None of them proved able
to learn the
alphabet
beyond the letter B.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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Nouns in o or on from the Greek w, pre-
serve the
quantity
of the Greek increment.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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As he grew rich he grew greedy;
and
thinking
to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he
killed it and opened it only to find nothing.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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You call 'cause' that which contributes to the
production
of things from outside, and which exists outside the composition, as is the case of the efficient cause, and of the end to which the thing produced is directed.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Perhaps you are a kinsman of
the
Countess?
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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Then the Franks began their preparations for assisting Damascus, and messages passed between them in which it was agreed that the Franks should concentrate their resources on the other forts and towns in the area, to drive off Zangi and prevent his achieving his ambition of taking Damascus, before he became so powerful and well-equipped that he could break through the
Frankish
lines and attack their own territories.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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The tribes that remain
behind, when the king goes hunting, spend their time in the same studies
which they pursued as boys, including shooting and javelin-casting, and
in these
continual
contests are going on.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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bold Robin Hood is a
forester
good,
As ever drew bow in the merry greenwood:
At his bugle's shrill singing the echoes are ringing,
The wild deer are springing for many a rood;
Its summons we follow, through brake, over hollow,
The thrice-blown shrill summons of bold Robin Hood.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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The saint thought- it expedient for the advancement of religion to build a church on the banks of the Shannon, and where his
charioteer
was buried.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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"Did you not know he
was called
Rochester?
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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The conceptoffascismis difficultto
establishbecause
it relates toa phenomenonthatismarkedbyparadoxes.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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What is his
morality?
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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Wie kommt es, dass du dich vor mir nicht
scheust?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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--to tell
The
loveliness
of loving well!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Midland Northern
Fire
veer
vuir, fuir fiir
fuir
fier
Sin
zenne
sunne
sinne sinne
I shall say Ich ssel zigge Ich schal sigge I shal seyn I shal saie I sal sai
She says by zeyth
heo sayth she seyth ho saith scho sais
They say hy ziggeth hy siggeth they seyn hy, thai sayn thai sai
liviynde liviinde livinge living livand
Her name hare nome bor nome her name hur name her nam
Their names hare nomen hure
nomenhir
names hur namus thair names
sin
Living
The English of Scotland, so far as we know, was hardly used
for literary purposes until the last quarter of the fourteenth
century, when Barbour wrote his Bruce.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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Had the Marquis possessed one virtue,
or
acquired
one accomplishment, the gentle
Louisa might not have shrunk with such
an excess of horror from her sather's
proposal; but when she compared the
disgusting manners of her future huf*
band, with the insinuating elegance os
her cousin Montgomery, her heart sick-
ened at the comparison, and she, who
had never in the slightest instance pre-
sumes
?
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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The Germans, as the only people capable of suffering the open and the monstrous, were once again
supposed
to take flight in great style and summon the world to witness their passion.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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It pro- duces the
suffering
of existence and causes all the sentient beings of the six types to circle in samsara.
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| Question: |
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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The Long Hill
I must have passed the crest a while ago
And now I am going down--
Strange to have crossed the crest and not to know,
But the brambles were always
catching
the hem of my gown.
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Sara Teasdale |
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It is manifest
that in this view it would oblige
everyone
to speak the truth.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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It
concludes
with a summing-up of his life
in protest against the blow which has fallen on his grey head.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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The
modern Dragon Boat
Festival
is supposed to be in his honour.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The familiarity with Greek lands and folk which
gives a charm to
Professor
Curtius's work is missing from Mr.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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On the other
hand, he who plotted from the first to have nothing to do with
plots was a breaker-up of parties, and a
poltroon
who was afraid
of the enemy.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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Meanwhile, it appears that downloads of epub and mobi (Kindle) formatted eBooks is
triggering
blocks.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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The medium through which poetry
works is the world of
sensible
objects—wine and oil, the cedar
of Lebanon, the young lion, the moon, the cloud, the smoking
hills, the wild goat, the coney and the stork; or, if we turn to
Homer rather than the Psalmist, a plane-tree, the bright water
of a spring, a snake blood-red on the back, the cheeping brood of
a sparrow, or beaked ships and well-greaved Achaians.
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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Radical Republicanism does not appear
again as a force to be reckoned with, except perhaps in
sporadic and
convulsive
efforts in Wurttemberg.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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LEILI
The serpents are asleep among the poppies,
The fireflies light the
soundless
panther's way
To tangled paths where shy gazelles are straying,
And parrot-plumes outshine the dying day.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Oh that
was a
miserable
time !
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Frank |
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THE COMING OF GOOD LUCK
So Good-Luck came, and on my roof did light,
Like
noiseless
snow, or as the dew of night;
Not all at once, but gently,--as the trees
Are by the sun-beams, tickled by degrees.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Từ khi đặt niên hiệu Thuận Thiên đã cho mở mang việc học, giáo hóa thấm nhuần, vận hội văn
chương
thịnh sáng, nền thái bình muôn thuở chính nhờ đó mà bắt đầu.
