He
recognized
me--nay, knew me right well,
And in my face would laugh--and that child-laugh,
Oh, poor old man!
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Hugo - Poems |
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The very tread of men
As great as those is
shattering
to the frame
Of such a little house.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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884) makes him
to have
practised
with very little success, but ac- pray to the Elensinian goddess.
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, remind me of
having once possessed, but of whose departure and final fate I, in common
with most gownsmen of either university, could give, I suspect, but an
obscure and
conjectural
history.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Many persons think that the
religion
of
the Germans is too indefinite; and that it is
better to rally round the standard of a more
positive and severe mode of worship.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Two years later Faustina brought him a
daughter; and soon after the tribunate and other
imperial
honours were
conferred upon him.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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Against which double force how powerful
reason is let common
experience
declare, inasmuch as she, which yet is
all she can do, may call out to us till she be hoarse again and tell us
the rules of honesty and virtue; while they give up the reins to their
governor and make a hideous clamor, till at last being wearied, he suffer
himself to be carried whither they please to hurry him.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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]
* * * * *
ELIA, AND
GEOFFREY
CRAYON.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Collated
\II-ith its cast it lives be\ ond a douht.
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Samuel Beckett |
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It is almost as impersonal
as an
investment
in foreign shares.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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He strove to
forget them in an act of prayer, huddling his limbs closer
together
and
binding down his eyelids: but the senses of his soul would not be bound
and, though his eyes were shut fast, he saw the places where he had
sinned and, though his ears were tightly covered, he heard.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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"I have done two things," says the
author in his preface; "I have given a detailed account
of Nietzsche's general art doctrine, and I have also
applied this
doctrine
to the graphic arts of to-day and
of antiquity.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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J'étais frappé combien sa diction
ressemblait
à celle de Swann encore
plus qu'à Balbec.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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During the course of construction, the space comprised between
these two dykes continued to be inundated with water at every high tide;
but as soon as they had
succeeded
in joining them up to the _oppidum_,
this space, where the sea could no longer penetrate, remained finally
dry, and then presented to the besiegers a sort of place of arms useful
in the attack.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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anonymous
on 2015-01-02 09:06 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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There was nothing to talk about except the petty gossip of
the road, the good and bad spikes, the charitable and
uncharitable
counties, the iniquities
of the police and the Salvation Army.
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Orwell |
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The decisive point is that Jesus himself
recognizes
the 'fulfilment' of the mission on the cross and considers it completed (sciens Jesus quia omnia consummata sunt), so his final utterance does indeed contain a scriptural-messianic-athletic statement of achievement.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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When the An Lu-shan
revolution
broke out, he took to living sometimes
at Su-sung, sometimes on Mount K'uang-lu.
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Li Po |
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It is not worth while to pay
attention
to them for
they really are of no consequence.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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Child Verse
THE PLEIADS
"1 II /"HO are ye with
clustered
light,
' ' Little Sisters seven ?
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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Nguyễn
Văn Chất (1422-?
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stella-02 |
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--A nearly similar idea of unpa-
ralleled, and, as it were, exclusively superlative excess, was evi-
dently
intended
to be conveyed by the antiquated form," who
but.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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The subject of Geology is not entered on in these
Letters ; it is one far too deep for young children ; and of late years so much
bold speculation has
prevailed
on it, and so many theories have been brought
forward and abandoned, that the ground is considered by some as dangerous
to tread on.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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Chuse a sure Judge to Censure what you Write,
Whose Reason leads, & Knowledge gives you light,
Whose steady hand will prove your
Faithful
Guide,
And touch the darling follies you would hide:
He, in your doubts, will carefully advise,
And clear the Mist before your feeble eyes.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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"41 His program was nationalist first,
universalist
second.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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3 Philippus, as if he were the avenger of the sacrilege, not the defender of the Thebans, ordered all his soldiers to assume crowns of laurel, and proceeded to battle as if under the
leadership
of the god.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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Les coudes sur la table et
retroussant
tes manches,
Tu me glorifieras et tu seras content:
J'allumerai les yeux de ta femme ravie;
A ton fils je rendrai sa force et ses couleurs
Et serai pour ce frele athlete de la vie
L'huile qui raffermit les muscles des lutteurs.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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With mine own weakness, being best acquainted,
Upon thy part I can set down a story
Of faults conceal'd, wherein I am attainted;
That thou in losing me shalt win much glory:
And I by this will be a gainer too;
For bending all my loving
thoughts
on thee,
The injuries that to myself I do,
Doing thee vantage, double-vantage me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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[49] Nor did Admetus, the lord of Pherae rich in sheep, stay behind beneath the peak of the
Chalcodonian
mount.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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55
We have only the probability of the case to warrant
us in
supposing
that Ovid was under obligations to
him.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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The village of
Longbourn
was only one mile from Meryton; a most
convenient distance for the young ladies, who were usually tempted
thither three or four times a week, to pay their duty to their aunt and
to a milliner’s shop just over the way.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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Lo ben che tutto il regno che tu scandi
volge e contenta, fa esser virtute
sua
provedenza
in questi corpi grandi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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One, with his chin propped on his knees, stared at nothing,
in an intolerable and appalling manner: his brother phantom rested its
forehead, as if
overcome
with a great weariness; and all about others
were scattered in every pose of contorted collapse, as in some picture
of a massacre or a pestilence.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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IO
Yet
somewhat
add; forewarn me in my woe
What time shall bring my wandering to its goal?
