It
would, on the contrary, have been strange if these things had not
come to pass; and we should be
justified
in pronouncing them
highly probable even if we had no direct evidence on the subject.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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It is forever a reality we cannot grasp scien- tifically in its actuality and totality, but must take up from a series of separate standpoints and thereby
organize
them into a variety of sci- entific optics that are independent of one another.
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161 Earlyin1950,theNationalSecurityCouncilandJointChiefsofStaffconcludedthat"the strategic importance of Formosa [Taiwan] does not justify overt
military
action," and Truman told a press conference, "The United States government will not provide military aid or ad- vice to Chinese forces on Taiwan.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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A
startling shock was thus given to
established
prejudices, the mask was
taken off from grave hypocrisy, and the most serious consequences were
to be apprehended.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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The Bishop
of Augsburg was delivered over to the custody of the Abbot of Werden
where he
remained
till, on the intervention of Duke Otto and the clergy
a
>
## p.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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There is
something
infectious here, for my eyelids are drooping
too.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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THE
PRINCIPLES
OF A NEW
VALUATION.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Marks,
notations
and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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Allusion
has been made to in the notices of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Déjà d'avance, je
craignais que, le 14 juillet, elle me
demandât
d'aller à un bal
populaire et je rêvais d'un événement impossible qui eût supprimé
cette fête.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Dumfries, 1796
To Miss Jessy Lewars, Dumfries, with Johnson's
Musical Museum
Poem on Life,
addressed
to Colonel de Peyster, Dumfries, 1796
* * * * *
EPITAPHS, EPIGRAMS, FRAGMENTS, &c.
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Robert Forst |
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’ Yet does not this same lingering of contemplation fully
discover
the force of the Divine nature, for its vastness transcends all human powers thus enlarged and elevated.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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(Tachsmuth, Tòs éprou vuua opév
uteptatav!
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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LXVIII
Rogero from Marphisa does not hide,
How
Bradamant
to him at heart is dear;
And by what obligations he is tied
In moving words relates the cavalier;
Nor ceases till he has, on either side,
Turned to firm love the hate they bore whilere.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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But that the number three has
relation
to the mind may be understood from this, that we
are commanded to love God after a threefold manner, with Pe"1, the whole heart, with the whole soul, with the whole mind : Mat.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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The length of the con-
struction
must be equal to the length of a double step.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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He does not rise in piteous haste
To put on convict-clothes,
While some coarse-mouthed Doctor gloats, and notes
Each new and nerve-twitched pose,
Fingering a watch whose little ticks
Are like
horrible
hammer-blows.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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This gives rise to the
greatest
difficulty in his whole logical theory.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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"
"They might be whomsoever they pleased," replied Wamba; "but my neck
stands too
straight
on my shoulders to have it twisted for their sake.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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For he
faulters
how he hates to trouble them without.
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Finnegans |
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13
Was
somebody
asking to see the soul?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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For the former applied the torch of war to
universal
public disorder, the latter to peace and victory.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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Manifestation as a skill, craft, or
artistic
talent;
2.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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Practice
guru yoga and supplicate one- pointedly.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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ln' corn
while George was a-tellIn' him, come across a vacant lot
where you'd
occasIonally
see a WIld rJ.
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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" Through this process one will
understand
the nonexistence of self.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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For a
detailed
examination of Tsongkhapa's u nderstanding of the illusion-like
?
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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ethics of
necessary
illusion, of what is endurable, of intermediate worlds; an ethics of the ecology of pleasure and pain; an ethics of ingenuous life.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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On Friday 22 dhu l-hijja/ 23 July 1109 they began
negotiations
with Tancred.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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[Illustration]
_Wind and Chrysanthemum_
Chrysanthemums
bending
Before the wind.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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" Diarmaid went out, and he saw the whole village on
occasion,
great mountain ridge of steeps, * w—hich divides
Pertshire
from Argyle and ter- minating in the Grampian Hills he came to a small village, situate in a barren plain.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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Cold be the fierce winds,
Treacherous
round him.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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The quantity of syllables is
determined
either by estab-
lished rules, or by the authority of the poets.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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The palm that grows beside our door is bowed
By
treadings
of the low wind from the south,
A restless shadow through the chamber waving:
Upon its bough a bird sings in the sun,
But Thou, with that close slumber on Thy mouth,
Dost seem of wind and sun already weary.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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It is difficult to see how we could proceed in
elaborating
these questions or even answering them.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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quod si tu faueas trepido mihi, forsitan illos
experiar calamos, here quos mihi doctus Iollas
donauit dixitque: 'trucis haec fistula tauros
conciliat:
nostroque
sonat dulcissima Fauno.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
Gat ye me, O gat ye me,
O gat ye me wi'
naething?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The Tower itself with the near danger shook ;
And were not Ruyter's maw with ravage cloyed,
Even
London*s
aslies had been then destroyed.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Miss Carteret, with still less to say, was so plain and so
awkward, that she would never have been
tolerated
in Camden Place but
for her birth.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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a los
diputados
de la mayori?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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Fanatics
of Magyardom, on the other hand, do the impos-
sible in the
adoration
of their Turkish cousins.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Wrapp '
Within
Magnesian , and the foreign pard ,
'Gainst pelting rains the surest guard ; 150 While locks in
sacrifice
unshorn
His ample back with grace adorn .
