Restriction hinders
restriction
and meets
restriction.
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Shobogenzo |
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Corresponding
to these two types of limita- tions are two rates of return: (1) a normal rate of return that all capitalists believe they deserve; and (2) a differential rate of return that capitalists seek over and above the normal.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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He has been Canon of Carlisle and
Honorary
Chaplain
to the King since 1912.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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11; the stand-
ard of culture established by, 60; effects of Ger-
man culture on, 105; his friendship with Schil-
ler, 107; his
epilogue
to The Bell referred to,
107; the age of, and the demand for culture,
114; relates an opinion regarding Schiller's Rob-
bers, 138; his recantation of Wolfs theories re-
garding Homer quoted, 149; on Homer, 156.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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Die Grausamkeit ist wie das
Verbrechen
eine
allgemeine Willensrichtung.
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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They had reported at Venice during my absence that I
was dead; and there was a monk who had even the
temerity
to
say he had been at my funeral.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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Soft were my numbers; who could take offence,
While pure
description
held the place of sense?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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He by the Senate is accited home,
From weary wars against the
barbarous
Goths,
That with his sons, a terror to our foes,
Hath yok'd a nation strong, train'd up in arms.
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Shakespeare |
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she who was
almighty
hailed!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Alexander
Ruthven being
slain, and taken down the stairs before their
entry.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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Underwood
would talk for the rest of the night, Mr.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Institutions are heavily shaped by class
interests
and class power.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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Then again they all tried, and the tinker he swore
That the
hogshead
had grown twice as heavy or more.
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John Clare |
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The consternation of the assembly was
indescribable; and, in the first alarm, the deputies
prepared
for
flight.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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XXX
But then subjoins the Gascon cavalier
How in the Moorish camp a damsel lies,
By name Marphisa hight, of beauteous cheer,
Bold and as skilled in arms of every guise,
Who loves Rogero and to him is dear;
And then the host so rarely
sundered
spies,
That every one, throughout the paynim train,
Deems that betrothed in wedlock are the twain.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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As turns, as flies, the woodman
In the
Calabrian
brake,
When through the reeds gleams the round eye
Of that fell speckled snake;
So turned, so fled, false Sextus,
And hid him in the rear,
Behind the dark Lavinian ranks,
Bristling with crest and spear.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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34
Excipiuntur tamen pauca 'M
Et contra sunt, quae, a longis 37
Composita simplicium 38
Excipiuntur tamen haec brevia 39
Omne
praeteritum
dissyllabum 53 .
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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Thus, the stage was
subject to two authorities, not only different in
character
but
rivals in policy and interest.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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He worked on until his
brain gave way, worn out at last by his
indomitable
spirit; and his
work has opened out the possibilities of man's life as widely and as
surely as the work of anyone who has ever lived.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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An image of
completeness
on all sides emerges; the "Weltinnenraum" that draws the true Venice forth in unimpeded fashion is nothing other than the absolute charac- ter of the self reflected in the poetic trope that I have chosen to call Venice.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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My dear Catherine,--Unluckily I was
confined
to my room when your last
letter came, by a cold which affected my eyes so much as to prevent my
reading it myself, so I could not refuse your father when he offered
to read it to me, by which means he became acquainted, to my great
vexation, with all your fears about your brother.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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He had to state, then, that there were amongst those who reported the debates of that House, no less than twenty-three graduates of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, and Edinburgh ; those gentlemen were all in their pro gress to honourable professions ; and there was no possible course better than that which they had adopted for the improvement of their minds, and the acquisition of
political
experience.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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Is there any way to know what motivated him to write a book on household
management?
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| Answer: |
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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Our guilty head
We turn'd to flight; the gathering
vengeance
spread
On all parts round, and heaps on heaps lie dead.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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There are no
obstacles
in your way.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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The price will go up much more after two weeks or so in this
inflation
speed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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No
Foreign Office was more painfully aware than that of the
Vatican (except, perhaps, the series of distracted ministers
who came, tried and failed at the Ball-Platz in Vienna)
that the Italian Question opened up issues far wider and of
deeper import than maintenance of the Treaties of 1815,
the
continuance
of the Austrian flag on the citadel at
Milan and on the Piazza di San Marco at Venice, or the
barbarism of a Bomba at Naples.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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--
fictilia
antiquus primum sibi fecit agrestis
pocula, de facili composuitque luto.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"As he could no longer turn any other part of his body to account,
he determined thenceforth to exercise his tongue, and admirably has
he succeeded in sharpening it upon the whetstone of impurity,[17]
making his mouth the vehicle for shameless speech, pouring out its
torrents of abuse on every one, and having his
effrontery
stamped upon
his very face, he has gone the length (as you have seen) of coarsely
insulting in your presence an individual whom you have honoured with
the priesthood.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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Or why choose a man to do plain work who is
distinguished
for
his oddity?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Now, even
at the present day, it is from Boulogne that the passage is easiest to
arrive in England, because the favourable winds are more
frequent
than
at Wissant and Calais.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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), Drayton prefixed to it a
brief discourse on pastoral in general, which contains this character-
istically ungrammatical sentence:
The subject of Pastorals, as the language of it ought to be poor, silly, and
of the
coarsest
woof in appearance; nevertheless, the most high, and most
noble matters of the world may be shadowed in them, and for certain some-
times are.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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Lastly we have the other class of
individuals
who are not born to
crime, but are not firmly upright, alternating between vice and
virtue, with imperfect moral sense, education and training, for
whom punishment may be genuinely useful as a psychological motive.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting
their
discrepancies
and making them into a continuous narrative.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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Anon the yong man up did stie
And flying over Europe and the Realme of Asias hie,
Alighted in the
Scithian
land.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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When the
birthday
came Dot rigged
herself in her new dress and sat down to wait for
her guests.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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Samvrtijndna grasps their general characteristics (for example, impermanence), their unique characteristics (for example, the
specific
characteristic of rupa); and it also grasps the aspect which is expressed by the words "Eat!
