cob: a breed of horse, asturco, which,
according
to Pliny [8.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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These five days have I hid me in these woods and
durst not peep out, for all the country is laid for me; but now
am I so hungry that, if I might have a lease of my life for a
thousand
years, I could stay no longer.
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Shakespeare |
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The
fascination
of the Stuarts, which has been carried overseas to
America and the British dominions, probably began with the striking
history of Mary Queen of Scots.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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The Governor was strong upon
The Regulations Act:
The Doctor said that Death was but
A scientific fact:
And twice a day the
Chaplain
called,
And left a little tract.
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Wilde - Poems |
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5] However, some say that Hipponous discovered that his
daughter
had been debauched by Oeneus, and therefore he sent her away to him when she was with child.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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2 Astacus was founded by
settlers
from Megara at the beginning of the 17th Olympiad [712/11 B.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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V
That art, whereby those ancient erst pourtrayed
Such wonders, is
extinguished
in our day.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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The revolution, of course, sent one leader after another to the guillotine as each failed to measure up to usurpers who felt they had a
stronger
claim to wisdom and virtue.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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This machine-like deconstruc- tion is also a deconstruction of metaphor, of the totalizing metaphori- cal model, by a dissociative metonymic structure (a gesture that, I sug- gested, has some
affinity
with a certain Lacanianism allied with a certain Deleuzianism).
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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I began looking at her more
intently
and, as it were, with
effort.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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I commend it to you,
jinaputral
I say it to you.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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If Orpheus could call up his wife's
ghost in the
strength
of his Thracian lyre and the music of the
strings,--if Pollux redeemed his brother by exchange of death, and
passes and repasses so often,--why make mention of great Theseus, why of
Alcides?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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La Vie Privée de
Michel Tessier,' with its sequel, is the
melancholy
story of a high-
principled man, overtaken in his home and in an honored and honor-
able career by a love which seems to him pre-eminent above all
previous claims and duties; and his conscientious effort, through
divorce and remarriage, to reconsecrate his life with love, and his
love with life.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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quod cum
permiseris
esse,
reddam, quod potero, plenas pro munere gratis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Yeats - Poems |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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This machine-like deconstruc- tion is also a deconstruction of metaphor, of the totalizing metaphori- cal model, by a dissociative metonymic structure (a gesture that, I sug- gested, has some
affinity
with a certain Lacanianism allied with a certain Deleuzianism).
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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"
The last part of _The Book of Hours_, _The Book of Poverty and Death_,
is finally a
symphony
of variations on the two great symbolic themes in
the work of Rilke.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Næs þā lang tō þon,
þæt þā hild-latan holt ofgēfan,
tȳdre trēow-logan tȳne ætsomne,
þā ne dorston ǣr
dareðum
lācan
2850 on hyra man-dryhtnes miclan þearfe;
ac hȳ scamiende scyldas bǣran,
gūð-gewǣdu, þǣr se gomela læg:
wlitan on Wīglāf.
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Beowulf |
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Considered from the standpoint of the history of civilisation, this fact will be regarded as a manifestation of relaxation and surfeit; the part which the history of philosophy has in the
movement is connected with the brilliant and
misleading
" Philos ophy of the Unconscious.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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The
translation
is based on the Latin text in "Imp.
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Roman Translations |
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This machine-like deconstruc- tion is also a deconstruction of metaphor, of the totalizing metaphori- cal model, by a dissociative metonymic structure (a gesture that, I sug- gested, has some
affinity
with a certain Lacanianism allied with a certain Deleuzianism).
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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HOLY WEEK AT GENOA
I WANDERED through Scoglietto’s far retreat,
The oranges on each o’erhanging spray
Burned as bright lamps of gold to shame the day;
Some
startled
bird with fluttering wings and fleet
Made snow of all the blossoms; at my feet
Like silver moons the pale narcissi lay:
And the curved waves that streaked the great green bay
Laughed i’ the sun, and life seemed very sweet.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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If this is not sufficient to
denominate
his
work original, nothing original ever can be written.
