So the prime concern of political thought is, first, how to gain this willing allegiance and cooperation and, second, how to wield the power thus gained in a way that will produce a social
environment
most conducive to human flourishing.
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Suddenly he hears
footsteps
on the bank and the sound of singing.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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The university, supervision
of
professorsby
the studentswas totallyinconceivable.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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And I wonder how they should have been
together!
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net/3/1/8/3188/
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Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions will be
renamed.
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Twain - Speeches |
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But after the “crowning
mercy”
of Chrysopolis there was no more
fighting, except with the Goths.
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Con el poder de
disposicio?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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Only 160,800 tons of bombs were dropped on the home islands of Japan,
compared
with
1,360,000 tons dropped within the borders of Germany.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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What though the pains and joys
Whereof it spoke were toys
Fitting his age and ken,
Yet fairest dames and bearded men,
Who heard the sweet request,
So gentle, wise and grave,
Bended with joy to his behest
And let the world's affairs go by,
A while to share his cordial game,
Or mend his wicker wagon-frame,
Still
plotting
how their hungry fear
That winsome voice again might hear;
For his lips could well pronounce
Words that were persuasions.
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Emerson - Poems |
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In exchange for the sum of a
hundred guineas he is
admitted
into the house for the purpose of moving
his suit to Miranda.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Nowadays the benevolent men of the age lift up weary eyes,10 worrying over the ills of the world, while the men of no
benevolence
tear apart the original form of their inborn nature in their greed for eminence and wealth.
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Chuang Tzu |
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His trip was ostensibly to provide background material for his work Les Martyrs, a Christian epic in prose, but may also have helped to resolve certain
problems
in his private life.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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" Brecht's didactic play Die Mass- nahme (The
Measures
Taken) from 1930 reveals how important the mobiliza- tion of the willingness to kill was for communism.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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" It seems also to be
involved
in the idea of leisure merely as rest from work or as escape rather than as a means of self-expression and self-understanding.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Quite otherwise it is, when forth we move,
Impelled
by a blow of another's mighty powers
And mighty urge; for then 'tis clear enough
All matter of our total body goes,
Hurried along, against our own desire--
Until the will has pulled upon the reins
And checked it back, throughout our members all;
At whose arbitrament indeed sometimes
The stock of matter's forced to change its path,
Throughout our members and throughout our joints,
And, after being forward cast, to be
Reined up, whereat it settles back again.
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Lucretius |
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The Final Cut, Pink Floyd's last record, was written by Roger Waters (born 1944) for Eric
Fletcher
Wa- ters (1913-1944), that is, for a victim of a world war.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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But to the riddle-maker and his public a poem was primarily something heard, not something seen, and the
variation
in the heard length of the lines would correspond naturally enough to the variation in note of the tubes of the pipe.
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Pattern Poems |
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105
XIV
For aged folks on crutches,
And women great with child,
And mothers sobbing over babes
That clung to them and smiled,
And sick men borne in litters 110
High on the necks of slaves,
And troops of
sunburnt
husbandmen
With reaping-hooks and staves,
XV
And droves of mules and asses
Laden with skins of wine, 115
And endless flocks of goats and sheep,
And endless herds of kine,
And endless trains of wagons
That creaked beneath the weight
Of corn-sacks and of household goods, 120
Choked every roaring gate.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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From
Shopalist
to Bailywick he calmly extensolies.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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CATULLUS 41
XXXI
Fair Sirmio, thou art the very eye
Of all the verdant isles that
blooming
lie
'Neath Neptune's sway, in limpid lake asleep,
Or raise rough crags against the surging deep.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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Its essence is
inseparable
from the mysterious
initial force that expresses itself as the abil-
ity to ignite new chains of movement, which
we call "actions.
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Sloterdijk |
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124 ARMS AND INFLUENCE
long enough to
persuade
the other that it can safely relax too.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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First, a
historical
doubt: is repression such an incontrovertible fact about the history of sexuality?
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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NGUYỄN XUÂN DƯƠNG 阮春陽33
người
huyện Hoằng Hóa phủ Hà Trung.
