That's a matter for everyman's
opinion
and, without dragging in the
sectarian side of the business, I beg to differ with you _in toto_
there.
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opinion |
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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Mandaville, Bedouin Ethnobotany: Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert
Pastoral
World), a type of bindweed, also known as the desert morning glory.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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"
The string was cut, the document unfolded, and the
witness
read as follows : —
" The testament of Polycles the Paeanian.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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And nearer as they came, a genial savour
Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus,
Things which in hungry mortals' eyes find favour,
Made Juan in his harsh intentions pause,
And put
himself
upon his good behaviour:
His friend, too, adding a new saving clause,
Said, 'In Heaven's name let's get some supper now,
And then I 'm with you, if you 're for a row.
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credence |
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Where did they come from? |
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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]--These people had also
revolted
from the
Athenians, and joined with the islanders in the social war: how for, or
on wnat pretence, they were suffered to commit those outrages on the
seas, does not appear.
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strife |
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Why did the people revolt? |
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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Let us meet like men who have been many
years
acquainted
with each other,” and whose friendship is not
to begin, but continue.
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together |
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When did we first meet? |
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Alexander Pope - v09 |
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We use cookies to
enhance
user experience.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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and now, by Pan, 280
I care not for this old
mysterious
man!
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Keats |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the
maximum
disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:06 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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This cherubim
One may distinguish among the
angelic
hierarchies, vowed to the service and glory of the divine, beings with unknown forms and the most amazing beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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But it is
evident
from what has been said on aes thetic, that the first condition, under which alone objects can be intuited, must in fact exist, as a formal basis for them, u priori in the mind.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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117
It is a question of a struggle between two elements unequal in power: a new adjustment is arrived at,
according
to the measure of power each possesses.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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The Tilneys called for
her at the appointed time; and no new
difficulty
arising, no sudden
recollection, no unexpected summons, no impertinent intrusion to
disconcert their measures, my heroine was most unnaturally able to
fulfil her engagement, though it was made with the hero himself.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Knowing the weakness of the Empire, the
Moor only thought of
cutting
out for himself an independent principality
in Africa.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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) which is the voice of God made audible
through
the noise of Finnegan's fall.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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Join in your
prayers
with me, my
dear countrymen, that God would not forsake me in my last moments.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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n a este libro-- en lugar de alabar,
criticar
o analizar feno?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
|
It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Tully - Offices |
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Then it was that
the nation first
understood
completely what they pos-
sessed in their Emperor; and a stream of affectionate
loyalty, such as only springs from the depths of the
German spirit, carried and supported him through his
last years.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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Und es
leuchtet
ein La?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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--'Lycimnius' is,
according to the Scholiast, the title of a
tragedy
by Euripides, which is
about a ship that is struck by lightning.
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Aristophanes |
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From this moment, he took no food beyond the merest morsel, no drink beyond what would just
moisten
his lips.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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TO SATURN [KRONOS]
The
Fumigation
from Storax.
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Orphic Hymns |
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The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country
outside
the United
States.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Mr Small says that 'no copy of the original is to be found in the Benedictine edition of Jerome's Works'; and Mr Wright states that 'others say they are first found in the Prognosticon futuri seculi of
Julianus
Pomerius, a theologian, who died in the year 690'.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I am Fever,
Ahkosewin!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
'
'How many fingers,
Winston?
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Orwell - 1984 |
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But if in an actor
there
appears
an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid
languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is
a speedy sentence of expulsion.
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Samuel Johnson |
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" rough Mary, God
revealed
himself to the world as at once its Creator and Redeemer: "God who made all things made himself of Mary and
thus he refashioned everything he had made.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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So at first I
intended
to omit them, but had I done so my
history would have become like a fiction, and the censure I should
expect would be that I had done so intentionally, because my hero was
the son of an Emperor; but, on the other hand, if I am accused of too
much loquacity, I cannot help it.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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warbled
forth we hear:
_Come to my golden palace, dear_!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And Goethe, with that reaching eye
His soul
reached
out from, far and high,
And fell from inner entity.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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Gillespie,
William
M.
