)
Flinging
a Stone into the Cup was the signal for "To
Horse!
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In the majority of the
songs, the allegory is less
developed
than in this.
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They reflected the
colours of the rainbow, and,
according
to Pliny, a single one was sold
for seventy talents (more than 300,000 francs [£12,000]).
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Da spruhen Funken in der Nahe
Wie
ausgestreuter
goldner Sand.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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21, but the
fact remains that in the two
Catholic
provinces the natural increase is
16.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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I really forgot the
Directory
yesterday, which vexed me;
but I was convulsed with rage a great part of the day.
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Robert Burns |
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MYRSON
‘Tis
unseemly
for mortal men to judge of the works of Heaven, and all these four are sacred, and every one of them sweet.
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Bion |
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Life seems to be common even to plants, but we are seeking what is
peculiar
to man.
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And to this is nearly related that other modern device of consulting indexes, which is to read books hebraically, 4 and begin where others usually end; and this is a compendious way of coming to an
acquaintance
with authors.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Of the
Selachia some are rough-skinned and some smooth-skinned; and among the
smooth-skinned fishes are
included
the conger, the eel, and the tunny.
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Aristotle |
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"
IX
This said, the knight first with the witch unchaste
His idle loves and follies vain lamented;
Then kneeling low with heavy looks downcast,
His other sins
confessed
and all repented,
And meekly pardon craved for first and last.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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It is enough that we once came
together
; What if the wind have turned against the
rain ?
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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Insurrec- tions: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture will bring the tools of
philosophy
and critical theory to the political implications of the religious turn.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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seem to do their Work under a sort of Protest; each beginning
with a Tetrastich (whether genuine or not), taken out of its
alphabetical order; the Oxford with one of Apology; the
Calcutta
with
one of Expostulation, supposed (says a Notice prefixed to the MS.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Then the Chinese
Ambassador
is waiting to see His Majesty.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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essential
for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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“I’d feel mighty
comfortable
if you did now,” he said.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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I called myself Dimitry, and deceived
The
brainless
Poles.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Has the
unprincipled
god, Cupid, seduced you now too?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The truth about the
response
to the Pol Pot atrocities in the media and "the culture" in general, and the dramatic contrast to comparable examples where the United States bears primary responsibility, is not pleasant to contemplate.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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For common sense, everyday life remains a prison from which every life that has not resigned itself to it
nevertheless
dreams itself free.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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Voigt's anti-Nazi stance was articulated in his book Unto Caesar: On
Political
Tendencies in Modem Europe (1938).
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Samuel Beckett |
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her
loveliness
is dead with him.
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Shelley |
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Of what brave men has Venus not been
conqueror!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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e
noryssinges
of my resou{n}s descenden now in to
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The stratagems of war, and the intrigues of courts, are
read by far the greater part of mankind with the same
indifference
as
the adventures of fabled heroes, or the revolutions of a fairy region.
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Samuel Johnson |
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" This is a
precipitous
mountain, rising over the Atlantic Ocean, in the parish of
d.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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Marcius
Philippus
[consul, 663], iii.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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C'est un secret de tous connu,
Une douleur tres simple et non mysterieuse,
Et, comme votre joie,
eclatante
pour tous.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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[Blacklock, though blind, was a
cheerful
and good man.
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Robert Burns- |
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We use it like
Scotsmen, not as if it belonged to us, but as if we wished to prove that
we belonged to it, by showing our
intimacy
with its written rather than
with its spoken dialect.
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James Russell Lowell |
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" His
mirroring
and eternally
self-polishing soul no longer knows how to affirm, no longer how to
deny; he does not command; neither does he destroy.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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From the 7th
Olympiad
[752 B.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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[Reluctantly
resuming
his
couch on the turf] Ear him talk, one ud think she was keepin company
with him.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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Or else he sat with those who watched
His anguish night and day;
Who watched him when he rose to weep,
And when he
crouched
to pray;
Who watched him lest himself should rob
Their scaffold of its prey.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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It was as if a man were
to collect a number of choristers, or rather of choruses,
[Footnote: The Greek chorus
combined
singing with dancing.