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Samuel Johnson |
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These are the days when birds come back,
A very few, a bird or two,
To take a
backward
look.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Considering
their works in this sense, I contend that the truth procedure that Girri and Cadenas participate in is a posthumanist practice of poetry, beyond the binds of the epistemological figure of Man.
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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He was contented with very little sleep, which he took when time and season allowed ; and throughout his long life he was so
extremely
chaste that no suspicion was ever cast on him in this respect, though it is a charge which, even when it can find no ground, malignity is apt to fasten on princes.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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When in our history did the National
Government
levy a
direct tax on land?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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Has not Israel really
obtained the final goal of its sublime revenge, by
the
tortuous
paths of this " Redeemer," for all
that he might pose as Israel's adversary and
Israel's destroyer?
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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Por que não serão essas figuras extra-humanas
verdadeiramente
reais?
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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org/access_use#pd-google
We have
determined
this work to be in the public domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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The old man lit each wick,
And the room leapt more obviously
Upon my mind, and I could see
What the
flickering
fire had hid from me.
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Amy Lowell |
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As if he had not done enough, the
Stranger now
impelled
Blinton to contend with Mr.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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, and in
the four years preceding the
Armstrong
investi-
gation, his firm sold the New York Life $38,804,
918.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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So, even the first two times,
[Sanzo] never sees the mind of the
National
Master, and never penetrates25
the mind of the National Master at all.
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Shobogenzo |
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1)
Practical
abolition of personal serfdom.
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| Source: |
Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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So Perseus wiped his eyes and answered the
stranger
pretty briskly, putting on as brave a look as he could.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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This is a simile for higher and worse
situations
;
and the final question to be decided is, What
guarantees our superiority and our faith in ourselves
in such a case?
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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How many are
abandoned
though Seeing?
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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No such thing as a
trap had ever bothered them -- but now it was al-
most impossible to enter a
cupboard
or to climb up
on a shelf without one of these cruel traps coming
?
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Childrens - Brownies |
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My hopeless heart, despairing of relief,
Sinks underneath the heavy weight of saddest grief;
Which hath so ruthless torn, so racked, so
tortured
every vein,
All comfort comes too late to have it ever cured again.
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William Browne |
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htdtlm
descended
from the Kings of Athens; and Socrates was ve ry, far sri m having the Vanity of pretending to be of that Family,.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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This cloaca,
therefore, is doubly interesting, not only from its ex-
traordinary grandeur and antiquity, but from being,
perhaps, the sole, and
certainly
the finest, remains of
rtruscan architecture that have come down lo our
times.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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II
FROM A THING BY SCHUMANN
high,
floating
and welling
satin,
Pushed at the gauze above it.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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One can, however,
diagnose
a far-reaching ambivalence towards the Jewish legacy, for which the history of both ideas and actions in the corresponding field of conflict provides ample evidence.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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35
[A Valediction:
forbidding
_&c.
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Donne - 1 |
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]
[Footnote 7: According to the Commentators, it is the καρυόφυλλον, or
clove-tree, which produces this wonderful effect upon the elephant,
making his breath
"Like the sweet south,
That
breathes
upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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TO drift with every passion till my soul
Is a
stringed
lute on which can winds can play,
Is it for this that I have given away
Mine ancient wisdom and austere control?
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Wilde - Charmides |
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Space merely the the number of given units-- form of external intuition, but which are taken as a
standard
not real object which can --contained in it.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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For this also is
according
to Nature.
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| Source: |
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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Do thy
appointed
work, fear not, care not
for rewards.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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"She turned away slowly, walked on,
following
the bank, and passed into
the bushes to the left.
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| Source: |
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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Zophar
delivered
many forcible sayings, but he is not conscious that he is addressing them to a better than himself; whence he still further subjoins in words of upbraiding,
Ver.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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That is one of the unforgettable lessons of the
twentieth
century.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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After his
brother, Hæðcyn, is killed by Ongenþēow, he undertakes the government (2992
in
connection
with the preceding from 2937 on).
