And a Httle lower down
he says: "It was betrayed now in confident brag-
ging, in the thousand satirical anecdotes of Im-
perial stupidity and
Prussian
Hussar strategisms.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Iridion
H3
Where, oh, Rome [continues the prologue], are the forms
which of old so proudly and
superbly
trod thy seven hills?
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Of course, a
great deal of it was due to their stupidity, to the bad
examples
with
which they had always been surrounded in their childhood and boyhood.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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Now bright sunbeams were
reflected
in the weapons of the
approaching host, and darted from the cloud of dust like light-
ning from a stormy sky.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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343-
Real and
Personal
Estate.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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I am the poor
Chiffonier!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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Churchill
sees the end of monopoly and privilege, or at least a shift when the war ends, no matter HOW.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Modern poetry owes much both to
Meredith
and Mr.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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Haven't you heard, though,
About the ships where war has found them out
At sea, about the towns where war has come
Through opening clouds at night with droning speed
Further o'erhead than all but stars and angels,--
And
children
in the ships and in the towns?
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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But if he's forgotten his
faithfullest
Nannie,
O still flow between us, thou wide roaring main;
May I never see it, may I never trow it,
But, dying, believe that my Willie's my ain!
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burns |
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And she rules her anger even
when the eunuch of King
Artaxerxes
makes insulting proposals to her by
remembering that she had been well brought up and as a Greek taught
self-control.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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Inreferencetoherthepopulartraditionsbecomingobscure, she is thought to have been
regarded
as one of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
|
Dorothy Lazecka, a poor
girl, was
absurdly
accused of obtaining the
host at communion, and afterwards selling it
to Jews who pierced it with needles, and ob-
tained some blood from it.
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Source: |
Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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The highest satisfaction is granted from the destruction of the
bourgeois
character.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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to Anspach, note 200, Philip, the governor of Pushkala,
not=Philip
the
satrap.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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Arme, Arme, and out,
If this which he auouches, do's appeare,
There is nor flying hence, nor
tarrying
here.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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He was
appointed
phy-
sician of the great hospital of Lyons in 1532, and exercised that
function until February 1534.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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We greet
The first bright
wreathing
storm of snow
Which falls in starry flakes below.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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At the Prisons Congress of Stockholm the
following
figures were
given for Scotland.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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) These opinions are promulgated among
the vulgar, but they who have been initiated in the mysteries, call
the earth Isis,[2] the river Osiris,
substituting
words for things.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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This Wagner letter is
included
in
the volume of Crepet; but there are no letters published from Baudelaire
to Franz Liszt, though they were friends.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
|
The course of events in Bengal during the period of its depen-
dence on Delhi, which was its normal
condition
until 1338, has
already been traced.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
|
)
In spite of fortune, cropped contentment's
sweetest
flowers,
And yet unscornèd, serve a gentle nymph, the fairest she,
That ever was beloved of man, or eyes did ever see!
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William Browne |
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these gray stones--are they all--
All of the famed, and the colossal left
By the
corrosive
Hours to Fate and me?
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Poe - 5 |
|
7 Thus, humanism, in its double dependency on uni- versities and printers "thought"
somewhat
naively it could "tell heaven from hell.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
|
For the
inclinations
change, they grow with the indulgence shown them, and always leave behind a still greater void than we had thought to fill.
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Source: |
The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
|
Unto
Gilgamish
king of Erech of the wide places
open, addressing thy speech
as unto a husband.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Because one simply cannot imagine tsarist Russia adopting such a policy or having the same impact on the other great powers, we may safely infer that tlne revolution was
responsible for the intense suspicions that
characterized
Soviet foreign relations after 1918.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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"
"If you please, sir, I am very fond of flowers,"
returned
the
girl.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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Samsa appeared in his
uniform with his wife on one arm and his
daughter
on the other.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
|
It had not re-
ceived his final corrections, and he was unwilling that
it should go down to
posterity
less perfect than he
could have made it.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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_Grosart_]
[74 (For loe I
dreampt)
_H39 and Grosart_]
[75 Heaven] O Heaven _A10_]
_An Elegie to M^{ris} Boulstred_: 1602.
