What queen or
powerful
lady did not envy me my joys and my bed?
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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Then after disposing of them, he
banished
Arsinoe herself from the kingdom.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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These two
advantages
we have discussed.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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This should not su rise us, r he is less
concerned
with what must be done than with how it must be done.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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In the opinion of
Rabbi Meir's colleagues he
proposes
to read, “No judge who is mor-
ally qualified can be objected to, for he is just as good as one duly
licensed.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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The State
assumes that every
Frenchman
understands
French.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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But
Siddhartha
cared little about this.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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PUTNAM'S SONS
Complete
Catalogue
sent
on application
?
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Arminius was now on horseback viewing all the ranks: as he rode through
them he magnified their past feats; "their liberty recovered; the
slaughtered legions; the spoils of arms wrested from the Romans;
monuments of victory still
retained
in some of their hands.
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Tacitus |
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Their
entrance
is under the
lowest level of the tide.
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Beowulf |
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Most good poetry asserts
something
to be worth while, or
?
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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At what German
University to-day would such
lectures
on my philo-
sophy be possible, as those which Dr.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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That was something that Gregor did not want to
think about too much, so he started to move about,
crawling
up and
down the room.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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God pity all the
homeless
ones,
The beggars pacing to and fro,
God pity all the poor to-night
Who walk the lamp-lit streets of snow.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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He had forty-two boxes, all
carefully
packed,
With his name painted clearly on each:
But since he omitted to mention the fact,
They were all left behind on the beach.
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Lewis Carroll |
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May I present you with this verse:
Only by cultivating are body and mind purified, Growing
luxuriantly
the straight branch faces
the empty awareness.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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No less than
thirteen
papers reviewed it!
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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Let them not hesitate
to express their wishes upon any scruples of false delicacy and
consideration for my feelings; I assure them they will do me too much
honour by "demonstrating" on such a crazy body as mine, and it will give
me
pleasure
to anticipate this posthumous revenge and insult inflicted
upon that which has caused me so much suffering in this life.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Besides, it answers
no purpose; unless, indeed, a
difficulty
can be solved by multiplying
it, or we can acquire a clearer notion of our soul by being told that we
have a million of souls, and that every atom of our bodies has a soul
of its own.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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" See James Frazer's " Hand Book for
Travellers
in Ireland," route No.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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No matter what efforts Moscow might make, only a relatively slight change in the rate of
increase
in overall production could be brought about.
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NSC-68 |
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" But when we examine the MSA,
we find that its use of
omniscience
is quite difef rent from that of the AA.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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In the third stage if someone has
developed
fully on the path, the nirmanakaya will predict when a person will become a Buddha and in which buddha field he or she will go and what his or her name will be.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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This opinion, warmly opposed by Monk, was:—
"That as the Dutch were chiefly supported by trade, as the sup-
ply of their navy depended upon trade, and as experience showed,
nothing provoked the people so much as injuring their trade, his
Majesty should therefore apply himself to this, which would effectu-
ally humble them, at the same time that it would less exhaust the
English than fitting out such mighty fleets as had
hitherto
kept the
sea every summer.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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Such is our counsel now, but if any of you can devise a better plan let her rise, for it was on this account that I
summoned
you hither.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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In the case of the Vietnam election of 1967 and the EI Salvador
elections
of 1982 and 1984, the purpose of the elections was not merely to placate the home public but also to mislead them on the ends sought.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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Evolution is the law of
life, and there is no
evolution
except towards individualism.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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with as now thy bending neck and head, with
courteous
hand
and word, ascending,
Thou!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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He travelled widely from 1806, in Europe and the Middle East, and highly
critical
of Napoleon followed the King into exile in 1815 in Ghent during the Hundred Days.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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The economic theory of
imperialism
developed by Hobson and Lenin is the best of such approaches.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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At the first moment of its release it halted
abruptly
in the
arena, raised itself half on end, snuffing the upward air with
impatient signs, then suddenly it sprang forward, but not on the
Athenian.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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No doubt that letter
was
destined
to lie in her box and lead to nothing.
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| Question: |
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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Thatthehumanrace should persist is of no interest whatever to reason ; he who would perpetuate
humanity
would perpetuate the problem and the guilt, the only problem and the only guilt.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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Life was easy-in fact
easiest—to
me,
in those periods when it exacted the heaviest duties
from me.
