For what a
chance is that which
disposes
of our existence!
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The receipt of five
shillings
a day, instead of eighteen
pence, would make every man fancy himself comparatively rich and able
to indulge himself in many hours or days of leisure.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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Here I am a ruffian and a fool, I am a beggar;
but good people haven't
abandoned
me, no fear; you see they treat me
with respect, I thank them and the landlady.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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I had a number of
schoolfellows
indeed in Petersburg, but
I did not associate with them and had even given up nodding to them in
the street.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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But there were those amongst us all
Who walked with
downcast
head,
And knew that, had each got his due,
They should have died instead:
He had but killed a thing that lived,
Whilst they had killed the dead.
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Wilde - Poems |
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8 An Alphabetical List of Books
DEMMXN'S History of Arms DONALDSON'S The Theatre of and Armour, from the
Earliest
the Greeks.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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One ought to eat until
you’re
full, though,
So that you’re legs don’t tire out.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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The old philosopher, whose name was Martin,
embarked
then with Candide
for Bordeaux.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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Though liable to be redrawn at any moment,
experience
proves, that the money so much oftener changes proprietors than place, and that what is drawn out is generally so speedily replaced, as to authorize the counting upon the stuns de-
posited, as ah ejfiBe&beftmd; which, concurring with the stock of the bank, enables it to extend its loans, and to answer all the demands for coin, whether in consequence of those loans, or arising from the occasional return of its notes.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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She is still at Mauchline, as I am building my
house; for this hovel that I shelter in, while
occasionally
here, is
pervious to every blast that blows, and every shower that falls; and I
am only preserved from being chilled to death by being suffocated with
smoke.
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Robert Forst |
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50 SOLOVIEV
little company from the contentious struggle which
may perniciously reflect upon the whist too, I am willing to
sacrifice
myself for two hours.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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_
I _am a
Thinking
Thing_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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A few volumes of this period I read through
from motives of curiosity; for it is not easy to imagine any thing more
fantastic, than the very
appearance
of their pages.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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To build, to plant,
whatever
you intend,
To rear the column, or the arch to bend,
To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot;
In all, let Nature never be forgot.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The
prestige
of Glad stone's humanitarianism was so great that many Europeans still rub their eyes and say: can this EVIL be England?
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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At any rate he was
reasonably
free from avarice — his most distinctive trait seemed to be
laziness.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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why were
quaestors
assigned to them?
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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When I say 'I hope someday to have a house in Greece' I am saying that I want a house, but I am unsure if I will
successfully
obtain one.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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tica de esta clase siempre han llevado consigo
inevitablemente
la idea de un estado benigno que domina, absorbe y determina cualquier aspecto de la vida individual, en una especie de versio?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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and may there be
No
shepherd
grac'd that doth not honour thee!
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William Browne |
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n de sus acontecimientos y
curiosidades
es algo caduco.
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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Make no parley--stop for no expostulation;
Mind not the timid--mind not the weeper or prayer;
Mind not the old man
beseeching
the young man;
Let not the child's voice be heard, nor the mother's entreaties;
Make even the trestles to shake the dead, where they lie awaiting the
hearses,
So strong you thump, O terrible drums--so loud you bugles blow.
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Whitman |
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Come si vede qui alcuna volta
l'affetto ne la vista, s'elli e tanto,
che da lui sia tutta l'anima tolta,
cosi nel
fiammeggiar
del folgor santo,
a ch'io mi volsi, conobbi la voglia
in lui di ragionarmi ancora alquanto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Why, out upon my weakness,
To let such coward
thoughts
steal from my heart!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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Just then, at speed on the Foe,
With her bow all weathered and brown,
The great
Lackawanna
came down,
Full tilt, for another blow;
We were forging ahead,
She reversed--but, for all our pains,
Rammed the old Hartford instead,
Just for'ard the mizzen-chains!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The
spiritual
sense in Donne was
as real a thing as the restless and unruly wit, or the sensual,
passionate temperament.
