All Elfland's
mortgaged!
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Sidney Lanier |
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He drew the
inference
from the way I used to play with the wax.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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'# " #
HI*
33!
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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And some exclaimed who saw afar
The figures he
described
with it,
"I wonder what those signals are
Brown makes at such an hour of night!
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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14:22 Are there any among the
vanities
of the Gentiles that can cause
rain?
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bible-kjv |
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Many of the boys who sat in those front
benches a few years ago are perhaps now in distant lands, in the
burning tropics, or immersed in professional duties or in seminaries,
or voyaging over the vast expanse of the deep or, it may be, already
called by the great God to another life and to the
rendering
up of
their stewardship.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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The proper way to care for such a gem is to place it on a shrine, to present it with
offerings
and then to make wishes.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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Listen then, since I must reveal what I had
intended
to keep a
secret.
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Aristophanes |
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Now oftentimes, when he sees the mind in a
readiness
to endure, he contrives to find out what it loves the best, and there sets his traps of offence; that the more the object is beloved, our patience may be the sooner disquieted by means of it.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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"
Her chamber abandoned, the queen is borne over the groves and the
forests, just as a
Bacchanal
impelled by the Aonian God.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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"
"I can tell who will see aught in the crystal, and who will
not," replied the boy: "this
gentleman
will see.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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With children's
children
grac'a, one wife
Watk'd with me down the vale of life.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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Prohartchin prized his property very highly, and they
used even to hear him at one time express
dissatisfaction
with his old,
but still sound, lock, and talk of getting a new one of a special German
pattern with a secret spring and various complications.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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art thou ignorant, ah me, even in ruin, and knowest not
yet the forsworn race of
Laomedon?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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American
citizens
must learn to understand the U.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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For the first time since time immemorial, when
minstrels
combined their formulaic or memorized words into entire epics, bards were in demand again.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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Then were they glad
to have such things in their fellowship, and so they entered, and
made great
reverence
thereto, and Galahad fell in his prayer long
time to our Lord, that at what time he asked, that he should
pass out of this world: so much he prayed, till a voice said to
him, Galahad, thou shalt have thy request, and when thou askest
the death of thy body thou shalt have it, and then shalt thou
find the life of the soul.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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or how
Keep Judith all
untoucht
among their hands,
When his own quietness he could not keep
Unbroken by the god's Assyrian insult?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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It is not an army, as you think, Phanes, but an embassy from Cambyses, the present king of
powerful
Persia, which is on its way hither.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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I
remember
how you stooped
to gather it--
and it flamed, the leaf and shoot
and the threads, yellow, yellow--
sheer till they burnt
to red-purple in the cup.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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e3) R [e3:
symbolum
"-m"?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Now we can see how Nietzsche
deviates
from his earlier insight vis-a-vis sub- jectivity and the metaphysics of volition.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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The little Shakspeare in the maiden's heart
Makes Romeo of a plough-boy on his cart;
Opens the eye to Virtue's
starlike
meed
And gives persuasion to a gentle deed.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Aye, you heap
On
baseness
loss.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Next, in what rare production shall we trace, Such various
subjects
in so small a space ?
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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Yet he paid his
addresses
to a young woman of Hampton Town, of a modest and
VOL.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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E altro disse, ma non l'ho a mente;
pero che l'occhio m'avea tutto tratto
ver' l'alta torre a la cima rovente,
dove in un punto furon dritte ratto
tre furie infernal di sangue tinte,
che membra feminine avieno e atto,
e con idre
verdissime
eran cinte;
serpentelli e ceraste avien per crine,
onde le fiere tempie erano avvinte.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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In an
extremely
acute, though not hyper-sympathetic estimate
of Macaulay's literary qualities, J.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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On a gold and silver saddle,
And Hu the True-Taoist drew us with his pipe playing, Making
unearthly
music out of the high tower, Strange sounds of the mating phoenix.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them imprisoned in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves,
sounding
out magic words, so they themselves are immortal.
