Within a cave
Young Chromis and
Mnasyllos
chanced to see
Silenus sleeping, flushed, as was his wont,
With wine of yesterday.
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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», il sentit l’odeur
du fer du coiffeur par lequel il se faisait relever sa «brosse»
pendant que
Lorédan
allait chercher la petite ouvrière, les pluies
d’orage qui tombèrent si souvent ce printemps-là, le retour glacial
dans sa victoria, au clair de lune, toutes les mailles d’habitudes
mentales, d’impressions saisonnières, de créations cutanées, qui
avaient étendu sur une suite de semaines un réseau uniforme dans
lequel son corps se trouvait repris.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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Whatsoever
I have, and whatsoever I can do, you may call as
much your own as any Thing that you have the best Title to.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Erasmus |
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I cannot properly
contradict
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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Lucian polished and rewrote in a fashion that was exasperating; his pubHsher, never suspecting that so many
alterations
would be made, had said nothing
and he of profits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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We may first consider the
narrative or
historical
portion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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they are both anti-moral phenomena^
Great men of action, then, must be
excluded
from the category of genius.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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The Pobble who has no toes
Was placed in a
friendly
Bark,
And they rowed him back, and carried him up
To his Aunt Jobiska's Park.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Assembly
of the Argonauts
3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
|
For if "our understanding is to content itself with the
perception
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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" Then he made
himself very slender little ladders and so
clambered
up towards heaven;
but he soon came hurtling down again and broke his head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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It was hopelessly injured,
his
governess
told him, as over and over again
she tried to make it go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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XXIV
If we were as intent upon our business as the old fellows at Rome are
upon what interests them, we too might perhaps
accomplish
something.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epictetus |
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And
dreadful
the blast of the trumpet.
| Guess: |
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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And if her heart was not at ease,
This was her
constant
cry--
"It was a wicked woman's curse--
God's good, and what care I?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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) and to subordinate pleasure to the ends for which
Nature
designed
us, as a handmaid and a minister, in order to call forth
our activity; in order to keep us constant to the path prescribed by
Nature.
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Epictetus |
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44 They asked
respondents
about their preferences in color, subject matter, composition, and style, and found considerable uniformity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
|
Flower in the
Leavesi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
|
" or "can the world be built outside of logic or as a list of
predicates
without any subject[s]?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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ficos, regiones
concretas
y el planeta Tierra como esferas del hogar al que pertenecemos; necesitamos estar arropados por contextos histo?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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”) The last rendering, however, seems to
be more in
accordance
with the adopted word “emanation,” i.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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Of the remainder I gave one quarter to Ann,
meaning on my return to have divided with her
whatever
might remain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
|
’
She threw her arm over her face and rolled over on her side, away from him,
suddenly
ashamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
|
L
_ Clunton and Clunbury,
Clungunford and Clun,
Are the
quietest
places
Under the sun.
| 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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It was a foreigner, a Dane,
who first showed sufficient keenness of instinct and
of courage to do this, and who
protested
indignantly
against my so-called friends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
|
If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
» Un instant auparavant on était prêt à aller dénoncer
l'erreur au
médecin
aliéniste.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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civilia rursus
bella tonant dubiumque quatit
discordia
mundum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
|
It is no idle question whether Plato,
had he
remained
free from the Socratic charm,
would not have discovered a still higher type of the
philosophic man, which type is for ever lost to us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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The road was
tannac, whereas in the old days it used to be macadam (I
remember
the bumpy feeling of
it under the bike), and it seemed to have got a lot wider.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
|
Was he not also of the
family of the
prophet?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
|
The Disraelian Novels are in my opinion the
best and only preparation for those amongst you
who" wish gradually to become
acquainted
with
the Nietzschean spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
|
There is no need to follow the
ordinary
custom of
not allowing the child to learn to read or write before the close of its
