Fame is the thirst of youth,--but I am not
So young as to regard men's frown or smile
As loss or guerdon of a
glorious
lot;
I stood and stand alone,--remembered or forgot.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Through this alone the Church is
under all circumstances a nobler
institution
than
the State.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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AU LECTEUR
La sottise, l'erreur, le peche, la lesine,
Occupent nos esprits et
travaillent
nos corps,
Et nous alimentons nos aimables remords,
Comme les mendiants nourrissent leur vermine.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Leaves the
footprints
that we trace
All about the Kissing-place.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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Then good Aeneas throws his spear; through the
sheltering circle of
threefold
brass, through the canvas lining and
fabric of triple-sewn bull-hide it went, and sank deep in his groin; yet
carried not its strength home.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Such heaped-up platters of cakes
of various and almost
indescribable
kinds, known only to experi-
enced Dutch housewives!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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But to them
appeared
Glaucus from the depths of the sea, the wise interpreter of divine Nereus, and raising aloft his shaggy head and chest from his waist below, with sturdy hand he seized the ship's keel, and then cried to the eager crew: "Why against the counsel of mighty Zeus do ye purpose to lead bold Heracles to the city of Aeetes?
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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I say nothing of his most disgraceful flight from the city, his timorous speeches in the towns, his ignorance not only of the strength of his
opponent
but of his own forces : but what of this?
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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On one occasion he had been
employed
by his
constituents to wait on the Duke of Monmouth,
then governor of Hull, with a complimentary
letter, and to present him with a purse contain-
ing " six broad pieces " as an honorary fee.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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Respecting these sciences, as they do certainly exist, it may
with
propriety
be asked, how they are possible ?
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Not a superstitious, small-minded, parochial model filled with spirits and hobgoblins, astrology and magic,
glittering
with fake crocks of gold where the rainbow ends.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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For no one, either of the blessed
gods or of mortal men, knew surely that he would
contrive
through the
sword to send to Hades full many a one of heroes fallen in strife.
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Hesiod |
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He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the
inflamed area around it, which was
entirely
covered in white dust.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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She plained, she mourned, she wept, she sighed, she prayed:
XXIV
"At last with child she proved, and forth she brought,
And thou art she, a daughter fair and bright,
In her thy color white new terror wrought,
She
wondered
on thy face with strange affright,
But yet she purposed in her fearful thought
To hide thee from the king, thy father's sight,
Lest thy bright hue should his suspect approve,
For seld a crow begets a silver dove.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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, nullo spatio relicto
1
_metula_
O: _M.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The traditional Geluk
scholarship
seems to accord this historically critical role
-
,
and also the last section of Thub bstan
?
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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Constantius
winters at Antioch.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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One
need only reflect a little and he will always find a debt that he
has by some means
incurred
towards the human race (even if it were
only this, by the inequality of men in the civil constitution,
enjoys advantages on account of which others must be the more in
want), which will prevent the thought of duty from being repressed
by the self-complacent imagination of merit.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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Both
outwardly
and within yourself, these and various other undesirable circumstances will arise.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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If the will of the ground were
vanquished
earlier, the good would remain hidden in it together with evil.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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They have, perhaps,
in times of danger from science,
incorporated
some philosophical
doctrine or other into their systems in order to make it possible to
continue one's existence within them.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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The
traveller
then returned to the inn where John still slept, took
off his wings and laid down on the bed, for he was very tired.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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clear from the
marginal
Dote '/i",IIlN', al.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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But while this is a characteristic
observable in some of them, it is not so obviously
discoverable
in the
second of their number, Anaximander.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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60 (#98) ##############################################
60 ECCE HOMO
went so far as to declare that I planned even my
philological treatises after the manner of a Parisian
novelist—that I made them
absurdly
thrilling.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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In the
practice
of those things,
which the nature of man, as he is a man, doth require.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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Feeling fear at the prospect of being born in one or another of them, you begin to wonder, "How can I
possibly
get out of this cycle?
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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He must
experience
these sorrows for seven days.
