George Taylor was a strong able man, who, with a
skill extraordinary, aided by his knowledge of the back-sword, and a remarkable
judgment
in the cross- buttock fall, was able to contest with most of his
one of less celebrity ; the consequence
signally defeated, he greatly distinguished
opponents.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
|
And he said, 'When the mind is conscious that it has wrought no evil, and when God
directs
it to all noble counsels.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
|
The depositors are
allowed
interest
(usually from 3 to 4 per cent.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
|
Come now, do we say that prudence
and the
possession
of reason are parts of goodness,
and the opposites of these of badness?
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Plato - 1926 - Laws |
|
Marx's attempt to ground a rational
Universal
Polemics must be regarded as having failed, in reality just as much as in theory; his lasting achievement lies in the attempt itself.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
|
Elliot's relation ; and were forward to make
relation of his carriage in the house to his disadvan-
n should be suffered to shut him, and suffer that to be ex-
the door upon him, and to ex- torted from him
tort that from him] should suf- and
afterwards
to go out]
fer the door to be shut upon and suffer him to go out
144 THE LIFE OF
FART tage, to the king himself; so that it was no wonder
' that the poor gentleman grew very melancholic.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
|
For, whereas the Philistine remained on Strauss's
side in regard to these explosive outbursts, he
would have been against him had he been con-
fronted with a genuine and
seriously
constructed
ethical system, based upon Darwin's teaching.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Nietzsche - v04 |
|
Not that it would not have been a simple matter for me tu give the transitions a briefer form, as I have done in the examples alvcn here and already
indicated
in the preface to my book.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
|
Indeed, he had never been able to lose or devote himself
completely
to
another person, to forget himself, to commit foolish acts for the love
of another person; never he had been able to do this, and this was, as
it had seemed to him at that time, the great distinction which set him
apart from the childlike people.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
|
_
_Enter
Captain
and Guards, R.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Thomas Otway |
|
Thus while
immortal
Cibber only sings
(As * and H * * y preach) for queens and
kings,
The nymph that ne'er read Milton's mighty
line
May, if she love and merit verse, have
mine.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Alexander Pope - v03 |
|
The sutra
tradition
primarily involves the academic study of the Mahayana sutras and the tantric path primarily involves practicing the Vajrayana practices.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
|
Il
institue
à Machecoul une
collégiale en l'honneur des Saints Innocents; il
parle de s'enfermer dans un cloître, d'aller à
Jérusalem, en mendiant son pain.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Huysmans - La-Bas |
|
Women, in judgment weak, in feeling strong,
By every, gust of passion borne along,
Act, in their fits, such crimes, that, to be just,
The least
pernicious
of their sins is lust.
Guess: |
severe |
Question: |
What crimes do women commit? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Satires |
|
38 G Some naked slaves once went to
Damophilus
of Enna and complained that they did not have clothes; but he did not listen to their complaints.
Guess: |
Empedocles |
Question: |
Were the slaves comely? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
|
J 39
Foiling a letter that his father was dead, and that he had arrived in England to take possession of a large estate, he
prevailed
on a merchant at Whitehaven to
let him have seventy pounds, giving him a draught for the same on a banker in London.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
|
Beside the river there stood a
precipitous
rock, and below it there was a deep eddy in the river, and so they led the horse forth unto the rock.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
hrafnkels_saga_freysgoda.en |
|
Contact the
Foundation
as set forth in Section 3 below.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
If a history were written at a rate of one century per page, how thick would the book of the
universe
be?
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
|
de penser
que par le talent, ils ne se vouent point
exclusivement
a` tel ou
tel genre; la re?
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
|
"We're
representing
different things.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Perry - Suzy's Memoirs |
|
She
murmured
in reply:--
'Ah!
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
|
"
"Yes, they were
peculiar
boots.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
|
Therefore the aphorism says, `Transmit the established facts; do not
transmit
words of exaggeration.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Chuang Tzu |
|
It's silly wa's the win's are
strewin!
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
burns |
|
Móðir
Þraslaugar
var Unnur dóttir Eyvindar karfa, systir Móðólfs hins spaka.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
brennu-njals_saga.is |
|
The same applies once
more and in the highest degree to La Gaya Scienza :
in almost every
sentence
of this book, profundity
and playfulness go gently hand in hand.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Nietzsche - v17 |
|
3 Karl Marx, The Class
Struggles
in France, New York Labor News Com-
pany, 1924, p.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
|
54
without the dead ceasing to be dead or the living ceasing to live - albeit in a
mortified
form, namely as a post-mortal soul.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
|
408/1 The public and the Profession were alike urgent in calling for
sweeping
reforms.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
OED - 21 - a - 10m |
|
She
endeavoured
to rid
herself from the danger of being at any time made known to him, by
sending him secretly to the American plantations[52].
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
|
"
"And how have you
succeeded?
