In his
commentary on Shakespeare he writes: "The all-pervading great-
ness of Shakespeare lies in his comprehension of the ethical order of
the world; his dramas are "the truest literary product of the time,
because the most perfect and concrete presentation of
realized
ration-
ality.
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Francois Duaren was also a pupil of Alciatus and a con-
temporary of Connon, dying in 1559, and in his Commentaries
on the 'Digest' we find some important
observations
on the
sources of law and the authority of the prince.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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_ If any Thing was to be given, your Hands would be ready to
receive it; but now there are a great many
Difficulties
in the Way, when
something is to be paid.
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Erasmus |
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In the London Magazine the speeches were
given, the speakers
enjoying
Roman appellations.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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Some Egyptian royal love-lilt, 5
Some
Sidonian
refrain,
Vows of Paphos or of Tyre,
Mount against the silver sun.
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Sappho |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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_insert_
that
_after_ thus, _except_ Sh.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Frank's father and
mother
continued
in the mean time
quite silent.
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Childrens - Frank |
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I said; this is what Critias, or some
philosopher
has
told you.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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After all, the systems theoreticians and
maintenance
strategistsare beyond naive belief from the start.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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SLOTERDIJK: The answer is self-evident,
considering
the hap- hazard catch-up dynamic of the new EU states.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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There they cast away their small anchorstone by the advice of Tiphys and left it beneath a fountain, the fountain of Artaeie; and they took another meet for their purpose, a heavy one; but the first, according to the oracle of the Far-Darter, the Ionians, sons of Neleus, in after days laid to be a sacred stone, as was right, in the temple of
Jasonian
Athena.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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No single individual has been as comprehensively canonized in any national literature as William
Shakespeare
and his oeuvre in the Anglosphere have been.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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You must tame your own shortcomings and
cultivate
impartial pure perception, for a biased attitude will not let you shoulder the Mahayana teachings.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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Las naturalezas
femeninas
son, sin excepcio?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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245
Haste, haste, O AElla, to the byker flie,
For yn a momentes space tenne
thousand
menne maie die.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I fear no more the dust and heat,
No more I feel fatigue,
While journeying with another's feet
O'er many a
lengthening
league.
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Longfellow |
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She longed to know the meaning of
physical
love, but also she dreaded it.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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1'ze-kung said : A
superior
man's errors are like sOlar and lunar eclipses, when he goes wrong everyone sees it, when he comes back to course again all lift their faces.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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Allein mit der blossen
Beobachtung
war es bei Wei-
ninger nicht abgetan.
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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It is said in the Hundred Verses on Discriminative
Awareness
(Prajiia- satakanamaprakara7Ja, T 4328):
If human traditions are well practised,
Progress to the god realms is not far distant.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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Baptism, instead
of being
dispensed
to all, as in the churches of Rome and Eng-
land, was limited, as a special privilege, to church members and
their "infant seed.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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The hero stood
Adverse, with planted feet, and, from the mght, Tugg'd at the sohd stone with all his might Thus hear'd, the fix'd foundations of the rock Gave way; heav'n echo'd at the
rattling
shock.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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And at last when she rose to go,
The light was a little dim,
And I
ventured
to peep, and so
I saw her, graceful and slim,
And she kissed him and kissed him, and oh
How I envied and envied him!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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SAVED BY THE VESTALS
Plutarch writes that, should a Vestal Virgin have a chance encounter with a condemned criminal on his way to execution, the criminal's life would
automatically
be spared.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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reported to him they sounded
credible
enough, especially
as various officers of the insurgent army, and Perpenna in particular, had submitted with reluctance to the supremacy
;
in
it
a
by ;
it
a
it,
Assassina tion of Sertorius.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Antonius ordered his men to bring fire and apply it
to the most beautiful of the buildings outside the walls, hoping that
the loss of their
property
might induce the citizens to turn traitor.
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Tacitus |
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" The realist (der Realo) is the one who concedes that
everything
in need of improvement needs time—and which things are not in need of improvement?
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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This terrorism of the
atmosphere
is to be understood as a human-made form of quake that turns the enemy's environment into a weapon against them.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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It has caused too much stir to be allowed,
And already the King its end has vowed;
You know my soul,
sensitive
to your pain,
Will work to quench it at its source again.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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A witness of the
pomps of Holy Week in the metropolis of
Catholicism, he was
profoundly
impressed
by it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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Breaking
the narrow prayers that may
Befit your narrow hearts, away
In His broad, loving will.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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A wild story of
struggle
for faith and freedom in the Balkan penin-
sula.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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some hag of hell,
Raving a
truceless
curse upon her kin?