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Appoloinaire |
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See a valuable little book,
entitled
" An Address to Seamen, by the late
lamented Dr.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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The
creatures
pass to the sounds
Of my tortoise, and the songs I sing.
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Appoloinaire |
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And what
provinces
they were!
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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A man is worthy to possess a thing or a state when his
possession
of
it is in harmony with the summum bonum.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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There is nothing
to choose between the
subjects
of the two poems.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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’
They went in, Westfield
remarking
in his gloomy voice, ‘Lead on, Macduff.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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hwylc
since fāhne, hē þæt
syððan
.
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Beowulf |
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ru) and
Evraziia
(www.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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"
And the worthy fellow
returned
the watch to its fob with a defiant
gesture.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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LIV
After came Eustace, well esteemed man
For Godfrey's sake his brother, and his own;
The King of Norway's heir Gernando than,
Proud of his father's title, sceptre, crown;
Roger of Balnavill, and Engerlan,
For hardy knights
approved
were and known;
Besides were numbered in that warlike train
Rambald, Gentonio, and the Gerrards twain.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The
greatest
masters of propaganda of our time were Lenin and Hitler.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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We pass thru a door leading onto the ledge--
Wind, night and space
Oh
terrible
height
Why have we sought you?
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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And if any nation,
especially
in England, they should
oil so agree, to a man, I would allow it to be the voice of God indeed !
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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, AND PANJAB
three-fourths of their
respective
areas.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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He knew by this experience
how the free strong man, to whom all
artistic
culture
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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What interests me above all is the
condition
of
be worth doing.
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Samuel Beckett |
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He vigorously
sustained
the evangelical
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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) người xã Vĩnh Kỳ huyện Từ Liêm (nay thuộc xã Tân Hội huyện Đan
Phượng
tỉnh Hà Tây).
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stella-03 |
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There are, however, certain
reasons which probably convert the supposed
advantage
into a very real
disadvantage.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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The principles on which Rome had
organized
the dependent lands in Italy, were in great part transferred also to the extra-Italian possessions.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Have you
understood
me?
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Trees shed their flowers, the peacock-dances ended,
The grasses dropped from mouths of feeding deer,
As if the
universal
forest blended
Its tears with hers, and shared her woeful fear.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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txt[3/29/23, 1:19:20 AM]
making this observation,
Nietzsche
was aware that he was speaking not of an arbitrary episode within the context of the history of Greek art but of an event that would prove fateful for all higher civilizing pro- cesses.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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Helpful in showing
physical
features.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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I am
delivered!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Ingeld's father, Froda, had been
slain by the Danes and he was constantly incited by an old
warrior to take
vengeance
on the son of the slayer.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
|
Over and
over there is a
reflection
of this life in that fanciful verse, which has
caught the color of the morning hours when the hedgerows are wet
and the grass dewy, when the wild roses scent the roadside and the
lark is at matins - verse full of the joy of life and the hope of youth.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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I will not here
enter on a demonstration to you of the
validity
of
my pretensions on Silesia, I took care to have it
established by my orators.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Others in tented fields rejoice,
Trumpets
and answering clarion-voice.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
614
From this tall cliff, whose rough
impending
brow
Frowns o'er the cataract that foams below,
I view the plain, where ma.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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So
dangerous
a contest would have dismayed any other than
Gustavus.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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To feel the presence of a brave commanding officer--to feel his
sympathy!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Other means of interpre-
tation than those contained in themselves seem to me inad-
missible in the case of these writers, and
particularly
in the
case of John.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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Provision
for removal
7.
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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It is true that the Thraco-Macedonian war had yielded a result not
directly
unfavourable, although far from corresponding to the considerable expenditure of men and money.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Who has seen the hun-
dred
thousand
grieved hearts from the Alps to the sea,
who, like a big, devout community, have pinned their
faith again to the splendour of the Fatherland?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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Thus, that if the _objective
reallity_ of any of my _Ideas_ be _such_, that it cannot be in me either
_formally_ or _eminently_, and that therefore I cannot be the _cause_
of _that Idea_, from hence it
necessarily
Follows, that _I alone_ do
not only _exist_, but that some other thing, which is _cause_ of that
_Idea_, does _exist also_.