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| Question: |
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
|
As
a part of this capital, when once expended in the
improvement
of a farm, is inseparably amalgamated with the
land, and tends to increase its productive powers, the
remuneration paid to the landlord for its use is strictly
of the nature of rent, and is subject to all the laws of
rent.
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| Question: |
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring?
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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153
inte
rpretati
ons.
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| Question: |
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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What Gregory is meant we cannot say,
but
probably
Donne had in view Gregory XIII or Gregory XIV,
post-Reformation Popes, rather than either of those mentioned above.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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John Donne |
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When will we have a nature that is
altogether
undeified!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
|
Its gun factories run with Jew money, run on loans, based on money sweated out of the Aryan peoples, sweated out of the farm
laborers
and industrial workin' men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
|
org), you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense
to the user, provide a copy, a means of
exporting
a copy, or a means
of obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain
Vanilla ASCII" or other form.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
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The
Brownies
and the Farmer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Brownies |
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TO BACCHUS [DIONYSOS]
The
Fumigation
from Storax.
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| Question: |
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Orphic Hymns |
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SITUATION 0 41
changed on whose account that truth was invalidated:
Aesthetic
truth content and history are that deeply meshed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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We become
aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest,
grow
pleasanter
and milder with time, and that
the severest way of life may become a habit and
therefore a pleasure.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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`And
thenketh
wel, ye shal in Grekes finde,
A more parfit love, er it be night,
Than any Troian is, and more kinde, 920
And bet to serven yow wol doon his might.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Yet doubts have 'been
entertained^
jeal- ousies and prejudices have circulated} and though the ex- periment is every day dissipating them, within the spheres in which effects are belt knownj yet there are still'persons by whom they hare not been entirely re- nounced.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Loosed on the flowers Siroces to my bane,
And the wild boar upon my crystal
springs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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In his final letter, when dealing with the use of wine in convents, he actually
transcribes
several pages of her previous letter to him, as though forgetting that it was she who had written them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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Although
Jier remote preparation
for death had commenced, at a very early period, by the practice of virtue and good works ; yet, towards the close of life, as if all she had hitherto done were of no account, in her estimation, she became devoted almost uninter- ruptedlytoheavenlyaspirationsandcontemplation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
|
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| Question: |
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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" cried Captain Harville, in a tone of strong feeling, "if I could
but make you
comprehend
what a man suffers when he takes a last look at
his wife and children, and watches the boat that he has sent them off
in, as long as it is in sight, and then turns away and says, 'God knows
whether we ever meet again!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Persuasion |
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I alone of all things
Fret with
unsluiced
fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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"My daughter, Mynheer Breuck, is
friendless
now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Amy Lowell |
|
Annales
Ecclesiastici
et
p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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Now, down here, in this unknown angle,
A glimmering furrow of
melancholy
ruby,
A sweetly twinkling sun-spark trembles:
A patriarchal guide leads his family.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
There was immense destruction and damage wrought on the buildings in German cities, and it is really surprising that the
war industries gathered in those cities should have
suffered
so little impairment or loss of production.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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Surrexe, pro
surrexisse
; -- Mavors, pro
Mars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
|
Rymer, his wife, ^nd two daugh ters ; three rotten chairs and half seemed to stand like traps in various parts of the room, threatening down fall to unwary strangers ; and one spHtary table, in the middle of this aerial apartment, served to hold the different treasures of the whole family ; there was now
lying upon the first act pf Comedy, pair ofyel low stays, two political pamphlets, plate of bread and butter, three dirty night-caps, and volume of
miscellaneous
poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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cried she, it joins my husband's head:
And, but for that, I truly had been led
To lay myself
unthinkingly
beside
The strangers whom with lodging we provide;
But, God be praised, this cradle shows the place
Where my good husband's pillow I must trace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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CHAPTER XIII
Emma
continued
to entertain no doubt of her being in love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Emma |
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God grant, not that, not that, but some plain grace
Of manhood to the man who brings me love:
A father of
straight
children, that shall move
Swift on the wings of War.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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100,000
Very
handsome
indeed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edmund Burke |
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That is what
distinguishes
