A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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International
donations
are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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Weep not, sweet queen, for
trickling
tears are vain.
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Shakespeare |
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You're
strangely
proud.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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[4] By accepting the Teacher:
Mahakasyapa
and others.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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'" George
dedicated
a poem to the shore of the Rhein where Karoline von Giinderode threw herself in.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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This was his first
political
effort.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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O words of mine
foredone
and full of terror,
Whither it please ye, go forth and proclaim
Grief.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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As Burke and Robespierre had warned many years before, the revolution in France had ended in a
military
dictatorship.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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He assured Lucian that he
sincerely
trusted that he might achieve his heart's desire, and
added a word of good advice as to the inadvisability of writing too soon.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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Why be his arms to ease and peace
resigned?
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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And how long are we lost in this confusion, unable to exert our reason, to possess our souls, or to rule our
affections?
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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And crying out, “Nature alone is good, the natural
man alone is human,” he
despises
himself and
aspires beyond himself: a state wherein the soul
is ready for a fearful resolve, but calls the noble
and the rare as well from their utter depths.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Nevertheless,
the goodness of God did not forsake his people, whom he foreknew, but sent
to the
aforesaid
nation much more worthy heralds of the truth, to bring it
to the faith.
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bede |
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Nietzsche, the most outspoken polemicist imaginable when it comes to the Enlightenment notion of morality, introduces the Dionysian here in a language reminiscent of the
celebration of community with which
Schiller
ends his essay The Theater as a Moral Institution.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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--To all
which and the like I say again, that you ought not to reason from the
abuse, which may be rectified, against the
inherent
uses of the thing.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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The third and fourth
centuries
A.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Eternal Nymph, you're the grace
Of my
ancestral
place:
So, in this fresh, green view,
See your Poet, who brings
An un-weaned kid to you,
Whose horns, in offering,
Bud from its brow in youth.
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Ronsard |
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Corresponding to the fact that we act as if time is a valuable commodity-a limited resource, even money--'-we
conceive
of time that way.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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The sudden unprovoked attacks, which in older chil- dren can easily be damaging, are
especially
hard to take.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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Thus Paul writes in Romans 9 concerning the revealed truth that God himself
obdurated
the mind of the Pharaoh (obdurare):
100
?
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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A new Attempt at a
Foundation
for Arithmetic
281
3.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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2a) arisen from the
teaching
{srutamayt) for its support, there arises the wisdom arisen from reflection (cintdmayt)\ with this for its support, there arises the wisdom arisen from meditation (bhdvand- mayt).
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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My feet kept drowsing,
drowsing
still,
My fingers were awake;
Yet why so little sound myself
Unto my seeming make?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The physicist Ernst Mach sealed a wire in a glass tube, connected the wire
electrically
to the shutter of an instant camera, and then fired on the glass tube.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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The passing of the Jordan, in the 3d chapter of the
book of Joshua, is perhaps the purest and sheerest miracle recorded in the
Bible; it seems to have been wrought for the miracle's sake, and so thereby
to show to the Jews--the descendants of those who had come out of Egypt--
that the _same_ God who had
appeared
to their fathers, and who had by
miracles, in many respects providential only, preserved them in the
wilderness, was _their_ God also.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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In the north, as distinct
from the south, Roman Law possessed a
theoretical
or juristic authority.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm
Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free
distribution
of
electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers
including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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126
For Richard of Saint-Laurent, there was seemingly nothing to which Mary, "the
tabernacle
and the triclinium of the whole Trinity," could not be compared.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Long she pries
At boots and shoes of every size--
Brown football-boots with bar and stud
For boys that scuffle in the mud,
And dancing-pumps with pointed toes
Glossy as jet, and dull black bows;
Slim ladies' shoes with two-inch heel
And
sprinkled
beads of gold and steel--
'How anyone can wear such things!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Antipathetic to the French Revolution, he
travelled
to North America in 1791.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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Morrice being in private with him,,
the chancellor told him " how much the king was
" surprised with the paper he had received from the
" general, which at least
recommended
(and which
" would have always great authority with him) some
" such persons to his trust, in whom he could not
" yet, till they were better known to him, repose
" any confidence.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Interestingly
though, Diirer's Manual of Measurement of Lines, Areas and Solids by Means of Compass and Ruler, a direct extrapolation of Alberti, ended with a thanks to "God our Lord"and with the firm resolution to protect the printed book against thiev- ing presses that might copy it.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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)
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so
digress?
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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I said, 'What
influence
me preferred,
Elect, to dreams thus beautiful?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Everything among them talketh,
everything
is
P
## p.
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:30 GMT / http://hdl.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:24 GMT / http://hdl.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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_"
His
regiment
comes.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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12249 (#295) ##########################################
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
12249
The literary work here referred to was the series of satirical
sketches
entitled
Grönländische Processe' (Greenland Lawsuits),
published in two parts in 1783-4.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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12249 (#295) ##########################################
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
12249
The literary work here referred to was the series of satirical
sketches
entitled
Grönländische Processe' (Greenland Lawsuits),
published in two parts in 1783-4.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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“Schoenus’ bride-race” :
Hippomenes
won Atalanta the fleet-footed daughter of Schoenus by throwing an apple in the race for her hand
5.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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No
flinching
in any of the horses.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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Then
did they uncase their flagons by heaps and dozens, and with their
leaguer-provision made
excellent
good cheer.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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" Welcome, our
Instructor
!
