There is nothing more to be said, except that the lovers, I find, owe some part, at least, of their reputation in our Island to the assumption that they were never legally married; a British spinster, resident for many years in the Antipodes, to whom I was speaking recently about the Letters, was
genuinely
shocked to learn that their writers repose beneath the same covering in Pere Lachaise.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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Your son, my dear, is
worrying
you, and he is also worrying me.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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Studies of
contemporary
poets.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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To the English reader it may be necessary to say that the
situation at the opening of the drama is that of a brother
attended
only
by his sister during the demoniacal possession of a suffering conscience
(or, in the mythology of the play, haunted by the Furies), and in
circumstances of immediate danger from enemies, and of desertion or cold
regard from nominal friends.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Through worlds of light, where
one great hymn of praise
thunders
forth, lies the
path of the nations to their Creator: and the
poet looks upon his Poland leading the procession
on this road, till she is lost to sight in the im-
mensity of God.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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"
Arthur seizes the axe, grasps the handle, and sternly
brandishes
it
about, while the Green Knight, with a stern cheer and a dry
countenance, stroking his beard and drawing down his coat, awaits the
blow (ll.
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| Question: |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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On the wall hung a row of portraits, representing the forefathers of
the
Bellingham
lineage, some with armor on their breasts, and others
with stately ruffs and robes of peace.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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_The Fop_
His heart is like a wind
Torn between cloud and butterfly;
Whether he will roll passively to one,
Or chase
endlessly
the other.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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, 317
Roman de la Rose, Le, 59
de Renart, Le, 59
Romance
qualities
in English verse,
223
Rome, 23, 221, 267, 291, 310, 388
church of, 45 ff.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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In the name of the white child waiting for me
In the death-dark where we may kiss and agree,
White men, I leave you all curse-free
In my broken heart's
disdain!
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| Question: |
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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The like
assimilation
goes
on between men of one town, of one sect, of one political party; and
the ideas of the time are in the air, and infect all who breathe it.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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He
certainly
tried to free himself of sexual desire by
becoming the master of it.
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| Question: |
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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If as a
disciple
you have pure thoughts to benefit others, are humble, not arrogant or selfish and have no rough manners, your Guru will first teach you what it means to take refuge.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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Mess, fraud, and the
destruction
of national well-being INSIDE the nation are no proofs of fitness to extend the nation's power abroad, nor indicate [the] likelihood of so doing.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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Ignatius of Loyola have been
formalized
and distorted by that broad set of habits and prac
tices developed and expressed through literary criticism, and it is not clear any more what reading as part of such "exercises" can mean.
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| Question: |
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-22 00:49 GMT / http://hdl.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
|
Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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| Question: |
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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The touch of an absent hand haunted him as he walked, and the air seemed to
take up the cry of the letter: "Love, my love, my sky is
brimming
with
tears!
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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O'Conor's " Reriim
O'Conor's "Rerum
Hibemicarum
Scripto- res,", tomus ii.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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Bóng tà như giục cơn buồn,
Khách đà lên ngựa,
người
còn nghé theo.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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Show me that eye which shot immortal hate,
Blasting the despot's proudest bearing;
Show me that arm which, nerv'd with
thundering
fate,
Crush'd Usurpation's boldest daring!
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| Source: |
burns |
|
Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of
damages.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
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Whether a book is still in
copyright
varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
|
There are many references to Owen and some imitations of
his
epigrams
in the English literature of the century.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
|
What gentleman
among you am I to have the
pleasure
of making love to?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Mansfield Park |
|
As a result, poetry, especially of the tragic type (as
Plotinus
says), has a very great effect on the wavering thoughts of the soul.
| Guess: |
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Some doubted; the
crisis came when Wasson preached a sermon against what were to
him obnoxious doctrines in the
orthodox
faith.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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The real blunder
would have been to represent these old poets as deeply versed in
general history, and studious of
chronological
accuracy.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Get two oxen, bulls of nine years; for their
strength
is
unspent and they are in the prime of their age: they are best for work.
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Hesiod |
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Yes, for shame,
dearest!
