The following morning he
slaughtered
many others, who had taken refuge in the temples.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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6 After advancing over much of the country, the Gauls
withdraw
and chose a section of the land to keep for themselves, which is now called Galatia.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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This is the most
powerful
canto of Book I.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Till mighty Brahma puts his golden palm
Within the gipsy king's great striped tent,
And asks his fortune told by that great love-line
That winds across his palm in
splendid
flame.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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" When the Macedonians heard this, they thought no more of Peucestes; but with infinite joy
proclaimed
the mother and son of Alexander as his heirs to the throne.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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And as the lengthening days of summer throve,
She sighed, then
withered
by the waving rushes.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Father John Boland gives a few introductory notices, and then certain Acts, by an anony- mous writer, taken from a
Bodecensian
manuscript^ belonging to the Canons Regular of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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com in Word format,
Mobipocket
Reader
format, eReader format and Acrobat Reader format.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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As I stood in the
passage gazing at the sinister door and
wondering
what secret it
might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room
and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little
slit of dim light which shone out from under the door.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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RIPOSTES
SILET
I behold how black, im-
mortal ink WHEN
Drips from my
deathless
pen
ah, well-away !
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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XII
It is evident that Korea is yet
incapable
of self-government.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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, He left London very quietly, and no one knew that he was setting out to join the men whom he honestly believed to be
fighting
for the best principles of liberty and freedom.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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Quand' io mi fui umilmente disdetto
d'averlo visto mai, el disse: <>;
e
mostrommi
una piaga a sommo 'l petto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Ah, would that in my days thou hadst been
numbered
with the
living!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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We learn from
Herrera that, when a
Peruvian
Inca died, men of skill were
appointed to celebrate him in verses, which all the people
learned by heart, and sang in public on days of festival.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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It was at these Pimodan gatherings, which were no doubt much less wicked
than the participants would have us believe, that Baudelaire encountered
Emile Deroy, a painter of skill, who made his portrait, and encouraged
the fashionable young fellow to
continue
his art studies.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:30 GMT / http://hdl.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Indeed, indeed,
Repentance
oft before
I swore--but was I sober when I swore?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Red Ithel lies by
Jerusalem
town,
And she in the deep sea lies;
But I trow their little babe was born
In the gardens of Paradise.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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Yet there is only one term to which, in an
appreciation, we can without a sense of injustice give
precedence
over
the others.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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I leave them for the present with good wishes,
Though doubts of their well doing, to arrange
Another part of history; for the dishes
Of this our banquet we must sometimes change;
And trusting Juan may escape the fishes,
Although
his situation now seems strange
And scarce secure, as such digressions are fair,
The Muse will take a little touch at warfare.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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We always think ourselves better than we are, and are
generally
desirous
that others should think us still better than we
think ourselves.
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Samuel Johnson |
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_dupsakku_,
trencher
basket, 216, 17.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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How Metaphor Reveals the
Limitations
of the Myth of Objectivism
28.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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Every Buribunk,
regardless
of sex, is obligated to keep a diary on every second of his or her life.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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Every author by his management, sweats under himself, being over-loaded with his own index, and carries, like a north-country pedler, all his substance and
furniture
upon his back, and with as great variety of trifles.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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In connection with Weininger's
Platonic
and quite theoret-
?
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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When once he had got possession, he looked at it with intense
eagerness, and turned it over and over on his palm, without
appearing one whit more
advanced
in his knowledge than before.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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We need
to follow the example of the Romans, who imitated rather than translated the
best Greek authors,
transforming
them into their own likeness, devouring
their substance, and after digesting it thoroughly, converting it into nourish-
ment and blood.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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55-
Defence Morally more
Difficult
than
Attack.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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When thou
hastenedst
to God, I followed thee in the habit, nay preceded thee.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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It must also convince all who
consider it, that according to the observation, at the end of the
fourth essay, in the former volume, it is by no means
strictly
proper
to consider our diseases as the original intention of nature.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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"
The king was not pleased with the counsel, but
had a very good opinion of the counsellor, who he
believed could not but judge aright of the temper
of those with whom he had sat and conversed so
long : and so his majesty told him, " he was con-
" tented he should follow the
dictates
of his own
" judgment and conscience ;" and the same answer
he gave to all such members of the house of commons
The bin, who came to receive his orders.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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"[33]
Paquette thus opened her heart to honest Candide, in the
presence
of
Martin, who said to his friend:
"You see that already I have won half the wager.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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Demetrius of Skepsis is of opinion that this canal was not
navigable; for, says he, the ground is composed of deep earth, and
admits of being dug for a distance of 10 stadia only: the canal is a
plethrum in width; then follows a high, broad, and flat rock, nearly a
stadium in length, which
prevents
excavation throughout the whole
distance to the sea.
