The
first thing which
disturbed
his mind was the young Violet, whom he
could not take with him.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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Silbern
flackert
der Leuchter Vor dem singenden Odem Des Einsamen;
Zaubrisches Rosengewo?
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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Sometymes
the samme thynge wylle bothe bane, & blesse;
On tyme encalede[104], yanne bie the same thynge warmd,
Estroughted foorthe, and yanne ybrogten less.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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— its
development
feared by the State, vi.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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O, to see him when
anointed
he is plunging in the flood!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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--_The Siege of
Corinth_
is on pp.
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Byron |
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What
dignified
attendants,
What service when we pause!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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It is of
cardinal
importance that the real world
should be suppressed.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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The Law Verifyed By The Subordinate Judge
If therefore a man have a question of Injury, depending on the Law of
Nature; that is to say, on common Equity; the Sentence of the Judge,
that by
Commission
hath Authority to take cognisance of such causes, is
a sufficient Verification of the Law of Nature in that individuall case.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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Still am I doomed to rue the fate
That such
unfriendly
neighbors made?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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50
Ego quam miser relinquens, dominos ut herifugae
Famuli solent, ad Idee tetuli nemora pedem;
Ut apud nivem et ferarum gelida stabula forem,
Et earum omnia adirem
furibunda
latibula:
Ubinam, aut quibus locis te positam, patria, rear?
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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i+ i
==
: ii iE= r
zEiiijlti
y=,zi=:rr= je;i : I::;Z:i-=-1i,ji1 ; :
p
= -'.
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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In general, the seeds of all species are
attracted
to other species.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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possible, and to make him approximate as nearly as one can to an infallible machine : to this end he
must be
equipped
with machine-like virtues must learn to value those states in which he works in a most mechanically useful way, as the highest of all: to this end it is necessary to make him as disgusted as possible with the other states, and to represent them as very dangerous and despicable).
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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I have sometimes thought that he would render the greatest service to
modern criticism, who shall draw the line of relation that subsists
between
Shakespeare
and Swedenborg.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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Alfred Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady
Preludes
Rhapsody
on a Windy Night
Morning at the Window
The Boston Evening Transcript
Aunt Helen
Cousin Nancy
Mr.
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T.S. Eliot |
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thou blisful lady swete,
That with thy fyr-brand
dauntest
whom thee lest,
And madest me this sweven for to mete, 115
Be thou my help in this, for thou mayst best;
As wisly as I saw thee north-north-west,
When I began my sweven for to wryte,
So yif me might to ryme hit and endyte!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Of course if we return to the first
question
the pes-
simistic answer,- if the world is a bad place, and cosmic suicide
the only reasonable thing,—the present discussion may at once
be closed.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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”
interrupted
the Cardinal.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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Come d'autunno si levan le foglie
l'una appresso de l'altra, fin che 'l ramo
vede a la terra tutte le sue spoglie,
similemente il mal seme d'Adamo
gittansi
di quel lito ad una ad una,
per cenni come augel per suo richiamo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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THE FINDING OF THE LYRE
There lay upon the ocean's shore
What once a
tortoise
served to cover;
A year and more, with rush and roar,
The surf had rolled it over,
Had played with it, and flung it by,
As wind and weather might decide it,
Then tossed it high where sand-drifts dry
Cheap burial might provide it.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The Maratha contingent was
sent back with royal orders (dated 13 and 24 March)
confirming
the
promises made to them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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One way all travel; the dark urn
Shakes each man's lot, that soon or late
Will force him,
hopeless
of return,
On board the exile-ship of Fate.
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| Question: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But in a civil so-
ciety constituted as it ought to be, as reason requires it to
be, as the thinker may easily
describe
it to himself although
he may nowhere find it actually existing at the present day,
and as it must necessarily exist in the first nation that shall
really acquire true freedom,--in such a state of society, evil
will present no advantages, but rather the most certain dis-
advantages, and self-love itself will restrain the excess of
self-love when it would run out into injustice.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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If they profess a
disinclination
for
it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
|
Unhappy
Nietzsche
must not be made responsible for the shameful doctrines of Wilhelm Bo?
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| Question: |
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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What could more delightfully prove that the
warmth of her heart was equal to its
gentleness?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Mansfield Park |
|
Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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| Question: |
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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Your Life shall moil i' the ground, and plant his seed,
A farmer
foisoning
a huge crop of grief.
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| Question: |
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Sidney Lanier |
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Mais enfin chez Saint-Loup, de quelque façon que les
défauts des parents se fussent combinés en une création nouvelle de
qualités, régnait la plus charmante
ouverture
d'esprit et de coeur.
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| Question: |
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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And whereas Paul doth not doubt of Agrippa's faith, he doth it not so much to praise him, as that he may put the Scripture out of all question, lest he be
enforced
to stand upon the very principles.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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His
interests
are purely human.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain
materials
and make them widely accessible.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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that may true;
But true
pardoner
doth nat ensew.