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Books
mer was one)
confirming
the same Opinion,
erman, Sept.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
|
Can every
interested
reader aVord it?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
|
20
"To kindle her shapely beauty,
And
illumine
her mind withal,
I give to the little person
The glowing and craving soul.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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They all believe
different
things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
|
The riddle is 'what is both subject and yet not an identity
reducible
to a thing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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Some of their finest scenes are
constructed
on this
ground.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Table Talk |
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God knows if it can be found still
scattered
in England.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Placing that chair where you used to sit,
I looked at my book:--Three years to-day
Since you laughed in that seat and I heard you say--
"My country is with you, whatever befall:
America--Britain--these two are akin
In courage and honour; they underpin
"The rights of
Mankind!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The word is from the Latin
_villa_, which together with _via_, a way, or more
anciently
_ved_ and
_vella_, Varro derives from _veho_, to carry, because the villa is the
place to and from which things are carried.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'
[252] The king expressed his
agreement
and asked the next How he could be free from error?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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A Sweet Contention between Love, his Mistress, and Beauty
Love and my
mistress
were at strife
Who had the greatest power on me:
Betwixt them both, oh, what a life!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Browne |
|
Only the intervention of
the Provençal
magnates
saved the young prince Charles, and Lothar II
and Louis II were forced to carry out the last directions of their
father.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
|
26 It is both good to trust, and to attend 215
(The Lords
salvation)
unto the end:
27 'Tis good for one his yoake in youth to beare;
28 He sits alone, and doth all speech forbeare,
Because he hath borne it.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Donne - 1 |
|
The channel of circulation necessarily draws to itself a sum
sufficient
to fill it, and never admits any more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
|
--Qu'est-ce qu'il vous prend de nous parler de Gilbert et de
Jérusalem?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
|
In this journey I
saw many things which were
instructive
to me, and acquired my first
taste for natural scenery, in the elementary form of fondness for a
"view.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
|
WITH anxious care apologies were made;
The lady,
frightened
by the frolick played,
Quite unsuspicious to the mansion went;
Her aged friend for other clothes she sent,
Who hurried home, and ent'ring out of breath;
Informed old hunks--what pained him more than death
ZOUNDS!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Reproduced with
permission
of the copyright owner.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
|
"Of drawyn swordis sclentyng to and fra,
The brycht mettale, and othir armouris seir,
Quharon the sonnys blenkis betis cleir,
Glitteris
and schane, and vnder bemys brycht,
Castis ane new twynklyng or a lemand lycht.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Imagine that you are a magazine
correspondent
and that you have
been assigned to visit one of the republics of the Soviet Union.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
|
ect upon the
establishment
of the mind, it is one
establishment of the mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shobogenzo |
|
His triumphant
acquittal revealed and strengthened the popular pride in the brave
citizen and the most
illustrious
of German scholars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
|
The river-bank
was clear, and on the water-side I saw a white man under a hat like a
cart-wheel beckoning
persistently
with his whole arm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
|
Adanis lived to see an "
aristocracy
of stock- jobbers and land-jobbers " in action and predicted them .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
|
For
Elective Kings, are not Soveraignes, but Ministers of the Soveraigne;
nor limited Kings Soveraignes, but Ministers of them that have the
Soveraigne Power: nor are those
Provinces
which are in subjection to a
Democracie, or Aristocracie of another Common-wealth, Democratically, or
Aristocratically governed, but Monarchically.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hobbes - Leviathan |
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But when these were quieted, then the king resolved make the chief authors and leaders those
commotions
publick examples
the rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
|
The hand thou holdest
trembles
with my fear, With shame my cheeks are burning, and the sound Of mine own voice : but ere this hour comes round, We twain will be betwixt the dashing oars,
The ship still making for the Grecian shores.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v02 |
|
But it was so miserable going to bed and getting up, and never
hearing
anything
about him, that my resolution melted into air before it
was properly formed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
|
His
newspaper
experience
has had not a little influence upon his style
and methods of literary composition, as his political life has guided
him in his treatment of historical subjects.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
|
"
"A wench would have died in
hospital
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
|
Pacurius Taurus, plebeian
of the
previous
Latin writers had done, but worked aedile, mentioned by Pliny (H.