it from the dream typewriter con- structed by Friedlaender's Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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Weforgeteverythingthathas no value for us even if we are
unconscious
of that absence
of value.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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Beneath the liquid splendor of the lights
We live a little ere the charm is spent;
This night is ours, of all the golden nights,
The pavement an
enchanted
palace floor,
And Youth the player on the viol, who sent
A strain of music thru an open door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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I am sure of all this only insofar as it's a matter of doing (of my doing) a
diagnosis
of the present.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Live |
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He ordered to be
set down in writing the several heads of all his annual
charges; the
ordinary
expense of his house and his
stables; that of his apparel and wardrobe; his rewards,
and every thing else that was to be issued yearly out
of his coffers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Little Princes |
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Thy burning thirst, fierce Love, they say aright,
may not be quencht by saddest tears that flow;
Nay, more, thy sprite of harsh
tyrannick
mood
would see thine altars bathed with human blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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It remains to see what were those amatory relations which she may be
said to have
sincerely
held.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Imagine that I am in the
presence
of someone who, for one reason or another, is extremely annoyed with me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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When they went into the library
they were yet breathless with running;
but they stopped their puffing and
panting, for their mother was reading,
to their father and the engineer, some-
thing which seemed to be very enter-
taining; they were smiling, as they
stood before the sofa table
listening
to
her: and as he came in, Frank thought
that he heard his own name, but of
this he was uncertain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Frank |
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When one practices meditation with the view_ It is like a garuda
fathoming
space.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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For two
hundred years the
Jagellon
dynasty had
guided the affairs of the kingdom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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I laughed, and spoke to one near me,
"Will he
prevail?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
I was
next examined concerning the design of
bringing
a Scottish army into
England.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dryden - Complete |
|
Creating the works from print editions not
protected
by U.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
" These things are not only done everywhere but
laughed at too; yet as
ridiculous
as they are, they make society
pleasant, and, as it were, glue it together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
|
]
Thus
continued
in MS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
|
wherefore did you blind
Yourself
from his quick eyes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
'
The goddess fled away on her golden shell,
Her adored image
returning
to us on the swell,
And the sky shone beneath the scarf of Iris.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Then grieve her not with saying
She must no more a-maying,
Or by
rosebuds
divine
Who'll be her valentine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
" The Hare then applied, as a
last hope, to the calf, who
regretted
that he was unable to help
her, as he did not like to take the responsibility upon himself,
as so many older persons than himself had declined the task.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
|
Wherever
it seems healthy, it
approximates the system of Rome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
|
The
officers
entrusted with the warrant had received orders to seize the printer of the North Briton, but contrived first to apprehend the wrong man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
|
'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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
And Brutus approached him again and said, 'Come Sir, turn your back on these people's nonsense and do not
postpone
the business that deserves the attention of Caesar and of the great empire, but consider your own worth a favourable omen.
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The River Deity
upbraids
his Daughters, the contributary Streams:--
Ye daughters mine!
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Hugo - Poems |
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], and became king of the Macedonians in the first year of the 126th
Olympiad
[276 B.
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The continuance
of the peace entailed heavy periodical payments, and throughout his
reign Justin was
consistently
opposed to enriching the Empire's enemies
at the expense of the national treasury.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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" Thomas
When I lived in China one was warned to never eat on the street for fear of pick- ing up Hepatitis B and, of course, eating on the streets in places like Mexico the possibility of getting sick was
cautioned
in most travel books.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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Poma, likewise one of the proclaimed, was seen in this city
about the month of June last; and, from what I have
hitherto
been able
to elicit, it seems that he then left for Naples, his departure being attri-
buted to his finding himself half a bankrupt.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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En otros casos se definen profanamente las
ventajas
termotópicas.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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The orchard
sparkled
like a Jew, --
How mighty 't was, to stay
A guest in this stupendous place,
The parlor of the day!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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But things of sense are the only things offered
to our
perception
and observation.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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George Du Maurier, the
satirist
of the Victorians.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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Where is the son of
Amphilochus?
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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Its plan was qua-
drangular, including a partition wall, which separated an
apartment
from the nave,ofwhichthatchurchseemstohavebeensolelycomposed.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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