The
liberties
of England, so far from decaying since the im-
provements in the arts, have never flourished so much as during
that period.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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A better explanation is already Implied by the fact that in the very beginning, experiments with the camera obscura could only be
conducted
in darkened yet otherwise normal-sized chambers or rooms, but they soon changed to become small, transportable boxes.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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Three other
separate
stars, large and bright, at equal distance set on flank and shoulders, trace a square upon the Horse.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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From
Pericles
to Philip, p.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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I don't know of any absolute
acquittals
but I do know of
many times when a judge has been influenced.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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Considered
by Poles a very fair
statement of the issues involved.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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It is conceivable that such
a proposition might find supporters at a trying crisis,
and become a
powerful
party-cry.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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By
this time the man out of the boat had
succeeded
in sliding along
the rope to where I stood, though the poor devil was nearly
drowned on the road; for when about half-way, the hull took in
a lump of swell which swept him right off his legs, and he was
swung hard a-starboard, holding on for his life.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Wittgensteindoesnotinvestigatethemeaningofthis grammatical condition, and thus he does not bring out the moral and theological
implications
of our stances toward ourselves within language.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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Demofthenes will affirm,,
that the
Commonwealth
has been fignally indebted to his Ser-
vices, and that I have injured her in a thoufand Inftances ; that
Philip and Alexander, and all the Calamities, they brought
upon the Republic, are to be imputed to me.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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He is quite agreeable enough, however, to afford me amusement,
and to make many of those hours pass very
pleasantly
which would
otherwise be spent in endeavouring to overcome my sister-in-law's
reserve, and listening to the insipid talk of her husband.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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67; and [elsewhere], one speaks of the
avijfiapti
as if one were speaking of the vijfiapti.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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As to my coming over with the late
Duke of Monmouth, was in Prosecution of the same Ends but the Lord in his Holy and wise Providence hath been pleased to blast all our
Undertakings
tho' there seemed to be a very unanimous and zealous .
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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The first was of
my own nomination; his merits and qualifications
stood in equal balance with my knowledge of those
who might have been the
candidates
for the office;
but he was the father of the Rajah, and the affinity
sunk the scale wholly in his favor: for who could be
so fit to be intrusted with the charge of his son's interest, and the new credit of the rising family?
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Edmund Burke |
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The fastidious
descriptions
of the last century were a rejection of utility.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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" Wright later said: "I would suppose that Trakl has had as much
influence
on me as anybody else has had.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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(1983) Negotiating Peace: War Termination as a
Bargaining
Process.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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by bringing into focus the
composition
of place indicated in the first sen- tence of Finnegans Wake.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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This was his being
honored by a private
conversation
with his Majesty, in the
library at the Queen's house.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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Is there no
philosophy
in it?
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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in his father's lifetime;
but not content with this, he laid great stress on the
importance
of a
solemn ceremony which took place early in August at Aix-la-Chapelle,
the old Carolingian seat of residence.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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The author has confined his imitation of
Dosiadas
to the shape of the poem and the use of out-of-the-way words and expressions.
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Pattern Poems |
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Those who write Commentaries
on these Places being ignorant of this, must of
Necessity
err many Ways.
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Erasmus |
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It also happens sometimes with TOR, with classrooms/schools, and other
situations
where the same IP address is being shared.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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With an Account of the Life and
Writings
of the Author.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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The four Miss
Rawbolds
in a glee would shine;
But the two youngest loved more to be set
Down to the harp--because to music's charms
They added graceful necks, white hands and arms.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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zo me) The important key point in meditation of
Mahamudra
and Dzogchen; that innate wakefulness is not created through intellectual effort.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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There was a desperate
engagement
on January 17th at
the wells of Abu Klea; the British square was broken; for a moment
victory hung in the balance; but the Arabs were repulsed.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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of
Zhuangzi
the useless chu tree is ignored because its timber cannot be used.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Andhehashisscopebeyondthatofthe
novelists his contemporaries, in just so far as whole stretches of his keyboard are utterly out of their com- pass.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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The prime concern of a theory of evolution is to account for discontinuities and structural changes that suddenly erupt after
extended
periods of stagnation or incremental growth.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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"]
Has auld
Kilmarnock
seen the deil?
