As she
stood at the door of the temple, and looked down on
the combatants, with the helmet still on her head, she
appeared to the
citizens
a figure more than human, and
the enemy took her for a deity; which struck the latter
with such terror and astonishment, that they were no
longer able to use their arms.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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Weknockagain,andhean swers us through the Door, ' Did not you under-
*standme?
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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I am
particularly
unlucky
in meeting with a person so able to expose my real character, in a part
of the world where I had hoped to pass myself off with some degree of
credit.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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de
Freminville
(Paris: ?
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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1
To the same degree as we modern subjects
understand
freedom a priori as freedom of movement, progress is only thinkable for us as the kind of movement that leads to a higher degree of mobility.
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Sloterdijk |
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n para que a los
aspirantes
les sean adju- dl~dos los ca~gos.
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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Except the heaven had come so near,
So seemed to choose my door,
The
distance
would not haunt me so;
I had not hoped before.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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They
shuddered
to think that the chase might fail,
And the Beaver, excited at last,
Went bounding along on the tip of its tail,
For the daylight was nearly past.
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Lewis Carroll |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's
information
and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Betrayed
you has he that to guard you ought;
Mad is the King who left you in this post.
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Chanson de Roland |
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In the vast gray area between conceptual and more
conventional
poetry, he plays with translation and pastiche while he seeks common ground.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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When writers of all sizes, like freemen of the city, are at liberty to throw out their filth and excrementitious productions, in every street as they please, what can the consequence be, but that the town must be poisoned, and become such another jakes, as by report of great travellers, Edinburgh is at night, a thing well to be considered in these
pestilential
times.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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We bards are named the gods'
peculiar
care;
Nay, some declare that poets are divine;
Yet forward death no holy thing can spare,
'Eound all his dismal arms he dares entwine.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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Ils
auroient
droit de dire à leurs ju-
ges : si vous désavouez les moyens que nous
avons employés pour vaincre ,' laissez-nous
les fruits de la victoire.
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Robespierre - 1792 - Résponse de Maximilien Robespierre, a l'accusation de M. Louvet, devant la Convention nationale |
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He was
standing
about three feet away from me, and I had no intention of giving an inch until he moved first.
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Perry - Suzy's Memoirs |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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To Vatke's book itself
its
unfortunate
history was partly due.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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* I say the Paper was his own, but it is a
singular
in
stance of my incuriousness that I do not know to this day, and most likely never did, whether he had any share in it or not.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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at my3t;
[B]
Brachetes
bayed ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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El pretexto se le ofreció, efectivamente, cuando el presidente de la república se negó a asignar las pensiones de guerra a los antiguos combatientes, liberales o conservadores, mientras cada expediente no fuera
revisado
por una comisión especial, y la ley de asignaciones aprobada por el congreso.
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Gabriel García Márquez - Cien Anos de Soledad |
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The
digital images and OCR of this work were
produced
by Google, Inc.
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Noyes - 1831 - Psalms |
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But, why loues hee
The
_Diuell_
?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Though the great bulk of Lucian’s writings consists of
Platonic
and
satiric dialogues, he enters into the scope of this book as a writer of
the satiric or parody romance.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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with that of Painting, the
Professors
of which make
very different Mixtures with tfje fame Colours, and Paintthe fameSubjectsafteraverydifferentMan
ner.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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--We who have
laboured
long and sore
Times out of mind,
And keen are yet, must not regret
To drop behind.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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He was a man fit only to draw swallows,
Quite
ignorant
of the character of the god.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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For it implied a logic according to which the redemption from the original sin, as a sin of the flesh, had to be
purchased
by an act of physical suffering*God needed to become flesh in order to be able to act as the savior of humankind.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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In some cases they are driven frantic with pain and throw
themselves
on land.
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Aristotle copy |
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'tis a dull and endless strife,
Come, hear the
woodland
linnet,
How sweet his music; on my life
There's more of wisdom in it.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It
may be possible, with the help of a refrain, though there
is no refrain in the Latin, to suggest
something
of the
?
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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"
And I
believed
him--for now I too have forgotten the language of
that other world.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The children of whose
turbaned
seas,
Or what Circassian land?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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quoth Whitney, and are you of my
profession
then ?
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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Such a
hopeless
object as the Rhi-
noceros found -- he scarcely knew him.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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A lively, good-humoured girl, with a heap of
freckles
in 'a very bright face,' said Saxonstowe.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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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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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Chester, who, if not a professed virtuoso, is yet a per-
son of some skill in
articles
of virtù, produced for our amuse-
ment a small drawer furnished with seals and impressions of
## p.
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Cowper |
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Even the action in itself
delivers
us from these
things.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v08 |
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"
Let me give a picture of the
spiritual
events in
the soul of the modern man.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v05 |
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See the open park
Lying below us with a million lamps
Scattered in wise
disorder
like the stars.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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To him complaint
and
jealousy
and envy are corpses buried and rotten in the earth--he saw
them buried.
