Now they did
become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his
father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning
realisation
that
they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without
knowing it.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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matter, it ought to have been amended of yourselves, for it is
not a thing of an
intricate
nature, or that requires great prepa-
ration.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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When the
animals had assembled in the big barn, Snowball stood up and, though
occasionally interrupted by
bleating
from the sheep, set forth his
reasons for advocating the building of the windmill.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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A book has its
absolute
truth within the age.
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76403 |
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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“cosset”
: a pet lamb.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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"
"Captain Power,” said an orderly,
touching
his cap, "General
Murray desires to see you.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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Here is one of these quotations :
At ev'ry auction, bent on fresh supplies,
He cons his
catalogue
with anxious eyes :
Where'er the slim Italics mark the page,
Curious and rare his ardent mind engage.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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"
This
concludes
my historical review of the emancipated women.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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" New K-lines are attached to the most
recently
active K-lines.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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vision), sitting in solitude at a lonely place, completely absorbed inwardly, one should
mentalise
such dharmas as one deems proper,
because the very mind which mentalises also reflects in it that mentalisation through constant contemplation.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived
the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the expected guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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GERMAN INDUSTRY
torial power to carry through the Second Four Year Plan, all eco-
nomic activities in Germany were brought into six special groups:
(1) ProductionofGermanRawMaterialsandSemi-Manufactures (2) AllocationofRawMaterials
(3) EmploymentofLabor
(4)
Agricultural
Production
Price Policies
(6) ForeignExchangeSupply.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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After the invention of nuclear weapons many observers expected that the
conventional
weapons would go the way of bows and arrows.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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Since productive power is an
attribute
of the concrete useful forms of labour, of course it can no longer have any bearing on that labour, so soon as we make abstraction from those concrete useful forms.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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By nature, the bore- dom guaranteed by the Constitution would dress itselfin the form of a project: its psychosocial jingle is the atmos- phere of renewal,
optimism
its basic key.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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In short, unless you mingle your mind with the Dharma, it is pointless to merely sport a
spiritual
veneer.
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REED's PREFACE
lete, the humour which they possessed was lost, and the allusions, which depended temporary circumstances, being forgotten, grew
tasteless
and insipid.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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It seems scarcely reeoneileable with a due caution, to permit, that any but citizens should be eligible, as directors of a na- tional bank, or that non-resident foreigners should bo able to
influence
the appointment of directors, by the votes of
their proxies.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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The pedestrians bought a boat at Basle, and in it floated down the Rhine
as far as Cologne,
intending
to proceed in the same way to Ostend; but
they returned to England from Cologne by Calais.
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William Wordsworth |
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2 The kingfisher
feathers
mark the imperial standards and would be a sign of the emperor?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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He
travelled
to Greece and Constantinople on his way to Jerusalem, returning through Egypt, Tunisia and Spain.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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XXXI
You are
impatient
and hard to please.
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Epictetus |
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So saying, his tatter'd wallet o'er his back
He threw suspended by its
leathern
twist,
And tow'rd the threshold turning, sat again,
They laughing ceaseless still, the palace-door
Re-enter'd, and him, courteous, thus bespake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Instead, download to your computer, and
transfer
to your reader device.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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Another example is the persistent, and completely false declarations, which were made by some of the most
important
Arab leaders, that the two blue stripes of the Israeli flag symbolize the Nile and the Euphrates, while in fact they are taken from the stripes of the Jewish praying shawl (Talit).
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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See me return'd
After long suff'rings, in the
twentieth
year,
To my own land.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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--Belle hotesse,
repondit
l'un d'eux, nous n'avons pas voulu aller
au-devant d'infortunes honorables, dans la crainte d'etre trompes
par des miseres fictives: que la douleur frappe a la porte, nous
ouvrirons.