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| Question: |
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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'If you refer to my act in 1851 in submitting to the
Catholic
Church, by
which we were separated for some twelve years, I can understand it.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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And also, it is [not consistent] because it
explains
that there are two thou- sand seven hundred wind-energies in each session measure, and so there should be one thousand three hundred fifty in each half session.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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A taper lighted that dear
pardoning
face,
More tender in the shade that wrapped the place,
And the child stayed his horse, and in the shine
Of the wax taper knelt down at the shrine.
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Hugo - Poems |
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When, however, we
began to speak of our point of view, he quickly
caught hold of his companion, turned sharply
round, and cried to us in bitter tones: "People
should not have points of view, but
thoughts!
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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"
LXXXV
"Comrade Rollanz, once sound your
olifant!
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| Question: |
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Chanson de Roland |
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'
Miss
Pepperdine
in a fashion 3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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It is
universally
accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any
presidential candidate.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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“ a bea
of
in a
an at a asa all
ad a a it, By
ofto
xxxvi
PREFACES TO FORMER EDITIONS
lution of the Star Chamber (i) ; a Court, which lord Coke (k) calls the most honourable in the Christian world, consisting of the chief officers of the kingdom, but as he observes (l) was of such a nature as most of all needed to be kept within proper bounds; might indeed have served
very good purposes, rightly managed, being chiefly intended for the correction scandalous Indecencies and Immoralities, which did
and
shame and infamy, and mark him out the public, trusted, but shunned and avoided
honest men peltings
person not
secure him justice ought
did He that time protect him when man
the hands liberty,
justice, and many
ordinary jurisdictions (m) but when wreak the malice particular persons, Court-Faction; when limits
not fall under the cognizance
once authority was abused
and prostituted the base ends
were observed the exercise
tences; when the Judges thereof, however
dignified
their posts, be
Jurisdiction, nor humanity Sen
disgrace
came .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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Cordesman, The Gulfand the Searchfor
Strategic
Stability: Saudi Arabia, the Military Balance in the Gulf, and Trends in the Arab-Israeli Military Balance (Boulder, Colo.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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Sai Đặc tiến Nhập nội Tư khấu Đồng Bình
chương
sự Trịnh Khắc Phục làm Đề điệu, Ngự sử trung Thừa Ngự sử đài Hà Lật làm Giám thí, Môn hạ sảnh Tả ty Tả nạp ngôn Tri Bắc đạo quân dân bạ tịch Nguyễn Mộng Tuân, Hàn lâm viện Thừa chỉ Học sĩ Trình Thuấn Du, Quốc tử giám Tế tửu Nguyễn Tử Tấn1 làm Độc quyển.
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stella-02 |
|
Still less
could this acute writer allow an empirical origin of this concept,
since this is directly contradictory to the necessity of connection
which
constitutes
the essence of the notion of causality, hence the
notion was proscribed, and in its place was put custom in the
observation of the course of perceptions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
|
Cadenus was amazed to find
Such marks of a
distracted
mind;
For though she seemed to listen more
To all he spoke, than e'er before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
|
Within him romantic feelings must have waned with a
more or less
realistic
attitude even when he was quite young.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
|
O Venus, link this
conquering
pair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Here then Christ
speaketh
in the Prophet : I venture to
say, Christ speaketh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
|
"But mine the sorrow, mine the fault,
And well my life shall pay;
I'll seek the
solitude
he sought,
And stretch me where he lay.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oliver Goldsmith |
|
The
saying that tyrants are generally
murdered
and that
their descendants are short-lived, is true also of the
tyrants of the mind.
| 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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"21 Much as
critical
pedagogues begin by challenging students to become more actively involved in shaping assignments and expectations, dis- putants are encouraged to envision the situation as they see fit and bring in cultural values and social practices from their backgrounds that might foster a more collaborative environment.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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She lay like a
sleeping
child for a
few moments, and then, with a long sigh, awoke and stared in wonder to
see us all around her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dracula by Bram Stoker |
|
And "Acta
Sanctorum
Hibernia;," xi.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
|
Little
children
came to that
eye-doctor, and they needed large-type amusement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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All
hurriedly
she knelt upon a bed
Of flowers: of lilies such as rear'd the head
*On the fair Capo Deucato, and sprang
So eagerly around about to hang
Upon the flying footsteps of--deep pride--
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Henry, in having such things to relate of his father, was almost
as
pitiable
as in their first avowal to himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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EN, in all ages, have taken interest in
the early years of their Princes, and many
clever writers, both in ancient and mo-
dern times, have
recorded
the virtues, and
the amiable dispositions, that princes in their child-
hood have evinced.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Little Princes |
|
Ifwe examine Plato's works with reference to the first ofthese:'Tiscertainhedoesnotatfirstdash
distinctly
propose the Question on which he treats.