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Aeschylus |
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The officers have got such a habit of
negligence, and the soldiers so loose and disorderly, that it
is next to impossible to give it a
military
complexion.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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36 The third is the position that
Tsongkhapa
attributes to "those professing to be present-day Prasangikas" (da ita dbu rna thaI 'gyur bar 'dod pa).
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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32
Such philosophical "naivety" is also closely related to epistemological scepticism, one of the two principal sources of anti-rationalism in Tibet (the other being the over-emphasis on the mystical
perspectives
of Tantra).
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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—The virtues of
a man are called good, not in respect of the results
they have for himself, but in respect of the results
which we expect
therefrom
for ourselves and for
society:—we have all along had very little unselfish-
ness, very little "non-egoism " in our praise of the
virtues!
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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"
When Bion was
attacking
the soothsayers with great perseverance, he said that he was killing the dead over again.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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This is understandable when the
following
(injunction) is
?
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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Once a
youthful
pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the curtains of the night.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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If for two hundred, these twelve
trierarchs
must provide two
ships; if for three hundred, three.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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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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The milk that first
presents
itself becomes
as hard as stone when it clots; this result ensues unless it be
previously diluted with water.
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Aristotle |
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Yet Krasinski himself was a son of one of the
most courageous races in Europe, and when he wrote
The Undivine Comedy the spectacle was still recent
of Polish men and women
shedding
their life-blood,
parting with every joy in life, for their country's sake.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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What, to them, are men chosen from
among themselves—although they may be the
most expert specialists—as
compared
with the
brilliant conquerors, or ancient and magnificent
princely houses!
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Above all the problem, that here
there is a problem before us,—and that, so long
as we have no answer to the
question
" what is
Dionysian?
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it
universally
accessible and useful.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Ce fut elle-même qui demanda à la duchesse de me
«représenter»
à
elle.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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) hiệu là Tùng Khê và tự là Quân Trù ,
người
xã Phù Lương huyện Võ Giàng (nay thuộc huyện Quế Võ tỉnh Bắc Ninh).
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stella-02 |
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Important
things, and there are many of them, remain to be done, but they all rest with you three.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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It is said that one day a friend read to the poet some verses from the
Star,
composed
on the pattern of Pope's song, by a Person of Quality.
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Robert Forst |
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—Moreover, almost all music has a magical
effect only when we hear it speak the
language
of
our own j>ast.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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Methinks
my life is a twice-written scroll
Scrawled over on some boyish holiday
With idle songs for pipe and virelay,
Which do but mar the secret of the whole.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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Was this Parsifal really meant
seriously "i One might be tempted to suppose
the contrary, even to wish it — that the Wagner-
ian Parsifal was meant joyously, like a concluding
play of a trilogy or satyric drama, in which
Wagner the tragedian wished to take farewell of
us, of himself, above all of tragedy, and to do so in
a manner that should be quite fitting and worthy,
that is, with an excess of the most extreme and
flippant
parody of the tragic itself, of the ghastly
earthly seriousness and earthly woe of old — a
parody of that most crude phase in the unnatural-
ness of the ascetic ideal, that had at length been
overcome.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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912a4,
mentions
ten reasons.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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Far as Creation's ample range extends,
The scale of sensual, mental pow'rs ascends:
Mark how it mounts, to Man's imperial race,
From the green myriads in the peopled grass: 210
What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme,
The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam:
Of smell, the
headlong
lioness between,
And hound sagacious on the tainted green:
Of hearing, from the life that fills the Flood, 215
To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood:
The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
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Alexander Pope |
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Même elle donnait une importance particulière
à l'S, et en faisait une sorte de longue queue qui venait barrer le G,
mais qu'on sentait transitoire et
destinée
à disparaître comme celle
qui, encore longue chez le singe, n'existe plus chez l'homme.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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Sau khi
truyền
lô yết bảng, lại cho dựng đá đề danh để truyền lại lâu dài.
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stella-01 |
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, "it's in the past now and I've nearly
forgotten
about
it, but at the time it made me furious.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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Development of a false sense of
security
through a deceptive change in Soviet tactics.
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| Source: |
NSC-68 |
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Ambrosia
was the food of the gods.
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Ronsard |
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Commagene
and Judaea were left under his control.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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Refusing to do so, he was consigned to a dark and
loathsome
prison, where he was loaded with chains, and left without food for several days and nights.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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Personal
animosity
is at the bottom of this.
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| Source: |
Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Much less may
they presume to lay hands on the sails, the
strength
of which is
neither greater nor less than as the wind is, which drives them round.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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All but
one member of the commission favored (1), the
literacy
test, as the most
feasible single method of restricting undesirable immigration, and it
was enacted into law by Congress, which passed it over President
Wilson's veto, in February, 1917.
