Despite the
estimation
of Cardinal de Bausset, former Bishop of Alais, that Chateaubriand was ".
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" I cried,
addressing
the
men on the main-deck, "is there a sailor among you all who
would have the heart to leave that man yonder without an effort
to rescue him?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Indeed, I
remember
now.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Butler's notes, Cambridge, "typis ac
sumptibus
acade- micis," 1811--once a guinea or half a guinea per vol- ume, half leather, but now mercifully, since people no
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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And yet this realm of
consciousness
in the long run necessarily becomes manifest in the material world, indeed creates the material world in its own image.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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As it hath beene sundry times Acted, by the
Kings
Majesties
Servants.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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Nietz- sche, que con
frecuencia
pensaba dentro de muy vastos horizon- tes, 10 sabi?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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But I have three
precious
things which I prize and hold fast.
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Tao Te Ching |
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FROM
THE
TAPESTRY
OF LIFE AND
THE SONGS OF DREAM AND
DEATH.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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at may
nat
fulfille
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological
evolution
and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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14:12 So the LORD smote the
Ethiopians
before Asa, and before Judah;
and the Ethiopians fled.
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bible-kjv |
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The member for a
division
was chosen
by a system of secondary election.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Child Verse
HIDE-AND-SEEK
"\70U hid your little self, dear Lord,
-*- As other
children
do ;
But oh, how great was their reward
Who sought three days for you 1
72
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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[385] Below Aegoceros before the blasts of the South Wind swims a Fish, facing Cetus, alone and part from the former Fishes; and him men call the
Southern
Fish [Piscis Australis].
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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I
understood
so, but evidently I was
mistaken.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Ông từng
được
bổ chức Ngự tiền học sinh.
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stella-02 |
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450
LI
True sympathy the Sailor's looks expressed,
His looks--for
pondering
he was mute the while.
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William Wordsworth |
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By a removal for some
months from each other we shall tranquillise the
sisterly
fears of Mrs.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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The wonder of the thrice encinctured
mystery
Whereby thou being full of years art
young,
Loving even this lithe Persephone That is free for the seasons of plenty ;
Whereby thou being young art old And shalt stand before this Persephone
Whom thou lovest,
In darkness, even at that time
That she being
returned
to her hus-
band
Shall be queen and a maiden no longer, Wherein thou being neither old nor
young
Standing on the verge of the sea Shalt pass from being sand,
O High Priest of lacchus,
And becoming wave
Shalt encircle all sands,
40
Breathe upon us
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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He wrote the best
biography
of Patrick
Henry, and in his prosecution of Aaron Burr gave a noble example
of old-fashioned classical oratory.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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We had been content, and
thankful
too, to be permitted to live peaceably, without
grasping after power.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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An artist should create
beautiful
things, but should put nothing of his
own life into them.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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The goddess
Amphitrite
took pity on her and transformed her into
a beautiful bird, the Ciris.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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After an
undefiled
absorption, we have: 1) either two types of absorption of the same sphere as this undefiled absorption, namely
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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Oh,
enchanting
vision!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Upon this, greatly to her surprise, he related to the
whole company the following remarkable particulars : " While I was on-shore at Genoa, there was a Dutch man, a brother tar, of that very same name, under close
confinement
in the ci'ty, for having wounded with his sneeker-snee not only a native of the place,
REMARKABLE PERSONS.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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However desirable it might have
once seemed to him that the offender should be made an example
of, it was no part of Sir John's
programme
of to-day to be pres-
ent at the execution.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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aureaque Hesperidum seruans fulgentia mala,
asper, acerba tuens, immani corpore serpens
arboris amplexus stirpem quid denique obesset
propter Atlanteum litus pelageque sonora,
quo neque noster adit
quisquam
nec barbarus audet?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or
proprietary
form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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Therefore all things without exception honour the
Tao, and exalt its
outflowing
operation.
