One can incur a
moderate
probability of disaster, sharing it with his adversary, as a deterrent or compellent de- vice, where one could not take, or persuasively threaten to take, a deliberate last clear step into certain disaster.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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When the
birthday
came Dot rigged
herself in her new dress and sat down to wait for
her guests.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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Yeats - Poems |
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He lies down
delighted with the thoughts of to-morrow, pleases his ambition with
the fame he shall acquire, or his
benevolence
with the good he shall
confer.
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Samuel Johnson |
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In a conflict
situation
of that sort there are at least four ways in which the frightened individual may behave, depending on whether escape behaviour or attachment behaviour takes precedence or whether they are evenly balanced.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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Let us imagine some one's falling
asleep while reading these
chapters—what
would
he most probably dream about?
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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I flatter myself your excellency will be fully sensible of the
weight of the reasons on which this declaration is founded,
and will approve the frankness with which it is made, and
with which I have instructed General Du Portail and Co-
lonel Hamilton to
disclose
to you every circumstance, and
every consideration, with which it is necessary you should
be acquainted.
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| Question: |
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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"
Walter Lippmann and other scholars have frequently re- minded us that the very nature of the
decisions
which must be made, both by governments and by business, put them beyond the democratic process.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
Why this
bemoaning
and beweeping death?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Now, the trick is to choose a
restriction
enzyme whose specific search string is completely absent from the tandem repeat we are interested in.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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And now, is it not more than filthy forward- ness [depravity] not to be moved with so great goodness of God in the
manifold
abundance of things?
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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Thus would I fain to be found employed, so that I may say to God, "Have
I in aught transgressed Thy
commands?
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Epictetus |
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For the _Freedome_ of _Will_ consists only in this, that we can
_Do_, or _not Do_ such a Thing (that is, _affirm_ or _deny_, _prosecute_
or _avoid_) or rather in this Only, that we are _so carried_ to a Thing
which is _proposed_ by Our _Intellect_ to _Affirm_ or _Deny_, _Prosecute_
or _Shun_, that we are _sensible_, that we are _not Determin’d_ to the
_Choice_ or
_Aversion_
thereof, by any _outward Force_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
|
, the
godolphinglad
in the Hoy's Court.
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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For this purpose he bestowed hope upon man: it is, in
truth, the
greatest
of evils for it lengthens the ordeal of man.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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I shall want him for
the writing of the
anonymous
letters.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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His double rhymes, in heroick verse, have been
censured
by Mrs.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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If, for example, we find a rich man founding hospitals for the
poor, we may assume that he believes in the
principle
of Charity.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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li] The
Juvenile
Works of Ovid 167
(n, 5) have a decided preponderance of spondees.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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He continued to work on his Memoirs, and viewed as a member of the political opposition, a great literary figure, and a champion of freedom, was celebrated at the
Revolution
of 1848, during which period of turmoil he died.
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| Question: |
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
|
A s the animals reach the
barrier, their eagerness for release is almost uncontrollable:
they rear, neigh, and paw the earth, as if
impatient
for the
glory they are about to win, without the aid or guidance
of man.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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225
I die to evade this
disastrous
urge to confess.