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Robert Burns |
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His
prestige
had never stood so high.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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Influence of Thomson on the younger
generation
of
poets.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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Where our desire is got without content:
'Tis safer, to be that which we destroy,
Then by
destruction
dwell in doubtfull ioy.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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To the same period must be referred an
epistle or treatise on the Chorepiscopi,
addressed
to Drogo, Bishop of Metz,'38 and another epistle, directed to Regimbold, Chorepiscopus of Mayence, on certainpenitentialquestions.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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, Airrraft Division
Industry
Report (Item #4 for European War), p.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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But waiting till Mankind shall do 'em right,
And bring their Works
Triumphantly
to Light;
Neglected heaps we in by-corners lay,
Where they become to Worms and Moths a prey;
Forgot, in Dust and Cobwebs let 'em rest,
Whilst we return from whence we first digrest.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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It
has nothing of the lively fancy of 'The Rape of the Lock', little or
nothing of the
personal
note which stamps the later satires and epistles
as so peculiarly Pope's own.
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Alexander Pope |
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” I
blush for
Elizabeth!
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
generations
on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Some Suggested
Activities
on Geography:
1.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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It is said that if one perceives ones Guru as an ordinary human being for even an instant,
accomplishment
is months and years away.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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" Was he right who
affirmed
that?
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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By thee the earth wide-bosom'd deep and long, stands on a basis
permanent
and strong.
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Orphic Hymns |
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Damp smoke, rank mist fill the dark square;
and round the bend six
bullocks
come.
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Amy Lowell |
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But what wrought on the Highlanders most, was a story they had picked up, that they were to be sent to the West-Indies, so
opposite
in climate to their native plains.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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stupid] and do not study
constitute
the lowest people.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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Both are recited and both were
surrendered
up, by the letters patent
Jan.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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MARTHE:
Ich meine: ob Ihr niemals Lust
bekommen?
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habt |
| Question: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Ban·foot
ploclding: t\l'ain.
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Samuel Beckett |
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Two
little lads were heard, one
Saturday
night,
75
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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These books contain the substance of his politi-
cal economy, which is as
impossible
to epitomize as his art teachings.
| Guess: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Břatislav perforce made an
unqualified
surrender.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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claim To keep alive their
deathless
name .
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Pindar |
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Whether or not Hawes possessed the powerful
memory attributed to him, his methods, illustrations, turns of phrase,
continually remind us of the Roman de la Rose, of Chaucer-
Troilus and Criseyde for example-of Gower's
Confessio
Amantis,
of Lydgate-especially The Temple of Glass.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
|
Ovid, editorial
reference
to, 264 n.
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| Source: |
bede |
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<<< You are old, my good Sir," said that
estimable man, " and I
perceive
you
are unfortunate j you need not, there-
fore,
?
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| Source: |
Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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' You have written some very
beautiful
poetry, and you are a marvellously gifted man who ought to feel the responsibility of your gifts,' she said gravely.
| Guess: |
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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LOVE, WHAT IT IS
Love is a circle, that doth restless move
In the same sweet
eternity
of Love.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Finally, the moral perfection of the community of the kingdom of God deduced from its re ligious view of the world, and shown that manifests itself
degree
in the
faithfulness
of the individual to his calling, since moral action in a calling the form of each man's total
primarily
He holds that, on the con exclusively the contribution rests upon the assurance
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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Now practical and
speculative
reason are based on the
same faculty, so far as both are pure reason.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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Germany / by the
Baroness
Stae?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Germany |
|
VIII- 1 :
Principia
Philosophiae, Paris 1964, p.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-Metaphysics |
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Diana and Mary were soon to leave Moor House,
and return to the far different life and scene which awaited them, as
governesses in a large, fashionable, south-of-England city, where each
held a situation in families by whose wealthy and haughty members they
were regarded only as humble dependants, and who neither knew nor sought
out their innate excellences, and
appreciated
only their acquired
accomplishments as they appreciated the skill of their cook or the taste
of their waiting-woman.