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| Source: |
Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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The communal side
of the
collectives
chiefly involves the major aspects of
agricultural production in sowing, reaping, storing,
caring for the herds and in applying scientific methods
and machine techniques so far as possible in all such
activities.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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" And so:
" A t all times be based in the Means Together with the
Perfection
of Insight; For because of it and from it,
One passes to the Deferred NirvaQa.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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The Chorus of
Husbandnvn
(off scene) -- O.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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By means of
characteristic
marks.
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| Question: |
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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"
Still he stood and eyed me hard,
An earnest and a grave regard:
"What, lad,
drooping
with your lot?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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As his last
act upon earth, Comrade Napoleon had pronounced a solemn decree:
the drinking of alcohol was to be
punished
by death.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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Sa'd-ad-Daulah wished to be quit of the burden of
tribute due to the Emperor, and was willing to make
concessions
to the
Caliph in return for his help.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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Bacon was the first of men to grasp these ideas
in all their comprehensiveness as
feasible
purposes, as practical aims;
to teach the development of them as the supreme duty and ambition
of his contemporaries, and to look forward instead of behind him
for the Golden Age.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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Unless, perhaps you'll say, men had
better converse with fierce lions,
merciless
tigers, and furious
leopards.
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| Question: |
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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One of the chief causes of the inordinate power
acquired by the clergy was their
mediatorial
office; and their
gigantic wealth was in a great degree due to the legacies of
those who regarded them as the trustees of the poor.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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From a cavern wide
In the rent cloud's side,
In
sulphurous
showers
The red flame pours.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Come rather on some autumn afternoon,
When red and brown are burnished on the leaves,
And the fields echo to the gleaner's song,
Come when the
splendid
fulness of the moon
Looks down upon the rows of golden sheaves,
And reap Thy harvest: we have waited long.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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But there were those amongst us all
Who walked with
downcast
head,
And knew that, had each got his due,
They should have died instead:
He had but killed a thing that lived,
Whilst they had killed the dead.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
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" — His
abhorret^ce
of the practice of
for the works pf medical writers.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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[Till they had drawn the Spectre quite away from Enion]
And drawing in the Spectrous life in pride and haughty joy
Thus Enion gave them all her
spectrous
life in dark despair.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Where'er he guides His finny
coursers
and in triumph rides,
The waves nnruffle and the sea subsides.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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INTRODUCTION—STATE OF GERMANY IN PAGAN AND EARLY
CHRISTIAN
TIMES—BIOGRA- PHIES OF ST.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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The elephants stumbled and the horses fell,
The footmen jostled, leaving each his post,
The ground beneath them
trembled
at the swell
Of ocean, when an earthquake shook the host.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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"But mine the sorrow, mine the fault,
And well my life shall pay;
I'll seek the
solitude
he sought,
And stretch me where he lay.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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Many of the lamas and lay persons,
including
Western practitioners, have seen these "miracles" and so the Western reader is cautioned from simply dismissing the accounts of Milarepa as folk lore.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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The images are
provided
for educational, scholarly, non-commercial purposes.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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All the Societies take
the title of
branches
of the National Society for Women's Suffrage; but
each has its own governing body, and acts in complete independence of
the others.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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* Some further
reference
to the Paper of "Junius" Woodfall will be found in the chapter on London Morning Papers.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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He is not the author
of that
anatomical
method:, which consi-
ders the intellectual powers severally, or
each by itself; and which appears to be
ignorant of the admirable unity in the moral
being.