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Her lover, who
sickened
and died,
The whole world was dreary and cold,
And only in her art she applied.
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| Source: |
Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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The funeral of Marcia was
performed
with greater pomp of images than attendance of mourners.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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OSCAR WILDE
This chapter began with the observation that, because Darwinian natural selection abhors waste, any ubiquitous feature of a species - such as religion - must have conferred some
advantage
or it wouldn't have survived.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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1ng create a new custom
In the fine print
tempora non regum by a hawk, a paIr of gIlt spurs or slmlha
Cope IS a hIll
dene a valley, arundtnetum drus IS a thicket
51 nomIna neSClS perit rerum
COgnitlO
nemo arttfex nascltur
Ten famIlies In pledge and a chief pledge Though the bIshoprIc be dIssolved
a City remalneth
tit
Tuan
et consuetudo
772.
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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The one
was, to express our admiration at the good-nature of the mottos, in
which the author has taken occasion to remember and quote almost every
living author (whether
illustrious
or obscure) but himself--an indirect
argument in favour of the general opinion as to the source from which
they spring--and the other was, to hint our astonishment at the
innumerable and incessant in-stances of bad and slovenly English in
them, more, we believe, than in any other works now printed.
| Guess: |
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Perfect-paired as eagle's wings,
Justice is the rhyme of things;
Trade and counting use
The self-same tuneful muse;
And Nemesis,
Who with even matches odd,
Who athwart space redresses
The partial wrong,
Fills the just period,
And
finishes
the song.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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But Paul doth extol the name of his God in plain words among profane men, not only that they may learn that the true God is
worshipped
in Judea, but also that Paul himself doth worship him.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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And the things which each God takes to be Comely, Good and Just, are lov'd by him, and the
contrary
hated.
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| Question: |
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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Methinks ye take luxurious pleasure
In your novel western leisure;
So cool your brows, and freshly blue,
As Time had nought for ye to do;
For ye lie at your length,
An
unappropriated
strength,
Unhewn primeval timber,
For knees so stiff, for masts so limber;
The stock of which new earths are made
One day to be our western trade,
Fit for the stanchions of a world
Which through the seas of space is hurled.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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A critique of historical reason must therefore ultimately mean a critique of eschatological reason: that is, at the same time a critique of time-conceiving thinking, aim-thinking, anticipatory reason which imagines the end states, dramaturgical reason which stages the world process in a final act as it is written – in short, critique of the history-making reason that leads to the
mobilization
of the planet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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Society must regulate the exchange and distribution of the rarest
things, as it does that of the most common ones, in such a way that each
may share in the
enjoyment
of them.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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Bron, be it said, has accomplished a job remind-
ing one that the Soviet foreign trade
monopoly
not
only has all the well-known advantages of a trust
150
?
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| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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This term, I believe, is
generally
con-lined to, and defined
as a want of desire or ability, or both on the part of the male; but I
see no good reason why it should not comprehend the case in which there
is neither desire nor pleasure with the female.
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| Source: |
Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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Her face was with the venom in a flame
Wherewith
her swelling bosom overrun.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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It is a
self-evident proposition that any general rise in the price of labour,
the stock of provisions remaining the same, can only be a nominal rise,
as it must very shortly be followed by a
proportional
rise in the price
of provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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Later on, perhaps, as
he was a
Christian
and an Englishman, he dis-
covered a few reasons in favour of his habit;
these reasons may be upset, but he is not
therefore upset in his whole position.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
|
***
What are the primary
elements?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Nay, such was the
condition of Rome, that it
evidently
required a master;
and Caesar was no more than a tender and skilful phy-
sician, appointed by Providence to heal the distempers
of the state.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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From these axioms, it is possible to more or less
entirely
develop a relationship between an old world, a modern world, and a postmod- ern world.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk |
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--
Yet silenced cannot be this throbbing
Which
dolefulness
alone dispels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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AN
EPITHALAMY
TO SIR THOMAS SOUTHWELL AND HIS LADY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Whan he the first
mischaunce
received han, 455
With horsemans haste he from the armie rodde;
And did repaire unto the cunnynge manne,
Who sange a charme, that dyd it mickle goode;
Then praid Seyncte Cuthbert, and our holie Dame,
To blesse his labour, and to heal the same.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Therefore you should now
contemplate
karma and the harmfulness ofsamsara, and abandon
all evil actions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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then England say 376
Is not thy sacred hunger of science 212
Kinde pitty chokes my spleene; brave scorn forbids 154
Kindly I envy thy songs perfection 210
_Klockius_ so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come 77
Language thou art too narrow, and too weake 284
Let mans Soule be a Spheare, and then, in this, 336
Let me powre forth 38
Like Esops fellow-slaves, O _Mercury_, 78
Like one who'in her third
widdowhood
doth professe 185
Little think'st thou, poore flower, 59
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They were almost perfect
miniatures
of two children.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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But there can
be no doubt that the
petition
presented by a body of monks, chiefly
Eutychian, shewed serious disaffection.
