Gray's
letters
are letters.
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Essays |
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What's Gray's not's Gray's? |
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James Russell Lowell |
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That, and
deepening
the shadow under the lobe of the ear.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Why was the Federal Farm Board
created?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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4 This was, to be sure, only one of the traditional notions of negation (the dis- cussion of different notions of negation was very complex in late medieval and early modern times): but its
abolition
did necessitate, nevertheless, the reconstruction of the meaning of negation as such.
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rediscovery |
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How does one abolish a mode of negation? |
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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Now, was he sure of this truth--the saints
on the one hand, the
animals
on the other, live in the moment as it
passes.
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mortals |
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If one imagines an eternal merely, can you live in it? |
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Yeats |
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At last, in the seclusion of his library, Manning turned in agony to
those old writings which had
provided
Newman with so much instruction
and assistance; perhaps the Fathers would do something for him as well.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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' I
wondered
at the words he spake, but I knew that his were
no idle words.
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chuckled |
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What'd he say? |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The
punishment of some fault, though it be
impossible
to trace
the connection our misfortunes have with it, often strik es
?
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difficult |
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Does action have result? |
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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On the
highest
rung
of power the most intoxicated man must stand, the
ecstatic.
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Nietzsche - v14 |
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Having
achieved
his purpose, he raised the siege, and pretended that the citizens had died as a result of an infectious disease.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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---How must those men be constituted who would
undertake
this transvalua tion?
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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A lamb
I keep, tame, with my
morsels
fed,
Whose dam
An orphan left him, lately dead.
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milk |
Question: |
How'd the orphan die? |
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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_
_The
rushing
whale squeezes the Yellow River;
The man-eating beasts with long tusks assemble at Lo Yang.
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dragon |
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Where are the animal gathering? |
Answer: |
The animals herd toward rebellion. |
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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-- Just as the previously explained reasoning shows that there is no truly existent pot apart from form, smell and so forth, there is no truly existent component visible form apart from the great
elements
such as air, for it is imputed in dependence upon these.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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writing to Endymion Porter (662), and
earlier
.
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Robert Herrick |
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The helpless worm arose and sat upon the Lillys leaf,
And the bright Cloud saild on, to find his
partner
in the vale.
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companion |
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Can't a worm stand up for herself? |
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blake-poems |
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Dien andere
dinghen
werden te goede
Dan dolen in minnen orewoede,
De6) scinen vore de v rem den 7) vroede,
Die so in minnen niet en sijn verdeilt.
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eisen |
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Was eist eine dinghen |
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Hadewijch - Liederen |
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jacques
derrida
is director of studies of the E?
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dirac |
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What did his accomplish as director? |
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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Qui fait le
degoute
montre qu'il se croit beau.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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--After you have perused these pages, should
you think them
trifling
and impertinent, I only beg leave to tell you,
that the poor author wrote them under some twitching qualms of
conscience, arising from a suspicion that he was doing what he ought
not to do; a predicament he has more than once been in before.
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Robert Burns |
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Artists
enjoy ateliers which are furnished
So as to make for a space Pantheon-like in decor:
Jupiter lowers that godly brow while his Juno looks upward;
Phoebus takes forward strides, shaking his curly head;
While phlegmatic Minerva peers down on us, frivolous Hermes
Seems to be looking askance, roguish, though tender as well.
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Parvenus |
Question: |
Who pays? |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Why, that's no wonder, you've been listening
To singers of the roads that gather up
The tales of the whole world, and when they weary
Imagine
new, or lies about the living,
Because their brains are ever upon fire.
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singing |
Question: |
What songs do they lie? |
Answer: |
The singers sing spells of wizardas |
Source: |
Yeats |
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A delicate odour is borne on the wings of the
morning
breeze,
The odour of deep wet grass, and of brown new-furrowed earth,
The birds are singing for joy of the Spring’s glad birth,
Hopping from branch to branch on the rocking trees.
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Wilde - Poems |
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It merely places an especially
remarkable
example urgently before us.
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salient |
Question: |
What is the example? |
Answer: |
El sentimiento tragico de la vida technologica |
Source: |
Cassirer - 1930 - Form and Technology |
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March 2 2018: There are some problems with the automated software used to prevent abuse of the Web site (mainly to prevent mass downloads from
hurting
site performance for everyone else).
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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The
lictors
bundled up their rods; beside, II.
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Ephods |
Question: |
Did their rods strike? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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141
The Chinese Revolution and the
Balance
ofThreats
The Balance of Power.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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He was an extraordinary poet
with a bad conscience, who lived
miserably
and was buried with honours.
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Source: |
Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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You are a prude; and my
passions
frequently commit solecisms.
