So also in the German Middle
Ages singing and dancing crowds, ever increasing
in number, were borne from place to place under
this same
Dionysian
power.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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It were therefore to be
expected, that its
fundamental
truth would be such as might be denied;
though only, by the fool, and even by the fool from the madness of the
heart alone!
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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Now
chivalry
is dead, and Ciallia ru.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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Again I do not know what the right answer is, but I think both
approaches
should be tried.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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And when Pallene's robe he bears, Warm refuge from the
chilling
airs .
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Pindar |
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I also desired to know of him
whether he wrote his
Odysseys
before his Iliads, as many men do hold:
but he said it was not so.
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Lucian - True History |
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37
Melbourne
for -1868) read 1848)
1.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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Terzky was already upon his march towards Prague; and nothing, but the
want of horses, prevented the duke from
following
him with the regiments
who still adhered faithfully to him.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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To the extent that revolutionary govern- ments construct
substantive
alternatives for their people, they increase human options and freedom.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Yeats |
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175
and the lord Roos and his mother,
appeared
d , with 1666.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Leo was taken
prisoner
and blinded.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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Their art inspires amazement, but
finally some spectator, inspired, not by the
scientific
spirit but by a
humanitarian feeling, execrates an art that seems to implant in the soul
a taste for belittling and impeaching mankind.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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While the natives withdrew into the mountainous interior of the island to escape from bondage as agricultural serfs, just as the Numidians in Africa with drew to the borders of the desert,
Phoenician
colonies were conducted to Caralis (Cagliari) and other important points, and the fertile districts along the coast were turned to account by the introduction of Libyan cultivators.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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5 However,whathascomedowntousunder that title does not appear to be a Constitution or Code for the
practical
every
399, and n.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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Thus while the fleet of Attalus went home and the Rhodian fleet remained
temporarily
at Chios, Philip, who falsely ascribed the victory to himself, was able to continue his voyage and to turn towards Samos, in order to occupy the Carian towns.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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"
VIII
"Some mothers muse sadly, and murmur
Your doings as boys--
Recall the quaint ways
Of your babyhood's
innocent
days.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Insomuch
that, upon her death, when her nearest friends thought her very bare, her executors found in her strong box about a hundred and fifty pounds in gold.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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In Li Po it results only in endless
restatement
of
obvious facts.
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Li Po |
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And when he was dead, the citizens of Lampsacus buried him with great honours, and wrote this epitaph on him:
Here
Anaxagoras
lies, who reached of truth
The farthest bounds in heavenly speculations.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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O cities memories of cities
cities draped with our desires
cities early and late
cities strong cities intimate
stripped of all their makers
their
thinkers
their phantoms
Landscape ruled by emerald
live living ever-living
the wheat of the sky on our earth
nourishes my voice I dream and cry
I laugh and dream between the flames
between the clusters of sunlight
And over my body your body extends
the layer of its clear mirror.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The
Tarentines
were convinced that their countrymen were
irresistible in war; and this conviction had emboldened them to
treat with the grossest indignity one whom they regarded as the
representative of an inferior race.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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In its insistence upon a strongly "progressive" display, it
resembled
Benet's approach of phase two; but its crucial difference was the distinction it made between public gestures made to placate the government and the private world of resistance maintained among the Europeans.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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"Because it is a part of the
terrible
story, a part of poor dear Lucy's
death and all that led to it; because in the struggle which we have
before us to rid the earth of this terrible monster we must have all the
knowledge and all the help which we can get.
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| Question: |
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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"Hence, ye
profane!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Bite, my fishing-hook, into
the belly of all black
affliction!
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| Question: |
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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4 The
mountains
skipped like rams, and the little
hills like lambs.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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On
reaching
us N.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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I would not offer a series of
lectures
on the Cold War if I were not convinced that those who consider the Cold War over now are at least in some sense correct.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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Go gather by the humming-sea
Some twisted, echo-harbouring shell,
And to its lips thy story tell,
And they thy
comforters
will be,
Rewarding in melodious guile,
Thy fretful words a little while,
Till they shall singing fade in ruth,
And die a pearly brotherhood;
For words alone are certain good:
Sing, then, for this is also sooth.
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Yeats - Poems |
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He was young; he was a success; people loved to have him in their houses; his
photograph
sold by the thousands in the shop windows; a stroll along Bond Street or Piccadilly was in the nature
of a triumphal procession; hostesses almost went down on their knees to get him to their various functions;
he might have dined out every night, if he had liked.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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Now the upper edge of the two sides, being elevated, was sharp since, as we have said, the rim was three-sided, from
whatever
point of view one approached it.