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stella-03 |
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The perfection of the
body is a necessary
antecedent
to the perfection of the soul; for
health is the key that unlocks the inner chamber.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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” said Vera in a whisper,
clinging
to me.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Everywhere
leaf fall,
Dry leaves rustling.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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yet
unspoiled
by wealth!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The
derogatory reception of my friend's work had made a deep
impression
upon
me.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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LXXII
"For I will make you see what must please
A wight" (pursued the
stranger)
"that is wed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The
doubling
of the lines is to be explained as a mere evolutionary survival.
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Pattern Poems |
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A
gardened
castle?
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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I have
described to you
everything
to the best of my ability.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Now, thonked be god, he may goon in the daunce
Of hem that Love list febly for to
avaunce!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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hath been
declared
by wise men endued with true knowledge that by walking only seven paces with another, one contracteth
a friendship with one's companion.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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485) " videlicet ut
quicumque litem habens (sivo possessor)
sive petitor fuerit, vel inito lites vel
decursis temporum curriculis, sive cum
negotium peroratur sive cum jam ceperit
promi sententia, si judicium elegerit
sacrosancte sedis antistitis, illico sine
aliqua dubitatione etiam si pars altera
refragatur, ad episcoporum judicium
cum sermone litigantium dirigatur, et
omnes cum cause que
pretorio
et etiam
civili jure tractantur, episooporum
terminate sententiis perpetuo robur
obtineant firmitatis et negotio quod
judicio eorum deciditur, nequaquam
ulterius ab aliquo retractetur ; ex quo
manifesta potest ratione perpendi
quam iniquum videatur et absonum
si honor Ecclesie que tam grandia
libertatis privilegio dotata dinoscitur,
in illis immunitatibus que multo pre-
diotis dinoscuntur esse minores, hiia
temporibus decurtetur.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Brutus (1) the
liberator
of the Roman people from their kings, and (2)
the murderer of Caesar.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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He then
published
an Intro duction to the Old Testament (1862-3), in which the stand point of the apologist was abandoned, and the intermediate position of Ewald was taken (e.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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When thy poor heart beats with
outrageous
beating,
Thou canst not strike it thus to make it still.
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Shakespeare |
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On the philosophical
deduction
of the idea of the world museum, see Beat Wyss, Trauer der Vollendung: Von der Asthetik des Deutschen Idealismus zur Kulturkritik an der Moderlle (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 1985); on the metaphysics of the archive, see Boris Groys!
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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In the
category
of supportive factors, we find, first of all, elemental patriotism, the overwhelming wish to think well of ourselves, our insti- tutions, and our leaders.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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] Werk des
Gesichts
ist getan,/tue nun Herz-werk/an den Bildern in dir, jenen gefan- genen; denn du/u?
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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keep away from
me: defile not that
innocent
and beneficent hand.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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'My dear Courtland,' said I,
immediately
throwing
them all into the fire, 'do not adopt either of them, but by all means
build a cottage.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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J'avais assez de liberté d'esprit pour goûter dans ce qu'elle disait
cette grâce
française
si pure qu'on ne trouve plus, ni dans le parler,
ni dans les écrits du temps présent.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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"
IX
Land of the
hurricane!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Do not expect, despite all my affection,
Craven
feelings
aimed in your direction.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Now they of Muscovy ben Devyls, and they ben subtle for to make a thing
seme
otherwise
than it is, for to deceive mankind.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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I
answered
him at once,
"Old, old man, it is the wisdom of the age.
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Stephen Crane |
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LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR
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OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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From five to
seven a child may begin to make a first easy
acquaintance
with the life
of the school by looking on at the lessons of its elders.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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But then in truth he
journeys
either through rain or through wind.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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And says, "Here
greatest
peril is, heavens yield
Strength to my courage, fortune to my blows,
That fair Armida her revenge may see,
Help, Macon, for his arms I vow to thee.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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But if these be only the sunshine on
the stormy sea below, he is a victim to that system of
morality
which
forbids a reputable connection until the period when provision has been
made for a large expected family.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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For him, the existence of radical evil is
accompanied
by the experience of the radical absence of meaning.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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And there ain't any real
difference
between triplets and
an insurrection.
