Or in one word,
whatever
you'd like best.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Merorius Pontius ANICIUS PAULINUS, after he had quitted public life, are still extant,
bishop of Nola in the early part of the fifth century, consisting of Epistolae, Carmina, and a very short
and hence generally designated Paulinus Nolanus, tract
entitled
Passio S.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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This thorough-going subjective idealism quite reconcilable with ethical idealism as long as the non-ego created by the concep tion of the ego does not go beyond nature for whether this something real or only an unreal phantom of my imagination matters very little to ethical purpose and action might even seem conducive to the moral grandeur of mind to strip nature of its substantiality and degrade to the unreal and impotent product of the mind's
representative
functions.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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What has happened to high technology since the end of World War II must be conceptualized as a
recursion
of much older stories so that universities will be able to reform themselves.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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She did
something
that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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" These two phrases, the delight of
Noodledom, are grown into commonplaces upon the subject; and
are not unfrequently employed to
extinguish
that love of knowl-
edge in women which, in our humble opinion, it is of so much
importance to cherish.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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_fresh-thrown mould_, a
corroboration
of her fears.
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Keats |
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They grip their withered edge of stalk
In brief excitement for the wind;
They hold a
breathless
final talk,
And when their filmy cables part
One almost hears a little cry.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Within the vastness of
spontaneous
self-knowing, let be freely, uncontrived and free of
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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The
watchers
of men's birth?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Supplementary
notes on Pedantius.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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Ông làm quan Thượng thư, tước Quận công, Quốc tử giám Tế tửu kiêm Văn minh điện Đại học sĩ, Nhập thị Kinh diên và
được
cử làm Phó sứ sang nhà Minh (Trung Quốc).
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stella-02 |
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General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Thus, our philosopher-emperor coincides with Lucian, the ancient
equivalent
of Voltaire, in this imaginative exercise of the view om above, which is also a view ofthings om the point ofview ofdeath.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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In
Religion
you beheld no promise of help.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Rae writes: "The
manuscript of it [THE SCHOOL FOR
SCANDAL]
in Sheridan's own handwriting
is preserved at Frampton Court and is now printed in this volume.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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Positively
surprised
by their fascination, when a little-known university in central Brazil invited me to give three lec- tures on Kleist I could not resist the temptation.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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The feelings with
which, as Christians, we contemplate a mixed congregation rising
or
kneeling
before their common Maker, Mr.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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All one gets for one’s money is a
bed
measuring
five feet six by two feet six, with a hard convex mattress and a pillow like
a block of wood, covered by one cotton counterpane and two grey, stinking sheets.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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^* This place was
afterwards
specially de-
"s ,See " Les Petits Bollandistes, Vies des Saints," tome v.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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We call some one's
dwarf,[409] Atlas; a negro, swan; a
diminutive
and deformed wench,
Europa.
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Satires |
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67
that he was advanced to the in the fifth
episcopal
dignity
38 St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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Ted Hughes had written both men from England in 1961, praising their ongoing Trakl work and their unusual
attention
to translation.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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He who
disagrees
with me on this point,
I regard as infected.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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For the fear of being (or, at least, of looking) "affirmative," many humanists have forbidden themselves to ever talk with
unmitigated
enthusiasm about the texts or the artworks on which they work.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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He had taken the words
out of the Roman's mouth, without knowing it, and might well exclaim
with Donatus (if Saint Jerome's tutor may stand sponsor for a curse),
_Pereant qui ante nos nostra
dixerint!