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Yeats - Poems |
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At length we reached the house where we intended to regale ourselves,
and I
proposed
to Anthea the choice of a great number of dishes, which
the place, being well provided for entertainment, happened to afford.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Anna
Sergyevna
gave him some drink: not taking off her
glove, and drawing her breath timorously.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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For that cry
Ourselves
and all the sons of heaven
Have pity.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Pompeius
apparently who was consul a.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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"
Before she was fifteen the great
struggle
of her life began.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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For we must not think
otherwise
of our
lives, than as a mere exhalation of blood, or of an ordinary respiration
of air.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
|
ber
geschmackvolles
Essen zu reden,' in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 2, 2003 / Spanish version in: La mujer de mi vida [Buenos Aires] 37 [October 2006]], pp.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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The court officials and the
ordinary
people were frequently converted to Buddhism.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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Maybe the order had been given
to arrest some house painter - that seems possible after what the judge
has said - someone who is as
innocent
as I am, but it was me they chose.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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as to mal
alOntewhat
,",ting OOntacl with the world, Jnyce Wat lesa oornfor~ble.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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perverted
from its proper end!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
|
-
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, the great critic of the Augustan age,
said that
Polybius
so neglected the graces of style that no one was
patient enough to read his works through to the end.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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_ Of
Teachers
that were no dumb ones I assure you.
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Erasmus |
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And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow,
And in their
perilous
fall shall thunder, GOD!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Let not the foot of pride come unto me, that is,
Cleanse me, Lord,from my secret sins and let not the hand of the wicked move me, that is,
Preserve
Thy servant
from the sins others.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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At one moment you say that an evil man is like an irre-
sponsible
beast, at another moment you state that
?
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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There
appeared
unto me, a trusty mattock, even as one hired to labour, he was digging of a ditch along the edge of a springing field, and was without either cloak or belted jerkin.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
|
Le nom de cette lance est venu d'Italie au 15e`me sie`cle) (Jacquet /
Saineanu
p14)
?
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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He was one of those worshippers of
Zverkov who made up to the latter from
interested
motives, and often
borrowed money from him.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
|
The dualism would be an sich (in itself) harmless or
uninteresting
if it were not staged in reality itself.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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a elite, mientras que entre los siglos v y xix su presencia resulta
asombrosamente
dis- continua.
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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But what name could we
more
suitably
apply to this singular feeling which cannot be
compared to any pathological feeling?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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This is an exceedingly valuable contribution to
Baudelaire
lore; a
dispassionate life, however, has yet to be written, a noble task for
some young poet who will disentangle the conflicting lies originated by
Baudelaire--that tragic comedian--from the truth and thus save him from
himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
|
It is a handsome book, rather scarce, and pense of such a work, but
actually
lived to see his
much valued ; and contains the Greek text, without collection comprehend the entire works of Galen,
translation, notes, or indices.
| 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 |
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: The two companies of the Bombay
European Regiment and the detachment of the Madras European
Regiment were also transferred to Bengal," and a few
battalions
of
sepoys were raised, to each of which were posted two officers from
the European Regiment.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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Therefore
the sage knows (these things) of himself, but does not
parade (his knowledge); loves, but does not (appear to set a) value
on, himself.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tao Te Ching |
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Their grins--
an
orchestra
of plucked skin and a million strings.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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"
Ulrich cautiously and with
qualifications
professed to agree with all these none too coherent assertions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
|
The
landscapists
employ trees and clouds in order to make odes and
elegies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Some of them had wings, and were of monstrous forms: others
set out in pomp, as it were in a triumph,
representing
the appearances
of kings, gods, and other persons.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucian - True History |
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He has been a pro- fessor of
cultural
history at the Humboldt University of Berlin since 1993.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
|
Then there was a
deafening
roar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Animal Farm |
|
If
anything
is to be melted
for a beautiful casting, men keep the flame up, and throw in all
the fuel in the neighborhood.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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As the Company has made this use of their trust, I
should ill discharge mine, if I refused to give my most
cheerful vote for the redress of these abuses, by putting the affairs of so large and valuable a part of the
interests of this nation and of'mankind into some
steady hands,
possessing
the confidence and assured
of the.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edmund Burke |
|
, irruptive or ephemeral status of the moments of God's
incarnation
and presence among humans, into a permanent frame condition of life within Christian existence and culture.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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ProfessorAllardyce showsthatDoriot'sPPF disavowedtheterm,as did,I mightadd, theBelgian
Rexistsin
theirearlyyears.