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Tao Te Ching |
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that came, amid a night of mirth,
A red
Daedalion
on the timid Earth.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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OF THE
CONCEPTIONS
OF PURE SEASON.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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You must dart away
From the chosen spray,
You
intrusive
third
Extra little bird;
Join the unwedded herd!
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Christina Rossetti |
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Mistakes there were in plenty, but the connec-
tion between the external' expansion of England ' and the
internal
development
was intimate, vital, and decisive.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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The rain poured
down in streams,--now there was darkness, then
blinding
light,--now
thrilling silence, then deafening din.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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Độc quyển:
Hàn lâm viện Thừa chỉ
Nguyễn
Trực, kiêm Cẩn Đức điện Đại học sĩ Nhập thị Kinh diên kiêm Tả xuân phường Thái tử Tả dụ đức Nguyễn Cư Đạo.
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stella-04 |
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4 I would have you know, moreover, that we have allotted to him the same amount of supplies that the prefect of Egypt receives, the same amount of clothing that we have allowed to the proconsulate of Africa, the same amount of silver that the procurator of the mines in Illyricum71 receives, and the same number of
servants
that we allot to ourselves in each and every community; for I wish all to know my opinion of such a man.
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Historia Augusta |
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With this intention, I called a
cab and drove out to my house at Streatham,
carrying
the jewel
with me.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Glassford
Bell,
We noticed the first edition of this volume genesis and evolution of his inspiration.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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Thus from the lofty promontory's brow
A swain surveys the gathering storm below;
Slow from the main the heavy vapours rise,
Spread in dim streams, and sail along the skies,
Till black as night the swelling tempest shows,
The cloud condensing as the west-wind blows:
He dreads the
impending
storm, and drives his flock
To the close covert of an arching rock.
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Iliad - Pope |
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XL
A
PERILOUS
path, it proved, he {40a} trod
who heinously hid, that hall within,
wealth under wall!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Then there came down to the thither bank a woman of no
appearance
(I believe she was a Black with chills at her feet) and she gathered up his hoariness the Mookse motamourfully where he was spread and carried him away to her invisible dwelling, thats hights, Aquila Rapax, for he was the holy sacred solem and poshup spit of her boshop's apron.
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Finnegans |
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However,
theories
not based on facts nave a life of their own, completely divorced from reality, and, diligently propagated, live on forever.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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With a laugh,
An oath of towns that set the wild at naught
They bring the
telephone
and telegraph.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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A corporation is owned by another corporation, which is again
borrowing
money from banks, which may ultimately manipulate money owned by or- dinary people like ourselves.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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Was ist schön an einem Mann,
welches Gott nicht dir
beschied!
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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and seest thou, dreaming in pain,
Thy mother stand in the piazza,
searching
the List of the slain?
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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Then
Harrison
as twenty-third.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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computer virus, or
computer
codes that damage or cannot be read by
your equipment.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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It was
unbelievable
that
he had ever kissed her.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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To this, there-
fore, we may confine our
detailed
notice.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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t :
;i*a*;
re+EiEiz
ji ;"i i;
ii
ii; i;: : ; -'i; a
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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"
"Well, some are wise and some foolish, some are
watchful
and some
careless.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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I
withdraw
from all Concernment in this
" Affair.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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Here too there were as was the case in France, a heinous repu- diatory
hardening
on the right-wing and self-righteous pseudo- metanoethical excesses on the left-wing.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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It was not till 1717,
or thereabouts, that Oldmixon obtained this ill and irregularly
paid post-about nine years after he had first exchanged his
efforts as a poet and
dramatist
for a long series of labours as a
party historian and journalist.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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Quare, etsi
impensius
uror, 5
Multo mi tamen es vilior et levior.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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Suppose, for
argument sake, that the Tories
favoured
Margarita, the Whigs, Mrs.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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"
"I do think it rather funny of mother to
have gone away and left little Nannie," sighed
a little three-year-old maiden who had just
been left motherless; "but, never mind," con-
tinued she, a tender smile
trembling
on her
lips, "she's gone to grannie, and it's always
summer weather there.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any
specific
use of any specific book is allowed.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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helandros kai
heleptolis
kai helarxe.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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E sinto a minha boca sorrir, deslocando
levemente
as pregas moles da fronha que me prende o rosto.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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Ces visites et ces cer-
cles sont
imagine?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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"When, therefore, we say Ave, Maria," he insisted, "we ought to humble ourselves before her like
servants
(servi) before their Lady.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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WERE it much to implore thee,
If devoutly, once,
I might kneel before thee
After
suffering
long?