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Pindar |
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He would push
through the
marketplace
and the leading thorough-
?
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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And it is
gonerally
supposed, that there
has been for some time past, a deficiency of circulating
?
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
|
Under such prosaic conditions, science becomes the courage to
tolerate "the strangest, most ludicrous sight" of mathematical-synthe- sized movement long enough until empirical, that is, prosaic media
techniques
like film rush to the rescue.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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--See
Matthiae
Gr.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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ang China is the land of peonies and plum-blossom, moonlight and green jade, where dragons live in the lakes and turn into pine trees, where gauze- sleeved dancing girls glance from beneath green painted willow eyebrows, where peach-trees and
mulberries
talk to cedar and bamboo.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties,
including
placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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They shall establish Nomentum and Gabii and Fidena
city, they the
Collatine
hill-fortress, Pometii and the Fort of Inuus,
Bola and Cora: these shall be names that are now nameless lands.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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My child has veiled eyes,
profound
and vast,
and shining like you, Night, immense, above!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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He is
shamefast
and bashful
with those who surround him and wishes not to be discovered by them,
just as one instinctively avoids all lavish display of comfort or wealth
in the presence of a poor friend.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Are you
Christian
monks, or heathen devils,
To pollute this convent with your revels?
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Longfellow |
|
l
These are temporary
remedies
and are like Sintideva's advice in the ''BodhicaryivatAra.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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The German, not less
than the Greek, is a
polysyllable
language.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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It is white in all
cases, and Herodotus is under a misapprehension when he states that
the
Aethiopians
eject black sperm.
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Aristotle |
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51), "whoever is deeply burdened with pain in his soul, having borne much
misfortune
and grief in his life and never being able to attain sweet sleep, even this man, I believe, standing before this image, would forget all the terrible and harsh things which one must suffer in human life.
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| Question: |
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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DNA, too,
includes
parasitic code.
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
|
The one who meditates without the view
Is like a blind man
wandering
the plains.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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"
And then, so runs this tale, our singer prince,
His soft eyes
darkling
brightly, and his lips
Widening like the child's: "O say it not.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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scarcely
attempt it unless there were some urgent reason.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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" —Chicago Record-Herald
"Its poetry is admirably selected
to find any other
American
magazine verse more notable for originality and imagination.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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i
contains
notes
on Edinburgh booksellers at the end of the 18th century.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
|
Hither two deputies from
let loose two hundred lions in the Circus ; and the senate arrived with
despatches
from Ger-
Pliny (H.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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” Then
rising immediately, he went to the oratory of the little town, and
continuing in prayer till day, forthwith divided all his substance into
three parts; one whereof he gave to his wife, another to his children, and
the third, which he kept himself, he straightway
distributed
among the
poor.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
bede |
|
At this point, the selfas wi and as eedom coincides with the will of
universal
Reason and of the logos dispersed throughout all things.
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| Source: |
Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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MaximsandAnec dotes from
NICHOLAS
DE CHAMFORT.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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Then the
secretions
of the mother and fluid from the father and one's own consciousness are mixed.
| Guess: |
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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Whereas you are not inexperienced in
detecting
the obliquity of moral
deflections, and all that the philosophic porch,[1366] painted over
with trowsered Medes, teaches; over which the sleepless and close-shorn
youth lucubrates, fed on husks and fattening polenta.