seventh year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
|
What do ye own, ye
niggards
!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
|
In all
shame there is a mystery, which seems desecrated or
in danger of
desecration
through us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
|
379
we are next to see in the times after the flood, and will jhorten the work, while we shall have little else now to do but to pursue the
threado£
history, without any interruption.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
|
What he says, and what he quotes, in this connection are valuable, but he is found to be
confining
himself to the quality of poetry ; it will also be found that there are but few of his remarks which might not be directly adapted to examples of the highest prose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v03 |
|
v) that which
belongs to a higher Order should not be
applicable
to a lower Order.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Summa Theologica |
|
The prolonged celibacy has in many armies led to a
higher incidence of venereal
diseases
which prolongs the celibacy and
lowers the birthrate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
|
ho is
Blennerhassett?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
|
Jameson's view is that, far from standing for the
ultimate
end of history, the rec- onciliation proposed at the end of the chapter on Spirit in Phenome- nology is a temporary fragile synthe- sis--Hegel himself was aware that this reconciliation is threatened, as is clear from his panicky reaction to the revolution of 1830 and the first signs of universal democracy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
|
Shulde be therfor fallen in despeyr,
Or be
recreaunt
for his owene tene,
Or sleen him-self, al be his lady fayr?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
There are no
capitalists
left.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
|
But then he was a sullen
464
CONTINUATION
OF THE LIFE OF
1661.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
|
What marvel, when at those sweet airs
The hundred-headed beast spell-bound
Each black ear droops, and Furies' hairs
Uncoil their
serpents
at the sound?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
»
Mme de
Guermantes
s'avança décidément vers la voiture et redit un
dernier adieu à Swann.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
|
Kane's first Grinnell
or sanitariums, in the high valleys; the Expedition voyage, which he made as
jungles with their
gigantic
trees and a surgeon under E.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
|
Dibdin's excellent songs, and the air to which it is sung
by the Boors is
remarkably
sweet and lively.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
|
This is ten thousand titles each to one hundred million readers,
which is only about 4% of the present number of
computer
users.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-11-14 09:39 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
|
Pero si los
círculos de purificación son los que humanamente tiene sentido re
correr, ¿por qué Dante se preocupa por descender hasta el fondo
del
infierno
absoluto?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
|
Besides these, we find
enumerated
Dunlaing,'"*
son to Tuathal, King of LifS, and Domhnall, son to Ferghall, King of Fortu- aith Laigen, as killed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
|
The old and the new confront each other, while 'Uberking Leary' (High King Lughaire,
pronounced
'Leary'- the monarch who reigned in Ireland when Patrick came) looks on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
re-joyce-a-burgess |
|
Doch den Tod bringt Alles dir,
wo dich dein
Verhängnis
zieht.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
|
Candide had brought such a valet with him from Cadiz, as one often meets
with on the coasts of Spain and in the
American
colonies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Candide by Voltaire |
|
If perhaps he be grown mad, and that thou
hast sent him hither to me for the better
recovery
and re-establishment of
his brain, grant me power and wisdom to bring him to the yoke of thy holy
will by good discipline.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
|
With that view alone he has visited all the courts and cities in Europe, and has been at more pains than I shall speak of, to take an exact draught of the
playhouse
at the Hague, as a model for a new one here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
|
He replied, "I am a poor,
ignorant
follow, bred to a mean
trade, yet I have sense enough to know that all pretences of foretelling
by astrology are deceits, for this manifest reason, because the wise and
the learned, who can only know whether there be any truth in this
science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none
but the poor ignorant vulgar give it any credit, and that only upon the
word of such silly wretches as I and my fellows, who can hardly write or
read.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
|
i;i*;i
iiiiziitit
i= iii:r
; il j ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
|
"The
Government
there borrow at 2 per cent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
|
Am I a
scoundrel?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The_satires_of_Persius |
|
Once to know the fight had not been in vain, And in life dead hope would arise and start—
Start and bring visions of thy lost face
Bring
ecstasies
we alone could share;
But the leaves are falling on that still place, And on my heart falls the old despair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
A feature of the book is a section dealing with the
influence of the philosophies of the East upon those of
the West, so far as materials are now
available
for our
guidance in this respect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
|
Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
|
The
daughter
of beauty wip'd her pitying tears with her white veil,
And said, Alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
From Yemen came a sturdy shepherd race,
Bronzed in the
fierceness
of the burning sun; --
The tribes of Fez, who deem it a disgrace
To spare or sympathize where gore-streams run;
From Mecca : from Medina -- hallow'd place !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
|
It is
from this point of view also that Aristotle treats the social problem of
the
existence
of a class whose whole life is spent in doing the hard