Guess: |
dear, |
Question: |
Who's in the wrong? |
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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Fate may bring them dule and woe; better steeds than they
Sleep beside the
English
guns a hundred leagues away;
But till war hath need of them, lightly lie their reins,
Softly fall the feet of them along the English lanes.
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metal |
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Where do the steeds ride? |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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III
The October night comes down;
returning
as before
Except for a slight sensation of being ill at ease
I mount the stairs and turn the handle of the door
And feel as if I had mounted on my hands and knees.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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The
boundary
at
Chapter IX- Ultimate Clear Light Transparence ?
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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New terror weapons are those through which the conditions of life are made more explicit; new categories of
attempts
make evidento?
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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At first these spots were quite extensive, inasmuch as
stipulated areas could not be trod by the uninitiated, who, when near
them, felt
tremors
and anxieties.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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+ Keep it legal
Whatever
your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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La mia è così complessa,
che io ho talvolta il dubbio di dover essere noverato tra
uno dei grandi avvantaggiati, così
giustamente
esclusi
da quest'oasi.
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Bontempelli |
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Numerous works on
England
and Russia in the East, and
periodical articles upon Federation.
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Source: |
Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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Let us travel back
And stand within the sword-glare till we die,
Believing
it is better to meet death
Than suffer desolation.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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His address is the most genial that can be conceived,
its
bonhomie
irresistible.
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Source: |
Poe - v08 |
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I
he'll look just like the
skeleton
of the bishop of St.
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knotted beard |
Question: |
was he emaciated |
Answer: |
the bishop was killed |
Source: |
Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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die ou dictionnaire
raisonne?
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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I knew three great Ministers, who could exactly
compute
and settle the
accounts of a kingdom, but were wholly ignorant of their own economy.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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And the comet has come to remind us that this Sun is not a
physical
sun but a spiritual, psychic, inner sun.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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Because this
authority
can “ensure the harmonious
working of the different parts of the machine” and “should endeavour, so far as is possible, to
realise the circumstances attendant on the government of the dependency.
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Source: |
Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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373
Her visage was pale, her cheek wan;
Yet her
languid
eye beam'd sweetly.
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tuquoise |
Question: |
did the paleness of her face dim the brightness of her eyes |
Answer: |
God wouldn't have allowed her bright eyes to dim |
Source: |
Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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Clarke goes to your town by to-day's fly, and I wish you would
call on him and take his
opinion
in general: you know his taste is a
standard.
Guess: |
temperature |
Question: |
how does it taste |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Robert Forst |
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This has happened with Amazon Kindle, where Amazon funnels Kindles
through
their cloud servers.
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Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Pett,
Who was partly consumed by regret;
He sate in a cart, and ate cold apple tart,
Which
relieved
that old person of Pett.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Those having lost the nation at tick-tack,
These now
adventuring
how to win it back.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Le Testament: Rondeau
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me,
Yet you're not
satisfied
I see
Until I languish in distress.
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Villon |
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The thirst
Of glory, which so pierces through and through one,
Pervaded him--although a generous creature,
As warm in heart as
feminine
in feature.
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Source: |
Bryon - Don Juan |
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It's as
demoralising
as cigarettes, and far
more expensive.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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In the vast enterprise of war "we have found no
obvious
use for the liberally educated except in the services of public information and propaganda.
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Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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" By what legal authority, it was asked, has
the convention
assembled?
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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she was lost
forever!
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
|
Quando
accettavano
alcuno nella loro povera compagnia, costu-
mavano alle volte fargli grandissime mortificazioni.
Guess: |
parle |
Question: |
What was the nature of the modifications and how was he humiliated |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Bontempelli |
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Quando
accettavano
alcuno nella loro povera compagnia, costu-
mavano alle volte fargli grandissime mortificazioni.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Bontempelli |
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Quando
accettavano
alcuno nella loro povera compagnia, costu-
mavano alle volte fargli grandissime mortificazioni.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Bontempelli |
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Quando
accettavano
alcuno nella loro povera compagnia, costu-
mavano alle volte fargli grandissime mortificazioni.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Bontempelli |
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Quando
accettavano
alcuno nella loro povera compagnia, costu-
mavano alle volte fargli grandissime mortificazioni.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Bontempelli |
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Quando
accettavano
alcuno nella loro povera compagnia, costu-
mavano alle volte fargli grandissime mortificazioni.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Bontempelli |
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Quando
accettavano
alcuno nella loro povera compagnia, costu-
mavano alle volte fargli grandissime mortificazioni.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Bontempelli |
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The
Pythagoras
proxy is made to say:
Pyth.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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In her love there is no constant flow, but a continual repolariz-
ing, eternal changing in the current, which shows the negative,
the passive,
element
in her being, as opposed to the positive
and active in man.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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And will this divine grace, this
supreme
perfection depart those for whom life exists only to discover and glorify them?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Po: I, "was
Niccolo
[d'Este] / and here beyond the Po" [24:22, 70].
