Was Alsace in truth a
connecting
link between
Germany and France?
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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These
reforming
movements, which broke away from the
papacy, did not, however, destroy its power.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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The
Experientialist
Alternative: Giving New Meaning to the Old Myths
30.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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The Slavic lectures were
those delivered at the
Collège
de France, where in 1840 Cousin had
founded a chair of Slavic literature.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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"
"'Deed, sir, I dinna think he has muckle pain in his heed,
though he
compleens
o't whiles; but as I often tell him, I wiss
he had my back.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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POLITICAL
CYNICISMS
IV
naval troops, which ended with the sailors' victory), it now came to a bloody deci- sion.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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, Essays and
Characters
of a
Prison and Prisoners, 99
Myra (Fulke Greville's), 267
Myrania (Greene's), 357
Myschefe, in Magnyfycence, 77
Napier or Neper, John (1550-1617), 426
Naples, in The Anatomy of Wit, 345
Nashe, Thomas (1567–1601), 114, 176,
183, 208, 256, 259, 293, 305, 359,
362 ff.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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His most important service
to the stage of his time was the invention of a new kind of beau
in Sir Novelty Fashion, who was
accepted
by Vanbrugh as a type,
and held the stage until he was reincarnated as Lord Dundreary.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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" every man would reply : " It
is what we are
fighting
for.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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The Council was
summoned
to assemble at Nicaea, the orthodox
associations of that place being of good omen.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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_ That HE will be an exile from his heaven,
To lead those exiles
homeward?
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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Delivered from the heavy fetters of desire, the eye, now
calmer, attends to the form, the soul contemplates the soul, and the
interested
exchange
of pleasure becomes a generous exchange of
mutual inclination.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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He was the third of the English kings who ruled over all the
southern
provinces
that are divided from the northern by the river Humber
and the borders contiguous to it;(190) but the first of all that ascended
to the heavenly kingdom.
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bede |
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There were,
according
to Gleeson, but two ways out.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Tully - Offices |
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»Su vista rutilante,
Que el
universo
abarca,
Posada en tu semblante
Desde tu cuna está,
Y el dedo omnipotente
Sobre tu noble frente
Grabó la regia marca,
Que á conocer te da.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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Marshaled down the open coast,
Fearless
of that low rampart's frown,
The winter's white-winged, footless host
Beleaguers ancient Saybrook town.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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In that he has intelligence and wisdom, in that he distin guishes good from evil : herein was he made after the image and
likeness
of God.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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But the words have scarce been spoken, when the ominous
calm is broken,
And a
bellowing
crash has emptied all the vengeance of the storm!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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especially
III, 25, and V, 21.
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bede |
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But it does not happen in created things that the same
numerically can subsist in divers
essences
or natures.
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Summa Theologica |
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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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Tully - Offices |
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(McDowell 1979, 245)
By far,
descriptive
routines (like that in no.
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Childens - Folklore |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Ronsard |
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2 Gróf Vay Peter: A keleti féltekénĘ(On the Eastern Hemisphere), Budapest,
Franklin
TársulatĘ(ed.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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Hall, a neighbour, said,
" You have done wrong in
shooting
your landlord's cock," to which, Turpin replied, that if he would stay while he loaded his gun, he would shoot him also.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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In Le Diable
Boiteaux
he makes use 127 of the cock's tail-feather as a magic key, just as Lu cian does, and reminds us also of the satire on magic in the Lie-Fancier.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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The pure absorptions cultivated in the principal spheres of Arupyadhatu--in opposition to the Dhyana absorptions and to the absorptions cultivated in the
sdmantakas
of Arupyadhatu (viii.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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She began
contributing
to
magazines at 18, and is very popular, chiefly
as a writer of stories for girls.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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He founded the Roman Cath-
olic
University
of Kensington in 1874.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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'I have come to the river,' she said, 'to float my
lamp on the stream when the
daylight
wanes in the west.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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Go to then, don't you find among the several kinds of living creatures
that they thrive best that
understand
no more than what Nature taught
them?
