Then there she is in the
piercing
cold at dawn,
hoarfrost adrip from her feathers agleam with day.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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The
plantation provinces thus, without exception, resorted to
extreme measures against the merchant-creditors^
The execution of the non-importation and non-consump-
tion
regulations
in Maryland was somewhat complicated by
the fact that there were more than twenty rivers in the
province navigable by large ships.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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His enemies
prevented
a second return by cutting off his head.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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He found that the kinetic "moral law" did not truly enter the
interiority
of a conscience of duty but that the conscience itself can be mobilized as a duty to make revolution.
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Sloterdijk |
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When he had said this, he led
Inglesant
into a large hand-
some room up-stairs, where he introduced him to his sister, Mrs.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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The
archbishop
was commended for his anxiety.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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Yet life is more than death;
How could I leave the sound of singing winds,
The strong sweet scent that
breathes
from off the sea,
Or shut my eyes forever to the spring?
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Sara Teasdale |
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It thrives on continuing and ever greater achievements, on
spectacular
successes.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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e
p{ro}uost
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Đàm Văn Lễ (1452-1505) người xã Lãm Sơn huyện Quế Dương (nay thuộc xã Nam Sơn huyện Quế Võ tỉnh Bắc Ninh, đỗ Tiến sĩ khoa Kỷ Sửu Quang Thuận thứ 10 (1469), làm quan triều Lê Thánh Tông đến chức
Thượng
thư Bộ Lễ kiêm Chưởng Hàn lâm viện sự, từng đi sứ sang nhà Minh.
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stella-04 |
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Little poet people
snatching
ivy,
Trying to prevent one another from snatching ivy.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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" "At first, when I faced south and became ruler of the realm, I tried to look after the
regulation
of the people and worried that they might die.
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Chuang Tzu |
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If it were possible, it would
establish
itself from the very start as a preschool of demobilization.
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Sloterdijk |
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In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Stephen Crane |
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They say that there were seven
outstanding
poets at the time, who were called the Pleias because they were seven in number.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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The enemy's camp was
indeed taken, but much remained to be done, and the two leaders
were equally
resolved
to fight things out to a finish in the morning.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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Therefore, he witnesseth that he worshipped God
according
to the law, and that his godliness was known and commended among all the Jews, so that they ought not to suspect him.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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This fine book is a good life of Poland's greatest poet, and a
competent study of his work, with many
original
translations included.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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Still as the sea, ere winds were taught to blow,
Or moving spirit bade the waters flow;
Soft as the
slumbers
of a saint forgiv'n,
And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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], when Ptolemy
Philadelphus
was king of Egypt.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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The following appears to me to be a true
account of the proper relation between poetry and time: The
proper business of poetry is to
represent
only the eternal,-
that which is at all places and in all times significant and beau-
tiful; but this cannot be accomplished without the intervention
of a veil.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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of mingled
intonation
that was half a shout and half a song, an-
swered:
"Over, over, over, jolly, jolly rover,
Would you then come over?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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Third Shadow:
Imperial
Majesty's Ostend Company, 809.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Fogarty
Copyright of Antioch Review is the
property
of Antioch Review, Inc.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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Or, did you ever see a dog with a
marrowbone
in his mouth,--the beast of
all other, says Plato, lib.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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— ' See " Lives of the
Fathers, Martyrs and other
principal
Saints," vol.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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"
"You, madam, are the eternal humorist
The eternal enemy of the absolute,
Giving our vagrant moods the slightest twist
With your air
indifferent
and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute--"
And--"Are we then so serious?
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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He died at Venice, on 12 December 1889, and
was buried in the poet's corner of
Westminster
abbey on the last
day of the year.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
|
Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with
libraries
to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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if this heroical fatalism has
only passed into the
Bulgarian
of to-day, I shall be quite easy in
mind as to the end of our struggle.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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"IntheWestweseemedtoconcede to the Soviets, with respect to China, what not
everybody
con- cedes us with respect to Europe.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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Socialism-or the tyranny of the meanest and
the most brainless,—that is to say, the superficial,
the envious, and the mummers, brought to its
zenith,—is, as a matter of fact, the logical con-
clusion of "modern
ideas”
and their latent
“
anarchy: but in the genial atmosphere of demo-
cratic well-being the capacity for forming resolu-
tions or even for coming to an end at all, is
paralysed.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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There was a picture-dealer who had brought
A special Titian, warranted original,
So precious that it was not to be bought,
Though princes the possessor were
besieging
all.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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They cannot bring their commodities into relation as values, and therefore as commodities, except by comparing them with some one other
commodity
as the universal equivalent.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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This is, incidentally, completely different from the positive circle of narcissistic reflec-
within which a seemingly material spirit loses itself and then rediscovers that identical self in order to perform, in the happy end, dances of jubilation around the golden idol of
I call this remarkably negative
structure
of self-knowledge the psychonautical Nietzsche's theatrical adventure into the theory of knowledge is intrinsi- cally implicated in it.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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Yet, most beloved, if we reflect, the very
blessing
hath sprung from that walla of circumcision.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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Kalendas
Augusti, the feast of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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The antagonist of Grantmesnil, instead of bearing his lance point
fair against the crest or the shield of his enemy, swerved so
much from the direct line as to break the weapon athwart the
person of his opponent,-a circumstance which was accounted
more disgraceful than that of being actually unhorsed; because
the latter might happen from accident, whereas the former
evinced awkwardness and want of
management
of the weapon
and of the horse.
