I have read that
in times past the surest and most
veritable
oracles were not those which
either were delivered in writing or uttered by word of mouth in speaking.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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Just as the aesti- val Venice was fated to be overcome by the
assertion
or draw of its essence, so too is the pedestrian use of "fatal" supplanted by its original one.
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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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Celestial, ancient, life-supporting maid,
fanatic
Goddess, give thy suppliant aid;
With joyful aspect on our incense shine, and, pleas'd, accept the sacrifice divine.
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Orphic Hymns |
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*
I thank you for the
confidence
you show you have in me, in
telling me what you judge amiss in my nature.
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Alexander Pope - v10 |
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Pride of race, which also means race-hatred, is the
plague and curse of India and it spreads far," Orde
pointed
with his
riding-whip to the large map of India on the veranda wall.
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Kipling - Poems |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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back
Polyaenus: Stratagems
- BOOK 4,
Chapters
1-3
Adapted from the translation by R.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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1030
Theseus
And his
passion
then began again in Troezen?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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“cosset”
: a pet lamb.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-05 01:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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The wind that swept them out of sin
Has ruffled all our vesture:
On the shut door that let them in
We beat with
frantic
gesture,--
XIX.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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9 After his marriage a civil war arose among the Phrygians; 10 and when they consulted the oracles how their discord might be terminated, the oracles
replied
that "a king was required to settle their disputes.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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Although there are some
rookeries
in which the
penguia and albatross are the sole population, yet in
most of them a variety of oceanic birds are to be met
with, enjoying aU the privileges of citizenship, and
scattering their nests here and there, wherever they
can find room, never interfering, however, with the
stations of the larger species.
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Poe - v05 |
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But as the swain
amazèd
stood,
In this most solemn vein,
Came Phyllida forth of the wood,
And stood before the swain.
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William Browne |
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The
Viscount
of Chi became a slave.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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Pleas of water
Cry
through
the trees.
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toward; within; out |
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What temperature are your pleas? ; What's on the other side of trees? |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Bowlby, in an
avoidant
way, distanced himself, expressing neither warmth nor anger, but having little to do with the Society after the 1960s.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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In the case of violin strings and bell tones, drumskins and water surfaces, and even windstorms and electromagnetic vibra-
tions, only partial differential equations
successfully
modelled the countless parts moved in all their dimensions.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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Dick, 'I am going to put a
question
to you.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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The Officers of his Regiment
hastily redacted some certificate for Chasot, hastily signed it;
and Chasot ran,
scarcely
waiting to pack his baggage.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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How was that
possible?
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Nietzsche - v08 |
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Philosophy defined by Kant: “ The science of
the
limitations
of reason”!
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v14 |
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The
propaganda
State is doomed.
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Source: |
Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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O Father Jove [Zeus], who shak'st with fiery light the world deep-sounding from thy lofty height:
From thee, proceeds th' ætherial lightning's blaze,
flashing
around intolerable rays.
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Source: |
Orphic Hymns |
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The little
republic
to which I gave laws was regulated in the following
manner: by sunrise we all assembled in our common apartment, the fire
being previously kindled by the servant.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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Fare ye well,
farewell!
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:45 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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Man cannot
_know_ in any higher sense than this, any more than he can look serenely
and with
impunity
in the face of the sun: ?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And they shall sweep and array the floor of the goddess and cleanse it with dew, having escaped the
loveless
anger of the citizens.
Guess: |
righteous |
Question: |
Why are they citizens angry? |
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Source: |
Lycophron - Alexandra |
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The charm of knowledge would be small, were it not so much shame has
to be
overcome
on the way to it.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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[50]
At the third cup I
penetrate
the Great Way;
A full gallon--Nature and I are one.
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Li Po |
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In simple
language
Dr.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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You to slight my
passion
?
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Alone, but for one child, who led before him _1900
A
graceful
dance: the only living thing
Of all the crowd, which thither to adore him
Flocked yesterday, who solace sought to bring
In his abandonment!
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Source: |
Shelley copy |
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The kings of Macedonia and Asia
contributed
500 mercenaries each.
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Source: |
Universal Anthology - v04 |
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The denominator is the
product
of the denomina-
tors, the same as before.