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Heaven assist the human
Smoothly
to unravel
All that web of pain
Wherein ye are holden.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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He could see that Clarisse was passionately demanding something that
Meingast
was refusing her, and jealousy bored into his breast like a double-threaded screw.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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It is but for charity
We buy such souls at all; a
thousand
sins
Made them our Master's long before we came.
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Yeats - Poems |
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' The
simple story of his stirring adventures, told in pure and nervous
English, won immediate popularity, and was
translated
into
German, Dutch and Latin, running through many editions.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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" The next consequence of
this
attitude
was that, contrary to his former utter-
ances on undenominational schools, he now de-
clared denominational schools as normal, whereas,
as late as 1872, he had appealed to the new Minis-
?
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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From this period, pilgrimages
third time
restored
original state, and any former period.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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And how much honey of hope did I
carry hence into my
beehives!
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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('Stable' means that, once it exceeds a critical
frequency
in the population, no alternative does better.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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They agreed that the victor should work his will on the vanquished, and when the trial took place Apollo turned his lyre upside down in the
competition
and bade Marsyas do the same.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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The answer of Adams contained the
important
sug-
gestion, that though such an overture should not be fol-
lowed by a treaty, it would operate beneficially by its
effect on the popularity of the English minister.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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I differ from these models, I have no
categoric
c~n and cannot.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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The high
minister
of a great state could not wear more than three of the symbols, and the ministers below him only two.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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To my
question
"What say?
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| Question: |
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
|
Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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On the evening of the thirteenth of March, when the rain
and wind had raged, the late Emperor appeared in a dream to his son
the Emperor, in front of the palace, looking
reproachfully
upon him.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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Besides, all the truth in
Judea, Greece, Rome, was an
auxiliary
to favor the new doc-
trine.
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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This Domnal was a
disciple
of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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THE PENALTY
WILL
INCREASE
TO SO CENTS ON THE FOURTH
DAY AND TO $1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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It shows a number of similarities with humour under dictatorships, as all totalizing systems,
religious
and political alike, provoke a popular backlash against the supposedly sublime that is forced on them.
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| Question: |
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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Mine arms enfold
That, which
unswayed
by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so infinitely far.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I also request others, who may be interested, to extend whatever assistance they can,
financial
or otherwise, to help ensure the success of this historic project.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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Tell me about it if it's
something
human.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst - North of Boston |
|
]
But with a cold,
incredulous
voice, he said:--
"What prate is this of fathers and revenge?
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| Question: |
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying,
performing, copying or
distributing
any Project Gutenberg-tm works
unless you comply with paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
|
He said: Yu, want a definition of
knowledge?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
|
I leaned to catch the words he said
That were light as a
snowflake
falling;
Ah well that he never leaned to hear
The words my heart was calling.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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These questions answered, Hispal, quite elate,
Procured the escort, which, without delay,
Though leaving him behind, was sent away:
No dark mistrust
retained
the noble youth;
But Zarus wished it: such appeared the truth.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Compare this definition with this other one, made
by a real " spectator " and " artist " — by Stendhal,
who once called the
beautiful
une promesse de
honheur.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
|
You will see me any morning in the park
Reading the comics and the
sporting
page.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
|
Yet some men never seem to have thought of it for one moment, but
as connected with brewers, and barristers, and
tyrannical
Squire Westerns!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Table Talk |
|
”
“True, to see real acting, good hardened real acting; but I would hardly
walk from this room to the next to look at the raw efforts of those who
have not been bred to the trade: a set of
gentlemen
and ladies, who have
all the disadvantages of education and decorum to struggle through.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Mansfield Park |
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He realised in the entire sphere of human
relations that imaginative
sympathy
which in the sphere of Art is the
sole secret of creation.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - De Profundis |
|
Dar'st thou dive seas, and
dungeons
of the earth?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Donne - 1 |
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Tears streamed down the
girl’s
face, washing away the powder in long, dirty
smears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
|
Any
foreseeable
course of events would have involved
steps that the Soviets or the Americans -
would lead straightforwardly to general war -
would not have taken.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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I never liked the idea that we knew of Christ's own
words only through a
translation
of a translation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Accordingly
we see in the Maurya
age the beginning of a stage of concentration, in which only a few great
sects could maintain themselves by the side of a settled Brāhman ortho-
doxy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Orpheus
invented
all the sciences, all the arts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
[Illustration]
No sooner had we passed beyond the smell of that sweet odour but
we felt a horrible filthy stink, like pitch and brimstone burning,
carrying an intolerable scent with it as if men were broiling upon
burning coals: the air was dark and muddy, from which
distilled
a
pitchy kind of dew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucian - True History |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
|
AU JARDIN From Canzoni
YOU away high there,
you that lean From amber
lattices
upon the cobalt night,
1 am below amid the pine trees, Amid the little pine trees, hear me !
