"
"Why are you
clacking
away like that, my good sir, eh?
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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Chanson de Roland |
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I expressed my
suspicions
of the
German character even at the age of six-and-twenty
(see Thoughts out of Season, vol.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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The ancient world knows the cynic (better: kynic) as a bird that flies solo, a provocative,
stubborn
moralist.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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He was a capital
draughtsman
with a strong nervous line
and made many pen-and-ink drawings of her.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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The reason for Frederick's refusal was his
knowledge
of the
semi-barbarous conditions that prevailed at the Russian court.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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That might infringe the
discipline
of the sangha.
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Shobogenzo |
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We climbed the
ploughed
land,
dragged the seed from the clefts,
broke the clods with our heels,
whirled with a parched cry
into the woods:
_Can you come,
can you come,
can you follow the hound trail,
can you trample the hot froth?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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A fairy land of flowers, and fruit, and sunshine,
And crystal lakes, and over-arching forests,
And mountains, around whose towering summits the winds
Of Heaven untrammelled flow--which air to breathe
Is
Happiness
now, and will be Freedom hereafter
In days that are to come?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Imagists |
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For the rest, the attempt has been made,
within such limitations as have been experienced, to present pretty
freely the best of what has been found available in contemporary British
and
American
war verse.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The
troubled
plumes of midnight were
The plumes upon a hearse:
And bitter wine upon a sponge
Was the savior of Remorse.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Within the water and the clouds are
vortices
of energy.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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It is so
beautiful!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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I have had enemies only, a few brothers who served me faith-
fully, and one godlike moment, short as the clash of swords
that are
shattered
at one stroke.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Lamech a su
ascendiente
Cai?
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| Question: |
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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_
An
allusion
to the story of Su Wu.
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| Question: |
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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Accordingly, mere appearance is not a safe
criterion
of the
identity of twins.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And
newspapers
from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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First time, this,
for the
gleaming
blade that its glory fell.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But that's little use to me,
She holds me in
suspense
I vow
Like a ship upon the sea.
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Troubador Verse |
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See Grabill, Writing
Community
Change; Simmons and Grabill, "Toward a Civic
Rhetoric.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
|
Had he not done so,
we might have lost the most perfect of English
literary
artists with-
out gaining a great poet of nature and the world.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
|
)
Fear
ofpunishment
is not a pure fear of God.
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| Question: |
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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"The
irritable
race of poets.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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I saw that she was on the point of
fainting
with fright and indignation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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" If the
portraits
of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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As every thing was external in the Pagan
worship, the pomp of images was there
prodigally exhibited; the
sanctuary
of Chris-
tianity being at the bottom of the heart, the
poetry which it inspires must always flow
from tenderness.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
|
An analogy would be taking a
photograph
of someone.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kalu Rinpoche |
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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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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Similarly, if the attribute 'winged' be
withdrawn
from 'the bird', 'the wing' will no longer be relative; for if the so-called correlative is not winged, it follows that 'the wing' has no correlative.
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Aristotle copy |
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NOT A
PHYSICAL
BENEFIT
(a) A Cause of Sterility
(b) Neuroses
(c) Fibroid Tumours
Section 2.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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Perpetual
fretting
at length threw Madame Moritz
into a decline, which at first increased her irritability, but she is
now at peace for ever.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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But the chief
interest
centred round the wee
maiden lying in mother's arms, the baby of
four weeks old.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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It is
sometimes
hard to think so.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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O vain and
causeless
melancholy!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the ploughman in
darkness
plough?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
II
I am torn, torn with thy beauty, O Rose of the
sharpest
thorn !
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Look quickly upon us with
compassion!
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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[98] Thence departing (and thy hounds sped with thee) thou dist find by the base of the Parrhasian hill deer
gamboling
– a mighty herd.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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LXXX
Sir Guido speaks that night with Alery
(So the most faithful of his wives was hight)
Nor needs long prayer to make the dame agree,
Disposed
already to obey the knight.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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This is no
authority
for the
abuse of cheese.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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Chimene
Love is too slight, Elvire, I adore him;
My passion
contends
with my anger;
Deep in my enemy I find the lover;
I feel that despite resentment's dart,
Rodrigue still fights my father in my heart.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Now,
Though
twilight
here, it may be starlight there;
Mist makes elfin lakes in the hollow fields;
The dark wood stands in the mist like a somber island
With one red star above it.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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They accepted
everything
that
they were told about the Rebellion and the principles of Animalism,
especially from Clover, for whom they had an almost filial respect; but
it was doubtful whether they understood very much of it.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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To achieve the object of his dark course,
His
insolence
employed the use of force.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Poet Li Po, by Arthur Waley and Bai Li
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Li Po |
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This means that the concept of man was not
obtained
a posteriori but through self-consciousness.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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MADAME MONCE:
‘SALOPE!
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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He
subsequently
served as ambassador to Prussia and the United Kingdom, and was Minister of Foreign affairs from 1822 to 1824.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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" but
realised
only that it must have been very bitter to me to
say all this.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-20 03:41 GMT / http://hdl.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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3 the stability of the Doctrine, the
existence
of many who follow the' Doctrine, and through the kindness and faith ofothers to have favorable circumstances for religious practice.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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And
whatsoever
he taught in word, that he fulfilled in deed, that he
might be a pattern, even as he spake words of mystic meaning.