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Germany |
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157
Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa 125
Quis potis est dignum pollenti pectore carmen 71
Quisquis adest, faueat: fruges lustramus et agros 158
Quisquis Cecropias hospes cognoscis Athenas 234
Quisquis Flaminiam teris, uiator 271,iii
Quis uos exagitat furor 242
Quo Castalia per struices saxeas lapsu accidit 7, vii
Quod mihi fortuna casuque oppressus acerbo 98
Quod spirat tenera malum mordente puella 274
Quoi dono lepidum nouum libellum 78
Quome tonas, Leucesie 1, ii
Quoniam quieti corpus nocturno impetu 41
Quo tua, Romanae uindex clarissime linguae 61
Quum praematura raptum mihi morte Nepotem 286, i
Romuleum Sicula qui fingit carmen auena 358, c
Rumor ait crebro nostram peccare puellam 189
Salue, herediolum, maiorum regna meorum 344
Scribant de te alii uel sis ignota licebit 176
Sed neque Medorum siluae, ditissima terra 115
Sed prius emenso Titan uergetur Olympo 249
Sed quid iam tenui prodest ratione nitentem 203
Sed tempus lustrare aliis Helicona choreis 180
Septimi, Gadis aditure mecum et 132
Seseque ei perire mauolunt ibidem 8, viii
Set damnosa nimis panditur area 346
Sexagesima, Marciane, messis 277
Sicanius uates siluis, Ascraeus in aruis 358, a
Sic Apollo, deinde Liber sic uidetur ignifer 292
Sicelides Musae, paulo maiora
canamus!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Melitta, on the other hand, denies the crime--her maids may
be brought forward and
tortured
in order to refute what she says.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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gone off, nor would he eat
anything
that had changed colour, stank, was ill cooked: or out of season.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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The Greek historians and the Chaldaeans turn his
suffering
to good account, by calling the madness a god who entered into him, or some demon which came to him.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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WALTER PATER
11177
form: to whose minds the comeliness of the old, immemorial,
well-recognized types in art and literature have revealed them-
selves impressively; who will
entertain
no matter which will not
go easily and flexibly into them; whose work aspires only to be
a variation upon, or study from, the older masters.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Sĩ tử về kinh đô dự khoa thi Tiến sĩ đều phải nộp tờ khai gọi là Nhân thân trạng, nhân đó gọi
người
đỗ đầu bảng (thuộc hàng Nhất giáp) là Trạng nguyên.
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stella-01 |
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The
principle
is at work all over the world; and the principle is not wholly under our own control.
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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Through highway, field, and wood, a gloomy beat,
More than ten weary miles the damsel rode,
Ere any crossed her path on
mischief
bent,
Or even questioned witherward she went.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"I taught you of kissing," says she; "that
becomes every
courteous
knight.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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WHIPPLE
a
reputation
as a man of letters.
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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, Por,
e
Lulaties
'].
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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34 There was another $35 billion for which the banks acted as investment
advisory
agencies and an unknown amount in the bands of individuals or corporations that did not make use of banks as advisory agencies.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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GALILEO I've
discovered
something else.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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And this place teacheth that the zeal wherewith the unbelievers are carried headlong, and set on fire, is nothing else but furious force, 250 because it is not governed by the
prudence
of the Spirit, neither yet with righteousness or equity.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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As they then do not in fact choose to
do so,
probably
because they cannot, we must take up these arms
again in order to seek in the mortal use of reason, and to base on
this, the notions of God, freedom, and immortality, the possibility of
which speculation cannot adequately prove.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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The student demonstrations in Beijing that broke out first in December 1986 and recurred recently on the occasion of Hu Yao-bang's death were only the beginning of what will inevitably be
mounting
pressure for change in the political system as well.
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| Source: |
Fukuyama - End of History |
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Tu
proverai
sì come sa di sale
Lo pane altrui, e com'è duro calle
Lo scendere e 'l salir per l'altrui scale.
