Except in this single particular, the Roman
criminal
code,
was very lenient and sparing of human life.
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Ancient Rome |
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His black matted head on his shoulder is bent,
And deep is the sigh of his breath,
And with stedfast
dejection
his eyes are intent
On the fetters that link him to death.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Über
Shakespeares
Romeo und
Julia.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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lifting me to that fair face
Brightest
of all on which the sun e'er shone.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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By contrast, in the
lutheran
idea of the lord's Supper, the presence of god is purely spiritual.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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Although the ancient Arabs acquired in a
somewhat
higher degree the science of dialectics,
their descendants are singularly deficient in the logical faculty.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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The Boyer volume contains (42-161) a detailed
inventory
of the Occitan texts.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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above a
thousand
ducats, and that it appeared to be above half full ; that it is the custom of the Polish Jews to carry their money about them in a belt, which is hollow, and opens near the buckle, for the purpose of receiving money.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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And Polemon, in the first book of his Treatise addressed to Timaeus, says that among the Sicilians there was a temple
consecrated
to gluttony, and an image of Demeter Sito; near which, also, there was a statue of Himalis, as there is at Delphi one of Hermuchus, and as at Scolus, in Boeotia, there are statues of Megalartus and Megalomazus.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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This was
responded
to, and they walked
up and drank and I footed the bill.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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The
greatest
masters of propaganda of our time were Lenin and Hitler.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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CLXXXII
That
Emperour
hath chosen his bivouac;
The Franks dismount in those deserted tracts,
Their saddles take from off their horses' backs,
Bridles of gold from off their heads unstrap,
Let them go free; there is enough fresh grass--
No service can they render them, save that.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Round the castles was a complex of marks, tracks,
walls, railway lines, that were of
significance
only if inspected with the eye
at beach level.
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Childens - Folklore |
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Of his wanderings, and of the
accidents
of his pilgrim-
age, I know nothing, until his stars directed him to the Flats,
where there were no salt-water temptations to mislead him.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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My first glance, half astonishment, half anger, was
equivalent
to a
sharp, though silent, interrogation.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I comprehended the mind and genius of S chiller, in
spite of the
difficulty
he felt in ex pressing himself in a
foreign language.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Les
retentissantes
couleurs
Dont tu parsèmes tes toilettes
Jettent dans l'esprit des poëtes
L'image d'un ballet de fleurs.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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He turned his head sharply
aside, though the
birthmark
was away from her.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Notes:
1 - The term
bindweed
is my translation of Arabic ruḵāmā.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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They knew that some were
attracted
to the practice of generosity, while others preferred to practice discipline, and still others preferred meditation.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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39 However, the poem also reveals
pertinent
links with Steiner's engagement with 'Grodek' seen above.
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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The finances in their
clumsiness
resembled those
of a large private household.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Cannon to cannon shall repeat her praise,
Banner to banner flap it forth in flame;
Her
children
shall rise up to bless her name,
And wish her harmless length of days,
The mighty mother of a mighty brood, 50
Blessed in all tongues and dear to every blood,
The beautiful, the strong, and, best of all, the good.
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| Question: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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All these
devilments
would be much harder to put over in a chamber organized on trade and professional basis.
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| Question: |
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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In
addition
to "casuists," vinayadharas, they had "philosophers," dbhidhdrmikas.
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| Question: |
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Those that are gone I shall not see again;
They, alas, are for ever
finished
and done.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Phileas Fogg was therefore
justified in hoping that he would reach San
Francisco
by the 2nd of
December, New York by the 11th, and London on the 20th--thus gaining
several hours on the fatal date of the 21st of December.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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" he exclaimed, " I have heard your love-sick lamentations, and know all ; instead of taking it as a compliment that I should speak to you, and
regarding
a kiss from your master as an honor, you must, forsooth, coquet and give yourself airs; for my part, I believe you to be a strumpet, for an adulterer is your love !
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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It should be borne in mind that at the time
this poem was written
literary
warfare more or less open was
being waged between two hostile schools of Russian men of
letters.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Whereas
Trollope
thought a kind of mental daguerreotype' the
ideal manner of presenting truth, Reade put his trust in immense
accumulations of reports of actual events, by means of which
he supported his boast, that, when he spoke of fact, he was ‘upon
oath.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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Whatever
disturbing threats of violent revenge after victory he
heard in Pompey's camp, he awaited the decisive battle.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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He said : When the country is decently
governed
: daring words; daring acts.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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zirziiij
i i;1,iJ.
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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I have not caused
suffering
to men.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Some Imagist Poets, by
Richard Aldington and H.