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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com in Word format,
Mobipocket
Reader
format, eReader format and Acrobat Reader format.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
]
[Footnote 21: First published in quarto, 1669, under the title of Carmen
Pindaricum in Theatrum Sheldonianum in
solennibus
magnifici operis
encaeniis.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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A
newspaper
is a market
Where wisdom sells its freedom
And melons are crowned by the crowd.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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_Supply_
the, his, but, more, so.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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What makes this especially important is that reporters and observers were
unanimous
in 1982 that the main thing the public wanted out of the election was peace.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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Alongside one's own feelings the world could then appear
clumsily
bloated, like a captive balloon circled by swallows, or, muta- tis mutandis, humbled to a background as small as a forest at the periphery of one's field of vision.
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| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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[40] all the virtues of the Portuguese again shone forth
with
redoubled
lustre.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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»--«Oui, que je n’y étais pas allée le soir
où je t’ai dit que j’en sortais quand tu m’avais cherchée chez
Prévost», lui répondit-elle (croyant à son air qu’il le savait), avec
une décision où il y avait, beaucoup plus que du cynisme, de la
timidité, une peur de
contrarier
Swann et que par amour-propre elle
voulait cacher, puis le désir de lui montrer qu’elle pouvait être
franche.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally
accessible
and useful.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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The cruel agents of Robespierre, Fouquier-Tinville the
accuser and Dumas the president, had taken up the law of the
22d of Prairial, and were
preparing
to avail themselves of it for
the purpose of committing fresh atrocities in the prisons.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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For the division of the hoof and the separation of the claws are intended to teach us that we must
discriminate
between our individual actions with a view to the practice of virtue.
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| Source: |
The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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For when his Penfioners
here were unable to obtain your Decree for a Peace, as they at
firft attempted, " in Exclufion of the Alenfes and Phocicans;"
when Philocrates was
compelled
by you to leave out that Claufe,
and openly to infert " the Athenians and Allies of the Atheni-
ans," Philip could not confent, that this Oath fliould be taken
by any of his Confederates; becaufe they might have refufed
to aflift him with their Forces in making thofe Conquefls, in
your Dominions, which he now enjoys, and might have pre-
tended the Obligation of their Oaths.
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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And calm and
peaceful
shall I sleep,
Rocked in the cradle of the deep.
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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As
groom of his majesty's bedchamber, Killigrew remained a privi-
leged servant in the royal
household
and was reputed, from his
ready colloquial wit, the king's jester.
| 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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WHOis she coming, that the roses bend
Their
shameless
heads to do her honour ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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My love is so
excessive
for the same lady, that I beg you to
leave her to me.
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| Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
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In the first place, his
startling likeness to Catherine connected him
fearfully
with her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Nay, I know not whether I ought
to be quite tranquil now, for I have had more trouble in restoring
peace than I ever intended to submit to--a spirit, too, resulting from
a fancied sense of superior integrity, which is
peculiarly
insolent!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Lady Susan |
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Without
the dream, men would never have been incited to an
analysis
of the
world.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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According
to Csesar, the Aqui-
tini.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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) — of the
luminosity
of certain fishes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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Nay
Thượng
hoàng đế thay trời mở vận trung hưng, gánh vác đạo lớn, đề cao Nho học, suy nghĩ canh cánh bên lòng.
