to build himself a house, has a
feeling
as if he
were going to immure himself alive in a mausoleum.
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Nietzsche - v06 |
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For I have
followed
the white folk of the forest.
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encountered |
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Where did they go? |
Answer: |
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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nisi quod
_Acunculeia_
est in a, _Aruncudia_ in h2
85 _occeano_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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(2) A misprint for _dire
dropsie_
(Upton).
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Did
his opinion result from
personal
experience?
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personal |
Question: |
What is his opinion? |
Answer: |
His opinion was that homosexual only associate with one another. |
Source: |
Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
|
Foreword v
It seems evident that the instigation to the
curious hate of England and to the conviction that
for the development of Germany the destruction
of the
British
Empire was essential, is due to
Treitschke.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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Thus, in his first campaign,
he raises the Burgundians from the state of inferiority in which they
were held by the people of Franche-Comté, and re-establishes them in
possession of their
hostages
and of their rights of patronage over the
states which were their clients;[773] yielding to their prayer, in the
second campaign, he pardons the people of Beauvais;[774] in the sixth,
the inhabitants of Sens.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
|
Ruegg (1983), Thurman (1984), Napper (1989),
Williams
(1985), and Cabez6n (1994).
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Answer: |
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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All
Utopias
are bogus.
Guess: |
test |
Question: |
hello |
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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Let us
therefore
be content to say to
our friend and guest that we are here speaking for ourselves
and for our children, to say what he has been to us.
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Twain - Speeches |
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Yet when the boat got to where we should have landed, she wafted
by
without
making any stop.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
|
Users are free to copy, use, and
redistribute
the
work in part or in whole.
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Noyes - 1831 - Psalms |
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Many other Inftances of his Guilt I fliall pafs over, for I do
not hold it
fitting
to mention every Adion in his Life of Bafe-
nefs and Turpitude, but thofe only, that I can mention with-
out Diflionour to myfelf.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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As soon
as Hannibal turned his back on Capua to proceed to Apulia,
the Roman armies once more gathered around that city,
one at Puteoli and Volturnum under Appius Claudius,
another at Casilinum under
Quintus
Fulvius, and a third
on the Nolan road under the praetor Gaius Claudius Nero.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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The Chorus of
Husbandnvn
(off scene) -- O.
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Frogs |
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Who are the husbands married to? |
Answer: |
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
|
LITERARY EPIC
Epic poetry, then, was invented to supply the artistic demands of
society in a
certain
definite and recognizable state.
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completely |
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Who invented epic poetry? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
|
Therefore, in his writings, he returned
again and again to the
terrible
warning of Charles XII
of Sweden.
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Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
|
VII
Ten snow-white mules then
ordered
Marsilie,
Gifts of a King, the King of Suatilie.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
But it does not settle the
question so
completely
as you think.
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easily |
Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
|
Heaven has not only given
us the capacity of greater enjoyment, but the talent of
devising
means
to prevent the evils that are liable to arise therefrom, and it becomes
us, "with thanksgiving," to make the most of them.
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Answer: |
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
|
The story, when
entire, contained the adventures of a female slave, who was thrown, in
the Mussulman manner, into the sea for infidelity, and avenged by a
young Venetian, her lover, at the time the Seven Islands were possessed
by the
Republic
of Venice, and soon after the Arnauts were beaten back
from the Morea, which they had ravaged for some time subsequent to the
Russian invasion.
Guess: |
Doge |
Question: |
Who did she cheat with? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Byron |
|
Not one missing, still transcendent,
Clustering
like a swarm of bees.
Guess: |
writhing |
Question: |
Where are the bees clustering? |
Answer: |
The bees are sniffing the golden apples of Hesperides. |
Source: |
Amy Lowell |
|
385
A rugged wight, the worst of brutes, was man :
8n his own wretched kind he ruthless prey'd :
The strongest still the weakest over-ran :
In ev'ry country mighty
robbers
sway'd.
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Source: |
Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
|
I am
sensible
I have dwelt too long on this subject; I ought to speak less to you of your
[p.
Guess: |
Worried |
Question: |
What you talking about |
Answer: |
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Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
|
CXXV
Some one who hears Marphisa hold is there,
Famed, through the world, for
matchless
bravery,
His courser turns, and bids the king have care,
Save he would lose his Syrian chivalry,
To snatch his court, before all slaughtered are,
From the hand of Death and of Tisiphone:
For that 'twas verily Marphisa, who
Had borne away the arms in public view.
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Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And
dreadful
the blast of the trumpet.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
|
You are not forgot,
O
plunder
of lilies,
honey is not more sweet
than the salt stretch of your beach.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night,
In the
howling
storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
This special property of digital computers, that they can mimic any discrete-state machine, is
described
by saying that they are universal machines.
