The
Greeks went rapidly forward, but equally rapidly
downwards; the movement of the whole machine
is so
intensified
that a single stone thrown amid
its wheels was sufficient to break it.
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Nietzsche - v06 |
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The
unfeeling
heart can't know a pain so sweet:
Love reigns on earth above, not beneath our feet.
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Ronsard |
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And
if you all subscribe to this opinion, that nothing is better than youth
or more execrable than age, I conceive you cannot but see how much you
are indebted to me, that have
retained
so great a good and shut out so
great an evil.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Ailsa Mellon Bruce)
Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation
Old
Dominion
Foundation, N.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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No
squirrel
went abroad;
A dog's belated feet
Like intermittent plush were heard
Adown the empty street.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Still I
remember
how I strove to flee
The love-note of the birds, and bowed my head
To hurry faster, but upon the ground
I saw two wingèd shadows side by side,
And all the world's spring passion stifled me.
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Sara Teasdale |
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) 'and on _Daffodils
reflected
in the
Water_'.
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Selection of English Letters |
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)
There was a lady on this tower with me----
(He glances around
hurriedly
but does not see her in the darkness.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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The Paper continued that support of the men in power, but without suffering them to repay its partiality by contributions calculated to pro duce any reduction
whatsoever
in the expense of man aging the concern; because, by such admission, the editor was conscious he should have sacrificed the right of condemning any act which he might esteem detrimental to the public welfare.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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That the good is
something
by itself, intrinsic,
And he who's learnt, does at once become
Himself a good man?
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Diogenes Laertius |
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ft
" lion, the murdering of above a hundred thousand
" persons in cold blood, and with all the barbarity
"
imaginable
; which murders and barbarities had
" been always excepted from pardon.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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)
placidus
os durus lupus.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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8, 38, 49 ; an
elliptical
phrase, here = 02?
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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Maintain
your dignity, blessed Saints
and scorn to reveal yourselves to fools (though it be but fair
play, for they reveal themselves to every body).
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Alexander Pope - v09 |
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[87] This is the
teaching
of the Dhyana Sect.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The success of the
Rehearsal
was instant and
signal.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Some of us have written down several of her sayings, or what the French call bons mots, wherein she
excelled
almost beyond belief.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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Of such
Descriptions
the vain Folly see,
And shun their barren Superfluity.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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In
Thuringia
he found a new ally, the
Duke of Saxe- Weimar, who soon became
one of his ablest generals.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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How then can it be true, that "if you except corn, and such other
vegetables, as are raised
altogether
by human industry, all other sorts
of rude produce--cattle, poultry, game of all kinds, the useful fossils
and minerals of the earth, &c.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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org
We
apologize
for this inconvenience.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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At this meeting, a research program was out- lined which would enlist
scientific
method in the cause of seeking solutions to this crucial problem.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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If you were but with me you should behold
marvelous
things.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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I was not
thinking
of your Majesty.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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BIRCHES
When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of
straighter
darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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"
The conversation was
interrupted
at this point, to the great regret of
the young girl.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The legislators of to-day, vaguely impressed by statistical and
biological,
ethnographical
and anthropological data, and still
imbued with the old prejudice of social and political
artificiality, were at first hurried into a regular mania for
legislation, under which every newly observed social phenomenon
seemed to demand a special law, regulation, or article in the
penal code.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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Does he
articulate
any advice that seems injurious or outdated?
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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The years had not
sharpened
their smooth round faces,
I met their eyes and found them mild--
Do they, too, dream of me, I wonder,
And for them am I too a child?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Πολά δε πιανθέντα βοών επί μηρία καίς
Μασί ωeιπλομαίοισιν, έρευθομων έπι βωμών,
'Αυτός , έφθίμα τ' άλοχG• τας τις ώρείν
Νυμφίον ων μεγάροισι γιά ωeιβάλετ' άγος,
'Εκ θυμώ σέργουσα
κασίγνητόν
τε πόσιν τε.
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Poetici Minores Graeci - 1739 |
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[And even before these times, at the conclusion of the Pelopon-
neaian war, the Thebans strenuously
contended
for the utter extirpation
of Athens.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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All
attendees
at this panel were witnessing, in the here and now, the experience of trauma.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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"When I was
young I began with
stealing
little things, and brought them home
to Mother.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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90 ; the
mouthpiece
of the
gods, 93.
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Nietzsche - v18 |
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Ergo & iter mortuos auaritia uiuit:nec Charo
ronyaliifg recétioribus eft geru illerditisą pater tātus deus:qc gratuito facit:& paup
afíetiam
lus baiulułg litterarum:quos lía moriés uiaticú debet qrere:& æs ſi forte præ mẫuno
ti tabellariú male litterati latoré fuerit:néogéexpirare patieť huic fqualido feni dabis
uirgiliana fian
ſcriptum
éi ſerio nauli noie de ſtipibusīs feresfalterā:ſic tñ:utipfe ſua
ope genuit fub põdere cimba futi máu de tuo fumatore.