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
|
Sixth, we have to expect the Soviets to pursue their own policy of
exploiting
the risk of war.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
|
She looks down the garden-walk caverned with trees,
To the limes at the end where the green arbour is--
"Some sweet thought or other may keep where it found her,
While, forgot or unseen in the
dreamlight
around her,
Night cometh--Onora!
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
|
He was daily
searching
some way to save him.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
|
What was he
standing
still for in the bushes?
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Robert Forst - North of Boston |
|
This work has generally been regarded as giving us a more correct notion
of the real, living
Socrates
than the manifestly idealizing works of
Plato.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
|
But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a
pleasant
fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the livelong day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
blake-poems |
|
The king, far from
sympathizing
with their
transports, was graver than was his wont,
and seemed even sad.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
|
In u, from the Greek v (tiytlov), the difference between
the two systems has, in all probability, been as great as
in the case of the vowel i ; -- the scholars on the Conti-
nent generally giving it the sound of u in rule (do), while
those of the British empire most commonly
pronounce
it
like the English u in sure, tube ; as in manu, cornu : -- a
* It must not, however, be concealed, that this opinion is different from that
of many learned Prosodians.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
|
Where is the
assassin?
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Lucian |
|
However, I congratulate your happy deliverance
from such authors, as you, with all your humanity, cannot wish
alive again to
converse
with.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Alexander Pope - v06 |
|
The family was peasant in origin, but the poet's father had be-
come affluent enough to enable his son to devote his life to
poetry without
requiring
of him that he should take up any of
the accepted money-making professions.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Stefan George - Studies |
|
Les corbeaux les attaquèrent si rudement qu'ils eurent à se
défendre
avec leurs épées, et à se couvrir de leurs boucliers.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
brennu-njals_saga.fr |
|
Thelightcomponentofthewordrefersthe dawn of Book IV, the light
streaming
from God and HCE: "Calling all downs to dayne.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
|
Having found the wine, I
recrossed
the chamber, and poured out a gobletful,
which I held to the lips of the fainting lady.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Poe - v01 |
|
Compare _An
Anatomie
of the World_, l.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Donne - 2 |
|
He doesn't let likes or
dislikes
get in and do him harm.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Chuang Tzu |
|
Her house stood at the end of a
desolate
street.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Tagore - Creative Unity |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
|
The KLA
retaliated
with their own nastiness, and the growing war quickly became unacceptable to the international community.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
|
_ No, nothing of that, she was one of the
chastest
Women in the
World.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Erasmus |
|
Their power extends to the managers picked, the
policies
set, and the performances of employees.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:55 GMT / http://hdl.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
|
Mississippi
with annual freshets and changing chutes, Missouri and Columbia and Ohio
and Saint Lawrence with the Falls and
beautiful
masculine Hudson, do not
embouchure where they spend themselves more than they embouchure into him.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Whitman |
|
_They
handcuffed
the body just for style,
And they hung him in chains for the volatile
Wind to scour him flesh from bones.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Amy Lowell |
|
They will
smile, those
rigorous
spirits, when any one says in
their presence: “that thought elevates me, why
should it not be true ?
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Nietzsche - v12 |
|
It would
enable your excellency to judge whether or not he would
scruple to make such a forgery as that which he now stands
charged with, and ought to be
exemplarily
punished.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
|
I
selected
my
street-crossing, in the first place, with great delibera-
tion, and I never put down a broom in any part of the
town but that.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Poe - v04 |
|
By bulging rock and gaping cleft,
Even of half mere
daylight
reft,
Rueful he peered to right and left,
Muttering in his altered mood: 160
'The fate is hard that weaves my weft,
Though my lot be good.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
From the words of the poet men take what
meanings
please them;
yet their last meaning points to thee.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Tagore - Gitanjali |
|
As with some of my
subjects
(Mr.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
|
But the importance o f this
resistance
is also linked to his use of remarks and fragments.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
|
But 'twas no make-believe with you to-day,
Nor was the grass itself your real concern,
Though I found your hand full of wilted fern,
Steel-bright June-grass, and
blackening
heads of clover.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
|
To be
made happier, they need only to be stimulated to exertion; with such
exertion, no increase in the
population
can be too great, as the powers
of production are still greater.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
|
The tragedy that has
befallen
the speaker's people, at the hands of a stronger party, is chiastically echoed in the final eagle-simile used to characterize the speaker's mount, in which a bird of prey strikes and brutalizes a fox, pillaging his heart to take to her eyrie.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
|
He stood upon an eminence--he might
Have been a very father to his people,
But all his aim and pleasure was to raise
Himself and his own house: and now may those
Whom he has
aggrandized
lament for him!