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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NICANDER
The two surviving poems by Nicander are both about natural remedies: Alexipharmaca (cures for various kinds of poisons ) and
Theriaca
( cures for the bite of poisonous creatures )
The life is translated from the Greek text in the edition of Nicander by A.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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What joy it will be to seek that day,
For love of God, that inn afar,
And, if she wishes, rest, I say,
Near her, though I come from afar,
For words fall in a
pleasant
shower
When distant lover has the power,
With gentle heart, joy to realise.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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These remarks on education are
sufficient
to show that in Morals also,
as conceived by Aristotle, there is a law of vital development.
Guess: |
concocted |
Question: |
How do morels grow |
Answer: |
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Source: |
A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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The Arhat has
obtained rule over his mind: all the good dharmas come towards 148
him, as
vassals
come to present their homage to a prince who
149 accedes to supreme kingship.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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Heidegger begins his essay with the
question
"What is a thing?
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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Perhaps the
confession
I make to you now is also accom-
panied by my accursed vanity.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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which those who were born later are able, with a little com- municative luck, to give their
existence
a better turn.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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The
complex
society of our day has to use both ways for reducing the complexity of its future; it has rather to sequentialize predic- tions and actions into complex self-referential patterns.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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seems not doubt ful for not only no sure trace of to be met with elsewhere, but is wanting in the model
alphabet
of the Galassi vase.
Guess: |
tower |
Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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By ruining
handicraft
production in other countries, machinery forcibly converts them into fields for the supply of its raw material.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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This, if
nothing
else, will force art to change.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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The nettle nods, the wind blows over,
The man, he does not move,
The lover of the grave, the lover
That hanged
himself
for love.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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What
saddens
me so as I hang about thy neck?
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The Lord, Who dwelleth on high, is
mightier
than the mighty overhangings of the sea.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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And let one that hath not love in his soul sing a song, and they
forthwith
slink away and will not teach him; but if sweet music be made by him that hath, then fly they all unto him hot-foot.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Bion |
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[It seems] now as the baser elements
Had
mutinied
against the golden sun
That kindles them to harmony, and quells _145
Their self-destroying rapine.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Shelley |
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Miss
Jeffries
and her uncle had not lived on the
george n.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
|
On another occasion,
Aristippus
being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Diogenes Laertius |
|
Foucault
Responds
to Sartre 41
?
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Foucault-Live |
|
So holy was Amor esteemed, that his time was
greatly
taken up with the reception of people, who flocked to him from all parts, to be healed of various diseases, through his prayers and merits.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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It's now twa month that I'm your debtor,
For your braw, nameless,
dateless
letter,
Abusin me for harsh ill-nature
On holy men,
While deil a hair yoursel' ye're better,
But mair profane.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
burns |
|
So we shall not trouble
ourselves
with asking how we actually think or arrive at our convictions.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
|
On the 2d of June, the two processes being united, Proudhon
appeared at the bar with his publisher, the printer of the book, and
the printer of the petition, to receive the
sentence
of the police
magistrate, which condemned him to three years' imprisonment, a fine of
four thousand francs, and the suppression of his work.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
|
fer's younger generation of 'non-National Socialist' writers, critically explored his own
relationship
with his poetic forefathers retrospectively in the essay 'Literarische Vorbilder' [Literary Exempla, 1968]: 'man [ko?
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
|
In his character of courtier
he was desirous to
preserve
that organisation which had, during many
ages, admirably served the purposes of the Bishops of Rome, and might be
expected now to serve equally well the purposes of the English Kings and
of their ministers.
Guess: |
replicate |
Question: |
Does the courtier create the organization? |
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Cranmer, evidently, merely preserved Anglicanism. |
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Macaulay |
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St What's his name: San Giorgio, a ca-
thedral
in Pantaneto, Siena.
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pella |
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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My fortune has placed me above the little regard of
scribbling for a few pence, which I neither value nor want; therefore,
let no wise man too hastily condemn this essay, intended for a good
design, to cultivate and
improve
an ancient art long in disgrace, by
having fallen into mean and unskilful hands.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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How can words exist and not be
acceptable?
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Chuang Tzu |
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"And the little
egratignures
he most likes to make have been scored
pretty deeply by the sword.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Comfort
or helthe how shuld I have,
Sith ye me hurte, but ye me save?
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ioye |
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What hurte did he? |
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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It leaves open how artist and
beholder
are coupled by the work, while at the same time it guarantees that this coupling is not entirely ar- bitrary--this is what makes art a medium of communication.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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How can you attribute to that
which is future, and non-existent, the
quality
of agent in this action of arising?
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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