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Poe - v10 |
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As he sleeps the I
j Minstrals cease their song and there is heard the j
l^
Husbandmen
singing in the distance.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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I can
likewise
applaud his speeches, considering the time he lived in.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 12:11 GMT / http://hdl.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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Although his
father was a Lutheran, he had him taught
the Polish language and trained in the Poman
Catholic faith, with reference to such a ca-
reer; while his mother was
entirely
under
Jesuit influence.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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I go, ye nymphs, where
furious
love inspires;
Let female fears submit to female fires.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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Bacchus
indeed had much in com-
mon with the Egyptian deity; but he entered the Greek world from the
more northern region of Phrygia and Thrace.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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For it can give no answer to our questions respecting the conditions of its synthesis --except such as must be
supplemented
by another question, and so on to infinity.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Much use for years
Had gradually worn it an oblate
Spheroid that kicked and struggled in its gait,
Appearing
to return me hate for hate.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Willibrord, many of these were brought over to embrace the
Catholic
faith.
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Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
|
50
Think not, when Woman's transient breath is fled
That all her
vanities
at once are dead;
Succeeding vanities she still regards,
And tho' she plays no more, o'erlooks the cards.
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Alexander Pope |
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Origins: A Short Etymological
Dictionary
o f the English Language.
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Source: |
Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
|
730] Aristus of Salamis, a writer of a much later age than these,
says, that the tower
consisted
of two stories, and was large; that it
was built at the time the Persians succeeded to the kingdom (of the
Medes); that the tomb was preserved; that the above-mentioned
inscription was in the Greek, and that there was another to the same
purport in the Persian language.
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Strabo |
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Th' offence (as often
happens)
was but small,
But on him, vowed the peer, his rage should fall--
Said he, a halter, rascal, you deserve;
You'll never from the gallows-turnpike swerve:
Or, soon or late you swinging will be found
Who, born for hanging, ever yet was drowned?
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La Fontaine |
|
) Some animals change the colour of their hair with a change in their drinking-water, for in some countries the same
species
of animal is found white in one district and black in another.
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Aristotle copy |
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Par un
sentiment
de même nature, on ne peut plus
aimer un autre général après avoir vu agir Napoléon.
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Stendhal - 1817 - Vie de Napoleon |
|
119
scolding is to
defoliate
one's candour.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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And while Cleonice, the wife of Cnopus, was busied about the offices due to the corpse (and it was the time of the festival and assembly
instituted
in honour of Athene Strophaea), on a sudden there is heard the noise of a trumpet; and the city is taken by Ortyges and his troops, and many of the friends of Cnopus are put to death; and Cleonice, hearing what had happened, fled to Colophon.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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Repentance, trembling in the
presence
of the
judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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This syllo gism, the major of which seems so
natural
and evident, intro duces as many cosmological ideas as there are different kinds of conditions in the synthesis of phsenomena, in so far as theae conditions constitute series.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Yet this
violence
is latent in the first violence.
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Source: |
Education in Hegel |
|
It grants the secret empowerment,
permitting
you to meditate on the com?
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Source: |
Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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My honour's mute, my duty
impotent!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
|
_
Past the court and
through
the doors, across the rushes of the floors,
But they goad him up the stair.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
|
Many pieces have been, here refused
admittance, whether from coarseness of phrase or inferior value: yet
these are rarely defective in the
lyrical
art, which, throughout the
writer's work, is so simple and easy as almost to escape notice through
its very excellence.
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Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Hence people now try the
opposite
direction
: the road along which humanity
is proceeding shall stand as an indication of their
## p.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v09 |
|
The Alchemy of Sadness
One man lights you with his ardour
one decks you in mourning,
Nature!
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Source: |
Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
|
I began to
receive
letters on private grievances and on
every imaginable subject that related to any kind of public affairs,
however remote from my knowledge or pursuits.
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Source: |
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
|
The Longwy
dock strikes, in 1905, arose out of the efforts of a Republican
federation which attempted to organise the syndicates
that might
possibly
serve its policy as against that of the
employers ; ^ the business did not quite take the turn
desired by the promoters of the movement, who were
not familiar enough with this kind of operation.
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Source: |
Sorel - Reflections on Violence |
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Leave all thy
burdens
on his hands who can bear all, and never
look behind in regret.
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Source: |
Tagore - Gitanjali |
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Hir
ravishment
we might consent to beare, So restitution might be made.
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Source: |
Ovid - Book 5 |
|
A WICKED bee, once upon a time, stung the thief Cu-
pid, who was stealing a
honeycomb
from the bee-hives;
and pained all the tips of the fingers of his hands.
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Source: |
Wreath - 1830 - Sappho Theocritus Bion Moschus in Prose |
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surely thy resolve
Is altogether fixt to perish there,
If thou indeed hast purposed with that throng
To mix, whose riot and outrageous acts 400
Of violence echo
through
the vault of heav'n.
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Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Don Issachar, being the court banker, and a
man of credit, would hear
nothing
of it.