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Racine - Phaedra |
|
In 1857 The Flowers of Evil was published by Poulet-Malassis, who
afterward went into bankruptcy--a warning to
publishers
with a taste for
fine literature.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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That is
the
fatality
of faith and the lesson of romance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"Oh, Pray, sir, "the lady " spake all
laughter
riven,
"What means this?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Unanswerable
Questions 1332
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
|
The Child of the A ir,
or S
emiramis
in her Y outh, is a coq uette, endowed by tha
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
|
eEit;EiEi
Egigiig?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
|
I doubt not, if thou art
generous
with thy daughter's
dower.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
|
)
combines
naïveté, dignity, and moral earnestness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
|
"That's not what I am asking you about, you
torturer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
|
t other ,ham prophet and astrologer,
Paruidgc
(who waJ a cobbler) is ,kull<.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
|
The solence of that
stilling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Finnegans |
|
--At this time, the gods
betake
themselves
to Brahma, the Creator, and sing a hymn of praise, a
part of which is given here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
|
A later fifteenth century
hand added to the
catalogue
the Summa of Peter Hispanus and
the Quaestiones of William Brito (ob.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
|
Juva: By the light of the bright reason which
daysends
to us from the high.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
re-joyce-a-burgess |
|
"At least, during the days of uncertainty that are
floating
be-
tween my past and my agony, do not forget me, write to me
every day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
|
Nam quaecumque homines bene cuiquam aut dicere possunt
Aut facere, haec a te dictaque factaque sunt;
Omniaque
ingratae perierunt credita menti.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
At first I deem'd him of plebeian sort 300
Dishonourable, but he now assumes
A near
resemblance
to the Gods above.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
The question, therefore, is reduced to judicial repression, the
progress whereof must be observed in the past half-century, for it
has
evidently
the greatest influence upon crime.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
|
In the visual arts, the
stability
of the material secures this process.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
|
"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
The
ignorant
— and where is it that they are not the greater part ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v07 |
|
FAUST:
O
schaudre
nicht!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
)
người
xã Do Lễ huyện Hưng Nguyên (nay thuộc xã Hưng Tân huyện Hưng Nguyên tỉnh Nghệ An).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
stella-04 |
|
"
Then a dream of great pomp rises o'er,
And it
conquers
the god that it bore,
Till a shout casts us down far beneath;
We so small, and so stript before death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Jacobi id nominis quinti, Regis Scotorum,
cantilena
rustica vulgo
inscripta Christs Kirk on the Green.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
|
He determined that the native draughtsmen and copperplate engravers who were supposed to translate the images of Christianity into the image
universe
of Chinese culture should not be trained in Peking itself, but rather in distant Japan (Edgerton,
68
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
|
Then to my soul there came this sense:
"Her heart has
answered
unto thine;
She comes, to-night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Much use for years
Had gradually worn it an oblate
Spheroid
that kicked and struggled in its gait,
Appearing to return me hate for hate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
le gives utility of
negative
inO?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schwarz - Committments |
|
The whole of Chatterton's writings--Rowley,
acknowledged
poems, and
private letters, have been translated into French prose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Hungary has been at the bottom of the Central Europe equity pack as the Orban administration put the final touches on another punishing foreign currency mortgage conversion round for alleged overcharging
estimated
to cost banks EUR 2-3 billion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kleiman International |
|
» A l'aide de celui-ci, la princesse de Parme
cherchait à entourer la duchesse comme d'une muraille protectrice contre
les personnes
desquelles
le succès auprès d'elle serait plus douteux.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
|
So, mother,"
said Cyrus, "I now
understand
exactly what is just.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Little Princes |
|
--
The little
children
of men go hungry all,
And stiffen and cry with numbing cold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
325)
ASKING FOR A
NAPOLEON
FROM WITHIN.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
|
Lewes was separated from his first wife, though circumstances inade
it
impossible
for him to get a divorce.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
|
(
« Thus in
obedience
to what Heaven decrees,
Knowledge shall fail, and prophecy shall cease;
But lasting charity's more ample sway —
Nor bound by time, nor subject to decay –
In happy triumph shall forever live,
And endless good diffuse, and endless praise receive.
| 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 |
|
The question is
therefore
whether, upon the true principles
of the Constitution, this exercise of power by the President can
be justified.
