And when time shall have
softened
your despair, new and dear objects of
care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly
deprived.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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Thad-
deus '), in which he telephotographed his mother-country
Lithuania, its forests and the beasts that roamed in
them, the life the people led there in the early nineteenth
century, had led there for
centuries
past, their petty
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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Here, too,
I made nothing of the longer poems, except the
striking
opening of
_Gertrude of Wyoming_, which long kept its place in my feelings as
the perfection of pathos.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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He let matters drift till a serious
rebellion
broke out.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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Et même
elle avait ajouté, s'avilissant pour se rehausser: «on a raconté
beaucoup de choses très
différentes
sur ma naissance, moi, je dois
tout ignorer.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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Apologies
for this problem.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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The great epochs of our life are at the points
when we gain courage to
rebaptize
our badness as
the best in us.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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F-I-',x =;ia =--= -r==
yoi=a=ir
A:a i-i4- -n=ii{;=!
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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The Scorpion
attacked
the Bull,
The Bull aroused the Lion ;
The Crab by their tails
Flung the Fish in the Scales,
Where they floundered as on a gridiron ;
The Billy Goat went for the Gemini twins ;
The Ram made a rush at Aquarius ;
And a narrow escape had the Virgo's shins
From the shaft of her beau Sagittarius.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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[8] Odysseus in Hades
questioning
his mother Anticleia concerning affairs at home.
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Greek Anthology |
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þā gȳt points to some future event when "each" was not "true to
other,"
undeveloped
in this poem, suhtor-gefæderan = Hrōðgār and Hrōðulf,
l.
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Beowulf |
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Uidhrin or
Huidhrin
of Druim-dresna or Drum-dresa
Article IX.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The punctuation remains unchanged as well, although it still largely follows an oral rhythm; for publication Adorno would
undoubtedly
have adjusted it to standard practice.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-05 01:02 GMT / http://hdl.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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Evil in God is inconceivable; _145
But supreme
goodness
fails among the Gods
Without their union.
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Shelley copy |
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Then the fishes began to show
themselves
in the sea, and the birds
flew over our heads, and all other tokens of our approach to land
appeared unto us.
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Lucian - True History |
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Those years of hostile relationships were
gradually
followed by better contact and psychoanalytic exchanges between them.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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; i' ii:g
Eiiiljiii
ii;11i1;i?
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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If we could but probe to the root of things, it might well
be discovered that it is by the
strength
of some souls that are
beautiful that others are sustained in life.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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What
prophecy
was made of the Knight?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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1 Albert
the Great seems also to refer to the same
doctrine
when he
says that the edict of the Prince which is maintained by
custom has the force of written law.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Statute of Kilkenny against use of Irish
language
or
law, intermarriage, fostering, etc.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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Then a dog began to howl
somewhere
in a farmhouse far down the road--a
long, agonised wailing, as if from fear.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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St Gudula was a Brabant saint (late 7th-early 8th century),
patroness
of Brussels.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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In affection for your native land, Horace,
certainly
the pride in great
Romans dead and gone made part, and you were, in all senses, a lover of
your country, your country’s heroes, your country’s gods.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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They had tents and beds with
them, carried by horses; and they were
accompanied
by more than twenty
Turks, all armed with swords and muskets.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
|
_Trueman is the industrious,
and
Barnwell
the idle, apprentice.
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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Poor earth, poor heart,--too weak, too weak
To miss the July
shining!
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| Question: |
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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But you did not love him, you can love
only the
sceptre!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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" "Ah," re-
plied the prince, "and is that not long enough, when
one has
conquered
kingdoms?
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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The second samddhi refers to
conditioned
(samskrta) things through which one does not form any pranidhdna; the third to unconditioned things (i.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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Mme de
Guermantes
détestait Mme de Nièvre.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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To escape from these difficulties people gladly have
recourse
to the unconscious.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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PHẠM TỬ NGHI 范 子儀26
người
huyện Thanh Oai phủ Ứng Thiên.
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stella-03 |
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Consequently
philosophy
is forever stained with its own ineptitude, caught by the necessity for ana- lytic clarity but unable to fully eradicate existential contingency.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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JRTS AND REDS
political issues, do their part in
stunting
class consciousness.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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It is
nonsensical
because the grammatical rules determining the sense o f something being only red and being only green do not allow for something to be only red and only green simultaneously(//mg/rt 197).
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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Yet in the midst of all their prosperity, princes in this respect seem to
me most unfortunate, because, having no one to tell them truth, they are
forced to receive
flatterers
for friends.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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We use information technology and tools to
increase
productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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This kind of omniscience we may call a figuralive or
metaphorical
om- niicience, as opposed to the more common literal omniscience.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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Wiser than men of yore, we go no more
To battle with the
Parthians
and Goths.