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Donne - 1 |
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138), who observes that these excesses usually came at the climax of the capture of a
fortified
post or city.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
|
"
" Your
ancestors
were robbers!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
|
Sometimes
he stood up for
exercise.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
|
Or suppose a man
sneers and jeers or shows a
malignant
temper?
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Epictetus |
|
In a word it may be said that neither in the king's
treasury
nor in any other, were there any works which equalled these in costliness or in artistic skill.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
|
This
auxiliary
may be said to be now at an end.
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Source: |
Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
|
Mist and Rain
Late autumns, winters, spring-times steeped in mud,
anaesthetizing
seasons!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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But at last I heard him taxing
his man with stealing from him, like a rogue as he was, the better half of
a large leathern bag of an
excellent
southerly wind, which he had carefully
laid up, like a hidden reserve, against the cold weather.
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Source: |
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
|
It led the way
to the
universal
subjectivism of the Sophists.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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This
universal
genius, who during forty years was the speaking-trumpet of
Christendom, was also the man of one special century and country.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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The mentioned writing-down-system is extraordinarily
difficult
to explain to other people even vaguely.
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Source: |
KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Woldemar feels a warm friendship for a
person who will not marry him, although
she
partakes
of his feeling: he marries a
?
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Source: |
Madame de Stael - Germany |
|
Like many imaginative persons, she
fond of carrying on serial inventions in which
repressed
fancies
found expression.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
|
The mass meeting of
September 19 adopted a comprehensive agreement, pat-
terned after that of South
Carolina
of July 20 and 22.
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Source: |
Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
|
You bewitched the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was
festering
in your blood.
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Ronsard |
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impudence
elevates itself to the level of a ?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
|
Nevertheless, I
have a very reprehensible way of jesting at times in the midst of my own
misery; and unless when I am checked by some more
powerful
feelings, I am
afraid I shall be guilty of this indecent practice even in these annals
of suffering or enjoyment.
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Source: |
De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
|
HUBBARD,
Teacher of a
Classical
School, Boston.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
|
Dorothy Lazecka, a poor
girl, was
absurdly
accused of obtaining the
host at communion, and afterwards selling it
to Jews who pierced it with needles, and ob-
tained some blood from it.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
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Source: |
Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
|
Bauer and
Kallmann
were re- sisting Benet's authority, which was declining; Vechten agreed more with them than with Benet, and his own leadership developed aided by their support.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
|
In it are to be found all the familiar
Bowlbian
themes--theoretical, etiological, methodological, clinical, and political.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
|
You could go
wherever
you liked in the woods in those days.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
|
What has
happened
to high technology since the end of World War II must be conceptualized as a recursion of much older stories so that universities will be able to reform themselves.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
|
* You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word
processing
or hypertext form.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
-We
know that pain is
projected
into a certain part
of the body although it is not really situated
there; we have learnt that all sensations which
were ingenuously supposed to be conditioned by
the outer world are, as a matter of fact, conditioned
by the inner world: that the real action of the
outer world never takes place in a way of which
we can become conscious.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
|
It takes up a question, and argues it _pro_ and _con_ with
great
knowledge
and boldness and skill; it points out an absurdity, and
runs it down, fairly, and according to the evidence adduced.
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Source: |
Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
|
"90 These ideas permeated travel
literature
and the missionary Relations, which Jesuit colle`ges pressed on their students.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
|
But, Nora, how could you
possibly
do it?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
|
I found him no longer
speaking
epigrammatic pidgin English but a nearly perfect American.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
|
This
statement
needs qualifying, perhaps.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Orwell |
|
It is on this foundation that tragedy grew up, and
so it could of course dispense from the very first
with a painful
portrayal
of reality.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
|
That is how capi- talist
earnings
are generated.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
|
Was ist schön an einem Mann,
welches Gott nicht dir
beschied!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
|
The wanton and savage
treatment
of the unfor
it
!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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Indeed, their
actions are most easily
explained
if one assumes that they were acting on several
contradictory motives.
