There is a
fatality
about all physical and intellectual distinction: the
sort of fatality that seems to dog, through history, the faltering steps
of kings.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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Sages their solemn een may steek,
An' raise a philosophic reek,
An'
physically
causes seek,
In clime an' season;
But tell me whiskey's name in Greek,
I'll tell the reason.
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Robert Burns |
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"Do you
know
anything
about birds?
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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Prayerfully and
earnestly
relying on the power of truth, and the aid
of the divine providence, I trust that this little volume will bear
some humble part in lighting up the path of freedom and
revolutionizing public opinion upon this great subject.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Philippus whom we
mentioned
before, the son of Grypus and of Tryphaena the daughter of Ptolemy VIII, was also deposed.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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Abend
wechselt
Sinn und Bild.
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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As this poem is to some extent connected with the lay of the Jabberwock,
let me take this opportunity of answering a question that has often been
asked me, how to
pronounce
"slithy toves.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Alban Butler's " Lives of the
Fathers, Martyrs and other
principal
Sainis," vol.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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The
dwelling
was dismantled; but we could
see a white man had lived there not very long ago.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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It is the legislative form, then,
contained
in the maxim, which can alone constitute a principle of determination of the [free] will.
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If there are not gods, or if
they care not for the welfare of men, why should I care to live
in a
Universe
that is devoid of Divine beings or of any provi-
dential care?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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The
Pashas, left to their own devices, mismanaged the Hicks
expedition
to
their hearts' content.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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It is an enterprise of noble daring to take our way to God ; and the
enjoyment
of many other good things is within the reach of the lovers of righteousness, who pursue eter nal life, especially those things to which God Himself alludes, speaking by Isaiah, " There is an inheritance for those who serve the Lord.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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"
His warning voice was unheard, for the din which the Black Knight
himself
occasioned
by his strokes upon the postern would have drowned
twenty war-trumpets.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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According to one tradition, Drey means dred po, an animal known to have lived in Tibet which might be compared to the
Sasquatch
(or "Bigfoot") of the Northwestern United States.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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Mais autrefois c'était
pour y parler sans être interrompu, maintenant pour garder
longuement
le
silence sans qu'on lui demandât de parler.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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"On a given
occasion
there will be a temperature which
is just right for my morning bath.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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156-169b) But when earth had covered this
generation
also, Zeus
the son of Cronos made yet another, the fourth, upon the fruitful earth,
which was nobler and more righteous, a god-like race of hero-men who
are called demi-gods, the race before our own, throughout the boundless
earth.
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Hesiod |
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He told
falsehoods
owing to the despotism toward
himself which he exhibited, for example, in the
way in which he created his own language, and
tyrannised himself into a poet:—he finally found
a rigid form of sublimity into which he forced his
life and his memory; he must have suffered much
in the process.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Daghda, surnamed More, the
Great, ruled over the Danans seventy years, and was one the
most
celebrated
their kings.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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For all things are
accomplished
by God to your advantage, O king, since your purpose is good.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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(Andrea fishes a large wooden model of the
Ptolemaic
system from behind
the star charts)
ANDREA What is it?
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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Fresh
messengers
still the sad news assure.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"Shut, shut those
juggling
eyes, thou ruthless man!
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Keats - Lamia |
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We
scarcely
see the laurel-tree,
The crowd about us is all we see,
And there's no room in it for you and me.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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He
therefore
sent several letters of invita-
tion to him at Athens, which were seconded by the
intreaties of Dion.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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In poetic use the demand for ontological justification appears as a demand for recognition, to use the creation ofmeaning as an
expression
ofself.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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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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Sallust - Catiline |
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Don't be snapping and
quarrelling
now, and you so well
treated in this house.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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POVERTY AND CIVILISATION
A modern writer is burdened by many words that carry an
erroneous
meaning,
and one of these is the word "civilisation.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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Trước
chọn kẻ sĩ chỉ lấy đỗ không quá hai ba chục người.
