O, my good lord, when I was like this maid,
I found you
wondrous
kind.
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Shakespeare |
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Bind up his senses with your numbers, so
As to
entrance
his pain, or cure his woe.
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Robert Herrick |
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) người xã Vũ Lăng huyện Thượng Phúc (nay thuộc xã Thắng Lợi huyện
Thường
Tín tỉnh Hà Tây).
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stella-03 |
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An
admirable
analysis of Vico.
| Guess: |
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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Oft have I met your social band,
And spent the cheerful, festive night;
Oft, honour'd with supreme command,
Presided o'er the sons of light:
And by that
hieroglyphic
bright,
Which none but Craftsmen ever saw
Strong Mem'ry on my heart shall write
Those happy scenes, when far awa.
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burns |
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The
excellent
example of the neighboring prov-
inces seemed to make little impression on North Carolina.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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S ince she had loved O swald she
concealed this talent from him, not feeling sufficient peace
of mind for its ex ercise, or, at other times, fearing that
any outbreak of high spirits might be
followed
by mis-
fortune; but now, with unwonted confidence, she con-
sented, as he, too, j oined in the req
that she should perform in a piece, lik
composed of the most diverting fairy ex
uest; and it was agreed
e most of Gozzi' s,
travagances.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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The next day sat
Zarathustra
again on the stone
in front of his cave, whilst his animals roved about
in the world outside to bring home new food,—also
new honey: for Zarathustra had spent and wasted
## p.
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| Question: |
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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But the normative sphere of law, mores, conventions, and institutions re- ceives its
legitimation
from life's compulsion toward art, not from the autonomy of a universal law of morals ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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It is not you; why
disguise
yourself
Against me, to break my heart,
You evader?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Amy Lowell |
|
Under the cowl and a feigned name he, through
the poem, serves as a national
emissary
from the
Polish legions to Lithuania.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
|
Howe sable ys the spreddynge skie
arrayde!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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It was a technology
transfer
from Peking to Hanover that first put the new geometry of book printing and print technology into words.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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For God being King
of the Jews, and his Lieutenant being first Moses, and
afterward
the
High Priest; if the people had been permitted to worship, and pray to
Images, (which are Representations of their own Fancies,) they had
had no farther dependence on the true God, of whom there can be no
similitude; nor on his prime Ministers, Moses, and the High Priests;
but every man had governed himself according to his own appetite, to the
utter eversion of the Common-wealth, and their own destruction for want
of Union.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hobbes - Leviathan |
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One has a
"wife, childre n, or nephews, who are in need
M of fortunes; others want active employ-
"ment; or allege I know not what virtuous
"pretexts, which all lead to the
necessity
of
"their having a place, to which money and
"power are attached.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Up to this time the
Tankadere
had always held her course to the north;
but towards evening the wind, veering three quarters, bore down from
the north-west.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
|
There can hardly be a doubt, but that its
denomination
has been
derived from the present St.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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On the
arrival of the warrant for his execution, Lord Lovat
read and pressing the
gentleman
who brought to drink bottle of wine with him, entertained him with such number of stories as astonished the visitor, that his lordship should have such spirits on so solemn
an occasion.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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Although future experiences are largely shaped by present actions, the root-guru's blessing can
partially
modify this.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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Und dies
geheimnisvolle
Buch,
Von Nostradamus' eigner Hand,
Ist dir es nicht Geleit genug?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Only within Christianity did incarnation become an
institutional
potential.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
|
The sea ebbs and flows, and
contains
beasts quite unlike those in the rest of the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v04 |
|
# *'# :*a3
*##
# %" 'K12 + # " # %!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
|
Enormous grants of money
went to the
foundation
of the Commission of
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
|
Anon, anon, I pray you
remember
the Porter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
"Some say that Yao is
shackled
and hidden away, and that Shun has died
in the fields.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
And it is
precisely
then that the doctor must intervene.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
|
Thus, after an
excursion
of two years, I returned to Italy, not only much improved, but almost changed into a new man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cicero - Brutus |
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I am not able to
discover
for certain whether this
deed is to be done in, or out of Venice, but he is going te Venice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
|
Because
Oh, because you never tried
To bow my will or break my pride,
And nothing of the cave-man made
You want to keep me half afraid,
Nor ever with a
conquering
air
You thought to draw me unaware--
Take me, for I love you more
Than I ever loved before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
|
Bathurst[125], who had
made some
attempts
this way with applause.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
|
It is the
morality
of ‘slaves’.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
|
He loves the long paths where no
footfalls
ring,
And he loves much the silent chamber where
Like a soft whisper through the quiet air