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| Question: |
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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Ovid added also a sketch of the strange procession which was sup-
posed to
accompany
Bacchus.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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This was
certainly
inconsistent with the spirit of these corporations ; but they had no right to complain of after they had become themselves untrue to their spirit, and had played
it,
can.
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| Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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de
Mirepoix
(whom
they wittily call "Ane" or Ass of Mirepoix, that sour
opaque creature, lately monk), were industrious ex-
ceedingly; and put veto on Voltaire.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Carlyle |
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And if I make not
straight
my track,
But, far as may be, wind and bend,
That's how the sage begins his tack,
And that is how the fool will—end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
|
650
To disentangle that
confusing
problem, too
My sister would have handed you the fatal clew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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'To those,' he replied, who serve you from goodwill and not from fear or self-interest,
thinking
only of their own gain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
|
n de las ge-
neraciones
jo?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
|
Within him romantic feelings must have waned with a
more or less
realistic
attitude even when he was quite young.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
|
Lenin hated most the Mensheviks; his
successor
Stalin hated most the Trotzkyites.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
|
They tortured and mutilated all
the
Catholics
who fell into their hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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As for myself, since time a
thousand
cares
And griefs hath filed upon my silver hairs,
'Tis to be doubted whether I next year
Or no shall give ye a re-meeting here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
|
For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
|
Penitence is not a "determined act" but a status that involves the execution of a number of different practices which allow a person who has sinned to become
reintegrated
into the religious community (ibid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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But his death now altered the state of things, and the
ascendancy
of
the family of Udaijin became assured.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
|
Dharmadhatu, the spontaneous unity of the three kayas, is the
stainless
great bliss?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
|
All this time I stood watch-
ing the turkeys to see where they flew, with my gun on my
shoulder, and never once thought of
leveling
it at the birds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
|
El punto medio -que posee el sitio de Dios en el
círculo absoluto- se cerciora constantemente de todos los puntos
que están en el espacio en derredor suyo en tanto los produce y re
conoce; conforma todo en torno de sí puesto que se
completa
inin
terrumpidamente a sí mismo, reintegrando en sí cualquier punto
por lejano que esté.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
|
Not that thin Sort of Animal that flutters from Tavern to Play-house, and back again, all his Life ; made up of Wig and Crevat, without one Dram of Thought in his
Composition
; but one who had solid Worth, well drest and set out to the World.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
|
Windy night that was I went to fetch her there was that lodge meeting on
about those lottery tickets after Goodwin's concert in the
supperroom
or
oakroom of the Mansion house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Joyce - Ulysses |
|
and the
National
Association of Manu- facturers with respect to the activities of Thurman Arnold, it is quite logical that these monopolists should make common cause when so many of thetn have felt on their necks the hot t>reath of the Department of Justice, but to see, working to- gether, the leaders on both sides oi the "class struggle," has added some comic felief to the current scene.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Thismusicexists only as a comment o f someone else, marked by another
indefinite
pronoun: "This music crept by me upon the waters" (ln.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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E E ' =
EE{ I
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rEgi*iFEi?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-19 01:38 GMT / http://hdl.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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To know just how he
suffered
would be dear;
To know if any human eyes were near
To whom he could intrust his wavering gaze,
Until it settled firm on Paradise.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Someone mentions the
Senatore
Corrado Ricci and no one knows who else or how many other sensibilities have been empl9yed.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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+ Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting research on machine translation, optical character
recognition
or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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150 non tibi Riphaeis hostis quaerendus ab oris,
non per
Caucasias
accito turbine valles
est opus.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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The other side would be a constant insistence on "presence," in the sense of that spatial closeness, of that
tangibility
of the world of objects that our everyday Cartesianism has a tendency of crossing out.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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If the
discrepancy
should be painful to the reader,
let him understand that to the writer it has been more so.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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s
abilities
and how crucial the post is?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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At least the difference
which must blend with and balance the likeness, in order to constitute
a just imitation, existing here merely in caricature,
detracts
from
the libeller's heart, without adding an iota to the credit of his
understanding.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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The order of battle had been
arranged
between the Elector and his
field-marshal, and the king was content with merely signifying his
approval.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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But experience and
practice
gradually bring a cure to this evil.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Steele, who had followed the puritan
tradition
in
several numbers of The Tatler, still retained the old standpoint.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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I wait here
dreaming
of vermilion sunsets:
In my heart is a half fear of the chill autumn rain.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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I knew that that intolerable thirst was a sign
of the approaching end, and I told
Pechorin
so.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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The
princess
donned a poor pastoral's gear,
A kerchief coarse upon her head she tied;
But yet her gestures and her looks, I guess,
Were such as ill beseemed a shepherdess.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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