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Tuyl - 1911 - Complete business arithmetic |
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Conze dates the only
surviving
complete Sanskrit version oflhis text to the 51h century, and considers il as a rceasl version of an earlier original.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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AN EDUCATIONAL SCANDAL
The Prime
Minister
of my country, Tony Blair, invoked 'diversity' when challenged in the House of Commons by Jenny Tonge MP to justify government subsidy of a school in the north-east of England that (almost uniquely in Britain) teaches literal biblical creationism.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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Salvationists
COME, my songs, let us speak of
perfection
We shall get ourselves rather disliked.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
|
4 Gerald Martin briefly analyzes Neruda's career after his involvement with the
Spanish
Republic in the 1930s, in particular during the writers' conference against fascism (in which a young Paz also participated), as a change "towards an explicidy political humanist poetry" (120).
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Spanish |
Question: |
How was Pablo Neruda involved in Spanish fascism? |
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Source: |
Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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Why could he not
remember
the name when he was told the first
time?
Guess: |
remember |
Question: |
Whose name was forgotten? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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Her body was never
without suffering, or her heart without conflict; but neither the
body's
weakness
nor the heart's violence could disturb that fixed
contemplation, as of Buddha on his lotus-throne.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"I've seen sae mony changefu' years,
On earth I am a
stranger
grown;
I wander in the ways of men,
Alike unknowing and unknown:
Unheard, unpitied, unrelieved,
I bear alane my lade o' care,
For silent, low, on beds of dust,
Lie a' that would my sorrows share.
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Source: |
Robert Burns |
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ACRES thirty in all, good grass, own
Mentula
master ;
Forty to plough ; bare seas, arid or empty, the rest.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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"In
the
morning
He waketh to hope the people
who slumber.
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Source: |
Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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Annales
Tiger- naci, p.
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Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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He must be conscious The greater doesn’t come out of the less He
created
you, and He will kill you, for His oWn purpose.
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Source: |
Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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As a reward for having extended democratic rights to all citizens, the Albanian communists and all for- mer state employees and judges were
stripped
of their civil rights.
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Source: |
Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
|
What is the first and last thing that a
philosopher
T.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v08 |
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Remit as yet no grace,
No furrow on the glow,
Yet a
druidic
difference
Enhances nature now.
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Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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In fact, the empirical data says nothing about individuality or universality, the same way it says noth- ing with regard to
finitude
or infinitude.
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Source: |
Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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Come
without
delay;
Or we shall find such engines to assail
And hamper thee, as thou shalt come of force,
Though thou wert firmlier fastened than a rock.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The meaning is, 'Be
careful
not
to make your first advances on the birthday of your mistress, as that is
the time for making presents, and you will certainly be out of pocket.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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But
it has been rightly observed by those modern writers
who have
bestowed
their attention on the subject, that
the similarity of names is not a convincing reason in
itself, since they have often been known to vary; and
that, after all, we must refer to the original account,
?
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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They asked the Buddha, and thus gave him an opportunity to explain that
situations
are not only shaped by the karmic process, but also demonstrate the extreme importance of our
attitudes.
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seeds |
Question: |
How do attitudes relate to karma? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Kalu Rinpoche |
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The result of
actions
is that the "soul" experiences pleasure or pain.
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Source: |
AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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" We were now
outside
Thornfield gates, and
bowling lightly along the smooth road to Millcote, where the dust was
well laid by the thunderstorm, and, where the low hedges and lofty timber
trees on each side glistened green and rain-refreshed.
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Source: |
Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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"
Colonel
Bauer, for whose arrest a warrant had been issued, wrote the preface.
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Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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That is what I
stoutly
affirm.
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Source: |
Plato - Apology, Charity |
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But if this be true, no
information
is conveyed about the
universe in stating that it is deterministic.
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Source: |
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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Truths, in which case free of
thought
means free of extrane?
Guess: |
restraint |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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The man loves
himself
once more, he feels it--but this very new
love, this new self esteem seems to him incredible.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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The use of it, by adaptation,
was innocent; and they who could so noisily censure it, with a
little extension of their malice, could
contrive
what they wanted to
accuse[36].
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Source: |
Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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We believe that the same logic would permit two
individuals
to marry,
but deny them the privilege of having children.
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Source: |
Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
|
Oh,
miracle!
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
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THE BRIDE-CAKE
This day, my Julia, thou must make
For Mistress Bride the wedding-cake:
Knead but the dough, and it will be
To paste of
almonds
turn'd by thee;
Or kiss it thou but once or twice,
And for the bride-cake there'll be spice.
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Source: |
Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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[1362] And, last, the fire-brand wakens the ancient strife, kindling anew with flame the ancient fire that already slept since she saw the Pelasgians dipping alien
pitchers
in the waters of Rhyndacus.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Lycophron - Alexandra |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 09:46 GMT / http://hdl.
