These
conversations
made a strong impres-
sion upon me.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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Barbara and her group
routinely
produce four-page documents for distribution to others in Harbor.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of
creeping
common-sense, and
discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are
one's mistakes.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Excessive
intellectual
strength sets itself new
powers
?
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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God lives, and lifts His glorious
mornings
up
Before the eyes of men awake at last,
Who put away the meats they used to sup,
And down upon the dust of earth outcast
The dregs remaining of the ancient cup,
Then turn to wakeful prayer and worthy act.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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" [At the moment of
agreeable
sensation, the anuiaya of desire (rdga) is in the process of arising, utpadyate; it has not yet arisen, utpanna.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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We were as men who through a fen
Of filthy
darkness
grope:
We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Or to give our anguish scope:
Something was dead in each of us,
And what was dead was Hope.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Same variety of " statesman " yelling hurrah for high finance, either from
muddleheadedness
or in hope of immediate personal gain or advantage.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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It saved him
from the exaggerated value of classical form, and from the neglect of
the more corrupt literatures, to which English
scholars
have been often
prone.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
|
Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the
assistance they need, is
critical
to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's
goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will
remain freely available for generations to come.
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William Browne |
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his
brethren
the name of a furious persecutor, who had burnt the houses that
date, passed into the form Drum-Alban, parent than real.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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Now whatever checks our self-conceit in our own judge- ment humiliates;
therefore
the moral law inevitably humbles every
76
man when he compares with it the physical propensities of his na- ture.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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That’s
why I only discovered later what he had to offer – for example, a very inspiring theory of moods [Stimmungen].
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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"
How cruel are the parents
Who riches only prize,
And to the wealthy booby
Poor Woman
sacrifice!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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a-8, the latter's order of merit and, finally, the item's rank in a
distribution
of the sums of
the D.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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He died at the age of twenty-six; and, when
he was no more, the
religious
hymns, which
he bad composed, acquired a striking cele-
brity in Germany.
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| Question: |
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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"
Began the rev'rend sage;
"Does thirst of wealth thy step constrain,
Or
youthful
pleasure's rage?
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns |
|
151-3, see, for The Famous Victories of Henry the
fifth, The
Troublesome
Raigne of John, King of England (two Parts), and
The First Part of the Contention betwixt the Two famous Houses of Yorke
and Lancaster and The True Tragedie of Richard, Duke of Yorke, the biblio-
graphy to chaps.
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Only in the USA, the GSA had still
raged more
effectively
and had executed even larger parts
of the population as in Europe.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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If these troops were deficient in discipline
and courage, they were at least
attractive
by the splendour of their
accoutrements; and however sparing they were of their prowess against
the foe, they were liberal enough with it against the defenceless
citizens and peasantry, whom they were summoned to defend.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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In addition, it is obvious that even in
political
life the lack of physical impediments would be useless if the subjects were not psy- chologically free.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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The
stricken
heart
that you loved so well has found peace at last; the coal-black
wine has been drunk: there is an end!
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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to the
condition
of the Fath.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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It is, of course, not
impossible
that Donne visited Oxford
between 1596 and 1600, but he was not then the grave person Walton
portrays.
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John Donne |
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"
"It would be
fruitless
to attempt to explain; but there is a point on
which I have long endured painful doubt, and I can go nowhere till by
some means that doubt is removed.
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| Question: |
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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No man doth bear his sin,
But many sins
Are
gathered
as a cloud about man's way.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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, with the
departed
and deified Mikado.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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To go no
further back, my
paternal
ancestors in America were Puritan clergy-
men, who wrote many books, a few of which are still quoted.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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tterer in der
Halbwelt
des Feuilletons.
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| Question: |
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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Thus no
sudden wrath will betray you into unreasonable conduct, nor will you
behave harshly by
irritating
another.
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| Question: |
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Epictetus |
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’
Dorothy was within an ace of saying ‘I don’t know,’ but she was sufficiently
on the alert to stop herself in time Choosing a feminine name from the half-
dozen that sprang immediately into her mind, she answered, ‘Ellen ’
‘Ellen That’s the mulligatawny No
surnames
when you’re on the bum
Well now, Ellen dear, you listen to me.
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| Source: |
Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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Y vió dorados peces
En tumultuoso bando
Á flor de el agua á veces
Pacíficos
nadar,
Y á veces, elevando
Por cima de las olas
Los lomos y las colas,
La orilla salpicar.