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Strabo |
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He also experienced feelings of guilt and responsibility toward a younger brother whom he had sometimes bullied during
childhood
(one is responsible for one's younger brother in Chinese culture); and since this brother planned to study in Taiwan, George feared that if he returned to Peking he might never see him again.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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Candide fainted at this word; his friend
recalled
his senses with a
little bad vinegar which he found by chance in the stable.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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Ye see, brethren, many believe in Christ, there is a great
multitude
of them : and yet in this great crowd, ye have just heard while the Gospel was in reading, our Lord will come
Matt.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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sicos en los que la
informacio?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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Et le peu qu’elle s’en permettait était dit sur un ton guindé
où ses habitudes de timidité
paralysaient
ses velléités d’audace, et
s’entremêlait de: «tu n’as pas froid, tu n’as pas trop chaud, tu n’as
pas envie d’être seule et de lire?
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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For the Nazis the groups were races; for the
Marxists
they were classes.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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I count our strength,
Two and a child,
Those of us not asleep subdued to mark
How the cold creeps as the fire dies at length,--
How drifts are piled,
Dooryard
and road ungraded,
Till even the comforting barn grows far away
And my heart owns a doubt
Whether 'tis in us to arise with day
And save ourselves unaided.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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The green-hair'd Nereids, tend the bow'ry dells,
Whose
wondrous
fruitage poison's rage expels.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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just when he thought he had left
everything
behind.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
|
Whither fled Lamia, now a lady bright,
A full-born beauty new and
exquisite?
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Many years passed, and most of the
children
became grown-up
persons.
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| Source: |
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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Of
Sarraguce
the keys to you I bear,
Tribute I bring you, very great and rare,
And twenty men; look after them with care.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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The states they produce, therefore, are not pleasures naturally or without qualification; for as
pleasant
things differ, so do the pleasures arising from them.
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| Source: |
Aristotle copy |
|
Even Robespierre defined
ownership
of property, putting a limit on what the owner has right to.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
|
A DREAM
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass
methought
I lay.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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So the Serpent in revenge began
stinging
several of the Farmer's
cattle and caused him severe loss.
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| Question: |
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
|
, and attended that mo narch in several of his visits to the courts in Germany, was Catherine's godfather, and seems to have had her under his particular care and
protection
: for, at the restoration of Charles II.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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And yet by my courtesy it is that they think themselves the
most excellent of all men, so greatly do they please themselves in
frighting a company of fearful boys with a
thundering
voice and big looks,
tormenting them with ferules, rods, and whips; and, laying about them
without fear or wit, imitate the ass in the lion's skin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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But his
conversation was nowhere so
brilliant
and striking as when he
was surrounded by a few friends, whose abilities and knowledge
enabled them, as he once expressed it, to send him back every
ball that he threw.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay |
|
Adorno implies that contemporary German ex-
istentialism
began from a high?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
|
''[N]ot a lot all @ once as I still read very slowly,'' he
stressed
in a letter to her of 29 February 1952 (Letter 65).
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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The first loved consort of my virgin bed
Before these eyes in fatal battle bled:
My three brave
brothers
in one mournful day
All trod the dark, irremeable way:
Thy friendly hand uprear'd me from the plain,
And dried my sorrows for a husband slain;
Achilles' care you promised I should prove,
The first, the dearest partner of his love;
That rites divine should ratify the band,
And make me empress in his native land.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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The Bon decided to establish their seat at Yar-lung, and the king and
ministers
agreed to this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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What, after all, is the
principal axiom to which the boldest and coldest
thinker, the author of the book On the Origin of
Moral Sensations^ has attained by means of his
incisive and decisive
analyses
of human actions?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Mine was th' insensate
frenzied
part,
Ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
What joy it will be to seek that day,
For love of God, that inn afar,
And, if she wishes, rest, I say,
Near her, though I come from afar,
For words fall in a
pleasant
shower
When distant lover has the power,
With gentle heart, joy to realise.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Andrew's Par-
ish, which
contained
at least 800 men of military age; and that eighty
men hml done the work in St.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
|
, "totum diem
argutatur
quasi cicada.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Satires |
|
But now a wandering land breeze came
And a far sound of
feathery
quires;
It seemed to blow from the dying flame,
They seemed to sing in the smouldering fires.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats - Poems |
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Otherwise
we are stuck in a split structure, within a doubling, where we remain with the other but in thewayofhisnotmattering.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
|
The connexion between Adonis and the dove is
specially
re-