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stella-02 |
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"The
painters
of the Renaissance found Ovid a source of suggestion for
mythological subjects.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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In Mein Kampf Hitler makes clear that you can destroy the parties clearly opposed to you root and branch, but the
neighboring
party remains to infect your ranks.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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_An
initiation_
wa
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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The wis- dom ofdepth is recognizing the actual nature ofall phenom- ena, their emptiness, and the wisdom of vastness is simultaneously seeing the luminosity of all phenomena, their unobstructed manifestation on a
relative
plane.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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52 MISSION WORK AMONG THE POLES
king of Sweden invaded Poland and occupied
the greater part of its
territory
for a time.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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The most signifi- cant among these apparatuses are above all the camera obscura as a device for
recording
images and the lanterna magica as a device for reproducing images.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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"Certainly,” she replied;
"and to show you how true it is, he has sent Lamotte here,
who has already
informed
the King of everything.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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”
After a few moments’ silence I said to her, assuming a very humble air:
“I have heard, Princess, that although quite unacquainted with you, I
have already had the
misfortune
to incur your displeasure.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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The sign of extraordinary merit is to see that those who envy
it most are
constrained
to praise it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Hurried on from one new and dazzling scene to
another, and excited by the applause he was conti-
nually receiving, little time was left the young prince
to reflect upon the
position
in which he was placed, or
to give a thought to the condition of his unhappy
father.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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”
And toward the East End of the City is a full fair Church and
a gracious, and it hath many Towers,
Pinnacles
and Corners, full
strong and curiously made; and within that Church be 44 Pillars
of Marble, great and fair.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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“Persuade
a wolf” : i.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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“Persuade
a wolf” : i.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Theocritus - Idylls |
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Why cowl thy face beneath the mourner's hood,
Why waste thy sighs, and thy
lamenting
voices,
Image of Image, Ghost of Ghostly Elf,
That such a thing as thou feel'st warm or cold?
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| Answer: |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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One rather violent change is made by Pater in Lucian 's
dramatis
personae.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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He has
illustrated
the 'influence' of Marot, du Bellay,
de Pontoux, Jacques de Billy and Durant upon our bards, great
and small.
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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A word must be said in closing as to the merits of 'The Rape of the
Lock' and its
position
in English literature.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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His long
visit is about to be
concluded
at last, but I fear the separation takes
place too late to do us any good.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Lady Susan |
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Shakespear
sometimes
winds up a passage
in blank verse with a pithy set of rhymes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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" It was his
stepfather
that he thought of, not the eternal
principles of Liberty.
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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; 312;
defeated
at
Badr, 317; victorious at Uhud, 318; 319;
make the treaty of Hudaibiya, 322; sur-
render to Mahomet, 324; 325, 334
Mecklenburg,437 note, 438,444,454 and note
Medan, St, chapel dedicated to, 512
Medehamstede, Peada plans a monastery
at, 552; Wulfhere founds monastery at,
553
Medes, the, 437 mote
Media, 279, 298
Medina (Yathrib), (city and state), early
history, 312; citizens offer Mahomet a
home, ib.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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Let the last wretched band,
The poor GRAMMARIANS, say, what liberal hand 335
Rewards their toil: let learned Palæmon tell,
Who proffers what his skill
deserves
so well.
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| Source: |
Satires |
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Libya openly meditated our
destruction
; over the civic strife shame had laid her veil of silence.
| Guess: |
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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If it is true, as the workers' movement taught, that
knowledge
is power, then it is also true that not every knowledge is welcomed with open arms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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is only the faith of Christ that cleanses ; by
disbelief
in
Christ, they are loosed from purification.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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I speak now as one who doesn't know what
the
condition
of things may be in the next world, but in this one I
shall never be as wretched again as I was then.
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| Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
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I had read about doss-houses (they are never
called doss-houses, by the way), and I
supposed
that one could get a bed for fourpence or
thereabouts.
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| Question: |
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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However, users may print, download, or email
articles
for individual use.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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He remained there for about six years and
translated
the
Gayasirsa*, the Differentiation of Karmic Reward,412 and other works.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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With his description of inauthentic existence in Being and Time (1927), notably in the notorious paragraphs on the "one" (which could have been inspired by Kierkegaard's invectives against the "public" in A Literary Review), Heidegger had prepared his investigation into the basic
sensibilities
of the bored Dasein.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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investigations in the nature of
commitment
in economics and political science.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Schwarz - Committments |
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--- had "laid down" his
conscience
for a time, meaning, doubtless, to
resume it as soon as he could afford it.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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igree well enough,
with the
supposition
of Moroni and others, that St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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" I asked with
weakening
breath.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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* than with the former country; he likewise knows
q"^ that Germany is threatened with great danger
from an
alliance
between France and Russia.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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| Source: |
Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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''
On the contrary, a criminal trial is not only concerned with the
direct perception of facts, but also and
especially
with their
critical reconstruction and psychological appreciation.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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The wind begun to rock the grass
With
threatening
tunes and low, --
He flung a menace at the earth,
A menace at the sky.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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being surcharged, the feeling
accompanying
an
increase in strength, quite apart from the utility of
the struggle, is the actual progress: from these
feelings the will to war is first derived.
| Guess: |
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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His
eyesight
and hearing are lost;
Between life and death his blood freezes and thaws;
And his two pretty pinions of blue dusky gauze
Are glued to his sides by the frost.
