But in
reality it was not so There were several things from which she derived acute
and
inexhaustible
pleasure.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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D'Aubigne thus
estimates
him: "A Lasco
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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had it been thy lot,
T'have heard in time of this Venetian plot,
Thou surely chosen hadst one king from thence,
And
honoured
them, as thou hast England since.
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Thomas Otway |
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The song, too, addressed to Agemon of Corinth, the father of Alcyone, which the
Corinthians
sang, contains the refrain of the paean.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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They mustmake clear by theirexample on all occasions that,the "peace
forinstancecannotindeed be solved but must question" scientifically; they
showthatit can be
discussedin
a scientificspirit.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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Elles
avaient fui depuis longtemps que j’étais encore à
interroger
vainement
les chemins désertés.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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This state of relative inactivity persisted throughout the remaining days of separation for all four infants:
-66-
'In general, the infants'
behaviour
during the mother's absence can only be described as depressed.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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The Berlin wall which separated psychoanalysis from the superficiality but also the stimulus of other
disciplines
has come down.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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Above and beyond that, his work was composed at the behest of many
incomparable
spiritual benefactors.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:09 GMT / http://hdl.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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If the notes are to be payable in coin, the land must first be
converted
into it, by sale' or mortgage.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lamia, by John Keats
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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Keats - Lamia |
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A doctor
who
attended
one such discussion shortly after the opening of the
clinic in Holloway told me that, while there was division of opinion on
the general subject, the feeling of the meeting was overwhelming
against the particular teaching given at the clinic, as undesirable and
actively mischievous.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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Few--none--find what they love or could have loved:
Though accident, blind contact, and the strong
Necessity of loving, have removed
Antipathies--but to recur, ere long,
Envenomed
with irrevocable wrong;
And Circumstance, that unspiritual god
And miscreator, makes and helps along
Our coming evils with a crutch-like rod,
Whose touch turns hope to dust--the dust we all have trod.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The
467
Sutra says, "Oh
Vyaghrabodhayanas!
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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Here you'll see
decrepit
old fellows acting the
parts of young men, neither troubled at their costs, nor wearied with
their labors, nor discouraged at anything, so they may have the liberty
of turning laws, religion, peace, and all things else quite topsy-turvy.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Just as a landscape does not consist simply of its grass and the colour of its foliage, but is distinguished by its
outlines
and the slope of the ground, so the Chinese literally construct their gardens with stones.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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The nationality policy of the Soviets is probably their
most significant contribution to statecraft, and is the area in
which they have
outstripped
other multi-national states.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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Hard fighting gets no reward or praise;
Steadfastness
and truth cannot be rightly known.
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Li Po |
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At length it comes among the forest oaks,
With sobbing ebbs, and uproar
gathering
high;
The scared, hoarse raven on its cradle croaks,
And stockdove-flocks in hurried terrors fly,
While the blue hawk hangs oer them in the sky.
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John Clare |
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VIELE-GRIFFIN
Two men, half-Americans, Viele-Griffin and Stuart Merril, won for
themselves
places among the recent French poets.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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And in death he shall be garlanded as a seer by the
Eurytanian
folk and by the dweller in the steep abode of Trampya, wherein one day hereafter the Tymphaean dragon, even the king of the Aethices, shall at a feast destroy Heracles sprung from the seed of Aeacus and Perseus and no stranger to the blood of Temenus.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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For although the Lacedae-
monians pretended a voluntary
generosity
in this
affair, yet it appeared by the consequence that fear
only had obliged them to it; as they took an op-
portunity, seme time after, to oppress Thebes,
though expressly comprehended in the treaty.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could
scarcely
cry 'Weep!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Google
requests
that the images and OCR not be re-hosted, redistributed or used commercially.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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Whether he had felt more of pain or of
pleasure
in
seeing her she could not tell, but he certainly had not seen her with
composure.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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For induction is an argument, which by means of some admitted truths establishes naturally other truths which
resemble
them.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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But this secondary interpretation of the dream had been effected
only under the
influence
of the developed anxiety.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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Despite living in the same world (there is no other), viewers are not
expected
to join in any consensus of opinion.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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Tho' blotch'd an' foul wi' mony a stain,
An' far unworthy of thy train,
With
trembling
voice I tune my strain
To join with those,
Who boldly daur thy cause maintain
In spite o' foes:
In spite o' crowds, in spite o' mobs,
In spite of undermining jobs,
In spite o' dark banditti stabs
At worth an' merit,
By scoundrels, even wi' holy robes,
But hellish spirit.