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Whitman |
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" The other instances of this kind
(they are so
numerous)
would weary out the loquacious Fabius; not to
keep you in suspense, hear to what an issue I will bring the matter.
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Horace - Works |
|
) At last ye
awake, and not too soon, for lo, the festal day hath come,
ye are
betrothed
and e're the evening star hath set, shall
be in honor wed.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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What is it that makes you so fond of
Lithuania!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
The ox rolls over, and
quivering
and
[482-516]lifeless lies along the ground.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Capitalism
in its last phase.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
|
He was embracing a
doctrine
which had always been available to him.
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Source: |
Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
|
Oh, the imitative
sunsets!
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Source: |
Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
|
A STUDY IN FRENCH POETS 15
Tu t'en vas et tu nous quittes,
Tu nous quitt's et tu t'en vas,
Mais tu nous
reviendras
bien vite Gudrir mon beau mal, n'est-ce pas f
Et c'est vrai!
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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or on a bank where sleep
The beamy daughters of the light starting they rise they flee
From thy fierce love for tho I am dissolvd in the bright God
My spirit still pursues thy false love over rocks & valleys
Los answerd Therefore fade I thus dissolvd in rapturd trance
Thou canst repose on clouds of secrecy while oer my limbs
Cold dews & hoary frost creeps tho I lie on banks of summer
Among the beauties of the World Cold &
repining
Los
Still dies for Enitharmon nor a spirit springs from my dead corse {Clearly written over erased material.
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Blake - Zoas |
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I think just how my lips will weigh
With shapeless,
quivering
prayer
That you, so late, consider me,
The sparrow of your care.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The gentleman, surprised at his resolution,
endeavoured to dissuade him from publishing it, at least from prefixing
his name; and declared, that he could not reconcile the injunction of
secrecy with his
resolution
to own it at its first appearance.
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Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
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Bright days have shown -- ah, that was when
You danced
attendance
to the maid,
More truly loved by you, of course.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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Their suspicions, though perhaps not rightly applied to every
individual, will induce them to take indications from
the
situations
and connections of the prosecuting parties, as well as of the judges.
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Edmund Burke |
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Thel answerd, O thou little virgin of the
peaceful
valley.
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blake-poems |
|
The Goth, the Christian--Time--War--Flood, and Fire,[460]
Have dealt upon the seven-hilled City's pride;
She saw her glories star by star expire,[nn]
And up the steep
barbarian
Monarchs ride,
Where the car climbed the Capitol;[461] far and wide
Temple and tower went down, nor left a site:
Chaos of ruins!
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Byron |
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' These remarks have a general reference to other lands besides our own : but they bear even an
application
to the disappearance of such houses in our island.
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Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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In order to
appreciate
his philosophical motives-that is, the temporal-logical core of his reflexion-one has to recognize in them the attempt to mischievously redrama- tize the posthistorical world of boredom-even at the expense of appointing the catastrophe as the schoolmistress oflife.
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Source: |
Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
|
I've paced much this weary, mortal round,
And sage experience bids me this declare,--
"If Heaven a draught of heavenly
pleasure
spare--
One cordial in this melancholy vale,
'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair
In other'sarms, breathe out the tender tale,
Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
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Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Nobody can fasten themselves
on the notice of one, without
injuring
the rights of the other.
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Source: |
Austen - Northanger Abbey |
|
But why dwell upon
trifles?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ovid - Art of Love |
|
5b-6, note 16), bears on the aspects of its Truth; it
therefore
has four aspects.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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Again he askt, where that same knight was layd, 285
Whom great Orgoglio with his
puissance
fell
Had made his caytive thrall, againe he sayde,
He could not tell: ne ever other answere made.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Indeed you could, given sufficient skill with your finger, mimic the effect of
shifting
your gaze.