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| Source: |
Satires |
|
Why had he
enjoined
me, too, to secrecy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
|
When I
got almost to the top I could see the seat and the white figure, for
I was now close enough to
distinguish
it even through the spells of
shadow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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So they stormed the iron Hill,
O'er the sleepers lying still,
And their trumpets sang them forward through the dull
succeeding
dawns,
But the thunder flung them wide,
And they crumpled up and died,--
They had waged the war of monarchs--and they died the death of pawns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The worsted trade, of which Norwich was the cen-
tre,
extended
over the whole of the Eastern counties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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For the borders of
Jerusalem
are peace; for he saith, He hath set peace for thy borders.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
|
'
Then thrice she stamped the
trembling
ground,
And thrice she waved her wand around;
When I, endow'd with greater skill,
And less inclined to do you ill,
Mutter'd some words, withheld her arm,
And kindly stopp'd the unfinish'd charm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Selection of English Letters |
|
Je savais qui
étaient
tous les visiteurs et n'en
trouvais pas un seul dont ce pût être le chapeau.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
|
His report on Weberian
"mechanics"simply glosses over the "surprisingagreement" between
simulated
and empirical walking, in order to fade in a prehistory of
film in its place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Drunken |
|
The
seemingly
most empty, the most external,
the most mechanical--movement (which had been left to the physicists and sports medicine doctors to research)--penetrates the humanities and at once turns out to be the cardinal category, even of the moral and social sphere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk |
|
It makes an idle fancy of the idea of a science of
man that would be at the same time an
analysis
of signs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Live |
|
Do today's virtual capital- ists not function in a
homologous
way?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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Yet not of these I muse
In this
ancestral
place,
But of a kindred face
That never joy or hope shall here diffuse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
This content
downloaded
from 128.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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And had not Vulcan lent celestial aid,
He too had sunk to death's eternal shade;
But in a smoky cloud the god of fire
Preserved
the son, in pity to the sire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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No doubt they were so far right
that they established the principle of morals of itself
independently of this postulate, from the relation of reason only to
the will, and
consequently
made it the supreme practical condition
of the summum bonum; but it was not therefore the whole condition of
its possibility.
| 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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Depending
on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
|
One of the most
destructive
of these occurred about 70 CE; it is described in vivid detail by the historian Tacitus, in his Histories [1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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But these types of computations are rather difficult to make in a world loaded with
millions
of different commodities and endless 'choices'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
|
The
detective
had, indeed, good reasons to
inveigh against the bad luck which pursued him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
|
Now
the idea of greatness is changeable, as well in the
moral as in the aesthetic realm, thus Philosophy
begins with a
legislation
with respect to greatness,
she becomes a Nomenclator.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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We went into her boudoir, and till we got there her gaiety remained,
for the
servants
were coming and going.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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_Talis illius a bona matre 220 Laus_
(_Zaus_ RVen) _genus_ (_egenus_ O) _approbet_, in Da sic _Talis
illius a bona 220
Matrizans_
(_-zando_ a) _genus approbet_
221 _ab_ om.
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Latin - Catullus |
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In 914 Ordoño II, king of Leon, laid waste the
district
of Mérida
and captured the castle of Alanje.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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It would
resemble
the magic transformation of Tasso's heroine
into a tree, in which she could only groan and bleed.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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When from our better selves we have too long
Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop, 355
Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired,
How gracious, how benign, is Solitude;
How potent a mere image of her sway;
Most potent when impressed upon the mind
With an
appropriate
human centre--hermit, 360
Deep in the bosom of the wilderness;
Votary (in vast cathedral, where no foot
Is treading, where no other face is seen)
Kneeling at prayers; or watchman on the top
Of lighthouse, beaten by Atlantic waves; 365
Or as the soul of that great Power is met
Sometimes embodied on a public road,
When, for the night deserted, it assumes
A character of quiet more profound
Than pathless wastes.
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William Wordsworth |
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The walls of Velitrae were demolished, its senate was ejected en mass: and deported to the
interior
of Roman Etruria, and the town was probably constituted
dependent community with Caerite rights (p.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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122 Treitschke
had been of a positive nature, and hated that one
should impair the impression of
something
great
by criticism.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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in thisglorious
Contention
of Vertue, he dispirits it, and diminishes its Resolution and Vigour, as much as in him lies, and renders it less ardent in the pursuit ofGlory.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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He promised that if he
recovered
his sight, he would enrich us
all unaided; whereas he has ruined more than one.
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Aristophanes |
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Stripped of his insignia, the Roman consular was
conducted
to the enemy's outposts, and, when the Numantines refused to receive him that they might not on their part acknowledge the treaty as null, the late commander-in-chief stood in his shirt and with his hands tied behind his back for a whole day before the gates of Numantia, a pitiful spectacle to friend and foe.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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It is profitable and
sometimes
even praiseworthy.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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