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James Russell Lowell |
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And he
threatened
to lay waste the Mysian land at once, should they not discover for him the doom of Hylas, whether living or dead.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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however, was as little aware of this as his
contemporary
readers were.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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"
And then they all turned to with
deafening
boots
And put each other bodily out of the house.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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Did ye hear a cry
Under the
rafters?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Lady Edgar also wrote a
history of Maryland in the eighteenth century under the title
A Colonial
Governor
in Maryland.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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the study of the
Peripatetic
philosophy, and during (vi.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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We think that victory, however
complete, must not relieve the winning
side of the obligation of
reckoning
with the
vital necessities of the conquered foe.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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And poor, proud Byron, sad as grave
And salt as life;
forlornly
brave,
And quivering with the dart he drave.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Here now I
Arethusa
dwell: here am I setled: and
I humbly you beseche extend your favor to the same.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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The poet,
whatever
be done, is always great.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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" And later: "It's endlessly worth the
struggle
.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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249, 250,
now called supposed to
considered
by
-
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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To oppose him we have the consuls-designate, and we have strong hopes of them, it is true; but there is the anxiety of doubt, owing to the
uncertainty
of issues on the field of battle.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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Augmented, with Ingenious Conceites
for the wittie and Merrie
Medicines
for the Melancholie.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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Alas, this Italy has too long swept
Heroic ashes up for hour-glass sand;
Of her own past, impassioned
nympholept!
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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I never was in a country in which every thing
proceeding
from man was so
exactly wrong.
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| Source: |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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And what for waste de vittles, now, and th'ow away de bread,
Jes' for to
strength
dese idle hands to scratch dis ole bald head?
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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It is characteristic of Aristotle that his God is as far from
discharging the functions of a
Providence
as He is from being a Creator.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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See Dean Hamer, The God Gene: How Faith Is
Hardwired
into Our Genes (New York: Anchor, 2005), ch.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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Hans gave him the
simplest
answer to this: - I don't know!
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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HEPHAESTUS
Lo, 'tis toward--no
weakness
in the work!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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The Nazi State and the New Religions: Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity by
Christine
E.
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| Answer: |
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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Just before he dies, he brings
together
all his experience from all this
time into one question which he has still never put to the doorkeeper.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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This
sovereign
soul seemed to commune
With self beneath his metal sheath; yet soon
And suddenly, with tranquil voice said he,
"Princes, your craven spirit wearies me.
| Guess: |
beknighted |
| Question: |
How is a soul contained within metal? |
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies,
Now gay with the bright setting sun;
Farewell
loves and friendships, ye dear tender ties--
Our race of existence is run!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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"
But the rest: "Fame we prized till to-day;
Yet that hearts keep us green for old kindness we prize now
A
thousand
times more!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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why are you
thus
depressed?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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"We are accustomed to posing to ourselves (let- ting lie before us) one eidos, only one of such kind for each case, in
relation
to the cluster (peri) of those many things to which we ascribe the same name.
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| Source: |
Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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surdity, however, is a necessary result of a
close
adherence
to certain old hagiologists,
quoted by Colgan, whom Archdall followed
implicitly, and to the date 664 of the Four
"
Masters.
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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'Now well I see
Death cannot kill old nature;
No human flea but thinks that he
May speak for his
Creator!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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If I take myself back to those years as I actually lived them and as I carry them within me, my happiness at that time cannot be
explained
in terms of
introduction
the sheltered atmosphere of the parental home; the world itself was more beautiful, things were more fascinating.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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But
surely these virtues are not
generated
in the society of a prison.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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Thence, in England, the plente-
ousness, the wealth, the amplitude of the lyric vein; it being
granted that individualism is the very spring of lyric poetry, and
that an ode or an elegy is, as it were, the involuntary surging,
the
outflowing
of what is most intimate, most secret, most pecul-
iar in the poet's soul.
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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I leave you to imagine whether my absence was not
regretted
by the better sort.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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11) fromtheirpowerfulpositions, thereby(as is
implied)bringingthemiddlestratumundertheleadershipof
"theworkingclass.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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a
Mountain
in His Godhead, a Valley in His humi liation, v.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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[105] This city, called by the poet Pedasus, was one
of the seven, it is said, which
Agamemnon
promised to Achilles.
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| Source: |
Strabo |
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" He added, "The day that France takes
possession
of New Orleans .