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Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
|
", a
critique
of Fritz Fischer's book Germany's Aims in the First World War.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
|
These lines were later measured and systematically
catalogued
by the German physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer, after whom they are now called.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
|
24
In either case, be he
Epicurean
or Stoic, the man has lost
the light of his youth, the spirit of Catullus.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
|
Something
similar may be said of the renewal of the electoral census.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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An hereditary indolence (I have it from the mother's side) has
hitherto
prevented
my writing to you, and still prevents my writing
at least twenty-five letters more, due to my friends in Ireland.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Selection of English Letters |
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Domino noftro Papa fimpliciter damnati lunc,
ac proinde vterque damnatus , &
prohibitus
cea- I qui crunt , qui librum vnum, aut plures ex
ſendus eft.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Pope Alexander VII - Index Librorum Prohibitorum |
|
Senator Noble introduced a bill requir- ing patent-medicine
manufacturers
to state on their labels the' percentage of various poisons which every bottle might contain.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
|
Charles Fillmore's work on frame semantics, Terry Winograd's ideas about knowledge-representation systems, and Roger Schank's conception of scripts
provided
the basis for George's original conception oflinguistic gestalts, which we have generalized to experiential gestalts.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Lakoff-Metaphors |
|
Just as such learning remains exposed to error, so does the essay as form; it must pay for its
affinity
with open intellectual experience by the lack of security, a lack which the norm of established thought fears like death.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Adorno-The Essay As Form |
|
"Cruciferi"
is a story of love, masterfully embroidered on the
background of the ' historic
struggle
of Poland
against Germanism.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
|
Would that the dark wave, when the maiden Helle perished, had overwhelmed Phrixus too with the ram; but the dire portent even sent forth a human voice, that it might cause to
Alcimede
sorrows and countless pains hereafter.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
|
As, with thc lan- guage, ew:ry vUible or audible rymbol in
FilllltltJIU
Wdt prO'la to be a many-levt:lkd thing, and Joyce'.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
|
Confusion
now hath made his Master-peece:
Most sacrilegious Murther hath broke ope
The Lords anoynted Temple, and stole thence
The Life o'th' Building
Macb.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
This august child
delighted to appear in state; for when the Rus-
sian ambassadors came to ratify their alliance with the
Swedes, it was apprehended Christina would be terri-
fied at the appearance of so numerous a train of Mus-
covites, with long beards,
monstrous
dresses, singular
ceremonies, and something barbarous even in their
politeness!
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|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Childrens - Little Princes |
|
"Be happy," said the eider-down hunter, using his national
salutation
in
his own language.
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|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
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Source: |
Verne - Journey to the Centre of the Earth |
|
--
There soft Tibullus walk'd with Sulmo's bard;
And there Propertius with Catullus shared
The meed of
lovesome
lays: the Grecian dame
With sweeter numbers woke the amorous flame
While thus I turn'd around my wondering eyes,
I saw a noble train with new surprise,
Who seem'd of Love in choral notes to sing,
While all around them breathed Elysian spring.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
The primary audience for the
congressional
action was inside the Soviet bloc.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
|
» Allusion is made to this occurrence, in Sigebert's Chronicle, as also in the "Specu- lum Historiale" of
Viiicentius
Bellovacensis, lib.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
|
The
Dialogues
then of Aeschines, which profess to give an idea of the system of Socrates are, as I have said, seven in number.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Diogenes Laertius |
|
In the last verses of the twelfth book (123-125) we have the following : "Him some adore as transcendently present in fire ; others in Manu, lord of crea tures ; some as more
distinctly
present in Indra, others in pure air, others as the most high eternal Spirit.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Universal Anthology - v01 |
|
XXIV
_Here is
suggested
the third stage: Desire_.
Guess: |
deadly |
Question: |
What do you want |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
|
Those who now complain of the inquisitorial P^^actices of government agencies, of employer's black-lists, ^f the
interlocking
directorate device for the co-ordination of Corporate policy, of the limited choices in "company towns"
?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
Why should he not venture his life,
especially
seeing that he did not despair of better success?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
|
pronunciation
of our poet).
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
|
Naro
Bonchung
seized Milarepa's hand and said, "You must circumambulate counter-clockwise.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
|
THE END
End of Project Gutenberg's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, by Oscar Wilde
*** END OF THIS PROJECT
GUTENBERG
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***** This file should be named 301.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Whan thou hast yeven thyn herte, as I
Have seid thee here [al] openly,
Than
aventures
shulle thee falle,
Which harde and hevy been withalle.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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sed magis, o nuptae, semper
concordia
uestras
semper amor sedes incolat assiduus.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Quotation:
THESEUS: How shall we find the concord of this
discord?
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puzzle |
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What's the controversy? |
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Generated for
Christian
Pecaut (University of Chicago) on 2014-12-24 15:01 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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He threatened that war might become
inevitable
if those states- men should ever come into ofBce.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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Of course, it was no philosophy at all, only a defiantly hidden disappointment, still mingled with a restrained
readiness
for some unknown release that possibly increased even as her outward defiance lessened.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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In brief, the system of
religious
worship rests upon the idea of magic
between man and man, and the magician is older than the priest.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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All such matters are left intact in the entire presentation of the
schedule
so as to reflect all shades of emphasis, using italics for underscoring.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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But I do not contend about this matter; as I do not
ambitiously
gather those things which may serve for a vain brag, because it shall be sufficient for the godly readers to know those things which make to Luke's meaning.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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