In Italy, that man was victor in three battles: at Placentia, beside the Metaurus River and the Altar of Fortuna, and, finally, at the
Ticenensian
Fields.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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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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"
Sometimes
yet
I see the hapless bird--strange, fatal myth--
Like him that Ovid writes of, lifting up
Unto the cruelly blue, ironic heavens,
With stretched, convulsive neck a thirsty face,
As though he sent reproaches up to God!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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'Tis the
lightning
in its shroud,
'Tis the star-concealing cloud,
Traitor, 'tis his purpose showing,
Engine, lofty tow'rs o'erthrowing,
Wand'ring star, its region changing,
"Lady of kingdoms," ever ranging.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Or is it
entirely
your
own production?
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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In the first place they
should always be made
perfectly
explicit, and should be formulated in
the most general manner possible.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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The thin beaten-out leaf of
tremulous gold that chronicles the
direction
of forces the eye cannot see
is in comparison coarse.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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mer--a
lifelong
friend and prote?
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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This
difference
is partly a battle between Newton and Goethe.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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We may quote here what the Greek
historian
said of her:
Her actual beauty was far from being so remarkable that none could be
compared with her, nor was it such that it would strike your fancy when
you saw her first.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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He was an
extraordinary
poet
with a bad conscience, who lived miserably and was buried with honours.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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[Though
satisfied
with the severe satire of these lines, the poet made
a second attempt.
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Robert Forst |
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During his dis- sident years, Dugin seems to have opposed this strand of thought, which he did not identify as "Traditionalist,"93 but in the 1990s, he changed his mind and attempted a
synthesis
between his Gue?
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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Forgiveness, of wrongs done by others,
a means of
obtaining
mercy from God, v.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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For parts are re-disposed and leave their order;
Wherefore
they must be also capable
Of dissolution through the frame at last,
That they along with body perish all.
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Lucretius |
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I do not read music, but it attracts me so that, even though I do not
understand it, I sometimes take up the score of an opera and pore over
its pages for hours, looking at the groups of notes more or less crowded
together, the dashes, the semi-circles, the triangles and that sort of
_et cetera_ called keys, and all this without
comprehending
an iota or
deriving the slightest profit.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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Not a bad point of view, basically, but
nothing could be more mistaken than to think from that that lawyers are
not
necessary
for the accused in this court.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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If so, the Pipe is
anterior
to the Harvest Home, and we have here the origin of the poet’s nickname.
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Pattern Poems |
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And, unmorally
speaking, an
artifice?
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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Molecular evidence
suggests
that our common ancestor with chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million generations ago.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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Then faith shall restore to you more thinges then this, Beleve me,
Primitive
Constitution, whatsoever is amisse.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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"Black Orpheus," written as the preface to an
anthology
of works by African and West Indian poets, revises the program of litte?
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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In these three it is not so much to be wondered
at, since they lie more to the south than Hyrcania, and surpass the rest
of the country in the beauty of their climate; but in
Hyrcania
it is
more remarkable.
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Strabo |
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In these three it is not so much to be wondered
at, since they lie more to the south than Hyrcania, and surpass the rest
of the country in the beauty of their climate; but in
Hyrcania
it is
more remarkable.
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Strabo |
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Hart
through the Project
Gutenberg
Association (the "Project").
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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Hart
through the Project
Gutenberg
Association (the "Project").
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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Le second moyen est le seul qui
convienne
a` l'e?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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Nevertheless
the volume of serious — i.
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Orwell |
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Joachim Ritter, Hegel und die franzosische
Revolution
(Koln: W est?
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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We sailed with fair weather till we were as far
as Sicily, but there we were
overtaken
with such a boisterous storm
that the third day we were driven into the ocean, where it was our
fortune to meet with this whale which swallowed us all up, and only we
two escaped with our lives; all the rest perished, whom we have here
buried and built a temple to Neptune.
