"
Among the windings of the violins
And the ariettes
Of cracked cornets
Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins
Absurdly
hammering
a prelude of its own,
Capricious monotone
That is at least one definite "false note.
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T.S. Eliot |
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It faced the Yang south and the
administrative
city that in turn looked out to the city wards.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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In Sir Charles Coote's
Statistical
Survey of the Queerit County, we are simply informed that " at Coolbanagher are the ruins of a church and also of a castle".
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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And bronze spear and
thunderbolts
together shall crush the bulls – whereof one had such valour as even Sciastes Orchieus, Lord of Tilphossa, did not scorn, when he bent his bow in battle.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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WERNER: When people act as transmitters, what are they
transmitting
between?
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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New machinery for
legislation
had also to be
considered.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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78), he might personally hand him over to the
executioner
(672D 82.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Hear, for instance,
with what innocence—almost worthy of honour-
Schopenhauer represents his own task, and draw
your conclusions concerning the scientificalness of
Science” whose latest master still talks in the
strain of children and old wives : “The principle,"
he says (page 136 of the Grundprobleme der
Ethik *), “the axiom about the purport of which
all moralists are practically agreed: neminem læde,
immo omnes quantum potes juva-is really the pro-
position which all moral
teachers
strive to establish,
the real basis of ethics which has been sought,
like the philosopher's stone, for centuries.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Almost in the same historical moment when Galileo
directed
all modern physics to the
reading of that book which Nature was supposed to have written
herself in geometric or, subsequently, algebraic signs, the modern novel and modern theater stepped in as evidence that modern
readers and spectators enjoy the effects of those fictions most of all when they are altogether free of science.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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It is true that Defoe's test of a writer was that he
should "please and serve his public," and in
providing
amusement he
was not more refined nor more coarse than those whom he addressed;
but a writer should look a little deeper and aim a little higher than
the average morality of his day.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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"
Then they
recounted
tales,--
"There were stern stands
"And bitter runs for glory.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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You then knocked down the whole card castle by reminding (you were really informing) me that the whole of the evidence for the story of the lovers was
contained
in this First Letter, as indeed the whole compass of your own marvellous romance is contained in the period before Heloise went to Paraclete, that is a year at least before even the First Letter purports to have been written.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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The new tablet, which belongs to the same
period, also differs radically from the diction of the Ninevite text
in the few lines where they
duplicate
each other.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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He
quarreled
with General
Aupick, and disdained his mother.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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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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The_satires_of_Persius |
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In other words, Hegel's
dialectic
is the science of the gap between the Old and the New, of account- ing for this gap.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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Even Y's very
accomplished
young wife was 'a Communist,' who came from a still successful military family.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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Bourgeois thought can readily admit the
possibility
that "class society" will be followed and replaced by a "post-class society," just as class society followed and replaced a society based on estates.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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77
Tho' to the white waves dawn gives me, to Tethys,
again ; 70
(Maid of Ramnus, a grace I here implore thee, if any
Word should offend ; so much cannot a terror alarm,
I should veil aught true; not tho' with clamorous uproar
Rend me the stars; I speak
verities
hidden at heart):
Lightly for all I reck, so more I sorrow to part me 75
Sadly from her I serve, part me forever away.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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At last Clélia dies, and Fabrice
enters the neighboring monastery, the
Chartreuse
of Parma.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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Wherein there is so much of
chance, that the boldest
expectants
have found unhappy frustra-
tion; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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f
Inferias
or-\-phei Le-\-thwa papavera mittes
553.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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also _The
Wassail_
(476).
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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Who knoweth not that The Lord, He God Bui He
speaketh
of the Lord, Whom men thought not God: lie ye sure that the Lord He is God.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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Then the lecturer, who’d had a drink of water, stood up and gave a
summing-up that made the
Trotskyist
wriggle about on his chair but pleased the other
three, and the dog-fight went on unofficially for a bit longer.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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14337 (#531) ##########################################
14337
JOHN
ADDINGTON
SYMONDS
(1840–1893)
Oo.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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In several
places at a
distance
other soldiers were drawn up, and we were
told that cannon with lighted matches were stationed on every
side.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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" It is difficult to conceive a
more pitiable sight than that of the
wretched
exile
?
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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"
So again I saw,
And leaped, unhesitant,
And
struggled
and fumed
With outspread clutching fingers.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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Keep the son good and cause ease to reach him
That his eyes [of
expectation]
may not remain on the hands
of others.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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He was still looked on by the Greeks generally
with a sort of
wondering
awe.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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--Il est plus qu'intelligent, il est même assez spirituel, dit la
duchesse de l'air entendu et
dégustateur
d'une personne qui s'y connaît.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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The hour-by-hour
tactical
course of the war may not even be worth the attention of the top strategic leadership.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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Well, an
exceptionally
good swimmer MIGHT conceivably be cast into the sea with a stone tied round his neck.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Where is there an object more
worthy of
admiration
!
