I assure you that on this tour of mine there is nothing that gives me more
pleasure
to do than to write to you; for I seem to be talking and joking with you face to face.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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You’ll
stay here and listen to what I’ve
got to say, please.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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He returned to France in 1800, and it was a substantial literary defence of Christianity which attracted Napoleon's notice and led to his
employment
by the Emperor at Rome and in Switzerland.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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El
i
iEiiiiiEiiigiiiEiiiiiiiiig
iliiiii
iEitgsi?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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One day Hasan said to me and to Khayyam, "It is a universal
belief that the pupils of the Imam
Mowaffak
will attain to fortune.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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It
is the wise choice of the subject that alone adorns and
distinguishes
the
writer.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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They felt it in-
cumbent upon them to imitate what is precisely
most
difficult
and most high,—what is possible
only to the master, when they, above all, should
know how difficult and dangerous this is, and how
many excellent gifts may be ruined by attempting
it!
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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He thought more of
Bernardo del Carpio because at Roncesvalles he slew Roland
in spite of enchantments,
availing
himself of the artifice of
Hercules when he strangled Antæus the son of Terra in his
arms.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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MLN 641
swinging pendulum or flying granades were reduced for the sake of simplicity, through every possible
adventure
of maxima and minima,
of turning points and null-points, of velocity moments and forces of acceleration.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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): Die
Kulturpolitik
im besetzten Deut- schland, Stuttgart 1994, p.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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The
bulkhead
double-doors were double-locked
And swollen tight and buried under snow.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And
dreadful
the blast of the trumpet.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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On those hills where the wind effaces all signs,
on those glaciers, fired by the sun's pure light,
on those rocks, where dizziness threatens the mind,
in that lake's vermilion presage of night,
under my feet, and above my head,
silence, that makes you wish to escape;
that eternal silence, of the mountainous bed
of
motionless
air, where everything waits.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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To look upon healthier
concepts and values from the
standpoint
of the sick,
and conversely to look down upon the secret work
of the instincts of decadence from the standpoint
of him who is laden and self-reliant with the rich-
ness of life—this has been my longest exercise, my
principal experience.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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See, what a
clenching
hoop is about thy gorge!
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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,
Professor of History and
Political
Science,
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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le`ne Pateau and
Lisette
Rosenfeld
(Paris, 1989).
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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69:11 I made
sackcloth
also my garment; and I became a proverb to
them.
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bible-kjv |
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These apostolic men were natives of Ireland,'^ according to
Alcuinus
Flaccus,"s Malbranq,
withotherwriters and,theyaresaid'*tohavebeendisciplesorcom- Saussay, ;
panions of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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Rosinger believes that the Burma Government will ultimately stand or fall on its handling of the
agrarian
problem.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Other accounts tell of messages from doves perched in the tree's branches, or from dove-priestesses who presumably
replaced
the male Selloi.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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Their costume-I cannot
describe
it!
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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He, when the wheel of empire
whirleth
back,
And though the world's disjointed axle crack,
Sings still of ancient rights and better times.
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Marvell - Poems |
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For that the
greatest
part of mankind are fools, nay there is not anyone
that dotes not in many things; and friendship, you know, is seldom made
but among equals.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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SOVIET CIVILlZATiOH
world's
troubles
on this one man, who has held Russia
in his iron grip for twenty-five years.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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He is
presumed
to have died in an ambush by Bulgarian forces.
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Troubador Verse |
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The fight with fists was equal between Arius the Ægyptian, who was
buried at Corinth, and Epius, that
combated
for it.
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Lucian - True History |
|
269
Let the city drink coffee and quietly groan, —
They who
conquered
the father won't be slaves
to the son.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Hesitating
I remain
At war 'twixt will and will not in my thoughts.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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Did nations combat to make ONE submit;
Or league to teach all kings true
sovereignty?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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That he did not mean Water, in the ordinary prosaic sense, to be
identical with this, is
suggested
by some [10] other sayings of his.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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The fall of that town will be a signal and
melancholy
warning to the peoples of Spain never to count upon Roman friendship nor to trust Rome's word.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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These
descriptions
were in- cluded in a manual that was employed by the raters.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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She was eccentric, an odd mixture of bashful reserve and
unexpected spells of frankness, sweet, gentle, and
retiring
in disposi-
tion, but possessed of great courage.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
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Villon |
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Birds in returning home beyond the sea
Dip wings with tuneful song in ocean's foam ;
But we, poor
pilgrims
-- when, alas!