| 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 |
|
King Charles had by this time
embroiled
himself to a most dangerous extent on all sides.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
|
Fraech was divinely
admonished
regarding Columba's approach, and he went forth in a friendly manner to salute our saint.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
|
Sure superlative happiness
surrounds
thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
|
Whoever gives the provocation of gift-giving has the right to
consider
himself as being at the start of a new moral functional chain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
|
Hegemonicpowers*
spoken
*In thisbookI uniformlydesignateeverypowerwhichrulesashegemonicpower,in orderto indicatethatthispoweris nevera powerin itselfbutalways'rides,'so to speak,
on thebackof anoppositionalpower.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
|
Alexander
no idea can be formed without reading it, but of the Great sent for his poems during his campaigns
which the
following
specimen may convey some in Asia (Plut.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
|
"
"But it's a private thing, between us friends,"
Ferfitchkin
said
crossly, as he, too, picked up his hat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
|
In defiance of the imperial
prohibition, they carried on their
deliberations
almost under the very
eyes of the Emperor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Schiller - Thirty Years War |
|
Every
little bit of suffering, you gets it back a hundredfold and a
thousandfold
That
is true, ain’t it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
|
"Thus sadly has my time till now dragg'd by
In flames and anguish: I have left each way
Of honour, use, and joy,
This my most cruel
flatterer
to obey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
His wealth of ideas
found expression in
realistic
details noted with keen observation and
assembled in realistic series to give vitality to his prose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
|
Some also are capable of motion, like the scallop, and indeed some aver that
scallops
can actually fly, owing to the circumstance that they often jump right out of the apparatus by means of which they are caught; others are incapable of motion and are attached fast to some external object, as is the case with the pinna.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristotle copy |
|
Reallexikon
der indogermanischen Altertumskunde.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v1 |
|
e same
roundenes
of a body .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
But I cannot call to mind that I ever once heard her make a wrong
judgment
of persons, books, or affairs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
|
He sits his horse, which men call Veillantif,
Pricking
him well with golden spurs beneath,
Through the great press he goes, their line to meet,
And by his side is the Archbishop Turpin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
|
""" now there ex;'''' no good
treatment
of the coomic level of events in the 'I thaca' chapter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
|
14709 (#283) ##########################################
WILLIAM
MAKEPEACE
THACKERAY
14709
bedside; who would have come, as to a work of religion, to any
sick couch, much more to this one, where he lay for whose life
she would once gladly have given her own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
|
The Book of Aneirin, which contains
the famous Gododin, is the next oldest MS, and is probably to
be assigned to the
thirteenth
century.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
|
A sweetness intellectually conceived
In simpler creeds to me
impossible?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
I recently called attention in print to a typical instance in which a GDR historian, by citing a paraphrase written by a like-minded
colleague
rather than the original text, was able to destroy a political enemy.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
|
Nor have these heavy charges been confined
to
industrial
concerns.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
|
Is it possible to persuade more than six or eight people to consider the scope of crossword puzzles and other devices for looking at words for something that is NOT their
meaning?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
|
'T was a long parting, but the time
For
interview
had come;
Before the judgment-seat of God,
The last and second time
These fleshless lovers met,
A heaven in a gaze,
A heaven of heavens, the privilege
Of one another's eyes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Lange Zeit
genoßest
du
deinen Wunsch durch nichts bemüht.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
|
That ship,
supposing
that he intended to enter the harbour, had set all its sails in that direction, and before it had time to change its course and face him, he sank it at the first attack.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Polyaenus - Strategems |
|
To be sure, his best
and earlier work has all of that
delightful
extravagance and amorous
colouring peculiar to the age.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Browne |
|
William wrote some lines
describing
a stunted
Thorn" (Dorothy Wordsworth's Alfoxden Journal).
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Here Hecuba, with all her
helpless
train
Of dames, for shelter sought, but sought in vain.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
|
She is an amiable girl, and
has a very
superior
mind to what we have given her credit for.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Austen - Lady Susan |
|
Everything
existed for their benefit.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Orwell - 1984 |
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All nature's change thro' thy protecting care, and all mankind thy lib'ral bounties share:
For these where'er dispers'd thro' boundless space, still find thy
providence
support their race.
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Orphic Hymns |
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[September 23
says an
ingenious
writer, consists in their having arisen during an imagina- tive age, out of a prevailing and well-founded belief in Adamnan's learning
and mental acquirements.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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Nguyễn
Tông Tây (1436-?
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on 2014-12-26 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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63 This conception of
tradition
clearly suggests a 'simultaneous order', but the poet's engagement with the past is 'unavoidable', which recalls the inevitability of the artists' relationship with the past in Hofmannsthal.
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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The
first Traveller takes it up for another draught; but is
surprised
to
find that the same Water which had tasted sweet from his own hand
tastes bitter from the earthen Bowl.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Chapter VII
WHICH ONCE MORE DEMONSTRATES THE USELESSNESS OF PASSPORTS AS AIDS TO
DETECTIVES
The detective passed down the quay, and rapidly made his way to the
consul's office, where he was at once admitted to the
presence
of that
official.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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