He hears your voice, far distant, vanishing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Blood at its best, before it undergoes
deterioration
from either
natural decay or from disease, is neither very thick nor very thin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristotle |
|
I am not
speaking
here of the discomforts associated with old age in the epic ideal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-Metaphysics |
|
And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
The people I have met,
The play I saw, the trivial,
shifting
things
That loom too big or shrink too little, shadows
That hurry, gesturing along a wall,
Haunting or gay--and yet they all grow real
And take their proper size here in my heart
When you have seen them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
|
Bibliothèque
de l'École des Chartes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
|
The more
he saw, as he must have seen, how ineffectual was this
method of reforming society, the greater must have
been his disgust with other
agencies
which he sup-
'posed to be at work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
|
Be it so, Titus, and
gramercy
too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with
libraries
to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
|
Pour en revenir aux jeunes passantes, jamais
Albertine
ne regardait une
dame âgée ou un vieillard avec tant de fixité, ou au contraire de
réserve, et comme si elle ne voyait pas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
|
"What
victory?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Animal Farm |
|
74 An Historian of Culture
Q: Yet it is outside the sickness: the doctor speaks of the
sickness
but doesn't live it; and his discourse is not in fact a symptom of this or that sickness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Live |
|
But the teaching
of
Coleridge
was prophetic rather than scientific, and the philo-
sophical student had to be approached in his own language and by
a master who had the command of traditional learning as well as
fresh doctrines to teach.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
|
In 1836, a
monograph
from Wilhelm and Eduard Weber appeared which was almost without precedent: the "Mechan-
ics of the Human Walking Apparatus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Drunken |
|
Your IP address has been
automatically
blocked from the address you tried to visit at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Devils |
|
The speeches that are put into the
heroes’
mouths,
their thoughts and designs--the chief of all this must be invention, and
invention is what delights me in other books.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Northanger Abbey |
|
After the
exchange
we have still the same total value of ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
|
It was but one voice, that no man in the kingdom better
deserved
an honorable provision should be made for him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edmund Burke |
|
Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
|
This was followed by Alice of
Monmouth
and Other
Poems) (1864), “The Blameless Prince and Other Poems (1869), and
(Hawthorne and Other Poems) (1877).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
|
"
"They might be whomsoever they pleased," replied Wamba; "but my neck
stands too
straight
on my shoulders to have it twisted for their sake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
|
Rather than posing and answering concrete questions, our semiotics of
aesthetic
philosophy concerns itself with the emo- tions of the reader; we concentrate immediately on dimensions such as 'elegy,' 'melancholy,' 'tragedy,' or 'fate'; we want to get to the bot- tom of the 'dialects of emotion'--and the temporal signs of 'precipi- tancy' or 'irreversible departure' familiarized by Karl Heinz Bohrer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
|
If we want to understand this
relationship
positively, it could tentatively be characterized by five criterion: contextuality (spirit understands what is happening outside it); self-perception (it guesses how it is doing); self-limitation (it is aware when it is enough); reversibility (it has "Spiel," it can do what it can do, back and forth); and spontaneity (not only can it go on as in the past, but it can also make a new start; if necessary it can even surprise itself).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk |
|
Princeton:
Princeton
University Press.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schwarz - Committments |
|
Later, perhaps, they will pick another leader who can grasp that only
Socialist
nations can fight effectively.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell |
|
However, the effacing of the
dialectic
in image and reality does represent its universality to itself, and is therefore also a culture.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Education in Hegel |
|
Introducing
the first and third groups, Ovid alluded
to a number of myths each containing a metamorphosis; introducing
the second group, he told briefly the adultery of Mars and Venus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
|
I cannot walk home from office but some officious friend offers
his
unwelcome
courtesies to accompany me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Selection of English Letters |
|
Doubt and denial then prevail ; the cold understanding thrusts its barren logic into the place of creative genius ; science, history, the universe are made mechanical ; and only a few profounder minds perceive be neath the surface of chaos the signs of a new world of order, in which
reverence
shall be combined with clearness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
|
For him, the existence of radical evil is
accompanied
by the experience of the radical absence of meaning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
|
Please grant your blessings that the realization of the profound path may swiftly arise in the mind-streams of myself and my
disciples
without the slightest error and that we may attain the primordially impregnable ground in this very life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
|
The son of Cronos did her no wrong nor took anything away of
all that was her portion among the former Titan gods: but she holds,
as the
division
was at the first from the beginning, privilege both in
earth, and in heaven, and in sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hesiod |
|
”
Elizabeth was so much caught with what passed, as to leave her very
little
attention
for her book; and soon laying it wholly aside, she drew
near the card-table, and stationed herself between Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
|
So, by some hedge, the gen'rous steed deceas'd,
For half-starv'd snarling curs a dainty feast;
By toil and famine wore to skin and bone,
Lies,
senseless
of each tugging bitch's son.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Small wonder that the young science of sport showed no
interest
in becoming the theol- ogy of this cult movement, which had barely been founded before its spirit was driven out.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
|
"He is a
charming