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| Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
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On other
thoughts
meantime intent, her charge
Of folded vestments neat the Princess placed
Within the royal wain, then yoked the mules,
And to her seat herself ascending, call'd
Ulysses to depart, and thus she spake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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It has been pointed out again and again by great theologians, from Tertullian and Augustine to Kierkegaard, that the acceptance of Christianity by the
Christians
themselves contains a prob- lematic and ambiguous element, engendered by the paradoxical nature of the doctrine of God becoming man, the Infinite finite.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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The central issue is the fact that the People's Republic of China can no longer act as a beacon for
illiberal
forces around the world, whether they be guerrillas in some Asian jungle or middle class students in Paris.
| Guess: |
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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, Cicero, Brutus, and Atti-
cus carry on the conversation, but it is mostly a
monologue
of Cicero
and a historical sketch of Roman oratory.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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ffentlicher Verunglimpfung der
katholischen
Religion), Hegel claims to be born, to be educated and to live as a lutheran, and to give courses at a lutheran university.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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A curtain, a curtain which is fastened
discloses
mourning, this does not
mean sparrows or elocution or even a whole preparation, it means that
there are ears and very often much more altogether.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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This is not a fault which
throweth
all into confusion; and were it a
fault, where is the man to be found who is free from
faults?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Xenagoras, the historian, writes that
Odysseus
and Circe had three sons, Romus, Antias and Ardeias, who built three cities and called them after their own names.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eusebius - Chronicles |
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Partly, at least, this is to be accounted for by the almost sublime cowardice of the
ministers
of Arcadius, who rewarded his Grecian raids by clothing him with the sacred character of an officer of the Empire in their portion of Illyricum.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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ON BEING REMOVED FROM HSUN-YANG AND SENT TO CHUNG-CHOU
A remote place in the
mountains
of Pa (Ssech'uan)
Before this, when I was stationed at Hsun-yang,
Already I regretted the fewness of friends and guests.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The New Cake of Soap
Lo, how it gleams and
glistens
in the sun Like the cheek of a Chesterton.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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In the other class she places the Vere de Veres,
the worshipers of Mammon, the
schemers
and the sharks of society.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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" cried the girl, laughing, as though she
had not had a chance of
laughing
for a whole year.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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They will then
probably
be willing to accept our test.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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" * The
argument
was taken
1 Letter to N.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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In itself, his sister's not coming into the room
would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been
difficult for her to
immediately
open the window while he was still
there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and
closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had
threatened her and tried to bite her.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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We were
pressed for time and tired out, yet we came with all haste, and in our
hurry we have passed by lots of wild onions without even
gathering
them.
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Aristophanes |
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How Is Our
Conceptual
System Grounded?
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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The
thousandth
time may prove the charm.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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Thus, the son of Heaven has his domain that he may settle there his sons and grandsons; and the feudal princes have their states; and Great
officers
their appanages that they may do the same for theirs.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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170bl For example, when the [Root Tantra] Seventh Chapter proclaims that one will attain the supreme accomplishment when one kills the host of transcendent lords, the Savior Nagarjuna
interprets
this as referring to the retraction of one's visualization into clear light, while Aryadeva explains it as referring to entrance into the perfection stage clear light.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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I say, if I loved Jean, I'ld do without
All these vile
pleasures
of the flesh, your mind
Seems running on for ever: I would think
A thought that was always tasting them would make
The fire a foul thing in me, as the flame
Of burning wood, which has a rare sweet smell,
Is turned to bitter stink when it scorches flesh.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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How, incorruptible love,
to express your endless
verities?
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Let the woodman cut beams for house building and plenty of ships'
timbers, such as are
suitable
for ships.
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Hesiod |
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These conditions being carried out, Venice was
restored
to
its place in the Roman Church, reconciled to the Pope.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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The other way in which the effect here contem- plated is produced, and in which the benefit is general, is the increasing of the quantity of
circulating
medium, and
the quickening of circulation.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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A 1989 Fortune
comparison
shows that, of the top 50 firms in 1954, only 28 were still in the top 50 in 1988.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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Lord Montgomery,
together
with officers and 150 Mac Mahon and Patrick Mac Neney, with some horse and foot soldiers, were made prisoners; and stated by Lodge and forces against him, who had an encounter with Monroe near Dun others, that lord Montgomery was confined for some time gannon, in which they defeated his forces, and checked his ad O'Reilly's castle Cloughoughter, near Cavan.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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Can it
be possible that different things have been derived
from
“energy”?
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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Nothing satisfactory
transpires
as to her reason for
running away.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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