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Lucian |
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Denkwurdigkeiten
(English transi,
in 2 vols.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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In other Sciences, without disgrace
A Candidate may fill a second place;
But Poetry no Medium can admit,
No Reader suffers an indiff'rent Wit:
The ruin'd Stationers against him baul,
And Herringman
degrades
him from his Stall.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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"Unless he gives me all in change,
I forfeit all things by him:
The risk is
terrible
and strange--
I tremble, doubt, .
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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He recognised
himself as being personally interested in the wager, and
trembled
at
the thought that he might have been the means of losing it by his
unpardonable folly of the night before.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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The desire for their subjection finds no immediately suitable point of attack; so it remains only to keep them, so to speak, divided among themselves and divisions
involved
in a struggle they can conduct with identical weapons until they are sufficiently weakened enough to fall prey to the third.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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What attitude have Latin-American
statesmen
taken
toward the Monroe Doctrine?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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And as for all the lore I had been
teaching
master Love, I clean forgot it, but the love-songs master Love taught me, I learnt them every one.
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Bion |
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at certe semper amabo,
semper maesta tua carmina morte tegam,
qualia sub densis ramorum
concinit
umbris
Daulias, absumptei fata gemens Itylei.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The
aesthetic
shudder from the word could easily seduce us to turn away from the only concept that gave the name to the dynamic pattern of modernization.
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Sloterdijk |
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I was away, far enough away:
Let me sleep now till the
Judgment
Day.
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Christina Rossetti |
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He
abhorred
them.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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And I was
burrowing
in deep for warmth,
Piling it well above the window-sills.
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Robert Burns- |
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Silius, who possesses the lands that once belonged to the
eloquent
Cicero, celebrates funeral obsequies at the tomb of the great Virgil.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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What here is a conscious, systematic arrangement of work roles is naturally a tangled confusing play of functions in the whole of society; the positions in society are not produced by a purposeful design but, understandably, just by the actual creative activity and
experience
of individuals.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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Hence the sage is able (in the same way) to
accomplish
his great
achievements.
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Tao Te Ching |
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I will bewail without ceasing, and
By these feelings of unbearable suffering,
Like a sick and dying man whose
strength
is exhausted, I will experience gasping, clenching of teeth, and thea
cracking of the skin,
Flesh emerging from the wounds, broad cracks of the
skin: the eight (cold hells).
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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97 However Zeus pelted Typhon at a distance with thunderbolts, and at close quarters struck him down with an adamantine sickle, and as he fled pursued him closely as far as Mount Casius, which
overhangs
Syria.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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Institute of World Affairs, New York
The Land
Question
in Burma
T H E BURMESE GOVERNMENT is pledged to a policy of land nationalization.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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What carries weight compared to that tradition is the expansion of the conceptual field from production to mobilization, on the one hand, and the amendment of the
prognostic
symptoms of kinetics, on the other.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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Memoirs had a
peculiar
fascina-
tion for him; and after reading those of Marshal de Bassompierre, he
decided to keep a close account of people and events.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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And each of these great experiences has been met
with a courage and a
sweetness
to which no words can render justice.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Though the work of each overlaps occasionally, there can be
little doubt of the main shares of
Middleton
and Dekker in The
Roaring Girle'.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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If it was problematic to assume that some professional experience in analyzing texts was necessarily a
sufficient
basis for analyzing films and media, the much more comprehensive self-entitlement that came with the cultural turn has indeed given license to an unheard-of amount of unqualified academic work in the humanities, work that barely disguises its intellectual misery, with excuses as lame as that of being "politically pertinent" or simply "exciting.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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And I felt the night between us deepen,
Heard the clock that ticked upon the shelf,
The great silence closing in around us,
And his hand that he
withdrew
from mine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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This which we have seen is
eternally
ours,
No others shall tread in the glade which now we see;
Their hands shall not touch the frail tranquil flowers,
Nor their hearts faint in wonder at the wild white tree.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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As the
narrator
shows, there is a profound ambiguity to this crime.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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":ZO Here again
omniscience
is ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Buddhist-Omniscience |
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I became the
spendthrift
of my own
genius, and to waste an eternal youth gave me a curious joy.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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in
kindness
sent--
To find me ever saying: "I'm content!