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
|
For instance, both fear and confidence and appetite
and anger and pity and in general pleasure and pain may be felt both
too much and too little, and in both cases not well; but to feel
them at the right times, with reference to the right objects,
towards the right people, with the right motive, and in the right way,
is what is both
intermediate
and best, and this is characteristic of
virtue.
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Aristotle |
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Ce qu'il y a de
vraiment
beau dans cette poe?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
|
Something
similar ina differenftormeveninthe"elite" of
happened
universities the
UnitedStates.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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In addition his remarkable social
eminence, the breadth of his learning and wit-he could write on such varied subjects as Bergson,
Handel, theism, and golf-his education at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and his apparent
command over
imperial
affairs all gave considerable authority to what he told the Commons in
June 1910.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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The
pressing
anxieties of thought, which prevented her from noticing
anything before her, when once beyond the neighbourhood of Woodston,
saved her at the same time from watching her progress; and though no
object on the road could engage a moment’s attention, she found no stage
of it tedious.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Many a stretch of slime-aged
standing
water
I've reached through deathly, terrifying wastes,
The plumes of pigeon carcasses strewn about.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
|
thy
coldness
is warm
To the world's cold without thee!
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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I at once become aware that such a
principle, viewed as a law, would
annihilate
itself, because the
result would be that there would be no deposits.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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If
there is some tinge of pedantry, it is carried off by great affability
of address and variety of amusing and
interesting
topics.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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It is peculiarly fitting that the board should now be
spread in honor of one who has been a member of the club for
full a score of years, and it is a happy augury for the future
that our fellow-member whom we assemble to greet should be the
bearer of a most
distinguished
name in the world of letters;
for the Lotos Club is ever at its best when paying homage to
genius in literature or in art.
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Twain - Speeches |
|
See note
on
advocatus
dei, XI I.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
|
Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
|
VIII, IX,
dedicated
respectively to the possibility or matter of the universe, and the soul or form of the universe.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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What else is that man doing, who has such a
multitude
of fanciful imaginations pictured in his heart, save gazing at a dream with waking eyes?
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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For upon us confusion vile is come,
Now have we lost our king Marsiliun,
For yesterday his hand count Rollanz cut;
We'll have no more Fair Jursaleu, his son;
The whole of Spain
henceforward
is undone.
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Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Jean I found banished,
forlorn,
destitute
and friendless: I have reconciled her to her fate,
and I have reconciled her to her mother.
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Source: |
Robert Burns- |
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Nay, 'tis older news that foreign sailor
With the cheek of sea-tan stops to prattle
To the young fig-seller with her basket 15
And the breasts that bud beneath her tunic,
And I hear it in the
rustling
tree-tops.
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Source: |
Sappho |
|
1
For my own part, having never made one verse since I was at school, where I suffered too much for my blunders in poetry, to have any love to it ever since, I am not able from any experience of my own, to give you those instructions you desire; neither will I declare (for I love to conceal my passions) how much I lament my neglect of poetry in those periods of my life, which were
properest
for improvements in that ornamental part of learning; besides, my age and infirmities might well excuse me to you, as being unqualified to be your writing-master, with spectacles on, and a shaking hand.
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Source: |
Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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How large a part of Italy's wheat needs have been
met by these spring shipments of Soviet wheat is
indicated by "Bulletin of Arrivals" published in
Genoa, showing that out of a total of 1,980,000
bushels of wheat
arriving
in Italy in January, 759,-
000 were from the Soviet Union, while in February
out of a total of 3,234,000 bushels, 1,518,000 were
from the Soviet Union and in March out of 7,689,000
bushels, 2,156,000 were Russian.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
|
Until now I
believed
that I deserved more from thee when I had done all things for thee, persevering still in obedience to thee.
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Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
|
Upset, pained,
embarrassed
— yes; but not angry.
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Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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Let your line be the finest adventure
Afloat on the tense dawn wind
That goes
wakening
thyme and mint.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Then, still maintaining a strict outer decorum, they made use of their varied intellectual backgrounds to discuss
principles
of philosophy, religion, science, and business practice.
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Source: |
Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
|
Here’s
the cup (taking it from his wallet).
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Theocritus - Idylls |
|
HE GIVES
PRESENTS
TO HYGELAC.
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Source: |
Beowulf |
|
)
người
làng Phúc Khê huyện Thanh Lan (nay thuộc xã Thái Phúc huyện Thái Thụy tỉnh Thái Bình).