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| Question: |
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Imagists |
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Although the subjects of the sermons are
appropriate
to the
days for which they were intended, there is also an attempt to give
a large survey of biblical and ecclesiastical history.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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We should also be aware that, if we join a large
community
of users of a particular make of computer, we are also joining a larger community of viruses - even, it turns out, disproportionately larger.
| Guess: |
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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Miss Nancy
Ellicott
smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.
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| Question: |
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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Nevertheless, in his
writings the word “drama” is merely a misunder-
standing (–and a piece of shrewdness: Wagner
always
affected
superiority in regard to the word
“opera”—); just as the word “spirit” is a mis-
understanding in the New Testament.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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The
opinions
and beliefs of Egypt and the East
came in for a share, and, in the end, for the largest share.
| Guess: |
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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But haste, join thou the suitors, and provide,
In sep'rate vessels stow'd, all needful stores, 380
Wine in thy jars, and flour, the
strength
of man,
In skins close-seam'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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When we his Latin and the clearness of his style were cele-
recollect the latter years of the Roman republic, brated by the ancients themselves, and are con-
the
depravity
and corruption of the ruling class, spicuous in his " Commentarii,” which are his
the scenes of anarchy and bloodshed which con- only works that hare come down to us.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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The third quality of the Buddha's mind in the samb-
hogakaya
is his mind is always engaged in the goal of helping liberate all beings.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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"Aesthetics" thought of itself as a cogni-
tive possibility, as a philosophical science whose task was to demarcate and
142
to
investigate
its own terrain.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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The leaders of this attack were the men who had fled from Thyamis and
his followers at the
Heracleotic
mouth of the Nile: they, enraged
at the loss of a booty, which through plunder, they considered as
their own, gathered their friends together, and many others from the
neighbouring towns, by proposing to them an equal division of the
spoils; and became their guides in the expedition.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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1, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,
Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
Turned and
departed
silent.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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Qutb Khān, learning that
Husain still entertained designs on Delhi, ingratiated himself by
disparaging Buhlūl, and
promised
Husain that he would never rest
until he had conquered for him the country as far north as Delhi,
## p.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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Phaedra
The son of that Amazon mother:
You must know that prince I myself
oppressed
so long?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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This is the cancer gnawing at the vitals of the
propaganda
State.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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A novel about the
Cossacks
during the First World War, and the
Revolution.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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Although
the myth hardly bears the weight of
202
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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Wealth he'd
honestly
acquired;
His board was amply spread,
Never lacking salt nor bread;
He was happy, much beloved, and admired.
| Guess: |
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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Because they went through that seven-year-long process, today's generations of Drews (my
Cherokee
fam- ily's name) are able to maintain our citizenship with the tribe.
| Guess: |
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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He was, moreover, condemned to death by his own country; but escaped that punishment by running away, and wandered
solitarily
and alone up and down Italy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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It
would be much wiser to acknowledge the errors which a mistaken policy
has induced us to adopt, and immediately to
commence
a gradual
recurrence to the sound principles of an universally free trade.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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Dissent in the realm of jus-
tifications is
tolerable
so long as adjustments mediated by objects are at
work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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Deep sea fish have
luminous
organs to signal to each other and even to find their way about.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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It was the one idea of his life; and it was
something
to find
in such a brain one idea, though it was but a rock.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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And in fact, this can be formulated in terms of cultural theory: where unleashed self-movement leads to a halt or a whirl, the beginning of a
transitional
experience emerges, in which the modern active changes to the postmodern passive.
| Guess: |
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Sloterdijk |
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And the
experiment
with the world has failed.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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He died in 1173,
possibly
a victim of the widespread epidemic of that year.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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Nguyễn
Đức Trinh (1439-1472) người làng An Giới huyện Thanh Lâm (nay thuộc xã An Sơn huyện Thanh Hà tỉnh Hải Dương).
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stella-03 |
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The first steps towards
international
intercourse had been made.
| Guess: |
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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For oak and elm have
pleasant
leaves
That in the springtime shoot:
But grim to see is the gallows-tree,
With its adder-bitten root,
And, green or dry, a man must die
Before it bears its fruit!