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| Source: |
The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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52 The second element of Tsongkhapa's strategy involves a constructive approach in that it entails developing a
systematic
and logically coherent account of con- ventional existence.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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He was
educated
at Rome, studying first under one
Palæmon, a grammaticus or grammar-master, of worthless character
but great ability, who had been born a slave; later with the noted
rhetorician Domitius Afer of Nîmes, who flourished in the reigns
of Caligula, Claudius, and Nero.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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"
"Yes, but I did not know that you was a colored man, when I asked you;
and then it was better to insult one man than all the
passengers
on
board of the boat.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Roses bloom, fiery cinders
quenching
under damp weeds.
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Amy Lowell |
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CONTEST IN COMMERCIAL PROVINCES
331
Gouverneur Morris, who himself possessed strong mod-
erate sympathies, reflected upon the election of the Fifty-
One in this wise:
The spirit of the English
Constitution
has yet a little influence
left, and but a little.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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) Mark Twain failed
to meet the Indian as viewed through
the mellow
moonshine
of romance.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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| Question: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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forbears
not so;
He breaks the Vial whence the sorrows flow.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Whether a book is still in
copyright
varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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MYRSON
‘Tis
unseemly
for mortal men to judge of the works of Heaven, and all these four are sacred, and every one of them sweet.
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Bion |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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2 I take the
text’s
少室 for 小室.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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And the mighty nations would have crowned
me, who am
crownless
now and without name,
And some orient dawn had found me kneeling
on the threshold of the House of Fame.
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Wilde - Poems |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
True, the young prig who lectured his seniors upon Ezekiel survives in the middle-aged prig (how curiously like certain Anglican priests to-day) who points out to his fellow monks of Saint-Denis that their founder may not, after all, have been the Areopagite; but the young
cocksure
who confuted William of Champeaux and laughed in the venerable beard of Anselm has dwindled into a querulous craven, constantly in terror of persecution, poison and the rest, magnifying his dangers with a buoyant indifference to his correspondent's natural anxiety, and piteously appealing to her for an eventual Christian burial.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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A single poem of
66 verses (in, 8) remains at practically the same average as
the
Sulpicia
elegies, namely, 47.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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"--Tῇ πυρφόρῳ τῶν ὂντων
λαμπάδι
φaνότερoν τελoύντων.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
|
'Twas a sweet time for Nesace--for there
Her world lay lolling on the golden air,
Near four bright suns--a
temporary
rest--
An oasis in desert of the blest.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 15:06 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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(See the opinion of the
Sarvastivadins
on jdti, ii, English trans, p.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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με την αράδα 'ς όλους πας• και αφρόντισ' όλοι δίδουν• 450
ότι δεν έχουν κρατημόν ή λύπην, αν χαρίζουν
από τα ξέν', αφού πολλά καθένας
έχει
εμπρός του».
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| Source: |
Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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O Rose of the crimson beauty,
Why hast thou
awakened
the sleeper?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
'623'
Such foolish critics are just as ready to pour out their
opinions
on a
man in St.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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"
"My spirit," I answered mentally, "is willing to do what is right; and my
flesh, I hope, is strong enough to accomplish the will of Heaven, when
once that will is
distinctly
known to me.
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| Source: |
Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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Let us deny that real
intelligence
exists until it comes into action.
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| Source: |
Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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Hence it is called
TJobx\r\
a Coipe, i.
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
|
49 According to her biogra- pher Jacques de Vitry, the beguine Marie d'Oignies was sometimes so overcome with
devotion
that she would salute the blessed Virgin eleven hundred times a day, keeping this observance for forty days in a row.
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| Source: |
Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
|
4) recognized by various Sarvastivadin masters, as well as
by masters of various other
traditions
(the Mahisasakas, the Dharmottaras, the Grammarians, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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But under the magical
influence
of Ho?