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Lucian - True History |
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Under these conditions, the connections between the psyche and the world take on a new dynamic: the
expanded
scene of the world and God demands greater powers of comprehension among the faithful souls – and, vice versa, the increasing demands for meaning directed at God and the world by those souls call for increasingly interesting roles in the general dramas.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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Now Cytherea leads the dance, the bright moon overhead;
The Graces and the Nymphs, together knit,
With
rhythmic
feet the meadow beat, while Vulcan, fiery red,
Heats the Cyclopian forge in Aetna's pit.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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_An Oiran and her Kamuso_
Gilded
hummingbirds
are whizzing
Through the palace garden,
Deceived by the jade petals
Of the Emperor's jewel-trees.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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Paradoxical
New England clerks,
Writing inventories in ledgers, reading the "Song of Solomon" at
night,
So many verses before bedtime,
Because it was the Bible.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The old nobility had been
devoured
by the great feudal wars.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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The fires of death and old age are compared to the fires at of the end of time (hell fire) and
ordinary
fire respectively.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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We are now trying to release all our books one month in advance
of the
official
release dates, leaving time for better editing.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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We are now trying to release all our books one month in advance
of the
official
release dates, leaving time for better editing.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Thou that art her kin,
Go likewise; lay him low and slay him not,
But bring him here, that I may judge the right,
According to the justice of the King:
Then, be he guilty, by that
deathless
King
Who lived and died for men, the man shall die.
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Tennyson |
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My brethren,
seek what is enough for God's work, not what is
sufficient
for your greediness.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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Lydia’s
intention
of walking to Meryton was not forgotten; every sister
except Mary agreed to go with her; and Mr.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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This infamous principle was set aside by Caesar
but could not be overlooked that
multitude
of wholly destitute burgesses had been protected solely by these largesses of food from starvation.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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It has been universally assumed that
these two plays are either wholly or in part identical with
that which has come down to us under the title The Famous
History of Sir Thomas Wyat (published 1607); and there is no
reason for questioning this
assumption!
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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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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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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Models of the other that are
grounded
in an equality of pluralism only suppress the
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Education in Hegel |
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O dangerous woman, o
seductive
glow,
will I someday adore your frost and snow,
and learn to draw, from implacable winter
sharp-edged as steel or ice, new pleasure?
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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SAGREDO How can you mistake their
contemptible
cunning for reason?
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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Powerful
ever the goddess, but nevertheless to her fellows
Overbearing and rude, quite unendurable.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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De
petits enfants
etouffent
des maledictions le long des rivieres.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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”
Villon turned out his hands with a gesture of
inimitable
im-
pudence.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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I just did not want to have
to repeat the same thing again and again, namely, that
machines
are taking over
(according to Turing'sprophecy of 1948) and how they are doing it.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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von (Robert), p39 1887, Internet Book Archive Images
Medusas,
miserable
heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
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Appoloinaire |
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"SENTO L' AURA MIA ANTICA, E I DOLCI COLLI»
HE
REVISITS
VAUCLUSE
NCE more, ye balmy gales, I feel you blow;
Again, sweet hills, I mark the morning beams
Gild your green summits; while your silver streams
Through vales of fragrance undulating flow.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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We do not know half enough
about Lord Bacon—the first realist in all the highest
acceptation of this
word—to
be sure of everything
he did, everything he willed, and everything he ex-
perienced in his inmost soul.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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However, had you frankly told me from the beginning that Christian faith does not
concern you, that the subject of it is only mythology for you, then I should
naturally
have refrained from
that animosity to your ideas which I have been un-
"
able to conceal from you.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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They
commonly
had the date of their
erection on them.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Girls, lovers, youngsters, fresh to hand,
Dancers,
tumblers
that leap like lambs,
Agile as arrows, like shots from a cannon,
Throats tinkling, clear as bells on rams,
Will you leave him here, your poor old Villon?
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Villon |
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To
whatever
was asked, Thông Thiên sealed it with the mindseal.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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[633] _Cum voce
trementia
membra.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Satires |
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UnscharfeÍMgik
verándert
die Welt, Munich 2001.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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It seems to me that this statement shows us more than simply a person in his fortu itously
contradictory
nature.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
|
The climate of Bulgaria
(the name which Lower Mcesia has had since its inva-
sion by the Bulgarians in the seventh
century)
bears
little resemblance to that which Ovid describes.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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That auld,
capricious
carlin, Nature,
To mak amends for scrimpit stature,
She's turn'd you off, a human creature
On her first plan,
And in her freaks, on ev'ry feature
She's wrote the Man.