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Twain - Speeches |
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Eager, I seized
such heap from the hoard as hands could bear
and
hurriedly
carried it hither back
to my liege and lord.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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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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Princeton:
Princeton
University Press.
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| Source: |
Schwarz - Committments |
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Where's the Arch high enough,
Lads, to receive you,
Where's the eye dry enough,
Dears, to perceive you,
When at last and at last in your glory you come,
Tramping
home?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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One
cannot learn best from it the nature of the world,
although
nearly
everyone thinks so.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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In the dream his father asks him what this is
all for--that is, he asks him about the purpose and
arrangement
of the
genitals.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
|
n amo/esclavo, parece una
prolongacio?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
|
Next to 1795 the year 1863 is the saddest date in
Polish history; for in that year the few privileges
which Russian Poland had
retained
were swept away.
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| Question: |
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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 rest had a big
chair and a
surveyance
a cold accumulation of nausea, and even more than
that, they had a disappointment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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J'ai un
petit ami là-bas, dont on parle beaucoup, qui a fait des choses
admirables, mais enfin je ne veux pas être méchant, revenons au XVIIe
siècle, vous savez que Saint-Simon dit du maréchal d'Huxelles--entre
tant d'autres: «Voluptueux en débauches
grecques
dont il ne prenait
pas la peine de se cacher il accrochait de jeunes officiers qu'il
adomestiquait, outre de jeunes valets très bien bâtis et cela sans
voile, à l'armée et à Strasbourg.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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The
intellect
of Marvell was a remarkably
compact and sincere one, and his habitual charac-
ter was that of prudence and upnghtness.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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All modem art after impressionism, proba- bly including even the radical manifestations of expressionism, has abjured the semblance of a continuum
grounded
in the unity of subjective experience, in the "stream of lived experience.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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He
entitled
this tract
The Wonderfull Yeare (1603).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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Backstage, Cecil and I found the narrow hallway teeming with people: adults in
homemade three-corner hats,
Confederate
caps, Spanish-American War hats, and World War helmets.
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| Source: |
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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The kernel of its thought he always
recognised as perfectly correct; and all he de-
plored in later days was that he had spoiled the
grand problem of Hellenism, as he understood it,
by adulterating it with
ingredients
taken from the
world of most modern ideas.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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Were a country never to be overrun by a people more
advanced
in arts,
but left to its own natural progress in civilization; from the time
that its produce might be considered as an unit, to the time that it
might be considered as a million, during the lapse of many hundred
years, there would not be a single period when the mass of the people
could be said to be free from distress, either directly or indirectly,
for want of food.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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One warning which must be borne in mind when making a comparison
of alternative
readings
has been given by Mr.
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| Source: |
Donne - 2 |
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He has won most ap-
plause for Lyric Tragedies) (1858), in which
his poetical capacities are most happily ex-
ploited ; 'Stella) (1866), a drama in verse; and
i The Sons of
Alexander
VI.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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If this be Love, how is the evil wrought,
That all men write against his
darkened
name?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
)
is called by
Velleius
Paterculus (ii.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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For he damned to exile the poet Ovid, also called Naso, because he wrote for him the three
booklets
of the Art of Love.
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| Source: |
Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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Somewhat
alarmed at first, but reassured by the others, 1000
Placing her hand on the cushion, her foot in the hand of her husband,
Gayly, with joyous laugh, Priscilla mounted her palfrey.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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If he who
feasts well, lives well; it is day, let us go whither our
appetite
leads
us: let us fish, let us hunt, as did some time Gargilius: who ordered
his toils, hunting-spears, slaves, early in the morning to pass through
the crowded forum and the people: that one mule among many, in the sight
of the people, might return loaded with a boar purchased with money.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Works |
|
It covers a wide
territory
from the enshrinement as primal words of his- torical concepts extracted from historical languages, to academic in- struction in "creative writing;"I4 from craft-shop primitiveness to re- corders and finger-painting:'' in every instance the pedagogical neces- sity sets itself up as a metaphysical virtue.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-The Essay As Form |
|
" It is
rather a startling
sentence
at first.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
A year later the king, scenting a plot, starved them all to death,
though the eldest was in an advanced stage of
pregnancy
by himself;
and their brothers' heads were hacked off with dahs.
