Some other sun may see the happier hour,
When Greece shall conquer by his
heavenly
power.
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Iliad - Pope |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's
lightning
bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A catalogue of the most
vendible
Books in England.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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Bad faith seeks to flee the in-itself by means of the inner
disintegration
of my being.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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Masters and later doctors or professors proceeded to explain ancient manuscripts; stu- dents, by writing these oral commentaries between the lines of their text- book, did the interpretatio; and after a student had been promoted to doctor he enjoyed the
libertas
utrique docendi, that is, he was free to offer his teach- ing to universities throughout Europe.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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May our Godfrey's Name on thee Like Hyacinth inscribed be
On thee his Memory
flourish
still,
Sweet as thy Flower, and lasting as thy Hill.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Những người ở chức tháp tùng hầu vua phải lo dâng tiến mưu hay, những người nắm giữ kỷ cương phải lo làm cho chính sự trong sạch, những người cai trị địa
phương
phải lo làm sao rạng tỏ đức bề trên mà thấu tình người dưới, những người giữ quyền chăn dân phải lo sao cho nơi mình làm quan dân được no đủ mà gốc nước được vững bền.
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stella-03 |
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Jesus and Joseph toiled together,
Mary was
watching
them,
Thinking of kings in the wintry weather
At Bethlehem.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Such dreams are numerous; they are
usually short, and, as a general rule, do not seem very noticeable,
because everything remarkable or
exciting
surprise is absent.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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I felt
the words of my lessons
slipping
off, not one by one, or line by line,
but by the entire page; I tried to lay hold of them; but they seemed,
if I may so express it, to have put skates on, and to skim away from me
with a smoothness there was no checking.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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But do you have to be
always
thinking
about your trial?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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With great
trepidation
they wait on him.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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James and I have always
loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young
and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he
naturally did not wish to do
anything
like that yet.
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| Question: |
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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These have been characterized by their irregularity, unpredictability, irrationality, their impoverishment of thought and envious hatred directed towards the more cultivated
elements
of society.
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| Question: |
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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Unlike many song writers, he, also, even
when the words were
entirely
his own, wrote his songs for
particular airs, and most of them for old traditional airs, some
of which he himself collected.
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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[Stanza61]
And these are: [1] Action Tantra, [2] Practice Tantra, [3] Skill Tantra, (4)
Combined
Tantra, [5] Union Tantra, [6] Great Union Tantra, and [7] Supreme Union Tantra.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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Now that we are up here, how
would it be for me to cry out to them at the top of my voice, to
abstain from their vain endeavours, and live with the
prospect
of
Death before their eyes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucian |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-11-14 09:40 GMT / http://hdl.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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It is evident that Krasinski was already racked with
the
misgiving
that was to become a certainty.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Princeton:
Princeton
University Press.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Schwarz - Committments |
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May it not be that I am doing a
little
something
to expedite their coming when I describe in advance the
influences under which I see them evolving and the ways along which they
travel?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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May it not be that I am doing a
little
something
to expedite their coming when I describe in advance the
influences under which I see them evolving and the ways along which they
travel?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Even a bon-bon
which the
landlady
had given her she was not eating.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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His portrait by Vandyke - that of a fair-haired gal-
lant, his long curls hanging over his shoulders, his eyes a
steely blue, firm red lips, and a stalwart yet
graceful
figure arrayed
in the richest silks and velvets — tells much of his story.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:10 GMT / http://hdl.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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What a
delightful
ball we had last night.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Northanger Abbey |
|
We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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The people called Mysians, and Phrygians, who live around the
so-called Mysian Olympus, border upon the
Bithynians
to the south.
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Strabo |
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It has become common
practice
to refer to this letter to his friend Ficker as the 106th.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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Now, in nature, as it actually is an object of experience, the free
will is not of itself
determined
to maxims which could of themselves
be the foundation of a natural system of universal laws, or which
could even be adapted to a system so constituted; on the contrary, its
maxims are private inclinations which constitute, indeed, a natural
whole in conformity with pathological (physical) laws, but could not
form part of a system of nature, which would only be possible
through our will acting in accordance with pure practical laws.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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But this also
cannot be
perform’d
without a _Body_, and I have seem’d to _perceive_
many things in my _sleep_, of which I afterwards understood my self _not_
to be _sensible_.
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| Source: |
Descartes - Meditations |
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But it would be cruelly
misinterpreted, as implying the least disrespect either for the moral
or
intellectual
qualities of the individuals thereby precluded.
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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But he was too
much
accustomed
to think that Paolo was always in the way of
his wishes, to look at so simple a matter in such a simple light.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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Similar
couplings
linked gramophone and typewriter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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Trăm năm trong cõi
người
ta,
Chữ tài chữ mệnh khéo là ghét nhau.