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Luchas civiles de la gente mora
Le llamaron
urgentes
á la guerra,
Y lidió con honor desde la aurora
Hasta que en sombra se sumió la tierra.
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but for the fact that both verbs have
a common object in dwav-ra, the sense of which is
obscured
by
new".
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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The shifting winds roar athwart our
course, and blow
stronger
out of the black west, and the air thickens
into mist: nor are we fit to force our way on and across.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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WEEP each
heavenly
Venus, all the Cupids,
Weep all men that have any grace about ye.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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This the Committee has hesitated
to advise; although the
fundamental
treatment
required is simple: "Serve one Master only.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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The picture appeared a vast and dim scene of
evil, and I foresaw
obscurely
that I was destined to become the most
wretched of human beings.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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Deep in the tortuous folds of ancient towns,
Where all, even horror, to
enchantment
turns,
I watch, obedient to my fatal mood,
For the decrepit, strange and charming beings,
The dislocated monsters that of old
Were lovely women--Lais or Eponine!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Fair is too foul an epithet for thee,
That in thy passion for thy country's love,
And fear to see thy kingly father's harm,
With hair
disheveled
wip'st thy watery cheeks;
And like to Flora in her morning pride,
Shaking her silver tresses in the air,
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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Enclosing
"The Calf"
XXVII.
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Robert Burns |
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was to be Yanko's business
to brush his clothes, clean his shoes,
attend him when he went a-filhing, and
become the partner os his general sports,
yet he was also to become his daily pu-
pil, and be taught the
rudiments
both
of reading and writing; *<< For though,"
said that benevolent man, " the in-
tellectual and moral powers of those
unfortunate people are generally to-
tally uncultivated, nature has been as
bounteous
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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I hear the rustle of wings,
Ye
meditate
what to say
Ere ye go to quit me for ever and aye.
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Emerson - Poems |
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What is the
substance
of it?
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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The Lord of the Flies is
expanding
his Reich;
All treasures, all blessings are swelling his might .
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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A good example is the very persistent belief in the non-existent writing on the wall of the Knesset of the
Biblical
verse about the Nile and the Euphrates.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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The
defeatism
of democratic statesmen in recent years grew out of their overestimation of Germany's fighting power and per- fection of organization.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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Un
jour prochain le voyageur qui, au fond de la Bourgogne, s'arrêtera dans
le petit village de Charlus pour visiter son église, s'il n'est pas
assez
studieux
ou se trouve trop pressé pour en examiner les pierres
tombales, ignorera que ce nom de Charlus fut celui d'un homme qui allait
de pair avec les plus grands.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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They who a little before were pre-eminent amongst their fellow citizens for their wealth and distinction, by a sudden change of fortune were not only treated with the greatest
contempt
and scorn imaginable, and robbed of all they had by their slaves; but they were forced to bear insufferable abuse from their fellow freemen.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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First his
patrimony
was mangled; secondly the
Pontic spoils; then thirdly the Iberian, which the golden Tagus-stream
knoweth.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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