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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Thereon, of lordly work and no less fair,
Cushions
were laid, with jewels shining bright.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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The man of superior
propriety
takes action,
And when people do not respond to it, he will stretch his arms
and force it on them.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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It turns one's stomach to listen to your
exhortations, and hear of your
miserable
Virtue, that you prate of
up and down.
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Epictetus |
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"
"That cannot be," he answered, with the most
unnatural
self-confidence.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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As to "THE RIGHT MEANS", I will explain them fully in the following order: [A] Taking Refuge in the Three [Jewels], [B] the two aspects of Enlightenment Thought, [C] begetting the Superknowledges in order to work for the special good of others, [D]
accumulating
the Two Equipments through the union of Means and Insight, and [E] accumulating the Two Equipments through the extra-ordinary method of Mantra, that great [system] of Mahayana which swiftly perfects the good of self and others.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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]
Sound, sound for ever,
Clarions
of Thought!
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Hugo - Poems |
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) It is
believed
that at Athens,
Cranaë, the daughter of Cranaus, king of Attica, where the Dionysiac festivals were held annually,
expelled his father-in-law from his kingdom and the name signified yearly, while at Thebes, where
usurped his throne.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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# [Sulla] held
investigations
at Ephesus, and executed the leaders of the revolt.
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Roman Translations |
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In July, 1692, with Sir William Temple's help,
Jonathan Swift
commenced
M.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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The plenitude of power and restraint, the highest form of'self-affirmation in a cool, noble, and
reserved
kind of beauty: the Apollonianism of the
Hellenic will.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Le cronache
italiane
etc.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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Being disappointed, the tears came into
its eyes, and the
sufferer
said, "If it is thy genius that conducts thee
hither, where is my son, and why is he not with thee?
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Brown (USAF) C-JCS,
Statement
to the Congress on the Defense Posture of the United States For Fiscal Year 1979, p.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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Quando noi fummo fatti tanto avante,
ch'al mio maestro piacque di mostrarmi
la creatura ch'ebbe il bel sembiante,
d'innanzi mi si tolse e fe restarmi,
<>, dicendo, <
ove convien che di
fortezza
t'armi>>.
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| Question: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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' The frame of adamant and soul of fire,' as the biographer of Lord Sidmouth terms the Chief Justice, quailed before the indomitable courage of a man who was roused into
energies
which would seem only to belong to the master-spirits that have swayed the world.
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| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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The lumpy-'umpy 'ummin'-bird a-singin' where 'e lies,
'E's blocked the whole
division
from the rear-guard to the front,
An' when we get him up again--the beggar goes an' dies!
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Inspiration
descends; there is in the description
perhaps a recollection of Diana descending to kiss the sleeping
Endymion on Mount Latinos.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Studies |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:31 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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in the aid of the Romans, who accordingly put an end to
the disorder but at the same time
extinguished
the remnant of independence.
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| Question: |
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Thus: there is no
satisfaction
to be got out of the
costliest viands before consumption; and after it a full stomach is
none the better for the price it has cost to fill it.
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| Source: |
Lucian |
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Scots'
Prologue
For Mr.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
During the reigns of the Saxon kings in the first half
of the
eighteenth
century the culture of Polish society
reached its lowest level.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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This anti-Russian feeling, based at least as much
on the resentment at the century of Russian oppres-
sion under the Czars as at
apprehension
of Soviet
aggression, reaches deep into Finnish hearts.
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| Question: |
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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As for the inner side of the form "work of art," this compact communication
communicates
its readiness for fur- ther analysis.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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_
Morose delectation Aquinas
tunbelly
calls this, _frate porcospino_.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Joyce - Ulysses |
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Make it an object that in its whole
structure
and materiality, as opposed to mere accidents of surface, has nothing to do with us and our script.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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I do not wish
to be mistaken for
another—and
to this end I must
not mistake myself.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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He determined to move practically the whole of
his force against the
division
with the king.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v1 |
|
Great must have been the rejoicings throughout Wessex and Mercia
at the
triumphs
of 918, but the next year had even greater events in
store.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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The love which he
portrays is not the impassioned yet
intellectual
idealism of Dante,
nor the refined and adoring sentiment of Petrarch, nor the epi-
curean but courtly love of Ronsard, nor the passionate, chivalrous
gallantry of Sidney.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
|
And
dreadful
the blast of the trumpet.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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" was
a piece of advice which the god gave, and not his
salutation
of the
worshippers at their first coming in; and they dedicated their own
inscription under the idea that they too would give equally useful
pieces of advice.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Plato - Apology, Charity |
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But if we are not to be led into false beliefs,
it is
necessary
to realise exactly _what_ the mystic emotion reveals.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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But is this not
precisely
the definition of the in-itself-or if you prefer-the principle of identity?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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But
as everything in particular doth happen, put this
question
unto thyself,
and say: What is it that in this present matter, seems unto thee so
intolerable?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
|
A LETTER SENT TO A FRIEND
BY LI T'AI-PO
Tidal water is a determined thing, it can be depended on;
But it is
impossible
to make an appointment with the wind of Heaven.