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William Wordsworth |
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EDUCATING THEATRE-GOERS
The children of the Educational Alliance gave a
performance
of
"The Prince and the Pauper" on the afternoon of April 14, 1907,
in the theatre of the Alliance Building in East Broadway.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
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And the suction, the force, the power that was
twirling
them around has spun and left this globe mangled for more than 900 years.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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I tell you, truthfully, that your skin is yet whiter and of a more
perfect colour than that of my
Bulgarian
captain.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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It is
faithful
service to the Guru.
| Guess: |
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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he was
Nothing; for us, wee are for nothing fit;
Chance, or
ourselves
still disproportion it.
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Donne - 2 |
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Another
Proclamation
was majesty's council fear their lives; and made, That all earls, viscounts, and barons, withal, left them with Jo.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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If they are not all cheats and liars they are too dumb to face
contemporary
economics, and the safety of to-morrow cannot be entrusted whol1y to morons.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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Cung
thương
làu bậc ngũ âm,
Nghề riêng ăn đứt Hồ cầm một trương.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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When domestic troubles are his dramatic theme,
they are conflicts in heroic minds or tempests of
romantic
passion?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
|
148
Education
in Hegel
comes to understand itself.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Education in Hegel |
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Or
cormorants
plunging one by one, cutting
The flood, pearls flying from their wings?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
XXXIII
Now Roman is to Roman
More hateful than a foe,
And the
Tribunes
beard the high,
And the Fathers grind the low.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The attack was prepared
with the
greatest
secrecy for a month and took place on the night of
the 27-28 November.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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Memoires d'Outre-Tombe: BkXVIII:Chap8:Sec1
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
(Letter from Cardinal de Bausset, former Bishop of Alais)
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Part I: Greece
Part II:The Archipelago, Anatolia and Constantinople
Part III: Rhodes, Jaffa, Bethlehem and the Dead Sea
Part IV:Jerusalem
Part V: Jerusalem - Continued
Part VI: Egypt
Part VII: Tunis and Return to France
About This Work
Map of the Itinerary
Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary, during the years 1806 and 1807, Translated by Frederic Shoberl -
Francois
Rene de Chateaubriand (p8, 1812)
The British Library
Chateaubriand set out on his travels to the Middle East in the summer of 1806, returning via Spain in 1807.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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Fifteen years ago they
overran the country of Persia with a large army and took the city
of Rayy (Rai]: they smote it with the edge of the sword, took all the
spoil thereof and
returned
by way of the Wilderness.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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Or is this deeper
darkness
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Please do the poet a favor and shorten the
glorious
hours
Which the painter devours, eagerly filling his eyes.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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" Diarmaid went out, and he saw the whole village on
occasion,
great mountain ridge of steeps, * w—hich divides
Pertshire
from Argyle and ter- minating in the Grampian Hills he came to a small village, situate in a barren plain.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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The full -orb ’d moon , with her
nocturnal
ray
Shed o'er the scene a lovely flood of day.
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Pindar |
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While not purporting to offer fresh archaeological evidence, he established a 'tourist route' through that
antiquity
which many other travellers would follow.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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I see it all in dreams, such as waylay
The wandering fancy when the solid day
Has fallen in smoldering ruins, and night's star,
Aloft there, with its steady point of light
Mastering
the eye, has wrapped the brain in sleep.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Brave men can't die, whose candid actions are
Writ in the poet's endless calendar:
Whose vellum and whose volume is the sky,
And the pure stars the
praising
poetry.
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Robert Herrick |
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Brave men can't die, whose candid actions are
Writ in the poet's endless calendar:
Whose vellum and whose volume is the sky,
And the pure stars the
praising
poetry.
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Robert Herrick |
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The dignity of the accursed;
The glory of slavery, despair, death,
Is in the dance of the
whispering
snakes.
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Stephen Crane |
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And what is the nerve, but the flint which the wag placed in
the pot as the first ingredient of his stone broth,
requiring
only
salt, turnips, and mutton, for the remainder!
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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