;
coon, and probably coloured like Titian” (Notes on | ledge of the degrees of things, or taste, presupposes
Du Fresnoy, note 37); and, though the point has a perfect knowledge of the things
themselves
: that
been disputed, such is the general judgment of the colour, grace, and taste, are ornaments, not substi-
best modern authorities.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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A dance divine, that, time after time, resumed,
Broke, and re-formed again,
circling
every way,
Merged and then parted, turned, then turned away,
Mirroring the curves Meander's course assumed.
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Ronsard |
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H e was very wretched;
yet his pride prevented his
evincing
aught beyond a con-
tempt for the tributes offered her.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Even the man who executed it,
though a barbarian
according
to Greek notions, might
have some claim to be considered as the representative
of a sacred cause.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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Satisfied with his
analysis
of what had gone wrong a5 primarily an athlete's slipup-anyone can jump too short on occasion-Ulrich, whose nerves were s~ in excellent shape, quietly fell asleep, with precisely the same delight in the descending spirals of fading con- sciousness that he had dimly felt·during his defeat.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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The constables, also, discovered, between the bed and sacking of the
unhappy man, a shirt and neck-handkerchief both marked with the initials
of his name, and both hideously
besmeared
with the blood of the victim.
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Poe - 5 |
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Partiality and concurrence of
circumstances
?
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Should a sufferer be very dear to us, we divest
ourselves
of pain
by the performance of acts of sympathy.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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What result could be reached from the
investigations
then carried on into the origin and
?
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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But the attempt at
friendship
that this letter marshaled was no longer simply that of bourgeois openhanded communication, and the concept of friendship that was invoked through this demanding philosophical missive was no longer that of a communication between a national public and its classicist.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Summer, when all our labours are fulfilled, or sweet autumn when our hunger is least and lightest, or the winter when no man can work – for winter also hath delights for many with her warm
firesides
and leisure hours – or doth the pretty spring-time please you best?
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Bion |
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The maenis, for instance, is good at the
breeding
time.
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Aristotle copy |
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One must be able to bite in order
to resist
worshipping
at this shrine.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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This was
followed
in 1985, on Burke's instigation,
by the impeachment of the most conspicuous of the Company's offi-
cers, Warren Hastings.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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'
So Catherine, who had a
handsome
way
Of fitting out her favourites, conferr'd
This secret charge on Juan, to display
At once her royal splendour, and reward
His services.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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The cloot has unfortunately broke, but I have provided a fine
buffalo-horn, on which I am going to affix the same cipher which you
will
remember
was on the lid of the cloot.
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Robert Burns- |
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I am sure
Christine
will
take me in for the night--
_Helmer_.
| Guess: |
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
|
They
believed
that these spirits 'were' the world.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
|
F-I-',x =;ia =--= -r==
yoi=a=ir
A:a i-i4- -n=ii{;=!
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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On this point
humility
must be the order of the day.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
Therefore thou knowest of the
existence
of objects
only by means of seeing, feeling them, &c.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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At least there are no differences of opinion about the method of Ritual for begetting the
resolution
thought for
?
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
|
At the
critical
moment, the leader of an army acts like one who has climbed up a height and then kicks away the ladder behind him.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
The-Art-of-War |
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This is
precisely
the issue.
| Guess: |
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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was conduct
befitting
brave men.
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| Question: |
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
|
"
%+%#*
" # " " 1?
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
|
The airplanes were always hidden under
camouflage
nets
or in large, old barns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - 1984 |
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In
swimming
he topped thee,
had more of main!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Many years have already elapsed since
Mallarme?
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
|
"
The laugh was
repeated
in its low, syllabic tone, and terminated in an
odd murmur.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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She was like a dowsing rod pointing to hidden springs-in this case, the necessity of
replacing
modem man's pas- sive, merely intellectual, rational attitude with "values.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
|
Even those who had often seen him were at first in
doubt whether this were truly the brilliant and
graceful
Monmouth.
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Macaulay |
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tait d'abord , et
finissait
par las-
ser en e?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-20 04:05 GMT / http://hdl.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
|
Ông làm quan Tả Thị lang Bộ Lại, quyền
Thượng
thư Bộ Binh.
