All
funerals
are sad, but secular funerals, properly organized, are hugely preferable on all counts.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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Child Verse
THE SAME WITH A DIFFERENCE
\ ^ /"HEN first they wed he was a sing-er,
^ ^ And much delight his songs did
bring her;
But
nowadays
he proves a sin-ger,
And makes it hot for her as ginger.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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Child Verse
THE SAME WITH A DIFFERENCE
\ ^ /"HEN first they wed he was a sing-er,
^ ^ And much delight his songs did
bring her;
But
nowadays
he proves a sin-ger,
And makes it hot for her as ginger.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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"Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of
thoughts
and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain-that is, not only write it but know that it had written it.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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"Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of
thoughts
and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain-that is, not only write it but know that it had written it.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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Our toil from thought all
glorious
forms shall cull,
To make this Earth, our home, more beautiful,
And Science, and her sister Poesy, _2255
Shall clothe in light the fields and cities of the free!
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Shelley |
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Our toil from thought all
glorious
forms shall cull,
To make this Earth, our home, more beautiful,
And Science, and her sister Poesy, _2255
Shall clothe in light the fields and cities of the free!
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Shelley |
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THE SONG-SPARROW
Glimmers
gray the leafless thicket
Close beside my garden gate,
Where, so light, from post to picket
Hops the sparrow, blithe, sedate;
Who, with meekly folded wing,
Comes to sun himself and sing.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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THE SONG-SPARROW
Glimmers
gray the leafless thicket
Close beside my garden gate,
Where, so light, from post to picket
Hops the sparrow, blithe, sedate;
Who, with meekly folded wing,
Comes to sun himself and sing.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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BERKELEY
LIBBARIE
<<^ illi
caomis5b3
r^
,'10
340222
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY
?
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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BERKELEY
LIBBARIE
<<^ illi
caomis5b3
r^
,'10
340222
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY
?
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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In arguing "that narrative in general, from the folktale to the novel, from the annals to the fully realized has to do with the topics of law, legality, legitimacy, or, more generally, White, for instance, holds that the narrativizing of events has nothing to do with an understanding of "reality" but is determined by a human desire to achieve a masterful, dominat- ing position vis-a-vis external events, which, in turn, will allow the
cognizing
subject to conceive of his or her own ego as a knowledgeable, ?
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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In arguing "that narrative in general, from the folktale to the novel, from the annals to the fully realized has to do with the topics of law, legality, legitimacy, or, more generally, White, for instance, holds that the narrativizing of events has nothing to do with an understanding of "reality" but is determined by a human desire to achieve a masterful, dominat- ing position vis-a-vis external events, which, in turn, will allow the
cognizing
subject to conceive of his or her own ego as a knowledgeable, ?
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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'
"Without doubt this would be a great
encouragement
given to manufactures
and trade; but would it be just?
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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'
"Without doubt this would be a great
encouragement
given to manufactures
and trade; but would it be just?
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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As Werner Faulstich, one of its leading representatives, repeatedly emphasizes, this media studies sees itself as a direct continnation of the research areas of popular fiction, on the one hand, and the sociology of literature, on the other hand, which both rose to
prominence
in the 1960s (Faulstich, 1979, p.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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As Werner Faulstich, one of its leading representatives, repeatedly emphasizes, this media studies sees itself as a direct continnation of the research areas of popular fiction, on the one hand, and the sociology of literature, on the other hand, which both rose to
prominence
in the 1960s (Faulstich, 1979, p.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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He then got round to defining
intellect
as the fumbling about in the attempt to create instinct, or at any rate on the road towards instinct.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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He then got round to defining
intellect
as the fumbling about in the attempt to create instinct, or at any rate on the road towards instinct.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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The
name
signifies
"The Meeting of the Waters.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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The
name
signifies
"The Meeting of the Waters.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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I am aware that this is difficult in the case of Tsongkhapa given the canonical stature his
writings
have acquired within the Tibetan scholarly tradition of the Geluk school.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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I am aware that this is difficult in the case of Tsongkhapa given the canonical stature his
writings
have acquired within the Tibetan scholarly tradition of the Geluk school.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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And though he was much at table or drink, to a certain degree, in fact, abstaining from sleep, he nevertheless used to gratify his lust to the extent of the
dishonor
of his public reputation.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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And though he was much at table or drink, to a certain degree, in fact, abstaining from sleep, he nevertheless used to gratify his lust to the extent of the
dishonor
of his public reputation.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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Mine arms enfold
That, which
unswayed
by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so infinitely far.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Mine arms enfold
That, which
unswayed
by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so infinitely far.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Being a
companion
of Heaven, I know that the Son of Heaven and I are equally the sons of Heaven.
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Chuang Tzu |
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Being a
companion
of Heaven, I know that the Son of Heaven and I are equally the sons of Heaven.