man"--"But after all what did he mean?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Thus, while I enjoyed special privileges in Tsinghua, yet I never
burdened
myself with administrative work.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
|
La
condition
postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
|
196 197; "An instance illustrative of the
advantage
o( obtaining an intimate acquaintance with the character of the patient" pp.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
|
Certainly, at the beginning of Cause, he warns that his
discussion
is meant to stay within the limits of pure natural reason, that it aspires to be only a philosophical discussion, leaving to theologians the more exalted task of defining the Prime Mover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
|
This legacy of bad faith has been passed on from the Christian structure of mentality to practi- cally everything that has arisen as ideology and
Weltanschauung
on Western soil in the time since Christ.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
|
’
‘And you think principles are all right so long as one
doesn’t
go putting them into
practice.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
|
It is only from a certain height of
aspirations
that the mind becomes vulnerable to the experience of failing itself.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
|
What benefits us at the cost of others through the favor of people or conjunctures of
coincidence
or deeply foreordained destiny we do not exploit with as good a conscience as the yield that goes back only to our most individual action.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
|
The
Mediterranean
Sea is
an open sea leading freely to any part of
the world's ocean.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
|
He agilte hir never in other caas,
Lo, here al hoolly his
trespas!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
” The sarcasm of Firmilian' is so delicate that
only those familiar with the school it is intended to
satirize
can fairly
appreciate its qualities.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
|
The
utmost care could not always secure the most
valuable
fruits.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Austen - Northanger Abbey |
|
She holds it up in
different
lights and
tries to con its mystery.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tagore - Creative Unity |
|
" "j
He protests that his fault had been an error rather
than a crime :--
0
<&-
"If mortal deeds never escape the
knowledge
of gods,
you know that there was no guilt in my fault.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
|
But
eventually
we have to face real- ity, and that's very painful.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kalu Rinpoche |
|
It only the chaff that flies away before the winnowing; but there remains both corn and chaff: but the chaff will be winnowed, when the time of
winnowing
shall come.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
|
And, disappointed by the judgement of his brother Alaenus, he shall cast an effectual curse upon the fields, that they may never send up the opulent corn-ear of Deo, when Zeus with his rain nurtures the soil, save only if one who draws his blood from his own Aetolian stock shall till the land,
cleaving
the furrows with team of oxen.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lycophron - Alexandra |
|
Colonial
government re-organized ; Cuba and Porto Rica
given responsible governments and home rule, with
representation also in the Spanish Cortez.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Outlines and Refernces for European History |
|
For Luke saith that they
preached
the gospel in other places also.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
|
Expressed in terms of
Equations
(3) and (4), the two views mean that the hype coefficient, however arbitrary in the short or medium run, tends to revert to a long-term mean value of 1.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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Thereisno
ground on which to stand in this world, and thus the T , functioning much like
Wittgenstein's
metaphysical
'I'.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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For we are also his offspring; and he in his kindness unto men giveth
favourable
signs and wakeneth the people to work, reminding them of livelihood.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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In the days of Betterton' and
Barton Booth”, the best player was, in a sense, an intermediary, and
the attention of spectators could be held only if
characters
and
situations appealed directly to their understanding.
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Thou
standest
on the
threshold of thy victory.
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4 The citizens
suffered
almost as much from ill-treatment inside as they did from the enemy's attacks outside, because the garrison were not content with the same provisions as the populace survived on, and by assaulting the citizens they forced them to provide what they could not easily afford.
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Of such modes of
existence
there are not a few: youth and
the arts preoccupied with youth may serve as a model for us at one
moment: at another we may like to think that, in its subtlety and
sensitiveness of impression, its suggestion of a spirit dwelling in
external things and making its raiment of earth and air, of mist and city
alike, and in its morbid sympathy of its moods, and tones, and colours,
modern landscape art is realising for us pictorially what was realised in
such plastic perfection by the Greeks.
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—The greatest paradox
in the history of poetic art lies in this: that in all
that
constitutes
the greatness of the old poets a
man may be a barbarian, faulty and deformed from
top to toe, and still remain the greatest of poets.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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Itis not meant to generate a theory, but to offer
itselfas
another writing toward and at these limits.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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Our own bodily strength, or the
strength
of
soldiers and horses, however strong they may be,
cannot save any one of us; for sorrow and mis-
fortune, disease and death, may come upon us
at all times.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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They stood pleading for the first passage across,
and
stretched
forth passionate hands to the farther shore.
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13 When he was at the point of death, he urged the exiles "to have his bones, and last relics, bruised to dust, and privately sprinkled in the forum of Tarentum; 14 for that Apollo at Delphi had
signified
that by this means they might recover their city.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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And yet, what a deceptive
limpidity!
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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