Both reason and experience seem to indicate to us that the
infinite variety of nature (and variety cannot exist without inferior
parts, or apparent blemishes) is admirably adapted to further the high
purpose of the creation and to produce the
greatest
possible quantity
of good.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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And they brought round horns of wine, and all pledged one another; but Arystas, when the cup-bearer came to him with the wine, said, as he saw that
Xenophon
was no longer eating any supper, 'Give him the wine, for he has time to drink it, but I have not time yet.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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An action which is objectively
practical according to this law, to the exclusion of every determining
principle of inclination, is duty, and this by reason of that
exclusion includes in its concept practical obligation, that is, a
determination to actions, however
reluctantly
they may be done.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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English]
Philosophical
investigations
into the essence of human freedom /
F.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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Hymns of such sort pass away, wanting
prosodical
tact.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Poet Li Po, by Arthur Waley and Bai Li
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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Li Po |
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But the
composition
itself must be
older than this; indeed, it may be a true record of the great King's charge
to his son.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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Do you
understand
me, country-man f
C.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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'Round me the old sorrow was awaking, And the
breaking
of some mighty heart.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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In
acknowledgement
of her gallantry, the king sent her a complete suit of Greek armour; and he presented the captain of the ship with a distaff and spindle.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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Over
snowfields
waste and pathless,
Under snow-encumbered branches,
Homeward hurried Hiawatha,
Empty-handed, heavy-hearted;
Heard Nokomis moaning, wailing,
"Would that I had perished for you,
Would that I were dead as you are!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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23Franz Brentano, Psychology from an
Empirical
Standpoint, trans.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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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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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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Various traits remind us of the chivalry of the Middle Ages;
particularly
the custom of single combat, which was foreign to the Greeks and Romans.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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The
Whigs objected that it might
possibly
contain a mandate dissolving the
Convention.
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Macaulay |
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I was a precocious actress in her eyes; she sincerely looked on
me as a
compound
of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous
duplicity.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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My
thoughts
were not diverted by work for my friends, or by the administration of affairs of state ;
I could not I felt, as was indeed too true, that I had lost all the harvest of both my industry
there was no pleasure in pleading in the courts ; bear the very sight of the Senate House ;
and my success.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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They provide opportunities for us to reconnect to and participate in our
immediate
communities.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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For this purpose, a study of the best models is
notoriously
efficacious.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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Antony
however has some apology in this case; for he had
been abandoned and
betrayed
by Artabazus in Media.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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We
see, now, events forced on, which seem to retard or
retrograde
the
civility of ages.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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In the tenth year of
his reign, Gregory,(104) a man eminent in learning and the conduct of
affairs, was promoted to the
Apostolic
see of Rome, and presided over it
thirteen years, six months and ten days.
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bede |
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Solutions
of silver produce from it a very copi-
ous precipitate, showing the presence of marine acid.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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(the true essence of things) devoid of all
fictionality
Ckalpana-jala ').
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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But her
presence
disturbed him; he cared not
for her books: the two nurses whom he loved faithfully watched
him; and my wife and I were admitted to him sometimes, both
of whom he honored with regard and recognition.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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O
daughter!
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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Grain of musk, unseen, above,
in the depths of my
infinities!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Du sollst das Muster aller Frauen
Nun bald
leibhaftig
vor dir sehn.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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ou
merciable
to widewe; & to faderles childe.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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He began:
"Do you 'mind that night beside the beaches When the whole world in one brimming cup,
Earth and sky, the sea, clouds, dews, and starlight, To our lips was lifted, and we drank,
"Dizzy with dread joy and sacrificial Rapture of self-loss and sorrow dear,
Deep of beauty's draught, divine nirvana, The
bewildering
wine of all the world?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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] Substance and
Causality
: Spinoza.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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"1
* The
manuscript
clarifies: "body whose surlace is the bearer ol plastic values.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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He was content, as
Hastings
had never been, to plead a
command from home as a final cause for decision, and this respect
for authority was his outstanding characteristic.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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A Classified List of Printed Original
Materials
for English
Manorial and Agrarian History during the Middle Ages.