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Aeschylus |
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Nor failed the master swain
T' adore the Gods, (for wise and good was he)
But consecration of the victim, first,
Himself performing, cast into the fire
The
forehead
bristles of the tusky boar,
Then pray'd to all above, that, safe, at length,
Ulysses might regain his native home.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Plans of campaign throw little light on that: so they
did not interest him, or, if they did, he
suppressed
his interest
because he knew that his public would otherwise behave as Dr.
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Tacitus |
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The general form of relative value, embracing the whole world of commodities,
converts
the single commodity that is excluded from the rest, and made to play the part of equivalent - here the linen - into the universal equivalent.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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Còn các sĩ tử
ngước
mắt nhìn lên cũng sẽ hăng hái lòng trung nghĩa, trau giồi học hành, đức hạnh để mong có ngày hiển dương đắc dụng.
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stella-04 |
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1The two critics also
identified
a common turn towards a "ruta trascendentalista, expansiva, del sujeto y el lenguaje" (10), for which, they proposed, Octavio Paz, as late as La otra voz (1990), was a paragon.
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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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3 Consider what mighty nations the Romans have made their
subjects
instead of their enemies after they had often suffered defeat at their hands.
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Historia Augusta |
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Nothing for us, we are for nothing fit;
Chance, or ourselves, still
disproportion
it.
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Donne - 2 |
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(Er notigt den
Mephistopheles
zu sitzen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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He said: "Whoever
practices
here, because it is my heart place, will receive the Mahamudra siddhis.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:07 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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8 Such was the
division
of Europe.
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Roman Translations |
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”
O could you but hear it, at
midnight
my laugh:
My hour is striking; come step in my trap;
Now into my net stream the fishes.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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Yen Liû said, 'For the son of Heaven dragons are painted on (the shafts of) the funeral carriage, and the boards surrounding the coffin, like the shell, have a
covering
over them.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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[633] _Cum voce
trementia
membra.
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| Source: |
Satires |
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He
employed
also the Greek rhetorician Eugamius, who was famous in his day.
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Historia Augusta |
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CHORUS
O thou, the warder of my home,
Grant, unto us, Fate's
favouring
tide,
Send on the foemen doom!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The dreamy butterflies bestir,
Lethargic pools resume the whir
Of last year's
sundered
tune.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
His Phaenomena is divided into three parts: constellations, the risings and
settings
of the stars, and weather signs.
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| Question: |
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:33 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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Pope, who had some slight personal acquaintance
with him, disliked his political connections and
probably
despised his
verses, and in the 'Imitation' already mentioned had alluded to him
under the title of Lord Fanny as capable of turning out a thousand lines
of verse a day.
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Alexander Pope |
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com,
for a more
complete
list of our various sites.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
my own
inspired
bard!
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| Question: |
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burns |
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This being so, the authentic
transmission
to the present of the skin,
?
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| Source: |
Shobogenzo |
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Most American workers have too great a sense of humor to permit them to believe that they are
qualified
t^o make such decisions.