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| Question: |
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stella-02 |
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"
Vassily
Ivanovitch
stopped.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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But
peaceful
was the night
Wherin the Prince of Light
His reign of peace upon the earth began:
The winds, with wonder whist,
Smoothly the waters kist
Whispering new joys to the mild ocean--
Who now hath quite forgot to rave,
While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave.
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Golden Treasury |
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He
erred in his civil
administration
by too much centralising.
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| Answer: |
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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—Another
bowl
of this kind he broke between his first and second
finger, by pressing them together sideways.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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Then each unite together, one dispos'd
T' endure, to act the other, through meet frame
Of its recipient mould: that being reach'd,
It 'gins to work, coagulating first;
Then vivifies what its own
substance
caus'd
To bear.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Arias
Bend your pride to the king's authority:
He takes an interest, and his irritation
Will be displayed in no
uncertain
fashion.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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This country is not perhaps
raised to the first rank in war, in the arts,
in
political
liberty: it is knowledge of
?
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Germany |
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The Book of Army
Management
says: On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough: hence the institution of gongs and drums.
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| Question: |
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The-Art-of-War |
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“To be obliged to wear a long wig, when he
liked a short one, or a black coat, when he
generally
dressed in
brown,' observes one of his characters in The Citizen of the World,
was 'a restraint upon his liberty.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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The warders strutted up and down,
And watched their herd of brutes,
Their uniforms were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the
quicklime
on their boots.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Note: Selene, the Moon, loved
Endymion
on Mount Latmos, while he slept.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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And brute force
succeeds
when it is used, whereas the power to hurt is most successful when held in reserve.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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My companion
noiselessly
closed
the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes
round the room.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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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.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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On my way I saw William
Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but
he is mistaken in
thinking
that I was following my father.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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At
Chauncey
Hall School, in Boston, he was prepared
for college; and in 1840 he entered Harvard as a freshman.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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Last noon beheld them full of lusty life,
Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay,
The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife,
The morn the marshalling in arms,--the day
Battle's
magnificently
stern array!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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— -ị_ „
26 — Phải b*-Ị— tế qiir
dưỡng
nuôi con từ cùn trong dạ mẹ
Vợ chồng tay-ếp.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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This principle is
maintained
consistently in all George's poems,
even in the hortatory poems in the later volumes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Stefan George - Studies |
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The belief in the existence of
phenomena
is a consequence of the first belief.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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, shimmering like crystal, radiates light rays
Which
penetrate
the crown of my head,
Cleansing (contaminated) actions of the body and im-
pediments of the channel system
?
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| Source: |
Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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THE CONTINENTAL ASSOCIATION
421
The outcome of the discussion was a
resolution
of Octo-
ber 6, which declared against the importation of the most
important dutied articles after December 1 next, i.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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With bars they blur the
gracious
moon,
And blind the goodly sun:
And the do well to hide their Hell,
For in it things are done
That Son of things nor son of Man
Ever should look upon!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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10 Rajan and Zingales (2000) formalize this point and show that the lack of
commitment
power leads to ine?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Schwarz - Committments |
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”
“I either depend more upon
Emma’s
good sense than you do, or am more
anxious for her present comfort; for I cannot lament the acquaintance.
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Austen - Emma |
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Why then am I
dissatisfied
if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v07 |
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At
first he thought it was
distress
at the state of his room that
stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made
there.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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She is
sufficiently
punished by the
fright.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Lucian |
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whose
superior
sway
Assembled states, and lords of earth obey,
The laws and sceptres to thy hand are given,
And millions own the care of thee and Heaven.
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| Question: |
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Iliad - Pope |
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of party A becomes UA(b(t)) + UA(b(t+)+2) ;
equating
the payo?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Schwarz - Committments |
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ru) and
Evraziia
(www.
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| Question: |
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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If this right-wing French nationalism was so at odds with the republi- can, revolutionary version, the reason was as much religious as political, for its advocates
consciously
and explicitly rejected the transformations in the religious sphere that had occurred in France since 1700--indeed, in important respects, since the end of the sixteenth century.