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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Prepared
at Madaura, it suddenly burst out at Thagaste.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
|
"48
Much as Richard of Saint-Laurent had insisted they should be, these recitations of the Ave Maria were typically accompanied by genu ections, usually before her images, sometimes multiplied tens or even
hundreds
of times.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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But fate is
sometimes
kind, and so she
proved herself this time.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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"
He wrote also a
successful
novel, Helena,
and an epic poem, "The Trajanid, besides
Roumanian ballads and the philosophical epic
of (Manoil.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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--perchance, even so
To exercise their arms and
strengthen
shoulders?
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Lucretius |
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(_circa_ 1120) says: "Wang An-shih,
in enumerating China's four
greatest
poets, put Li Po fourth on the
list.
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Li Po |
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Almost very likely there is no seduction, almost very likely there is no
stream,
certainly
very likely the height is penetrated, certainly
certainly the target is cleaned.
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| Question: |
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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" And Philip
marvelled
at him and let him go.
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| Question: |
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Diogenes Laertius |
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"
The old man
reddened
again.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Candide by Voltaire |
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The Earl of
Leicester!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
The temporary and local
color is but the incident of a
portrayal
of human joys and sorrows,
sufferings and victories, which appealed to readers in far-away lands,
and can hardly fail to appeal in far-away years.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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What are these 1 Envy, when a man hath received
a bribe; laughter, if he confess it; pardon, if he be
convicted; resentment, at his being accused; and
all the other
appendages
of corruption.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
|
"
"I am reasonable,"
answered
Front-de-Boeuf, "and if silver be scant, I
refuse not gold.
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| Source: |
The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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If you lack the knowledge of the
definitive
meaning of A HAM, it is like
having the root [of your practice] cut off.
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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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Beaumont
was a native of
Hadleigh
in Suffolk and had received his education
at the grammar school in that town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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Withoute
comfort, thought me sleeth;
This game wol bringe me to my deeth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In culling flowers, her novice hand has ne'er
Touched e'en the outer rind of vice; no snare
With smiling show has lured her steps aside:
On her the past has left no staining mark;
Nor knows she aught of those bad
thoughts
which, dark
Like shade on waters, o'er the spirit glide.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Our satisfaction will there scarcely
endanger
a world.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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But on the other hand, you have admitted that one should avoid the
conclusion
that all consciousnesses, from the womb to death, are retribution.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Upon another
proposition, he
obtained
a decision that the money left by the King of
Pergamus to the Roman people should be employed for the expenses of
establishing those who were to receive the lands.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS," WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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to stray,
Where winds the road along the secret bay;
By rills that tumble down the woody steeps,
And run in transport to the
dimpling
deeps;
Along the "wild meand'ring shore" to view,
Obsequious Grace the winding swan pursue.
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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There an:: thm:
consecutive
four-pan eyel.
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| Source: |
Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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To
feastful
mirth be this white hour assign'd.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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In later accounts, however, and most
conspicuously
in Pausanias' (5.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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But later, when she went to live in the palace of the ruler, shared his couch with him, and ate the
delicious
meats of his table, she wondered why she had ever wept.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chuang Tzu |
|
31X
no se entiende y se imagina,
que es no menos, que de Dios
vuestra
hermosura
cortina:
en una cesta Moysen '.