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| Source: |
Descartes - Meditations |
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Yes, thou mayst
challenge!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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He was extraordinary
Ingenious
in his own Trade, and employed amongst great Persons for his Dexterity therein.
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| Source: |
Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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“You torture me,
Princess!
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| Question: |
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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The storm troopers acted as a pseudo-revolutionary force that appealed to mass grievances with a rhetorical
condemnation
of finance capital.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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El hecho de que la utilización de las capacidades racionales huma
nas siguiera sus propios caminos
desencadenó
una época glacial
atea, en la que la pregunta por el «cómo» de la supervivencia hu
mana hubo de plantearse de nuevo desde la base misma.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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"This was the production of a
solitary
forenoon's walk from Oughtertyre
House.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
AU JARDIN From Canzoni
YOU away high there,
you that lean From amber
lattices
upon the cobalt night,
1 am below amid the pine trees, Amid the little pine trees, hear me !
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| Source: |
Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Too soon, too dear did
Jephthah
buy,
By thy sad loss, our liberty;
His was the bond and cov'nant, yet
Thou paid'st the debt;
Lamented Maid!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
|
J'étais
accompagnée
de Petite
(c'était un surnom qu'on donnait à Mme d'Hunolstein parce qu'elle était
énorme).
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| Source: |
Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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), and Laertius
The descendants of
Aesculapius
were called by (i.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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The spiritual
nourishment
of the
people was myth and legend, born of old; some
>> Paraphrased quotation from A.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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tution, which
appeared
to threaten the position of foreign investors in Mexico, particularly in the oil and mining industries.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Revolution and War_nodrm |
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The
philologists
an
being crushed by the Greeks—perhaps we car
## p.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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"--and the good little medical man went
on to detail very minutely, the
proportions
of the fabric to which he
referred.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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He answered her he knew not what:
Like shaft from bow at random shot,
He spoke, but she
regarded
not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Havel assumed that most of those incarcerated under
communism
were victims of political repression and therefore deserved release.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
|
Then, 'twas before my time, the Roman
At yonder heaving hill would stare:
The blood that warms an English yeoman,
The
thoughts
that hurt him, they were there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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iv, 2, 28, uses
glaucae
certantia
Do b ride saxa, and Propertius, v (rv), 8, 10, writes cum temere
anguino creditur o^rl manus (Xeue-Wagener, Formenlehre, i 3 , 301).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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In Spain, the Jesuits were
exempted
from paying tithes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
|
41
royal prosecution can
scarcely
be imagined ; but the fact of the Prince having commenced an action for libel in such a case proves, if such proof were necessary, that his vanity was much greater than his discretion.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
|
Again what city
ever
received
Plato's or Aristotle's laws, or Socrates' precepts?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
|
The treatment West German
historiography
receives is, of course, almost entirely negative and comes exclusively from historians of the GDR.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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THE PENALTY
WILL
INCREASE
TO SO CENTS ON THE FOURTH
DAY AND TO $1.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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And if that prelats
grucchen
it, 6465
That oughten wroth be in hir wit,
To lese her fatte bestes so,
I shal yeve hem a stroke or two,
That they shal lesen with [the] force,
Ye, bothe hir mytre and hir croce.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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‘Gee’ is a curious word; conceivably it has arisen out of ‘gee’, meaning horse, in the
sense of
stalking
horse.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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Its value lies
in the fact that it is the completion of Krasinski's national,
religious and sociological theories, in which he shows us
sidelights of his
personal
life.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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And all the time we talked you seemed to see
Something
down there to smile at in the dust.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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, una
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joven perfectamente educada
conforme
a los ma?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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" cried Merlin,
transported
with joy.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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n at his bed-head and
recalled
Almighty God's name to his mind.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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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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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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