work of society, and thus setting the citizen body free to make the best
use it can of leisure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
|
See
the
distances
between those ugly louts!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Table Talk |
|
For
the question is only as to the determining
principle
of volition in
its maxims, namely, whether it is empirical, or is a conception of the
pure reason (having the legal character belonging to it in general),
and how it can be the latter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
|
Are thou not
ashamed?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Arthur
Dimmesdale
gazed into Hester's face with a look in which hope
and joy shone out, indeed, but with fear betwixt them, and a kind of
horror at her boldness, who had spoken what he vaguely hinted at, but
dared not speak.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
|
Hence the names Jove and Juno signify
princes; Ops and Saturn, old people; Phoebus
signifies
the young;
Mars, men of war; Pallas, the learned, and so on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
|
Into the earth for
safekeeping
the servant must bury the story,
Easing in this way the king: earth must conceal the tale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
For instance, one can first practice shamatha and then, once one has
achieved
mental calmness, proceed with vipashyana.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
|
Is this desirable or
undesirable?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
|
I used to labor, used to strive
For pleasure with a
restless
will:
Now if I save my soul alive,
All else what matters, good or ill?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
|
And just as
I'd taken the highest tree in the wood," continued the Pigeon, raising
its voice to a shriek, "and just as I was thinking I should be free of
them at last, they must needs come
wriggling
down from the sky!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
|
i;i*;i
iiiiziitit
i= iii:r ; il j ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
|
, upon this apparent truth (all these things do not exist: they are imaginary
syntheses
and entities), and we then projected the latter into and behind all things!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
|
Because this is so, everything that was held to be absolute now comes into a
relative
light.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
|
She does everything for
negative
reasons.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
|
Chattering at a neighbour's house,
She hears call out her frowning spouse;
Prepared to start, she soodles home,
Her
knitting
twisting oer her thumb,
As, both to leave, afraid to stay,
She bawls her story all the way;
The tale so fraught with 'ticing charms,
Her apron folded oer her arms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
But thejfaSst of
unfrjndness
those blossoms can blight--
Each charm, each per/ection can sfat//--
Make the sa>eef-smiling Loves and the Graces take
And ease the fond fool of his pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
|
He
subsequently
served as ambassador to Prussia and the United Kingdom, and was Minister of Foreign affairs from 1822 to 1824.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
|
-1400
Geoffrey
Chaucer,
Maréchal.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
|
It will mean cruel overwork, cold dull
winters,
uninteresting
food, lack of amusements, prolonged bombing.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Orwell |
|
In Paris, as chaplain to the ambassador, Hakluyt discovered
a manuscript account of Florida, which was published at his ex-
pense in a French edition at Paris, in 1586,
dedicated
to Sir Walter
Ralegh as the discoverer of Virginia.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
|
The form of Wittgenstein's description of our embedded inhabitation of our
language
and world, unlike Heidegger's in Being and Time, generates time as a grammatical effect not as an existential condition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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When
Gordon lost his job she had suddenly realized, with the sense of making a
startling
discovery, that after all she was no longer very young.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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195
Embafly, who had been chofen at firft, I
efteemed
it my Duty
not to prevaricate with the Athenian People.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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VIOLENCE A T HOME AND ABROAD
The state among states, it is often said, conducts its affairs in the
brooding
shadow of violence.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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table for A to choose at = W: For A; not
triggering
a war while B transfers at rate b is clearly the best response.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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But, though the celebrity of the
writings
may have 25
declined, the celebrity of the writer, strange to say, is as great
as ever.
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Macaulay |
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With gold you
redeemed
your city from the Gauls: they were
cut down in the act of receiving it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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11 And when his wife
complained
about his amours with others, he said to her, it is reported: "Let me indulge my desires with others; for wife is a term of honour, not of pleasure.
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Historia Augusta |
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In
a similar sense the Greeks
sometimes
use axovlir,
as Xenophon, Anab.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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Hoban, Atldone, and
procured
for the writer—through Very Rev.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms
of the Project
Gutenberg
License included with this eBook or online at
www.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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In the Palatinate, immediately after the
expulsion of Frederick, the Protestant religion had been suppressed, and
its professors
expelled
from the University of Heidelberg.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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