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Chuang Tzu |
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The two friends were
together
at Merton College, Oxford; where
Steele remained for three years, but left without taking a degree.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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The two friends were
together
at Merton College, Oxford; where
Steele remained for three years, but left without taking a degree.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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Ethical
imperatives
of the modern type that are not at the same time kinetic impulses no longer exist.
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Sloterdijk |
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Ethical
imperatives
of the modern type that are not at the same time kinetic impulses no longer exist.
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Sloterdijk |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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6
This is the night of the funeral, which my
sickness
will not suffer me to attend.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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In the former case, it is meant to be the path to a divine being; in the latter, being is considered divine enough to
vindicate
a monstrous amount of suffering.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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It could only
be handed on by the
minstrels
themselves; and their audiences would not
be likely to listen comfortably to the old piecemeal songs after they
had heard the familiar events fall into the magnificent ordered pomp of
the genuine epic poet.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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the first and only traveller who has no need of etchings and drawings to bring places and monuments which recall beautiful memories and grand images before his readers' eyes" this new edition also collates a
selection
of engravings and lithographs from nineteenth-century travelogues by celebrated artists such as Edward Dodwell Esq, F.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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1068/dst3
Rules for the Human Zoo: a response to the Letter on Humanism
Peter Sloterdijk
From Nicht gerettet: Versuche nach Heidegger (Suhrkamp, 2001) pp 302 ^ 333;
Translated by Mary Varney Rorty, Stanford Center for
Biomedical
Ethics, Stanford School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Abstract.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Terrible women would invent unclean
variants of the men's belief for the
elevation
of their sisters.
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Kipling - Poems |
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der letzte Tag dringt herein;
Mein
Hochzeittag
sollt es sein!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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[34] G Antiochus Cyzicenus, as soon as he gained possession of the kingdom, applied himself to drinking and luxury, and behaviour
altogether
unbecoming for a king.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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I am a BRITON; and must be
interested in the cause of LIBERTY:--I am a MAN; and the RIGHTS of HUMAN
NATURE cannot be
indifferent
to me.
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Robert Forst |
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, from symbolically ''standing for God's presence'' into ''being God's presence'' (bread and wine would become the flesh and the blood of Christ); at the same time, this concept had to make invisible the transformation that occurred (or, rather, it needed to provide an
explanation
for the assumption that a transformation/transubstantiation could have occurred although it did not leave any visible traces).
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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" No longer that
enthusiasm which history inspires—as Goethe was
allowed to
suppose—but
just the blunting of all
enthusiasm is now the goal of these admirers of the
niladmirari, when they try to conceive everything
historically; to them however we should exclaim:
Ye are the fools of all centuries!
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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Thus the meaning of this latter example is roughly equivalent to that of the former: someone who appears to be quite diligently and
skillfully
engaged in Dharma practice, but who is missing the essential point of the practice.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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They
worshiped, 'tis true, but in spirit,
following
herein no other than that
of the Gospel, "God is a Spirit, and they that worship, must worship him
in spirit and truth;" yet it does not appear it was at that time revealed
to them that an image sketched on the wall with a coal was to be
worshiped with the same worship as Christ Himself, if at least the two
forefingers be stretched out, the hair long and uncut, and have three
rays about the crown of the head.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Complex
Coherences
across Metaphors
18.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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Situation of the Writer in 1947 \ 175
stances and marked by
scientific
discoveries and happy reforms.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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-- Their ocean-keel boarding,
they drove through the deep, and
Daneland
left.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Even when
absolute
lord of Rome, he retained the deportment of the party-leader ; perfectly pliant and smooth, easy and charming in conversation, complaisant towards every one, it seemed as if he wished to be nothing but the first among his peers.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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--Published 1807
[Observed, as described, in the then
beautiful
orchard, Town-end,
Grasmere.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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On the extreme right and left of the whole line were strong
1 Ghazi Khan seems to have been a man of culture and taste, for Babur speaks
of his library where he found
precious
books, which he divided between Huma-
yun and Kamran.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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He (Mang) asked again, and Confucius said : In a state of a thousand cars he could manage
military
enrollment, but I do not know if he is a total man.
| Guess: |
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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First, that its local and regional affiliates attempt to organize and attach to themselves the whole of their separate territories, just as the NAM
attempts
to do on a national basis.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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To begin with the case of France, one thing would be appear to be clear especially in the light of 2007, and that is that the Gallic war for the political and ideological
appropriation
of the Libe?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Dare they collect the taxes and requisitions of
congress?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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There is not a single
real poet or prose-writer of this century, for instance, on whom the
British public have not solemnly conferred
diplomas
of immorality, and
these diplomas practically take the place, with us, of what in France,
is the formal recognition of an Academy of Letters, and fortunately make
the establishment of such an institution quite unnecessary in England.