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Bel m'es quan lo vens m'alena
It's sweet when the breeze blows softly,
As April turns into May,
And in tranquil night above me,
Sing the
nightingale
and jay.
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So the Evil's triumph sendeth, with a terror and a chill,
Under continent to continent, the sense of coming ill,
And the slave, where'er he cowers, feels his
sympathies
with God
In hot tear-drops ebbing earthward, to be drunk up by the sod,
Till a corpse crawls round unburied, delving in the nobler clod.
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What will be the
consequence?
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Horace - Works |
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The last are
likest to their original, but what
pleasure
do they give?
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This
is either because the intermediates lived in a
different
place (say, on an outlying island) and/or because the intermediate stages passed too rapidly to fossilize - 10,000 years is too short to measure in many geological strata, yet it constitutes ample time for quite major evolutionary change to accumulate gradually in small steps.
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The first is that my early thinking on the subject was
inspired
by psychoanalytic work -- my own and others'.
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All this, of course, was very absurd-looking from outside, but at that
moment an extremely naïve and
unexpected
circumstance saved me from
being laughed at by every one, and gave a special colour to the whole
adventure.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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He marvels at the paradox,
drums his head with the tattoo:
how can a thing as small as he
shape and maintain an art
out of himself
universal
enough
to carry her daily vigil
to crystalled immortality?
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‘But I don’t know enough 1 I’ve never taught anybody anything, except
cooking to the Girl Guides You have to be properly qualified to be a teacher ’
‘Oh, nonsensei Teaching’s the easiest job m the world Good thick
ruler-rap ’em over the knuckles They’ll be glad enough to get hold of a
decently brought up young woman to teach the youngsters their abc That’s
the line for you, m’ dear-schoolmistress You’re just cut out for it ’
And sure enough, a schoolmistress Dorothy became The invisible solicitor
had made all the arrangements in less than three days It appeared that a
certain Mrs Creevy, who kept a girls’ day school m the suburb of Southbndge,
was m need of an assistant, and was quite willing to give Dorothy the job How
it had all been settled so quickly, and what kind of school it could be that would
take on a total stranger, and unqualified at that, in the middle of the term,
Dorothy could hardly imagine She did not know, of course, that a bribe of five
pounds, miscalled a premium, had changed hands
So, just ten days after her arrest for begging, Dorothy set out for Ringwood
House Academy, Brough Road, Southbndge, with a small trunk decently full
of clothes and four pounds ten in her purse-for Sir Thomas had made her a
present of ten pounds When she thought of the ease with which this job had
been found for her, and then of the miserable struggles of three weeks ago, the
contrast amazed her It brought home to her, as never before, the mysterious
power of money In fact, it remmded her of a favourite saying of Mr
Warburton’s, that if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every
verse wrote ‘money’ instead of ‘charity’, the chapter had ten times as much
meaning as before
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Southbndge was a repellent suburb ten or a dozen miles from London
Brough Road lay somewhere at the heart of it, amid labyrinths of meanly
decent streets, all so mdistinguishably alike, with their ranks of semi-detached
houses, their privet and laurel hedges and plots of ailing shrubs at the
crossroads, that you could lose yourself there almost as easily as m a Brazilian
forest Not only the houses themselves, but even their names were the same
over and over again Readmg the names on the gates as you came up Brough
Road, you were conscious of being haunted by some half-remembered passage
of poetry, and when you paused to identify it, you realized that it was the first
two lines of Lycidas
Rmgwood House was a dark-looking, semi-detached house of yellow brick,
three storeys high, and its lower windows were hidden from the road by ragged
and dusty laurels Above the laurels, on the front of the house, was a board
inscribed in faded gold letters
