The Turks do well to shut--at least, sometimes--
The women up, because, in sad reality,
Their chastity in these unhappy climes
Is not a thing of that astringent quality
Which in the North prevents
precocious
crimes,
And makes our snow less pure than our morality;
The sun, which yearly melts the polar ice,
Has quite the contrary effect on vice.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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The pecks are not
independent
data.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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6
This is the night of the funeral, which my
sickness
will not suffer me to attend.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Poe - 5 |
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đã không kẻ đoái
người
hoài,
Sẵn đây ta kiếm một vài nén hương.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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To
Dicaeosyne
(Equity)
63.
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Orphic Hymns |
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But this, by
confining
the mind to an
unceasing round of petty operations, tends to break it into little-
ness.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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But a revelation
unconfirmed by miracles, and a faith not commanded by the conscience,
a philosopher may venture to pass by, without
suspecting
himself of any
irreligious tendency.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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319
The
engineer
said he did not know,
perhaps in a week, perhaps in a
month.
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Childrens - Frank |
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London : Printed for
Nathaniel
Butter, and Thomas Archer.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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_ What means thy
dreadful
story?
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Thomas Otway |
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Rosinger believes that the Burma Government will
ultimately
stand or fall on its handling of the agrarian problem.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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I know too well what long and
doubtful
strife
Forms the dire tissue of a lover's life;
The transient taste of sweet commix'd with gall,
What changes dire the hapless crew befall.
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Petrarch |
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"Its flavour when cooked is more exquisite far
Than mutton, or oysters, or eggs:
(Some think it keeps best in an ivory jar,
And some, in mahogany kegs:)
"You boil it in sawdust: you salt it in glue:
You condense it with locusts and tape:
Still keeping one
principal
object in view--
To preserve its symmetrical shape.
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Lewis Carroll |
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SULKINESS is a spiritual catalepsy, in which, as in the physi-
cal, every member grows stiff in the
position
in which it was
when the attack came on; spiritual catalepsy has also this in
common with physical, that it seizes women oftener than men.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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What can be more false, or more adverse to the simplicity,
sobriety, and
humbleness
of mind which are the best ornaments of youth,
and offer the best promise of a noble manhood?
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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how triumphant his
endurance!
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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And so one might rather
take the
aforenamed
objects to be ends; for they are loved for
themselves.
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Aristotle |
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He flung off a buckskin coat that
was all hung with fringes, and says, "You lay thar tell the
chawin-up's done;" and flung his hat down, which was all over
ribbons, and says, "You lay thar tell his
sufferins
is over.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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It was meant for a blessing; for the one
blessing
of her life!
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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XLII
The first she hit among the Christian peers
Was the bold son of England's noble king,
Above the trench himself he scantly rears,
But she an arrow loosed from the string,
The wicked steel his gauntlet breaks and tears,
And through his right hand thrust the piercing sting;
Disabled thus from fight, he gan retire,
Groaning for pain, but
fretting
more for ire.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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(Whoever wants to distinguish such a functionalist-blasphemous approach from complete and poetic
blasphemy
should read it critically against Franco Ferrucci's distantly congenial book The Life of God.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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lai and for the housing of fugitives are
apparent
at the site.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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Jove breathes a
whirlwind
from the hills of Ide,
And drifts of dust the clouded navy hide;
He fills the Greeks with terror and dismay,
And gives great Hector the predestined day.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Salo: The Sala Republic in
Northern
Italy, which Mussloini took over in 1943 as a subservient of Hitler after the fall of the Fascist government at Rome and his dis- missal by King Emanuele III.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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A great part are decayed on the
ground, and the sound ones are more
palatable
than before.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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" At
this point the old
patriarch
paused a moment.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Astronomy and music are the science and
art which men have known from all anti-
quity: why should not sounds and the stars
be
connected
by relations which the ancients
?