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| Source: |
Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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Marxists
would respond that capitalism has done more to under- mine such things than any other system in history, given its wars, col- onizations, and forced migrations, its enclosures, evictions, poverty wages, child labor, homelessness, underemployment, crime, drug infestation, and urban squalor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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Boston:
Routledge
and Kegan Paul, 1979.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
|
Is it real,
Or is this the thrice damned memory of a
better
happiness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Thou art my love,
And thou art a wary violet,
Drooping
from sun-caresses,
Answering mine carelessly--
Woe is me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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Thou art my love,
And thou art a wary violet,
Drooping
from sun-caresses,
Answering mine carelessly--
Woe is me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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and followed by her distant gaze
I went; but as I turn'd me round, the moon,
A slender rim,
sparkling
remain'd behind,
And oh!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
|
It calls for the need for a greater sensitivity on the part of modern scholar- ship on Tibetan Buddhist studies to historical
perspectives
and also to issues of hel?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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What two phenomena of
senescence
were more frequent?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Joyce - Ulysses |
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Is he a
Mousterian
cave man?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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Vain the attempt,
unauthorised
by Heaven;
Dire the decree, that rigid Fate has given
Against the deed; till from the silent tomb
At Troy the carcass of old Rhesus come
To join its parent soil.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Polyaenus - Strategems |
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next to one dear state of bliss,
vouchsafed
120
Alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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While he lashes she is
employed
in enameling
her face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Satires |
|
Is not the ground, which Machiavel wisely and largely
discourseth concerning governments, that the way to establish and
preserve them is to reduce them _ad
principia_—a
rule in religion and
nature, as well as in civil administration?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bacon |
|
And having given
ourselves
all to amazement,
We are made like a prophesying song
Of life all joy, a bride in the arms of God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
From its size or importance, it
obtained
the denomination Kil-
"
more, or the great church,'^ and from it the parish and diocese were
subsequently named.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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Now this doctrine of immutability, with the
connected
notion that all mutability finally goes back to something immutable, has survived throughout the history of metaphysics, to the point that it became the subject of Kant's third antinomy.
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| Source: |
Adorno-Metaphysics |
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And mind, Junior, if you cry, I'll give you to yon
terrible
Badger!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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But I beg your pardon; I
have
interrupted
you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Persuasion |
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Senan's birth, but even before the
preaching
of St.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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What is
observed
is always a different entity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
|
"26
From these
passages
it may be seen that just as the best forests and harvests grow from good ground, so you should understand that all virtues of the Buddha will grow and increase from the good ground of Conduct.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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Now, though I am
always writing to you about 'lips and noses', and such sort of stuff,
yet as I sit by my fireside (which I do
generally
eight or ten hours a
day), I oftener think of you in a serious, sober light.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Selection of English Letters |
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acharya
believed
that Father Tantras begin with "Thus have I heard.
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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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But before they start the emperor, standing upon a platform of earth,
heartens
them with his words :
vol.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
|
"
LXXV
If you have given way to anger, be sure that over and above the evil
involved therein, you have
strengthened
the habit, and added fuel to
the fire.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epictetus |
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There is something in them that
invariably falls short of the true
language
of spirituality.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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_Animo super humanam et naturam, et fidem evectus, celeritate
bellandi,
patientiâ
periculorum, magnitudine cogitationum; magno illi
Alexandro, sed sobrio neque iracundo, simillimus.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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[Footnote 1: Πῶς δεΐ
ἰστορίαύ
συγγράΦειν.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucian - True History |
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For three of his
fourscore
he did no good.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The streets ran through the town brown and wet, just like the country roads they were on the way in, with deep ruts, and lined on both sides by shops with their brand-new display windows, looking for all that like gen- tlewomen of thirty years earlier who have lifted up their long skirts but cannot make up their mind to step from the sidewalk into the muddy street: the
provinces
in Agathe's head!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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Rejoice, ye birring
paitricks
a';
Ye cootie muircocks, crousely craw;
Ye maukins, cock your fud fu' braw
Withouten dread;
Your mortal fae is now awa;
Tam Samson's dead!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
These books are, in the
traditional
order in which they are listed:
1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
|
Arrius, who may be
considered
as a second-hand M.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cicero - Brutus |