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stella-03 |
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Certainly,
newspaper
publishing was not a practice of the Counter-Reformation clergy.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
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The music alone,
Ovid thought, might hardly suffice to
overcome
so many watchful eyes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
|
Further
reproduction
prohibited without permission.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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It is from Fleury,
dated Light
Infantry
Camp, Highlands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
|
For only in this way does life become
possible
in its true
• See CM, W 17a [61].
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
|
'
In our new chronotope, the relentless dynamic of historical movement has weakened, and, in any case, the
momentum
of tem- poral procession has stalled in the meantime.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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Mais, sans oser les regarder qu’à la dérobée, je
sentais que ces apprêts pompeux étaient vivants et que c’était la
nature elle-même qui, en creusant ces
découpures
dans les feuilles, en
ajoutant l’ornement suprême de ces blancs boutons, avait rendu cette
décoration digne de ce qui était à la fois une réjouissance populaire
et une solennité mystique.
| Guess: |
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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If Tom is up, I shall go to him
directly and get it over, and when we meet at breakfast we shall be all
in high good-humour at the
prospect
of acting the fool together with
such unanimity.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Mansfield Park |
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The prestige of the
Imperial
House is great enough
to effect by its own unaided powers many impor-
tant national tasks.
| Guess: |
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Able and witty, but without any principle of mo-
rality, the regent laid himself open to criticism of the
sharpest
kind;
and young Arouet was not the most merciful of his judges.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
|
By my _Own Nature_ in _Particular_ I
understand
the _Complexion_ or
_Association_ of all those things which are given me by God.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Descartes - Meditations |
|
You could protect honest citizens against insurance
companies
and employers by restricting the national database to non- coding regions of the genome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
|
" And all the while you sing out that canzone,
Think you that Maent lived at Montaignac, One at Chalais, another at
Malemort
HardoverBrive foreveryladyacastle,
Each place strong.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
|
It was only after the
accession
of his late gracious majesty George the Third, that Dr.
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
|
I have heard your quick breaths
And seen your arms writhe toward me;
At those times
--God help us--
I was
impelled
to be a grand knight,
And swagger and snap my fingers,
And explain my mind finely.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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con giunta di tre altre
traduzioni
dall'inglese, una dal tedesco,
e tre canzoni dell'autore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
|
--when I
introduced
my wife to my friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Selection of English Letters |
|
We have yet the action itself to consider : the
states of consciousness that
accompany
it, the yea
or nay which follows upon its performance: does
the value of an action lie in the subjective states
which accompany it?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
|
Mark the
quantity
of the syllables in the verbs Pratsta,
lauda, and the nouns Industrie, arma.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
|
She flows through my reality,
air, mixed with the salt sea-swell:
into my soul's ecstasy,
pours the essence of the eternal;
Ever-fresh sachet, that scents
the dear corner's
atmospheric
light,
hidden smoke, of the burning censer,
in the secret paths of night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
|
297 302; A
Treatise
on Insanity, "Feigned mania: the method of ascertaining it," pp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
|
Look how the senators ape the clown,
And don the motley and hide the gown,
But yonder a fast-rising frown
On the people's
forehead
lowers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
1
The force of
nationality
was in Bismarck's eyes' an illusion
and a fiction' unless it was backed by a material power
strong enough to enforce its claims.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robertson - Bismarck |
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We may
therefore
fairly say.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edmund Burke |
|
How did the state
originate?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
|
I will
accompany
thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v01 |
|
I believe I am to have enough to live on for about eighteen
months at any rate, so that if I may not write
beautiful
books, I may at
least read beautiful books; and what joy can be greater?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - De Profundis |
|
_Robert
Elsmere_ is of course a masterpiece--a masterpiece of the "genre
ennuyeux," the one form of
literature
that the English people seems
thoroughly to enjoy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Brutus, the son of Marcus, was no
inelegant
speaker; and that for the time he lived in, he was well versed both in the Greek and Roman literature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cicero - Brutus |
|
I am not here to write a full volume of
detailed
criti- cism, but two things I do claim which I have not seen in reviewers'essays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
|
Explicit
Secundus
Liber.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
152-171)
THE NOMINATION AND
ELECTION
OF THE
PRESIDENT