ferred to by Diogenianus (Praef.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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"
But
Siegmund
did not say this; he merely reiterated doggedly: "It will definitely be for her own good ifyou won't put up with too much.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
|
'
My conception of the
situation
is this: Pug is playing the part
of gentleman usher.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
So let all this masquerade
run along in the melodies and cadences, in the
leaps and
merriment
of the rhythm of these operas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
|
Such “all-healing” virtue was in early times
ascribed
to various plants (Panakes Cheirônion, Aslêpieion, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Callimachus - Hymns |
|
Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffuse float, and
the soil is on the surface, and water runs and
vegetation
sprouts,
For you only, and not for him and her?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Such an absorptive space without qualities is not of a psychological or introscendent nature, it is not the Hegelian pit leading to the interior, it is not like the hearing soul of Socrates, and it is not one with the won- derful
patience
Derrida has with texts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
|
If I could receive such
profound
empowerments now, that would make me so very happy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
|
Moreover the State claimed the
appointment
of its patriarch
without confirmation by the Pope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
|
Since the nineteenth century, the assembly of an
alternative
genera- tor for the build-up of high existential tension has been on the agenda.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
|
BROWN'S DESCENT
OR
THE WILLY-NILLY SLIDE
Brown lived at such a lofty farm
That
everyone
for miles could see
His lantern when he did his chores
In winter after half-past three.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
|
He took his hat from his head, he
stood up, and shouted three times: 'Poland hath
not
perished
yet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
|
mixed phase buddha essence remained changeless even though
bodhisattvas
work to help all beings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
|
Duncomb; and that about ten o'clock, on
Saturday night last, James
Alexander
got into Mrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
|
Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
In thick jungles of green, this gyration,
My centrifugal folly,
Through roaring dust and
futility
spattered,
Will find its own repose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Amy Lowell |
|
To citeanother
inthenineteenth
theFrench example, century,
made negativecomparisonsof the centralisedossificationof theireduca-
tionalsystemincomparisonwithGermaneducation;formanyEnglishmen
ofthelatterhalfofthenineteenthcenturyt,hehighdegree ofilliteracyin
theircountrywas a groundforshamewhentheyturnedtheireyestowards
Prussia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
|
Let me turn, finally, to another way of looking at whether the
information
content of genomes increases in evolution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
|
"
THE POET TO DEATH
Tarry a while, O Death, I cannot die
While yet my sweet life
burgeons
with its spring;
Fair is my youth, and rich the echoing boughs
Where dhadikulas sing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
They were on Union Street, when a quicker step behind, a
something
of
familiar sound, gave her two moments' preparation for the sight of
Captain Wentworth.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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According to Euphranor, this
Athenodorus
wrote a reply to the calumnies of Zoilus.
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Outer vows involve a form of
discipline
through which one avoids harming othes.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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, the Marxist- Leninist party, has a
comprehensive
understanding of the social nature of production, and without such understanding it is impossible to determine unequivocally what is progressive and what is reactionary at any given time.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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When boy I sought for forest fowl,
And caged them in rude rushes' mesh,
And fed them with my breakfast roll;
So that, though fragile were the door,
They rarely fled, and even then
Would flutter back at
faintest
call!
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Hugo - Poems |
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d the
treasures
in general, it will [523.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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He made admira-
ble
translations
into German verse of Byron's
Complete Works) (1840; 7th ed.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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Disadvantages of not
possessing
the prerequisite qualities]
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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Hegel may have been right to suggest that Fichte and Jacobi are ultimately preoccupied with the same problem and that they are
suggesting
a similar solution, something that both Fichte and Jacobi animatedly denied.
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Hegel_nodrm |
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In this place,
sequestered
from all com-
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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Mais avant de monter en voiture, elle tint à lui donner encore quelques
explications: «Maintenant il y a
beaucoup
de gens qui voient la mère,
d'ailleurs elle a le bon esprit d'être malade les trois quarts de
l'année.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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We shall be unable to turn natural
advantages
to account unless we make use of local guides.
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The-Art-of-War |
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Reading and
breeding
have more to do with each other than cultural historians are able or willing to admit.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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←
previous
books (1-2)
BOOK 3
[3.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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When this is done, and Sita hears the terrible future from Lakshmana,
she cries:
Take reverent
greeting
to the queens, my mothers,
And say to each with honour due her worth:
"My child is your son's child, and not another's;
Oh, pray for him, before he comes to birth.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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CCXXXVIII
Great is that plain, and wide is that country;
Their helmets shine with golden jewellery,
Also their sarks
embroidered
and their shields,
And the ensigns fixed on all their burnished spears.
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Chanson de Roland |
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