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Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to
aggravate
thy store;
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
Within be fed, without be rich no more:
So shall thou feed on Death, that feeds on men,
And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
) I ne'er
believed
those foolish tales
before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
|
It is not,
however, fair to compare the deliberate creation of some of the
protagonists of German humanism with hasty and ill-digested
attacks upon episcopacy, struck off from a travelling
printing
press.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
|
NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ARE MADE TO YOU AS
TO THE EBOOK OR ANY MEDIUM IT MAY BE ON, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
In
everything
hold fast to that which is thy Good--but to
all else (as far as is given thee) within the measure of Reason only,
contented with this alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epictetus |
|
Presently
the old woman
strove to free herself, and in the struggle
wriggled
out of the
girl's hands and fell on her back
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
|
'Tis thee,--myself,--that for myself I praise,
Painting
my age with beauty of thy days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Although it was still early in the
morning the fresh air had
something
of warmth mixed in with it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
|
Behold now, it is permitted thee
without labor to find a
medicine
for wounds, not of the body,
but of the soul, and to restore it to a state of health without
any suffering!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
|
But, we may ask, is this also true of Nobel laureates, university professors in general, the trained professional classes, whose pay in comparison with that of corporation executives and big dividend
recipients
is absurdly meager?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
|
(-- Where complete interpenetration does not occur, one particle's position will not be
asserted
as also that of another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
|
VINCENT MILLAY
EIGHT SONNETS
I
When you, that at this moment are to me
Dearer than words on paper, shall depart,
And be no more the warder of my heart,
Whereof again myself shall hold the key;
And be no more, what now you seem to be,
The sun, from which all excellencies start
In a round nimbus, nor a broken dart
Of moonlight, even, splintered on the sea;
I shall
remember
only of this hour--
And weep somewhat, as now you see me weep--
The pathos of your love, that, like a flower,
Fearful of death yet amorous of sleep,
Droops for a moment and beholds, dismayed,
The wind whereon its petals shall be laid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
--The words were frozen
Within my lips with fear; but to subdue _1885
Such dreadful hope, to my great task was due,
And when at length one brought reply, that she
To-morrow would appear, I then withdrew
To judge what need for that great throng might be,
For now the stars came thick over the
twilight
sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
These were tame pleasures; she would often climb
The
steepest
ladder of the crudded rack
Up to some beaked cape of cloud sublime,
And like Arion on the dolphin's back
Ride singing through the shoreless air;--oft-time _485
Following the serpent lightning's winding track,
She ran upon the platforms of the wind,
And laughed to bear the fire-balls roar behind.
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One cat,
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We use
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" The records of the Excise Office exhibit no trace of
this memorable matter, and two noblemen, who were then in the
government, have assured me that this harsh proceeding
received
no
countenance at head-quarters, and must have originated with some
ungenerous or malicious person, on whom the poet had spilt a little of
the nitric acid of his wrath.
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That night
Calasiris and
Chariclea
secretly watched her magic rites by which she
raised him to give her news of her other son.
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Suppress
free activity, you
destroy my power to labor.
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Candide did not quite agree to that,
but he
affirmed
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273
that he shall pay a Fine of one hundred Marks to the King, and find
Security
for his good Behaviour during Life.
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In his strictures on the poetic art he lays stress on the
fact that "Ouid
bestirreth
himself to paint out his Flea76
[and shows] his cunning in the inceste of Myrrha, and that trumpet
of Baudrie, the Craft of Loue.
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How shall we beguile
The lazy time, if not with some
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(16) But note, again, how well he could use the same art which he
reprehended to serve his own humour: when bearing a secret grudge to
Callisthenes, because he was against the new ceremony of his adoration,
feasting one night where the same Callisthenes was at the table, it was
moved by some after supper, for entertainment sake, that Callisthenes,
who was an eloquent man, might speak of some theme or purpose at his own
choice; which Callisthenes did, choosing the praise of the Macedonian
nation for his discourse, and performing the same with so good manner as
the hearers were much ravished; whereupon Alexander, nothing pleased,
said, “It was easy to be eloquent upon so good a subject; but,” saith he,
“turn your style, and let us hear what you can say against us;” which
Callisthenes
presently
undertook, and did with that sting and life that
Alexander interrupted him, and said, “The goodness of the cause made him
eloquent before, and despite made him eloquent then again.
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They were
wretched
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Papebroke had frequently mentioned to him that Colgan or the Irish Minorite Fathers at Louvain had merely sent
extracts
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The Warders
strutted
up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their uniforms were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the quicklime on their boots.
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This, gentlemen, is our conception of the Nature of the
Scholar; and these are all the possible modifications of that
conception--not in any respect changing, but rather wholly
arising out of the original,--the conception, namely, of fixed
and definite being which alone furnishes a
sufficient
answer
to the question,--What is the Scholar?
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Weston,” said Emma
triumphantly
when he left them, “what do
you say now to Mr.
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We are thus in a
position
to view the constella- tion containing the concepts of difef rance and 'distortion' mentioned above in a different light.
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