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Robert Burns- |
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9741 (#149) ###########################################
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9741
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about the decks, the working of the chain pumps, and the creak-
ing and
groaning
of the timbers, I thought that we must inevi-
tably have been lost; and I said my prayers at least a dozen times
during the night, for I felt it impossible to go to bed.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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In
the case of oil, the taxable unit was often arrived at by counting the
number of olive trees; and this was
sometimes
the case with vines.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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I
consider
Amelia as the most diffi-
cult character in the whole piece.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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It has led
Individualism
entirely astray.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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He
crouched
down between the sheets, glad of their tepid glow.
| Guess: |
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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I have seen better faces in my time
Than stands on any
shoulder
that I see
Before me at this instant.
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Shakespeare |
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It is not by accident that the
masterminds
who
helped to prepare the way for the nation-state, most importantly Machia-
velli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Smith, Hamilton, and Hegel, turned their atten-
tion again to the human being as the bearer of valuing passions.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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heedless
how the weak are strong,
Say, was it just,
In thee to frame, in me to trust,
Thou to the Syrian couldst belong?
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Emerson - Poems |
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) is
supported
by good less in 18 ?
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| Question: |
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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impermanence, and a
mistaken
belief in a self, and making them want to reach nirvana.
| Guess: |
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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So I brushed up myself and walked down to the river's bank, where the
man was pointed out to me standing on board of his raft, I approached
him, and after passing the usual compliments I said:
"Sir, I understand that you wish to
purchase
a lot of servants and I
have called to know if it is so.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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It’s hard to explain—ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody’s
favoring
Negroes over and above themselves.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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or are Thy bones
Still
straitened
in their rock-hewn sepulchre?
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Wilde - Charmides |
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I hope to be at least a month with my friends, and to gain peace and
balance, and a less
troubled
heart, and a sweeter mood.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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Besides ministering at the altar, and directing all
religious
duties, they presided over the education of youth; they possessed both the civil and criminal jurisdiction; they decided all controversies among states as well as among private persons, and whoever refused to submit to their decree was exposed to the most severe penalties.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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This poem is
translated
into
English prose, and it had considerable effect on modern literature.
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
|
"Lewti" is a sort of
preliminary
study for "Kubla Khan"; it, too, has all
the imagery of a dream, with a breathlessness and awed hush, as of one not
yet accustomed to be at home in dreams.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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All fierce, and ready now the prize to gain,
Unhappy Ajax
stumbles
on the plain
(O'erturn'd by Pallas), where the slippery shore
Was clogg'd with slimy dung and mingled gore.
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Iliad - Pope |
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A chronic energy shortage and near 15 percent
inflation
erode private investment and another flooding bout may keep GDP growth at 3 percent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Kleiman International |
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The
inhabitants
of the Tauric Chersonesus, who had been greatly harassed by a king of the neighbouring Scythians, had heard of Amage's fame, and they requested an alliance with her.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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This then is the nature of the truths uttered by
this one sane man in the whole of Europe at the end
of last century; and when, owing to his unequal
struggle against the overwhelming hostile forces of
his time, his highly sensitive personality was at last
forced to
surrender
itself to the enemy and become
one with them—that is to say, insane!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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As a boy I
didn’t
give either the house or the grounds a second look.
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| Source: |
Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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What might come as a surprising result is that ability of the aggressor to make probabilistic threats may dramatically increase her
bargaining
power.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Schwarz - Committments |
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ckung
des
Geschlechtlichen
und die Anlage dazu ko?
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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Do my sex the justice to admit, Senora, that we have always
recognized that the sex
relation
is not a personal or friendly relation
at all.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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Hail, happy
Scudére!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
|
8 Persian kings:
[p149] Cambyses, in the 5th year of his reign, ruled the
Egyptians
for 3 years
the magi, 7 months
Dareius, 36 years
Xerxes, the son of Dareius, 21 years
Artaxerxes, 40 years
Xerxes II, 2 months
Sogdianus, 7 months
Dareius, the son of Xerxes, 19 years
In total : 120 years and 4 months
28th Dynasty.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eusebius - Chronicles |
|
THE END OF
MARXISM?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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Brioc alone seemed
composed
in mind, and, by his prayers, he is said to have driven those monsters from the vessel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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[89] Imagine some artists, each skilled in
painting
just one part of the body so that one artist can draw, for example, the eyes; another can draw just the arms, another
just the hair, etc.