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| Source: |
Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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_405
Man, where the gloom of the long polar night
Lowered o'er the snow-clad rocks and frozen soil,
Where scarce the hardiest herb that braves the frost
Basked in the moonlight's ineffectual glow,
Shrank with the plants, and darkened with the night; _410
Nor where the tropics bound the realms of day
With a broad belt of
mingling
cloud and flame,
Where blue mists through the unmoving atmosphere
Scattered the seeds of pestilence, and fed
Unnatural vegetation, where the land _415
Teemed with all earthquake, tempest and disease,
Was man a nobler being; slavery
Had crushed him to his country's blood-stained dust.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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I have
heard of a
faithful
performance.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Benedik:
"The divorce peril, the race-suicide evil, the greed for ill-gotten
gold, things like these the
reformers
touch not.
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| Source: |
Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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Indeed, it was so very
beautiful
that the other
animals were almost afraid to try their voices after-
ward.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Brownies |
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'
Saxonstowe felt
tolerably
certain of what any man would say under the circumstances alluded to by Lady Firmanence, but as she seemed highly delighted with her similes and her epigrams, he said nothing of his convic- tions, and soon afterwards took his departure^
the upsetting happened.
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| Source: |
Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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If I could flatter myself that this Essay has any merit, it is in
steering betwixt the extremes of
doctrines
seemingly opposite, in passing
over terms utterly unintelligible, and in forming a temperate yet not
inconsistent, and a short yet not imperfect system of Ethics.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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" He felt a
slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back
towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found
where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little
white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried
to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back
because as soon as he touched it he was
overcome
by a cold shudder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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Here is disease, undubitably, the most ghastly
disease that has as yet played havoc among men :
and he who can still hear (but man turns now
deaf ears to such sounds), how in this night of
torment and nonsense there has rung out the cry
of love, the cry of the most passionate ecstasy, of
redemption
in love, he turns away gripped by an
invincible horror — in man there is so much that
is ghastly — too long has the world been a mad-
house.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
|
Already it is customary among the more soft-boiled
intellectuals
of the Left to
declare that if we fight against the Nazis we shall “go Nazi” ourselves.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell |
|
Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the
publisher
to a library and finally to you.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
|
TAGS
ianslator's
Introduction
.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
|
Great Diomed himself was seized with fear,
And thus bespoke his brother of the war:
"Mark how this way yon bending
squadrons
yield!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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For soon as ever thy planning thought that sprang
From god-like mind begins its loud proclaim
Of nature's courses, terrors of the brain
Asunder flee, the ramparts of the world
Dispart away, and through the void entire
I see the
movements
of the universe.
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" Without our doing
anything
about it and, indeed, without our be- ing able to do anything about it, growth simply happens.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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fico pero
igualmente
atendible" {Notas sobre la experiencia poe?
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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I could hear
children’s
voices.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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The lyric
art of our poetess
consists
not only of the characteris-
tics of epic poetry, but also possesses a finished dramatic
turn.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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I think you are
behaving
in the most
horrible way.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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She will tell you who made the
widow pregnant--in what month it was--in what
language
and manner
each act of love takes place.
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Satires |
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--Ozomulsion builds up the tissues, imparts vigor, aids the natural re-
sistance
of the body, etc.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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The morning
hour is late, the bird sings in weary notes, _neem_ leaves
rustle
overhead
and I sit and think and think.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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He also
received a
blessing
from St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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And a gold comb, and girdle,
And
trinkets
of white silver,
And gems are in my sea-chest,
Lest poor and empty-handed
Thy lover should return.
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Sappho |
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Coleridge said the
Eudemian
Ethics; but I half suspect he must have
meant the Metaphysics, although I do not know that _all_ the fourteen books
under that title have been considered non-genuine.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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If she looks upon the hedge or up the leafing tree,
The
whitethorn
or the brown oak are made dearer things to me.
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John Clare |
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Boethus of Sidon in the first book of his "On Aratus" says that he
imitated
Homerus rather than Hesiodus; for Aratus is much grander than Hesiodus in his style of writing.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it
therefore
the less _gone_?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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These were the
thoughts
which mingled with the dry, heavy dejection of
the melancholy winter of 1826-7.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Then for the several degrees of subordinate members requisite to such a body, there can be no want; for although we have not one masterly poet, yet we abound with wardens and beadles, having a multitude of poetasters, poetitoes, parcel-poets, poet-apes, and philo-poets, and many of inferior
attainments
in wit, but strong inclinations to it, which are by odds more than all the rest.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Perhaps they carried some Madonna by
With tossing ensigns in a sea of flowers,
A painted Virgin with a painted Child,
Who saw for once the
sweetness
of the sun
Before they shut her in an altar-niche
Where tapers smoke against the windy gloom.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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