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| Question: |
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Jose Zorrilla |
|
Generated for Christian Pecaut (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 15:01 GMT / http://hdl.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
|
Would then my noble master please
To grant my highest wishes,
He'll shade my banks wi' tow'ring trees,
And bonie
spreading
bushes.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
burns |
|
Now, as this is true of all the members of the series, the entire series of conditions, and with them the unconditioned is at the same time given in the very fact of the conditioned, the
existence
of which is possible only in and through that series, being given.
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| Question: |
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Though the epistemic turn did not take up publics per se, it arguably reconceived the writer's relation to them through the acquisition of
professional
status; that public role, say, of an architect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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=--It proves a material gain to
him who would attain knowledge to have had during a
considerable
period
the idea that mankind is a radically bad and perverted thing: it is a
false idea, as is its opposite, but it long held sway and its roots have
reached down even to ourselves and our present world.
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| Question: |
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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The true
perfection
of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man
is.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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the Duchess, the
Duchess!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:33 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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The upper-middle class must see to it that universities remain
environments
of exclusion where students are cut off from their real milieu, that is, from one which is undergoing a proletarian change.
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Foucault-Live |
|
With this realization George sets out to
combine
elements
inherent in both types of poetry; Parnassian
21
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Studies |
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One afternoon, determined to resolve my doubts, I pleaded a slight
indisposition as an excuse for not
accompanying
my friend in our
accustomed rambles, and I started out alone for the inn.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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An odor as of delicate wine per-
vades the volume, the
fragrance
of an
oblation to the great Dead, by a lover
of their work.
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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'' This framework defined two operations to be performed by the Subject in a present that, between the receding past and the open future,
appeared
to be a mere moment of transition.
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| Question: |
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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Since men lived
very
differently
then, when the world was new, and the sky but freshly
created, who, born out of the riven oak, or moulded out of clay, had no
parents.
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| Question: |
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Satires |
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Florentius
to raise his relics and to place them on the altar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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and
wherefore
also these wings and archeries that we may not escape him when he oppresseth us?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bion |
|
It is also entitled BRUTUS; a work replete with the
soundest criticism, and by its variety and
elegance
always charming.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Child Verse
ARCHERY
A BOW across the sky
-^^^ Another in the river,
Whence
swallows
upward fly,
Like arrows from a quiver.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Child Verse |
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War was his joy, and pleased with loud alarms,
None but Pelides
brighter
shone in arms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the
mellowing
year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
North, Soviet Russia and the East, 192o-1927: A
Documentary
Survey (Stanford: Stan- ford University Press, 1957), 222.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Revolution and War_nodrm |
|
Since the early
nineteenth
century, if you ask someone what Switzerland is, he will relate the history of Switzerland; those who seek to understand natural phenomena are urged to study evolutionary history.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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In the first place, it is easily seen, when we compare the total
result of crime with the varied
character
of its anthropological,
physical, and social factors, that punishment can exert but a
slight influence upon it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
|
On the identity of living according to nature and living in accordance with the logos (Marcus
Aurelius
VII, I I), c Stoi'ciens, p.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
|
It was
strange to me to find my own self
_materialiter_
considered (so I
expressed it, for I doated on logical accuracy of distinctions), accused,
or at least suspected, of counterfeiting my own self _formaliter_
considered.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
|
Galen
transferred
these to the
brain.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Donne - 2 |
|
He left them, poor and
wretched
as he came;
No cross, pile, money:--e'en his coat the same.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-18 00:55 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Studies |
|
The two functions were a constant adaptation of experience that had been valid for the past to the conditions of present and future and, based on our thus constantly adapted experience, a choice among the
multiple
possibilities that each open future was holding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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It
was Rabelais who made the first adaptation, for, while Epistemon's
descent into Hell was certainly
suggested
by Lucian, Pantagruel's
voyage is an ample travesty of _The True History_, and Lanternland,
the home of the Lychnobii, is but Lychnopolis, Lucian's own City of
Lights.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucian - True History |
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For everything that seems to the individual to
be a wasted or blighted life, his entire burden of
discouragement, powerlessness, sickness, irritation,
covetousness, is
attributed
by him to society—and
thus a heavy, vitiated atmosphere is gradually
formed round society, or, in the most favourable
cases, a thundercloud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
|
, or 16,058, were
``entered
on
the records,'' or, in other words, they were not followed up; and
in 1889, out of a total of 271,279, the number of unprosecuted
cases was 27,086, or ten per cent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
|
From the second half of the nineteenth century on, equations of the desirable with the realizable constituted the pre- ferred procedure of the 'zeitgeist' for
disseminating
its slogans.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
|
In Germany, above all, the apparently endless flood of anniversary celebrations has attained prodigious proportions, blazoning Johann-Peter Hebel's verse and blank face upon the pages of literary supplements and within the shelves of
surviving
bookshops.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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" This I am bidden to bear away as an
offering
to Pluto, and hereby set you free from the body.