RINGWOOD HOUSE ACADEMY FOR GIRLS
Ages 5 to 1 8
Music and Dancing Taught
Apply within for Prospectus
Edge to edge with this board, on the other half of the house, was another
board which read
RUSHINGTON GRANGE HIGH SCHOOL FOR BOYS
Ages 6 to 1 6
Book-keeping and Commercial Arithmetic a Speciality
Apply within for Prospectus
The district pullulated with small private schools, there were four of them in
Brough Road alone Mrs Creevy, the Principal of Rmgwood House, and Mr
Boulger, the Principal of Rushington Grange, were in a state of warfare,
though their interests m no way clashed with one another Nobody knew what
the feud was about, not even Mrs Creevy or Mr Boulger themselves, it was a
feud that they had inherited from earlier proprietors of the two schools In the
mormngs after breakfast they would stalk up and down their respective back
gardens, beside the very low wall that separated them, pretending not to see
one another and grinning with hatred,
Dorothy’s heart sank at the sight of Rmgwood House She had not been
expecting anything very magnificent or attractive, but she had expected
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something a little better than this mean, gloomy house, not one of whose
windows was lighted, though it was after 8 o’clock m the evening She knocked
at the door, and it was opened by a woman, tall and gaunt-lookmg m the dark
hallway, whom Dorothy took for a servant, but who was actually Mrs Creevy
herself Without a word, except to inquire Dorothy’s name, the woman led the
way up some dark stairs to a twilit, fireless drawing-room, where she turned up
a pinpoint of gas, revealing a black piano, stuffed horsehair chairs, and a few
yellowed, ghostly photos on the walls
Mrs Creevy was a woman somewhere in her forties, lean, hard, and angular,
with abrupt decided movements that indicated a strong will and probably a
vicious temper Though she was not m the least dirty or untidy there was
something discoloured about her whole appearance, as though she lived all her
life in a bad light, and the expression of her mouth, sullen and ill-shaped with
the lower lip turned down, recalled that of a toad She spoke in a sharp,
commanding voice, with a bad accent and
occasional
vulgar turns of speech
You could tell her at a glance for a person who knew exactly what she wanted,
and would grasp it as ruthlessly as any machine, not a bully exactly-you could
somehow infer from her appearance that she would not take enough interest in
you to want to bully you— but a person who would make use of you and then
throw you aside with no more compunction than if you had been a worn-out
scrubbing-brush
Mrs Creevy did not waste any words on greetings She motioned Dorothy to
a chair, with the air rather of commanding than of inviting her to sit down, and
then sat down herself, with her hands clasped on her skinny forearms
‘I hope you and me are gomg to get on well together.
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In ease of the death, resignation, absence from the United' States, or removal of a director by the stock- holders, his place may be filled by a new choice for the
remainder
ofthe year.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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» Mais où ma souffrance devint insupportable, ce fut quand il me
dit: «Pour commencer par où ma
dernière
dépêche t'a laissé, après
avoir passé par une espèce de hangar, j'entrai dans la maison et au
bout d'un long couloir on me fit entrer dans un salon.
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5 Having then, for a long time, wearied the neighbouring people, and at last the Scythians, with entreaties for aid, he was at last restored to his throne by a
powerful
Scythian force.
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SHELLEY By Samuel Roth
Our poet, says a simple tale of him,
Held with a stubborn
reverence
the faith
That babes are born in heaven, and, so saith
This tale, perhaps spurred by a sudden whim,
With one new born held converse lengthy.
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will readily satisfy the honest
inquirer
of his uniform support of monopolies and indifference to the common weal.
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I have never before seen
such a
complete
defeat of the land.
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[Marcus
Aurelius
Clemens Prudentius, the chief of Christian Roman poets, was born in northern Spain, a.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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Simple and outwardly unimportant as this
appendage
to lathes may appear, it is not, we believe, averring too much
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