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Source: |
stella-03 |
|
Their grins--
an
orchestra
of plucked skin and a million strings.
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Source: |
Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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He therefore removed the name of Tibullus from
the third book and
substituted
that of Lygdamus.
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Source: |
Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
|
On the Death of Esther Johnson [Stella]
Jonathan Swift
THIS day, being Sunday, January 28, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night, a servant brought me a note, with an account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and
valuable
friend, that I, or perhaps any other person, ever was blessed with.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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For the god, the god prohibits me from
bringing to a
conclusion
the verses I promised [you, namely those]
iambics which I had begun.
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Source: |
Horace - Works |
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_Such_
surprise
is always pleasurable; and it is observable
that surprise accompanied with circumstances of danger becomes tragic.
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Source: |
Coleridge - Table Talk |
|
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to
compounds
strange?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
lo
bastante
natural, le prohi?
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
|
The excepted
articles
were: alkaline salt, skins, furs, flax and hemp.
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Source: |
Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
|
He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get
yourself
some teeth.
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Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
It must
therefore be possible to find an interpretation of the points,
straight lines, and planes of physics in terms of physical data, or at
any rate in terms of data
together
with such hypothetical additions as
seem least open to question.
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Source: |
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
|
Obsequiousness, servility, cupidity roused
by the
prevailing
smell of money.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
|
l/at the end of November the
Egyptian
army arrived under the command of al-Malik al-'Adil Saif ad-Din Abu Bakr ibn Ayyu?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
|
Its numbers fluctuated, but
generally
hovered around 300.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
|
In
like manner the common sort of men chiefly admire those things that are
most
corporeal
and almost believe there is nothing beyond them.
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Source: |
Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
|
Hoàng thượng2 ở ngôi báu năm thứ 15, chấn hưng sĩ khí, sứ mệnh của văn học càng
được
đề cao, tô điểm cho nền trị bình, tuyên bố rõ ràng đầy đủ.
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Source: |
stella-02 |
|
It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Source: |
Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
|
After such a discovery as this,
you will
scarcely
affect further wonder at my meaning in bidding you
adieu.
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Source: |
Austen - Lady Susan |
|
Mais son appétit était
exceptionnel
en ceci, qu'il ne connaissait pas de trêve.
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Source: |
Samuel Beckett |
|
"Don't forget," he said, "although
this might be
unpleasant
for you you're not in any real danger.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
|
I have also seen,
And pitied as I saw, the earth-born one,
The inhabitant of old Cilician caves,
The great war-monster of the hundred heads,
(All taken and bowed beneath the violent Hand,)
Typhon the fierce, who did resist the gods,
And, hissing slaughter from his dreadful jaws,
Flash out
ferocious
glory from his eyes
As if to storm the throne of Zeus.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Sometimes, as in the hexameter, a spondee
occupies
the
last place but one; in which case, the preceding foot ought
to be a dactyl, or the line will be too heavy; as,
Horat- Menso\rem cohi\bBnt Ar\chyta.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
|
After con viction, he behaved in the most
reserved
manner, scarcely speaking to any one but his brethren in misfortune.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
|
11 "The
corporation
is simply the model of the Ghurch.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Brady - Business as a System of Power |
|
Orpheans:
followers
of Orpheus.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
|
He was
preparing to open a course of
lectures
in Zürich
when he died.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
|
The shoes were taken off
before
reclining
on it.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ovid - Art of Love |
|
Science Friday,
National
Public Radio, May 7,1999.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
|
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:--
A Poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund
company!
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Answer: |
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Golden Treasury |
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I should feel easier if I could see
More of the salt
wherewith
they're to be salted.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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Made one kinde more of Birdes than was of
auncient
time beforne.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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He writes well, but rather
like a logician than like an
inspired
orator.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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Which Lately _I_ have sufficiently
experienced, when _I_
supposed
all those things (which formerly _I_
assented to as most _True_) as very _False_, for this _Reason_ only that
_I_ found my self _able_ to doubt of them in some manner.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Essential to
the
reductionist
approach, then, is that the whole shall be known through the study of its parts.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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" and new encroachments of the house of commons,
""which
extended
their jurisdiction beyond their
"limits.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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corns are rightly
understood
to be those, whose firm hope is^c""" uplifted unto thatIone thing, concerning which another Psalm
have sought the Lord, this I will require.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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" Henderson seems
indeed to have been
universally
liked.
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Robert Forst |
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