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v03 |
|
And this huge Castle, standing here sublime,
I love to see the look with which it braves,
--Cased in the
unfeeling
armour of old time--
The lightning, the fierce wind, and trampling waves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
CROWNED
I WEAR a crown invisible and clear,
And go my lifted royal way apart
Since you have crowned me softly in your heart
With love that is half ardent, half austere;
And as a queen
disguised
might pass anear
The bitter crowd that barters in a mart,
Veiling her pride while tears of pity start,
I hide my glory thru a jealous fear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
|
i+ i
==
: ii iE= r
zEiiijlti
y=,zi=:rr= je;i
: I::;Z:i-=-1i,ji1 ; :
p
= -'.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
|
There is still
reserved
for
mankind a great deal of joy, the very scent of which
has not yet been wafted to the men of our day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
|
" Whether a man act thus or no, by evil if not by
good the eternal law will satisfy itself; the
question
is of import
only for the man's own happiness.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
|
We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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| Question: |
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
|
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keeping this work in the same format with its
attached
full Project
Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
He had his old
companions about him, too; for there were plenty of high trees in the
neighbourhood, and two or three rooks were on the grass, looking after
him, as if they had been written to about him by the Canterbury rooks,
and were
observing
him closely in consequence.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickens - David Copperfield |
|
'
To the other cries: 'Life and
splendour!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
|
I would have stood,
and watched and watched
and burned,
and when in the night,
from the many hosts, your slaves,
and
warriors
and serving men
you had turned
to the purple couch and the flame
of the woman, tall like cypress tree
that flames sudden and swift and free
as with crackle of golden resin
and cones and the locks flung free
like the cypress limbs,
bound, caught and shaken and loosed,
bound, caught and riven and bound
and loosened again,
as in rain of a kingly storm
or wind full from a desert plain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
The boy woke up from sleep, felt with his hands the
emptiness
in the bed,
and stole out to the open terrace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tagore - Creative Unity |
|
Pugatchef
looked sidelong at Chvabrine,
and said to him with a bitter smile--
"Your hospital is well-ordered!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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If these are un- covered and the recognition of one's own self-nature arises, that is the attainment of the
ultimate
result.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
|
"See," said Jupiter, to Venus, "how
becomingly
she behaves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
|
Pepperdine had been
swallowed
up in deep woods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
|
Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain
materials
and make them widely accessible.
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| Question: |
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
|
Napoleon himself, attended by his dogs and his cockerel,
came down to inspect the completed work; he
personally
congratulated
http://www.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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"Listen
carefully
to my words, Dharma King, Lord ofGods!
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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The
plan was perhaps feasible; but it was clearly incompatible with the
policy of evacuation, as it had been
hitherto
laid down by the English
Government.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Schriften
zur Theologie, 13 vols.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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The essay "On the
Notion of Cause" was the presidential address to the Aristotelian
Society in November, 1912, and was
published
in their _Proceedings_
for 1912-13.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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If I now
choose to compare myself with those creatures who
have
hitherto
been honoured as the first among men,
the difference becomes obvious.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Or do you esteem
yourself
sufficiently happy, if you fall into hands of less note?
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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MYRSON AND LYCIDAS
This
fragmentary
shepherd-mime is probably to be ascribed to an imitator of Bion.
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Bion |
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In the
descendant
Marcus were certainly to be found, with a
great increment of many centuries of noble life, all the virtues of
his illustrious ancestor.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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You may
name it America, but it is not America: neither
Americus
Ves-
pucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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His fingers
encountered
his cigarette-case, which was of gold.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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When I am gone, perhaps
They'll send you some inferior Sprite,
Who'll keep you in a constant fright
And spoil your
soundest
naps.
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Lewis Carroll |
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To the Blessed Virgin, Mother of God, that religious institute was
specially
dedicated.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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Here, one's
standards
do not include the avoidance of evil actions.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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The selecting proper circumstances, and placing
them in agreeable lights, are the finest secrets of all
poetry; but the recollection of little circumstances is the
lover's sole meditation, and
relating
them pleasantly, the
business of his life.
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Donne - 2 |
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Kindly that
neighbor
was, but poor,
Scant coin had he to give or lend;
And well he guessed there needed more
Than pence or shillings to befriend
The helpless woman in her strait,
So much loved, yet so desolate.
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Christina Rossetti |
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