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
|
5
Wherever
a young man roams
The Fates in ambush lie
6 What good that young men have
Did you lack in your life?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
|
[Note on text: Italicized stanzas are
indented
5 spaces.
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| Question: |
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
|
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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| Question: |
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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was su_m_del
disseyuable
and ful (!
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Third, it is indestructible, which is
connected
with the uncreated nature of Buddhahood.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
|
I ask not why he did remove
To happy Mamre's holy grove,
Leaving the cities of the plain
To Lot and his
successless
train.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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=--Since the extinction of the belief
that a god guides the general destiny of the world and, notwithstanding
all the contortions and
windings
of the path of mankind, leads it
gloriously forward, men must shape oecumenical, world-embracing ends for
themselves.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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"
periods for four months, and, in 1748, a tertian ague prevented her
sleeping
for three weeks.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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There is no
other form of
causality
than that of will to will.
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| Question: |
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
|
Puesto que,
suponiendo
que dispongamos de la direccio?
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| Question: |
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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"
"I do," said he; "for
Marcellus
pleases me very highly; and not without reason.
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| Question: |
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Cicero - Brutus |
|
Nous remontions le Grand Canal en gondole, nous
regardions la file des palais, entre lesquels nous passions, refléter
la lumière et l'heure sur leurs flancs rosés et changer avec elles,
moins à la façon d'habitations privées et de monuments
célèbres
que
comme une chaîne de falaises de marbre au pied de laquelle on va se
promener le soir en barque pour voir se coucher le soleil.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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He heareth him not in regard of his present will, yet he heareth him in regard of his future healing, and this at all events
according
to his will.
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| Question: |
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
|
His next work was the Amores, a collection of
comparatively
short
poems.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
|
3) Instead of
being
distributed
over the entire length of the leg, the mass of the leg is concentrated in one middle point of the solid line.
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| Question: |
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Kittler-Drunken |
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For this was the great
vengeance
wrought on Tarquin's evil seed?
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| Question: |
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
I have a copy of _Tam o'
Shanter_
ready to send you by the first
opportunity: it is too heavy to send by post.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns- |
|
The
revolutionary
government,
in order to seize and hold power, resorted to harsh and ruthless
means, which led to resentment and further civil strife within
the country.
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| Question: |
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
|
They also assert that there are another two criteria to establish the two [types of] Tantras for the [following] two purposes, as [stated] in the thirteenth chapter of the [ Vajra]
Pavilion
:
Yoga Tantras are taught
In order to educate men and Yogini Tantras are taught
In order to attract women.
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| Question: |
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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In our thinking there is no longer any spark of the
uplifting
flight of concepts or of the ecstasies of understanding.
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| Question: |
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
|
Thus the Creoles in Latin America experienced
unequivocally
fierce jealousy toward the Spaniards from Europe, but even stronger disdain for Mulattoes and Mestizos, Negroes and Indians.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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*##
What is a small, a second, and a third
chiliocosm?
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Soon had his crew
Op'nd into the Hill a
spacious
wound
And dig'd out ribs of Gold.