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| Source: |
Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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He is about it, the Doores are open:
And the
surfeted
Groomes doe mock their charge
With Snores.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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II
The
language
of Finnegans Wake where "Som's wholed, all's part ed" is "[b]inomeans to be comprendered" (FW 563.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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In-
formation being sent to Arnold under a flag, the evening after
Washington left West Point for Hartford he dispatched a boat to
the Vulture, which took André on shore for an
interview
on the
west side of the river, just below the American lines.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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For I, to feast with Sestius, that host unmatched, 10
A speech of his, pure poison, every line deep-drugg'd,
His speech against the
plaintiff
Antius, read through.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
|
There came a youth from Georgia's shore--
A military casque he wore
With
splendid
feathers drest;
He brought them from the Cherokees;
The feathers nodded in the breeze
And made a gallant crest.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Justice And Propriety Begin With The Constitution of Common-wealth
But because
Covenants
of mutuall trust, where there is a feare of not
performance on either part, (as hath been said in the former Chapter,)
are invalid; though the Originall of Justice be the making of Covenants;
yet Injustice actually there can be none, till the cause of such feare
be taken away; which while men are in the naturall condition of Warre,
cannot be done.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hobbes - Leviathan |
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I should like to say that in our time the primacy which Sartre accords to existence over being and its concept reveals an extraordinarily
uncompromising
awareness of this state of affairs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-Metaphysics |
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And you have an
ORGANIZED
minority of a different race amongst you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
|
Here's a
knocking
indeede: if a man were
Porter of Hell Gate, hee should haue old turning the
Key.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
El
i
iEiiiiiEiiigiiiEiiiiiiiiig
iliiiii
iEitgsi?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
|
Guairius
or Martyrology Tallagh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
|
On
July 1st, Lord
Hartington
was still remarking that he 'really did not
feel that he knew the mind or intention of the Government in respect of
the relief of General Gordon'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
|
, I,
S): "Matter, from which all things arc produced and
formed, is a
substance
without form or quality, but
capable of receiving all forms and undergoing every
kind of change; in which, however, it never suffers
uinihilatior*.
| Guess: |
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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--Ma chérie, lui dit-il, c’est fini, était-ce avec une
personne
que je
connais?
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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Pound used to call the
squirrels
at St.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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Shine where my charmer's sweeter breath
Embalms the soft
exhaling
dew,
Where dying winds a sigh bequeath
To kiss the cheek of rosy hue:--
Where, winnow'd by the gentle air,
Her silken tresses darkly flow
And fall upon her brow so fair,
Like shadows on the mountain snow.
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Golden Treasury |
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Fumblingly I hastened to
complete
what
I was about, but the tiresome book had become so tightly wedged into
its row that, on being pulled out, it caused its fellows to close up too
compactly to leave any place for their comrade.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Before
computers
with their explicit purpose of crunching systems of differential equations-at least
numerically-have
come into existence, scientific visualization can
only occupy itself with mercilessly simplified formula.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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" "Leave me
THE ART OF
COMMITMENT
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alone" is simple; "Cooperate" is inexact and open-ended.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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"The
Baroness
of Thunder-ten-Tronckh was more polite," said Candide.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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A truly
existing
past would not be the past: If the past exist, it exist now, and is not the past.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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CHANT DE GUERRE PARISIEN
Le printemps est evident, car
Du coeur des
Proprietes
vertes
Le vol de Thiers et de Picard
Tient ses splendeurs grandes ouvertes.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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If it would be any
convenience
to
you, of course we could let you have it at once; but we usually settle
accounts monthly.
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Kipling - Poems |
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“If I had my
‘druthers
I’d take a shotgun.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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"
"I thank you, Samana, for
watching
out over my sleep," spoke Siddhartha.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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Within
a while after many islands appeared, and near unto them, upon our
left hand, stood Phello, the place
whereunto
they were travelling,
which was a city seated upon a mighty great and round cork.
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Lucian - True History |
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A man is never really affected by the idea of the pairing
of others : he is outside and above any such circumstance which has no meaning for him ; a woman, however, would be scarcely responsible for her interest in the process, she would be in a state of feverish
excitement
and as if spell- bound by the thought of her proximity to it.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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As Pallas wondred at the sight, the Muse spake thus in summe: These also being late ago in
chalenge
overcome, .
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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"
"Squeak, squeak," cried a little mouse at the kitchen door; it was
the fourth, and not the third, of the four who were
contending
for the
prize, one whom the rest supposed to be dead.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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