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| Source: |
Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
|
^72
In France, there is a
beautiful
old church, in the city of Rouen, dedicated to St.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
|
But
in the true course of experiment, and in extending it to new effects,
we should imitate the Divine foresight and order; for God on the first
day only created light, and
assigned
a whole day to that work without
creating any material substance thereon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bacon |
|
Sun, whose fires lighten all the works of the
world, and thou, Juno,
mediatress
and witness of these my distresses,
and Hecate, cried on by night in crossways of cities, and you, fatal
avenging sisters and gods of dying Elissa, hear me now; bend your just
deity to my woes, and listen to our prayers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Now to the low leaves they cling,
Each with coy
fantastic
pose,
Each a petal of a rose
Straining at a gossamer string.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Charmides |
|
For you never fail to make
reparation
to any - such is the kind-heartedness with which God has inspired you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
|
He was engaged
cipal works are: Historical Songs of Poland);
in journalism in the West; was private secre-
(History of the Reign of
Sigismund
III.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
|
In one word, the
foregoing
arrangement appears to be
general, and must therefore depend upon general causes, which
have on all occasions exerted the same influence from one
extremity of the earth to the other.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
|
denyed, were nody;
For
myne, goddes body,
[Here the
poticary
hoppeth,
THE FOUR P's,
Palmer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
|
Hoa cười ngọc thốt đoan trang,
Mây thua nước tóc, tuyết
nhường
màu da.
| Guess: |
word |
| Question: |
Submit,question,question |
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
|
Nevertheless, in spite of such
indications
of humanity, he has
ever since existed in my mind as the beatific vision of an immortal
druggist, sent down to earth on a special mission to myself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
|
I should like to die in sweets,
A hill's leaves for winding-sheets,
And the
searching
sun to see
That I am laid with decency.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Our
departure
in a coffle for New Orleans, 68.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
|
The Sports and
Pastimes
of the People of England, 1801.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
|
The maidenly reserve which she displays in her first
reception
of Odysseus, her prudent avoid ance of being seen with him in the streets of the town while he
THE WOMEX OF HOMER.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v02 |
|
In the latter view, the fable of Adonis is only
applicable
to
the celestial Venus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
For example,
HAPPYISUPdefines
acoherent system rather than a number of isolated and random cases.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lakoff-Metaphors |
|
But you must really look the facts in the face; you
must arrange to take the field and have
supplies
for pay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
|
_The Stars_
There is a goddess who walks
shrouded
by day:
At night she throws her blue veil over the earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
|
The
frontier
thinkers are not lacking in assurance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
X
The glamour of the soul hath come upon me,
And as the
twilight
comes upon the roses,
Walking silently among them, So have the thoughts of my heart
Gone out slowly in the twilight Toward my beloved,
Toward the crimson rose, the fairest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
|
Apollinax
visited the United States
His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
|
Yea, my friend, the bad conscience art thou of thy neighbours; for they
are
unworthy
of thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
|
He died spellbound by the
sorceress
Vivien
in a hollow oak.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
" But wishes
were useless, and this the boys knew, so they went
to
thinking
once more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Brownies |
|
Cheer louder, you dupes of the ambush of hell;
What’s left of life-essence, you
squander
its spells
And only on doomsday feel paupered.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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She
had no temptation for such an action; as to the bauble on which the
chief proof rests, if she had
earnestly
desired it, I should have
willingly given it to her, so much do I esteem and value her.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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and the
indigenous
coins which can be attributed to this period add little to
our knowledge.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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And is my proud heart growing
Too cold or wise
For
brilliant
eyes
Again to set it glowing?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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"
According
to Anselm, it was for this reason that "nothing equals Mary, nothing but God is greater than Mary": Mary, as vessel, as way, was the human, creaturely agent of the Creator's entry into his creation.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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But call upon barons of Occiant,
Turks and Enfruns,
Arrabits
and Giants.
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Chanson de Roland |
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East of the
Hydaspes
(Jhelum) the Paurava king had been watching
the immense peril come near.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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The European Public, or benevolent
individuals
of
it everywhere, indulged also in this hope.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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All these are values
proceeding
from exhausted
people.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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But it is,
As you must needs have deeply felt, it is
In
darkness
and in tempest that we seek
The majesty of Him who rules the world.
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I should direct the
learned imitator to have a regard to the mode of nature and manners, and
thence draw his
expressions
to the life.
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Horace - Works |
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—By
virtue of extraordinary
intellectual
exercise through
the art-development of the new music, our ears
have been growing more intellectual.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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This was in
1808, at a time when the possibility of a French invasion of India
was much discussed, and though there was no
definite
answer at
once, the result was the sending in September of that year of Metcalfe
to Ranjit Singh with the purpose of arranging a treaty; at the same
time assurances of protection were given to the frightened chiefs.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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