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Milton |
|
)- Now " Lucumo" was only a title mista-
ken for a proper name, so that nothing could be de-
rived from it, even if the incidents of the legend were
received as
historical
facts.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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And the beach still preserves the oily
scrapings
of the bodies of the Minyans, nor does the waves of the brine cleanse them, nor the long rubbing of the rainy shower.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
|
General Terms of Use and
Redistributing
Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic works
1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
The Servite friars have hung the
dagger with which Fra Paolo was stabbed to a
Crucifix
which is above
their altar in the church, with these words " Dec Filio Liberatori.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
|
That suppression enables the monopo-
list to extort excessive profits; but monopoly
increases the burden of the
consumer
even more
in other ways.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
|
His feast is
supposed
to have been time of the Reformation, the guardians of either on the 21st of February, or on the the sacred depositories at Clogher, in order 30th of March.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
|
XLII
O heart of insatiable longing,
What spell, what
enchantment
allures thee
Over the rim of the world
With the sails of the sea-going ships?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Also to Garcia Terres,
Universidad
de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
|
Is my
statement
really not clear
enough?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sovoliev - End of History |
|
In my remarks here, I shall draw primarily on his work as well as on
relevant
studies by Ernst Diehl and Gerhard Lozek.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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SHAKESPEARE: _(With
paralytic
rage)_ Weda seca whokilla farst.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Joyce - Ulysses |
|
Indeed, indeed,
Repentance
oft before
I swore--but was I sober when I swore?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
This was awkward: if
Pancrates
came back, he would be angry,
I thought (and so indeed it turned out).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucian |
|
This subject was a favourite
decoration
for bridges as, for example, the arresting gable- paintings in the covered Pont des Moulins at
[ 132 ]
lucian's creditors and debtors
Lucerne; for churches and churchyards: for example, the Dominican convent at Bale, Saint Mary's"Church at Liibeck,67 the " Triumph of Death in the Campo Santo at Pisa; for houses, as the one at Bale said to have been decorated by Holbein, or the frescoes said to have been painted by him for Henry VIII in the palace of Whitehall and burnt in 1697; or as decorations on ladies' fans — a beneficent cave feminam!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
|
Once he saw a fat, stupid ass
Grinning
at him from a green place.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
|
I
remember
that I did.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
|
This content
downloaded
from 128.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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THE FREE-MARKET PARADISE GOES EAST (II) 97
from the civil service and police, evicted from their homes, had their businesses taken from them, and were subjected to special
property
taxes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
|
What boots it thus to snatch at
pleasure?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
'
"It
happened
one day, that two
knights completely armed, one in black
armour, the other in white, arrived from
opposite parts of the country at this
statue, just about the same time; and
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Frank |
|
Whatever the military potential of the ten or twelve thousand troops that we landed in Lebanon- and it would de- pend on who might have engaged them, where, over what issue - they had the advantage that they got on the ground before any Soviet adventure or
movement
was under way.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
|
In order to assess the
validity
of this reading and to grasp the nature and importance of the aesthetic state of radical reflexivity that Sloterdijk sees expressed in Nietzsche's book, I will turn to Nietzsche's text for a while and add my own reading of Nietzsche as a critic of modernity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
|
nam pater altitonans stellanti nixus Olympo
ipse suos quondam tumulos ac templa petiuit
et
Capitolinis
iniecit sedibus ignis.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Utque solent, sumtis in cursu viribus, ire
Pectore in arma feri praetentaque tela leones ;
Sic ubi se ventis admiserat unda coortis,
lbat in armaratis,
multoque
erat altior illis.
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For it could not be the commandement of
God that could oblige them; because God spake not to them immediately,
but by the
mediation
of Moses Himself; And our Saviour saith of himself,
(John 5.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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Much curiosity prevailed in England while the stories were ap-
pearing serially in the British Weekly under the pen-name “lan
Maclaren” (Ian, Gaelic for John, and Maclaren, his mother's maiden
name); and not until a month after the book had been published,
was the author's
identity
discovered.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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The
suffering
of change comes from seemingly pleasant things such as delicious foud or a walk in the country which can tum into an upset stomach or blisters.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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Farewell, ye
woodlands
I from the tall peak
Of yon aerial rock will headlong plunge
Into the billows: this my latest gift,
From dying lips bequeathed thee, see thou keep.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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”
O could you but hear it, at
midnight
my laugh:
My hour is striking; come step in my trap;
Now into my net stream the fishes.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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Thus it was that when faith (in the Tao) was
deficient
(in the rulers)
a want of faith in them ensued (in the people).
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Tao Te Ching |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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What allowed small groups of Spaniards to cross the
Atlantic
and defeat the great empires of the Incas and Aztecs, rather than the other way around?
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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1191: and as he does not men
tion these representations as
novelties
to the people (for he is describing the common diver sions use that time), we can hardly fix them lower than the Conquest".
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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An' now, auld Cloots, I ken ye're thinkin,
A certain bardie's rantin, drinkin,
Some
luckless
hour will send him linkin
To your black pit;
But faith!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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1550
God woot, that he it
grauntede
anon-right,
To been hir fulle freend with al his might.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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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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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the
assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's
goals and
ensuring
that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will
remain freely available for generations to come.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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How much greater cause is here for offering
sacrifice, than if a man should become Consul or
Prefect?
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Epictetus |
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Montague
turned
?
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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