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| Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
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brains, an analogous history is written in our external
representations
of time.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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Coal is
outlasting
roasting and a spoonful, a whole
spoon that is full is not spilling.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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Contribution
to the topography of the sanctuary at Brauron.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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If that happened to you, please let us know so we can keep
adjusting
the software.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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Boniface
is stated to have
been written in a chamber, or cell, at the church of St.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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She will feel her own
sufferings
to be nothing.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Now the prey beneath her lies in
crippling
pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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On the other side, the revolutionary movement, if it is about ratio- nality and not caprice, can not lay aside the
infinite
dignity of all human beings, for this is the only possible justification for their struggle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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There, there, perhaps, such lines as these
May take the simple villages;
But for the court, the country wit
Is
despicable
unto it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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It surprises me that priests never seem to trouble to trace their
spiritual
ancestry in this way, finding out who ordained their bishop, and who ordained him, and so on to Julius II or Celestine V or Hildebrand, or Gregory the Great, perhaps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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Bad acts are degraded,
imbruted
good.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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A chorus of colors came over the water;
The wondrous leaf-shadow no longer wavered,
No pines crooned on the hills,
The blue night was
elsewhere
a silence,
When the chorus of colors came over the
water,
Little songs of carmine, violet, green, gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
|
Every
individual in such periods and circumstances feels that his existence,
his happiness, the existence and
happiness
of the family, the state,
the success or failure of every undertaking, must depend upon these
dispositions of nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
|
Every
individual in such periods and circumstances feels that his existence,
his happiness, the existence and
happiness
of the family, the state,
the success or failure of every undertaking, must depend upon these
dispositions of nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Jorg Huber and Alois Martin Muller (Basel and Frankfurt:
Stroemfeld
/ Roter Stern, 1993 ) , 1 8 8 .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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Thou'lt wake the guards with thy loud
screaming!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
At the beginning of progress there was the presumption, whether right or wrong, of a "moral"
initiative
that cannot rest until the better has become the real.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk |
|
This war with the Paulicians extended the Byzantine frontier as far
as the Saracen
Melitene
(Malațīyah), and set Basil free to advance against
the Eastern Saracens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
|
Woe’s me that I that was bedded with a man above reproach, I that esteemed him as the light of my eyes and do render him heart’s worship and honour to this day, should have lived to see him of all the world most miserable and best
acquaint
with the taste of woe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Megara and Dead Adonis |
|
She expresses a
most eager desire of being acquainted with me, and makes very gracious
mention of my
children
but I am not quite weak enough to suppose a woman
who has behaved with inattention, if not with unkindness, to her own
child, should be attached to any of mine.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Look in a garden-croft when a flower privily growing,
Hid from grazing kine, by
ploughshare
never
y-broken, (40)
Strok'd by the breeze, by the sun nurs'd sturdily, rear'd
by the showers ; 50
Many a wistful boy, and maidens many desire it :
Yet if a slender nail hath nipt his bloom to deflour it,
Never a wistful boy, nor maidens any desire it :
Such is a girl untoy'd with as yet, yet lovely to kinsmen ; (45)
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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It follows, from the
accounts given in the “Commentaries,” that among this multitude of
different peoples, the chiefs chose the most courageous men to form the
corps of 60,000 which operated the movement of turning the hills; and
that the others, unaccustomed to war, and less formidable,
employed
in
the assault of the retrenchments in the plain, were easily repulsed.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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Read me now the Decree preferred by Demofthenes, in
which he commands the Magiftrates, after the
Feftival
of
Bacchus, celebrated within the City, (15) and the cuftomary
Affembly held in his Temple, to appoint two general AiTem-
blies on the eighteenth and nineteenth ; thus precifely marking
the Time, and prefling forward the Affembly before the Return
of our Ambaffadors.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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[Illustration: The Minister and Leech]
In this manner, the mysterious old Roger
Chillingworth
became the
medical adviser of the Reverend Mr.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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Society over the way papa went to for the
conversion
of poor jews.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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the cultivation (bhdvand) of the samddhi which is the cultivation of the samddhi, the pradhdnas, and the smrtyupasthdnas ["cultivation" is
understood
in the sense of parifuddhi, paripuri].
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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Oh, might I lie on the wind, or fly
In the wilful sea-bird's track,
Would I hurry on, with a
homesick
cry--
Or hasten back?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I will add two
subtitles
to my title, namely, "machine" and "textual event.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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* That upon which
actuality
acts is always
matter; actuality's whole ' Being' and essence there-
fore consist only in the orderly change, which one
part of it causes in another, and is therefore wholly
relative, according to a relation which is valid only
within the boundary of actuality, as in the case of
time and space.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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And I deny not that they
discover
many things true and good
to be known; but, as touching the names of the Gods, their learning, as
it standeth, is confusion.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Having
attained
a good old age, he was crowned with this martyrdom, in Kentyre,^° towards the close of the sixth century.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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In Y eats the temptation o f Adams' reductive conversion o f mental into physical, a version o f which he pursued in "Sailing to Byzantium," is itself converted into a kind o f
hierarchical
equivocation:
Miracle, bird or golden handiwork, More miracle than bird or handiwork Planted on the star-lit golden bough, Can like the cocks of Hades crow,
Or, by the moon embittered, scorn aloud In glory o f changeless metal
Common bird or petal
And all complexities of mire or blood.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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For
several years the
faithful
old woman had gone every week to say
a prayer over her friend's ashes: her time had come, and now
her bones too lay in the damp earth.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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Mercy's lost, and gone from sight
And now I can
retrieve
it not.
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Troubador Verse |
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As Gordon threw away the match his eye fell upon the
aspidistra
in its grass-
green pot.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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