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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Here, absolute spirit knows itself
absolutely
only in and as a process of self-education.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Education in Hegel |
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He had always scrupuously attended to all the rules of the Convent; he
would not take broth or meat or any other food but that usual in Lent,
and when eating his dinner he turned
playfully
to the cook saying, " Fra
Cosmo do you treat your friends thus, to make them break fast days?
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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Series
For the
splendour
of the day of happinesses in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But what
If I expose
beforehand
thy bold fraud
To all men?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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' Anaides revenges
himself by describing Crites as
smelling
of 'lamp-oil with studying
by candle-light.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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] Why, sir, 'tis your
own fault--here you have stood ever since you came in, and have
not
commended
any one thing that belongs to him.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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In the
carriage
he did not twist his head around, gabble, or point.
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| Question: |
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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All Papers had all sorts of advertisements, it is true, but some were more
remarkable
than others for a particu lar class ; and Mr.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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r
Ideengeschichte
1 / 3, Fall 2007, pp 122-124.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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These shall set foot on the rough shores that feed the Iberians near the gate of
Tartessus
– a race sprung from ancient Arne, chieftains of the Temmices, yearning for Graea and the cliffs of Leontarne and Scolusa nd Tegyra and Onchestus’ seat and the flood of Thermodon and the waters of Hypsarnus.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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Spectators
usually became fans of a particular faction; their attitude toward individual drivers depended upon the drivers' faction affiliation.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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The closely
serried
battalions
of the Swedes were, after a tremendous conflict,
again driven across the trenches; and the battery, which had been twice
lost, again rescued from their hands.
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| Question: |
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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MISSION WORK AMONG THE POLES 25
In the year 1569 occurred a notable event,--
the formal union of Poland and
Lithuania
at
the Diet of Lublin.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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Mais, mon
petit Charles, dit la duchesse pour changer de conversation, voyant que
l'histoire de sa carte à Mme Carnot
paraissait
courroucer M.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally
accessible
and useful.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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But of all sadness this was sad,--
A woman’s arms tried to shield
The head of a
sleeping
man
From the jaws of the final beast.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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They will have
their say in everything, they regard
themselves
as
fit to decide all questions; I even fear that they
have decided about me.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Agni, with head of flames,
standing
between posts
on railing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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The living
and the prosperous are by no means
ambitious
of lik e
homage.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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I let my
neighbour
know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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But just to explain this false unity
requires
something positive that must thus necessarily be assumed in evil but will remain inexplicable as long as no root of freedom is recognized in the independent ground of nature.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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The truth seems that Goldsmith, living in England, recalled
in a poem that was English in its
conception
many of the memories and
accessories of his early life in Ireland, without intending or even
caring to draw an exact picture.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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But that Poe had overwhelming influence in the
formation
of his
poetic genius is not the truth.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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CHAPTER XI
Rotterdam:
It is impossible to get away from superlatives in
dealing with the Soviet Union and here in Rotter-
dam one is compelled to use a
timeworn
phrase to
record that the largest grain elevator in Europe--
one of the largest in the world--has just been pre-
empted for Soviet grain.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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Let the statues of the murderer and the
gladiator
be overthrown.
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Historia Augusta |
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99), which is why, in our view, these
observers
had to be ignored.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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5
Wherever
a young man roams
The Fates in ambush lie
6 What good that young men have
Did you lack in your life?
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| Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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Nothing remained to him but his Bohemians; and
they were without
goodwill
to his cause, and without unity and courage.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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was
thou wast under thefig-tree, I
was he ; under the
condition
of flesh was he.
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| Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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I am
scattered
in its whirl.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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So, if this unknown
vagabond
should cross
The Lithuanian border, Dimitry's name
Raised from the grave will gain him a whole crowd
Of fools.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Antonio
Mazzotti
edited a special issue of Revista de Cri?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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Ông vốn là Lý Tử Tấn vì đời Trần có lệ kiêng huý chữ Lý và họ Lý phải đổi làm họ Nguyễn; mặc dù đến đầu đời Lê có lệnh cho khôi phục họ cũ, nhưng do
đương
thời đã quen gọi, nên văn bia này vẫn ghi là Nguyễn Tử Tấn.