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How does "auaritia" (avarice) connect to death? |
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Asinus Aureus - 1504 - Commentarii a Philippo Beroaldo |
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Quá inocens
Numus qua eét uita ſiexecráda auri argétig metalla ex cömertiomortaliú abdicarentfi numus aure
aureus us argéreuſg extorris ex urbibus relegaret:ficut
exlycurgi
iſtituto eliminatus eſt ex ſparthana ciui
eiectus tate:ubi TTHOUTDO TUqXoo, Deus diuitiag uere cæcus eft.
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Asinus Aureus - 1504 - Commentarii a Philippo Beroaldo |
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" In his
versification
Ovid skips and dances, so that his hexameter, even
?
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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Kapitel 44
In demselben Sommer, als die
Nialsöhne
nach Drontheim kamen, besuchte der Jarl Hakon seinen Freund Gudbrand im Thal.
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brennu-njals_saga.de |
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He enlisted, at the
outbreak
of the war, as a private in
the 1st/4th Battalion of the Black Watch, Royal Highlanders, in which
corps he has served on all parts of the British front in France and
Flanders.
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Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Is not he a good
catholic
P and yet he
is but a Scotchman.
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Source: |
Alexander Pope - v07 |
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The
instance
of there being more is an instance of more.
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Source: |
Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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Yet the world has not been able to
keep from abusing the
legitimate
joy of heaven with the
evil of Satan, and subjecting it to deceit.
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Andraeae - 1639 - Christianopolis |
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HS 182
As soon as I moved to Cold Mountain, all the a airs of the world ceased,
And no more were there distracting
thoughts
to hang upon the mind.
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Source: |
Hanshan - 01 |
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Normally, the suchness of
everything is distorted by the illusion of samsara, even though the actual nature of suchness of phenomena is
emptiness
and clarity.
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Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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His
countryman
addressed him by it,
though declaring at the same time that he wept to see him.
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Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets - 1846 |
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riores viribus, neceſſariis
infiſtút
operib: prow.
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Thomas of Ireland - 1558 - Flowers of Learned Men |
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However, I will give in to you, quotation or no
quotation, if only our young
companions
will keep
still and not run away as suddenly as they made
their appearance, for they are like will-o'-the-wisps;
we are amazed when they are there and again when
they are not there.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v03 |
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In the process, we have worked out elements of an
experientialist
approach, not only to issues of language, truth, and under- standing but to questions about the meaningfulness of our everyday experience.
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Source: |
Lakoff-Metaphors |
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Thou
teachest
and reprovest rebels, nor gainest than aught.
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Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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The advantage of Zyklon B, invented and developed by Dr Walter Heerdt, was that the hydrocyanic acid, which is very volatile, could be
absorbed
by transferable substances, dry and porous, such as infusorial earth (Kieselgur), thus decisively improving the conditions both of its transport and storage, compared with those offered by its liquid form.
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Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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1
#
1?
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Source: |
Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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" --What
processes
am I alluding to?
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Source: |
Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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Then did they altogether fall to
banqueting
most merrily.
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Source: |
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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'"
"Somebody said," Alice whispered, "that it's done by everybody minding
his own
business!
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Source: |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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That he was a ready debater is shown by his neat
rejoinder
to Deputy
Fontán.
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Source: |
Jose de Espronceda |
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2] L Having thus freed himself from the fear of foreign enemies, he turned his impious and unprincipled mind to the perpetration of wickedness at home, and contrived a plot against his sister Arsinoe, to deprive her sons of life, and herself of the
possession
of the city of Cassandreia.
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Source: |
Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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Then she went to the region of Zur and
remained
for one year, teaching gNyan dPal-dbyangs, sBe Ye-shes snying-po, La-gsum rGyal-
156
?
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Source: |
Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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Then Numa Pompilius, who was chosen by the army, reigned for forty-three years;
after Numa, Tullus
Hostilius
thirty-three years;
[p293] and his successor, Ancius Marcus, twenty-four years;
after Marcius, Lucius Tarquinius, called Priscus, thirty-eight years;
Servius Tullius, who succeeded him, forty-four years.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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ctIce, but dIrty, Antonlnus lent money at four percent
that belng the summit of EmpIre (Roman)
"Trymg",hesaId, "to keep some ofthe non-
mterest-bearmg natIonal debt m CIrculation as
currency
one, eight, seven, eIght,
Menclus on tIthIng,
?
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Source: |
Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Nor is it of any use for Malthusians to say that
overpopulation
_might_ be
the cause of poverty.
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Source: |
Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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no soil's too cold or dry
For spiritual small potatoes,
Scrimped natures, spry the trade to ply
Of _diaboli advocatus_;
Who lay bent pins in the penance-stool
Where Mercy plumps a cushion,
Who've just one rule for knave and fool,
It saves so much
confusion!