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| Question: |
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
XVI
"The ox toils through the furrow,
Obedient
to the goad;
The patient ass, up flinty paths,
Plods with his weary load:
With whine and bound the spaniel
His master's whistle hears;
And the sheep yields her patiently
To the loud-clashing shears.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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1] But when Zeus was full-grown, he took Metis, daughter of Ocean, to help him, and she gave Cronus a drug to swallow,12 which forced him to disgorge first the stone and then the
children
whom he had swallowed, and with their aid Zeus waged the war against Cronus and the Titans.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
|
LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written
explanation
to the person you received the work from.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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One of the last tasks of philosophy is to
preserve
the healing fiction of a free dialogue.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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If the administration leaves much to be desired and cannot be
criticized
too severely, we must allow that the officials themselves are the most accomplished men we could wish to know.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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She recalled vaguely the
terrifying
story of the
Crucified Child which she had hitherto believed a gross calumny invented
by the populace for the taunting and reproaching of the Hebrews.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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The prominence or dominance of French ideas in European history
is also
emphasized
in Guizot's 'History of Civilization in France.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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399 answer
teaching
the keys of the magic body of this noble tradition.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
|
The motion in question is,
according to common and long-received opinion,
considered
to be that
of the heavenly bodies.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Bacon |
|
" From the following passage extracted from Facciolati, it would seem, however, that German critics repudiate this idea: "De barito clamore bellico, seu, ut quaedam habent exemplaria, bardito, nihil audiuimus nunc in Germaniâ: nisi hoc dixerimus, quòd bracht, vel brecht, milites Germani appellare consueverunt;
concursum
videlicet certantium, et clamorem ad pugnam descendentium; quem bar, bar, bar, sonuisse nonnulli affirmant.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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'Tis
impudence
to think my soul will bear it.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Otway |
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Sometimes one can put one’s finger
on a single sentence in which the original
illusion
is destroyed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell |
|
Why does he make it
any
business
of his, to wonder at what I do?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Emma |
|
The ancient village self-government
Village organisation
The village headman
The village police
Famine relief
Rural boards
The Bengal ferry committees
Local committees
elsewhere
.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-05 01:02 GMT / http://hdl.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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At the end of the day she has not
finished
her task;
Her bitter tears fall like streaming rain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
[b] In other rebirths: it guides one from the
suffering
of samsara, and the suffering of evil destinies, and gives zest for the joys of higher rebirths and Nirvana.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
|
It very much
resembles
the breath, with a mixture
of heat thrown in, sometimes coming nearer in nature to the first,
sometimes to the second.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
|
7 or
obtain permission for the use of the work and the Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark as set forth in
paragraphs
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
I joy no child he was of thine:
Thy free-born men should spare what once was free;
Yet they could violate each
saddening
shrine,
And bear these altars o'er the long reluctant brine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Macleane's
property
being entirely exhausted, his mother's friends, who were the only relations he had in Ireland, quarrelled with him for his extrava
and refused him either advice, shelter, or sub sistence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
|
(This
requires
setting fire to the grass behind me as I face the enemy, with the wind blowing toward the enemy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
|
When we cautiously
adventured
nigh,
We could see his lips with anguish quiver;
## p.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
|
It conveys to the patient that the therapist
does not understand him and may indeed con- vince him that the therapist is
behaving
exactly as his parent had predicted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
|
There is
confusion
worse than death,
Trouble on trouble, pain on pain,
Long labor unto aged breath,
Sore task to hearts worn out by many wars
And eyes grown dim with gazing on the pilot-stars.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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When he called a council of war, he proposed the question in
a few words: all his generals wrote their
opinions
in his presence
upon separate papers, which he carried away, and, examining them in
private, formed his resolution, without imparting it otherwise than by
his orders.
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Longfellow's longer poems may be conveniently divided into two
classes,
according
to subject-matter.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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Wherefore,everyemissaryof
sedition
that came from Norway found welcome at his court.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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Because she was so innocent,
That Heaven her character had blent
With an
imagination
wild,
With intellect and strong volition
And a determined disposition,
An ardent heart and yet so mild?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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) in 1889, I think they should
be
received
with caution.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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3) Guelf and
Ghibeline
and degeneracy of the free
cities ; Condotteri princes, and
4) Rise of the Dukedoms.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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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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Meredith - Poems |
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Sacerdos
has been thought
to be a suspicious name for a presbyter, but though we have been unable
to find any other instance, it may be pointed out that Priest may be
found as a proper name in the clergy list of to-day.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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I have seen
beautiful
feet
but never beauty welded with strength.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The Cossack eats Poland,
Like stolen fruit;
Her last noble is ruined,
Her last poet mute:
Straight, into double band
The victors divide;
Half for freedom strike and stand;--
The astonished Muse finds
thousands
at her side.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Great Goddess, Goddess Cybebe, Dindymus dame divine,
Far from my house and home thy wrath and wrack, dread mistress mine:
Goad others on with Fury's goad, others to Ire
consign!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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He threatened that war might become
inevitable
if those states- men should ever come into ofBce.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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Where this is not
achieved
in a poem,
the metre merely reminds the reader of his claims in order to disappoint
them; and where this defect occurs frequently, his feelings are
alternately startled by anticlimax and hyperclimax.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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Some of them had wings, and were of monstrous forms: others
set out in pomp, as it were in a triumph,
representing
the appearances
of kings, gods, and other persons.
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Lucian - True History |
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PIERRE OF PROVENCE
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effaced by tears, expressions that had no sense, tender ravings, a
thousand ideas that clashed with each other; the purest religious
sentiments and the most devoted love, the severest moral rectitude
and the most passionate forgetfulness, all are united therein, and any
one but a lover would have thought
Maguelonne
bereft of reason.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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