| 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 - c |
|
" From this narration it ap-
pears first, that neither Constantine nor the French bishops saw any
impropriety in reconsidering the sentence of the Pope, therefore they did
not deem his
judgment
supreme; secondly, it is plain that Saint Augustine
was of opinion that the cause might be reexamined in a General Council :
he did not then think the Pope was superior to it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
|
Led by his character to acknow-
ledge the power of sentiment, Jacobi bu-
sied himself with
abstract
ideas, principally
to show their insufficiency.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Germany |
|
Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing
technical
restrictions on automated querying.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Book of Poetry |
|
Whether these
inclusions
be always necessary or not,
there is no doubt with regard to certain exclusions which still
cause unnecessary comment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
|
Vouga, Bishop,
venerated
at the 15th of June.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
|
Fanny was most
conveniently
in want of rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Mansfield Park |
|
Not for a minute : rather fn
that of the active, strong, spontaneous, aggressive
rnajij^^ I deliberately defy the above-mentioned
agitator (who himself makes this self-confession,
" the creed of revenge has run through all my
works and endeavours like the red thread of
Justice "), and say, Jthat judged historically law
in the wo rld represents the very war ammst
the reactive Jeelings,"tHe very war waged on those
feelings by the powers of activity and aggression,
which devote some of their
strength
to dam ming" "
and keeping within bounds this effervescence of
hysterical reactivity, and tolofcfnglt to some com-
promise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
|
he said, The Rajah particularly
complained that grain had been delivered out to the
inhabitants, for the purposes of cultivation, at a higher price than the market price of grain in the country; he cannot say the actual difference of price, but it struck him at the time as
something
very consider
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edmund Burke |
|
While Pliny the Younger writes to Pliny the Elder his calamolumen of contumellas, what Aulus Gellius picked on Micmacrobius and what
Vitruvius
pocketed from Cassiodorus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Finnegans |
|
Proudie altogether;
and
therefore
he made no sign that he heard the latter remark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
|
*- The hospitable chimneys greet
Their never-failing guests ;
For when the sparks are upward gone,
The swallows
downward
come anon,
To build their neighboring nests.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Child Verse |
|
--Mais
pourquoi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
|
It is tine, that k
wonld be the real interest of
thegovernment
net to abuse yt 5 its genuine policyto-husband and cherish it with the most .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
|
He was led
to do this by a very
extraordinary
adventure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
|
A more extensive
discussion
on the dispute based
Tho.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
|
It will
probably
remind the reader of that ter .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pindar |
|
Reports of the Select
Committee
of the House of Commons, 1772-73.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
|
MISSION WORK AMONG THE POLES 39
him study the history of Poland to the present
day--the history of a people that, as few oth-
ers, offered in its worldly circumstances so
many favorable points to a
Presbyterian
de-
velopment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
|
The fee is
owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the
Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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cum sciat] He fears the
fascination
of some
looker on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
|
It is also to the interest of philologists as a class
not to let their calling as teachers be
regarded
from
a higher standpoint than that to which they them-
selves can correspond.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
|
Because
Dorin speaks this truth, he
possesses
the Buddha-Dharma.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shobogenzo |
|
23
Care must be taken to avoid exciting any suspicion in this portion
of our speech, and we should therefore give no hint of
elaboration
in the exordium, since any art that the orator may employ at this point seems to be directed solely at the judge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
|
We have all heard of the
numerous varieties of fruit
invented
by Van Mons and Knight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I am an old
schoolfellow
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own I feel hurt that you have left me out," I said, boiling over again.
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The date-palm, introduced into Italy from Greece as into Greece from the East, and forming a living attestation of the
primitive
commercial-religious intercourse between the west and the east, was already cultivated in Italy 300 years before Christ (Liv.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
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you,
abandoned
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Property, being capable of defence only on the ground
that it
produces
utility, is, since it produces nothing, for ever
condemned.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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Reeve
joined him in the
February
of 1832; but the joy of their
meeting was soon shattered by Wincenty Krasinski's
summons to his son to join him in Poland.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Indefinible
encanto
Doquier la vida embarga;
Exhala pavor santo
La muda soledad.