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Source: |
Turing - Can Machines Think |
|
'Please God, now, night fail us not cruelly,
Nor my friend be parted far from me,
Nor day nor dawn, let the
watchman
see!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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speak thy name,
The name by which thy father, mother, friends
And fellow-citizens, with all who dwell
Around thy native city, in times past
Have known thee; for of all things human none
Lives altogether nameless,
whether
good
Or whether bad, but ev'ry man receives
Ev'n in the moment of his birth, a name.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
"
A name to rhyme,
flowers
to bring to a name,
what was one girl faint and shy,
with eyes like the myrtle
(I said: "her underlids
are rather like myrtle"),
to vie with the nine?
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
'6
Movies and the gramophone remain the
unconscious
of the uncon- scious.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
|
Scarce can her weak shoulders
support
her unpolished shield.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
|
The destined victim 'mid the snows
Of Algidus in oakwoods fed,
Or where the Alban herbage grows,
Shall dye the pontiff's axes red;
No need of butcher'd sheep for you
To make your homely prayers prevail;
Give but your little gods their due,
The
rosemary
twined with myrtle frail.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
_ R ||
_ualde_
?
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Apologies
for this problem.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
|
A
wonderful
thing is going to
happen.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
|
He fumbles at your spirit
As players at the keys
Before they drop full music on;
He stuns you by degrees,
Prepares your brittle substance
For the
ethereal
blow,
By fainter hammers, further heard,
Then nearer, then so slow
Your breath has time to straighten,
Your brain to bubble cool, --
Deals one imperial thunderbolt
That scalps your naked soul.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Although there are many ways of enumerating the sacred
commitments
of Secret Mantra, they can all be condensed into the sacred commitments of the body, speech and mind of ones root Guru.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
|
If his ideas only resemble, then there must be some
basis of reference by which the resemblance is established, a _tertium
quid_ or third existence
resembling
both, and so _ad infinitum_.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
|
Herakles and
Dionysos
were designated "guardians of the city" in an Archaic inscription on the southern city wall (IG XII 8.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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my
kingdom
for a horse!
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
|
[4]
PART II
There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with
colours
gay.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Tennyson |
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You've changed
colour!
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
"You're well out of it, old chap,"
laughed
Oliver.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
|
"
Anne could think of no one so likely to have spoken with partiality of
her many years ago as the Mr
Wentworth
of Monkford, Captain Wentworth's
brother.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Austen - Persuasion |
|
He will awake, that thy faith will return to thee; and with His help, thou wilt
consider
in thy soul, that what for a time, given to the evil, will not abide with them.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
|
A large number of other works on the French Revolution and
the
Consulate
and Empire.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Outlines and Refernces for European History |
|
In those early days even quarrels with one's
husband
end happily.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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From him
critics
have formed their
rules; and all the masters in his own art have
thought it an honour to imitate him.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
|
Experience
has
shown that this is feasible.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sorel - Reflections on Violence |
|
For while I sang--ah swift and
strange!
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
|
Will I have
dinner?
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
|
And Rome is governed by one that cannot
walk in the same path with such a man,
whatever
be the road.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
|
He
answered
nought, but in a traunce still lay,
And on those guilefull dazed eyes of his
The cloude of death did sit.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Thus 'good' action for reform becomes 'bad' action in
practising
fur- ther earthly barbarism.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Education in Hegel |
|
It was once a
European power, extending from the Baltic to
the Carpathian
Mountains
and to the Black
Sea, and from the Oder to the Dnieper.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
|
The whole subject of it was
love--a
marriage
of love was to be described by the gentleman, and very
little short of a declaration of love be made by the lady.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Austen - Mansfield Park |
|
But as men begin to cultivate the ground and expend
their labor in permanent works,
private
possession of
the land on which labor is thus expended is needed to
secure the right of property in the products of labor.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Henry George - Works |
|
I shall owe it enough, if it
teaches
me the better to appre-
ciate the tender generosity of N evil.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
|
]
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
by
JOHN STUART MILL
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I 1806-1819
CHILDHOOD AND EARLY EDUCATION
CHAPTER II 1813-1821
MORAL
INFLUENCES
IN EARLY YOUTH--MY FATHER'S CHARACTER AND OPINIONS
CHAPTER III 1821-1823
LAST STAGE OF EDUCATION, AND FIRST OF SELF-EDUCATION
CHAPTER IV 1823-1828
YOUTHFUL PROPAGANDISM--THE "WESTMINSTER REVIEW"
CHAPTER V 1826-1832
A CRISIS IN MY MENTAL HISTORY--ONE STAGE ONWARD
CHAPTER VI 1830-1840
COMMENCEMENT OF THE MOST VALUABLE FRIENDSHIP OF MY LIFE--MY FATHER'S
DEATH--WRITINGS AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS UP TO 1840
CHAPTER VII 1840-1870
GENERAL VIEW OF THE REMAINDER OF MY LIFE.