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Cleopatra
was there with sixty ships.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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If we could threaten world inundation for any encroach- ment on the Berlin corridor, and everyone believed it and un- derstood precisely what crime would bring about the deluge, it might not matter whether the whole thing were arranged by human or
supernatural
powers.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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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.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but O my soul is white!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Long curls, escaping from
the
nightcap
which imprisons his blond head, fall over his fore-
head.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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The heralds and the busy menials there
Minister'd to them; these their mantling cups
With water slaked; with
bibulous
sponges those
Made clean the tables, set the banquet on,
And portioned out to each his plenteous share.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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For more or less summary treatments of the subject the
American
student
may profitably consult:
OLMSTED.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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Vidi
Virgineas
intumuisse genas.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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As to the
marvellous
element in
Christianity, Boileau is right: no fiction is compatible with such a
dogmatism.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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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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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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Now surely Phoebus knocketh at the door with his
beautiful
foot.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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"
"I however," said Justice, "will consign to torment all who were
accessory
to his death.
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Roman Translations |
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The penal agricultural colony, in lands which need clearing, is
the best for adults, passing from the least to the most healthy
according to the
categories
of criminals--born, habitual,
occasional--and according to the gravity of the crimes committed.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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Astronomical
science, which is
above all made up of facts that are general, simple, and inde-
pendent of other sciences, arrived first; then terrestrial physics;
then chemistry; and at length physiology.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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The
newsletters
of one
writer named Dyer were widely circulated in manuscript.
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Macaulay |
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The best amateur
musicians
and dancers
come to Moscow from all over the Soviet Union to compete in
the Moscow Olympiads of Music.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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With supplies of
physical
energy available to them, these systems become
87/362
?
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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Sallust - Catiline |
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I only noticed all the grown-ups behaving very strangely and being
enthusiastic
for a reason that was completely obscure to me.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Reste longtemps, sans les rouvrir,
Dans cette pose nonchalante
Où t'a
surprise
le plaisir.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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545 utque tuis primum sonipes calcaribus arsit,
ignescunt patulae nares, non sentit harenas
ungula discussaeque iubae sparguntur in armos ; turbantur phalerae, spumosis morsibus aurum
fumat, anhelantes
exundant
sanguine gemmae.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Here,
with her thin gray tattered locks, pallid, pinched, and shrunken,
white as some reptile
blanched
beneath a stone, what was she to
be afraid of now?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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It is a harmless thing,
The Holofernes I have made your show;
You may gaze
blithely
upon him.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Refuse of Time ripe for
Eternity!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Ma voi prendete l'esca, si che l'amo
de l'antico
avversaro
a se vi tira;
e pero poco val freno o richiamo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Bewildered with despair, she had lain on her knees at the dying man's bedside and
persuaded
herself that she could conjure up the power that had enabled her as a child to overcome her own ill- ness.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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F
ortunately
O swald at this
moment returned: the voice of Corinne reached his ear.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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| Source: |
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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" She soon
afterwards
left the room.
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| Question: |
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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He shares the
fascinations
of the George-Kreis.
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| Source: |
Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife Ambroise de Lore, as though
composed
by him.
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Villon |
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Crushed by the overwhelming cloud
Depth of basalt and lavas
By even the enslaved echoes
Of a trumpet without power
What sepulchral
shipwreck
(you
Know it, slobbering there, foam)
Among hulks the supreme one
Flattened the naked mast too
Or that which, furious mistake
Of some noble ill-fate
All the vain abyss spread wide
In the so-white hair's trailing
Would have drowned miser-like
The childish flank of some Siren.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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curiosity; and, henceforth, every one who crossed the channel -
Montesquieu among others—was expected to bring back with
him impressions of England's
interesting
poet.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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In the meantime the prejudice against the
foreigner
is losing a good deal of its virulence.