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| Source: |
stella-02 |
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(_A
letter drops into the box; then_ KROGSTAD'S
_footsteps
are heard, till
they die away as he goes downstairs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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”
Richard's
Imprisonment
and Death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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Passages
in the Buddha's Life .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v03 |
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" It is on such
occasions
that the poet ought to show the
lofty earnestness of soul which has to form the basis of all plays, if a
poetical character is to be obtained by them.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Friedrich Schiller |
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Indeed, if B
deviates
and transfers become slightly less then E[X]; it is not in the interest of party A to carry out the threat of immediately starting a war because party A is strictly better o?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schwarz - Committments |
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The mother of Gustavus
Adolphus
con-
tributed also to the best development of
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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'
I had a stupid intention of
replying
that I was going to wait, to hand
her downstairs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickens - David Copperfield |
|
548 ,
Our absurd habit of regarding a mere
mnemonic
sign or abbreviated formula as an independentbeing, and ultimately as a cause; as, for instance, when we say of lightning that " it flashes.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Lord, how they picked off our men, from the
treacherous
vantage-ground of the wood!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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For, right within, the sword of Sin
Pierced to its
poisoned
hilt,
And as molten lead were the tears we shed
For the blood we had not spilt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
|
YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO
REMEDIES
FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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His preachments on
Christianity
and morality are on a par with his introduction to his translation of Juvenal whose blast-fur nace he heats, with lascivious
seven times hotter than the Roman satirist was wont to heat it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
|
5 Lessing treats Jacobi's
prescribed
leap, one that at any rate his own "old legs and heavy head" were no longer able to take, to be the fallout of a false dilemma; Ho?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hegel_nodrm |
|
When on the sea-coast he never ate fish, but in places most remote from the sea he regularly served all manner of sea-food, and the country-folk in the
interior
he fed with the milt of lampreys and pikes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Historia Augusta |
|
slaughtered
by the stroke, the warrior bleeds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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You have mockingly said he is a rara avis, a
prodigy of wit and learning: and you have
unintentionally
spoken
the truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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For since that, which they seek for, is without, they cannot feel what is
desirable
within.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
|
Les
pensées entraient bien en lui, mais à condition de laisser dehors tout
élément de beauté ou
simplement
de drôlerie qui m’eût touché ou
distrait.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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[1099] One at the bath while he seeks for the difficult exits of the mesh about his neck,
entangled
in a net, shall search with blind hands the fringed stitching.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lycophron - Alexandra |
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For,
when they wish to explain the nature of any God, they first examine his
name, and torment the letters thereof, arranging and
altering
them
according to their will, and flying off to the speech of the Indians and
Medes and Chaldeans, and other Barbarians, if Greek will not serve their
turn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
|
Come, I'll help you, come
eat, and let old
quarrels
be forgotten.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
|
Even the most secret action of your life you don’t escape it;
you’ve still got to spoil everything with fdthy cold-blooded
precautions
for money’s
sake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
|
XXXIX
"Thus every one, except his consort ill,
Argaeus many miles away suppose:
She, when 'tis time her errand to fulfil,
Hatching
new mischief, to my brother goes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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the old man having recovered his son marries the priestess, and the son receives the
daughter
of his foster-parents and the younger and true son of the neighbours receives the daughter of the priestess whom he had loved, and the marriages of all three pairs are celebrated .
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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_The Young Daimyo_
When he first came out to meet me,
He had just been girt with the two swords;
And I found he was far more
interested
in the glitter of their hilts,
And did not even compare my kiss to a cherry-blossom.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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One does not believe in the follies of clever men :
what a
forfeiture
of the rights of man!
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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One or two traditional
comic types appear for the first time, apparently, on his stage:
the
alternately
cringing and familiar slave or valet of comedy, in
his Xanthias and Karion; and in Dicæopolis, Strepsiades, Demos,
Trygæus, and Dionysus, the sensual, jovial, shrewd, yet naïve and
credulous middle-aged bourgeois gentilhomme or 'Sganarelle,' who is
not ashamed to avow his poltroonery, and yet can, on occasion,
maintain his rights with sturdy independence.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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Cvjus | nunc
misg\\ra
sfies I 6ftes\\que sunt \ in te
no otnnis | sitfi.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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adds "of heaven," not :to recognize destiny] is to be without the means of being a proper man (the
ancestral
voice is incomplete).
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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” I believe
it was young ladies who first had the courage of their
convictions
in
this respect.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a terrible new being:
A voice where harpsichords and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your withered finger,
From which Woman flows in Sibylline
whiteness
to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And then he flew as far as eye could see,
And then on
tremulous
wing came back to me.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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Whoever has the
freedom and peaceful development of Middle
Europe at heart must earnestly wish that the oft-
proved
vitality
of the old State may once more
assert itself, and that the Germans this side of the
Leitha may hold their own.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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Encoded in the line-by-line, connect-the-dots breakdown of the retransmitted video image of Hitler opening the games are instructions for building a rock- et that will take one of us to a first
encounter
with the alien species.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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The viewer needs to con- jure up the
necessary
completion (and which one would that be?
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the
marriage
of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I took him back to his hotel, and on the
way I bought a bottle of brandy, and when we had arrived I made my brother drink a
tumblerful of it — I told him it was
something
to make him sober.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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Sponte tuus florebit ager cessante juvenco ;
Ditior oblatas
mirabitur
incola messes.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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