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Donne - 2 |
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It may frankly be
commended
virginibus puerisque and to the elders.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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Thus the whole
criminal
law rested as to its ultimate basis on the religious idea of expiation.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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The
Believed
Motive.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Use thyself
therefore
often to meditate upon this, that
the nature of the universe delights in nothing more, than in altering
those things that are, and in making others like unto them.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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= 'This word _garnish_ has been made familiar
to all time by the
writings
of John Howard.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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A word of four syllables may with propriety stand thus
in a
hexameter
verse;
Fata vo|cant con|ditque na|tantia | lumina | soranus.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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I can provide you with the means for flight:
The only guards
surrounding
you are mine.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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PROKTOPHANTASMIST:
Ich sag's euch
Geistern
ins Gesicht:
Den Geistesdespotismus leid ich nicht;
Mein Geist kann ihn nicht exerzieren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Then sat we amidships--wind jamming the tiller Thus with
stretched
sail we went over sea till day's end.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Girard has pro- vided important stimuli in understanding the mimetic proc- esses of exchange in the Franco-German duel and its
extremist
dynamic - I will return to this later.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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wise your waking state is but a
deceptive
dream.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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And
dreadful
the blast of the trumpet.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Then music was heard again; it
was wonderfully sweet, like a child's voice, full of joy and
expectation,
swelling
to the powerful tones of a full organ, sometimes
soft and sweet, then like the sounds of a tempest, delightful and
elevating to hear, yet strong enough to burst the stone tombs of the
dead.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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Our modern poets are, all to a man, almost as well read in the
Scriptures
as some of our divines, and often abound more with the phrase.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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"See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight,
So abject, mean, and vile,
Who begs a brother of the earth
To give him leave to toil;
And see his lordly fellow-worm
The poor
petition
spurn,
Unmindful, tho' a weeping wife
And helpless offspring mourn.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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years continued those
prejudices
in the pubUc mind,
which a wiser administration would,have been anxious .
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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Besides,
(iv) no one acts unjustly without committing particular acts of
injustice; but no one can commit adultery with his own wife or
housebreaking on his own house or theft on his own property,
In general, the question 'can a man treat himself
unjustly?
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Aristotle |
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His central thesis, that deity is an infinite principle manifest in man and in all creation in a
hierarchy
of values, rhymes with Pound's own beliefs.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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"
II
--"O not at being here;
But that our future second death is drear;
When, with the living, memory of us numbs,
And blank
oblivion
comes!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Nay, even the Fates weep and wail for Adonis, calling upon his name; and
moreover
they sing a spell upon him to bring him back again, but he payeth no heed to it; yet ‘tis not from lack of the will, but rather that the Maiden will not let him go.
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Bion |
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)
[1156] Cicero,
_Oration
against Piso_, 21.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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Ambition was
awakened in her before she was ten years of age, when she began to
learn and to recite poems--learning them, as has been said, "between the
wash-tub and the ironing-board," and reciting them to the
admiration
of
older and wiser people than she.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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In short, I will follow that old
proverb that says, "He may
lawfully
praise himself that lives far from
neighbors.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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"These
abstracta
no longer mislead us,
but they may lead us"—with such words men
soared aloft.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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He told me that the first one was only a quack, and if I would only
pay him a certain amount in cash, that he would tell me how to prevent
any person from
striking
me.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Unless realization dawns from within, dry
explanations
and theories will not help you achieve the fruit of enlightenment.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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It was
necessary
first to establish and verify the purity of its
origin, even in the judgement of this common reason, before science
could take it in hand to make use of it, as a fact, that is, prior
to all disputation about its possibility, and all the consequences
that may be drawn from it.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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Unto their
lodgings
then his guestes he riddes: 320
Where when all drownd in deadly sleepe he findes,
He to this study goes, and there amiddes
His Magick bookes and artes?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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By the little which now
satisfies
Spirit, we can measure the extent of its loss.
| Guess: |
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Hegel_nodrm |
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He came to solicit
the
protection
of the Republic against the Egyptians, who, in his
absence, had given the crown to his daughter Berenice.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the
permission
of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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Kingly
Authority
over the Press.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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The second of these rules, the decomposition of the object into "as many parts as
possible
and as might be necessary for its adequate ~olution,"fo~r- mulates that analysis of elements under whose sign traditional theory
7.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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xv:
_ludere_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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He
writes :
The Bundesrath (primarily
destined
to safeguard
the territorial interests) gives a firm and single-handed
control to the Imperial policy; the Reichstag, on the
other hand, which represents the united nation, has
almost invariably exercised an obstructive and dis-
turbing influence.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Among other things, this office, unlike my other office on campus, where I see students and colleagues, was meant to protect me or, rather, to distance me from the invasiveness of electronic communication (and any other type of communication that I do not
actively
choose to engage in), like the private space of my home where I don't do e-mail either.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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Only the captain
Espinosa
and three of the crew lived to see
Spain again.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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"
Elinor would not oppose his opinion, because, whatever might be her
general estimation of the
advantage
of a public school, she could not
think of Edward's abode in Mr.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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117) informs us that it
was the Seleucides who collected into towns the
inhabitants
of
Babylonia, who before only inhabited villages (_vici_), and had no other
cities than Nineveh and Babylon.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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The fields of
the
Palatine
hill, which are now resplendent in honour of Phoebus [1020]
and our rulers, what were they but pastures for the oxen that ploughed?