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| Source: |
Hegel_nodrm |
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Charlotte
chose
apple-charlotte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Children's Sayings |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:07 GMT / http://hdl.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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When we have decided that they have no
significance
for us, they unobtrusively begin to reach out toward ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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He who takes Refuge in the Buddha takes refuge in the dharmas
of the Arhat which form a Buddha, the dharmas which are the causes of
the
designation
"Buddha," that is, the dharmas by reason of which, as 130
principle cause, a certain person is called a Buddha; or rather the dharmas by the acquisition of which a certain person, understanding all things, is called a Buddha.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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In
showing
kindness
to his cousins therefore he had the real satisfaction
of a good heart; and in settling a family of females only in his
cottage, he had all the satisfaction of a sportsman; for a sportsman,
though he esteems only those of his sex who are sportsmen likewise, is
not often desirous of encouraging their taste by admitting them to a
residence within his own manor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
|
There
is another, who fears that I think I know him,
and feels a sense of
inferiority
at this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
|
The
German, or _a priori_ view of human knowledge, and of the knowing
faculties, is likely for some time longer (though it may be hoped in a
diminishing degree) to
predominate
among those who occupy themselves
with such inquiries, both here and on the Continent.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
|
with
increasing
vehemence, he forgot the minimum of legitimate egotism that would have been necessary to render his terrible astuteness endurable for the poor animal behind the masks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
|
All this is offered to the
assembly
of the Dharmakiya.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
|
Parnes and other Attic peaks, but all declined in
popularity
during the Classical period.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
|
He
would not pretend to assert that even fifty or sixty of the Doctor's
Capitols might have been built within these walls, but he was by
no means sure that two or three hundred of them might not have
been
squeezed
in with some trouble.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
F arewell, my
birthplace!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
|
The
Egyptian
God Thoth--mentioned by Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses at 9.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
|
In sum, the whole
inclination
and bent of
those times was rather towards copy than weight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bacon |
|
Judge, then, whether it be for want of other female
society that you have made an
impression
upon me which
no one else has done, and taught me a new mode of feeling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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28;
its triumph over Christianity, 28;
marriage
can-
not be based on, 98; as a state, 153; in re-
ligion, 153.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
|
[b] In other rebirths: it guides one from the suffering of samsara, and the suffering of evil destinies, and gives zest for the joys of higher
rebirths
and Nirvana.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
|
A
Criticism
of the Words : Improving,
Perfecting, Elevating.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
|
Hence the investigation of nature
receives
teleological direction, and becomes, in its widest extension, physico-theology.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
|
Once a student has spent six or seven years of his life within this
artificial
society, he becomes "absorb- able": society can consume him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Live |
|
Therefore
he ordered his army to strike camp; and retreated.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Polyaenus - Strategems |
|
changed its name to the International
Association
for the Child's Right to
Play, it signaled that those rights may need protecting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childens - Folklore |
|
Social history, particularly as a
statistical
discipline, plays a surprisingly minimal role in the Zeitschrift fair Geschichtswissenschaft.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
|
' The name Purāna means
“old”
(tales), and the works
handed down under that name recount the deeds of deified heroes,
explain religious and moral doctrine, give an account of the glories
of past cycles and of what will happen in time to come; and besides
narration and speculation, they incidentally inculcate moral and reli-
gious truths.
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10:41 And when the ten heard it, they began to be much
displeased
with
James and John.
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This attempt was made by a Roman centurion, who had joined in the
tunnelling
work.
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One million
feathers
make one large
pillow for our gallows.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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Every brushstroke that followed a fictive plane into fictive depth harked back by reason of its abiding, unequivocal
Phenomenality and
Materiality
in Ce?
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Person of Leeds,
Whose head was
infested
with beads;
She sat on a stool and ate gooseberry-fool,
Which agreed with that Person of Leeds.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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- You comply with all other terms of this
agreement
for free
distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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OH EVALUATING SOVIET RUSSIA
course, a
valuable
asset for the understanding of Soviet
affairs, it is neither a necessary nor a sufficient foundation
for such understanding.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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O
coverture
of death drawn forth
Across this garden-chamber .
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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Wherefore
he will, if wise, devour the way,
Though the blonde damsel thousand times essay
Recall his going and with arms a-neck
A-winding would e'er seek his course to check; 10
A girl who (if the truth be truly told)
Dies of a hopeless passion uncontroul'd;
For since the doings of the Dindymus-dame,
By himself storied, she hath read, a flame
Wasting her inmost marrow-core hath burned.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The cottage door opened:
a boy came forth with a torch,
ascended
the steep, showed tokens
of great delight at meeting with Robin, and lighted them down
a flight of steps rudely cut in the rock, and over a series of
rugged stepping-stones, that crossed the channel of the river.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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Construction and mortgages are 40 percent of the total for the region, but Egypt is
“subdued”
as an exception.
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Kleiman International |
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And still those
buzzards
wheeled, while light withdrew
Out of the vales and to surging slopes ascended,
Till the loftiest-flaming summit died to blue.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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shrouds, — and he, seated on the verge of the abyss, on the
steep and slippery declivity ; he, robed in the royal purple
of power, will not survive your
Resurrection
— but must
himself descend into the coffin!
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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In the last decades of the old regime, some authors had taken the dis-
tinction
even further, finding a person's true greatness less in public acts than in private, intimate behavior.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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