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
|
The essay is both more open and more closed than
traditional
thought would like.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-The Essay As Form |
|
Translated
by
Horace B.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
|
I said; this is what Critias, or some
philosopher
has
told you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Plato - Apology, Charity |
|
Patrick to that
Province—His
Preaching at Cashel, and the Conversion of King ^ngus with his People —St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
|
He and I
tried to get
Williams
to understand that boy, and make a picture of Jack
that would be worthy of Jack.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
|
This is a model of confession that honors truthfulness without
concerning
itselfwith truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
|
numina constituunt alii
casusque
relegant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
|
While not
purporting
to offer fresh archaeological evidence, he established a 'tourist route' through that antiquity which many other travellers would follow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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sake of your Guru, Enlightenment and all
sentient
beings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
|
Bro: Ile hallow,
If he be
friendly
he comes well, if not,
Defence is a good cause, and Heav'n be for us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Rot a peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by
arclight
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
|
Elle était donc couchée et se
laissait
aimer,
Et du haut du divan elle souriait d'aise
A mon amour profond et doux comme la mer,
Qui vers elle montait comme vers sa falaise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
|
Revolution rather implies the creation of a bank of rage whose
investments
should be considered in as precise detail as an army operation before a final battle, or actions of a multinational corporation before being taken over by a hostile competitor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
|
It was
impossible
for her to stay in
a fort which had submitted to Pugatchef, and where Chvabrine was in
command.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
_ Forasmuch as it had been better not to begin a good work, than to
think of
desisting
from one which has been begun, it behoves you, my
beloved sons, to fulfil with all diligence the good work, which, by the
help of the Lord, you have undertaken.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
bede |
|
anacronismo
se convierte en refugio de lo moderno.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
|
, the DuPont family with $573,690,000
holdings
in E.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Brady - Business as a System of Power |
|
Forest
King went in and out over both like a bird, and led for the first
time; the
chestnut
was not to be beat at fencing, and ran even
with him: Wild Geranium flew still as fleet as a deer-true to
her sex, she would not bear rivalry; but little Grafton, though
he rode like a professional, was but a young one, and went too
wildly her spirit wanted cooler curb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
|
"
[Gborg Mobitz Ebers : German Egyptologist and
novelist
; born at Berlin, March 1, 1837.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v01 |
|
The Cretan monster would have
perished
there,
At your hand, despite the toils of his vast lair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Oye, my people, ye wist not that shadows,
forgetting
the
throne,
E'en as they fall upon your lives, darken the path of my own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
|
Tu tires ton pardon de l'éternel martyre,
Infligé sans relâche aux coeurs ambitieux,
Qu'attire loin de nous le radieux sourire
Entrevu
vaguement
au bord des autres cieux!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
|
He holds in his right hand a five-pronged Vajra scepte~ at his heart with a threatening mudra, banishing
negative
thoughts of a duality between that which is grasped and the grasper.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
|
where
something
might have
And now you pay one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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Last year we
didn’t
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till June.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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Whirlwinds of fire and
ashes covered the streets and public places; houses fell, roofs were
flung upon the pavements, and the
pavements
were scattered.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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an emperor of the East, was origi-
nally Logotheta, or
intendant
of the finances, during
the reign of the Empress Irene and her son Constan-
tino VI.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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And he gives us
the
following
dialogue between Cyrus and his mother,
illustrative of this.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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So the laws that we have set up do not
comprise
all of them.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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who is their
counsellor?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Even more recently revealed had been the truths of that geological
philosophy
which
are so marvellously summarised in the following stanzas :— But I shall turn mine ears and hear
The moanings of the homeless sea,
The sound of streams that swift or slow Draw down Ionian hills, and sow
The dust of continents to be.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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Nunnius [candidate for the
tribuneshtp
16.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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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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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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