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| Question: |
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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-
Loosed on the flowers Siroces to my bane,
And the wild boar upon my crystal
springs!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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I used to be called
a
complete
lark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
|
His account of Jerusalem is fascinating, and he was one of the last travellers to visit the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre
before the damaging fire of 1808.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
|
" [67] The
imperative
proposition is a thing which we utter when we give an order, as for instance this: "Do you now go to the sweet stream of Inachus.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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In Sophistes 236 C, Plato
distinguishes
accordingly between eidolopoiike, eikastike, and phanstastike, while presupposing that art can never be beautiful if it trans- lates solely natural proportions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
|
is metrically, in the rhetorically
effective position of the stresses,
superior
to the shortened form of
the editions:
They'are ours, though not wee, wee are
l.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Donne - 2 |
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"
And
hoisting
up the horse from where he fell,
He said, "Now look if I the gout have got,
Orlando, in the legs-or if I have force; " —
And then he made two gambols with the horse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
|
No, not
like that' Do you think Oliver
Cromwell
would come slinking on like a dog
that’s just had a hiding?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
|
3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic
work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
|
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GUTENBERG
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***** This file should be named 2151-8.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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MAIR
The speaker is a slave appointed to watch
Cassandra
and report her prophecies.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lycophron - Alexandra |
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As it
produces
no
corn or fruits by cultivation, the inhabitants, a fierce
and warlike race of men, live on wild pears, apples,
and other things of that kind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
|
For tell me, if any one promised to teach thee
the healing art in a short space of time, without money or labor,
wouldst thou not think him a
benefactor?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
|
--
quattuor
with
double T: otherwise the A is short, as I have
shown in my " Latin Prosody.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
|
” The latter
would be
Nihilism—but
would not the former
## p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
|
Chapter 15
page 220, paragraph 2, line 10
Scepticism is sometimes expressed about whether a period in
hospital
or residential nursery has effects in the long term as well as the short.
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| Question: |
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Bowlby - Separation |
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In order to
transpose
the latent movements that occur around leg
joints, or degrees of freedom, into actual movements, the Weber brothers introduce two simple axioms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Drunken |
|
His
assumption
of this rdle
46
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Studies |
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The
liberties
of England, so far from decaying since the im-
provements in the arts, have never flourished so much as during
that period.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
|
A better explanation is already Implied by the fact that in the very beginning, experiments with the camera obscura could only be
conducted
in darkened yet otherwise normal-sized chambers or rooms, but they soon changed to become small, transportable boxes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
|
Three other
separate
stars, large and bright, at equal distance set on flank and shoulders, trace a square upon the Horse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aratus - Phaenomena |
|
From
Pericles
to Philip, p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
|
I don't know of any absolute
acquittals
but I do know of
many times when a judge has been influenced.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
|
Considered
by Poles a very fair
statement of the issues involved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
|
It is conceivable that such
a proposition might find supporters at a trying crisis,
and become a
powerful
party-cry.
| Guess: |
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By
this time the man out of the boat had
succeeded
in sliding along
the rope to where I stood, though the poor devil was nearly
drowned on the road; for when about half-way, the hull took in
a lump of swell which swept him right off his legs, and he was
swung hard a-starboard, holding on for his life.
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Wittgensteindoesnotinvestigatethemeaningofthis grammatical condition, and thus he does not bring out the moral and theological
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Demofthenes will affirm,,
that the
Commonwealth
has been fignally indebted to his Ser-
vices, and that I have injured her in a thoufand Inftances ; that
Philip and Alexander, and all the Calamities, they brought
upon the Republic, are to be imputed to me.
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He is quite agreeable enough, however, to afford me amusement,
and to make many of those hours pass very
pleasantly
which would
otherwise be spent in endeavouring to overcome my sister-in-law's
reserve, and listening to the insipid talk of her husband.
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67; and [elsewhere], one speaks of the
avijfiapti
as if one were speaking of the vijfiapti.
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As to my coming over with the late
Duke of Monmouth, was in Prosecution of the same Ends but the Lord in his Holy and wise Providence hath been pleased to blast all our
Undertakings
tho' there seemed to be a very unanimous and zealous .
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The first was of
my own nomination; his merits and qualifications
stood in equal balance with my knowledge of those
who might have been the
candidates
for the office;
but he was the father of the Rajah, and the affinity
sunk the scale wholly in his favor: for who could be
so fit to be intrusted with the charge of his son's interest, and the new credit of the rising family?
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The fastidious
descriptions
of the last century were a rejection of utility.
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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" Wright later said: "I would suppose that Trakl has had as much
influence
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(1983) Negotiating Peace: War Termination as a
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by bringing into focus the
composition
of place indicated in the first sen- tence of Finnegans Wake.
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This was his being
honored by a private
conversation
with his Majesty, in the
library at the Queen's house.
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