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| Source: |
Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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The centre of
gravity of the government lay in the
municipalities
whose rulers were
19
C.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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The Chaplain would not kneel to pray
By his
dishonoured
grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
That Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whom Christ came down to save.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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W e have in fact to deal with a phenomenon of bad faith since the efforts taken in order not to be present to the
experienced
pleasure imply the recognition that the pleasure is experienced; they imply it in order to deny it.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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Episcopal Church in this country, with rela
tion to the primitive
Catholic
Church as it
existed before the Papacy was developed.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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,
United States
Commissioner
of Education,
BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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The religioid act par excellence, which
Schleiermacher
convention- ally calls 'faith', consistently goes hand in hand - folie oblige - with a suspension of empiricism.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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The keeper took me up to the anvil block and
fastened
a chain
about my leg, which I had to drag after me both day and night during
three months.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
|
*
Was Socrates a typical
criminal
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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I cannot refrain at this
juncture
from uttering
a sigh and one last hope.
| Guess: |
time |
| Question: |
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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, to let in this horse, which we must not look into, as being/i- cred to the Gods, tho' we hear the
clashing
of armour with in.
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| Source: |
Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Schwere
Hindrung
ist's, die nun
deine Antwort mir entzieht.
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| Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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This militant Zionism agrees with him because it is in
accordance
with the principle of ethno-plu- ralism: all peoples should live in peace, but "at home.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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In the
meantime
Ulysses, awaking, knows not his native
Ithaca, by reason of a mist which Pallas had cast around him.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Aesthetic hedonism is to be confronted with the passage from Kant's
doctrine
of the sublime, which he timidly excluded from art: Happiness in artworks would be the feeling they instill of standing firm.
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| Source: |
Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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Any
unwillingness
to learn from these authors would be unwise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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The whole passage was
withdrawn
in
1827.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
This piece reads like the
record of a "
conversion
" from the vain de sires of this world to a higher life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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de la gaîté
N'est que la
douloureuse
charge;
Le sien rayonne, franc et large,
Comme un signe de sa bonté!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the
thoughts
that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
]
Cheer,
courtiers!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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Men have
parted his raiment among them; cast lots for his seamless coat:
but that spirit which toiled so manfully in a world of sin and
death, which did and suffered, and overcame the world, is that
found, possessed,
understood?
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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 |
|
It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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Could I deceive myself
So blindly as not
recognise
Dimitry?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Dilke:
Problems
of Greater Britain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Outlines and Refernces for European History |
|
_Gross Revenue_,
advantages
of, over-rated by Adam Smith, 491.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
|
_
As for that particular passage, cited by
Monsieur
St Evremont, where
Æneas shows the utmost fear, in the beginning of a tempest,
_Extemplo Æneæ solvuntur frigore membra_, &c.
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| Source: |
Dryden - Complete |
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They say that one of the real Thames
fishennen, the old bottle-nosed blokes that you see muffled up in overcoats on camp-
stools with twenty-foot roach-poles at all seasons of the year, will
willingly
give up a
year of his life to catching a Thames trout.
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There stood the
funniest
looking
thing you ever saw.
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" That they had used all the providence and vi-
" gilance they could, by the careful examination of
" witnesses, (which were produced apart, and never
" in the presence of each other,) and by asking
" them all such
material
questions as occurred to
" their understandings, and which they could not
" expect to be asked, to discover the truth, and to
" prevent and manifest all perjuries.
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His method of making up to Bell had been to drop
in at
T’nowhead
on Saturday nights and talk with the farmer
about the rinderpest.
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The works
of this great writer are so generally known, and so highly esteemed,
that, though it may not be
improper
to enumerate them in the order of
time, in which they were published, it is wholly unnecessary to give
any other account of them.
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Brendan
TROILUS AND CRISEYDE
by
Geoffrey
Chaucer
Contents:
BOOK I.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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In Asia, Russia should ally itself with Japan, appreciated for its Pan-Asian
ideology
and the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo axis dur-
ing the Second World War.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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and he stared at me,*
continued
Lucian,
' and I stared at him.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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But after all
Gentle-minded
He will one day be, when thus he's crushed,
And his
stubborn
wrath allaying,
Into agreement with me and friendliness
Earnest to me earnest he at length will come.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The
boundaries
between above, below and the middle were literally blurred, and that was done in the name of time.
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