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stella-02 |
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the whole system of the
Democrates
[sic] .
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| Source: |
Revolution and War_nodrm |
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For in the maws of many sea-monsters shall be
entombed
the countless swarm devoured by their jaws with many rows of teeth; while others, strangers in a strange land, bereft of relatives, shall receive their graves.
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| Source: |
Lycophron - Alexandra |
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by a wonderful
dispensation
of mercy He exalts, while He reproves him.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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She was the first to
announce
it to Mr.
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| Question: |
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Austen - Emma |
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I fear lest hasty action
followed
your threat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Curiously enough, if
Scotland
gave Ireland the saint that in course
of time became almost its national symbol,- Patrick,-Ireland in turn
gave Scotland its dearest saint,-Columba.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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" She had now, in 1838, blazed forth
with a power that shook her no, less than it stirred the
emotions
and
the passions of her hearers.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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And cer- tainly, as we already said earlier, being evil resides in cognitive knowl- edge;
cognition
is the source of evil.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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And I remark again that the cultured Italian has been talking about
draining
those god-damned marshes since the time of Tiberius Cesar.
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| Source: |
Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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And
dreadful
the blast of the trumpet.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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, with the
pretense
of being a literal repetition, in order to conjure up (to make ''really present'' again, as a magical spell) the original moment of God's incarnated presence among humans through Christ (it is telling that the Protestant Reformers redefined the Eucharist from an act of conjuring up into an act of commemorating the ''Last Supper'').
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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"
Here is keen satire of the allegorical method uncontrolled by
reason and accurate knowledge, a satire addressed, with a final
thrust, to Frater
Dollenkopfius
(Dunderhead).
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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(indicated by a
watermark
on each page in the PageTurner).
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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According the ancient historians, many the kings, queens, and
warriors
the early ages were buried Tara, and several sepulchral mounds were raised there their memory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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The
accounts
he gives here and in c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
bede |
|
Moral possessions
have no price, and it is
therefore
unreasonable to try
to reckon the value of the honour and power of the State
in terms of money.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
|
- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Name of Person & Title of Work:
(A medieval O'Gorman wrote a Martyrology, and Joyce jokingly--and sarcastically-- uses the title for Herbert Gorman's
biography
of himself!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
|
I know
This only: in my home, in my soul's chamber,
A filthy
verminous
beast hath made his lair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
My word is passed to my comrade
in arms that he shall have the maiden as his share of the spoil, and I
would not break it for ten Jews and
Jewesses
to boot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
|
and
discover
the total ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
|
I also know that I would not be very
successful
and would certainly not look very impressive if I tried to take notes, at a lecture or a discussion, with a laptop on my knees.
| Guess: |
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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" One asks why the
multiplication
of pregnancies is a punish- ment.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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The soil had been
impoverished
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ous cultivation.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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information
and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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II y a
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et europeen.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Rose Pogonias
He is no
dissenter
from the ritualism of nature;
Asking for Roses
nor from the ritualism of youth which is make-believe.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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And did you not
hear me swear promise to her, that so she closed her eyes
grateful?
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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Additionally, for Foucault, a genealogical study is in turn a history of our present; it is an investigation of our own
contemporaneity
or contemporary
112
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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The age group
2 Andreas Baader (1943–77) and Ulrike Meinhof (1934–76) were the leaders of the Red Army Fraction (RAF), an extreme left-wing
political
group formed in 1968 that was responsible for violent attacks in West Germany.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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the world was more
advantageous
than that of Corinne.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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The united remains of the immortal lovers, after
many vicissitudes, found at last (let us hope), in 1817, a permanent
resting place, in the
Parisian
cemetery of Père Lachaise, having been
placed together in Abélard's monolith coffin.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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