.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-18 00:55 GMT / http://hdl.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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210
Dust of
infinite
Africa,
Stars that sparkle, a myriad ( 200 )
Host, who measureth, your delights
He shall tell them, ineffable,
Multitudinous, over.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Their collapse is tantamount to
collective
death.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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24
And so one who knows the
advantages
of taking the Refuges will repeat them three times a day and three times a night.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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In what follows, I will first provide an overview of biopower as
Foucault
conceives of it.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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To the foreign world, in fact, Henrik Hertz is principally known
by one work, 'King René's Daughter,' a charming
romantic
drama,
dated as late as 1845.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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The
carriage
halted short.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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This process could follow the normal
teaching
of a child.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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To the
beginning
of agitation for repeal.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:56 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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Sepherd-Em-hem-umph – humph-whoo-whoo-whurr-
whurr -
herrachvacherach!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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A sua
realidade
não o deixa sentir.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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The result was that Zaman Shah,
who was troubled with risings in Peshawar and Kashmir at the same
time, was
overthrown
and blinded.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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Rushing to empty spaces it
attacks the gateway,
scatters
the dust-heap, sends the cinders flying,
pokes among foul and rotting things, till at last it enters the tiled
windows and reaches the rooms of the cottage.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Clarisse
became uncertain, for perhaps the cells had been made of light-colored rubber, and so she cut offhis objection.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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Mar:u~ala Offering
According to this text there are two practices related to offering of the mat:t<;lala which
accumulate
merit.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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Vigorous but controlled
imagination, formative power, insight into the
significance
of
things--these are qualities which a poet must eminently possess; but
these are qualities which may also be eminently possessed by men who
cannot claim the title of poet.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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Monika Zobel
The True Fate of the Bremen Town
Musicians
as Told by Georg Trakl
They haul the donkey, the largest, to the mill first.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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Faithfully
attached
to each other, hap.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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And left--her slender
sweetness
to divine,
Alone a necklace wreathed with silken tresses,
(With which a godly friend arrayed her shrine)
A marble block amid the weeds and cresses.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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his beauteous daughters' - these 3 lines appear at the end of page 33 as a
separate
3-line stanza after the section ending '.
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Blake - Zoas |
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We went down in the
afternoon
and saw him.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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For some rea- son newspapers are not the laboratories and
experimental
stations of the mind that they could be, to the public's great benefit, but usually only its warehouses and stock exchanges.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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Namgay Doola had
narrowly
missed
a villager just before we came up.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Pastoret
at Passy, where
he was accused of having gone to warn his friend of his own danger.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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His
prudence
never
slept.
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Macaulay |
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If thou, a
nameless
vagrant
Couldst wonderfully blind two nations, then
At least thou shouldst have merited success,
And thy bold fraud secured, by constant, deep,
And lasting secrecy.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The whole value of
their commodities is divided into two portions only: one
constitutes
the
profits of stock, the other the wages of labour.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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Now, the pears;
So shall your children's
children
pluck their fruit.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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His
greatest
weakness was a
love of the fair sex.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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—In impassioned tones he admits his profound
indebtedness to the great musician, his love for
him, his gratitude to him, how Wagner was the
only German who had ever been
anything
to him
—how his friendship with Wagner constituted the
happiest and most valuable experience of his life-
how his breach with Wagner almost killed him.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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Proofs
Proof of
Proposition
1.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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2, is
recommended
by Cicero to Ser.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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With many searchings of heart I
prayed the
woodland
nymphs, and lord Gradivus, who rules in the Getic
fields, to make the sight propitious as was meet and lighten the omen.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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point to 'cryes his flatterers' as
the
original
version.