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
|
Literary magazines have been in the food truck business for a long time, serving up a variety of dishes that were intended to
stimulate
the intellectual pal- ate with "the best words in the best or- der.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
|
Come up higher,
All
Christians!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
"What are you
standing
there for like a stock?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
You can even name
Schiller without
blushing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
|
You cannot practise in every way all the details of the
Perfection
of Giving up through the rest of the Perfections, to Insight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
|
Antigonus
thought it cruel, to put such a number of men to death; and yet was afraid, lest they should join the enemy, who were commanded by Alcetas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Polyaenus - Strategems |
|
The princess looks lovingly at the
handsome
youth, but cannot speak
for modesty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
|
_ ci
WINTERTIME
nighs;
But my bereavement-pain
It cannot bring again:
Twice no one dies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
But Demetrius says, that it was his relations who read the Great World, and that they were presented with a hundred talents only; and
Hippobotus
coincides in this statement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Diogenes Laertius |
|
They still
abounded
in schools;
but the studies pursued in them were the mere repetition of past and
obsolete knowledge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
|
he insisted on exposing it as
something
that ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
|
Lucus erat longo nunquam violatus ab aevo,
Obscurum cingens
connexis
aera ramis,
Et gelidas, alte summotis solibus, umbras.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
|
Now man has this box of happiness perpetually in the house and
congratulates himself upon the treasure inside of it; it is at his
service: he grasps it
whenever
he is so disposed, for he knows not that
the box which Pandora brought was a box of evils.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
|
On such occasions I would retire to a
corner and weep alone;
concealing
my tears lest I should be called lazy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
|
This
distinguished
of Italy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
|
But for this to happen there must be the external
conditions
of the Buddha, the dharma, and the sangha and the inner condition of buddha nature within
one's mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
|
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 |
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XXXIX
Silent stands mournful Bradamant, nor dares
Meanwhile
her lady-mother's speech gainsay;
To whom such reverence, and respect, she bears,
She thinks no choice is left but to obey.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Aye, and even
thus passed out of the cave, hasting down the long passage
without a quiver of the heart or a
blenching
of the cheek, so
suddenly and so starkly, by way of sudden hope, had the glorious
music brought the hot blood back to our hearts, even as it had
stricken our cruel foes with instant terror.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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NGUYỄN TÔNG LỖI 阮宗磊21
người
huyện Bạch Hạc phủ Tam Đới.
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stella-02 |
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' It was
otherwise
in the period 1600—60.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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National antipathy
operated
on some minds, religious
antipathy on others.
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Macaulay |
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Thus they, In silence long my fate I mourn'd;
At length these words with accents low return'd:
`Me, lock'd in sleep, my faithless crew bereft
Of all the
blessing
of your godlike gift!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I am glad that I have
extracted
that answer, by the assistance of
the court; nevertheless you swear in the indictment that I teach and
believe in divine or spiritual agencies (new or old, no matter for
that); at any rate, I believe in spiritual agencies, as you say and
swear in the affidavit; but if I believe in divine beings, I must
believe in spirits or demigods; - is not that true?
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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A man of full age, married, with children and occupying a
high office was, unless
formally
emancipated, still under his father's power
and had only a peculiurn like slaves.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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Inquisitive
Persons are commonly hated, but yet Physicians are
allowed to be inquisitive after every particular Thing.
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Erasmus |
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