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Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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The splendid slag left behind by this volcanic en- deavor was a large library bought with funds Count Leinsdorf had provided to start the
Parallel
Campaign, and together with Diotima's own books they had been set up as the only decoration in the last of the emptied rooms.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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e
Cardinales
twelue,
'God ?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The morals of the age and
country
are
fully disclosed in them.
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Source: |
Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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rfnisse werden durch
Gedanken
be-
friedigt, und zwar durch echte Gedanken in dem
fru?
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Source: |
Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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In
politics
Espronceda is always a leader in
revolt, fighting with pen and sword for his none-too-clearly-defined
principles.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Jose de Espronceda |
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"
The soldiers no sooner took notice of his temperance and magnanimity upon this occasion, but they one and all cried out to him to lead them forward boldly, and began
whipping
on their horses.
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Source: |
Universal Anthology - v04 |
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"--Borne aloft
With the bright mists about the
mountains
hoar
These words dissolv'd: Crete's forests heard no more.
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Source: |
Keats |
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" asked George, when I
approached
his study half a day later.
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Source: |
Perry - Suzy's Memoirs |
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You purchase a saving\ of two hundred pounds by a
profusion
of six.
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Source: |
Edmund Burke |
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She is trying to remodel the Korean
government
on Japanese principles.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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A faultless Sonnet, finish'd thus, would be
Worth tedious
Volumes
of loose Poetry.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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Days and months pass like a
departing
stream, Time is just a ash from a int stone.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Hanshan - 01 |
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Gesco, on his return to his country,
ordered
his enemies to be brought before him in chains.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Polyaenus - Strategems |
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He came
trotting
along in a
great hurry, muttering to himself, "Oh!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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Yet this light was
destined
to escape from the close sanctuary, within which it had hitherto beamed.
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Source: |
Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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Την δι' ώδε προσεφώνεεν ευρύκερως βές,
Θάρση παρθενική, μη
δείδιθι
πόντιον οίδμα.
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Source: |
Poetici Minores Graeci - 1739 |
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In the
light of later years
Escosura
felt that in this boyish prank the child
was father of the man.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Jose de Espronceda |
|
"
The editors of Collier's devoted this entire issue, includ-
ing profuse and lurid illustrations, to a
melodramatic
ac-
count of a Third World War.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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This is a kind of
energy that springs from weariness and reverie; and those in whom it
manifests so
stubbornly
are in general, as I have said, the most
indolent and dreamy beings.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
|
Hann gekk nú út úr
búðinni
óhaltur og fór svo hart að sendimaðurinn fékk ekki fylgt honum.
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Source: |
brennu-njals_saga.is |
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that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud, chilling
And killing my
ANNABEL
LEE.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
The splendid slag left behind by this volcanic en- deavor was a large library bought with funds Count Leinsdorf had provided to start the
Parallel
Campaign, and together with Diotima's own books they had been set up as the only decoration in the last of the emptied rooms.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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--'Apropos des bottes,'-
I have forgotten what I meant to say,
As
sometimes
have been greater sages' lots;
'T was something calculated to allay
All wrath in barracks, palaces, or cots:
Certes it would have been but thrown away,
And that 's one comfort for my lost advice,
Although no doubt it was beyond all price.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Bryon - Don Juan |
|
The
Memorial
of Demetrius to the great king.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
|
The real seat of
acrimonious
captiousness,
which to-day poisons our public life, is the North.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
|
Beauty and wit, too sad a truth,
Have always been confined to youth;
The god of wit, and beauty's queen,
He twenty-one, and she fifteen;
No poet ever
sweetly
sung.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
|
erent in his personal conduct, scrupulously honourable in serving his prince, considerate in provisioning the people, and just in
employing
them.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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anxia nec mater discordis maesta puellae
secubitu
caros mittet sperare nepotes.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Is an UNKER a junker
airplane?
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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To
counterbalance
all this evil;
Give me, and I've no more to say,
Give me Maria's natal day!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
"It might very well be so,"
Siddhartha
said tiredly.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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Sá var hár maðr ok ekkiþrekligr, er fyrstr gekk, í
laufgronum
kyrtli ok hafði búit sverð í hendi, réttleitr maðr ok rauðlitaðr ok vel í yfirbragði,ljósjarpr á hár ok mjǫk hærðr.
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hrafnkels_saga_freysgoda.on |
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Furthermore, human sense organs are
restricted
to their particular objects.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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Bentham determined to establish the _Review_ at his own
cost, and offered the
editorship
to my father, who declined it as
incompatible with his India House appointment.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Finally he riseth from the table, not ful: but
recreated, not laden, but refreshed: yea, refreshed both in
spirit and bodie, thynke you that any chief deuiser of these
muche vsed bãkets, & || deintye
delicaces
fareth nowe more
deliciously?
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Erasmus |
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In a Garden
The world is resting without sound or motion,
Behind the apple tree the sun goes down
Painting
with fire the spires and the windows
In the elm-shaded town.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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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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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Carrying this
question
to absurdity surfaces the question of whether insemination (natural or artificial) is appropriately called (contingent) work product.
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