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| Source: |
Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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Thus, the path of mahamudra begins with the
sequential
practice of the four ordinary and the four special prelimi- naries.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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_) I did the _Idea_ of Wax, I find there are but
few things which I perceive _clearly_ and
_distinctly_
in them, viz.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Descartes - Meditations |
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From what cause the rite of Baptisme first proceeded,
is not
expressed
formally in the Scripture; but it may be probably
thought to be an imitation of the law of Moses, concerning Leprousie;
wherein the Leprous man was commanded to be kept out of the campe of
Israel for a certain time; after which time being judged by the Priest
to be clean, hee was admitted into the campe after a solemne Washing.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Hobbes - Leviathan |
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the ecclesiastical divisions the see Down, Latin
are also styled bishops Uladh, Down
comprehends
the greater part
Ulidia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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I answer, forasmuch as the administration was confused, they were so enwrapped, 321 that they could not wholly attend upon
doctrine
as was meet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
|
Of the
courtiers
in gowns of blue, the one in the hardest straits2 8 is this white-haired Reminder going home on foot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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The great
mathematician
John Wallis wrote an English
grammar (in Latin) for the use of foreigners.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
|
He struggled to console himself with the
reflexion
that all
this was only 'the natural order'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
|
Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The_satires_of_Persius |
|
Quintilian
says of such orators, who
are all inflated, tumid, corrupt, and jingling, that their malady does
not proceed from a full and rich constitution, but from mere
infirmity; for,
As in bodies, thus in souls we find,
What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
]
As many as the leaves fall from the tree, From the world's life the years are fallen away Since King
Eurystheus
sat in majesty
In fair Mycenae ; midmost of whose day
It once befell that in a quiet bay
THE GOLDEN APPLES.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v01 |
|
As one who has always
preferred
The Netu J^eptiblic, I must admit that perhaps as clear and certain a pic- ture of the future may be obtained from one as the other.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
L In view of the 'ketde offish'
diKussed
above, the equation of .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
|
Born September 8th, 1778, at Ehrenbreitstein,
Brentano
spent his
youth among the stimulating influences which accompanied the
renaissance of German culture.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
|
(-- If the person is claimed to be potentially conscious, the self and consciousness could not be a
permanent
indifferentiable entity, for then the person but no consciousness would exist before an object is experienced.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
|
A row in the Venetian fish market is
reported
in the?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
|
Hymen o
Hymenaee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
|
at
to{ur}nen
aboute a same
Centre or about a poynt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
When presenting the history of the art system, we must take these the- oretical foundations into account, lest we switch to an entirely
different
theory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
|
Fool, fool - don't spoil my
walking!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chuang Tzu |
|
» (Elle dit cela comme si elle m'avait reconnu tout de
suite dans le salon, mais la vérité est qu'elle m'avait reconnu dans
la rue et m'avait dit bonjour, et plus tard Mme de
Guermantes
me dit
qu'elle lui avait raconté comme une chose très drôle et
extraordinaire que je l'avais suivie et frôlée, la prenant pour une
cocotte).
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Alas, my
sisters!
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"Before I sawe the lyghtsome sunne, 125
Thys was
appointed
mee;
Shall mortal manne repyne or grudge
Whatt Godde ordeynes to bee?
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In the long run it has become more than clear that it was Camus who had the right answers to the
fundamental
questions back in the late 40's.
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The third Cartesian rule, "to conduct my thoughts in such an order that, by commencing with the simplest and easiest to know, I might ascend by little and little, step by step, to the knowledge of the more ~ o m p l e x , "is~sharply
contravened
by the form of the essay in that it begins with the most complex, not the most simple, which is in every instance the habitual.
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But, if we view the matter with a more
considerate
eye, we shall
hold the poet in nobler and dearer estimation for his public zeal than
if he had cringed to the Colonnas.
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And maddest thy
following
even With visions of great deeds
And their futility,
O High Priest of lacchus !
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Pythostratus
of Ephesus, stadion race
104th [364 B.
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324 A Clergyman’ s Daughter
Twice a week you could ‘sub’ up to the amount of half your earnings If you
left before the picking was finished (an inconvenient thing for the farmers)
they had the right to pay you off at the rate of a penny a bushel instead of
twopence-that is, to pocket half of what they owed you It was also common
knowledge that towards the end of the season, when all the pickers had a fair
sum owing to them and would not want to sacrifice it by throwing up their
jobs, the farmer would reduce the rate of payment from twopence a bushel to a
penny halfpenny Strikes were practically impossible The pickers had no
union, and the foremen of the sets, instead of being paid twopence a bushel like
the others, were paid a weekly wage which stopped automatically if there was a
strike, so naturally they would raise Heaven and earth to prevent one
Altogether, the farmers had the pickers in a cleft stick, but it was not the
farmers who were to blame-the low price of hops was the root of the trouble
Also as Dorothy observed later, very few of the pickers had more than a dim
idea of the amount they earned The system of piecework disguised the low
rate of payment
For the first few days, before they could ‘sub’, Dorothy and Nobby very
nearly starved, and would have starved altogether if the other pickers had not
fed them But everyone was extraordinarily kind There was a party of people
who shared one of the larger huts a little farther up the row, a flower-seller
named Jim Burrows and a man named Jim Turle who was vermin man at a
large London restaurant, who had married sisters and were close friends, and
these people had taken a liking to Dorothy They saw to it that she and Nobby
should not starve Every evening during the first few days May Turle, aged
fifteen, would arrive with a saucepan full of stew, which was
presented
with
studied casualness, lest there should be any hint of charity about it The
formula was always the same
‘Please, Ellen, mother says as she was just gomg to throw this stew away, and
then she thought as p’raps you might like it She ain’t got no use for it, she says,
and so you’d be doing her a kindness if you was to take it ’
It was extraordinary what a lot of things the Turles and the Burrowses were
‘just gomg to throw away’ during those first few days On one occasion they
even gave Nobby and Dorothy half a pig’s head ready stewed, and besides food
they gave them several cooking pots and a tin plate which could be used as a
frying-pan.
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