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burns |
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We sought each other out and went on
and on together,
exploring
the Fairy Castle.
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Li Po |
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what avails it, that the face of day
Wears the bright verdure tif
returning
spring ?
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| Source: |
Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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After a mare has foaled she does not get impregnated at once again, but only after a
considerable
interval; in fact, the foals will be all the better if the interval extend over four or five years.
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Aristotle copy |
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The
spelling
is, of course, early 17th century.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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"18
3 And he
repeated
again and again the words, "Madly I seized my arms".
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| Source: |
Historia Augusta |
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If an idealistic individual finds herself living in a society whose norms she cannot respect, the proper response has two aspects, one
personal
and one social.
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| Source: |
Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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If we inquire of those who have
gone before us, we receive small satisfaction; some have
travelled
life
without observation, and some willingly mislead us.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
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He advanced through
Paphlagonia
Timonitis into Galatia, and nine days later arrived in Bithynia 4 Lucullus ordered Cotta to sail to the harbour of Chalcedon with all his ships.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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She appeared about 50 years old; her face, full and
high-coloured, expressed repose and gravity, softened by the sweetness
of her blue eyes and
charming
smile.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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''The Soviet government would like to draw
attention
to the fact that one cannot now attack Cuba and expect that the aggressor will be free from punishment for this attack.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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And Lycon, the demagogue, prepared
everything
necessary to support the impeachment; but Antisthenes in his Successions of the Philosophers, and Plato in his Apology, say that these men brought the accusation: Anytus, and Lycon, and Melitus; Anytus, acting against him on behalf of the magistrates, and because of his political principles; Lycon, on behalf of the orators; and Melitus on behalf of the poets, all of whom Socrates used to pull to pieces.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Diogenes Laertius |
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The
confederacy
of the
Hernici, called by the Romans to account for their country
men found among the Samnite captives, now declared war against Rome (in 448)-more doubtless from despair than 306.
| Guess: |
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Terrible women would invent unclean
variants of the men's belief for the
elevation
of their sisters.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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now clear I understand
What oft my steddiest
thoughts
have searcht in vain,
Why our great expectation should be call'd
The seed of Woman: Virgin Mother, Haile,
High in the love of Heav'n, yet from my Loynes
Thou shalt proceed, and from thy Womb the Son 380
Of God most High; So God with man unites.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
In the parish church are some old holy-water fonts ; one, some- what
resembling
an ancient classic tragic mask, is very interesting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
|
[Though
satisfied
with the severe satire of these lines, the poet made
a second attempt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Like white water are you who fill the cup of my mouth,
Like a brook of water
thronged
with lilies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
The alarm caused by his arrival was
so great, the numbers of his army
probably
so exaggerated, that Man-
jūtakin burned his tents and equipment and made off in panic, without
risking a battle (end of April 995).
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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The idea was to receive the Kingdom as children receive things, that is to say, as the children from the villages received Jesus when he went there to
announce
the Kingdom: recep- tive, without prejudiced nor preformed ideas, capable of hearing some- thing truly new, with time availability, ready to follow up, leaving all other tasks aside.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
|
Here’s our ragged bairns and
callets!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
|
The step was an
unfamiliar
one, and he heard the
shuffling sound of loose slippers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
, Ovida Nasonis
Fastorum
Liber III.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
|
Now death, it is not only a work of nature, but also
conducing
to
nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
|
On the
following
day Beowulf bids
farewell to the king.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
|
The displacement of a single electron by a
billionth
of a centimetre at one moment might make the difference between a man being killed by an avalanche a year later, or escaping.
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Poetae 65
Desinite: en fati certus, sibi voce canora
Inferias
praemisit olor, cum Carolus Alba
(Vltima volventem et Cycnaea voce loquentem)
Nuper eum, turba & magnatum audiret in Aula.
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Freud
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