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| Question: |
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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1:5) says:
"Before a diabolical
instinct
brought study into religion, and people
said: I am of Paul, I of Apollo, I of Cephas," etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Summa Theologica |
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And all things to which our present
governments
upon earth do extend I
R.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Stoicism, at all times, inculcated
the supreme virtues of moderation and resignation; the subjugation
of corporeal desires; the faithful performance of duty; indifference to
one's own pain and suffering, and the disregard of
material
luxuries.
| 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 |
|
'° The
festival
of St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Apologies
for this problem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
|
+ Refrain from automated
querying
Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting research on machine translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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A
plumtree
in a meatpot,
registered trade mark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Joyce - Ulysses |
|
In
continuation
of Pulton's (q.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
|
Page, "The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some
Contemporary
Epigrams"
(F) D.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Greek Anthology |
|
A
pleasing
conceit, but that is all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
|
And if they
definitely
would lead to major war, they would not be taken.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
|
The
druggeted
stems, the leaves incut on trees!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Finnegans |
|
from each other only in
Quantity
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
|
Brydone's brave ward[27] I well could spy,
Beneath old Scotia's smiling eye;
Who call'd on Fame, low
standing
by,
To hand him on,
Where many a Patriot-name on high
And hero shone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Him God beholding from his
prospect
high,
Wherein past, present, future he beholds,
Thus to his onely Son foreseeing spake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
8 The convention chose delegates to the
Continental
Congress
and adopted a modified form of the
Virginia Association.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
|
For a systematic examination of the art world, see Beat Wyss, Vom Bild zum
Kunstsystem
(From image to the system of art) (Cologne: Walther Koenig, 2006),
1:117-284.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Rage |
|
neither the atheistic claim that god is not elevated above of all the rest (god is indeed, for Hegel, the truth of nature and history), nor the irreli- gious claim that there is no
spiritualisation
of the world, are Hegel's fun- damental positions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
|
The bee is
a
geometrician
of the very first order.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - The Creation |
|
"#'#
+
1?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
|
But indeed no Embafiy was
ever fent to any of the
Grecians
; their Sentiments were long
before fufficiently apparent, and ^fchines hath not uttered a
Syllable of Truth upon the Subjed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
|
on
proapsth
Stich suggests a reading
with much the same sense: .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
|
Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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thou shalt not flaunt thy cloak of red,
Or ride in state through Paris in the van
Of thy
returning
legions, but instead
Thy mother France, free and republican,
Shall on thy dead and crownless forehead place
The better laurels of a soldier’s crown,
That not dishonoured should thy soul go down
To tell the mighty Sire of thy race
That France hath kissed the mouth of Liberty,
And found it sweeter than his honied bees,
And that the giant wave Democracy
Breaks on the shores where Kings lay couched at ease.
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Once we met at the
Southern
end of Wei Bridge, but scattered again to
the north of the Tso Terrace.
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His death was the crucial point
in the
development
of the Christian consciousness, when the great transition was effected from faith in a mere man to faith in the God-man, for it brought clearly before men's minds the truth of the unity of the divine and human natures.
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The hollow was a lovely spot of ground, enamelled with flowers that
surpassed the
exquisitest
dyes, and green with a grass brighter than
emeralds newly broken.
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Nestor alone,
improved
by length of days,
For martial conduct bore an equal praise.
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Comedy, ancient; a term applied to the Attic comedy of
Aristophanes
and
his time, which criticised persons and politics, like a modern comic
journal, such as Punck.
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These can be applied to the
theoretical
employ- ment of reason, i.
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But Zeus"was out for
information
also and he asks: What's the present quotation on wheat in Greece?
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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A silence is not
indicated
by any motion, less is indicated by a motion,
more is not indicated it is enthralled.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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Joyce here announces in the word "recirculation" the
Viconian
ricorso theme, the metaphysical pivot on which the Finnegan cycle turns.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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And the multitude
murmured
against him and said to him, 'Thou hast led us
into the desert, and hast given us no food to eat.
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Oscar Wilde |
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With his
correspondence
opened by the Russian
police, he could say no word of any Polish matters, of
the things that most went to his heart.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Two bodies
therefore
be;
Bind one, and one will flee.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"There is a spirit in the post;
It, too, was once a murmuring tree;
Its withered, sad,
imprisoned
ghost
Echoes my melody.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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# The mob were swayed by his entreaties, and in an great uproar many
thousands
of them ran to the tribunal, so that he was unexpectedly released from the charges; and with the support of the people, he was again appointed tribune.
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Hipparchus, at the end of the second book of his
Commentaries on the Geography of Eratosthenes, having found fault with
certain statements
relative
to Ethiopia, tells us at the commencement of
the third, that his strictures, though to a certain point geographical,
will be mathematical for the most part.
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I was, from my infancy,
considered
by the sailor as a promising genius,
because I liked punch better than wine; and I took care to improve this
prepossession by continual inquiries about the art of navigation, the
degree of heat and cold in different climates, the profits of trade, and
the dangers of shipwreck.
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And will this divine grace, this supreme perfection depart those for whom life exists only to
discover
and glorify them?
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