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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"
He spread the pictures before him, and again
surveyed
them alternately.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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La planta que surgió de ella produjo el fruto de una
calabaza
tan
grande como una casa.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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The Fox and the Grapes
One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard
till he came to a bunch of Grapes just
ripening
on a vine which
had been trained over a lofty branch.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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If
there was affectation in the way he
presented
himself to the out-
ward world, it was the affectation of simplicity, not of ostenta-
tion, and the severity of line which is one of the characteristics
of his poetry was also a characteristic of his whole visible being.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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"At the Metropolitan or the Union League or the University,"
Cleveland
Amory quotes a clubman, "you might do a $10,000 deal, but you'd use the Knickerbocker or the Union or the Racquet for $100,000 and then, for $1,000,000 you move on to the Brook or the Links.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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On that one pivot
the whole success of the
experiment
turned.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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This sounds like a
nonsense
question.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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She wrote very consid-
erably from the English point of view, describing
Scottish
family life.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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15 See these and the following
particulars
more fully set forth, in the Life of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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Live-stock breeders admit that their profession is on a sure scientific
basis only to the extent that the
genealogy
of the animals used is
known.
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| Question: |
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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_ Robert Pierrepoint was created Viscount Newark in 1627
and Earl of
Kingston
in the following year.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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”
left uncor rected the printer the
foregoing
part this article.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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Is
execution
done on Cawdor?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Wherever Joyce looks in history or human life, he discov- ers the
operation
of these basic polarities.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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No fear,
Monsieur
le Chauffeur.
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| Question: |
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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Everything
connected with
blessedness
or damnation, which
was based upon certain erroneous physiological
assumptions, falls to the ground as soon as these
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l
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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ika"
outlines
specifically how a disciple should act with his Guru, it is the custom to teach this text be- fore giving any tantric enpowerment or initiation.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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52
Tra noi tenere un uom che sia sì forte,
contrario
è in tutto al principal disegno.
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| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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Op- en
Ondergang
van Coromandel, Amsterdam, 1693.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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Qui si rimira ne l'arte ch'addorna
cotanto affetto, e
discernesi
'l bene
per che 'l mondo di su quel di giu torna.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then follows a paragraph, which may be
pronounced
unintelligible.
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| Question: |
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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This is not to minimize the importance of character
formation
during early life, but rather to suggest that the altering of adult identity depends upon a specific recapturing of much of the emotional tone which prevailed at the time that this adult identity took shape.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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But in your eyes I am no older; you are my bailiff's dread; my steward and all the
household
fear you.
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| Source: |
Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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But harme it did him none,
It sticked in the
Bedsteddes
head that Persey sate upon.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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), and be
acknowledged
the " Prince of the kings of the earth,"
--" King of kings, and Lord of lords.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - The Creation |
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talvo , dixo Eliphila , que lo mo-
rado dicen que
significa
amor.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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MEET THE SOVIET RUSSIANS 2i
the Russian language, conform to the established state Church,
and in every way relinquish its own
cultural
institutions.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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"
We can thus see-in an
entirely
hypothetical way-that some kind of order and speci c correspondences have perhaps been introduced among these eleven books (II-XII) , which are groups of meditations written on a daily basis.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Royalty
payments
should be clearly marked as such and sent to the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the address specified in
Section 4, "Information about donations to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Charmides |
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Inasmuch as it persists, it remains in a kind of proximity, a proximity that preserves what is remote as remote by commemorating it and turning its
thoughts
toward it.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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Not thus I loved thee, when from Sparta's shore
My forced, my willing
heavenly
prize I bore,
When first entranced in Cranae's isle I lay,(124)
Mix'd with thy soul, and all dissolved away!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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* Peshall's History of the
University
of Oxford, 227.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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The Ark no more now flotes, but seems on ground
Fast on the top of som high
mountain
fixt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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And
on the highway of the clouds they come,
muttering
thunder of rebellion,
the ghosts of beasts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Joyce - Ulysses |
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Truly
concerning these I had no other Reason
afterwards
to _Doubt_, but That I
thought Perhaps there may be a _God_ who might have so created me, that
I should be _Deceived_ even in those things which seem’d most _Clear_ to
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Descartes - Meditations |
|
" -- " Then," replied O
" our own thoughts and
feelings
are to guide us less than
the words of others.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
|
He later became rector at
Uppingham, and was twice married; his second wife, Joanna Bridges,
being, in the opinion of Bishop Heber, an illegitimate
daughter
of
Charles I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
|
The copyist seems to have written on without paying
any
attention
to the sense of what he set down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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caesariem tunc forte Venus subnixa corusco
fingebat
solio.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Can I forget that
miserable
hour,
When from the last hill-top, my sire surveyed,
Peering above the trees, the steeple tower,
That on his marriage-day sweet music made?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
As the record shows, they
function
in both roles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
|
os y
entendimiento es bien que todos
rindamos
nuestro
voto.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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And within this bordure there’s a woman,
fashioned
as a god might fashion her, lapped in a robe and snood about her head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Theocritus - Idylls |
|
« The bay is
champing
its jaws on that devilish White Flat,
and any sail coming this way is lost.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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"If he comes you
must keep him for Christmas, and we'll enjoy
ourselves
together.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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resou{n}s
yknyt by ordre ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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'What art thou
Freedom?
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Shelley copy |
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Tu Fu was born in Tu Ling, in the
province
of Shensi, in A.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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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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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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" 1235
'And whan I had my tale y-do,
God wot, she
acounted
nat a stree
Of al my tale, so thoghte me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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For who would be so selfish and
audacious
as to care more about his own remaining eye- sight than about the remaining trees in the world?
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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141 ) , who , like Pindar , appears anxious to clothe so vast an image with appropriate
magnificence
of language :
37 See Theocritus (Id .
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Pindar |
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That was the
smartest
piece of
journalism ever known.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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