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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" I asked a minute later, almost
angrily, turning my head
slightly
towards her.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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Bang goes
something
big away
Off there upstairs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of
the Project Gutenberg License
included
with this eBook or online at
www.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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For not only are the goals that we set for the
humanities
always and perhaps necessarily quite vague.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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One should not try to
eliminate
them.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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Has she not
Already
swallowed
up two lovers, and
Opened her greedy jaws to enfold a third?
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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Let
Achilles
go twice as fast as the tortoise, or ten times
or a hundred times as fast.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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Later the sovereigns
Dionysius
of Syracuse and Ptolemy
Philopater of Egypt composed tragedies about Adonis, but their work
is lost.
| Guess: |
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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Jennings
for two or three days; she was a great
wonderer, as every one must be who takes a very lively interest in all
the comings and goings of all their acquaintance.
| Guess: |
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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It is a harmless thing,
The Holofernes I have made your show;
You may gaze
blithely
upon him.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
|
If an
individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are
located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from
copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative
works based on the work as long as all
references
to Project Gutenberg
are removed.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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If that child
himself is alcoholic, his own offspring will suffer still more, since
they must carry the burden of two
generations
of impairment.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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Kate mourut pendant que Watt était encore au rez-de- chaussée et se fit
remplacer
par un chien prénommé Cis.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Beckett |
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On dirait cinquante
lunes
captives
dans un filet d'or.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Firstly, a commonplace type of man, with commonplace virtues: that is
to say, a non-ruling, non-authoritative, and non-self-sufficient type
of man; he possesses industry, patient
adaptableness
to rank and file,
equability and moderation in capacity and requirement; he has the
instinct for people like himself, and for that which they require--for
instance: the portion of independence and green meadow without which
there is no rest from labour, the claim to honour and consideration
(which first and foremost presupposes recognition and recognisability),
the sunshine of a good name, the perpetual ratification of his value and
usefulness, with which the inward DISTRUST which lies at the bottom of
the heart of all dependent men and gregarious animals, has again and
again to be overcome.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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After his
rejection
Dionysus tried to achieve his desire by a trick.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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Perhaps I could beg, or sell bootlaces, and I remembered articles I had read in the
Sunday papers about beggars who have two
thousand
pounds sewn into their trousers.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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Mentís; no son a mis bríos You lie: my courage is fine
menester falsos portentos, it requires no false proof,
porque tienen mis
alientos
because the best proof is the truth
su mejor prueba en ser míos.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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An evaluation of these is indispensable if one wishes to investigate whether an authentic Renaissance motif actually
supports
the older religious formations abolished by the counter-religions.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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There was a lag of ten years between
military
victory and this show of violence, but the principle was the one explained by Xenophon.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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But after this, when Andronicus came
From Corinth back again, and heard the news,
He bitterly
reproached
her, and at supper
He said, with just complaint, unto Gnathaeni?
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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Catalogus
through
ever gazed on,
especially
in the summer sea- son.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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They asked no clarion's voice to fire
Their souls with an impulse high:
But the Dorian reed and the Spartan lyre
For the sons of
liberty!
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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But Ted's
fearlessness
led to sad trouble.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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His monadology imagines
the subject as a paradox, a point-shaped architecture without windows, within which the entire world
nevertheless
appears.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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But one can also trace the chains of
inference
backwards by asking from what truths each theorem has been inferred.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Tacitus |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or
fleeting
hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Would that I were
he, whose locks she tears in her fury; would that I were he, whose
tender cheeks she tears with her nails; whom she looks upon bursting
into tears; whom she beholds with
scowling
eyes; without whom she cannot
exist; _but still_ wishes that she could.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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