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Friedrich Schiller |
|
Peltier to the original report of this trial, " he thus expresses himself on the subject mentioned in the text ;— Thanks, above all, to the Government of His Majesty, who, in the very moment when it was thought that my prosecution was necessary to the experiment they were then making of the
practicability
of a peace with the Republic, have protected me against the fury of the First Consul, who demanded my transportation out of this kingdom ; and who have felt that there did not exist a single spot in Europe out of His Majesty's dominions, where, I could set my foot without falling into the tiger's den.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
|
" Folklore and
Mythology
Studies 3:47-64.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Childens - Folklore |
|
The
Mancha family
followed
the other _emigrados_ to London, just when
we cannot say.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Jose de Espronceda |
|
Yet thus must Hugo meet his sire,
And hear the
sentence
of his ire,
The tale of his disgrace!
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Byron |
|
The bubble of Heredity has been
pricked: the certainty that acquirements are negligible as elements in
practical heredity has demolished the hopes of the educationists as well
as the terrors of the
degeneracy
mongers; and we know now that there is
no hereditary "governing class" any more than a hereditary hooliganism.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
|
_--Strange and sudden change in
Renfield
last night.
Guess: |
atmosphere |
Question: |
What changed? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Dracula by Bram Stoker |
|
The great law of
necessity
which prevents population
from increasing in any country beyond the food which it can either
produce or acquire, is a law so open to our view, so obvious and
evident to our understandings, and so completely confirmed by the
experience of every age, that we cannot for a moment doubt it.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
|
pauper erit praesto tibi semper: pauper adibit
primus et in tenero fixus erit latere;
pauper in angusto fidus comes agmine turbae
subicietque manus efficietque uiam:
pauper ad occultos furtim deducet amicos
uinclaque de niueo
detrahet
ipse pede.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
So far from there being
anything
divine in the low
and proprietary sense of, Do you love me?
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Emerson - Representative Men |
|
All they can do is to define it in
negative
terms: everything that is not spirit, i.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
|
He was the most
unstable
kind of fool I had ever seen.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
|
Being once en-
gaged in the work, I began to feel the
inconvenience
of my
morning attendance.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Cowper |
|
Excessive
intellectual
strength sets itself new
powers
?
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
|
But I will
endeavour
to detail these
bitter circumstances to you, my dear sister; and while I am wafted
towards England and towards you, I will not despond.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
|
In 1811, Leigh Hunt repub lished from The Stamford News an article denun ciatory of flogging, in which the writer admits that punishments are requisite under military law for the preservation of discipline; but argues, that an army might be kept
effective
without the use of whip cord ; and, in proof of this position, refers to the French
of Bonaparte, where the lash was unknown.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
|
81
have, in this literal interpretation of the name of “Lau,” the
reputed great ancestor of the Badagtiars, apparently simply
another version of the “ origin from fire,” of the Agni-tulas,
or so-called fire-sprung races, — ^and of that of the Choh&ns,
in pai'ticular, who proless to he
descended
from “ Anala” or
“ Anhui,” the “ cow-herd,” whose name “ Anala,” means
fire.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Carllelye - 1871 - Report Of A Tour In Eastern Rajputanain 1871-72 And 1872-73 Vol-vi |
|
Philippi
Schrammii, 1742), preface, sec tion 14, p.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
|
It was not always easy, however, to exclude self-fulfilling prophecies in the numerical results; the forget- ting of
forgetting
remains as paradoxical as the effort "to rid oneself of a thought and by that very attempt foster that thought.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
|
, Is the Pen
Mightier
than the Sword?
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
|
The wind hauls
wheelbarrows
of dirt.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
|
What political economists mistakenly referred to as 'capitalism' was in fact the unorganized precursor of a coming
industrial
- and, eventually, post-industrial - order.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
|
Cape Cod starts you along the beaches to Rhode Island;
Connecticut
takes you from a river to the sea.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
What
grievous
hurt hath caused thee, Polypheme!
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
--pay
your
respects!
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
|
Europe making common cause against the peoples that
are not Europe; Europe carrying her
domination
round the world--is that
what Tasso and Camoens ultimately mean?
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Richard Bernstein, Radical Evil: A
Philosophical
Investigation (Oxford: Polity Press, 2002), 3-4.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
|
orie que dans la prati-
que, et le Nord est si peu
favorable
aux arts qui frappent les yeux,
qu'on dirait que l'esprit de re?
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
|
DOORYARD ROSES
I HAVE come the
selfsame
path
To the selfsame door,
Years have left the roses there
Burning as before.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Kwock,
permission
by C.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
|
Buddha is olUlliscielll by virtue of his perfect knowledge of the melhods and
techniques
for spiritual liberation, which find expression in his leachings.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Buddhist-Omniscience |
|
Critias had long been showing uneasiness, for he felt that he had
a reputation to maintain with
Charmides
and the rest of the company.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Plato - Apology, Charity |
|
¡Bendito
el que tesoro
Tal poseer le cabe!
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
|
A summer shower develops
electricity at a tension sufficient to reverse the energy
of as many minds as get in its way, without asserting the
smallest
pretension
to reverse natural laws.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Henry Adams - 1919 - Degradation of Democratic Dogma |
|