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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These voices are not mine, nor these thoughts, but the voices and
thoughts
of the devils who beset me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Beckett |
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Said, Dear I love thee; and I sank and quailed
As if God's future
thundered
on my past.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Aphrodite
is no dishonorable deity to the men of the Ionian Isles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v03 |
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For there are two competing groups of
Communists
waiting to capitalize on any mis- takes they make.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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) redeo
sylvestriague
tecta revise,
In (ellip.
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| Question: |
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Meyer for the benefit of some
brief remarks which he sent me
privately
on the subject.
| Guess: |
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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To these
Mohammedan
traders the Portuguese gave the name of Moors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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The inscription on Dryden's
monument
says only
"natus 1632.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Like peeling a cover off of your head, your view will become vast,
spacious
and even.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
|
Mochonna
asked Foelan on what errand he came.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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Later, as one of few, he
expressly
moved away from such "armed service with the pen," as Thomas Mann said about his own case.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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Faith,' he says,
is 'like a piece of blank paper whereon you may write as well one
miracle as another'; whereas, his own
Christianity
was founded
i See vol.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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And thereupon the Steward was
"ordered, To go with me to the White Swan in the Jiiden-
"strasse, and pay what I owed there,
whatever
my score was.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Carlyle |
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I am still
searching
for the first edition of Uber die letzten Dinge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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Some Polish churches were com-
posed almost entirely of nobles who neglected
the
evangelization
of their peasantry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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His almost inexplicable lack of success during his own lifetime may have
resulted
from this (a ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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We must erode the
ontotheological
rationalizations of sovereignty and with it the suicidal right to undermine law in order to protect it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Education in Hegel |
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thinks this an allusion to the
widespread
superstition of the
evil eye (_mal occhio, mauvais ǣil_).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Da
*-^ ich
nachtwandelnd
an steinernen Zimmern hinging
und es brannte in jedem ein stilles La?
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| Question: |
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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" When a British minister dares speak so, and when a
British public applauds him speaking, then shall the nation be
glorious, and her praise, instead of exploding from within, from loud
civic mouths, come to her from without, as all worthy praise must,
from the alliances she has
fostered
and the populations she has
saved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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Salvation
is not the
privilege
of Africans only.
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She never mistook the
understanding
of others; nor ever said a severe word, but where a much severer was deserved.
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icts, and Commitments
Michael
Schwarzyand
Konstantin Soninz December 20, 2004
Abstract
Many cona?
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Schwarz - Committments |
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With these resources a culture secures its
symbolic
survival.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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Then Maclean he set hardly his tooth to his lip that his tooth was red,
Breathed
short for a space, said: "Nay, but it never shall be!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Open your dreams to my love and your heart to my words,
I send you my thoughts-the air between us is laden,
My
thoughts
fly in at your window, a flock of wild birds.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Fruher Idealismus und Fruhromantik: Der Streit um die Grundlagen
derAsthetik
(i79S~i8o$) (Hamburg, 1990), pp.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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You fear me villain, and, indeed, 'tis odd
To hear a
stranger
talk thus, at first meeting,
Of matters that have been so well debated:
But I come ripe with wrongs, as you with counsels.
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Thomas Otway |
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But, as several
chapters
were to be found in this Irish MS.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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'FgI *u;Etii;Ei
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fiiglEiiEgEiifi!
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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The more secure an attachment a woman has
experienced
during her early years, we can confidently predict, the greater will be her chance of escaping the slippery slope.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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