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Donne - 2 |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Ronsard |
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A number of mole-hills do not make a mountain,
though a
mountain
is actually made up of atoms: so moral truth must
present itself under a certain aspect and from a certain point of view,
in order to produce its full and proper effect upon the mind.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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This rich province,
with its capital at Arcot, was
governed
by an Arab family of the
Navait clan, which had offended the Marathas and the Nizam
alike by neglecting to pay to the former the annual compensation
agreed upon for the relinquishment of Shivaji's forts and territories
in that region, and to the latter the homage and surplus revenue
(1,200,000 rupees a year) due to him as the supreme representative
of the emperor in the south.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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Every mode of explanation which does not shew us this possibility, although in appearance may be similar to ours, can with the utmost
certainty
be distinguished from by these marks.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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The world had always loved the saint as being the
nearest possible approach to the
perfection
of God.
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Oscar Wilde |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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| Question: |
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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Galton is himself an example of the
heredity
of genius, being
a grandson of Erasmus Darwin, the author of 'Zoönomia,' and a
cousin of Charles Darwin.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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And
Sophocles
a man;
When Sappho was a living girl,
And Beatrice wore
The gown that Dante deified.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Oh, would that I might divine
Thy name beyond the zodiac sign
Wherefrom
our times-to-come descend.
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Sidney Lanier |
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)
A bibliography of works which Worthington either wrote or edited was
published by the Chetham Society in 1885, and in this the following are given
as his own:
'YITOTÚTWOIS
Üyelvæv
tv dóyov.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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Et c'est
pourtant ce qui était; il ne m'identifia, je l'ai su longtemps après,
que quelques minutes plus tard, en entendant
rappeler
mon nom.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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But it was one of their chief
amusements
to run away to the moors in the
morning and remain there all day, and the after punishment grew a mere
thing to laugh at.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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In one, among the city streets a laborer's home appear'd,
After his day's work done, cleanly, sweet-air'd, the gaslight burning,
The carpet swept and a fire in the
cheerful
stove.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It was an occasion for a Democritus,
nay, for an Epicurus or a Metrodorus, perhaps, a man whose intelligence
was steeled against such
assaults
by scepticism and insight, one who, if
he could not detect the precise imposture, would at any rate have been
perfectly certain that, though this escaped him, the whole thing was a
lie and an impossibility.
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Lucian |
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It may be noted that in the
imitation
of the latter
passage in stanza iv.
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| Question: |
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Robert Herrick |
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And one: "He had not wholly quench'd his power;
A little grain of
conscience
made him sour".
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| Question: |
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Tennyson |
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Instead
Of answering my question,
"Well, if you don't know _that_," he said,
"Either you never go to bed,
Or you've a grand
digestion!
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Lewis Carroll |
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'' He adds, moreover, that in this aspect it is the origin of the
phenomenal
world, the beginning of all things: ''The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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) "Of a night, late, long time ago, when Adam delved and Eve span, when life and love were wild and free and everyone did as he pleased, Jarl van Hoother, the
melancholy
widower, was alone.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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Moreover, this person would insist that Schmidt follow his orders without any "back talk", once again illustrating the discipli- nary relationship between
increased
utility and increased obedience.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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Raised to the peerage at the Restoration, he entered into a complex
relationship
with the monarchy which led to him supporting the future Charles X.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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The beautiful valley that lies between them is not more than about three or four miles broad, so that of a summer's evening, Granua and Oonagh were able to hold many an
agreeable
conversation across it, from the one hilltop to the other.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I have
forsaken
this life's wealth and possessions, food, and clothes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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The new place of America in the world as a whole, the awakened interest in other peoples, other cultures must inevitably draw the minds of men away from the mere
practicalities
of living.