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Source: |
Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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, "The
Taxation
of Tea, 1767-1773," Am.
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Source: |
Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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A wreath of laurel was a mark of
distinction
or honour.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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May not his orb, whenever thou desirest a fair day, be
variegated
when first his arrows strike the earth, and may he wear no mark at all but shine stainless altogether.
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Source: |
Aratus - Phaenomena |
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Manu, xL90, prescribes
penitences
for the involuntary murder (akdmatas), which greatly resembles asamcintya, of a Brahmin.
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Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Go home, my cattle, from your
grazing
go!
Guess: |
fields |
Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
311 (#359) ############################################
THE
WANDERER
AND HIS SHADOW.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v07 |
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On the other hand, the essay is more closed in that it labors
emphatically
on the form of its presentation.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Adorno-The Essay As Form |
|
You can search
through
the full text of this book on the web at http://books.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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It is
believed that the more profoundly man thinks, the more exquisitely he
feels, the higher the standard he sets for himself, the greater his
distance from the other animals--the more he appears as a genius
(Genie) among animals--the nearer he gets to the true nature of the
world and to
comprehension
thereof: this, indeed, he really does through
science, but he thinks he does it far more adequately through his
religions and arts.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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"
"And is she not
unhappy
then, to find
How wretched you must be?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
If
you dare but to
whisper
a syllable----
WORM (laughs).
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Friedrich Schiller |
|
The
high stillness
confronted
these two figures with its ominous patience,
waiting for the passing away of a fantastic invasion.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
|
`I am the tsarevich
Dimitry, whom the
Heavenly
Tsar hath taken
Into His angel band, and I am now
A mighty wonder-worker.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
career
Of the
punctual
and undeviating sun,
How would the world be astonished!
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
|
"--
"It was the friar Gomita," he rejoin'd,
"He of Gallura, vessel of all guile,
Who had his master's
enemies
in hand,
And us'd them so that they commend him well.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Macedonia and Greece were
subject
to Cassander.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
|
Zeitgedichte are poems which attack contemporary social and
1
Schoenberg
set two poems from this volume to music, Webern five.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Stefan George - Studies |
|
The truth of
CHRISTIANITY
did not survive the age of the apostles; the
GOSPEL, commented upon and symbolized by the Greeks and Latins, loaded
with pagan fables, became literally a mass of contradictions; and to
this day the reign of the INFALLIBLE CHURCH has been a long era of
darkness.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
|
Now happiest, loveliest in yon lovely Earth,
Whence sprang the "Idea of Beauty" into birth,
(Falling in wreaths thro' many a
startled
star,
Like woman's hair 'mid pearls, until, afar,
It lit on hills Achaian, and there dwelt)
She look'd into Infinity--and knelt.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
[66] On the table itself they
engraved
a 'maeander', having precious stones standing out in the middle of it, rubies and emeralds and an onyx too and many other kinds of stones which excel [67] in beauty.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
|
He took his meals alone,
with two dogs to wait upon him, and always ate from the Crown Derby
dinner service which had been in the glass
cupboard
in the
drawing-room.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Orwell - Animal Farm |
|
De ce second
mariage
vint M.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Stendhal - 1817 - Vie de Napoleon |
|
Startled sands blur the desert sun;
Flying snows
bewilder
the Tartar sky.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Li Po |
|
"Der
Sozialismus
als Staatsmacht: Ein Dilemma und fUnf Berichte," in Kursbuch, 30 (Berlin, 1972).
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
|
And I will bear along with you
Leaves
dropping
down the honied dew,
With oaten pipes, as sweet, as new.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
|
Now the people of
Erech assemble about him admiring his
godlike
appearance.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Simile
dico a voi, uomini: andate a offerire la pace a la
Vergine
Maria in
Vescovado, acciò che ella vi conservi in pace, e guardivi da' pericoli,
e' quali vi so' aparechiati, avendo l'odio nel cuore.
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A in the first part of a
compound
Latin word,* is long;
as trddo, malo, quare, quatenus.
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Ages, precedents, have long been accumulating undirected materials,
America
brings builders, and brings its own styles.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It could never have occurred to the
mind of a Greek that this outlying
northern
kingdom'
might possibly one day be formidable to Greece and its
freedom.
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He sang:
The Miracle Contest on Di Se Snow Mountain 217 Listen to me, you
heavenly
and human beings here
assembled.
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Milarepa |
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The next
lifetime
is more frightening than this lifetime, so you must find a guard that will protect you.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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