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Source: |
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
|
Again, it is harder to fight with pleasure than with anger, to use Heraclitus' phrase', but both art and virtue are always
concerned
with what is harder; for even the good is better when it is harder.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Aristotle copy |
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"Many and sharp the num'rous ills
Inwoven
with our frame!
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
|
The River Song
THIS boat is of shato-wood, and its gunwales are
cut magnolia,
Musicians with jewelled flutes and with pipes of
gold
Fill full the sides in rows, and our wine
Is rich for a
thousand
cups.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
|
" This he pretends to do free, and he will doubtless
continue
the pretense until the over- worked fraud-order section of the Post-Office Department attends to him.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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I have not got the
strength
to do it.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
|
In the original book, pages had
headings
that varied with the material
being discussed on that pair of pages.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
|
o'er the cliff what eager
figures
bend !
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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something quieted ; if any of you have
Opportunity
to give her Help, I hope you will do it.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
|
But while
neither
an opulent urban middle class nor
strictly close body of capitalists grew up in Rome, was ment of constantly acquiring more and more the character of great city, great city.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
|
A serene sky and
verdant
fields filled me with
ecstasy.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
|
1 This is the emanation of
Suzong?
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
Therefore be
quite out of pain and take an honest man and a friend's word
they had not the least effect or
slightest
impression upon me.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Alexander Pope - v08 |
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And now they trod those utmost
fields where the
renowned
in war have their haunt apart.
Guess: |
fallen |
Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
_("Il
semblait
grelotter.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Communed with the
immeasurable
world;
And felt his life beyond his limbs dilated,
Till his mind grew like that it contemplated.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Shelley copy |
|
Meanwhile, unconscious of their master's fate,
At home they heat the water, scour the plate,
Arrange the strigils, fill the cruse with oil,
And ply their
several
tasks with fruitless toil.
Guess: |
menial |
Question: |
What is their master's fate? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Where the
resounding
power of water shakes 1820.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
In his opinion
the powers of the intellect held
intimate
connection
23
## p.
Guess: |
Hidden |
Question: |
What does the intellect connect |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Poe - v04 |
|
Here Bruno, on the one hand, laments the extinction of that original and non-conventional hiero- glyphic language in which signs designated things and apparently guaran- teed communication with the divine; on the other hand, he
preserves
on the magical level the operational value of those characters, seals and figures which, according to tradition, propitiated demonic influence - it seemed possible not only to use them but also in some sense to remould them according to the dictates of a higher reason.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 03:28 GMT / http://hdl.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
|
_Thus woe
succeeds
a woe as wave a wave.
Guess: |
provokes |
Question: |
When woe began? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
|
And if kings could muster
From Love that
shields
not love !
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
|
_ My soul,
farewell!
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Thomas Otway |
|
My
servants
fay, they sn obliged to nothing but what is expressed in the articles be twixt us.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
|
[665] _From hence the pilgrim brings the
wondrous
tale.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Where can I find the time to
practice
Dharma?
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Milarepa |
|
Weston did not like it, was clear enough, by her passing it over as
quickly as possible, and making no other
comment
than that “all young
people would have their little whims.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Austen - Emma |
|
The water
caressed
the shore so gently!
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Again, from the same publication: —" On a
Tuesday
in
September,
in the Piazzo of St Marke's in Venice, e2
52 THE FOURTH ESTATE.
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Answer: |
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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They lived in
apartments
and attended schools pro- vided by ZiL As babies they spent their days at the ZiL day care cen- ter, and when ill they were attented to by ZiL doctors, "I was raised
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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He was honored with the
friendship of
Thaddeus
Czacki, and made inspector of
schools and colleges.
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czeslaw |
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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_("S'il est un
charmant
gazon.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Users are free to copy, use, and
redistribute
the
work in part or in whole.
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Noyes - 1831 - Psalms |
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I was in the
service that I might have something to eat (and solely for that
reason), and when last year a distant relation left me six thousand
roubles in his will I
immediately
retired from the service and settled
down in my corner.
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promptly |
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How did you spend your retirement? |
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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There was a whisper of harsh
Burmese
syllables.
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guturral |
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What did they whisper |
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The whisper of harsh Burmese syllables contributed to the overall atmosphere or mood of the scene by adding a sense of tension and unease. The harshness of the language and the urgency of the woman's demands created a feeling of conflict and danger. It also highlighted the cultural divide between Flory and Ma Hla May, emphasizing the difficulties of their relationship. |
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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Then at last the sacred gates are
flung open and grate on the
jarring
hinge.
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door |
Question: |
what is behind the sacred gates |
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The hydra sits behind the sacred gates |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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