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Source: |
Orwell |
|
'Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's rest
A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest;
The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash
Strikes, and
prepares
it for another Guest.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
There WAS the
militarist
Germany of the Kaiser, there was the Germany of Mr.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
|
Is there a
separation
of powers in State Governments as
there is in the National Government?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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" [At the moment of
agreeable
sensation, the anuiaya of desire (rdga) is in the process of arising, utpadyate; it has not yet arisen, utpanna.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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(13) This is poisoning (Vergiftung),
literally
as well as figuratively.
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Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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Insulsissimus est homo; nec sapit pueri instar
Bimuli, tremula patris
dormientis
in ulna.
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Source: |
Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
|
It is safest, therefore, to follow his counsel, and
to gain as quickly as
possible
the nearest quarters.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
|
those less imperious voices, hands
Not half so cruel as thine, those
earthlier
forms!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
And
unreluctant
Hermes 15
Shall give me words to say.
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Source: |
Sappho |
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She was full of
anxieties
for his future.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
|
It was a
concert for the benefit of a person
patronised
by Lady Dalrymple.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Austen - Persuasion |
|
Hiera kala: Images of animal sacrifice in archaic and
classical
Greece.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
|
After Ch'u Yuan
I WILL get me to the wood
Where the gods walk
garlanded
in wistaria, By the silver blue flood
move others with ivory cars.
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
|
of nequis,) [12, 27], profes-
tus [11, 3, 40,] judex [13, 3], erumpere [11, 3, 24, 28],
attiglt [3, 6, 31], monimentis [5, 5, 3, 38],
movendus
[5,
-- fr.
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Source: |
Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
|
The momentum of such claims was
hindered
solely by the fact that the lost war and the victors' dictatorship in peacetime, as well as the disappointed revolution, put this nationalist offer of meaning into question.
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Source: |
Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
|
It is a fair
question
to ask what part of him- sclf can thus resist.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
|
The wings had been made for the two of them by his father Daedalus, who buried him on the island (See Ovid,
Metamorphoses
VIII 195).
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Source: |
Demosthenes - Against Midias |
|
For the Good ofOthers
Dangers of Preaching
"JUST AS A BIRD WITH
UNFLEDGED
WINGS
CANNOT FLY UP INTO THE SKY,
SO WITHOUT THE SUPERKNOWLEDGES' POWER,
ONE CANNOT WORK FOR THE GOOD OF OTHERS.
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brda |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
|
" She gave him credit for her-hav- ing been a much improved person duringtheir embraces, and was probably also
thinking
that he would have to introduce her to his new social Circle at the next charity affair.
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Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
|
Certainly, the crucial role played by this small group of
American
Japanophiles had not been forgotten by the Japanese; in the words of Prof.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
|
BATTUS (in mock-heroic strain)
[55] O what a little tiny wound to
overmaster
so mighty a man!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Theocritus - Idylls |
|
But a reflection arises here, that a like
majority
with that which enacted this law, may at any moment repeal it.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
|
Have I, in silent wonder, seen such things
As pride in slaves, and avarice in kings;
And at a peer, or peeress, shall I fret,
Who starves a sister, or
forswears
a debt?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
This glory of God the heavens declare, and the
firmament
sheweth the works of His hands.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
|
Except for a few poets like Keats and
Wordsworth
he thinks the
modem world — and from his point of view the modern world is the last two thousand
years — just oughtn’t to have happened.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
|
Kohlhaas could not
understand
anything else.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Orwell - 1984 |
|
Also
I have
verified
the bill from the shop in Gorokhovaia Street.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
|
Of these, Julianus, when an attack
breached
his walls, threw himself into a fire.
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"The fall," and the strange polysyllable
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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If you are
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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Night coming on, Adam and Eve
discourse
of going to thir rest: thir
Bower describ'd; thir Evening worship.
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