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The English Translation
Un Coup de Des - Page 1
Un Coup de Des - Page 2
Un Coup de Des - Page 3
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Un Coup de Des - Page 7
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The English Translation - Compressed, and Punctuated
ATHROW OF THE DICE NEVER, EVEN WHEN TRULY CAST IN THE ETERNAL CIRCUMSTANCE OF A SHIPWRECK'S DEPTH, Can be only the Abyss raging, whitened, stalled beneath the desperately sloping incline of its own wing, through an advance falling back from ill to take flight, and veiling the gushers, restraining the surges, gathered far within the shadow buried deep by that alternative sail, almost matching its yawning depth to the wingspan, like a hull of a vessel rocked from side to side
THE MASTER, beyond former calculations, where the lost manoeuvre with the age rose implying that formerly he grasped the helm of this conflagration of the concerted horizon at his feet, that readies itself; moves; and merges with the blow that grips it, as one threatens fate and the winds, the unique Number, which cannot be another Spirit, to hurl it into the storm, relinquish the cleaving there, and pass proudly; hesitates, a corpse pushed back by the arm from the secret, rather than taking sides, a hoary madman, on behalf of the waves: one overwhelms the head, flows through the submissive beard, straight shipwreck that, of the man without a vessel, empty no matter where
ancestrally never to open the fist clenched beyond the helpless head, a legacy, in vanishing, to someone ambiguous, the immemorial ulterior demon having, from non-existent regions, led the old man towards this ultimate meeting with probability, this his childlike shade caressed and smoothed and rendered supple by the wave, and shielded from hard bone lost between the planks born of a frolic, the sea through the old man or the old man against the sea, making a vain attempt, an Engagement whose dread the veil of illusion rejected, as the phantom of a gesture will tremble, collapse, madness, WILL NEVER ABOLISH
AS IF A simple insinuation into silence, entwined with irony, or the mystery hurled, howled, in some close swirl of mirth and terror, whirls round the abyss without scattering or dispersing and cradles the virgin index there AS IF
a solitary plume overwhelmed, untouched, that a cap of midnight grazes, or encounters, and fixes, in crumpled velvet with a sombre burst of laughter, that rigid whiteness, derisory, in
opposition
to the heavens, too much so not to signal closely any bitter prince of the reef, heroically adorned with it, indomitable, but contained by his petty reason, virile in lightning
anxious expiatory and pubescent dumb laughter that IF the lucid and lordly crest of vertigo on the invisible brow sparkles, then shades, a slim dark tallness, upright in its siren coiling, at the moment of striking, through impatient ultimate scales, bifurcated, a rock a deceptive manor suddenly evaporating in fog that imposed limits on the infinite
IT WAS THE NUMBER, stellar outcome, WERE IT TO HAVE EXISTED other than as a fragmented, agonised hallucination; WERE IT TO HAVE BEGUN AND ENDED, a surging that denied, and closed, when visible at last, by some profusion spreading in sparseness; WERE IT TO HAVE AMOUNTED to the fact of the total, though as little as one; WERE IT TO HAVE LIGHTED, IT WOULD BE, worse no more nor less indifferently but as much, CHANCE Falls the plume, rhythmic suspense of the disaster, to bury itself in the original foam, from which its delirium formerly leapt to the summit faded by the same neutrality of abyss
NOTHING of the memorable crisis where the event matured, accomplished in sight of all non-existent human outcomes, WILL HAVE TAKEN PLACE a commonplace elevation pours out absence BUT THE PLACE some lapping below, as if to scatter the empty act abruptly, that otherwise by its falsity would have plumbed perdition, in this region of vagueness, in which all reality dissolves
EXCEPT at the altitude PERHAPS, as far as a place fuses with, beyond, outside the interest signalled regarding it, in general, in accord with such obliquity, through such declination of fire, towards what must be the Wain also North A CONSTELLATION cold with neglect and desuetude, not so much though that it fails to enumerate, on some vacant and superior surface, the consecutive clash, sidereally, of a final account in formation, attending, doubting, rolling, shining and meditating before stopping at some last point that crowns it All Thought expresses a Throw of the Dice
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Stephane Mallarme
Fragments - Anatole's Tomb
Die Toteninsel / The Isle of the Dead
'Die Toteninsel / The Isle of the Dead'
Arnold Bocklin (1827-1901), Wikimedia Commons
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Mallarme - Poems |
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What coral, what lilies, and what roses,
In seeming, my open hand discloses,
Now, with twin
caresses
stroking her.
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He then
contemptuouily
gave
Alexander the Surname of Driveler, and confidently afierted, he
would never ftir out of Macedonia, but hold himfelf extremely
contented in walking round his Capital, and infpeding the En-
trails of his Victims.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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If neurons for "yellow," "flies," and "sings" are active, the network is
thinking
about a canary; if neurons for "silver," "flies," and "roars" are active, it is thinking about an airplane.
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flCneas with
falchion
bright
Slays himself one lamb of a sable fleece to the fell
Mother and queen of the Furies, and great Earth, sister of Night, Killing a barren heifer to thee, thou mistress of Hell.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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