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Source: |
Candide by Voltaire |
|
28
Doth still before thee rise the
beauteous
image 29
There laughs in the heightening year, soft 30
The blissful meadows beckoned.
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Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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This circumstance was not only very advantageous to the camp, but would be a great protection to them when they formed their line ; as they, with the wind blowing only on their backs, would combat with an enemy blinded with the
thickly
blown dust.
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Source: |
Universal Anthology - v05 |
|
Nordidany leaderofa
largepartyorchiefofstateinEuropeduringthatperiodemploythe
lieas a standardtechniqueofpropaganda.
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Source: |
Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
|
After much waver-
ing,
Napoleon
III then exercised for some years
a guardianship over the Sublime Porte.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
|
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Source: |
Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
|
*- And I too small
To reach His hand
Or touch His feet;
But on the sand
His
footpfints
I have found,
And it is sweet
To kiss the holy ground.
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Source: |
Childrens - Child Verse |
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An' tell them with a
patriot
heat,
Ye winna bear it?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Robert Burns- |
|
Logic and Natural
Sciences
239
significance" (EB 25, 686, 2).
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
|
The purpose of Jesus' moral teaching (absolute reconciliation) can- not possibly be realized within the
immediate
boundaries of Christian religion.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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y Roca de Togores, junto á quien me
hallaba, concluyó de leer mis versos; y
miéntras
él leia.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
|
THE TREE
I STOOD still and was a tree amid the wood,
Knowing
the truth of things unseen before ; Of Daphne and the laurel bow
And that god-feasting couple old That grew elm-oak amid the wold.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
|
Every
dictator
owes his acquisition of power largely to a de- voted group of disciples.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
|
, 13, "Nec cuiquam minus singuli
apparatus quadringentis millibus
nummûm
constiterunt.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Satires |
|
(1688) 280 Beseeching him that these
my‥Lamentations
may now at length find Regard with you.
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Source: |
OED - 21 - a |
|
The highest reality must be regarded rather as the ground than as the sum-total of the possibility of all things, and the manifold nature of things be based, not upon the
limitation
of the primal being itself, but upon the complete series of effects which flow from it.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
|
that noble madness, whose august
And
inextinguishable
might can slay
The soul with honeyed drugs,—alas!
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Wilde - Charmides |
|
ai
founden
hym, & kisten his feet,
And mercy ?
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
Valerius the dictator appeased their fury by a public harangue; for which he was
afterwards
rewarded with the highest posts of honour, and was the first Roman who was distinguished by the surname of Maximus.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Cicero - Brutus |
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But we feel angry with ourselves for the jesting
tone of our
observations
upon this topic.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Poe - v08 |
|
We know not whence, (was the answer,)
We only know that we drift here with the rest,
That we linger'd and lagg'd--but were wafted at last, and are now here,
To make the
passing
shower's concluding drops.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
The
fabric of as thick a discourse as Orientalism has survived and functioned in Western society
because of its richness: all I have done is to describe parts of that fabric at certain moments, and
merely to suggest the
existence
of a larger whole, detailed, interesting, dotted with fascinating
figures, texts, and events.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
|
The
factors
of 504 are 7, 8, and 9.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Tuyl - 1911 - Complete business arithmetic |
|
Experiences of scornful
contempt
from a parent may be re-en- acted as scornful contempt of the therapist.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
|
Empty heads and tongues a-talking
Make the rough road easy walking,
And the
feather
pate of folly
Bears the falling sky.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
The following are the arrangements which we have
made in this matter : --
(i) We have taken an exact survey of all the roads
in the
Kingdom
; and after a complete and very minute
enquiry, having found four hundred posting-routes
which are hardly ever used by carriages or coaches,
we have reduced them to one stage-horse and three
saddle-horses each.
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He was
ordained
a deacon by Dr.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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APPENDIX
A DIVINE IMAGE
Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And
Secresy
the human dress.
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blake-poems |
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Thus things were formed which give the impression of the
greatest
self-evidence.
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Foucault-Live |
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The authorsees thereasonforthefailureofthefoursectsinthefactthattheir membersthroughoutwere "conservativeand loyal Germancitizens" and did
notdifferfromCatholicsandProtestantisnsofaras
theywere"nationalist,con- servative,frightenedofCommunism"andtherefordeuringthewar"bore arms willinglyforGermany"(p.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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With most authors it is just so, indeed; they
are in general
strangely
tenacious!
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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Zu Frosch):
Nun sagt, was
wunschet
Ihr zu schmecken?
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