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| Question: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Era célebre por unas chuletas esparrilladas, las más
grandes, jugosas y baratas que en Madrid se han comido, y tenia
vanidad
Buttarelli
en la inconcebible prontitud con que las servia.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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We would be able to
calculate
in advance every single action if we
were all knowing, as well as every advance in knowledge, every delusion,
every bad deed.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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tu uina
Torquato
moue consule pressa meo.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The scheme of the work is
injudicious
and incommodious; for
what can be more absurd, than that one beast should counsel another to
rest her faith upon a pope and council?
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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All, however, had
necessarily
a centre; all as systems were necessarily
spherical.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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In the morning, when I awake, I sit by my window
and direct my
lorgnette
at her balcony.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Can I go
anywhere
for you,
or with you?
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| Question: |
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Austen - Persuasion |
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but if the latter impregnation takes placeduring the
change of the yellow
20
The wasps that are nicknamed 'the ichneumons' (or hunters), less
in size, by the way, than the
ordinary
wasp, kill spiders and carry
off the dead bodies to a wall or some such place with a hole in it;
this hole they smear over with mud and lay their grubs inside it,
and from the grubs come the hunter-wasps.
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Aristotle |
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I was appointed
chaplain
to the
French Ambassador at Constantinople.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Candide by Voltaire |
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Then he led his forces out; but, when the enemy
advanced
against him, he sounded a retreat; and marched his army back into the camp.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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The minutest
incidents
of childhood, or forgotten scenes of later
years, were often revived: I could not be said to recollect them, for if
I had been told of them when waking, I should not have been able to
acknowledge them as parts of my past experience.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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In
all
probability
it is, above all, essential, in order that
it should occur, that one or more spermatozoa should
penetrate the ovum.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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He
promises
his loyal
wife an immortality in song, with Alcestis and
Andromache, -- and, let us not forget, with
Corinna.
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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Ther was the
dougghte
Doglas slean:
The Perse never went away.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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See, I have left the jars sealed, Lest thou
shouldst
wake and whimper for thy wine.
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| Question: |
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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You've now regarded with awe all the
structures
which lie here in ruins,
Cultivated your eye, sensing each hallowed space.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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dicamente su odio al viscoso
matrimonio
en la indefensa, sino que ofende a lo mejor,
objeto de su aspiracio?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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" Then the Deaf Man divided the
treasure
; one great heap for himself, and one little heap for the Blind Man.
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v01 |
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They even went
farther, and elected for
themselves
the DEFENDERS which the Emperor had
refused them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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The
yellowhammer
never makes a noise
But flies in silence from the noisy boys;
The boys will come and take them every day,
And still she lays as none were ta'en away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Upon leaving the table I could
scarcely
stand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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They started their opinions freely, and
adhered to them with
becoming
confidence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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I have a better
prospect
of the event.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dryden - Complete |
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If, on the other hand, you set out to improve technology you may get annoyed, and again rightly so, with people who use the future as a
substitute
for reality and interfere with your work without contributing to it.
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| Source: |
The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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This personal ethics (the word ethos meaning literally "character" in Greek,
referring
to one's personality) is not only a matter of thought; instead, it is "a mode of being for the subject, along with a certain way of acting, a way visible to others" (1997e: 286).
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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This is surely symptomatic of our changed rela- tionship to
intellectual
authority.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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But it is
hardly
possible
that this sanguine opinior
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was
carefully
scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Tully - Offices |
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From Mans
effeminate
slackness it begins, 630
Said th' Angel, who should better hold his place
By wisdome, and superiour gifts receavd.
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Milton |
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This is a sign that the soul is not included in the body as its first act and substance,6 and that it is not
circumscribed
by the body.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Silently shining with a fire sublime,
They said, "O
friendly
lights, which long have been
Mirrors to us where gladly we were seen,
Heaven waits for you, as ye shall know in time;
Who bound us to the earth dissolves our bond,
But wills in your despite that you shall live beyond.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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No one has expressed with such pregnancy as has Elias Canetti the
compulsion
of the modern to hide the cruel aspects of its own operation: ``The sum total of sensibility in the world of culture has become very large .
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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She went down
toward the parade-ground, and his eyes
followed
her.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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Or with your mother and
sisters?
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Whitman |
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Dreams and soft case attend thy dusky train, pleas'd with the length'ned gloom and
feaftful
strain.
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Orphic Hymns |
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