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bede |
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As described in the spiritual biography of Tilopa, he traveled miraculously to Uddiyana, the dakini's land and received three special or pith instructions from
Uddiyana
and these are the Three Gems (Tib.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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InEnglishwe
call "to shine" a verb in the infinitive, because it gives the abstract meaning of the verb without conditions.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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There the
disaster
of their society is more endurable.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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— all that characterises modern man as
savouring
of,
xiv.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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All things were wrapped in flames and with joints disruptured
were
tottering
to their fall, exactly as if Juno had driven her spouse
to madness.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Satires |
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Some reasons why IP
addresses
are blocked include:
- Your program is trying to "harvest" the contents.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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and
accession
of Leo II.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-19 01:38 GMT / http://hdl.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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Murogh, son of
Taichleach
O’Dubhda (or O'Dowd,) was slain by Maolseachlain O'Maol
ruannaigh (or O'Mulrooney).
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| Source: |
Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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83
Crosses anon wide ways populous, hastes to the
street ; (60)
Cheerer in heats o' the sun to the
wanderer
heavily
fuming,
Under a drought, when fields swelter agape to the
sky.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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and the line is
made to
coiftain
26 instead of 24 times !
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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His various
contempts
would take a long time to catalogue in detail.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Burmese Days |
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A magnet must be made man,
in some Gilbert, or Swedenborg, or Oersted, before the general mind
can come to
entertain
its powers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Representative Men |
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The discussion of Polish
politics
during
the World War is exceptionally thoro.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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It is a fact well understood, that public banks have found admission and
patronage
among the principal and most enlightened commercial nations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
|
The ominous concept of "socialism in one country" did more than provide an emergency solution (Notlosung) in light of the
persistent
deferral of the world revolution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
|
It is an intimate
quality of the mind, which predisposes a man to look for remote
and unreal
analogies
and to present them gravely as if they were
valid.
| Guess: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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For the
rectification
of our
aesthetic knowledge we previously borrowed from
them the two divine figures, each of which sways
a separate realm of art, and concerning whose
mutual contact and exaltation we have acquired
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
|
In the first, it is the Hero as Divinity,
and in this the heroic divinities of Norse
mythology are
especially
considered.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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But for some years we were
frequent
correspondents, until our
correspondence became controversial, and our zeal cooled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
|
Its
business
office is located at 809 North 1500 West, Salt
Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
|
Problems of national security in multi- and bipolar worlds do clearly show the
advantages
of having two great powers, and only two, in the system.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
|
e seke
gladlich
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I was not: yet I saw the will of God
As light unfashion'd, unendurable flame,
Interminable, not to be supposed;
And there was no more
creature
except light,--
The dreadful burning of the lonely God's
Unutter'd joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Cuantas veces escapa a la vigilancia del mundo exterior, cuantas veces se siente a sus anchas en el circulo ampliado de su yo, tiene la
tendencia
a mostrarse deseen-
siderado y brutal.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
|
This little booh explains with admirable
clearness and brevity the part which
literature
has
played in the life of the race.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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The objectives of the United States and other free countries in negotiations with the Soviet Union (apart from the ideological objectives discussed above) are to record, in a formal fashion which will facilitate the consolidation and further advance of our position, the process of Soviet
accommodation
to the new political, psychological, and economic conditions in the world which will result from adoption of the fourth course of action and which will be supported by the increasing military strength developed as an integral part of that course of action.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
NSC-68 |
|
-
Who sung the stave I filched from you that day
To
Amaryllis
wending, our hearts' joy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
XXI
I can tell not only about a
discomfort
far greater than others,
But of a horror besides, thinking of which will arouse
Every fiber in me to revulsion.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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His identity
collapse
had been temporary; now he sought always to reaffirm that in himself which he most valued and could depend upon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
|
A flowery
kingdom?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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And ther-with-al his body sholde sterte,
And with the stert al
sodeinliche
awake,
And swich a tremour fele aboute his herte, 255
That of the feer his body sholde quake;
And there-with-al he sholde a noyse make,
And seme as though he sholde falle depe
From heighe a-lofte; and than he wolde wepe,
And rewen on him-self so pitously, 260
That wonder was to here his fantasye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Perhaps not
quite, my tough old friend; recover
yourself
a little, and we
shall see!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
" Similar
displays of resentment have been made against pictures of the mother of
god and pictures of saints in Catholic
countries
during the present
century when such pictures would not do their duty during times of
pestilence and drought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
|
Why is
Monsieur
Bwikov so out of humour with
you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
|
5 # When Agathocles had embarked on an expedition against Carthage, to test the resolution of his men, he ordered a proclamation to be made, that whoever wished to be excused from the expedition might go ashore, and take with him
whatever
property he had on board.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Polyaenus - Strategems |
|
Well, then the
Alchymist
was provided for,
who was in no Danger, but that of wanting Money for his Wench.
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It seems certain, that the feud had broke out
in 1675-6; for Shadwell has not only made some
invidious
allusions to
the success of "Aureng-Zebe," which was represented that season, but
has plainly intimated, that he needed only a pension to enable him to
write as well as Dryden himself.
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It seems to attain to that ideal of “toil unsever’d
from
tranquillity”
which haunts us all, but which we have almost ceased to
associate with the life of man under present conditions.
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bede |
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Mandela's real sin in Bushs eyes was that he was part of a revolutionary move- ment that engaged in armed struggle against a
violently
repressive apartheid regime in South Africa.
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(No, I'm
forgetting
fire.
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Translation
of Hon, G.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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45:12 And the
daughter
of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the
rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
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And as the newe abaysshed nightingale,
That
stinteth
first whan she biginneth to singe,
Whan that she hereth any herde tale, 1235
Or in the hegges any wight steringe,
And after siker dooth hir voys out-ringe;
Right so Criseyde, whan hir drede stente,
Opned hir herte and tolde him hir entente.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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PROHIBITED COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION
INCLUDES
BY ANY
SERVICE THAT CHARGES FOR DOWNLOAD TIME OR FOR MEMBERSHIP.
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