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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With slow
reluctant
feet and weary eyes Kore And eyelids heavy with the coming sleep,
With small breasts lifted up in stress of sighs,
She passed as shadows pass amid the sheep
While the earth dreamed and only I was ware Of that faint fragrance blown from her soft hair.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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On their arrival at Ephesus the marriage took place; but before
Melitta's object had been accomplished, Clitopho
discovered
Leucippe
among his wife's slaves; and Thersander, Melitta's husband, who was
supposed to be drowned, arrived at Ephesus.
| Guess: |
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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"I am ashamed to say it," he writes to Carus,
a scholar of distinction, who had been appointed tutor
to the
children
of Germanicus, "but I have written a
book in the language of the Getee; I have arranged
their barbarous words in Eoman measures.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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The stakes regarding the critique of ideology were raised again in Adorno's
formulation
of ideology as image and reality in his specific critique of the culture industry.
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| Source: |
Education in Hegel |
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After we've been trying for decades to get rid of kitsch in the theater, it
resurfaces
in cinema.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
|
"
Just then the cook took the caldron of soup off the fire, and at once
set to work throwing everything within her reach at the Duchess and the
baby--the fire-irons came first; then
followed
a shower of saucepans,
plates and dishes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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[1495] Nevertheless he gained
two or three
victories
over the Britons, although he had transported
thither only two legions of his army, and brought away hostages and
slaves and much other booty.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Strabo |
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But this does not exhaust the notion; for such strength might also belong to a holy (superhuman) being, in whom no opposing impulse counteracts the law of his ratio- nal will; who
therefore
willingly does everything in accordance with the law.
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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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90As to any further
reduction
of his income, he may say, nihil habeo nihil curo.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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For some
unedited
and interesting epistles
to Sadolet, Bembo, and others, see De Nolhac, Érasme en Italie,' Paris, 1888.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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The things Heaven made
Man was meant to use;
A thousand
guilders
scattered to the wind may come back again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Sidera cur
retinent?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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Had a man seen old
Roger Chillingworth, at that moment of his ecstasy, he would have had
no need to ask how Satan comports himself, when a
precious
human soul
is lost to heaven, and won into his kingdom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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I’ll do for you
everything
heaven can do.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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); a comical
vaudeville
song; and the dump heap in our own backyard (?
| Guess: |
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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So ’tis one
thing to _see_ a Man Running, and an other thing to
_Affirme_
within my
self (which may be done without a voice) That I _see_ him.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Whilst waiting we are
entertained
by His Excellency the Master of Ceremonies, the Lord Chamberlain, and several A.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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With rope-ladders learned I to reach many a window, with nimble legs did
I climb high masts: to sit on high masts of
perception
seemed to me no
small bliss;--
--To flicker like small flames on high masts: a small light, certainly,
but a great comfort to cast-away sailors and ship-wrecked ones!
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Their hearts are full and leave no vacancy for any other passion; they enjoy perpetual
tranquillity
because they enjoy content.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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In a former article I have touched on the matter of
testimonials
from public men.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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que si me ves helando,
mas
sentira?
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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This synchronization is a kind of
internal
state change, caused, however, by an external stimulus.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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, An Humble Inquiry into the Rules of the Word of God
concerning the Qualifications requisite to a Complete Standing and
Full Communion in the Visible
Christian
Church, and Misrepre-
sentations Corrected and Truth Vindicated in a Reply to the Rev.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my
delight!
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blake-poems |
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having
its spring and
principle
within itself).
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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" At the gallows and the wheel-the axe was a
rarity
Monsieur
Paris, -as it was the episcopal mode among
his brother Professors of the provinces, Monsieur Orleans and
the rest, to call him,- presided in this dainty dress.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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But, however this may be, the impropriety of those bold
and
precipitate
measures which they recommended is urged with the
utmost force in the following oration; in which we shall find the
speaker moderating the unseasonable zeal of his countrymen without
absolutely shocking their prejudices.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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Christopher Radziwill, a de-
scendant of the
nobleman
who published the
first Protestant Bible in Poland, dedicated
another edition of it to his sovereign, Vladi-
slav the Fourth, with these words:--
"Sire,--As this book of Holy Scripture
which was published sixty-nine years ago
(1563) adorned with the name of your royal
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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