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| Source: |
Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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I see Mother very often:
and he tells his father that she appears when he is be-
tween sleeping and waking, and that the last time she
was white and wasted, and sang to him this song:
I wander everywhere,
I enter everywhere,
In the confines of the worlds,
Where there are angels' songs:
I gather up for thee
The throngs of countless forms,
Thoughts and
inspired
words,
Oh, little child of mine!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
|
en na-
ciendo, contra la humana costumbre ,
invento?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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Why, yes: with
Scripture
still you may be free;
A horse-laugh, if you please, at honesty:
A joke on Jekyl, or some odd old Whig
Who never changed his principle, or wig:
A patriot is a fool in every age,
Whom all Lord Chamberlains allow the stage:
These nothing hurts; they keep their fashion still,
And wear their strange old virtue, as they will.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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_Two Ladies Contrasted_
The harmonies of the robes of this gay lady
Are like chants within a temple
sweeping
outwards
To the morn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - Art of Love |
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' That is why he is so
fascinating
to
artists.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - De Profundis |
|
10 Rajan and Zingales (2000) formalize this point and show that the lack of
commitment
power leads to ine?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schwarz - Committments |
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The capitalist class is constantly giving to the labouring class order-notes, in the form of money, on a portion of the commodities produced by the latter and
appropriated
by the former.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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He holds that the very nature or essences of things (as distinguished
from their existence) are Divine ideas or degrees of being in the
Divine naturel'; and by the same theory he
explains
our perception
of things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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Propitious on these mystic labours shine, and bless thy
suppliants
with a life divine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orphic Hymns |
|
Miss Teasdale is a lyric poet of an unusually pure and
spontaneous
gift.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
On the marble
pavement
dust grows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
The
Belgians
hate the English.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Selection of English Letters |
|
It is
with the third line they must go, not with the seventh, with which a
slightly
different
thought is introduced.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Donne - 2 |
|
Then upspake Aphrodite saying,
“Vilest
of all beasts, can it be thou that didst despite to this fair thigh, and thou that didst strike my husband?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Megara and Dead Adonis |
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Fresh as the first beam
glittering
on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Or did it prevent him think-
ing too, for a moment, with a throb of the heart, that sweet
Cousin
Patience
far away at home, could she but see him, might
have the same opinion of him as he had of himself?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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He seemed pleased to hear, that as yet Kant's doctrines had not met with
many
admirers
in England--did not doubt but that we had too much wisdom
to be duped by a writer who set at defiance the common sense and common
understandings of men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
|
The prosecution of the program will require of us all the ingenuity, sacrifice, and unity demanded by the vital importance of the issue and the tenacity to persevere until our
national
objectives have been attained.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
NSC-68 |
|
_The Fop_
His heart is like a wind
Torn between cloud and butterfly;
Whether he will roll passively to one,
Or chase
endlessly
the other.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
|
Cela vous étonne, monsieur Vallenères,
dit-elle en se tournant vers l'archiviste, qu'une
fleuriste
m'envoie des
branches de pommier?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
|
is shal
mowe shewen by a short
ensample
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
He treated worldly
success as a thing
absolutely
to be despised.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - De Profundis |
|
Meanwhile, I was shown into a room which contained
several portraits of generals on the walls and was furnished with a
sofa, a large table, and a few pots of
mignonette
and balsam.
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Among
thinking
men the term "wage slave" is a Marxian cliche used only in jest.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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75 Hodgson, Hegel and
Christian
Theology, p.
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, fine art and works of art, but that it was merely
transferred
and applied to this realm.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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They are not
satisfied
with selling and banishing me
from my native State.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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They returned, in true fundamentalist fashion, to the classical texts, seeking to sanctify their message on the basis of such passages as the following:
The body is that which has been
transmitted
to us by our parents.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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The Franks called a council and said: 'The
Egyptian
army has not yet arrived and we are already menaced by Saladin; what will happen when the Egyptians come?
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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Persons less interested or excited looked up at the colos-
sal figure of the old hero of
“Liberty
and Union with a sort of
bewildered dismay, as if something unnatural and portentous had
happened to him.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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CANZON
TO BE SUNG BENEATH A WINDOW
I
HEART mine, art mine, whose
embraces
Clasp but wind that past thee bloweth?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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to live to see reparation_, 935;
fela sceal
gebīdan
lēofes and lāðes, _experience much good and much
affliction_, 1061; ende gebīdan, 1387, 2343; pret.
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Beowulf |
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