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Revolution and War_nodrm |
|
Your IP address has been
automatically
blocked from the address you tried to visit at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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Even after
attaining
'nirmana-vasita'>" etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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No parts of early Roman
history are richer with poetical
coloring
than those which relate
to the long contest between the privileged houses and the
commonality.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Concealed lamps flood-
ed it with cold light, and there was a low, steady humming
sound which he
supposed
had something to do with the
air supply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - 1984 |
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A
terrible
cry rang out: 'To arms!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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Public speaking of this type is
generally
thought to be too affected and too florid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
|
],40 and here the colours of nature camouflage ('tarnen') the machines of war ('cannons' is also used by Steiner as a metonymy for war), where in Steiner's poem the roots on the forest floor mask ('vermummen') the sound of
marching
soldiers.
| 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 |
|
Blocks
automatically
expire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
|
* * * * *
Black is the
negation
of colour in its greatest energy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Table Talk |
|
The
disastrous
reign of John Casimir
begins during which Poland fights Tar-
tars, Cossacks, Sweden, Russia, and Prussia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
|
Avicenna, (2005),
Metaphysics
of the 'The Healing', trans.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Education in Hegel |
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Lend me a share that I may teach my
brethren
!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
|
e cheke in hast: 741
Ac Alexius was of god fulfild,
In gode
penaunce
he it helde,
And ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Catulus desisted from his second request, and allowed the Phoeni cians free
departure
from Sicily for the moderate ransom of
denarii (12s.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
|
" Go back, tread-
ing in the
footsteps
made by mankind in its great
and painful journey through the desert of the past,
and you will learn most surely whither it is that
all later humanity never can or may go again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Then they
will sing a song of praise in honour of the Creator who over-
whelms his
creatures
with blessings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
|
Meehan's iranslation of " Pii Antistitis Icon ; sive iJe N'ita ct Moi te
Reverendissimi
Francisci Kiro- rani, Alladensis K]iisco]>i.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
|
once at least
Let me drink deep of
passion’s
wine, and slake
My parchèd being with the nectarous feast
Which even gods affect!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Charmides |
|
According to the first, the candidate begs the master (who receives him as an
Upasaka)
to consider him as an Upasaka who has taken the Three Refuges; according to the second, to consider him as an Upasaka who has taken the Three Refuges and the Five Preospts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
|
Guardate
l'alto onor, gli ampli guadagni
che Fortuna, vincendo, oggi ci ha mostro:
guardate la vergogna e il danno estremo,
ch'essendo vinti, a patir sempre avremo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Some of the
Athenians
had gone to rest, while others were employed, some on one task and some on another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Polyaenus - Strategems |
|
How did Nietzsche
transcribe
it?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
|
AMELIA (returns him the
picture)
My picture, mine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Friedrich Schiller |
|
dum uagor aspectu uisusque per omnia duco,
calcabam
necopinus opes.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Hence it came about that, as Chaucer tells us, women held “in
ful gret
reverence
the boke of Lancelot de Lake?
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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Not only does he habitually present facts in forms of
beauty, but the fashioning of the form
predominates
over, and is
injurious to, the absolute and balanced presentation of the sub-
ject.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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Traylor says, with his usual can-
dor, "that without the proper education and direction
of human conduct,
economic
depressions will inevi-
tably continue to recur with ever-increasing social
and political disaster.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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He
delights
in the wild tumult of
his desires and the sharp pain of sin, in the very idea of being lost.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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The artist, the savant, and the poet find their just
recompense
in the
permission that society gives them to devote themselves exclusively to
science and to art: so that in reality they do not labor for themselves,
but for society, which creates them, and requires of them no other duty.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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1634 Farman
permitting
English trade in Bengal.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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The
conjurer
is at hand,
And all alone comes walking in his gown.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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In the second number an essay against fast
days, with a most censurable application of a text from Isaiah for its
motto, lost me near five hundred of my
subscribers
at one blow.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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