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Wilde - Poems |
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" 92 Gosson, in his Schoole
of Abuse, is frankly
contemptuous
of the fashion: "It is a Pageaunt
woorth the sight, to beholde how he labors with Mountains to/
bring foorth Mise.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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[Illustration]
This event made them all for a time rather melancholy: and perhaps they
might never have become less so, had not Lionel, with a most praiseworthy
devotion and perseverance, continued to stand on one leg, and whistle to
them in a loud and lively manner; which diverted the whole party so
extremely that they gradually recovered their spirits, and agreed that
whenever they should reach home, they would
subscribe
towards a testimonial
to Lionel, entirely made of gingerbread and raspberries, as an earnest
token of their sincere and grateful infection.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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In the
uninterrupted
path, he cultivates six knowl- edges.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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Scholastic Philosophers also believed that they could understand being without
studying
the subject, a supposition that makes their entire system perishable.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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He rejects change, if that change
includes
himself.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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Va- andria the Homiliae of Macarius the Egyptian
rious anecdotes
recorded
of him represent him as (No.
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| Question: |
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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Literary Allusions in
Finnegans
Wake 67
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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"
--And so the
conversation
slips
Among velleities and carefully caught regrets
Through attenuated tones of violins
Mingled with remote cornets
And begins.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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And
therefore
it cometh oft
to pass that there be evil times in good governments: for so we find in
the Holy story, when the kings were good, yet it is added, _Sed adhuc
poulus non direxerat cor suum ad Dominum Deum patrum suorum_.
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Bacon |
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(_d_) iudicium populi numquam contempseris unus:
ne nulli placeas, dum uis
contemnere
multos.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He was now generally
looked upon as the man who was
destined
to complete the
philosophy of Kant, and was thus led into literary corre-
spondence with some of the most distinguished men of the
day.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with
libraries
to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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She
tottered
along
the sand, with bowed body, calling out, "O my son!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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"
The earl of Sandwich lamented " that it had been
" in any body's power to make so ill impressions in
" the king and the duke, upon his having commit-
" ted a trespass, for which he was heartily sorry;"
and confessed " it was a
presumption
and indiscre-
" tion,the ill consequence whereof he had not had wit
" enough to discover : however, he did not yet think
" it so great, as to make him fear to give an account
" of it before the parliament, or any thing that they
" could do upon it.
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| Source: |
Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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" Yet this
singular
little
coward would blow kisses to a donkey of her
acquaintance, and when she had a chance
would bustle up fearlessly to a dog-kennel
and imperiously summon the chained tenant,
"Come out, donnie [doggie]; naughty donnie!
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was
carefully
scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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' sanjfia ' or fair cognition and he who
generates
'asobhana!
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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No, for they are his very
own, and he would only give away from those whatever he is willing to
give and to
whomever
he is willing to give.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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Many a traveller
Siddhartha had to ferry across the river who was
accompanied
by a son or
a daughter, and he saw none of them without envying him, without
thinking: "So many, so many thousands possess this sweetest of good
fortunes--why don't I?
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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That woman's voice always reminds me of
an
Underground
train coming into Earl's Court with the brakes on.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Dare I avow that wish was mine to see,
And hope that future times _would_ surely see,
The man to come, parted, as by a gulph,
From him who had been; that I could no more 60
Trust the elevation which had made me one
With the great family that still survives
To
illuminate
the abyss of ages past,
Sage, warrior, patriot, hero; for it seemed
That their best virtues were not free from taint 65
Of something false and weak, that could not stand
The open eye of Reason.
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William Wordsworth |
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Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was
transparent
as a needle
Was it cooing about something else?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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During his
residence at his living, he was almost brought to the point of death by an ague; when hearing that the king was come in
progress
to Southampton, five miles
only from where he dwelt, he went to pay his respects to him.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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) "That if a King at the Popes
admonition, doe not purge his
Kingdome
of Haeresies, and being
excommunicate for the same, doe not give satisfaction within a year,
his Subjects are absolved of the bond of their obedience.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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[93]
"One of my
acquaintances
refuses to have a second child because he
could not then play golf.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by
commercial
parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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Raising Our Heads: Pampering Spaces/Time Drifts 87
– is
probably
an equally interesting process of early human history.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Constantine first obtained
Glaréntza
by a politic marriage, and took up
his residence in the famous castle of Chloumoûtsi.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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The journey, made
in an aerial car, gives the author an opportunity to describe the
country over which the car must pass in
travelling
from one end of
India to the other.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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It shows a number of similarities with humour under dictatorships, as all totalizing systems,
religious
and political alike, provoke a popular backlash against the supposedly sublime that is forced on them.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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There are tears amid the Roses,
For the children are asleep ;
And the silence of the garden makes
The lonely
blossoms
weep.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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By the time I reached the corner the man was
crossing
our front yard.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Science is
demonstrated
knowledge, that is,
it is the knowledge that certain truths follow from still simpler
truths.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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